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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.
SOFIA – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan refused to have any negotiations with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis before opening Turkey’s borders to let thousands more refugees and migrants get into Greece, Bulgarian Premier Boyko Borissov reportedly said.
According to Euractiv website, Borissov said that he had planned to organize a meeting in Sofia with Erdogan, Mitsotakis, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic of Croatia which holds the rotating Presidency of the EU Council.
“(Erdogan) was ready to come to Sofia … but his unwillingness to sit at a table with his colleague Mitsotakis cooled my desire to hold this meeting,” Borissov was quoted as saying.
The report added that Erdogan assured the Bulgarian leader that “Ankara would honor its commitment not to allow migration pressure on Bulgaria.”
Erdogan warned that “millions” of people would soon head toward Europe, after dozens of Turkish soldiers were killed in an area of northern Syria Turkey had invaded, setting off a likely scenario in which more Syrians would head for Turkey to flee civil war.
Greece’s major opposition and former ruling Radical Left SYRIZA said Mitsotakis was soft on Erdogan, claiming it led to a worsening of the refugee and migrant crisis after New Democracy blamed the Leftists for an open door policy when it was in power and the crisis began, flooding Greek islands and the mainland, with 100,000 still in camps and centers.
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.