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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
After visiting Cyprus earlier, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is scheduled to visit Greece to try to de-escalate the simmering tension with Turkey over who has rights to the seas around Greek islands.
Greece and Turkey have been at near-conflict flash points for weeks, the tension dropping after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan withdrew the energy research vessel and warships away from the island of Kastellorizo.
While Turkish officials said the ships will return, Erdogan cooled down his fiery rhetoric to say he did it to give diplomacy a chance but that gesture came just ahead of a Sept. 24-25 showdown with the European Union.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis wants the EU to impose tough and meaningful sanctions if Turkey doesn't keep the ships away from Greece's Continental Shelf or he can't reach an agreement with Erdogan.
Besides Greece-Turkish relations, Pompeo will discuss military cooperation with Greek officials and likely will meet Mitsotakis, said Kathimerini, without explaining why a top-ranking American official wouldn't meet Greece's leader.
On Cyprus, Pompeo called for Turkey to calm down and not proceed to continue with drilling in waters off the island but his visit, coming after the US partially lifted an arms embargo in place for decades set off anger in Ankara, bringing a setback.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst.
ATHENS - The tragedy of the Tempi train collision is a much greater issue than an opportunity for parties to table a motion of censure against the government, but the opposition parties used it anyway "to turn society's pain into a tool to strike at the government and me personally," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday night in parliament.
ATHENS - PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis, speaking at the Hellenic Parliament on Thursday, emphasized that there is "an established belief among the Greek people" that the government "operates as a well-oiled machine of corruption, cover-up, and propaganda.
ATHENS — Greece’s center-right government survived a motion of no-confidence late Thursday that was brought by opposition parties over its handling of the country’s deadliest rail disaster a year ago.
ASTORIA – Greek Minister of the Interior Niki Kerameus offered an informative presentation on postal voting in the upcoming European Union elections for Greek citizens in a well-attended event held at the St.