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The further strengthening of strategic relations between Greece and Egypt was the focus of a meeting between Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and visiting Egyptian Foreign Affairs Ministers Sameh Shoukry at Maximos Mansion on Tuesday.

A vessel with around 400 people on board is adrift between Greece and Malta and is taking on water, support service Alarm Phone said on Sunday, after a sharp rise of migrant boats crossing the Mediterranean from North Africa.

Russia's U.N. ambassador on Monday dismissed U.S. and European Union descriptions of its presidency of the Security Council this month as an April Fool's joke and announced a meeting to be chaired by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on defending the principles of the U.N. Charter, which Moscow is widely accused of breaking by invading Ukraine.

Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has informed a meeting on Syria at the level of deputy foreign ministers between Türkiye, Russia, Iran and Syria will take place in Moscow on April 3-4.

Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias is set to meet with his counterpart from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, on Monday, during the latter's visit to Greece. 

Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu was in Cairo on Saturday for the first time since ties were ruptured a decade ago to push to restore full diplomatic relations between the two countries.

In a new episode of the great power struggle for influence in Africa, Washington and Moscow continue to use their strongest trump cards, and this time the center of that conflict is the African country of Chad.

Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu described their meeting with his Egyptian Sameh Shoukry as "open and sincere" and said the process has begun to raise the bilateral relations to the level of ambassadors.

Türkiye's chief diplomat was in Cairo on March 18 for talks with Egyptian officials as the regional powers seek to mend their frayed ties after years of tensions.

Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Türkiye's foreign minister, landed in the Egyptian capital early Saturday. He was the highest-ranking Turkish official to visit the Arab World's most populous nation in over a decade.

The Supreme Election Board (YSK) has announced that ballot boxes will be established in 15 more countries in the elections to be held on May 14, YSK President Ahmet Yener has announced.

YSK decided to set up ballot boxes in 21 overseas representations in 15 countries, in which Turkish citizens did not cast vote in previous polls.