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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 – He failed at it – like every diplomat who tried – but the United Nations’ Security Council (UNSC) former representative to Cyprus said he hasn’t given up the idea of the island being reunified again.
Alvaro de Soto, from Peru, said a solution is still possible, the Cyprus Mail reported, although he didn’t offer any, and he even said it wouldn’t be that hard, not explaining why it was for him or why everyone else has failed for decades.
De Soto was the UN Special Adviser for Cyprus from 1999 to 2004 and oversaw the Annan Plan and the negotiations in Burgenstock that led to a rejected referendum in April 2004.
Turkish-Cypriots who have occupied the northern third since two unlawful 1974 invasions and are isolated and desperate for recognition voted for it but Greek-Cypriots overwhelmingly turned it down hard.
“If they agreed, it could be modified to make it easier for both sides. I don’t think too many changes are needed. They (Greek-Cypriots) rejected this version, but maybe if they revise and if the Greek-Cypriot leader approves instead of opposing the plan before them, that would change everything,” he told Turkey’s state TV station TRT World.
“I think if the leadership of both sides agree to do it, even if they make changes as necessary, it is still possible,” he added, apparently not aware that Turkey and the Turkish-Cypriot side don’t want it and have demanded the UN recognize them.
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.