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Turkey's state-owned TV channel TRT has signed a new agreement with multiple satellite providers, including Türksat, to stream its TRT World Channel in a total of 190 countries worldwide. 

The deep-sea search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 ended on Jan. 17, without any trace being found of the plane that vanished in 2014 with 239 people on board, the three countries involved in the search said. 

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met his Australian counterpart Malcolm Turnbull in Sydney on Jan. 14 where the pair agreed to deepen defense ties and stressed the importance of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). 

Bulgaria's highest-ranking tennis player Grigor Dimitrov will play against Christopher O'Connell of Australia in the first round of Australian Open tennis tournament.

The game is set for after 10:00 Bulgarian time (EET).

Australian Open is this year's first Grand Slam tournament.

The crucial recognition came after the July 1991 Brijuni agreement, which ended the ten-day war in Slovenia and was the first international agreement between Slovenia and the European Community. 

The integration of Slovenia into the international community was followed by recognitions from across the globe and in May Slovenia was already admitted to the UN.

For those who have visited the island of Lefkada in the Ionian Sea it comes as no surprise that one its beaches is considered as having the bluest waters in the world. The island has many exquisite beaches with tranquil blue waters, but according to renowned travel site travelandleisure.com, Egremnoi is the best of them all. Here is the full list from the site:

Australia's Ambassador in Athens John Griffin expressed satisfaction with developments in Greece, acknowledging the opportunities opening up for enterprises, during a meeting on Thursday with Economy Minister Dimitris Papadimitriou.

Griffin also stressed that Australia is willing to contribute toward the effort to help the Greek economy return to a course of growth.

There is no denying that, generally speaking, the majority of travellers are interested in visiting the most popular destinations to enjoy their holidays. It is natural, people like to go were other people are. But there is that group of people who go out of their way to discover the less known places that are off the radar of most of us.

Significant changes will soon be made to the curriculum of Turkish schools abroad, which have been taken over from the network of Fethullah Gülen, the U.S. based preacher widely believed to have orchestrated the July 2016 coup attempt, according to the chairman of the Maarif (Education) Foundation.      

Millions of Tripadvisor users have voted the Mystras among the top 8 less known UNECO protected sites. In an effort to safeguard and preserve unique cultural and natural sites of great value from around the globe, UNESCO has granted them the title of protected. UNESCO’s list of protected sites includes some famous sites like the Grand Canyon or the Acropolis.