Diary

ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu's English Desk plans to cover on Wednesday, July 5, 2023 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

SWITZERLAND

GENEVA - UN Human Rights Committee to meet on International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, including considering new report on situation in Palestine.

GERMANY

BERLIN - Chancellor Olaf Scholz to take questions from lawmakers in Bundestag.

UK

EDINBURGH - Republican group to hold #NotMyKing protests to call for abolishing monarchy as King Charles and other members of royal family attend ceremony to mark his recent coronation.

LONDON - Start of preliminary hearings in independent inquiry into alleged unlawful activity by British Armed Forces in Afghanistan.

LONDON - Hundreds of thousands of teachers belonging to National Education Union in England to go on strike in ongoing pay dispute.

CHINA

BEIJING - Following weather as floods displace thousands of people in country.

JAPAN

TOKYO - Following Japan's controversial plan to release nuclear waste from crippled Fukushima power plant into sea.

SOUTH KOREA

SEOUL - Police continue investigation into unregistered babies, with many so far confirmed dead.

PALESTINE

JENIN - Following developments in occupied West Bank city of Jenin after Israeli aggression left 12 Palestinians dead and some 100 others injured.

SUDAN

KHARTOUM - Following violent clashes between Sudanese army and Rapid Support Forces.

US

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden to hold bilateral meeting with Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson at White House.

NEW YORK - UN Security Council to discuss how to prevent and respond to grave violations of children in armed conflict.

NEW YORK - William O'Neill, UN independent expert on situation of human rights in Haiti, to speak on his recent visit to Caribbean country.

THE ECONOMY

ANKARA - Turkish Statistical Institute to release annual inflation figures for June

LUXEMBOURG - European statistical office Eurostat to share producer inflation data for May.

PARIS - OECD to release unemployment figures for May.

SPORTS

LONDON - Wimbledon, tennis' 3rd Grand Slam of year, to continue with 2nd-round games.

PAU, France - 5th stage of Tour de France (cyclists to undertake 101-mile trek from Pau to Laruns).

SPECIAL REPORT

French far-right exploits police shooting unrest for political gains

By Emre Basaran

ISTANBUL (AA) - The rise of the far-right in European countries may no longer be much of a surprise, as support for this side of the political spectrum has grown consistently across the continent for over a decade now.

SPECIAL REPORT

Police killing of Nahel is sign of institutional Islamophobia, racism in France: Expert

By Burak Bir

LONDON (AA) - Last week’s fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old in a Paris suburb should not be seen as an individual, isolated case, but rather lays bare the country's institutional racism and Islamophobia, according to a British social theorist and expert on colonialism.