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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.
NICOSIA— Turkey’s foreign minister says ongoing talks aimed at reunifying ethnically divided Cyprus are the “last chance” to reach a peace accord.
Mevlut Cavusoglu said the United Nations, which is brokering negotiations, “also thinks this is the last chance” and that the world body wants the island’s leaders to take advantage of it.
Cavusoglu was speaking Thursday after talks with breakaway Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci.
Akinci has been engaged in talks with Nicos Anastasiades, the Greek Cypriot president ofCyprus‘ internationally recognized government, since negotiations resumed in May.
Cavusoglu said his country fully backs the negotiations to produce a viable and sustainable deal.
Cyprus was split in 1974 when Turkey invaded after a coup aiming to unite the island with Greece.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — More than 100 long-finned pilot whales that beached on the western Australian coast Thursday have returned to sea, while 29 died on the shore, officials said.
NEW YORK – Mike Labatos, AHEPA District 6 Lt.
Cretans are known for loving their guns but the island has the dubious record of having the highest rates of suicide in Greece over the last 25 years, averaging 2.
ATHENS - Forgetting the 2010-18 economic and austerity crisis that saw people so desperate they were picking food out of rubbish and supermarket bins, Greeks are among the European countries with the ignominious title of food wasters.
PARIS (AP) — The second retractable roof at Roland Garros will be inaugurated on the opening day of the French Open next month, organizers said on Thursday about a project planned with the Paris Olympics in mind.