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Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover on Thursday, March 31, 2022

ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover on Thursday, March 31, 2022 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TURKIYE

ANKARA - Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu to hold joint press conference with Turkish Cypriot counterpart Tahsin Ertugruloglu.

FRANCE

PARIS - Second day of environment ministers meeting of OECD member states to be held in French capital.

UKRAINE

KYIV - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to deliver separate virtual addresses to Dutch House of Representatives, Belgian parliament.

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

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden to deliver remarks on administration's actions to reduce impact of Russia's war against Ukraine on energy prices, lower gas prices.

NEW YORK - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to deliver remarks at Afghanistan Conference 2022.

TEXAS - Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos' commercial space company Blue Origin to launch crewed space mission.

THE ECONOMY

ANKARA - TurkStat to announce Turkiye's foreign trade statistics for February.

LONDON - British national statistics office to release GDP growth figures.

BRUSSELS - Eurostat to announce February euro area unemployment rate.

ANKARA - Turkiye's Treasury and Finance Ministry to announce gross external debt stock as of end-2021.

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

SPECIAL REPORT

African Union heading fast towards integration despite challenges

By James Tasamba

KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) - Though experts believe that so far, the EU has evolved into the world's sole successful geo-economic bloc, a report has suggested that the African continent is also moving fast towards integration.

SPECIAL REPORT

America's largest metro areas shrinking in population: US Census

By Darren Lyn

HOUSTON, Texas (AA) - America is witnessing a population decline in its largest metro areas, according to the latest data from the US Census Bureau.

SPECIAL REPORT

Palestinian student hopes to ease Gaza power shortage

By Salam AbuSharar

GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) - Palestinian student Dalia Bardawil is hopeful that she can ease the chronic power shortages in the Gaza Strip.

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