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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.
With Turkey saying it will keep drilling for oil and gas near Cyprus’ Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) where foreign energy companies are hunting too, Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades said he’ll take the case to the European Council in a potentially further damaging blow to Turkey’s European Union hopes.
Anastasiades is set to bring the issue up at an informal meeting of the heads of the 28 EU countries on May 9 in Sibu, Romania, trying to further tighten the vise on Turkey after the bloc had swiftly moved to protect Cyprus.
Cyprus has repeatedly appealed as well to the United Nations but been ignored even though Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is keen on restarting unity talks between Cypriots and Turkish-Cypriots after the July, 2017 collapse of negotiations at the Swiss resort of Crans-Montana where he failed to broker a deal.
With Turkey’s EU hopes already sliding away after Germany and France said it may be time to end the negotiations, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has become more aggressive in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean.
After he’d sent in warships in a bid to keep out foreign companies and said that Anastasiades’ offer to share potentially lucrative energy revenues with Turkish-Cypriot unlawfully occupying the northern third of the island since a 1974 Turkish invasion, Erdogan said he wanted Turkish-Cypriots to take part in the licensing of energy companies.
Diplomatic sources told Kathimerini that the Cypriot side was satisfied that the UN Security Council was talking about the problem and had raised concerns Turkey’s drilling could further set back reunity hopes.
After Turkey issued an irregular NAVTEX warning other vessels its ships would be drilling off Paphos until Dec. 3, the drillship Fatih, with three support vessels, took up position 83 nautical miles from the Turkish coast, well within Cyprus’ EEZ and shelf.
Defense Minister Hulusi Akar repeated his country’s hardline stance about drilling in Cyprus’ sovereign waters, telling the Anadolu News Agency Turkey would protect its rights in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Aegean Sea under international law.
“As a guarantor country, Turkey is determined to always protect the rights of the people of Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) and not to allow the fait accompli,” Akar added, referring to what only Turkey calls the occupied territory on Cyprus.
“Akar called on Greece for common sense and cooperation and added that the energy sources in the Aegean Sea and Eastern Mediterranean should serve as a bridge for peace, dialogue and mutual development,” Anadolu’s report said.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
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LOS ANGELES – The UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture presents a captivating evening with acclaimed singer-songwriter Alkinoos Ioannidis, who will perform at UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall on Saturday, April 27, 7:30 PM, in a solo concert.
ATHENS - The "OLYMPOS - Global Spiritual Center" Association presents on Saturday, April 6, at 6:00 pm, at the "Antonis Tritsis" Amphitheatre of the Cultural Center of the Municipality of Athens, 50, Acadimias Street, the truly ingenious funding proposal for the construction of Heptapolis in the wider area of Delphi, entitled "World Green Taxation Fund".
ATHENS - Disregarding the recommendation of a prosecutor who said there wasn’t enough evidence, an Athens Mixed Jury Court found a 55-year-old man guilty of raping a 12-year-old girl but found her mother innocent of pornography.