Diary

ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover on Wednesday, May 27, 2020 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TURKEY

ISTANBUL - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to inaugurate Democracy and Freedom Island.

ANKARA - Monitoring latest developments in coronavirus outbreak in Turkey and worldwide.

ANKARA - Following latest cease-fire agreement for Idlib, northwestern Syria, along Turkey's southern border, reached by Turkey and Russia.

US

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump to deliver remarks at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, as NASA and SpaceX launch two astronauts to International Space Station.

BELGIUM

BRUSSELS - EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to unveil revised budget proposal, stimulus package for economic recovery from coronavirus crisis.

GERMANY

BERLIN - Chancellor Angela Merkel to deliver speech at Konrad Adenauer Foundation on Germany's foreign, security policy priorities during six-month EU presidency starting July 1, 2020.

LIBYA

TRIPOLI - Following clashes between Libyan army and militias of warlord Khalifa Haftar.

SPECIAL REPORT

India sees sanitary napkin shortage amid COVID-19

By Cheena Kapoor

NEW DELHI (AA) - Millions of women in India are being forced to search for alternatives, including unhygienic options, as the country faces an acute shortage of sanitary napkins.

SPECIAL REPORT

'Poison of communalism spreading in India'

By Shuriah Niazi

NEW DELHI (AA) - A lawyer allegedly caught in police assault in central India is now being pressured to withdraw his complaint after he was stopped on his way to the hospital by law enforcement who assumed him to be Muslim due to his beard.

SPECIAL REPORT

Balochistan's 'killer highway' more deadly than terrorism

By Aamir Latif

KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) - In Pakistan's southwestern province of Balochistan, fatal highway accidents have surpassed even terrorism in deadliness, even as the strategic region prepares to receive $64 billion in investment as a key route of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project.