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PARIS - Serbian tennis player Ivana Jorovic managed to get into the final at the Junior French Open, after defeating Francoise Abanda of Canada 6-4, 6-0 in the semi-final on Friday.

In order to claim the title, Jorovic will have to beat the winner of the other semi-final match between Russia's Darya Kasatkina and Marketa Vondrousova of the Czech Republic.

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The French Open final on Saturday between Russian superstar Maria Sharapova and Romanian upstart Simona Halep sees a stark contrast in styles and status.
      

Two Mistral assault ships are to be sold to Russia, France's Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius announced.

The decision comes amid tensions between Moscow and the West over the Ukraine crisis.

Fabius wrote on Twitter that the contracts were agreed in 2011 and were to be executed as they would create many jobs in his country, as the BBC reported.

World leaders gather June 6 to mark 70 years since the historic D-Day invasion of France that hastened the end of World War II, against a backdrop of intense diplomacy over the Ukraine crisis.

Andy Murray will on Friday attempt to become the first British man in 77 years to reach the French Open final but eight-time champion Rafael Nadal is standing in his way.
      
Bunny Austin was the last Briton to get to the men's championship match in 1937 while Fred Perry was the country's last winner in Paris two years earlier.
      

Turkey has been elected to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) intergovernmental committee for the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu announced on June 4.

PARIS - Serbia's Nenad Zimonjic and Germany's Julia Goerges on Thursday lost the mixed doubles final at the Roland Garros tennis tournament to the Dutch-German pair of Jean-Julien Rojer and Anna-Lena Groenefeld 4-6, 6-2, 10-7.

Zimonjic thus missed the opportunity to win his third Roland Garros mixed doubles title after triumphing with Katarina Srebotnik of Slovenia in 2006 and 2010.

The United Nations seized World Environment Day Thursday to demand action on climate change to protect small island states threatened by rising seas, drought and floods.
      
"We have very, very alarming news from science," UN climate chief Christiana Figueres told reporters in Bonn at a new round of talks on global warming.
      

Bulgarian Foreign Minister Kristian Vigenin confirmed Wednesday preparations for a visit by his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov are under way.

Vigenin told Dnevnik.bg that no information had been officially given so far as the event was yet in the making and details could not be made public before having been settled.

PARIS - Serbian tennis player Nenad Zimonjic and Julia Goerges of Germany reached the mixed doubles final at Roland Garros.