Diary

ANKARA (AA) – Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover on Friday, Aug. 19, 2022 (coverage may change depending on developing/ breaking stories):

UK

LONDON- Railway workers to continue their strike action in a row over job security, pay and working conditions.

GERMANY

HAMBURG - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is to testify before a parliamentary committee investigating cum-ex tax scandal.

PALESTINE

RAMALLAH - Palestinians to stage anti-settlement protests in different parts of West Bank.

ALGERIA

ALGIERS - Following wildfires spreading across northern areas of Algeria.

IRAQ

BAGHDAD - Monitoring political crisis in Iraq as Sadrists reject outcomes of national dialogue.

UKRAINE

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

SPECIAL REPORT

Cotton farmers farm themselves to poverty in Zimbabwe

By Jeffrey Moyo

GOKWE, Zimbabwe (AA) - For many years, she has grown cotton, but for many years she has also contended with poverty yet at the age of 63, Silibaziso Handa of Mavhulele village in Zimbabwe’s Gokwe South has never surrendered growing the cash crop.

SPECIAL REPORT

Palestinian family struggles for their home under Israeli military surveillance

By Salam AbuSharar

JERUSALEM (AA) - In the garden of his home, Sa’adat Gharib and his mother pick figs from the only tree that was saved from the Israeli confiscation of the Gharib family’s land in the village of Beit Ijza, located northwest of Jerusalem.

SPECIAL REPORT

UK’s energy and cost-of-living crises dominate national debate

By Karim El-Bar

LONDON (AA) – Britain is currently going through a punishing cost-of-living crisis that has dominated debate among both politicians and the public.