Diary

ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover on Monday, Jan. 9, 2017 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TURKEY

ANKARA - Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu will address the 9th Ambassadors Conference.

ANKARA - Debates on a bill to change the Turkish constitution will start at the parliament

ANKARA - Turkish Statistical Institute to release the industrial production index data for Nov. 2016

UNITED STATES

NEW YORK - Funeral ceremony to be held at Eyup Sultan Mosque in New York for Abdulmecid Han, the 31st Sultan of the Ottoman Empire's third generation grandson Osman Bayezid Osmanoglu

THE UNITED KINGDOM

LONDON - PM Theresa May to give a speech on social reform

LONDON - Reactions to reports of an Israeli diplomat's bid to plot against some UK MPs to be followed

LONDON - Chaos hits commuters due to London tube strike

​LONDON - Parents of a British national who joined Daesh are to appear in court with charges related to funding terrorism

SWITZERLAND

GENEVA - The Cyprus talks to resume at the United Nations in Geneva with the participation of the Turkish Cypriot leader, Mustafa Akinci, the Greek Cypriot leader, Nicos Anastasiades, and their delegations

ZURICH - The Best FIFA Football Awards are to be held in Zurich in a ceremony

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

BANJA LUKA - Bosnian Serbs to celebrate the creation of Republika Srpska in 1992 despite it is being unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina

SOUTH SUDAN

SPECIAL REPORT

By Parach Mach

JUBA, South Sudan (AA) – Most journalists in war-torn South Sudan, a country where inflation is said to be close to 900 percent, are earning even less than security guards.

AFRICA

NIGERIA

ABUJA - Leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS ) to hold a meeting in the Nigerian capital in continuation of the consultations over the Gambian post electoral crisis.

ASIA

SOUTH KOREA

SEOUL – Top Japanese envoys depart South Korea in protest at latest “comfort women” statue

THAILAND

BANGKOK – Controversial Buddhist temple upset by government "harassment"

MYANMAR

YANGON – Military says seven rebels killed as soldiers took over four more outposts from a powerful ethnic Kachin rebel group in northern state near country’s border with China