Diary

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

BELGIUM

BRUSSELS - European Council leaders summit concludes.

RWANDA

KIGALI - Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting to open with speech by Prince Charles.

AZERBAIJAN

BAKU - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to have meeting with Azerbaijani counterpart Jeyhun Bayramov.

US

WASHINGTON - House of Representatives to vote bipartisan gun safety bill after it cleared Senate floor.

GERMANY

BERLIN - Global food security conference to be held under leadership of German Foreign Ministry, which will be attended by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

AFGHANISTAN

PAKTIKA - Monitoring rescue, aid efforts after powerful earthquake.

EGYPT

CAIRO - Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad to arrive in Egyptian capital for surprise visit.

PALESTINE

JERUSALEM - Anti-settlement protests to be organized in different parts of occupied West Bank.

LIBYA

TRIPOLI - Following latest developments after Presidential Council announced reconciliation plan in country.

LEBANON

BEIRUT - Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati to start consultations to form new government.

THE ECONOMY

LONDON - UK's Office for National Statistics to announce retail sales for May.

ANKARA - Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) to announce capacity utilization, manufacturing confidence for June.

ANN ARBOR - University of Michigan to announce inflation expectations.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - US Commerce Department to announce new home sales for April.

SPECIAL REPORT

Moroccan man’s heroic sacrifice ‘breaks the stereotype’ some want to promote against immigrants

By Khaled Majdoub

RABAT, Morocco (AA) - Rahhal Amarri, a Moroccan immigrant who had been living in the municipality of Caserta in southern Italy for many years, became the focus of local media attention earlier this month after his heroic act of saving two children from certain death at sea.

SPECIAL REPORT

ANALYSIS - PKK a regular fixture in German domestic intelligence reports

By Aydin Enes Seydanlioglu

ISTANBUL (AA) - Recently, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution published its 2021 report. In the report, which was introduced in the German capital Berlin by Interior Minister Nancy Faeser, and Thomas Haldenwang, the president of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, the activities of the PKK terrorist organization were given comprehensive coverage.

SPECIAL REPORT

Refugee settlements, reckless land-grabbers destroying hills in Bangladesh

By SM Najmus Sakib

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) - Thousands of acres of forest land in Bangladesh’s ecologically rich Cox’s Bazar district are getting denuded due to illegal settlements coming into the region due to the refugee influx.

SPECIAL REPORT

Drought-affected Somali families make tough choices to survive

By Hassan Isilow

JOHANNESBURG (AA) - Families affected by drought in rural Somalia are being forced to make impossible choices, including traveling long distances to access health services and food on empty stomachs or staying home and suffering in silence.

SPECIAL REPORT

Hijab ban ends dreams of many Muslims girls in Indian province

By Ahmad Adil

NEW DELHI (AA) - For many months, 18-year-old Afiya (name changed) from the southern Indian province of Karnataka was burning the midnight oil to appear in the 12th-grade exam and then in the competitive test to seek admission to a medical college.