Diary

ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover on Tuesday Nov. 1, 2016 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TURKEY

ANKARA - Four parliamentary parties to hold weekly group meetings.

ANKARA - Republican People’s Party leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu to meet Rebecca Harms, president of European Parliament’s Greens-European Free Alliance group, at Grand National Assembly.

ISTANBUL - Besiktas to play Italian club Napoli in UEFA Champions League group match.

SYRIA

ALEPPO - Follow up on Turkey’s ongoing Operation Euphrates Shield to clear Syria's northern border area of terrorists.

ALEPPO - Syrian opposition forces struggle to break regime’s siege.

IRAQ

BAGHDAD - Iraqi army, allies tighten noose around Daesh-held Mosul.

SAUDI ARABIA

RIYADH - UN struggles to resume faltering peace talks between Yemen’s warring factions.​

FRANCE

PARIS - Clearance of Stalingrad migrant camp expected to continue following influx of people since demolition Calais camp.

GERMANY

BERLIN - Justice Minister Heiko Maas to address Foreign Correspondents' Association on migration crisis, German political situation.

UNITED KINGDOM

LONDON - Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos begins three-day visit, first by president of Columbia.

LONDON - Turkish journalists mark July 15 coup attempt in Turkey at parliament.

GREECE

ATHENS - President Prokopis Pavlopoulos, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias to meet Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to discuss Cyprus, Syria, other issues.

KOSOVO

PRISTINA - Turkey's Yunus Emre Institute opens exhibition on July 15 coup attempt featuring Anadolu Agency photographs.

UNITED STATES​

WASHINGTON - Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Simsek to attend discussion at U.S.-Turkey conference.

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NIGERIA

ABUJA - President Muhammadu Buhari to meet key leaders from restive Delta region.

GAMBIA

BANJUL - Finance Minister Felix Mutati to meet IMF delegation as country faces austerity measures, banking restrictions.

INDONESIA

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo to meet leaders of Muslim organizations, political parties, media over concerns about religious sectarianism.

SOUTH KOREA

SEOUL - Prosecutors arrest woman at center of scandal encircling President Park Geun-hye.

CHINA

BEIJING - Rescuers recover 13 bodies from coal mine hit by explosion in southwest, continue searching for others.