Diary

ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover on Wednesday, June 19, 2019 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TURKEY

ISTANBUL - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to attend several events.

US

WASHINGTON - Brian Hook, US special representative for Iran, to testify before House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on current US response to Iran.

SWITZERLAND

GENEVA - A report on slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi to be announced by UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial and Arbitrary Executions Agnes Callamard.

UK

LONDON - Third ballot will take place in election to replace Theresa May as leader of the Conservative Party.

LONDON - A panel organized by TRT World Research Centre in the Parliament on ‘the role of Turkey on the refugee crisis and the road ahead for Europe,’ will be followed.

RUSSIA

MOSCOW - Opening of the exhibition "Costumes of the Ottoman Empire through the eyes of modern designers".

BOSNIA - HERZEGOVINA

SARAJEVO - Funeral prayers in absentia for Egypt's ousted President Mohamed Morsi to be held in Bosnia and Herzegovina's capital Sarajevo.

EGYPT

CAIRO - Monitoring reactions after Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically-elected president, died Monday during a court appearance.

ETHIOPIA

ADDIS ABABA - The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) to hold extraordinary meeting on crisis in Sudan.

IRAQ

BAGHDAD - Kuwaiti emir to arrive for official visit.

SYRIA

ALEPPO/IDLIB - Monitoring developments in Syrian civil war.

SPORTS

ISTANBUL - Istanbul based basketball giants Fenerbahce Beko to host city rivals Anadolu Efes in the Game 6 of Turkish basketball league finals series.

ANKARA - Turkey women's national volleyball team to host Italy in 2019 FIVB Volleyball Nations League match in the Turkish capital Ankara.

ANKARA - Sports desk to file daily round-up for 2019 Copa America.

SPECIAL REPORT

Transition period to make Algeria 'time bomb': Expert

By Abbas Maymouni

ALGIERS (AA) – The launch of a transition period in Algeria will turn the protest-hit North Africa country into a "time bomb", an Algerian legal expert has warned.

SPECIAL REPORT

Afghan elections throw schools to the firing line

By Shadi Khan Saif

KABUL, Afghanistan (AA) - Schools across the conflict-plagued Afghanistan are fearing deadly attacks from the insurgents, as the country braces for landmark presidential polls slated for September this year.