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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.
MT. ATHOS — No one's safe from COVID-19, not even in the holiest of sites, with at least eight cases found at the monastery of Agios Pavlos (St. Paul) on Mount Athos in northern Greece, reports said.
The monastery, situated on the western coast of Mount Athos, has been placed in quarantine, it was also added, and one of those who was infected was reportedly hospitalized in serious condition.
Some reports said a ninth Covid-19 case has been registered at the Helandariou Monastery on the northeastern side of Mount Athos and another at the monastic village of Lakkoskete, said Kathimerini.
The National Public Health Organization (EODY) has sent a team to the area, reports also said.
Despite the quarantine, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin was still scheduled to visit the monastic community of Mount Athos on Sept. 24 and stay overnight at the the Panteleimon monastery, where most of the monks are Russian.
Mount Athos is a male-only religious community that consists of 17 Greek monasteries, one Russian, one Bulgarian and one Serbian. It wasn't explained why he would be allowed to go there as the virus is spreading among monks.
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.
ATHENS - The tragedy of the Tempi train collision is a much greater issue than an opportunity for parties to table a motion of censure against the government, but the opposition parties used it anyway "to turn society's pain into a tool to strike at the government and me personally," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday night in parliament.
ATHENS - PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis, speaking at the Hellenic Parliament on Thursday, emphasized that there is "an established belief among the Greek people" that the government "operates as a well-oiled machine of corruption, cover-up, and propaganda.
ATHENS — Greece’s center-right government survived a motion of no-confidence late Thursday that was brought by opposition parties over its handling of the country’s deadliest rail disaster a year ago.
ASTORIA – Greek Minister of the Interior Niki Kerameus offered an informative presentation on postal voting in the upcoming European Union elections for Greek citizens in a well-attended event held at the St.