ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover on Monday Jan. 16, 2017 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):
TURKEY
ANKARA - Developments over the implementation of the cease-fire in Syria and Operation Euphrates Shield.
ANKARA - Minister of Labor and Social Security Mehmet Muezzinoglu will attend a signing ceremony of a protocol between the General Directorate of the Turkish Employment Agency and the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB) in Ankara.
ANKARA - Finance Minister Naci Agbal will hold a press conference on “the Annual Central Government Budget Realizations in 2016".
ANKARA - Turkish Statistical Institute to announce labor force statistics for Oct. 2016.
UNITED KINGDOM
LONDON - US Secretary of State John Kerry and UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson will meet in London.
BELFAST - The deadline for the nomination of a new deputy first minister in Northern Ireland will expire.
GERMANY
BERLIN— Chancellor Merkel meets New Zealand’s Prime Minister Bill English for talks on bilateral ties, international issues.
GAMBIA
BANJUL - Gambia’s outgoing President Yahya Jammeh requested the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to facilitate transportation of judges to the small nation to sit over his election petition. (MOVED)
SOUTH KOREA
SEOUL - South Korean investigators sought an arrest warrant for Samsung’s acting head Lee Jae-yong, as Seoul’s presidential office scandal took a further dramatic twist. (MOVED)