Diary

ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover on Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TURKEY

ANKARA - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to visit Baku to attend military parade on Thursday following Azerbaijan's military victory against Armenian occupation.

ANKARA - Health Minister Fahrettin Koca to speak at news conference following meeting of Coronavirus Scientific Advisory Board.

ANKARA - Following latest developments in Eastern Mediterranean.

ANKARA - Following latest developments in coronavirus outbreak in Turkey, worldwide.

BELGIUM

BRUSSELS - EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to meet to reach post-Brexit trade deal.

AZERBAIJAN

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

GERMANY

BERLIN - Chancellor Angela Merkel to address parliament on government’s 2021 budget proposal.

UNITED STATES

WASHINGTON - German Marshall Fund to hold conversation with Turkish Presidential Spokesman Ibrahim Kalin on Turkey’s foreign policy.

SPORTS

PARIS - Paused UEFA Champions League Group H match between Paris Saint-Germain and Medipol Basaksehir to be resumed.

SPECIAL REPORT

Mauritania: French colonial crimes still under wraps

By Mohamed Badine El Yattioui

RABAT, Morocco (AA) – French crimes in Mauritania during the colonial period are still little known and remain unrecognized by Paris.

SPECIAL REPORT

'Rights bodies under attack in Indian-administered Kashmir’

By Hilal Mir

SRINAGAR, Jammu, and Kashmir (AA) – On Nov. 26, Muhammad Saleem, 27, a school teacher was checking examination papers of his students when he heard gunfire. It had been years since the last firing incident had occurred in Aban Shah, a semi-urban locality in the outskirts of Srinagar – the capital of Indian administered Kashmir.

SPECIAL REPORT

COVID-19: Will ‘infodemic’ prevent Europeans from getting vaccinated?

By Rabia Iclal Turan

ANKARA (AA) - As European countries prepare for mass coronavirus vaccination drives in the coming weeks, worries over a strong anti-vaccination movement are growing by the day.

OPINION - Urgency to add teeth to enforcement of human rights

By Ghulam Nabi Fai

WASHINGTON (AA) - Michelle Bachelet, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights deserves an appreciation to acknowledge that, “a world with diminished human rights is a world that is stepping back into a darker past when the powerful could prey on the powerless with little or no moral or legal restraint”.