Diary

ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency's English Desk plans to cover on Thursday, March 17, 2022 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TURKIYE

ANKARA - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to attend his ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party's extended provincial heads meeting at party headquarters.

ISTANBUL - Health Minister Fahrettin Koca to attend high-level meeting on health and migration in European region hosted by World Health Organization and Turkish Health Ministry.

UK

LONDON - Turkiye's Environment, Urbanization, and Climate Change Minister Murat Kurum and Finance and Treasury Minister Nureddin Nebati to attend UK-Turkiye Green Finance Conference, hold bilateral meetings.

UKRAINE

LVIV - Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu to meet Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba.

KYIV - Following Russia's war on Ukraine, sanctions, efforts for peace, and related international developments.

RUSSIA

MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin to hold meeting on social and economic development of Crimea and city of Sevastopol, both illegally annexed from Ukraine in 2014.

MOSCOW - Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to hold meeting with UAE counterpart Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

MOSCOW - Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova to hold weekly news conference.

GERMANY

BERLIN - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to address German lawmakers.

BERLIN - Chancellor Olaf Scholz to meet NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.

FRANCE

PARIS - President Emmanuel Macron to hold press conference to discuss reelection bid.

SLOVAKIA

BRATISLAVA - US Defense Secretary Lloyd Justin to visit Slovakia.

US

NEW YORK - Turkish Family and Social Services Minister Derya Yanik to attend online meeting on empowering women.

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden to participate in bilateral meeting with Ireland's Taoiseach (prime minister) Micheal Martin at White House.

WASHINGTON - US House Armed Services Committee hold hearing on national security challenges and US military activity in Middle East and Africa; witnesses include CENTCOM and AFRICOM commanders.

NEW YORK - UN Security Council to discuss situation in Afghanistan. Later, council will convene over alleged war crimes by Russia in Ukraine.

THE ECONOMY

ANKARA - Turkish Central Bank to release short-term external debt statistics for January and international reserves and foreign currency liquidity for February.

BRUSSELS - European Central Bank head Christine Lagarde to speak at “The ECB and Its Watchers XXII” conference.

BRUSSELS - European statistical office Eurostat to release final consumer inflation figures.

ANKARA - Turkish Central Bank to announce interest rate decision following 3rd Monetary Policy Committee meeting of 2022.

LONDON - Bank of England to announce interest rate decision.

WASHINGTON - US Labor Department to announce weekly initial jobless claims.

WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve to release February industrial production figures.

SPORTS

ISTANBUL - Following UEFA Europa League last 16 second leg including Galatasaray vs. Barcelona match.

SPECIAL REPORT

Fed enters aggressive tightening cycle to bring down inflation: Experts

By Ovunc Kutlu

ANKARA (AA) - The US Federal Reserve has entered an aggressive monetary tightening cycle to bring down inflation, making its first interest rate hike and signaling six more increases for the remainder of this year, according to two experts.

SPECIAL REPORT

Farmers in Tanzania use technology to avoid human-wildlife conflict

By Kizito Makoye

SERENGETI, Tanzania (AA) - Farmers living along the fringes of Serengeti National Park in northern Tanzania are being trained to coexist with wild animals, a move designed to reduce human-wildlife conflict.