Diary

ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency's English Desk plans to cover on Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TURKEY

ISTANBUL - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to attend G20 extraordinary meeting on Afghanistan via video conference.

ANKARA - Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu to hold joint news conference with his Indonesian counterpart Retno Marsudi.

ANKARA - Following COVID-19 normalization process in Turkey, virus variants, worldwide pandemic situation.

US

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden to meet virtually with G20 leaders to discuss close coordination on Afghanistan.

RUSSIA

MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin to have separate meetings with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, newly elected members of Russia's lower chamber of parliament, State Duma.

ITALY

ROME - Leaders of G20 countries to discuss Afghanistan via video conference hosted by Italy.

KAZAKHSTAN

NURSULTAN - Turkish Deputy Foreign Minister Sedat Onal to participate in 6th Meeting of Foreign Ministers of Conference on Confidence Building Measures in Asia.

AFGHANISTAN

KABUL - Monitoring political developments, security issue in Afghanistan.

THE ECONOMY

ANKARA - Turkish Statistical Institute to release turnover, retail sales and industrial production Indices for August.

WASHINGTON - US Labor Department to announce Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey for August.

SPORTS

ANKARA - Following Round 3 in Turkish Airlines EuroLeague.

SPECIAL REPORT

Turkish tenor to perform with opera stars at Bolshoi Theatre

By Dilara Hamit

ANKARA (AA) - Murat Karahan, a Turkish tenor and general manager of the State Opera and Ballet of Turkey, will be performing Italian composer Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca at Russia’s Bolshoi Theatre with opera stars Anna Netrebko and Placido Domingo.

SPECIAL REPORT

'Afghanistan case shows why world in need of new int'l aid architecture

By Aysu Bicer

ANKARA (AA) - The international community should reshape development cooperation architecture, learning from failed cases, such as what happened in Afghanistan, said Hatice Karahan, senior economic advisor to Turkey's president and a visiting scholar at Harvard University.

SPECIAL REPORT

Confined by Israel, elderly Palestinians of Hebron face social isolation

By Salam AbuSharar

HEBRON, Palestine (AA) - Driving back home, Tayseer Zahdeh has to park his car hundreds of meters away from his home in Hebron city in the occupied West Bank.