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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 – Supermarkets across Greece will restrict the number of customers inside a store at any given time as part of a series of measures to prevent the spreading of coronavirus.
Specifically, one person per 10 square meters will be allowed in a supermarket according to a legislative act implemented as of Monday, Deputy Development and Investment Minister Nikos Papathanassis told OPEN TV.
Supermarkets will also be allowed to make deliveries on Sundays, he added.
Supermarkets to extend opening hours
Supermarkets must extend their opening hours from 7:00 in the morning until 22:00 at night, according to a legislative act to be issued later on Monday.
In the meantime, the Greek Confederation of Trade and Entrepreneurship has demanded a compulsory and universal suspension of the operation of all retail outlets (barring essential goods, such as food and pharmacies) in a letter to the ministers of development, finance, labour and health.
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.
NICOSIA - A meeting between the ministers of energy for Cyprus and Israel - George Papanastasiou and Eli Cohen - led to an agreement that the countries would make an underwater electric cable link a top priority, linking them to Europe.
LONDON (AP) — The British Museum on Thursday appointed National Portrait Gallery chief Nicholas Cullinan as its new director, as the 265-year-old institution grapples with the apparent theft of hundreds of artifacts and growing international scrutiny of its collection.
ATHENS - The European Union needs to get involved in the case of the two-year jail sentence given ethnic Greek Fredi Beleri who was elected Mayor of the seaside town of Himare and said the trial was a farce to get him and protect Prime Minister Edi Rama’s business friends.
Brace yourself for what could be another scorching summer in Greece as scientists are anxious that a warm winter - the warmest January recorded - and climate change will continue to bring weather anomalies.