ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency's English Desk plans to cover on Thursday Oct. 5, 2017 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):
TURKEY
ANKARA - Culture and Tourism Minister Numan Kurtulmus to meet delegation from Uzbekistan led by Deputy Prime Minister Jamshid Kuchkarov and State Tourism Committee Chairman Aziz Abduhakimov.
ISTANBUL - Bollywood star Aamir Khan to speak at Uniq Hall as part of Crystal Apple Festival and meet with students from Mimar Sinan University’s Fine Arts Department.
FRANCE
PARIS - Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian to host his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu for talks.
PARIS - President Emmanuel Macron to meet Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar Al-Abadi.
UNITED KINGDOM
LONDON - Migration Watch UK to release report on EU workers' position in British economy post-Brexit.
GERMANY
BERLIN - Parliament’s control board (PKGr) to hold public hearing with heads of foreign intelligence agency BND and domestic intelligence agency BfV following series of scandals.
RUSSIA
MOSCOW - In his first official visit to Moscow, Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz al Saud to meet President Vladimir Putin to discuss bilateral relations and Middle East.
SOUTH AFRICA
PRETORIA - Turkish National Education Minister Ismet Yilmaz to meet with Angie Motshekga, minister of basic education, and Industry Minister Rob Davies.
Yilmaz also to attend delegation meeting of Turkey-South Africa Joint Economic Commission.
SPECIAL REPORT
DRC: Outcry over ban of semi-biometric passports
By Joseph Tsongo
KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo (AA) - A decision to invalidate all semi-biometric passports to replace them with biometric ones has provoked such an outcry that the government has decided to postpone the deadline.