Diary

ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency's English Desk plans to cover on Wednesday, July 28, 2021 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TURKEY

ANKARA - Health Minister Fahrettin Koca to make statements following virtual meeting of Coronavirus Science Board.

ANKARA - Following normalization process in Turkey, developments related to COVID-19, virus variants, worldwide pandemic situation.

AZERBAIJAN

BAKU - Turkish parliament speaker Mustafa Sentop to receive Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov after meeting journalists and before event with Turkish business, non-governmental groups representatives. Sentop later to travel to Shusha city in Nagorno-Karabakh, liberated from Armenian occupation in November 2020.

TUNISIA

TUNIS - Monitoring developments after President Kais Saied suspends parliament.

PALESTINE

JERUSALEM - Monitoring situation after Israeli forces carried out airstrikes on Gaza Strip following launch of incendiary balloons from besieged Palestinian territory.

MYANMAR

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

INDIA

NEW DELHI - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in India to meet S. Jaishankar, India's minister of external affairs, be received by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

THE ECONOMY

KAZAN, Russia - Twelfth International Economic Summit, titled Russia - Islamic world: Kazan Summit 2021, to begin in capital Kazan with Turkey's Trade Minister Mehmet Mus slated to meet Turkish business representatives.

ANKARA - Turkish Statistical Institute to release Road Motor Vehicles data for June.

ANKARA - Central Bank of Turkey to reveal June data on international reserves, foreign currency liquidity.

BRUSSELS - European Automobile Manufacturers' Association to share figures for newly registered commercial vehicles for first half of 2021.

SPORTS

ISTANBUL - Galatasaray to play against Dutch club PSV Eindhoven in second leg of UEFA Champions League second qualifying round.

TOKYO - Following Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

SPECIAL REPORT

Palestinians say Israeli courts 'political tool' to usurp their land

By Salam Abu Sharar

JERUSALEM (AA) - Faced with Israeli orders to demolish their homes, Palestinians lament that Israel's judicial system is being used as a political tool to change the status quo in occupied East Jerusalem.

SPECIAL REPORT

'Tiger population in India still fewer than potential'

By Ahmad Adil

NEW DELHI (AA) - Although India currently hosts the largest tiger population, experts believe that the country has not achieved much progress over the years in protecting and increasing its numbers.

SPECIAL REPORT

Unsafe projects in Bangladeshi mangroves pose growing threat to Bengal tigers

By SM Najmus Sakib

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) - One of South Asia's most majestic beasts faces the threat of being driven out of its natural habitat in the landmark Sundarbans coastal mangrove forests amid unsafe infrastructure projects, a lack of protection measures, and climate change.

SPECIAL REPORT

Bangladesh waking up to adverse fallout of alien plants

By SM Najmus Sakib

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) - Bangladesh is waking up to the adverse impact of a non-native exotic plant species now endangering the environment and damaging indigenous plants.

SPECIAL REPORT

Young Black female South African rooftop farmer hopes to turn concrete jungle green

By Hassan Isilow

JOHANNESBURG (AA) - It's a chilly Monday morning in Morningside, the richest suburb of Sandton municipality in Johannesburg, South Africa, and Zandile Kumalo, a young Black hydroponics farmer, is already at work on her rooftop garden.

SPECIAL REPORT

Turkish businessman donates equipment to medical faculty in Idlib, Syria

By Gokhan Ergocun

IDLIB, Syria (AA) - A Turkish businessman who liquidated a hospital in eastern province Van, donated all of the medical equipment to Idlib University Hospital.

SPECIAL REPORT

Rising sea taints Tanzania's freshwater, destroys homes

By Kizito Makoye

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (AA) - Driving on slick tarmac across a vast expanse of wetland in Dar es Salaam, the scale of destruction from surging seawater is vividly clear.