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Turkey's exports increased by 2.6 percent in March to $11.5 billion compared to the same month of the previous year, according to provisional data from the Exporters' Assembly of Turkey (T?M). 

The Federation for Economic & Industrial Research (IOBE) said the economic climate index in Greece has plummeted by 7 points to 90.1 from 97.3 compared to the respective month in 2015. The body also points to a drop in consumer confidence to 2013 levels. At the same time IOBE recorded a marginal rise in the economic climate index compared to February 2016 when it stood at 89 points.

Lockheed Martin Corp and the Pentagon missed their end-of-March target for reaching agreement on $15 billion in new F-35 fighter jets, but should complete work on the contracts in April, according to sources familiar with the matter.

"We're closer now than we were at the beginning of the month," said one of the sources, who was not authorized to speak publicly.

The Greek city of Kalamata, Peloponesse, is among 13 European cities you never thought to visit – but really should – according to Telegraph.

The German authorities, backed by Europol, have dismantled a German-based Iraqi criminal syndicate suspected of laundering money for international heroin traffickers.

An EU spokesperson has defended diplomats who attended the first hearing of the controversial trial of two prominent journalists in Turkey, stressing that such monitoring is part of their regular work in the country.

Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades ruled out that the hijacking of the EgyptAir plane on Tuesday constituted a terrorist attack, saying that the hijacker seemed to have personal motives.

Instead of conducting the scheduled domestic flight MS181 between Alexandria and Cairo, the Airbus A320 landed at the airport in Larnaca after being hijacked and forced to divert to Cyprus.

The Italian Foreign Ministry said the Italian Consul General in Istanbul acted within the scope of the Vienna Convention on diplomatic and consular relations when attending the first hearing of the trial against two prominent Turkish journalists on March 25. 

The Image Gallery presents the work of acclaimed photographer Costas Vergas, who has spent 30 years traveling and photographing the world.

In this exhibition – titled “eye phone.”- he has chosen to leave his Leica and Hasselblad camera behind to work only with mobile photography.

Bulgarian citizens completed a total of 281 360 trips abroad in February this year, which represented 9.8 % increase compared to the same month in 2015.

This becomes clear from the latest figures of the National Statistical Institute (NSI) released on Monday.