Diary

yokANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover on Monday, June 19, 2023 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

GERMANY

BERLIN - NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg to pay 2-day visit to Germany, meet Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock.

BERLIN - Chinese Premier Li Qiang paying official visit to Germany.

UK

LONDON - Premier Rishi Sunak, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson to meet in London.

LONDON - Lawmakers in House of Commons to debate Privileges Committee report which found former Premier Boris Johnson deliberately misled parliament during COVID-19 inquiry.

SWITZERLAND

GENEVA - Saudi Arabia to host Sudan donors' conference with support from Qatar, Egypt, Germany, EU, UN.

CHINA

BEIJING - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken paying official visit to China.

US

WASHINGTON - At California event, President Joe Biden to deliver remarks on his administration's measures to combat climate crisis, create clean-energy jobs, protect environment.

NEW YORK - UN Security Council to discuss situation in Libya.

THE ECONOMY

ANKARA - Turkish Central Bank to release international investment position figures for April.

ANKARA - Turkish Statistical Institute to release consumer confidence index for June.

SPORTS

EUROPE - UEFA EURO 2024 Matchday 4 to begin, following Türkiye vs Wales match in Group D.

SPECIAL REPORT

'Islamophobia in Germany under-reported because Muslims distrust authorities'

By Anadolu staff

BERLIN (AA) - The number of unreported Islamophobic attacks in Germany is becoming much higher due to a growing distrust of authorities, according to a Muslim community leader in the capital Berlin.

SPECIAL REPORT

'Terrifying to be a woman': Sexual violence a weapon of war in Sudan

By Rabia Ali

ISTANBUL (AA) - In Sudan’s capital Khartoum, a group of paramilitary soldiers broke into a house and gang-raped a woman while they held her husband at gunpoint.

SPECIAL REPORT

Juneteenth a day for US to recognize unfair plight of freed slaves 158 years ago

By Darren Lyn

HOUSTON, US (AA) - Juneteenth is a day many Americans recognize the plight of nearly 250,000 freed slaves in Galveston, Texas who were not told they were freed until June 19, 1865, two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation which abolished slavery was signed by President Abraham Lincoln and two months after the US Civil War had ended.