ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency's English Desk plans to cover on Monday, Oct. 16, 2017 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):
TURKEY
ANKARA - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to chair National Security Council, Cabinet meetings at Presidential Complex.
ANKARA - Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) to announce labor statistics for July.
IRAQ
KIRKUK - Fighting reported after Baghdad sends troops to face Kurdish Peshmerga forces in oil-rich province.
UNITED STATES
NEW YORK - Anadolu Agency’s selection of photographs from Istanbul Photo Awards 2017 to go on exhibition at UN.
WASHINGTON - Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to meet International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde, discuss Greek debt crisis.
SWITZERLAND
GENEVA - Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Armenian President Serj Sarkisyan to meet to discuss disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
INDONESIA
YOGYAKARTA - Anies Baswedan to be sworn in as governor of Jakarta at State Palace.
AUSTRIA
VIENNA - Sebastian Kurz expected to form coalition after People's Party came first in election, followed by far-right Freedom Party.
GERMANY
BERLIN - Chancellor Angela Merkel holds news conference after her Christian Democrats suffered heavy defeat in Lower Saxony election.
UNITED KINGDOM
LONDON - Central, regional government representatives to discuss Brexit negotiations.
LONDON - Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to open world's first floating wind farm, off coast of Peterhead.
LUXEMBOURG
LUXEMBOURG - EU foreign ministers to meet. Turkey accession, humanitarian situation in Myanmar, Bangladesh among topics to be discussed.
SOMALIA
MOGADISHU - Turkish Health Minister Ahmet Demircan to meet officials following suicide bombing in Mogadishu that killed at least 276 people.
ETHIOPIA
SPECIAL REPORT: Ethiopia’s 'super grain' seeks to capture global market
By Seleshi Tessema
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AA) - As global demand for gluten-free indigenous staple crop grows, officials and businesses are looking to tap the global market by modernizing the ancient crop, letting its healthy taste spread worldwide.