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DOHA - The Serbia men's national water polo team lost 15-13 (4-4, 5-5, 2-1, 4-3) to Croatia at the World Aquatics Championships in Doha on Tuesday evening.

Serbia now go to the playoffs for the 5th to the 8th positions and will first face the loser of the match between Hungary and France.

DOHA - The Serbia men's national water polo team defeated the US 14-12 (2-3, 3-4, 6-1, 3-4) at the World Aquatics Championships in Doha on Friday to qualify for the quarter-finals and secure a berth at the Paris Olympics, where it will be defending back-to-back gold medals from Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo.

DOHA - Serbia beat Montenegro 14-6 (4-1, 2-2, 5-3, 3-0) at the water polo world championship in Doha on Wednesday.

Dusan Mandic led the scoring for Serbia with four goals while Djordje Vucinic, Viktor Rasovic and Strahinja Rasovic each scored a brace.

Earlier, US defeated Japan 18-5 in the other Group C match.

Evangelia Platanioti danced the Zorba’s sirtaki in the pool of Doha and amazed the audience and judges

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Wednesday to push for a ceasefire as the Gaza war enters its fifth month.

Türkiye's top diplomat has voiced Ankara's endorsement for a new framework deal between Hamas and Israel which would bring about a new humanitarian pause and exchange of hostages.

Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan spoke over the phone with Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani, late on Feb. 6 to discuss the framework deal created by Qatar and Egypt.

Key mediator Qatar said Tuesday that Hamas gave a "positive" response to a truce proposal as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken toured the region seeking an enduring end to Hamas's nearly four-month war with Israel.

Hamas confirmed it delivered its response to proposals hammered out a week ago in Paris between Qatar and other mediators.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was in Israel on Wednesday, where he was expected to press for what he called an "essential" truce agreement as the war with Hamas entered its fifth month.

The diplomat was due to meet Israel's leaders as part of a Middle East crisis tour after earlier stops in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Qatar.

DOHA - The Serbia men's national water polo team has got off to a winning start at the world championship in Doha by defeating Japan 17-10 (4-3, 4-4, 5-1, 4-2) in Group C on Monday.

Serbia will face Montenegro on Wednesday and the United States on Friday.

Türkiye's head of the intelligence agency, İbrahim Kalın, held talks with the head of the political wing of Hamas, İsmai Haniyye, in Doha amid efforts to reach a ceasefire in the Gaza war that killed more than 25,000 civilians at the hands of the Israeli army.