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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.
A critical factor in predicting foreign arrivals – demand for airplane seats – is seeing an annual jump of 21 percent for Greece, portending another record tourism year for the country’s biggest revenue driver.
Air carrier schedules are seeing a big jump, Kathimerini said, an important sign that could bring Greece critical monies as the end of three international bailouts of 326 billion euros ($401.84 billion) looms in August, typically the biggest month for the tourism sector.
Tourism hit 3.521 billion euros ($4.34 billion) in August last year as visitors lured by the country’s eternal lure of sun, sand, islands and history just kept coming, making Santorini the number one island destination in the world.
Germany – Greek tourism’s biggest market – is showing a 45 percent increase in demand for seats compared to 2017, according to data presented by Institute of the Greek Tourism Confederation Research Director Aris Ikkos.
There’s been no slowdown in interest either from the United Kingdom as it keeps negotiating an exit from the Eurozone, nor from Turkey, despite growing aggression between the countries in the Aegean.
The only major drop has been noted in the Russian market, due to the slump of the ruble’s exchange rate against the euro, the data showed.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Three Russian missiles slammed into a downtown area of the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv on Wednesday, hitting an eight-floor apartment building and killing at least 13 people, authorities said.
TORONTO - Toronto Raptors player Jontay Porter was banned for life from the NBA on Wednesday after a league probe found he disclosed confidential information to sports bettors and wagered on games, even betting on the Raptors to lose.
JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday his country would be the one to decide whether and how to respond to Iran’s major air assault earlier this week, brushing off calls for restraint from close allies.
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden said Wednesday he strongly supports a proposal from Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson to provide aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, sending crucial bipartisan support to the precarious effort to approve $95 billion in funding for the U.
BRUSSELS - European Union leaders over a two-day summit of the special European Council will discuss economic and competitiveness issues in Ukraine, Türkiye, the Middle East and Lebanon, stated Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis upon his arrival in Brussels on Wednesday night.