ANKARA (AA) – Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency's English Desk plans to cover on Monday, April 26, 2021 (coverage may change depending on developing/ breaking stories):
TURKEY
ANKARA – President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to meet Ersin Tatar, president of Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. Erdogan also due to chair Cabinet meeting at presidential complex.
ANKARA – Parliamentary Speaker Mustafa Sentop to attend 2nd Karabakh War and Armenia’s War Crimes Panel, photo exhibition on war crimes.
ANKARA – Monitoring developments on coronavirus pandemic in Turkey, worldwide.
GERMANY
BERLIN – Chancellor Angela Merkel to hold videoconference with premiers of Germany's 16 federal states to discuss ways to improve vaccination rollout, measures to combat COVID-19 pandemic.
RUSSIA
MOSCOW – Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to meet with his Honduran counterpart Lisandro Rosales Banegas.
MOSCOW – Secretary of Armenian Security Council Armen Grigoryan to pay working visit to Moscow.
MYANMAR
YANGON – Monitoring developments in Myanmar after Feb. 1 military coup triggered violent protests.
THE ECONOMY
ANKARA – Turkish Statistical Institute to release sectoral confidence index for April.
ANKARA – Turkish Central Bank to release capacity utilization rate of manufacturing industry for April.
SPECIAL REPORT
Chad: High tension transition after Idriss Deby’s death
By Aurore Bonny
LOME, Togo (AA) – Idriss Deby Itno was re-elected on 19 April to a controversial seventh term as head of Chad after 30 years in power.
SPECIAL REPORT
Israeli footprints in Iran: Cyberattacks, targeted killings, more
By Syed Zafar Mehdi
TEHRAN (AA) – In the wee hours of Thursday, a surface-to-air missile that was fired from neighboring Syria, exploded in southern Israel in close proximity to the secretive Dimona nuclear reactor.
SPECIAL REPORT
Mounting 'helplessness' as COVID-19 shatters India
By Ahmad Adil
NEW DELHI (AA) – On Friday afternoon, 54-year-old Atul Bansal made a video call from a hospital intensive care unit to his wife Anuradha Gupta assuring her he would be coming home soon.
