Diary

ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover on Friday, Dec. 9, 2016 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TURKEY

ANKARA – Prime Minister Binali Yildirim to attend ceremony for Turkey’s former parliament speaker Ismet Sezgin who passed away on Wednesday. Parliament speaker Ismail Kahraman and leader of opposition Republican People's Party Kemal Kilicdaroglu will also attend.

ZONGULDAK – Yildirim to attend opening ceremony for Filyos Port in Turkey’s Black Sea province of Zonguldak. Transportation Minister Ahmet Arslan and Industry Minister Faruk Ozlu to accompany Yildirim.

ANKARA – Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci to attend meeting organized by the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey and U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

GERMANY

HAMBURG – German and Austrian foreign ministers to hold a joint news conference following conclusion of Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)’s annual meeting. Austria will assume OSCE chairmanship in 2017.

UNITED KINGDOM

LONDON – Fitch credit rating agency to release U.K. review.

FRANCE

PARIS – International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde faces trial over multi-million-euro payment to businessman. Trial scheduled to run until Dec. 20.

FINLAND

HELSINKI – Russian premier Dmitry Medvedev in Finland for visit with counterpart Juha Sipila. [MERITS]

SYRIA

SPECIAL REPORT:

Civilians await evacuation from besieged Aleppo

By Selen Temizer, Halit Suleyman and Levent Tok

ALEPPO, Syria (AA) – Civilians in Aleppo’s besieged eastern districts impatiently wait to leave city amid ongoing attacks by Assad regime and its allies.

PAKISTAN

ISLAMABAD – Mehmet Gormez, head of Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate, to conduct Friday sermon at Turkish-designed Faisal Mosque in the Pakistani capital.

UNITED STATES

SPECIAL REPORT:

Wall Street shatters records following Trump election

By Ovunc Kutlu

NEW YORK (AA) – Wall Street indexes have broken record after record in the month since businessman Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election on Nov. 8.

MYANMAR

YANGON – UN urges military to avoid use of excessive force in order to avoid further loss of innocent lives in troubled Rakhine State as concerns mount about treatment of Muslim Rohingya minority.

KOREA

SEOUL – Lawmakers to decide scandal-hit President Park Geun-hye’s immediate future, with the support of two-thirds of Seoul’s 300-seat parliament needed to impeach country’s leader. MOVED

AUSTRALIA

MELBOURNE – Tsunami warning lifted after powerful 7.8 quake in Solomon Islands. MOVED