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Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades has said the Mediterranean island will "not waver under threats" and continue efforts to reach a peace settlement.
"We will not waver under threats and we will continue to fight for the issue," Anastasiades said after being awarded with an honorary law degree from the Law School of Thessaloniki's Aristotle University on Thursday.

The remains of two individuals were exhumed on Thursday in north Nicosia, with mixed reports saying an aerial photograph taken in 1965 showed suspected graves while others have not ruled out some of the bodies might belong to missing persons from 1974.

Turkey's Central Bank on Oct. 31 cut the year-end inflation projection for 2019.

Turkey's president on Oct. 31 praised the country's economic and strategic cooperation with Georgia.

Turkish oil-and-gas drilling ship Fatih, which had been conducting surveying work off southwestern Cyprus, is sailing away from the country's exclusive economic zone (EZZ), Kathimerini Cyprus reported.

The vessel Fatih had been deployed west of Akamas peninsula since last April. It now appears to be heading towards Turkey's coast but has not declared a specific destination.

The work on the TurkStream in Bulgaria and Serbia will be completed in 2020, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in Budapest, TASS reported.

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has refused to accept an environmental award.

The girl said that the climate movement needed no rewards, and that people in power need to begin to "listen to science not awards" Her representative also confirmed that Thunberg would not accept the 46,800 euro prize.

"The climate movement does not need any more awards," she wrote.

Finance Minister Vladislav Goranov has announced that Bulgaria may receive an invitation to the Euro Area waiting room by the end of April next year. He made this prediction to reporters at the Council of Ministers after a meeting of the National Council for Tripartite Cooperation, which discussed Budget 2020.

Turkey's defense minister, military chief, and top army commander on Oct. 31 inspected troops near the border in northern Syria, the site of Turkey's anti-terror Operation Peace Spring.

Macron has presented the fundamental argument that the entire EU enlargement process must be reformed before France will allow any country to start accession negotiations - which would then last for at least a decade.