Diary

ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency's English Desk plans to cover on Monday, Nov. 30, 2020 (coverage may change depending on developing/ breaking stories):

TURKEY

ANKARA - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to chair Cabinet meeting at presidential complex.

ANKARA - Erdogan also to receive Ukraine's Premier Denys Shmyhal at presidential complex.

ANKARA - Following latest developments in Eastern Mediterranean.

ANKARA - Monitoring latest developments on novel coronavirus outbreak in Turkey, worldwide.

US

WASHINGTON - President-elect Joe Biden, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris to receive first presidential daily briefing.

WASHINGTON - Senate Foreign Affairs Committee to discuss sale of F-35 jets to United Arab Emirates.

UK

LONDON - Talks over post-Brexit trade deal between UK, EU delegations to continue.

INDIA

NEW DELHI - Meeting of Shanghai Cooperation Organization's heads of government council to be held via video-conference.

GERMANY

BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel to chair Cabinet meeting focusing on COVID-19 pandemic.

BELGIUM

BRUSSELS - European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen expected to address Schengen Forum on future of stronger Schengen area.

BRUSSELS - NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg to hold pre-ministerial online press conference ahead of virtual meeting of alliance foreign ministers.

AZERBAIJAN

BAKU - Monitoring developments in wake of deal ending Armenia's occupation of Azerbaijani territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.

THE ECONOMY

ANKARA - Turkish Statistical Institute to release GDP figures for third quarter, foreign trade data for October.

ISTANBUL - Turkish banking authority to share sector data for October.

SPECIAL REPORT

Profile: Who is next US secretary of State Antony Blinken?

By Ovunc Kutlu

ANKARA (AA) - US President-elect Joe Biden's nominee for Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected to repair American foreign relations that took a hit under President Donald Trump's "America First" moniker.

SPECIAL REPORT

Bangladeshi educating Rohingya earns global praise

By Md. Kamruzzaman

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) - Bangladeshi Rima Sultana Rimu, named one of the 100 inspiring and influential women around the world in 2020 by the BBC, dreams of educating Rohingya children.

SPECIAL REPORT

Markets buoyed by promising vaccines, but high hurdles remain

By Aysu Bicer

ANKARA (AA) – Promising news on the development of effective vaccines recently sent stock markets soaring, as if the war on coronavirus were all but won, but more sober observers could clearly see a number of hardships ahead.