Diary

ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover on Friday, Jan. 24, 2020 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TURKEY

ISTANBUL - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to attend official opening ceremony for new campus of Turkish-German University with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

ISTANBUL - Erdogan to meet with Merkel as part of working visit at Vahdettin Pavilion.

ISTANBUL - Erdogan to receive speaker of Kuwaiti National Assembly, Marzouq Al Ghanim.

SWITZERLAND

DAVOS - Turkish Trade Minister Ruhsar Pekcan to hold official talks as part of 50th session of World Economic Forum.

US

WASHINGTON - Following reactions after President Donald Trump said he may release a Middle East peace plan ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit next week.

WASHINGTON - House prosecutors to conclude case for Trump's removal from office.

WASHINGTON - Trump to address March for Life rally as first president in history to attend pro-life event.

RUSSIA

MOSCOW - Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to meet with UN's Special Envoy on Syria Geir Pedersen.

ITALY

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis to receive U.S. Vice President Mike Pence.

CHINA

WUHAN - Following developments on novel coronavirus pandemic.

KENYA

NAIROBI - UN Food and Agriculture Organization to brief media on recent desert locust outbreak that continues to threaten food security, livelihoods in East Africa.

IRAQ

BAGHDAD - Demonstration to be held to remove U.S. forces upon calls by Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. Supporters of Hashd al-Shaabi also to attend the protests.

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.

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.

ECONOMY

ANKARA - Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey to release Established and Liquidated Companies statistics for December 2019.

ANKARA - Anadolu Agency's Editor Desk to host Agriculture and Forestry Minister Bekir Pakdemirli.

SPORTS

ISTANBUL - Anadolu Efes to take on Spain's Real Madrid and Fenerbahce Beko to host Italy's AX Armani Exchange Milan in Turkish Airlines EuroLeague regular season Round 21.

MELBOURNE - 2020 Australian Open continues with third round games in men's and women's singles.

SPECIAL REPORT

Second hand clothes hit big in Zimbabwe

By Jeffrey Moyo

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AA) - "Dollar for two!" exclaim street vendors in discordant voices as customers rummage through heaps of second-hand clothes spread across every available space in a mass vendors' mall in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare.

SPECIAL REPORT

Pakistan: Arab royals hunt endangered birds

By Aamir Latif

KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Even as houbara bustard has been declared a globally protected species of birds, thousands of them have fallen to the hunting expeditions of Arab royals and their wealthy friends in Pakistan over the past months, claimed official sources.

SPECIAL REPORT

UK to celebrate Brexit not with a bang, but whimper

By Karim El-Bar

LONDON (AA) - A week from today, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland will leave the European Union on Jan. 31 at 11 p.m.

SPECIAL REPORT

Learning Turkish raised Syrian mother's university hope

By Erdogan Cagatay Zontur and Havva Kara Aydin

ANKARA (AA) – The sense of motherhood led a Syrian migrant woman in Turkey's capital Ankara to learn Turkish to help her school-age children for their lessons, and now she is dreaming to go to the university to become an interpreter.

SPECIAL REPORT

9 years on Egypt's uprising, change remains elusive

ANKARA (AA) - Nine years have passed since Egypt's Jan. 25 revolution took place, mainly by youths who hoped for a permanent change and better future for their country, yet their hope for change remains an elusive dream.