Diary

ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency's English Desk plans to cover on Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

BELGIUM

BRUSSELS - EU energy ministers to hold extraordinary meeting to discuss gas price cap.

US

WASHINGTON - Three-day US-Africa Leaders' Summit with 49 regional leaders, African Union chief to begin.

WASHINGTON - US attorney for Southern District of New York to unseal indictment against disgraced FTX founder Samuel Bankman-Fried.

NEW YORK - UN Security Council to hold consultations on situation in Yemen.

WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Antony Blinken to address Peace, Security, and Governance Forum.

FRANCE

PARIS - France, Ukraine to hold bilateral conference to mobilize French companies to help with civilian resilience in Ukraine through winter.

UK

LONDON - Around 40,000 railway workers from the RMT union to go on strike

TÜRKİYE

ANKARA - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to head to Turkmen city of Awaza for trilateral Türkiye-Azerbaijan-Turkmenistan summit. Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu to accompany Erdogan, attend summit preparatory meeting.

ANKARA - Erdogan also to receive Vyacheslav Volodin, chairman of Russia's State Duma.

GERMANY

BERLIN - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to meet Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong for talks on bilateral ties, international issues

​​​​​​​SPORTS

AL DAAYEN, Qatar - Argentina to face Croatia in 2022 FIFA World Cup semifinals.

SPECIAL REPORT

World Cup history's biggest semifinal surprises

By Emre Asikci

ISTANBUL (AA) - Every four years, the World Cup has left fans in awe and bewilderment at the most unexpected match outcomes through the tournament's history of more than nine decades.

SPECIAL REPORT

Falling pay, rising workload: Why are UK nurses gearing up for their biggest strike yet?

By Aysu Bicer

LONDON (AA) - As British professionals across multiple sectors continue to stage a massive wave of strikes to protest the tightening cost-of-living crisis, upcoming labor action by nurses has stoked more fears than others, shining a spotlight on the country's healthcare system.

SPECIAL REPORT

Far-right suspects in foiled German coup plot motivated by nostalgia for imperial past, conspiracy theories

By Muhammed Enes Calli

ISTANBUL (AA) - Germans were shocked last week as news erupted of far-right figures and ex-military officers' arrest over an alleged plot to overthrow the government, with most of the suspects being followers of the far-right Reichsburger (Reich Citizens) movement, made up of several anti-constitutional groups.