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MADRID - World's No. 1 tennis player Novak Djokovic will not be hitting the court at the upcoming ATP Masters Series tournament in Madrid for the second consecutive year, a Madrid-based sport daily has reported.

The Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) was an Armenian terrorist organization that operated from 1975 until the early 1990s. It conducted a series of assassinations against Turks throughout the 1970 and 1980s, killing 46 and injuring 299 people. Some 42 of the assassinated were Turkish diplomats.

Olympiacos’s basketball team will again head to a European Final Four this season after a buzzer-beating three-pointer on Thursday evening at home against Barcelona by Giorgos Printezis, 71-68.

Turkey is not less courageous than other countries which have nuclear power plants, the country?s energy minister has said, as concerns lingered over the safety of Turkey?s first nuclear power plant, which is being constructed in the southern province of Mersin.

Fenerbahçe Ülker will represent Turkey in the prestigious Turkish Airlines Euroleague Final Four after Istanbul?s Anadolu Efes bowed to Real Madrid late on April 23 in the fourth game of the match up at home, mainly due to a strong Spanish performance in the last period. 

By George Georgakopoulos

Panathinaikos was unable to exceed its potential for a second time in two days and lost 74-55 to CSKA Moscow in Athens on Wednesday to bid farewell to this season?s Euroleague in front of a capacity crowd at the Olympic Sports Hall.

The Plant for Mechanical Biological Treatment of Waste in Sofia will be the second largest in Europe, right after the unit in Spain's capital Madrid.

There was Turkish delight and Spanish sorrow on a night of frantic Euroleague playoff action as Anadolu Efes Istanbul beat Real Madrid while Greek side Olympiakos Piraeus sank Barcelona on April 21.

The tenth consecutive round of negotiations between the EU and the US regarding the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is set to start Monday in New York.

Talks continue as the proposal for an economic agreement was made more than two years ago. The idea behind it was for the biggest trade zone in the world to be created.

Thousands of protesters took to the streets in Europe on April 18 to oppose the world's biggest free trade pact between the US and European Union.