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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 outgoing United Nations envoy to ethnically split Cyprus says the bailed-out country’s economic problems could bolster the chances of a long-elusive peace accord.
Alexander Downer told a farewell news conference that Cyprus’ shrunken economy and high unemployment could get people to focus on the benefits an accord would bring, such as a potential increase in foreign investment and a tourism influx.
Numerous rounds of peace talks between internationally recognized Greek Cypriots and breakaway Turkish Cypriots have stalled since the country’s division in 1974 when Turkey invaded after a coup aimed at uniting the island with Greece.
A new round of negotiations began last month. Downer, who served in the post for 5½ years, said there’s “positive momentum” in the talks and that a “deal can be done.”
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.