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Spain is leading Romania with the score of 2-1, after Garbine Muguruza defeated Simona Halep by 6-4, 6-3, on Sunday, on the Dunarea Arena of Galati, in the first round of the World Group II of the team-based Fed Cup tennis competition.

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President Klaus Iohannis on Saturday in Galati, in the official opening of the tennis game between Romania's and Spain's national teams counting for the first round of the World Group II of the Fed Cup.

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Romanian woman tennis player Simona Halep has defeated Silvia Soler-Espinosa, 6-2, 6-1, and won the first point for Romania in the game against Spain, on Saturday, on the "Danube" Skating Ring in Galati, in the first round of the World Group II of the Fed Cup competition.

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 Hellenic Petroleum, Energean Oil submit offers for areas in western Greece as foreign firms opt out of tender

By Chryssa Liaggou

Greek companies Hellenic Petroleum and Energean Oil are the only suitors in the tender to survey for and utilize hydrocarbons in three land blocks in western Greece, the Energy Ministry announced on Friday.

Romanian tennis player Simona Halep said on Friday that she is ready to play her best tennis in the match opposing Romania and Spain in the first round of the 2nd Fed Cup World Group at the 'Dunarea' sports arena in Galati.

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Bulgarian snowborder Aleksandra Zhekova has won a gold medal in the 2015 Winter Universiade in Sierra Nevada, Spain.

This is the second gold in the student games, with Vladimir Zografski also grabbing a medal last week.

BELGRADE - A delegation of the Democratic Party (DS) headed by party leader Bojan Pajtic has taken part in a working meeting of the Presidency of the Party of European Socialists (PES), where they expressed their support of a view that pursuing economic policies relying exclusively on savings measures needs to come to an end as soon as possible.

In case anyone feared the Eurovision song contest had lost a little of its sequined luster in recent years, then despair no more - Turkey is coming back.
        
Absent from the glitzy competition for the last three years, Turkey will rejoin Eurovision for the 2016 edition of the contest, the country's public broadcaster said on Feb. 6. 
     

Greece will be able to reach agreement with its European partners and any turmoil poses little risk for Spain where the government is poised to raise its growth forecasts, Spanish Economy Minister Luis de Guindos said.

By Sarah White & Julien Toyer

MADRID - Greece will be able to reach agreement with its European partners and any turmoil poses little risk for Spain where the government is poised to raise its growth forecasts, Spanish Economy Minister Luis de Guindos said.