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Greece will continue joint efforts to solve the Cyprus problem on the basis of UN resolutions, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told the Mediterranean island's newly-elected president Nikos Christodoulides during a meeting in Athens Monday.

With nearly two months to go to the polls, the political parties have started to receive applications for those who want to run for the 600-seat parliament.

Turkish, Russian, Iranian, and Syrian deputy foreign ministers will meet in Russia's capital Moscow on March 15-16 for talks on Syria, according to diplomatic sources.

The EU and US have criticised plans by Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik, president of Bosnia's mainly Serb-dominated Republika Srpska entity, to push a new Russian-style law which would allow the entity to mark civil society and non-governmental organisations as "foreign agents".

Hatay, one of the most ancient and attractive cities of the region severely hit by the devastating earthquakes, will never be left alone, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said, repeating that the city, with all its districts, will be revived in one year.

The Homeland Party has nominated its chairman Muharrem İnce as the presidential candidate amid growing pressure from the opposition alliance for supporting the joint candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, leader of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP).

In an apparent protest over a regular South Korea-US combined military exercise to begin this week, North Korea fired two "strategic cruise missiles" from a submarine in waters off its east coast over the weekend, state media said on Monday, reported Yonhap News Agency.

Three people were killed, said the deputy head of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Warring Parties in Syria, Oleg Gurinov.
According to him, the buildings of research centers in the cities of Masyaf and Safsafa were damaged in the attack, reports RIA Novosti.

"People know we're not all the same." This is how leftist SYRIZA's leadership has chosen to interpret the new political landscape.

The Supreme Election Board (YSK) has determined a total of 36 political parties as eligible to run in Türkiye's upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections.

After President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, on March 10, signed a presidential decree declaring the election date as May 14, YSK convened to determine political parties that could run in the elections.