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Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover on Wednesday, June 17, 2020
ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover on Wednesday, June 17, 2020 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):
TURKEY
ANKARA - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to receive several officials at presidential complex.
ANKARA - Anadolu Agency's Editors' Desk to host Zehra Zumrut Selcuk, minister of family, labor, and social services.
ANKARA - Health Minister Fahrettin Koca to hold press conference following video-conference meeting of Coronavirus Scientific Advisory Board.
ANKARA - Following latest developments in coronavirus outbreak in Turkey, worldwide.
ANKARA - Following latest cease-fire agreement for Idlib, northwestern Syria, along Turkey's southern border, reached by Turkey, Russia.
US
WASHINGTON - US expected to announce sanctions on Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime as part of Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act.
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump to deliver remarks on White House coronavirus task force roadmap.
UK
LONDON - Prime Minister Boris Johnson to respond to lawmakers' questions in House of Commons.
GERMANY
BERLIN - Chancellor Angela Merkel to hold talks with premiers of sixteen federal states on measures to address COVID-19 pandemic.
BELGIUM
BRUSSELS - NATO defense ministers to hold virtual meeting.
RUSSIA
MOSCOW - Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to hold special meeting via video-conferencing with foreign ministers of Association of Southeast Asian Nations member states on responses to challenges of pandemic.
MOSCOW - Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova to hold press conference.
LIBYA
TRIPOLI - Following clashes between Libyan army, militias of warlord Khalifa Haftar.
THE ECONOMY
ANKARA - Turkey’s Central Bank to release data on private sector’s foreign debt for April.
ANKARA - Turkey's Foreign Economic Relations Board, Turkey-U.S. Business Council to hold webinar hosting US Senator Lindsay Graham of South Carolina.
BRUSSELS - European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association to release passenger car registration figures for May.
LUXEMBOURG - European statistical office to announce inflation figures for May.
SPORTS
NYON - UEFA in two-day meeting to determine fate of its tournaments, including Champions League, put on hold due to pandemic.
BIRMINGHAM - Sports Desk to follow resumption of English Premier League, as Aston Villa to face Sheffield United, with Manchester City to take on Arsenal.
ROME - Napoli, Juventus to play Italian Cup final in Stadio Olimpico.
SPECIAL REPORT
South Sudan’s desertification affects lives, ecosystem
By Benjamin Takpiny
JUBA, South Sudan (AA) - Ladu, a charcoal dealer in South Sudan, has been felling trees for the last five years to keep his business running.
SPECIAL REPORT
India drafting law to increase nuptial age of girls
By Cheena Kapoor
NEW DELHI, India (AA) - Even as India has become home to the largest number of child brides in the world, it has set up a 10-member task force to determine the right age for women to marry and become mothers.
SPECIAL REPORT
Turkey commemorates late President Suleyman Demirel
By Erdogan Cagatay Zontur
ANKARA (AA) - Turkey on Wednesday remembered its ninth president Suleyman Demirel, who passed away five years ago.
SPECIAL REPORT
Students have complicated views of remote education
By Ali Murat Alhas
ANKARA (AA) - With coronavirus pandemic spreading across the world, many countries quickly decided to shut down schools to prevent large-scale infections, and adopted remote education so that students would not be deprived of their education.
SPECIAL REPORT
'Curbing land degradation key to ending desertification'
By Burak Bir
ANKARA (AA) - The first thing to be done in the fight against desertification is to prevent land degradation and then engage in restoration that rehabilitates the destroyed land, according to experts.
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