Diary

ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency's English Desk plans to cover on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2021 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TURKEY

ANKARA - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to welcome Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, chairman of Sudan’s Sovereign Council, with ceremony at Presidential Complex, followed later by delegations meeting, signing ceremony, and state dinner.

ANKARA - Monitoring progress in containing remaining forest fires in southern/southwestern Turkey.

ANKARA- Following flooding in Black Sea provinces.

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

ALGERIA

ALGIERS - Monitoring wildfires that killed dozens of people across country.

GREECE

ATHENS - Monitoring wildfires.

ITALY

ROME - Monitoring fires in forests, rural areas of southern Italy.

US

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 response team to hold briefing.

TUNISIA

TUNIS - Monitoring developments after President Kais Saied suspended parliament in July.

MYANMAR

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

AFGHANISTAN

KABUL - Monitoring developments amid clashes between government forces, Taliban.

ZAMBIA

LUSAKA - Nation to vote in elections for president, parliament.

THE ECONOMY

ANKARA - Turkish Statistical Institute to release industrial production, turnover, and retail trade statistics for June.

ANKARA - Turkish Central Bank's Monetary Policy Committee to hold eighth meeting of 2021 to determine interest rates.

LUXEMBURG - Eurostat to announce industrial production for June.

WASHINGTON - US Labor Department to announce Producer Price Index (PPI) for July and weekly initial jobless claims.

SPORTS

PERTH, Scotland - UEFA Europa League to continue with third qualifying round matches.

SPECIAL REPORT

Saudi decision to limit foreign workers shocks war-weary Yemenis

By Mohammed Alragawi

ISTANBUL (AA) - Saudi Arabia recently announced new regulations on the percentage of foreign workers in private sector establishments in the kingdom.

SPECIAL REPORT

Mice trapping turns around lives of rural Zimbabwean women

By John Cassim

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AA) - Mice trapping could be a sign of poverty for some in Zimbabwe, but for women in Chipinge, an agricultural town bordering Mozambique, 513 kilometers (318 miles) east of the capital, it has become a good source of income.

SPECIAL REPORT

PROFILE - Thomas Mann: ‘Un-German’ author of 20th century

By Merve Berker and Dilan Pamuk

ANKARA (AA) - Thursday marks the 66th anniversary of the death of classic German novelist Thomas Mann, who under Nazi rule was accused of being an “un-German” author, his works consigned to book-burning flames.

SPECIAL REPORT

Settlements, construction threatens Bangladesh's wild elephants with extinction

By SM Najmus Sakib

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) - Bangladesh, once considered a safe haven for wild animals, now is struggling to protect Asian wild elephants amid shrinking habitats and lack of safe corridors for movement of the world's largest land animals.

SPECIAL REPORT

Coronavirus batters Tanzania’s tourism, handcraft sectors

By Kizito Makoye

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (AA) - It is a bright day at Mwenge, a bustling woodcarvers market in Tanzania’s largest city, and Sebastian Lyala is busy shaving the surface of rough wood with a chisel.

SPECIAL REPORT

Why does cricket favor left-handed players?

By Aamir Latif

KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) - While in many cultures left-handers are not treated favorably, in the most popular game in South Asia – cricket – left-handers boast an edge in both batting and bowling stream to outdo their opponents.