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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 – Without mentioning Turkey, which is unlawfully drilling for oil and gas in Cypriot waters, the United States said that should be the right of the legitimate Greek-Cypriot government.
“The US policy for the Exclusive Economic Zone of the Republic of Cyprus is long-term and has not changed,” a spokesperson for the State Department was quoted by the Cyprus News Agency as saying.
That came after the news that a consortium of the Italian energy company Eni and France’s Total had discovered a big cache of natural gas in Block 6 of the EEZ, parts of which Turkey disputes and claims.
“We believe that Cyprus’ oil and gas resources, like all its resources, should be shared fairly between the two communities,” the statement added, pushing President Nicos Anastasiades’ government to allocate some of the potentially lucrative revenues with the occupying Turkish-Cypriot side.
They have held the northern third of the divided islands since two unlawful Turkish invasions in 1974 and there’s been nothing but decades of failure by envoys in trying to reunite it.
Anastasiades had earlier offered to give the Turkish-Cypriots 30 percent of any monies that come out of finds although they make up less than 20 percent of the island’s population but they rejected it.
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.
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.
Mykonos’ run has been going on for a long time, bringing hordes of tourists, but it’s being cut down by its reputation for being rowdy, expensive, overcrowded and gouging diners while businesses evade taxes.