Diary

ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency's English Desk plans to cover on Tuesday, July 6, 2021 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TURKEY

ANKARA - Parliament speaker Mustafa Sentop to receive Aymerou Gningue, head of Turkey-Senegal Parliamentary Friendship Group.

ANKARA - Following normalization process in Turkey amid drop in COVID-19 cases, plus pandemic situation worldwide.

US

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden to deliver remarks on COVID-19 response, vaccination program.

NEW YORK - UN Security Council to discuss situation in Syria.

PALESTINE

JERUSALEM - Following aftermath of May cease-fire agreement between Israel, Hamas.

MYANMAR

YANGON - Monitoring developments after February military coup triggered violent protests, crackdown.

THE ECONOMY

LUXEMBOURG- European statistical body to release retail trade volumes for May.

SPORTS

LONDON - Italy to face Spain in EURO 2020 semifinals.

SPECIAL REPORT

Poverty drives Bangladeshi garment workers to toil amid hard lockdown

By Md. Kamruzzaman

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) - Amid Bangladesh's strictest nationwide lockdown, millions of workers in the country's main exporting readymade garment (RMG) industry have been working without any risk incentives due to poverty, apparently resigned to their fate.

SPECIAL REPORT

Cooperative movement changes face of India's western province

By Shuriah Niazi

NEW DELHI (AA) - Although cooperative societies do not boast remarkable success in many parts of the world, there are lessons for them to learn from India’s western province of Maharashtra.

SPECIAL REPORT

ANALYSIS - Redrawing maps of assembly seats raises fears in Kashmir

By Iftikhar Gilani

ANKARA (AA) - Four months after India and Pakistan agreed to a cease-fire along the Line of Control (LoC), the latest meeting of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi with nine political parties from Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir had sparked a hope that concrete steps may follow to ensure the course of justice in the region.

SPECIAL REPORT

ANALYSIS - 6 months after Al-Ula: Has the Gulf crisis really ended?

By Jonathan Fenton-Harvey

ISTANBUL (AA) - When Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman embraced Qatar’s Emir Tamim bin Hamad al Thani in the Saudi city of Al-Ula on Jan. 5, hopes were raised that this could finally improve a fractured relationship that had long hindered Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) unity.