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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 – Continuing to defy critics, Turkey has stepped up drilling for energy in Cyprus’ Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ,) sending a fourth research vessel into the waters, guarded by warships nearby.
Turkey’s Energy Minister Fatih Donmez said it’s part of his country’s plan to protect the rights of Turkish-Cypriots who have been unlawfully occupying the northern third of the island since a 1974 invasion.
.“We are currently conducting the fourth drilling in the Eastern Mediterranean. We’ll keep drilling until we find([oil,” Donmez said during a speech in Parliament on the ministry’s 2020 budget plans, the Turkish news agency Anadolu reported
Donmez also reportedly blamed the legitimate government of Cyprus over ongoing tension surrounding energy rights in the eastern Mediterranean even though Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades offered to share 30 percent of any potentially lucrative oil and gas revenues, which was rejected.
“The initiator of the present problem is the long-standing incompatible attitude of the Greek-Cypriot administration,” Donmez was quoted by Anadolu as saying. Turkey doesn’t recognize parts of Cyprus’ EEZ nor the United Nations Laws of the Sea.
Before his speech, Donmez reportedly told reporters that work is underway on an undersea electricity cable and natural gas pipeline between Turkey and the occupied part of Cyprus, which had issued an international arrest warrant for the crews of the Turkish ships but never enforced it.
The United States and Greece back Cyprus’ right to license foreign energy companies in its EEZ and the European Union has issued soft sanctions, all ignored by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, with the EU reluctant to get tougher, fearing he will unleash more refugees and migrants on the bloc on Greek islands.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Three Russian missiles slammed into a downtown area of the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv on Wednesday, hitting an eight-floor apartment building and killing at least 13 people, authorities said.
TORONTO - Toronto Raptors player Jontay Porter was banned for life from the NBA on Wednesday after a league probe found he disclosed confidential information to sports bettors and wagered on games, even betting on the Raptors to lose.
JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday his country would be the one to decide whether and how to respond to Iran’s major air assault earlier this week, brushing off calls for restraint from close allies.
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden said Wednesday he strongly supports a proposal from Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson to provide aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, sending crucial bipartisan support to the precarious effort to approve $95 billion in funding for the U.
BRUSSELS - European Union leaders over a two-day summit of the special European Council will discuss economic and competitiveness issues in Ukraine, Türkiye, the Middle East and Lebanon, stated Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis upon his arrival in Brussels on Wednesday night.