Djokovic beats Federer to win Indian Wells title[17/03/2014] Novak Djokovic of Serbia beats Roger Federer of Switzerland to win Indian Wells title. Novak Djokovic came into Indian Wells for the first time in four years without a title. Serena Williams continues to lead WTA tennis rankings[17/03/2014] Serena Williams continues to top the women’s tennis rankings released by the WTA. WTA top 10 as of March 17 (previous ranking in parenthesis): 1. (1) Serena Williams, United States, 12,660 points 2. (2) Li Na, China, 7,185 3. (3) Agnieszka Radwanska, Poland, 6,215 4. (4) Victoria Azarenka, Belarus, 5,441 5. (7) Simona Halep, Romania, 4,775 6. (8) Jelena Jankovic, Serbia, 4,590 7. (5) Maria Sharapova, Russia, 4,271 8. (9) Petra Kvitova, Czech Republic, 4,235 9. (6) Angelique Kerber, Germany, 4,050 10. (10)Sara Errani, Italy, 3,830 Serbia’s ruling party wins snap poll[17/03/2014] Serbia’s ruling Progressive Party (SNS) and its leader Aleksandar Vucic exceeded expectations and won an absolute majority in snap elections Sunday, annihilating the opposition. The centre-right SNS won 49 per cent of the votes, according to preliminary projections by the commercial election monitoring agency CESID. That translates to 157 of the 250 seats in parliament based on the proportional electoral system used in Serbia. It’s more than double the 73 won by the party in elections two years ago. EU mulls sanctions against Russia over Crimea referendum[17/03/2014] The European Union’s foreign ministers were set Monday to consider punishing Moscow with sanctions over its actions in Crimea, one day after the Ukrainian peninsula voted to join Russia in a referendum. Tensions between Moscow and the West have reached fever pitch, after thousands of suspected Russian troops began controlling access to Crimea’s airports and blocking local Ukrainian military bases in late February. Moscow argues that the Crimean population, 60 per cent of which is made up of ethnic Russians, has a right to self-determination. But the West rejected its referendum as illegal.
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