Diary

ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency's English Desk plans to cover on Friday, April 22, 2022 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TURKIYE

ANKARA – Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu to attend opening ceremony of new Indonesian Embassy building with his Indonesian counterpart Retno Marsudi

US

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden to deliver remarks marking Earth Day

WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Antony Blinken to meet with Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal at State Department

FRANCE

FIGEAC - French President Emmanuel Macron to hold his final campaign rally before Sunday’s elections

INDIA

NEW DELHI – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to meet with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi

UKRAINE

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

THE ECONOMY

ANKARA – Turkish Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges (TOBB) to release established and liquidated companies data for March

LUXEMBOURG - Eurostat to release fourth-quarter 2021 data on government deficit and debt

LONDON- UK National Statistics Office to announce retail sales for March

SPORTS

PIRAEUS, Greece / MADRID - Olympiacos to face Monaco and Real Madrid to take on Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv in Turkish Airlines EuroLeague basketball playoffs game 2

SPECIAL REPORT

Ukraine believes in its future, victory, says first lady Zelenska

By Talha Yavuz

ANKARA (AA) - Ukraine's first lady Olena Zelenska shared her current state of mind and feelings as Russia's war on her country rages on, saying she feels "pain, in fact every day" just like any normal person.

SPECIAL REPORT

Marine Le Pen: Her father's daughter

By Shweta Desai

PARIS (AA) - Marine Le Pen, the National Rally party candidate now in the final stretch of her presidential campaign against Emmanuel Macron, is every bit a quintessential provocateur as her father Jean-Marie Le Pen – the patriarch of extreme-right politics in France, who harps on racism, immigration, and white nationalism.

SPECIAL REPORT

Bangladeshi capital’s sound pollution crosses the line

By SM Najmus Sakib

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – As many as 65% of traffic policemen manning roads in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka are facing hearing and sleeping problems due to high noise levels in the city, according to a study done by Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University.

SPECIAL REPORT

For French Muslims, choice between Macron and Le Pen is lesser of 2 evils

By Shweta Desai

PARIS (AA) - This Sunday, France faces an uncertain test as voters head to the polls to elect the next president of the republic in the second and final round.

SPECIAL REPORT

Turkiye recalls some Kinder products though no chocolate-linked salmonella outbreak so far

By Faruk Zorlu

ANKARA (AA) - Although numerous Kinder products in at least 10 European Union countries and the UK have been linked to a Salmonella outbreak, in Turkiye there have been no reported cases attributed to the chocolate so far.