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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 – Already essentially ending a lenient lockdown aimed at slowing the spread of COVID-19, Greece's New Democracy is set to lift inter-municipal travel bans on May 3, the day after Easter.
That will come as the government is allowing tourists from select countries who have been vaccinated or can show proof of a negative Coronavirus case and has allowed most stores to reopen, including malls.
Until then, people still aren't allowed to go outside their neighborhoods except to stores or hairdressers or exercise, and no indication violators are being penalized with heavy traffic on the roads.
Panagiotis Stamboulidis, General Secretary for Commerce, said the restrictions will be eliminated the week after Easter with Greece also opening to tourists generally on May 14 who are free of COVID-19.
A vaccination program is being accelerated to try to create herd immunity against the pandemic and is showing signs of working despite pockets where cases remain high.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has been trying to balance saving lives against restoring an economy crippled by COVID-19 lockdowns and speed a recovery, people eager to travel again although it wasn't said if inter-regional travel will also be allowed.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) — It was in the den that Karen Goodwin most strongly felt her son’s presence: On the coffee table were his ashes, inside a clock with its hands forever frozen at 12:35 a.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A bus carrying worshippers on a long-distance trip from Botswana to an Easter weekend church gathering in South Africa plunged off a bridge on a mountain pass Thursday and burst into flames as it hit the rocky ground below, killing at least 45 people, authorities said.