Diary

ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

SWITZERLAND

DAVOS - Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu to attend World Economic Forum in Davos where U.S. President Donald Trump will make speech on first day of session.

UNITED STATES

WASHINGTON - Senate to take up ground rules for President Trump’s impeachment trial.

UNITED KINGDOM

LONDON - Prime Minister Boris Johnson to meet Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

BELGIUM

BRUSSELS - Following panel of "Countering Anti-Muslim Racism in Europe", organized by Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research (SETA) in European Parliament.

LIBYA/RUSSIA/TURKEY

TRIPOLI/MOSCOW/ANKARA - Monitoring developments on diplomatic initiatives carried out to find solution to crisis in Libya following Berlin Conference, as well as on cease-fire process.

ETHIOPIA

ADDIS ABABA - Following African Union permanent representatives meeting in preparation of upcoming summit.

SYRIA

ALEPPO/IDLIB/RAQQA/HASAKAH - Monitoring developments after cease-fire brokered by Turkey and Russia came into effect in Idlib, which was targeted by Bashar al-Assad regime and allies.

IRAQ

BAGHDAD - Monitoring anti-government protests across country.

IRAN

TEHRAN - Following nationwide anti-government protests.

ECONOMY

ANKARA - European statistical authority Eurostat to release debt and deficit statistics of governments for third quarter of 2019.

SPORTS

MELBOURNE - Sports desk to follow 2020 Australian Open’s first round matches.

SPECIAL REPORT

Pakistan: Hindu custodian of mosque in Karachi

By Aamir Latif

KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) - Visitors do not find any architectural attraction towards a mosque situated on Karachi’s busiest Faisal Street, but the difference in this mosque -- in the heart of Pakistan’s commercial capital -- is that its custodian is a Hindu.

SPECIAL REPORT

ANALYSIS - UK ditches democratic sensitivities for Egyptian cash

By Ahmet Gurhan Kartal

LONDON (AA) - Britain’s reserved approach towards Egypt certainly changed when putschists took over the North African country’s governance following a bloody coup by General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in 2013.

SPECIAL REPORT

OPINION - Myanmar gov't doggedly continues with its genocide denial

By Maung Zarni

LONDON (AA) - After having co-presided with the visiting Chinese president Xi Jinping over the signing 33 deals -- trade and commercial deals, memorandums of understanding, strategic partnership agreements -- Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi was all smile again this Monday.

SPECIAL REPORT

French ex-priest, accused of sex abuse, may get 10 years

By Cindi Cook

PARIS (AA) - Four-day trial of a former priest, accused of sexually abusing at least 80 Boy Scouts in the 1980s and 1990s, was concluded on Friday in Lyon, France.