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Maria Sharapova had given warning that she was ready for a three hour French Open final - and she was true to her word, stopping the clock at three hours two minutes to lift the trophy.

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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A gunman suspected of killing three police officers and wounding two others was arrested early Friday in Canada after a massive manhunt, police said.
      

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.

West threatens Russia with more sanctions

BRUSSELS -- Leaders of the seven most developed countries have warned Russia they are ready for new sanctions if there is no progress in resolving the Ukrainian crisis.

Romania’s lower chamber, the Chamber of Deputies, on Tuesday overhelmingly rejected a mining law that would have enabled Canada’s Gabriel Resources to start a controversial gold mining project in central Transylvania.

Last September, the centre-left government of Victor Ponta sent a bill to parliament to approve the project to dig for gold in Rosia Montana.

The double made up of Romania's Florin Mergea and Croat Marin Draganja advanced to the men's doubles semifinals of Roland Garros, the second Grand Slam tournament of the year, as it defeated seed No 3 Daniel Nestor of Canada - Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia 6-7 (2), 6-3, 7-6 (5) on Monday.

The Pescanik.net website said on Monday that it had been brought down by a Denial of Service (DOS) attack a day earlier, directly after publishing allegations that that Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic had plagiarised parts of his PhD thesis.

Serbian Minister’s University Accused

PARIS - Serbia's top-ranking male tennis player Novak Djokovic reached the quarter-finals of the Roland Garros Grand Slam tennis tournament on Sunday by beating Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France 6-1, 6-4, 6-1.

The current world number two now has a 12-5 head-to-head record against Tsonga.

Nicosia held its first Greek Cypriot gay pride parade, 16 years after homosexuality was decriminalized on the Mediterranean island, where the influential Orthodox Church views non-heterosexual relations as sinful.