Cyprus

International relations scholars would know better, but seasoned journalists could also attest to the fact that one very rarely sees a radical alteration in a country?s foreign policies after a change in government.

Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias on Monday held talks with Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and gave a flurry of interviews to Turkish media on the first day of a visit to Turkey aimed at paving the way for bilateral talks on confidence-building measures.

By EU Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Pierre Moscovici

Global growth and world trade are expected to strengthen modestly, though at a slightly slower pace than envisaged in winter.

The Bulgarian Prosecutor's Office charged on Friday the Russian citizen German Kostin with the murder of the five-year-old Nikita Leontyev, whose body was found in a suitcase near the village of Pasarel in March.

According to the prosecution, the death of the child was caused through suffocation between February 8 and 10, the website of the prosecutor's office informs.

Turkish citizens living in Australia went to polling stations on May 8 to become the first to cast their ballots in Turkey?s June 7 general election.

On his maiden trip abroad, newly elected Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Ak?nc? and his Turkish counterpart and host Recep Tayyip Erdo?an left behind the "motherland" and "kinderland" squabble and declared jointly it was now time to concentrate on fast-tracking the Cyprus talks and finding a resolution in 2015.

The Turkish and Turkish Cypriot presidents refrained from publicly revisiting a quarrel over their ?motherland-baby land? argument, instead focusing on the soon to resume reunification talks of the divided island during a joint press conference in May 6.

The presidential election held on April 26, 2015, in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) brought a moderate leftist politician to the presidency. Mustafa Ak?nc?, who ran as an independent, became the fourth president of the TRNC with 60.5 percent of the votes in the runoff while his rival Dervi? Ero?lu, the incumbent president, got only 39.5 percent.

Switzerland said on Wednesday it would be willing to adopt an EU migration proposal currently being debated by Brussels for the even geographical distribution of asylum seekers across Europe.

Newly elected Turkish Cypriot President Mustafa Ak?nc? made his first official visit to Ankara on May 6, a little more than a week after engaging in a war of words with President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an over the status of the relationship between Turkey and Turkish Cyprus.