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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 – The Turkish-Cypriot government on the unlawfully occupied northern third of the island is dropping a requirement that Cypriots must have a visa slip and stamp to visit.
The island has been divided since a Turkish invasion in 1974 but hopes for reunification have arisen with the election of a moderate, Mustafa Akinci, as Turkish-Cypriot President after a series hardliners.
The end of the visa rule, reported by BGN News, didn’t say whether the gesture was designed to show goodwill as the talks are set to resume, and as Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades supplied Akinci with the location of land mines in mountains planted in 1974.
No longer will a visa slip and a stamp be required at border crossings, but rather simply presenting one’s ID will be enough to cross between the two states.
The borders between the two areas was first opened on April 23, 2003. Only Turkey, which keeps an army there, recognizes the northern territories as a sovereign state.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst.
ATHENS - The tragedy of the Tempi train collision is a much greater issue than an opportunity for parties to table a motion of censure against the government, but the opposition parties used it anyway "to turn society's pain into a tool to strike at the government and me personally," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday night in parliament.
ATHENS - PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis, speaking at the Hellenic Parliament on Thursday, emphasized that there is "an established belief among the Greek people" that the government "operates as a well-oiled machine of corruption, cover-up, and propaganda.
ATHENS — Greece’s center-right government survived a motion of no-confidence late Thursday that was brought by opposition parties over its handling of the country’s deadliest rail disaster a year ago.
ASTORIA – Greek Minister of the Interior Niki Kerameus offered an informative presentation on postal voting in the upcoming European Union elections for Greek citizens in a well-attended event held at the St.