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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 – Passenger traffic in Greek airports grew 5.4 pct in January 2020, in comparison with January 2019, totalling 2,250,000 passengers from 2,135,674 passengers in the same period last year, the Civil Aviation Authority said in a report on Monday.
The authority said that the number of flights at Greek airports totaled 22,307 in January 2020 (of which 12,392 domestic and 9,915 international), an increase of 0.4 pct compared with the corresponding period last year.
The report showed that Kalymnos, Kastoria and Kozani airports recorded the biggest percentage increases in passenger traffic, (262.1 pct, 254.4 pct and 230 pct respectively).
The highest passenger traffic in January 2020 was recorded in Athens airport (1,457,835 passengers), Thessaloniki (410,072 passengers), Heraklion (98,486 passengers), Rhodes (52,384 passengers) and Chania (49,517 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.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst.
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.
Mykonos’ run has been going on for a long time, bringing hordes of tourists, but it’s being cut down by its reputation for being rowdy, expensive, overcrowded and gouging diners while businesses evade taxes.