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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 – A Turkish-Cypriot man who was said to have broken through a checkpoint separating Cyprus and the northern occupied territory was being held after complaints he had been roughed up by police who chased him.
The government in the occupied territory demanded the return of the 60-year-old man, who was not identified, as the legitimate Cypriot government was planning to send him back, the Cyprus Mail reported.
The self-declared Foreign Ministry in the area seized unlawfully by Turkey in a 1974 invasion said photographs appeared to reveal the man had been beaten. There was no response from the Cypriot government.
The man appeared in a Cypriot court on Sept. 9 to face charges of illegal entry. The newspaper reported that he said he had been roughed up and an investigation was ordered.
Hakki Onen, one of the two team leaders of the bi-communal Technical Committee on Crime and Criminal matters, told daily Kibris the incident happened Aug. 31 at the Ledra Palace crossing point in Nicosia.
The Turkish national was together with his Turkish-Cypriot son-in-law as they sought to cross over into the south on their bicycles. The son-in-law was allowed through, but not the Turkish man, who crossed anyway before being captured.
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.
BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) — It was in the den that Karen Goodwin most strongly felt her son’s presence: On the coffee table were his ashes, inside a clock with its hands forever frozen at 12:35 a.
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.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A bus carrying worshippers on a long-distance trip from Botswana to an Easter weekend church gathering in South Africa plunged off a bridge on a mountain pass Thursday and burst into flames as it hit the rocky ground below, killing at least 45 people, authorities said.