Diary

ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover on Wednesday, March 20, 2019 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TURKEY

ANKARA - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to attend opening ceremony of Europe's biggest theme park Wonderland Eurasia and later to attend National Security Council meeting at Presidential Complex.

ANKARA - Erdogan later to receive Libyan Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj.

ANKARA - Anadolu Agency’s Editor's Desk to host Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Fatih Donmez.

US

WASHINGTON - Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan to deliver remarks on FY2020 defense budget at Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank.

UK

LONDON - Prime Minister Theresa May to respond to questions in House of Commons. She is expected to send letter to EU for a possible article 50 extension.

THE NETHERLANDS / BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

THE HAGUE / SARAJEVO - Appeals Chamber of International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Courts to issue ruling on former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic's appeal in The Hague.

RUSSIA

MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin to hold meeting with government members.

BELGIUM

BRUSSELS - Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to pay visit to Brussels.

SWITZERLAND

GENEVA - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to take part in plenary session of Conference on Disarmament.

KAZAKHSTAN

ASTANA - Kazakhstan's interim president Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev to take an oath at joint session of parliament and its lower wing Senate.

NEW ZEALAND

CHRISTCHURCH - Monitoring developments in wake of terror attacks at two mosques.

SYRIA

ALEPPO/IDLIB - Monitoring developments in Syrian civil war.

SPORTS

ISTANBUL - Round of 27 of 2018-19 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague regular season to kick off. Turkey's Darussafaka Tekfen to face Russian Khimki.

SPECIAL REPORT

Ethiopian Jews: Israeli premier Netanyahu 'racist'

By Seleshi Tessema

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AA) - On a bright Sunday morning a solemn collective prayer for help from God reverberated through the small synagogue in Lamberet, a neighborhood adjacent the Israeli embassy in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa.