The Iroquois High School auditorium was the setting for a moving ceremony on Aug. 15, when 36 former immigrants from across the globe became citizens of the United States. What made this ceremony so special is not just that it took place at a high school instead of a courthouse, but that it was produced entirely by the students in Iroquois' government and civics summer school class.
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Portugal greets first UK tourists as COVID-19 travel curbs lifted
Passengers prepare to board a flight bound for Faro, Portugal, at Gatwick Airport in West Sussex, England on May 17, 2021. (Photo: Gareth Fuller/PA via AP)
17 May 2021 06:56PM (Updated:
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FARO: British holidaymakers returned to Portugal on Monday (May 17) as the country seeks to revive its battered tourism industry after lifting travel restrictions that had been imposed to curb COVID-19.
Britons are the biggest contingent of tourists in Portugal, a country whose economy relies heavily on foreign visitors.
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FARO: British holidaymakers returned to the sun-soaked beaches of Portugal on Monday, as the country seeks to revive its battered tourism industry after lifting travel restrictions that had been imposed to curb Covid-19.
Britons are the biggest contingent of tourists in Portugal, a country whose economy relies heavily on foreign visitors.
Portugal imposed a strict two-month lockdown earlier this year to control a new wave of coronavirus infections. It lifted restrictions on visitors from Britain and most European Union countries from Monday.
Bea Wilkinson, a waitress from the northern English city of Manchester, spoke of her delight to have arrived on the first flight to Faro, on Portugal´s southern Algarve coast.
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