Egypt

This column on April 18 analyzed the foreign policy section of the ruling Justice and Development Party?s (AKP) election manifesto and found that the government is not promising a change in its diplomatic line. Today?s column will study the main opposition Republican People?s Party?s (CHP) plan for foreign policy under the title ?the vision for citizens and value-based foreign policy.?

Egypt's ex-President Morsi to spend 20 years in jail

CAIRO -- Former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the murder of demonstrators in 2012, news agencies are reporting.

Egypt's ex-President Morsi to spend 20 years in jail

An Egyptian criminal court on April 21 sentenced ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi to 20 years in prison over the killing of protesters in 2012, the first verdict to be issued against the country's first freely elected leader.
                   

ALEXANDRIA - Former Serbian president and leader of the opposition Social Democratic Party (SDS) Boris Tadic was appointed as member of the Board of Trustees of the Library of Alexandria, SDS said in a release on Monday.

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic conferred with Egyptian Ambassador to Serbia Menha Mahrous Bakhoum on bilateral relations and Egypt's candidacy for a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council on Monday.

It was April 2009 when new U.S. President Barack Obama paid his first overseas visit to Turkey and delivered a speech in the Turkish parliament.

Egypt's ex-president Mohamed Morsi faces being sentenced to death April 21 on charges of inciting the killing of protestors in the first verdict against him nearly two years after his fall from power.

Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova said on Saturday that the declining interest of Russian tourists towards Bulgaria could be compensated by visitors from the rest of Europe.

Russia and Ukraine represented an important, but not the sole market for Bulgarian tourism, Angelkova added in an interview for private bTV station.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades expressed optimism on Friday after their meeting in Athens that reunification talks on Cyprus could soon be back on track. In private, though, the two men shared their reservations about whether the negotiations will be able to progress, sources told Kathimerini.

Turkey?s region is surrounded by problems and Ankara is striving to maintain peace and prosperity, President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an claimed during a visit to Kazakhstan on April 17.

Erdo?an cited the problems of ?Crimean Tatars in Ukraine? and ?deterioration and oppression in Syria,? speaking at the Ahmet Yesevi University in the Kazakh city of Turkistan.