ANKARA (AA) – Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency's English Desk plans to cover on Thursday, June 17, 2021 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):
TURKEY
ANKARA – Following gradual normalization process in Turkey with drop in COVID-19 cases, pandemic situation worldwide.
ANTALYA – President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to attend South-East European Cooperation Process (SEECP) Summit
ANTALYA – Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu to address South East European Cooperation Process's (SEECP) foreign ministers summit meeting.
THE US
WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden to sign Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law in the East Room, White House.
CAMEROON
YAOUNDE – WHO Africa region director to hold press briefing on COVID-19 in Africa and Ebola in Guinea.
MYANMAR
YANGON – Monitoring developments in Myanmar after Feb. 1 military coup triggered violent protests, crackdown.
THE ECONOMY
ANKARA – Turkish Central Bank to announce Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) decision on interest rates.
ANKARA – Turkish Central Bank to announce Outstanding Loans Received From Abroad by Private Sector for April
LUXEMBOURG – Eurostat to release inflation figures for May
SPORTS
STRASBOURG, France – The FIBA Women's EuroBasket 2021 co-hosted by Spain and France to start as Turkey face Slovenia in Group C game.
BUCHAREST / AMSTERDAM / COPENHAGEN – The UEFA EURO 2020 matchday 2 goes on. Following Ukraine-North Macedonia and Netherlands-Austria matches in Group C as well as Denmark-Belgium game in Group B.
SPECIAL REPORT
Will new Israeli government revive negotiations with Palestinians?
By Awad Rajoub
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – With the swearing-in of Israel’s new coalition government that ended the 12-year tenure of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, attention has now been drawn to the possibility of reviving the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations that have been halted since April 2014.
SPECIAL REPORT
Decaying oil tanker poses potential catastrophe to Yemen
By Mohammed Alragawi
ISTANBUL (AA) – A decaying oil tanker threatening to spill 1.1 million barrels of crude oil off Yemen’s coast is leaving the war-torn country at the risk of an environmental and humanitarian catastrophe.
SPECIAL REPORT
'Uganda’s move to tax internet data will hurt innovation’
By Hamza Kyeyune
KAMPALA, Uganda (AA) – While scrapping the controversial social media tax, the Ugandan government in its annual budget for the 2021-22 financial year has introduced a 12 % excise duty on internet data usage.
SPECIAL REPORT
Ethiopia: Islamic education thrives, expands faith
By Seleshi Tessema
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AA) – Classes were once held in the open air, under a tree, or in a small room of an Ethiopian traditional building constructed of wood and mud with crumbling walls, leaking roofs, and pupils sitting in circles around their graceful teachers, said an Islamic seminary teacher, explaining how the madrassah began in the Horn of Africa nation.
SPECIAL REPORT
‘Turkey, Egypt normalize relations for mutual interest’
By Zehra Nur Duz
ANKARA (AA) – As Egypt celebrates its Liberation Day on Friday, an expert says the country's relations with Turkey were on the path of normalization after more than seven years of estrangement.
SPECIAL REPORT
Common sense is key for solving mucilage problem: NGOs
By Burak Bir
ANKARA (AA) – Drawing attention to the key role played by the seas in contributing to a sustainable and healthy life, environmental NGOs in Turkey called for using "common sense" to resolve the mucilage problem in the Sea of Marmara.
SPECIAL REPORT
Turkish presidential orchestra hosts world-famous Portuguese Fado singer
By Faruk Zorlu
ANKARA (AA) – Turkey’s Presidential Symphony Orchestra hosted world-famous Portuguese Fado singer Sara Correia at a concert to mark Portugal's rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union.
SPECIAL REPORT
'Desertification affects lives of nearly 2B people around the world'
By Burak Bir
ANKARA (AA) – Desertification affects the lives of approximately 2 billion people around the world and turns people into "ecological migrants", according to the head of a nonprofit environmental group.
