Diary

ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency's English Desk plans to cover on Thursday, March 24, 2022 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

BELGIUM

BRUSSELS - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to attend Extraordinary Summit of NATO Heads of State and Government.

BRUSSELS – First-day sessions of EU Leaders’ summit.

BRUSSELS – G7 Summit.

US

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden to hold press conference at NATO Headquarters.

WASHINGTON - Senate Judiciary Committee's confirmation hearings for President Biden's Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson concludes.

NEW YORK - UN General Assembly to vote on draft resolution on humanitarian situation in Ukraine.

RUSSIA

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

SWEDEN

STOCKHOLM - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to address lawmakers in Swedish parliament.

UKRAINE

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

THE ECONOMY

ANKARA - ACEA to reveal EU commercial vehicles sales in February

ANKARA - US Labor Department to announce weekly initial jobless claims

SPORTS

PORTO - Turkiye to face Portugal in away game in semifinals of 2022 FIFA World Cup European Qualifications playoff round.

SPECIAL REPORT

Tuberculosis creates ‘village of widows’ in central India

By Shuriah Niazi

NEW DELHI (AA) – With so many men succumbing to tuberculosis -- an infectious disease that mainly affects the lungs -- Majhera in Shivpuri district of the central Indian province of Madhya Pradesh has become a "village of widows."

SPECIAL REPORT

‘Unregulated smoking puts Bangladesh at risk of tuberculosis infection’

By Md. Kamruzzaman

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Unregulated smoking in public places in Bangladesh is sharply increasing the risk of tens of thousands of nonsmokers contracting tuberculosis, doctors and health officials warned on the eve of World Tuberculosis Day on Thursday.

SPECIAL REPORT

African tour guides recount painful history of slave trade

By Aurore Bonny

DOUALA, Cameroon (AA) - Kakanakou Igor is looking for tourists in the West African nation of Benin.

SPECIAL REPORT

Palestinian Authority is disrupting trial of Nizar Girls' killers: Banat’s family

By Salam AbuSharar

HEBRON, Palestine (AA) - Sitting beside her father’s library, which contains hundreds of books on politics, history, and Arab literature, 17-year-old Qabas Banat prepares daily for her higher secondary school exams in June.