ISTANBUL (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu's English Desk plans to cover on Monday, April 24, 2023 (coverage may change depending on developing/ breaking stories):
US
WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden to meet trio of Tennessee lawmakers who faced expulsion votes from state legislature after joining protest to demand action on gun control.
WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Antony Blinken to hold joint press conference with Kenyan Cabinet Secretary for Foreign and Diaspora Affairs Alfred Mutua at State Department.
WASHINGTON - Desk to monitor statements from Biden administration regarding events of 1915 in Ottoman Empire.
NEW YORK - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to meet UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to discuss Black Sea Grain Initiative, which expires on May 18.
CANADA
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to meet German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
BELGIUM
BRUSSELS - EU countries' foreign ministers to discuss latest situation in Ukraine.
OSTEND - Belgium to host North Sea Summit to discuss offshore wind energy.
UK
LONDON - Court of Appeal to hold hearing on Home Office's new asylum deal with Rwanda.
GERMANY
BERLIN - Security workers at Berlin Airport to go on strike.
BULGARIA
SOFIA - Ban on imports of Ukrainian grain into Bulgaria comes into effect.
SOUTH KOREA
SEOUL - Monitoring state visit of President Yoon Suk Yeol to US for summit with his American counterpart Joe Biden as two sides mark 70th anniversary of their alliance.
THE ECONOMY
ANKARA - Turkish Central Bank to reveal capacity utilization rate for manufacturing industry for April.
ANKARA - The Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Türkiye to reveal newly established firms’ data for March.
SPECIAL REPORT
South Korea's birth rate remains alarmingly low despite spending $200B in 16 years
By Islamuddin Sajid
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AA) - South Korea's birth rate dropped to an alarming new low of 0.78 per woman in 2022 as fertility continued its steady decline despite spending about $200 billion over the last 16 years to promote population growth.