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Young Romanian tennis player Nicholas David Ionel and Swiss Leandro Riedi won the boys' doubles event at the 2020 Australian Open, the first Grand Slam of the year on Friday after defeating Mikolaj Lorens (Poland) / Karlis Ozolins (Latvia) 6-7 (8-10) 7-5 10-4 in the final. Number five seed Ionel, 17, and Riedi, 18, prevailed over the sixth seeded duo in an hour and 28 minutes.

World number three Simona Halep lost her bid to become an Australian Open finalist, as Spain's Garbine Muguruza outclassed her 7-6 (10-8), 7-5 this Thursday in the tournament's second semifinal.

Turkey remembered with respect its late distinguished diplomat Kemal Arıkan, who was the victim of an assassination on Jan. 28, 1982.

Arıkan, Turkey's consul general in Los Angeles, was killed by Armenian terrorists affiliated with JCAG, Turkey's Foreign Ministry said on Twitter.

In December 2019, the number of the trips of Bulgarian residents abroad was 529.3 thousand or by 10.6% above the registered in December 2018.

Chinese citizen Sze Yat Lung, who is currently living in Croatia, was arrested on Monday after a video was posted on social networks showing him singing Croatian ultranationalist songs in a cafe in Imotski, where he was watching the finals of the European Handball Championship between Croatia and Spain.

Slovenia did not manage to bounce back from yesterday's semi-final match against Spain (32:34), while the Norwegians celebrated after a painful loss to Croatia in the last seconds of the other semi-final.

At least 10 people have been killed since Sunday due to bad weather in Spain, accompanied by strong gusts of wind, snow and rain. This is what Mundo writes today, TASS reported.

According to the newspaper, four more people have been reported missing. Among them is a 25-year-old Briton.

There are also many injured people.

A further 10 percent increase is expected in Finnish tourist arrivals to Greece in 2020, following an 11.5 percent increase in 2019, when 322,549 Finns had visited Greece by November 30.

Greece ranks last in the European Union, along with Spain, in the European Skills Index compiled by the European Center for the Development of Vocational Training (CEDEFOP), as while the country may boast a high rate of basic education, it also has a low level of professional skills.

Turkish woman fencer Nisanur Erbil won a silver medal in the FIE Junior Segovia World Cup 2020 on Jan. 18.

France's Anne Poupinet beat Erbil 15-12 in the final to win the gold medal in the tournament in Spain.

Erbil had defeated the U.S.' Chloe Fox-Gitomer 15-14 to compete in the final.

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