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Prime Minister Victor Ponta has had a meeting on Thursday with the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), John Brennan, where both underlined the progress recorded within the Romania-US Strategic Partnership, the Romanian Government informs in a press release sent AGERPRES.

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The Belgrade Dance Festival has a 12-year history of organizing shows all year round. Its famous springtime festival features some of the top names in modern choreography and the best dance troupes from Serbia and abroad.

The interior ministers of 11 European nations on Sunday urged the tightening of controls at the EU's external borders in order to prevent a repeat of this week's terrorist attacks in Paris that left 17 people dead.

Turkish Airlines was one of the main sponsors of a Dec. 9 blogger summit at the White House in Washington D.C., where the world's 100 most influential travel bloggers were invited.

Turkish Airlines executives said the second summit is planned to be held in Turkey.

One of the ongoing controversies in Turkey is the new “Presidential Palace” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had built for himself in the outskirts of Ankara. The complex is simply huge, with some 1,000 rooms and a size six times bigger than that of the White House in Washington D.C. It cost Turkish tax payers $615 million according to figures given by the Finance Ministry.

The US government will extradite to Bulgaria Plamen Vladimirov Trifonov on September 27 on the request of the Bulgarian authorities.

In 2004, Trifonov, a Bulgarian national, was sentenced to 8 years of imprisonment for smuggling of people and causing death by negligence, according to a media statement of the US Embassy, as cited by the BGNES news agency.

Bulgarian top tennis player Grigor Dimitrov will skip the ongoing tournament in Washington D.C. because of a flu and a sinus infection.

The tournament director Jeff Newman said that Grigor will be missed this year, however his health comes first. He wished Dimitrov good luck until the end of the season, Bulgarian Dnevnik reports.

Turkish and U.S. officials are set to meet in Washington D.C. in the coming days to continue consultations on regional issues, at a time when the Middle East is going through turmoil from Israel-Palestine to Iraq.

This is the last week to catch Ara Güler’s never-before-seen works, on display at the Smithsonian in Washington DC since the end of last year Ara Güler is known as one of Turkey’s most prominent photojournalist and since Dec. 21 last year his never-before-seen works have been on display at the Smithsonian, in Washington D.C.

The founding president of the Foreign-Based Romanian Students League (LSRS), Sebastian Burduja says he wants to see as many Romanian graduates of foreign universities as possible taking part in Romanian projects.