General News
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 — Authorities on the island of Aegina in the Saronic Gulf locked down the Agios Nektarios Monastery after 16 nuns tested positive for COVID-19 and all of the 25 residents there were tested by a team from the National Organization for Public Health (EODY) to assess the spread.
Those infected were isolated inside the monastery while those who were found negative will still be quarantined for close monitoring, said health officials, reported Kathimerini, adding the monastery will be closed until Aug. 30.
In December, 2020 A 76-year-old monk in Mount Athos, which was shut down in November as the COVID-19 pandemic spread, died from the Coronavirus leading to six monasteries on the peninsula being quarantined.
Athanasios Martinos, the monastic community’s Civil Governor, told a local news website monks and people living in the monasteries weren’t always following health protocols to wear masks and keep safe social distances, leading to the facilities being overrun while he said that it wasn’t a problem.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
TORONTO (AP) — Police said nine people are facing charges in what authorities are calling the biggest gold theft in Canadian history from Toronto’s Pearson International airport a year ago.
TORONTO (AP) — Police said nine people are facing charges in what authorities are calling the biggest gold theft in Canadian history from Toronto’s Pearson International airport a year ago.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is ramping up its efforts to reduce violent crime in the U.
CAPRI, Italy (AP) — The European Union’s top diplomat urged Group of Seven foreign ministers on Thursday to take quick, concrete steps to provide more air defense systems to Ukraine, warning that continued delays could tilt the war in Moscow’s favor.
Bayern Munich will host Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund hosts Paris Saint-Germain in the first legs of the Champions League semifinals.