Diary

ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency's English Desk plans to cover on Monday, March 21, 2022 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TURKIYE

ANKARA - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to attend Forum Metaverse.

ANKARA - Erdogan to chair his Justice and Development (AK) Party’s Central Executive Board meeting at party headquarters.

UAE

ABU DHABI - Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu to address United Arab Emirates Ambassadors Conference.

US

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden to host call with French president, German chancellor, Italian and UK prime ministers.

WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Antony Blinken to deliver remarks on Myanmar at Holocaust Memorial Museum.

BELGIUM

BRUSSELS - EU's foreign and defense ministers to meet at EU Foreign Affairs Council.

SWITZERLAND

GENEVA - 7th round of Syrian Constitutional Committee to be chaired by UN Special Envoy for Syria, Geir O. Pedersen

UKRAINE

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

THE ECONOMY

ANKARA - Culture and Tourism Ministry to share figure for foreign arrivals in February.

ANKARA - Turkish Treasury and Finance Ministry to announce central government debt stock for February.

WASHINGTON - US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to speak about economic outlook at National Association for Business Economics (NABE) Annual Economic Policy Conference.

PARIS - European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde to speak at event of Institut Montaigne.

SPECIAL REPORT

Syrians in Turkiye 'happy,' don’t want to go back home: Study

By Handan Kazanci

ISTANBUL (AA) - Syrians who fled the civil war in their country are happy in Turkiye and do not want to go back home, according to a recent study.

SPECIAL REPORT

Palestinian inmates serving life sentences get their poetry in print

By Salam AbuSharar

RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) - Palestinian lawyer Hasan Abbadi was at the entrance of Rimon Prison in Israel’s southern Negev Desert when he received a call from Anadolu Agency after visiting Palestinian inmate and poet Nasser Shaweesh, who is serving four life sentences for his participation in the military resistance during the Second Intifada, or uprising.

SPECIAL REPORT

Access to safe drinking water remains a challenge in Uganda

By Hamza Kyeyune

KAMPALA, Uganda (AA) - Uganda’s rapid population growth has strained the country’s water supply, creating a myriad of problems.

SPECIAL REPORT

Palestinian mother spends more than 30 years visiting her sons in Israeli prisons

By Salam AbuSharar

RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) - On the main road near the entrance to Al-Amari Refugee Camp in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Latifa Abu Humaid, 73, stages a sit-in together with dozens of other Palestinians to protest the continued detention of her son Nasser, who is in critical condition after recently being diagnosed with lung cancer.

SPECIAL REPORT

A Christian nun serves as beacon of hope for orphans in Cameroon's capital

By Aurore Bonny

DOUALA, Cameroon (AA) - Balbine Lemana, a Christian nun who runs a small orphanage in Medong, a neighborhood of Yaounde, Cameroon's capital, is busy preparing meals for destitute children.

SPECIAL REPORT

Zimbabwe's tobacco growers face dilemma of saving forests or felling trees to cure their crop

By John Cassim

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AA) - Tobacco farmers in Zimbabwe say they are facing a dilemma as they have to make a tough choice between saving forests or cutting down trees to cure their crop, with no alternatives.