ANKARA (AA) – Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency's English Desk plans to cover on Thursday, June 24, 2021 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):
TURKEY
ANKARA – President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to attend meeting of deputies at his Justice and Development (AK) Party's headquarters, also to receive Tatarstan’s President Rustam Minnikhanov at presidential complex.
ANKARA – Following gradual normalization process in Turkey with drop in COVID-19 cases, pandemic situation worldwide.
BELGIUM
BRUSSELS – 1st day of EU Leaders' Summit to be held.
BRUSSELS – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to attend General Assembly of European Parliament.
RUSSIA
MOSCOW – Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to attend Moscow Conference on International Security, to later meet with his Guatemalan counterpart Pedro Brolo.
UZBEKISTAN
KOKAND – Turkey’s Culture and Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy to attend 6th meeting of Tourism Ministers of Cooperation Council of Turkish-Speaking Countries.
PALESTINE
JERUSALEM – Following aftermath of cease-fire agreement between Israel, Hamas.
INDIA
NEW DELHI – Kashmir's pro-Indian political party leaders invited by India's gov't to meet country's Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
MYANMAR
YANGON – Monitoring developments in Myanmar after Feb. 1 military coup triggered violent protests, crackdown.
THE ECONOMY
ANKARA – Turkish Central Bank to announce capacity utilization rate in manufacturing industry for June.
ANKARA – Turkish Statistical Institute to announce sectoral indices for June.
SPORTS
RIMINI, Italy – Turkish women's national volleyball team to face US in FIVB Nations League semifinals as league's final four to start in Italy.
SPECIAL REPORT
'Turkey handles mucilage issue in transparent, participatory way'
By Burak Bir
ANKARA (AA) – Reminding the sea-cleaning campaign, launched by Turkey to save the Sea of Marmara, the head of the Marmara Municipalities Union said the country deals with mucilage issue in a transparent and participatory way.
SPECIAL REPORT
Girls from Pakistan's shantytown blaze trail into football
By Aamir Latif
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Straddling the edge of the Arabian Sea, Lyari, a small shantytown south of Pakistan's commercial capital Karachi, has long been a poster child for gang wars and drug trafficking.
SPECIAL REPORT
Afghan government turns to local militias to counter advancing Taliban
By Shadi Khan Saif
KABUL, Afghanistan (AA) – To push back the advancing Taliban, the Afghan government has turned to the local armed militias at grassroots levels with tainted past of rights abuses.
SPECIAL REPORT
Africa struggling with surge in COVID-19 cases, vaccine shortage
By James Tasamba
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – The number of daily new COVID-19 cases has more than tripled in recent weeks in many parts of Africa due to the emergence of the Delta variant first detected in India, though some infectious disease experts say the situation will not go out of hand.
