Diary

ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover on Friday, Nov. 1, 2019 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TURKEY

ISTANBUL - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to receive UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at Vahdettin Pavilion.

ISTANBUL - Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu to attend 3rd Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Member States Conference on Mediation.

ANKARA - Monitoring developments over agreements with Russia, US on Syria.

ANKARA - Monitoring developments over first joint Turkish, Russian ground patrols in northern Syria.

SWITZERLAND

GENEVA - Syrian Constitution Committee continues work.

GERMANY

FRANKFURT - Christine Lagarde, first-ever female head of European Central Bank (ECB), to assume her post.

UZBEKISTAN

TASHKENT - Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to take part in Shanghai Cooperation Organization Heads of Government Council meeting.

RUSSIA

VOLGOGRAD - Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova to hold news conference.

IRAQ

BAGHDAD - Monitoring developments in anti-corruption protests in capital, southern cities.

LEBANON

BEIRUT - Monitoring developments in anti-tax protests across nation.

SYRIA

ALEPPO / IDLIB - Monitoring developments in Syrian civil war.

ECONOMY

ISTANBUL - Istanbul Chamber of Industry to release October Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) for manufacturing sector.

ANKARA - Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay and Trade Minister Ruhsar Pekcan to attend Qatar-Turkey Business Forum in Turkish capital.

SPORTS

ISTANBUL - Turkish basketball powerhouse Fenerbahce Beko to face Zalgiris Kaunas in Turkish Airlines EuroLeague Round game 6 at Ulker Sports Arena in Istanbul.

SPECIAL REPORT

Indonesia: Experts warn of lingering tsunami risk

By Pizaro Gozali Idrus

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AA) - Nearly a decade and a half ago, all eyes were on Aceh as a 9.3-magnitude earthquake and a tsunami towering nine meters high devastated the country's western coast on Dec. 26, 2004.

SPECIAL REPORT

Turkish students 2nd most in Russian nuclear university

By Elena Teslova

MOSCOW (AA) - Turkey ranks second with the number of its students enrolled in the leading Russian nuclear university, the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI -- Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, according to the deputy director of university's Nuclear Physics and Engineering Institute.