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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.
BRUSSELS — The head of the European People's Party (EPP) Group in the European Parliament, Manfred Weber, on Thursday expressed his concern over Turkey's attitude and the need to come to the aid of Greece and Cyprus.
Speaking in the European Parliament, he said the EPP has asked that the issue be raised because of concern over the attacks at the Greek border, illegal drilling and clashes in the Mediterranean, noting that Turkey was "moving away" from European Union values.
According to Weber, this was not a bilateral problem between Greece and Turkey or Cyprus and Turkey but a Euro-Turkish problem, noting that the EU must defend and help the two EU member-states.
He called for a "new chapter" in EU-Turkey relations, saying that accession negotiations must stop and other ways of cooperation found "once Ankara is ready."
Earlier, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell spoke of "alarming aggressiveness" on Turkey's part, with increased violations of Greek airspace and overflights above Greek islands, drilling and its memorandum with Libya that the EU does not recognise.
Borrell and other speakers also criticised Turkey's destabilising role in the region.
(ANA/ E. Zarkadoula)
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.