Diary

ANKARA (AA) – Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency's English Desk plans to cover on Saturday, Dec. 4, 2021 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TURKEY

SIIRT - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to attend opening ceremony of bridge, dam, zinc production facility, and other completed projects in Turkey’s southeast.

ANKARA - Following worldwide pandemic situation, efforts to study and contain new omicron coronavirus variant.

BELARUS

MINSK - Following ongoing migrant crisis at Belarus-Poland border.

SPECIAL REPORT

Oman Khayyam: Persian genius who conquered the world

By Syed Zafar Mehdi

TEHRAN (AA) - For centuries, the Silk Road city of Nishapur in eastern Iran has been famed for art, mysticism, and philosophy.

SPECIAL REPORT

Bush meat on sale in Tanzania despite bacteria threat

By Kizito Makoye

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (AA) - Public health experts in Tanzania have thrown their support behind a government move authorizing the sale of game meat, accompanied by strict regulations to prevent the spread of potentially deadly pathogens from slaughtered animals.