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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 – The opening of a newly-renovated Omonia Square in the heart of Greece’s capital is being followed by plans to make some streets in an historic area downtown free of cars to let people be able to meet social distancing requirements over the COVID-19 Coronavirus.
Those measures say people should stay at least 1.5 meters (4.92 feet) apart, physically impossible in many areas where people congregate and shop in the highly-congested city that’s overrun with cars and vehicular traffic.
According to a joint ministerial decision published in the government gazette, authorities will for the next three months close down designated streets for pedestrians and also bicyclists and with reports showing better air quality from a lockdown that required people to mostly stay at home from March 23-May 4 when a series of gradual reopenings of businesses, beaches and other areas began.
Access will be restricted to permanent residents and vehicles linked to local businesses in the area that will be otherwise closed off to traffic during that period.
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.