Diary

ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover on Friday, Sept. 30, 2016 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TURKEY

ANKARA - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to officially welcome Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Nayef at the Presidential Palace.

ANKARA - Prime Minister Binali Yildirim to receive Turkish Constitutional Court Chairman Zuhtu Arslan.

ANKARA - Turkish statistics agency,TurkStat, to announce foreign trade figures for August.

GEORGIA

TBILISI - Pope Francis visiting the Georgian capital, Tbilisi.

ISRAEL

JERUSALEM - Funeral ceremony for former Israeli President Shimon Peres.

SOUTH SUDAN

SPECIAL REPORT: Social media used to fuel South Sudan's civil war

By Parach Mach

JUBA (AA) - South Sudan shares the rest of the world’s love of social media, but with one difference: Observers say combatants have marshalled this digital tool to incite atrocities and ethnic massacres in the nation’s two-and-a-half-year-old civil war.

US

WASHINGTON - Former Turkish EU Minister Volkan Bozkir to address Turkish-U.S.-EU trilateral relations.

SOUTH KOREA

SEOUL - Three Chinese fishermen dead after a fire during South Korean Coast Guard raid.

PHILIPPINES

ZAMBOANGA CITY - President Rodrigo Duterte lashes out at being portrayed as akin to Hitler by critics of his bloody campaign against illegal drugs, before alluding to German leader again in saying he would be “happy to slaughter" 3 million drug addicts.