Diary

ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency's English Desk plans to cover on Friday, Dec. 25, 2020 (coverage may change depending on developing/ breaking stories):

TURKEY

ANKARA - Following latest developments on COVID-19 outbreak in Turkey, worldwide, discovery of new coronavirus variant.

THE ECONOMY

ANKARA - Turkish Statistical Institute to release sectoral confidence indices for December.

ANKARA - Central Bank to announce capacity utilization rate of manufacturing industry for December.

ANKARA - Culture and Tourism Ministry to reveal number of arriving-departing visitors for November.

SPECIAL REPORT

Environmental developments in Turkey during 2020

By Burak Bir

ANKARA (AA) - Turkey has enacted many green policies this year to protect the environment and slow down climate change, closing dirty thermal power plants and establishing government offices to oversee further such steps.

SPECIAL REPORT

Wildfires, forest fires around world in 2020

By Burak Bir

ANKARA (AA) - The year 2020 saw many massive wildfires and forest fires around the world, including the Australian bushfires which started last year and continued until March, while the US state of California was also hit by blazes that left many dead.

SPECIAL REPORT

A tale of Christmas amid COVID-19 pandemic

By Magda Panoutsopoulou

ATHENS (AA) - Christmas is a holiday like no other for most people around the world, a time of year when everyone should be happy and share their love.

SPECIAL REPORT

India sees year bookended by protests

By Ahmad Adil

NEW DELHI (AA) - While 2020 in India began with widespread protests against the country's controversial citizenship law, the year for the South Asian giant is also ending with massive public protests against new farming laws, with experts attributing the protests to the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) ability to enact the new laws thanks to its overwhelming majority in parliament.

SPECIAL REPORT

Zimbabwe: Rising number of strokes take lives, livelihoods

By Jeffrey Moyo

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AA) - With the economy of landlocked southern African country Zimbabwe in shambles, the cases of frequent strokes fueled by diabetes and hypertension are rising like an epidemic.