Cyprus

French energy giant TOTAL is expected to start exploratory drilling in block 11 of the Cyprus Exclusive Economic Zone on July 14.

Block 11 covers some 2,958 square kilometres and the drill site is 150 km off the coast of Cyprus.

Before any exploratory work begins, a 4400-metre diameter area around the site will be explored for objects of archaeological interest.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Friday described the fact that Greece was not on the agenda of talks at a summit of European Union leaders in Brussels as a "positive development."

In comments to reporters at the end of the two-day meeting, Tsipras hailed last week's Eurogroup agreement, declaring that it did not mark the end but the beginning of the road for Greece.

A settlement on Cyprus requires the two peoples of Cyprus, as well as Greece and Turkey, to put aside emotional and unrealistic designs, abandon utopias, hallucinations, dreams and concentrate on a power-sharing scheme between the "two equal constituent people" of the island.

The Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras met with the Cyprus President Nikos Anastasiades in Brussels on Thursday.

They talked mainly about the draft document of Espen Barth Eide, UN Secretary General Special Adviser on Cyprus, and the coordination of Athens and Nicosia ahead of the Cyprus summit.

Ahead of the June 28 Cyprus conference in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, Greek-Cypriot negotiator Andreas Mavroyiannis Wednesday informed Cypriot political party leaders on the draft common document, regarding security and guarantees, he received earlier in the day from the UN secretary-general's special adviser on Cyprus, Espen Barth Eide.

The dividing line between Brussels and Ankara remains a deep one, Georgi Dimov, former consul general of Bulgaria in Edirne, told FOCUS Radio' Good Morning Bulgaria.

Long before cats became the darlings of Facebook and YouTube, they spread through the ancient human world.

A DNA study reached back thousands of years to track that conquest and found evidence of two major dispersals from the Middle East, in which people evidently took cats with them. Genetic signatures the felines had on those journeys are still seen in most modern-day breeds.

His Eminence Metropolitan Cleopas of Sweden and All Scandinavia welcomed the President of Cyprus’ House of Representatives Mr. Demetris Syllouris on Thursday, June 15, 2017, during the latter’s visit to the St. George Metropolis Cathedral as part of his official trip to Stockholm. House President Syllouris was accompanied by Cyprus Ambassador to Sweden Mr.

The Turkish and Greek Cypriot leaders, Mustafa Akıncı and Nikos Anastasiades, will meet in Crans-Montana, Switzerland on June 28. The meeting comes after strong pressure from U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Gueterres to hold another conference in order to bring the two parties closer to a breakthrough with the participation of three guarantor countries: Turkey, Greece and the United Kingdom.

The United Nations special envoy Espen Barth Eide said Tuesday that success at the June 28 Cyprus Conference in Crans-Montana, Switzerland will hinge on a "strategic agreement" on the fundamental issues of security, guarantees, territorial adjustments, property and governance.