Diary

ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover on Wednesday, March 13, 2019 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TURKEY

ANKARA - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to attend mass opening ceremonies in Pursaklar and Golbasi districts.

ANKARA - Erdogan also to attend 5th International Benevolence Awards ceremony at Bestepe Congress Center.

ANKARA - Parliament Speaker Mustafa Sentop to visit Morocco’s capital Rabat, joining 14th conference of Parliamentary Union of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Member States (ISIPAB).

ANKARA - Turkey’s statistical authority TurkStat, to release poultry and milk production figures for January.

ANKARA - European Statistical Office (Eurostat) to release industrial production figures for January.

UK

LONDON - British lawmakers to hold vote on government motion over no deal Brexit and possible amendments to it a day after Prime Minister Theresa May's deal was rejected second time round.

GERMANY

BERLIN - Chancellor Angela Merkel to meet Prime Minister of Laos Thongloun Sisoulith to discuss bilateral relations, regional issues.

SWITZERLAND

GENEVA - Kelley E. Currie, US representative to UN Economic and Social Council, to hold news conference on fundamental freedoms in China's Xinjiang Uighur autonomous region.

US

WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to brief on release of 2018 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices.

WASHINGTON - House Armed Services Committee to hold hearing on national security challenges and US military activity in Europe.

ETHIOPIA

ADDIS ABABA - Visiting French President to meet Chairperson of the African Union Commission Moussa Faki.

ADDIS ABABA - Seven agreements to be signed between Ethiopian and French private sector

IRAQ

NAJAF - Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani to meet with prominent Shia cleric Ali al-Sistani.

SYRIA

ALEPPO/IDLIB - Monitoring developments in Syrian civil war.

VENEZUELA

CARACAS - Monitoring crisis over nation’s leadership.

SPECIAL REPORT:

Now it's water war between Pakistan, India

By Aamir Latif and Shuriah Niazi

KARACHI, Pakistan/NEW DELHI, India (AA) - Weeks of tensions between Pakistan and India triggered by a militant attack in Indian-administered Kashmir appear to have finally faded, but now an irate New Delhi has opened a new front, this time concerning water.