ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency's English Desk plans to cover on Friday, April 23, 2021 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):
TURKEY
ANKARA - Following National Sovereignty and Children's Day, 101st anniversary of foundation of Turkish parliament.
ANKARA - Monitoring developments on coronavirus pandemic in Turkey, worldwide.
ROMANIA
BUCHAREST/ISTANBUL - Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu to attend trilateral meetings with Romanian, Polish and Afghan, Pakistani counterparts, hold press conferences after.
UK
LONDON - UK bans all travel with India as it is added on travel red list of countries due to coronavirus.
RUSSIA
MOSCOW - Russian troops expected to begin returning to bases following 'snap' readiness check.
SPAIN
MADRID - Spanish Foreign Minister Arancha Gonzalez Laya, to meet Palestinian counterpart Riyad al-Maliki in Madrid.
MYANMAR
YANGON/ANKARA - Monitoring developments amid brutal crackdown on anti-coup protests in Myanmar.
CHAD
N'DJAMENA - Chad to hold state funeral for president Idriss Deby Itno, who died fighting rebels earlier this week.
SPORTS
MOSCOW - Turkish basketball club Fenerbahce Beko to take on CSKA Moscow in Turkish Airlines EuroLeague quarterfinal game two in best-of-five series.
SPECIAL REPORT
El Congal borne from ashes of war in Colombia
By Diego Carranza
BOGOTA, Colombia (AA) - Paramilitaries led by Ovidio Isaza, alias Roque, burned the village of El Congal, a small town in the municipality of Samana, Caldas department, in western Colombia, on Friday, Jan. 18, 2002.
SPECIAL REPORT
Bolsonaro should be charged with murder: Brazilian gov.
By Camila Moreno Camargo
BOGOTA, Colombia (AA) - Brazil has been immersed in a second wave of coronavirus infections since November that is still far from finished.
SPECIAL REPORT
Smuggled sperms help Palestinians, sire children, from behind bars
By Salam Abu Sharar
JENIN, Palestine (AA) - Twenty-three years ago Ammar al-Ziben was arrested by Israeli forces while on his way to the West Bank from Jordan. An Israeli court later charged him with being a member of the Al-Qassam brigade and sentenced him to life imprisonment 27 times.
SPECIAL REPORT
Solitary confinement turns Palestinian inmate mental wreck
By Salam Abu Sharar
HEBRON, Palestine (AA) - Life had come to a standstill for Yousef Shahateet,73, and his wife in 2004, when their 17-yeard old son Mansour was arrested by the Israeli security agencies.
SPECIAL REPORT
Indonesian groups urge ASEAN cold shoulder to Myanmar junta
By Devina Halim
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AA) - Civil society organizations in Indonesia have voiced opposition to the attendance of Myanmar's junta in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Leaders' Meeting in Jakarta slated for Saturday.
SPECIAL REPORT
Myanmar crisis: ASEAN credibility at stake
By Pizaro Gozali Idrus, Devina Halim, and Umar Idris
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AA) - Experts urged that the agenda for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Leaders Meeting in Jakarta on Saturday should be able to produce concrete actions to end violence in Myanmar.