Diary

ANKARA (AA) – Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover Wednesday, June 8, 2016 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TURKEY

ANKARA – President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will travel to U.S. for Muhammad Ali's funeral.

ISTANBUL – Prime Minister Binali Yildirim will visit the scene of Tuesday’s terrorist attack in Istanbul and join funeral prayers for the victims at Fatih Mosque.

ANKARA - Yildirim will attend Justice and Development (AK) Party central executive committee meeting.

EUROPE

UK

LONDON - Former U.K. foreign secretary William Hague to deliver speech at Chatham House think-tank entitled ‘Why a Eurosceptic Should Vote to Remain’.

LONDON - Chancellor George Osborne to appear in live television interview on the EU referendum.

LONDON - Brazilian football legend Pele to auction memorabilia from his career, including a Jules Rimet replica trophy, team shirts he wore and old passports. Auctioneers Julien’s estimate the sale could fetch £5 million ($7.28 million).

SPECIAL REPORT

UK party leaders debate EU referendum on TV

- British PM, UKIP leader take questions from studio audience as many voters are still undecided with a fortnight to go

By Michael Daventry

LONDON (AA) – It was the first mass audience event of Britain’s EU referendum campaign.

On Tuesday night, British Prime Minister David Cameron and Nigel Farage, leader of the U.K. Independence Party, took questions from a studio audience wanting to know whether their country should remain part of the European Union.

SPECIAL REPORT

First Ramadan as a Muslim

By Busra Akin Dincer

LONDON (AA) – Anadolu Agency talks to Yeohan Kim, a recent convert to Islam who is celebrating his first Ramadan.

SOUTHEAST ASIA-PACIFIC

AUSTRALIA

MELBOURNE – Human Rights Watch calls for “impartial, thorough and transparent investigation” amid reports that four people were killed after Papua New Guinea police shot at protesting students.

INDONESIA

JAKARTA – More than a dozen buildings damaged after magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits Indonesia’s Maluku Islands, causing panic during pre-fast Ramadan meal.

KOREAS

SEOUL – South Korea responds with "serious concern" to international report raising alarm over start of plutonium production in North Korea.