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BOGOTA - Serbia's highest-ranked female tennis player Jelena Jankovic made a successful start at the WTA tournament in Bogota by beating Mathilde Johansson of France 7-5, 7-5 late Wednesday.

In the second round, Jankovic will face Sofia Shapatava of Georgia, who beat Germany's Dinah Pfizenmaier 2-1 (6-4, 2-6, 6-2).

Russian and international intelligence services thwarted planned terror attacks during the Sochi Olympics, according to the Director of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB).

Candidates in the bid for European Commission President, socialist Martin Schulz and conservative Jean-Claude Juncker, are due to meet in a TV and radio debate on Wednesday.

BOGOTA - Serbian tennis player Jelena Jankovic and Danka Kovinic of Montenegro lost to Elitsa Kostova (Bulgaria) and Chieh Yu Hsu (U.S.) 1-6, 6-3, 10-6 in a first-round doubles match on Wednesday.

In the singles category, Jankovic is defending the title. She has been seeded first, and will take on Mathilde Johansson of France in a first-round match on Wednesday evening.

A fan of Chelsea Football Club waved out Bulgarian national team jersey of Emil Kostadinov in the last minute of Tuesday's Champions League match at Stamford Bridge.

The second leg of the quarterfinal between Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) finished 2:0 with a dramatic late goal of Demba Ba to secure the passage of the London club.

Remi Piet is Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Diplomacy and International Political Economy at Qatar University.

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Vartan Oskanian is a member of Armenia's National Assembly, a former foreign minister and the founder of Yerevan's Civilitas Foundation.

A new statue of the last tsar of Russia will be erected in Belgrade in the park on Kralja Milana street, near the Russian cultural centre, Ruski Dom.

The monument has been donated by Russia, which will also fund the renovation of the park in collaboration with several Russian companies.

BELGRADE - Rasim Ljajic, chairman of the National Council for Cooperation with the Hague Tribunal, said on Monday that Serbia had requested from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to return the entire documentation that had not been used in the proceedings before that court.

Bulgarian town of Kavarna is a positive example in the EU for Roma inclusion, President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso said, Friday.

The Black Sea town of Kavarna was named along with Berlin (Germany), Montreuil (France) and Craiova (Romania) at the European Roma Summit dedicated to the integration of the largest minority in the EU.