Egypt

A French ship searching the Mediterranean has detected black box signals from a missing EgyptAir flight in the waters between the Greek island of Crete and the Egyptian coast, a development that could help solve the mystery of why the aircraft crashed into the sea last month, killing all 66 on board.

The growing closeness between Riyadh and Ankara is pushing the latter to adopt a more balanced and distanced attitude toward the Muslim Brotherhood, an organization it once embraced wholeheartedly.

Greece’s islands are the best holiday destination in the world for those who prefer to travel alone, according to a recent survey conducted by Solitair Holidays.

The Greek islands came out on top for the most visited holiday destinations for single travellers with Turkey and Italy following closely behind.

Architect Daniel Libeskind makes the most famous genocide monuments in the world. On April 11, he invited journalists to his office in New York and told them that it was time to open a "Kurdish national identity museum."  I was curious why the architect would do such a thing out of the blue.

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art reopens in mid-May after an ambitious $305 million expansion and facelift that aims to rival the world-class art spaces of New York, Paris or London.
 

Media outlets in Bulgaria are partly free along with most countries in Southern and Southeast Europe, the 2016 Freedom of the Press report shows.

BELGRADE - A Serbian national was kidnapped in Libya on Saturday, the Serbian Foreign Ministry told Tanjug on Tuesday.

The kidnapping of Miroslav Tomic (36) occurred at a site 120 km from the border with Egypt, the ministry said.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has ruled out any considerations of removing secularism from the constitution following Parliamentary Speaker ?smail Kahraman's remarks on the issue.

"The state's characteristics are not an issue of debate for us. The principle of secularism will stay in the new constitution," Davuto?lu said in a party meeting on April 27. 

Turkey continued to be defined as "not free" in U.S.-based think tank Freedom House's 2016 report on press freedom, with its score going up six points and thus signifying a "deteriorating" trend. 

Turkey is among the countries that "suffered the largest declines" over 2015, along with Bangladesh, Burundi, France, Serbia, Yemen, Egypt, Macedonia, and Zimbabwe.

The United Arab Emirates has decided to appoint an ambassador to Turkey after three years of coldness in ties, the Turkish foreign minister has said, noting that the new envoy would begin his job in Ankara on May 7.