ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):
TURKEY
ANKARA - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to address village heads at the presidential complex.
ANKARA - Erdogan to meet Sudanese and Albanian foreign ministers separately at the presidential complex in Ankara. The foreign ministers will later also meet Prime Minister Binali Yildirim and Parliament Speaker Ismail Kahraman.
ANKARA - Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu to hold separate joint press conferences with his Albanian and Sudanese counterparts.
ANKARA - Energy Minister Berat Albayrak to join Anadolu Agency's Editors' Desk.
ISTANBUL - Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci to participate in the opening of the Turkey-Serbia-Bosnia and Herzegovina Business Forum.
UNITED STATES
WASHINGTON - Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag to meet his U.S. counterpart Loretta Lynch to discuss the extradition of Fetullah Terrorist Organization head Fetullah Gulen to Turkey.
GERMANY
BERLIN - Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah and his delegation visit for talks on the Middle East peace process and Germany’s economic assistance to Palestine.
NIGERIA
SPECIAL REPORT: Questions over Nigeria's anti-corruption crusade
By Rafiu Ajakaye
LAGOS - At his inauguration in May last year, President Muhammadu Buhari was clear about his government’s priorities -- crushing the Boko Haram terror campaign, jumpstarting the economy and “killing corruption”.
Of these, Bahari’s economic goals have been the furthest from being realized, partly due to the creaking global oil market, which is responsible for much of Nigeria’s foreign earnings, but also because of a revived sabotage campaign against the country’s gas pipelines and, according to most analysts, Buhari’s unsteady policies.
KENYA
NAIROBI - The Rockefeller Foundation to host panel discussion on how to reduce post-harvest losses among farmers in Africa.
MYANMAR
YANGON - Karen State government to welcome first group of registered refugees who voluntarily returned to Myanmar from Thailand among the more than 120,000 who fled to escape armed conflict between government troops and rebels.
CAMBODIA
PHNOM PENH - Government's immigration ban on the return of opposition leader Sam Rainsy has turned his self-imposed exile into an enforced exile that violates international human rights law, says Human Rights Watch.
JAPAN
TOKYO - Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte to meet with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, expected to discuss relations and maritime security