Diary

ANKARA (AA) – Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover on Monday, Dec. 14, 2020 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TURKEY

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

ANKARA – Following latest developments in Eastern Mediterranean.

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

AZERBAIJAN

BAKU – Monitoring cease-fire between Azerbaijan and Armenia, latest developments in frontline and international repercussions.

SOUTH AFRICA

PRETORIA – President Cyril Ramaphosa to announce new lockdown measures amid second wave of coronavirus with over 8,000 cases a day.

THE ECONOMY

ANKARA – Turkish Statistical Institute to release retail trade, turnover and industrial production indices for October.

LUXEMBOURG – European statistical office to reveal industrial production data for October.

PARIS – OECD to announce G20 countries’ GDP figures for third quarter.

SPORTS

NYON, Switzerland – UEFA Champions League last 16 and Europa League last 32 draws to be held at UEFA headquarters.

SPECIAL REPORT

Cameroonian invents atypical larvicide to fight malaria

By Aurore Bonny

DOUALA, Cameroon (AA) – Agnes Antoinette Ntoumba is a researcher from Cameroon which carries the high burden of malaria. She is also an inventor of an atypical larvicide developed from plants to fight the disease in the continent.

SPECIAL REPORT

Palestinian teenager killed by Israel on his birthday

By Salam Abu Sharar

RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Nihad Abu Ali cannot forget the last words she heard from her son Ali on the eve of his 15th birthday.

SPECIAL REPORT

ANALYSIS – Anti-Rohingya monk promotes Myanmar ‘Buddhist’ nationalism

By Maung Zarni

LONDON (AA) – Exuding a palpable sense of spiritual and cultural superiority, a genocide-denying Myanmar Buddhist monk declared Myanmar’s “true nationalism” which is anchored in the “universal declaration of Buddhist truths” to be even superior to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.