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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.
Upset that Greece wants to extend its western sea borders and fearing it could do the same in the Aegean, Turkey’s Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said Greece is going so far as to trespass in waters off the coast of Libya in northern Africa.
Akar presented maps to the Libyan government to back up his claim, according to reports in Turkey’s Yeni Safak newspaper which accused Greece of “stealing Libya’s EEZ,” referring to the country’s Exclusive Economic Zone.
The reports are accompanied by two maps that Akar is alleged to have shown to Libyan government officials, one of which showed that neither Cyprus nr Crete influence marine zones, meaning Turkey wants control of all the seas up to Libya and excluding Greece and Cyprus.
During a recent visit to Tripoli, Akar reportedly claimed that Greece is exploiting the instability that followed the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi and wants to seize a chunk of Libya’s continental shelf as he said Greece is trying to do to Turkey.
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.
NICOSIA - A meeting between the ministers of energy for Cyprus and Israel - George Papanastasiou and Eli Cohen - led to an agreement that the countries would make an underwater electric cable link a top priority, linking them to Europe.
LONDON (AP) — The British Museum on Thursday appointed National Portrait Gallery chief Nicholas Cullinan as its new director, as the 265-year-old institution grapples with the apparent theft of hundreds of artifacts and growing international scrutiny of its collection.
ATHENS - The European Union needs to get involved in the case of the two-year jail sentence given ethnic Greek Fredi Beleri who was elected Mayor of the seaside town of Himare and said the trial was a farce to get him and protect Prime Minister Edi Rama’s business friends.
Brace yourself for what could be another scorching summer in Greece as scientists are anxious that a warm winter - the warmest January recorded - and climate change will continue to bring weather anomalies.