Diary

ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency's English Desk plans to cover on Sunday, Sept. 4, 2022 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

GERMANY

BERLIN - Chancellor Olaf Scholz to meet Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal for talks on bilateral ties, regional issues.

BERLIN - President Frank Walter Steinmeier to receive Israeli President Isaac Herzog with military honors at Schloss Bellevue presidential palace.

PAKISTAN

ISLAMABAD - Monitoring developments as unprecedented floods cause massive destruction, kill hundreds, affect over 33 million since mid-June.

IRAQ

BAGHDAD - Following developments amid political turmoil and protests.

UKRAINE

KYIV - Following Russia's war on Ukraine, sanctions, peace efforts, Istanbul grain shipment deal, and related developments.

SPORTS

TBILISI - Turkish men's national team to face Georgia at 2022 FIBA European Basketball Championship.

NEW YORK - Following US Open tennis tournament.

SPECIAL REPORT

Once British tourist now local of small village in Türkiye's Mediterranean resort

By Merve Aydogan

ANKARA (AA) - Known as one of Türkiye's holiday hot spots among British tourists, the village of Selimiye near the Mediterranean resort town Marmaris is also home to many foreigners and among them is Jenny Orhan, who now describes herself as Turkish.

SPECIAL REPORT

Raging floods threaten Pakistan's archeological treasure

By Aamir Latif

KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) - Massive floods caused by deluges of water falling from the sky have wreaked unprecedented havoc across Pakistan, inundating a third of the country and killing nearly 1,300 people since mid-June.

SPECIAL REPORT

Zanzibar neuters stray cats to curb rising population

By Kizito Makoye

UNGUJA, Tanzania (AA) - At Forodhani park, a popular culinary arena in Zanzibar's historical Stone Town, tourists leisurely strolling on a labyrinth of narrow streets have always sympathized with cats aggressively mewing while jostling for leftovers.

SPECIAL REPORT

West behind continued fighting in northern Ethiopia: Scholar

By Addis Getachew

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AA) - Recent hopes for peace in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region have largely been dashed, with armed conflict resuming last week between Ethiopian government troops and rebel forces as one scholar says the war is "sponsored by the West."

SPECIAL REPORT

Children in southern Tanzania haunted by malnutrition

By Kizito Makoye

NJOMBE, Tanzania (AA) - Despite multiple awareness campaigns, children in Tanzania's southern highlands are still suffering from alarmingly high rates of malnutrition due to poor diets that do not nurture cognitive and physical development, local experts warned.