Diary

ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover on Sunday Dec. 11, 2016 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TURKEY

ISTANBUL - Latest develoments following separate bomb attacks that martyred at least 29 people in Istanbul.

ISTANBUL - Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu to talk to reporters at Merter Police Training and Congress Center.

ANKARA - Turkish parliament's inquiry commission on failed coup to meet with press, academics, representatives of NGOs and July 15 survivors.

SERBIA

BELGRADE - Macedonians head for polls in snap parliamentary elections

ROMANIA

BUCHAREST - Romanians to vote for new parliamentary term.

KYRGYZSTAN

BISHKEK - Country votes in referendum on constitutional changes.

ETHIOPIA

SPECIAL REPORT

Ethiopian Rastafari's promised land

By Seleshi Tessema

ADDIS ABABA (AA) - The dreadlocked citizens of this world famous small "city-state", have their own flag, symbol, a skin-deep religion, rituals and ways of life.

THAILAND

ANALYSIS

Information war far from fair in Thailand's south

By Don Pathan

YALA - Coverage of insurgency in Thailand’s Malay-speaking provinces shows fight far from fair when only one side has microphone.

KOREA

SEOUL - North Korea practices strike on model of Seoul's presidential office, while the real building in the South remains under political attack.

MYANMAR

YANGON - Huge drug seizure takes place on road to conflict-torn area on Myanmar's western border with Bangladesh; 3 Rakhine Buddhists seized.