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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.
ATHENS – Retired Greek Ambassador Georgios Aifants reportedly claimed that SYRIZA’s Foreign Minister Georgios Katrougalos “begged” for a meeting with Turkey’s foreign chief Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu to discuss tensions between the countries.
That was in 2019 toward the tail end of SYRIZA’s 4 ½-year reign before being ousted by New Democracy in July snap elections that year, with SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras now criticizing the government’s handling of Turkey.
Speaking to a Greek broadcaster, Aifants said it happened during the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe in 2019, said Turkey’s pro-government The Daily Sabah newspaper.
Aifants said the policy at that time of trying to avoid a confrontation with Turkey during the summer, a traditional period for both sides to back off tensions to benefit tourism, didn’t work.
“When I was ambassador in Finland in 2019, I saw Katrougalos begging Çavuşoğlu for a meeting at the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers meeting,” he also said.
He stated that Katrougalos and Çavuşoğlu finally met and added: “When Katrougalos went out, he was relieved that there would be no problems until September,” but by that time, SYRIZA was out.
Aifants claimed that Katrougalos did to avoid tensions before the snap polls to benefit SYRIZA but the Leftists were easily routed after Tsipras reneged on virtually all his promises during his tenure.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
BERLIN (AP) — At least five people were killed Wednesday when a bus headed from Berlin to Switzerland came off a highway in eastern Germany and ended up on its side, authorities said.
ΒΟSTON - The newly-elected Metropolitan Iakovos of Mexico, who was enthroned on Saturday, March 16th at the Cathedral of Aghia Sophia in Mexico City, gave his first interview as Metropolitan to The National Herald, which he described as a "historic newspaper," one he has known since childhood, as have his close relatives.
BALTIMORE - Authorities have released the identities of the two people recovered from the water Wednesday morning at the site of the Baltimore bridge collapse.
ATHENS — Police in Greece clashed late Wednesday with Communist-backed demonstrators who tried to prevent a concert by U.
ATHENS – Greece recorded a huge improvement in the business environment rankings of The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) among 82 countries worldwide.