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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.
ATHENS – “Good cooperation among the involved parties and calmness are necessary for addressing the situation with the greatest possible success,” said the Federation of Hellenic Associations of Tourist and Travel Agencies (FedHatta) in an announcement on Friday, on the problems caused by coronavirus.
The federation said that travel has not stopped “and cannot be stopped, except in the case of a travel directive from of the State for a specific destination where the risk is very high”.
It underlined that travel agencies, following an Education Ministry decision to cancel school trips to Italy, did their best for the immediate organisation and repatriation of the pupils, adding: “In such a case, it is imperative all tourism professionals respect the extraordinary circumstances and do their part.”
Concerning the other planned excursions and trips abroad, FedHatta said they are going ahead as normal.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — More than 100 long-finned pilot whales that beached on the western Australian coast Thursday have returned to sea, while 29 died on the shore, officials said.
Main opposition SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance leader Stefanos Kasselakis expressed his certainty that his party will be first in the European elections in an interview with ALPHA TV on Thursday evening.
JERUSALEM (AP) — The construction of a new port in Gaza and an accompanying U.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Harvey Weinstein's landmark New York sexual assault conviction was thrown out by an appeals court Thursday, and most of the dozens of civil cases filed against him since he became a central target in the #MeToo movement in 2017 have either been settled or dismissed.
NEW YORK (AP) — After prosecutors’ lead witness painted a tawdry portrait of “catch and kill” tabloid schemes, defense lawyers in Donald Trump’s hush money trial are poised Friday to dig into an account of the former publisher of the National Enquirer and his efforts to protect Trump from negative stories during the 2016 election.