Cyprus’s ruling communist Akel held on to its share of the vote in a parliamentary election on Sunday, as Greek Cypriots went to the polls ahead of talks with the UN chief on ending the island’s division.

An agreement on the realisation of the Nabucco gas pipeline project will be signed in Turkey on June 6, Turkish Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Taner Yildiz announced. Yildiz remarked that the agreement is of great importance. 

Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has condemned the attack of the Bulgarian nationalistic party Ataka on Muslims outside a mosque in the center of Sofia, the