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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 — Athens International Airport on Monday reported a 68.4 pct drop in its passenger traffic in 2020, compared with the previous year, the worst performance ever because of the global pandemic and its impact on air travel.
The first two months of 2020 started with increases of 5.7 pct and 2.8 pct in passenger traffic, respectively, but things changed dramatically ever since with passenger traffic plunging 98.8 pct in April. Passenger traffic fell 60.4 pct in August. International traffic plunged 71.6 pct to 5.06 million passengers in 2020, while domestic traffic fell 61.1 pct to 3.015 million passengers. Passenger traffic totaled 8.08 million in 2020, after a record of 25.57 million in 2019. In December, passenger traffic fell 85.6 pct to 236,000 passengers.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
BERLIN (AP) — At least five people were killed Wednesday when a bus headed from Berlin to Switzerland came off a highway in eastern Germany and ended up on its side, authorities said.
ΒΟSTON - The newly-elected Metropolitan Iakovos of Mexico, who was enthroned on Saturday, March 16th at the Cathedral of Aghia Sophia in Mexico City, gave his first interview as Metropolitan to The National Herald, which he described as a "historic newspaper," one he has known since childhood, as have his close relatives.
BALTIMORE - Authorities have released the identities of the two people recovered from the water Wednesday morning at the site of the Baltimore bridge collapse.
ATHENS — Police in Greece clashed late Wednesday with Communist-backed demonstrators who tried to prevent a concert by U.
ATHENS – Greece recorded a huge improvement in the business environment rankings of The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) among 82 countries worldwide.