ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover on Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):
TURKEY
ANKARA – President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to receive Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto at presidential complex. Erdogan also to chair his ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party's Central Executive Board meeting.
ANKARA – Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu to hold joint press conference with his Hungarian counterpart Szijjarto.
ANKARA – Following latest developments in Eastern Mediterranean.
ANKARA – Following latest developments in coronavirus outbreak in Turkey, worldwide.
AZERBAIJAN
BAKU - Monitoring developments in wake of deal ending Armenia's occupation of Azerbaijani territory of Nagorno-Karabakh
US
WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump to deliver remarks at Operation Warp Speed vaccine summit at White House.
WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Slovenian Foreign Minister Anze Logar to sign memorandum of understanding on nuclear cooperation between two nations.
THE ECONOMY
LUXEMBOURG - European statistical department Eurostat to reveal GDP and unemployment figures for Q3.
SPORTS
PARIS - Turkish football club Medipol Basaksehir to visit French opponents Paris Saint-Germain in UEFA Champions League Group H match as group phase ends.
SPECIAL REPORT
Students, parents fight school closures in Italy
- Protests rise across country as long shutdown due to pandemic fuels social divides
By Giada Zampano
ROME – Italy was the country that closed its schools longer than any other in Europe in a desperate bid to contain the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic.