Diary

ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency's English Desk plans to cover on Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2017 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TURKEY

ANKARA - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to attend parliamentary group meeting of ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party.

ANKARA - Erdogan to receive Nigerian Parliamentary President Ousseini Tinni at presidential palace. He will also receive letters of credence from ambassadors of Cuba and Tunisia.

ANKARA - Prime Minister Binali Yildirim to leave for Washington amid signs of easing in visa crisis between Turkey, U.S.

ANKARA - Parliamentary group meetings of opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), Nationalist Movement Party (MHP).

ANKARA - Trials of more than 1,800 mostly military defendants suspected of links to last year’s attempted coup.

SOUTH KOREA

SEOUL - U.S. President Donald Trump in South Korea as part of five-country Asia tour.

FRANCE

STRASBOURG - European Court of Human Rights to hear three cases concerning U.K. communications interception, intelligence-sharing with U.S. related to Snowden case.

UNITED KINGDOM

LONDON - Turkish Tourism Minister Numan Kurtulmus to attend World Travel Market.

BELGIUM

BRUSSELS - NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg to speak to media ahead of NATO defense ministers meeting.

SAUDI ARABIA

RIYADH - Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas to meet with King Salman bin Abdulaziz.

SOUTH AFRICA

SPECIAL REPORT - South Africa’s ruling party 'split' ahead of party vote

By Hassan Isilow

JOHANNESBURG (AA) - South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) is divided into rival factions as delegates prepare to meet next month, analysts have said.

ETHIOPIA

ADDIS ABABA - Ethiopia to host officials from Sudan, South Sudan to discuss ongoing border crisis in oil-rich Abiye region.