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Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev and his Romanian counterpart Klaus Iohannis issued a joint call on Friday for NATO to increase its presence in the member countries on the eastern flank.

Iohannis expressed the two countries' support for consolidation of the collective defence and reaction capacity of the Alliance in view of the security challenges in the region, AGERPRES reports.

Bulgaria's top female tennis player Tsvetana Pironkova was defeated in the 1/8 finals of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships on Wednesday.

Pironkova was defeated by top seeded Simona Halep from Romania with 4:6, 3:6, daily Dnevnik reports.

The Bulgarian performed well, but was seemingly exhausted from the previous two matches, which lasted for more than two hours each.

Hackers from the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), a group suspected to be linked with the Al-Assad regime in Syria, claim that they have broke into e-mails of Turkish government agencies, about two years ago.

Romanian tennis player Simona Halep went one place down, from 3rd to 4th, in the WTA ranking released on Monday, because she couldn't defend the points won last year in Doha, following the change in the competition calendar.

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Two Al-Jazeera journalists were freed feb. 13 from an Egyptian prison pending retrial, their families said, after spending more than a year in jail in a case that provoked global uproar.
      
A Cairo court on Feb. 12 ordered the release of Canadian Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed, an Egyptian, who are facing retrial on charges of supporting the blacklisted Muslim Brotherhood.

A Syrian hacker group suspected to be linked with the al-Assad regime says it broke into e-mails of Turkish goverment agencies two years ago in retaliation for Turkey's downing of a Syrian helicopter Hackers from the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) have said they hacked scores of email accounts, including ones belonging to the Turkish government, but waited for the right time to reveal them

The USA is pointed out as the leader in world oil markets over the next decade in the annual Medium-Term Oil Market report published by the International Energy Agency on Tuesday.

In the light of economic sanctions against Russia on world markets, the country is prognosed to resort to contracting many of its capacities.

Former Tour de France winner and world time-trial champion Bradley Wiggins is enjoying his final days as a road racer, as the ongoing Tour of Qatar, serves as a warmup for a final crack at the Paris-Roubaix.        

Hackers from the Syrian Electronic Army, which supports Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, claimed that it has hacked scores of e-mail accounts, including the accounts of the Turkish Presidency, Foreign Ministry, Defense Ministry and Air Forces.

Politicians are notorious about avoiding telling the truth; maybe that is why they need to apologize when they happen to tell the truth. At least this is the case with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, who apologized after saying "the biggest problem for the U.S. is its allies; Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey."