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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.
MOSCOW — Russia's national airline Aeroflot is start flights again to Cyprus on Nov. 22 but only for allowed personnel as Russian tourists are still barred because of the COVID-19 pandemic that hit their country hard.
There will be Sunday flights from Moscow to Larnaca and back, the Russian Embassy in Nicosia wrote on Facebook, Russia's state-run Tass News Agency reported on the return of flights.
But only Cypriot citizens, family members, persons with a residence permit, diplomats will be able to fly to the republic. Tourists are not included in this category yet, the report said.
The embassy pointed out the need for a valid certificate of passing a COVID-19 test to be able to enter Cyprus. "The test must be done within 72 hours before arriving in Cyprus," the diplomatic mission added.
Cyprus imposed a ban on flights to Larnaca and Paphos airports on March 21 as the pandemic spread. Cyprus allowed tourists from countries with relatively safe records in dealing with the Coronavirus in June but after that only export passenger flights were made to both Russia and from Russia to Cyprus.
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.