ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):
FRANCE
STRASBOURG – Turkish Parliamentary Speaker Ismail Kahraman to take part in European conference.
UNITED STATES
WASHINGTON - Ankara-based Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research hosts discussion on Turkey's Operation Euphrates Shield.
THAILAND
BANGKOK - Junta maintains that August bombing not related to southern insurgency, despite police claims to contrary.
PHILIPPINES
ZAMBOANGA - One-time militia leader tells Senate hearing President Rodrigo Duterte ordered killing of suspected criminals while city mayor.
JAPAN
SPECIAL REPORT: Japan on alert following latest North Korea test
By Todd Crowell
TOKYO (AA) - Japan is on high alert following North Korea’s fifth underground atom bomb explosion on the heels of three ballistic missile tests whose dummy warheads fell close to Japan’s coast.