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Main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover Saturday, Oct. 29, 2016

ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover on Saturday, Oct. 29, 2016 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TURKEY

ANKARA - Turkey's Republic Day to be celebrated with ceremonies across the country.

ANKARA - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Parliament Speaker Ismail Kahraman and Prime Minister Binali Yildirim to attend Republic Day ceremonies at Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's mausoleum and presidential palace.

ANKARA - Erdogan, Kahraman and Yildirim to later attend opening ceremony of new train station in Ankara.

ICELAND

REYKJAVIK - Icelanders vote in elections triggered by April resignation of PM Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson due to Panama Papers revelations.

SPAIN

MADRID - Parliament holds 2nd vote of confidence to allow Mariano Rajoy to form a minority government. His conservative Popular Party lost the first.

UNITED STATES

SPECIAL REPORT - US voters indirectly choose president, vice president

By Esra Kaymak Avci

WASHINGTON (AA) – Unlike any other country, the electoral process in the U.S. does not end when citizens go to the ballot boxes.

SYRIA

ALEPPO - Opposition forces challenge Bashar al-Assad regime in fresh attempt to break ongoing siege of Aleppo.

PALESTINE

SPECIAL REPORT - 60 years on, Palestinians recall Kafr Qasm massacre

By Anees Barghouti

RAMALLAH (AA) - Palestinians mark 60th anniversary of Kafr Qasm massacre, when Israeli forces killed 48 Palestinian civilians.

IRAQ

SPECIAL REPORT - ANALYSIS: Iraq’s Turkmen and Turkey’s role in Iraq

By Serhat Erkmen

ISTANBUL (AA) - No group has suffered more from Daesh’s emergence in the region than Iraq’s Turkmen people.

PHILIPPINES

ZAMBOANGA CITY – Following President Rodrigo Duterte’s visit to Beijing, Filipino fishermen return home with loads of fish caught around disputed shoal where they have been denied access by Chinese Coast Guard vessels for years.

SOUTH KOREA

SEOUL – Thousands of protesters set to rally in Seoul after President Park Geun-hye recently admitted to seeking advice from an unofficial aide, controversy that has led to her directing her senior secretaries to resign.

JAPAN

SPECIAL REPORT

The Philippines’ enigmatic President Duterte

By Todd Crowell

TOKYO – Is Duterte a strategist using leverage to exact more foreign investment? Or a U.S.-hating troublemaker spurning diplomacy?

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