ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover on Monday, Jan. 9, 2017 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):
TURKEY
ANKARA - Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu will address the 9th Ambassadors Conference.
ANKARA - Debates on a bill to change the Turkish constitution will start at the parliament
ANKARA - Turkish Statistical Institute to release the industrial production index data for Nov. 2016
UNITED STATES
NEW YORK - Funeral ceremony to be held at Eyup Sultan Mosque in New York for Abdulmecid Han, the 31st Sultan of the Ottoman Empire's third generation grandson Osman Bayezid Osmanoglu
THE UNITED KINGDOM
LONDON - PM Theresa May to give a speech on social reform
LONDON - Reactions to reports of an Israeli diplomat's bid to plot against some UK MPs to be followed
LONDON - Chaos hits commuters due to London tube strike
LONDON - Parents of a British national who joined Daesh are to appear in court with charges related to funding terrorism
SWITZERLAND
GENEVA - The Cyprus talks to resume at the United Nations in Geneva with the participation of the Turkish Cypriot leader, Mustafa Akinci, the Greek Cypriot leader, Nicos Anastasiades, and their delegations
ZURICH - The Best FIFA Football Awards are to be held in Zurich in a ceremony
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
BANJA LUKA - Bosnian Serbs to celebrate the creation of Republika Srpska in 1992 despite it is being unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina
SOUTH SUDAN
SPECIAL REPORT
By Parach Mach
JUBA, South Sudan (AA) – Most journalists in war-torn South Sudan, a country where inflation is said to be close to 900 percent, are earning even less than security guards.
AFRICA
NIGERIA
ABUJA - Leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS ) to hold a meeting in the Nigerian capital in continuation of the consultations over the Gambian post electoral crisis.
ASIA
SOUTH KOREA
SEOUL – Top Japanese envoys depart South Korea in protest at latest “comfort women” statue
THAILAND
BANGKOK – Controversial Buddhist temple upset by government "harassment"
MYANMAR
YANGON – Military says seven rebels killed as soldiers took over four more outposts from a powerful ethnic Kachin rebel group in northern state near country’s border with China