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Places of worship will be open at 30 per cent capacity and restaurants and cafes will be closed, but delivery services will remain operational. The measures mimic those imposed for Catholic Easter in early April and will likely resemble those to be implemented for Eid Al Fitr as announced by officials on March 26. Covid-19 measures during Ramadan have been slightly more lenient, with restaurants and malls operating at limited capacity. A curfew between 9.30pm and 5.00am has been enforced and gr...

Women at St. James Church in Louisville, Kentucky, pass collection baskets during Easter Mass April 4, 2021, amid the coronavirus pandemic. (CNS/Reuters/Amira Karaoud) Like the millions of Americans who have received their coronavirus vaccine shots, Ive started thinking about what I will do once Im fully vaccinated. At the top of my list: a trip to the dentist to repair a tooth that broke months ago. Getting a professional haircut, seeing friends and family, or traveling by ai...

Getty Images If there’s one celebration that I look forward to most every year, it’s Greek Easter. For my family, Greek Easter is the annual event of the year, far bigger than Christmas. It’s the only occasion where you’ll find every single family member in one place (which, trust me, is an achievement in itself). And it’s also the only time of the year where we will happily put any differences aside and partake in what can only be described as the world’s most chaotic buffet. A...

When is the Best Time to Go to Greece? Greece’s main tourist season runs from between May and September and heavily peaks in the high season of July and August. This is typically the best time to visit Europe. At this time, you can expect the idyllic Mediterranean summers you were always dreaming about with blue skies, hot days and scarcely a drop of rain. Greek’s really do come to life during the summer months and the country is an infectious and fun place to be – expect long nights of o...

During the forthcoming elections one major problem will arise again – the vote of Bulgarians abroad. There are less than 1 million Bulgarians living in other countries, not more, whereas some are talking about 2-3 million, said head of the Information Services Prof. Mihail Konstantinov before BNT. “We do not know what the conditions will be for the vote, the elections will be held on the day of the Catholic Easter celebration. We have to think already now what must done,” he added.   ...

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Bulgaria ( GERB) propose changes to electoral legislation in order to guarantee the right of vote to all Bulgarians. Thats what the ruling party announced at an emergency briefing on Friday. "The aim is to let those quarantined exercise their right of voting. Therefore, the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) will draw up rules on how they will vote – with a mobile ballot box or in special sections. The health safety of Bulgarian voters must be ensured. The CEC will provide funds for individua...

Sursa foto: www.univrse.ro Pupils will resume online classes in the first semester of the 2020-2021 school year on Monday, after the winter holiday. The school year 2020-2021 is structured over two semesters, amounting to 34 weeks. The first semester is scheduled between 14 September 2020 and 29 January 2021 and the second half of the school year between 8 February and 18 June 2021. According to the timetable approved by the Ministry of Education, the next holiday, the inter-semester, is schedu...

Izvor: Beta/AP "We must understand that the whole of 2021 will be the year of vaccination," said Dragoslav Popovic, an international consultant for immunization at UNICEF and the World Bankon Radio Television of Serbia. True, but just as we cannot wait for this, strange and unfortunate 2020 to end, we also cannot wait – ourway of life, our societies, our economies –for the vaccine to come.   We will not deal with opponents or "anti-vaxxers" here. All vaccines that are in one of the phases ...