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Turkish Airlines will add seven new direct foreign flight destinations from Turkey's capital Ankara beginning from Oct. 1, 2015, officials said on May 14.

Ankara Chamber of Industry head Nurettin Özdebir told Anadolu Agency that Turkish Airlines had promised to add 27 flights per week from Ankara to seven new foreign destinations.

Romania's tennis player Simona Halep on Saturday lost a women's singles semi-final of the 731,000 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix tournament in Stuttgart, Germany, to Denmark's Caroline Wozniacki, 5-7, 7-5, 2-6.

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For advancing to the semi-finals, Halep won 28,601 US dollars and 185 WTA points.

STUTTGART - Serbia's Ana Ivanovic was driven out of the WTA event in Stuttgart late Tuesday by Caroline Garcia, after a 7-6 (8-6), 6-4 defeat in the first round.

Garsia ousted Ivanovic for the third straight time in 2015. She previously beat the Serbian player in Monterey (6-1, 6-4) and Indian Wells (6-2, 5-7, 6-2).

Bulgaria's top female and male tennis players Tsvetana Pironkova and Grigor Dimitrov retained their respective WTA and ATP rankings.

Pironkova, who was defeated in the qualifications of the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart, retained her 52nd position in the WTA ranking.

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.

MIAMI - Serbia's Janko Tipsarevic has confirmed that he will play in the men's doubles category at the ATP Masters tournament in Miami, which will mark his return to the game after an 18-month break caused by an injury.

Tipsarevic will play alongside Novak Djokovic and face Robert Lindstedt of Sweden and Juergen Melzer of Austria in the first round.

The Montenegrin government has great expectations of foreign investment in tourism this year, as development projects started in 2014 undergo expansion.

The government's programme of economic reforms in tourism, which BIRN has seen, expects more than 250 million euro in tourist-related investment in 2015.

Turkey's TAV Operation Services has won the tender to operate the advertisement areas of Carthage Airport in the capital of Tunisia for four years, the company said by a written statement on March 2.

The number of airports whose advertisement areas are operated by TAV Operation Services has now increased to three, the company added.

Germany?s Hamburg airport temporarily shut its terminal building this morning after a strike by security staff caused overcrowding.

The airport said police closed the doors for two hours after queues of up to five hours for security checks built up.

?Passengers have little chance of making their flights today,? a spokeswoman said, adding the building was re-opened.