Diary

ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency's English Desk plans to cover on Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TURKEY

ISTANBUL - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to attend Turkey's largest technology and aviation event TEKNOFEST 2021, separate opening and promotion events.

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

GUINEA

CONAKRY - Monitoring developments after soldiers announce detention of president, dissolution of government.

AFGHANISTAN

KABUL - Monitoring situation in Afghanistan after Taliban’s formation of interim government.

SPECIAL REPORT

Student activists in Palestine recall 2015 ‘Jerusalem uprising’

By Salam Abu Sharar

RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) - Zina Khaleel a 27-year-old Palestinian recalls the wave of violence that had swept in the city of Jerusalem in 2015.

SPECIAL REPORT

Squabbles continue over sharing river water in Pakistan

By Aamir Latif

KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) - Despite boasting one of the largest irrigation systems in the world, river water disputes with neighboring India and then between the provinces have given headaches to successive governments in Pakistan over the past 70 years.

SPECIAL REPORT

Gross violation of building codes pose mounting fire risks in Bangladesh

By Md. Kamruzzaman

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) - Fears of urban fires are rising across major cities in Bangladesh, especially the capital Dhaka, with authorities and victims pointing to a lack of safety measures and gross violations of construction regulations .

SPECIAL REPORT

River pollution threatens lives in Tanzania’s port city

By Kizito Makoye

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (AA) - Millions in Tanzania’s largest port city are at risk of contracting life-threatening diseases as a cocktail of untreated waste water and hazardous industrial effluents are discharged randomly into the Msimbazi River.

SPECIAL REPORT

Efforts to clean India’s revered Ganges River yields limited results

By Shuriah Niazi

NEW DELHI (AA) - India’s largest and most sacred river remains filthy this year on World Rivers Day, with activists citing little progress in ongoing efforts to clean the waterway up.