Diary

ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover on Friday, March 4, 2022 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TURKIYE

ISTANBUL - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to attend 4th Ordinary General Assembly of Women and Democracy Association (KADEM).

KAZAKHSTAN

NUR SULTAN - Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay to meet Kazakhstan's Prime Minister Alikhan Smailov and to attend 12th joint economic commission. Oktay to meet Turkish businesspeople and Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.

UKRAINE

KYIV - Following war between Ukraine and Russia, and international reactions.

US

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden to meet Finnish President Sauli Niinisto at White House.

BELGIUM

BRUSSELS - NATO foreign ministers to discuss Russia-Ukraine war at alliance's headquarters.

BRUSSELS - EU Foreign Affairs Council to discuss Russia-Ukraine war with foreign ministers of Ukraine, US, UK and Canada, and NATO's secretary-general.

THE ECONOMY

ANKARA - Turkiye’s Culture and Tourism Ministry to reveal number of foreign visitors for 2021.

BERLIN - Germany’s statistical agency to share foreign trade figures for January.

LUXEMBOURG - Eurostat to share retail trade figures for January.

WASHINGTON - US Labor Department to announce nonfarm payrolls and unemployment rate for February.

SPECIAL REPORT

Double burden of overnutrition and malnutrition in India

By Shuriah Niazi

NEW DELHI (AA) – India has the world's second-largest obese population among children under five years of age which is a serious cause of concern, said experts on the occasion of World Obesity Day, which is being observed on Friday.

SPECIAL REPORT

India’s main opposition Congress seeks revival in key provincial polls

By Ahmad Adil

MEERUT, India (AA) – As communal riots were raging in Meerut, a city in India’s largest populated province of Uttar Pradesh (UP) in May 1987, armed police personnel after a search operation bundled some 42 youth from Muslim-dominated Hashimpura locality into a truck.

SPECIAL REPORT

Tanzania’s women entrepreneurs more innovative in online market

By Kizito Makoye

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (AA) – With smartphones in their hands, a growing number of innovative women entrepreneurs in the East African country of Tanzania are using their strong social media presence to streamline their enterprises, market their products, and reap profits.

SPECIAL REPORT

Russian oil, gas firms' shares nosedive despite record energy prices

By Ovunc Kutlu

ANKARA (AA) - Russia's major oil and natural gas companies saw their stock values nosedive on foreign exchanges during the past week amid the war in Ukraine, unlike their western peers, despite record-high energy prices.

SPECIAL REPORT

Thousands in US apply to Ukraine's embassy to join fight against Russia

By Kasım Ileri

WASHINGTON (AA) - Thousands of people have applied to the Ukrainian embassy in Washington, D.C. in a bid to join the fight against Russia along with the Ukrainian army.

SPECIAL REPORT

'The skies should quieten for our children, grandchildren:' 69-year-old Ukrainian

By Jeyhun Aliyev

KYIV, Ukraine (AA) - The skies should "quieten for our children and grandchildren," a 69-year-old Ukrainian woman, who took a shelter in an underground metro station in the capital Kyiv, told Anadolu Agency in an interview.

SPECIAL REPORT

Fast-food culture causing obesity among Bangladeshi children

By Md. Kamruzzaman

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) - Obesity is rising in Bangladesh, especially among children and adolescents, due to the rapid spread of fast-food culture and a sedentary lifestyle, experts said on the eve of World Obesity Day to be observed on Friday.