ANKARA (AA) – Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover on Friday Dec. 2, 2016 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):
TURKEY
ANKARA – President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will attend opening ceremony of Yildirim Beyazit University’s Esenboga Main Campus in the Turkish capital.
ANKARA – Prime Minister Yildirim will attend Economic Coordination Council in Cankaya Palace.
LEBANON
BEIRUT – Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu will be received by President of Lebanon Michel Aoun and Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri.
BEIRUT – Cavusoglu to meet Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri who will form new government and with leaders of the Free Patriotic Movement, Gebran Bassil.
PALESTINE
RAMALLAH – Palestine’s Fatah movement gears up to elect members of its Revolutionary Council.
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
ABU DHABI – United Arab Emirates to mark national day with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi as guest of honor.
UNITED KINGDOM
LONDON – British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson will discuss Brexit and British foreign policy at Chatham House.
LONDON – After more than 300 victims of alleged sexual abuse in English football come forward, Anadolu Agency examines origins of case which has made headlines in UK.
ITALY
ROME – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Turkish Deputy Foreign Minister Ahmet Yildiz to attend MED 2016 – Mediterranean Dialogues in Italy.
UNITED STATES
WASHINGTON – Outgoing President Barack Obama to meet UN Secretary-General-designate Antonio Guterres at White House.
WASHINGTON – Turkish Heritage Organization to hold discussion on Syrian refugees in Turkey.
INDONESIA
JAKARTA – Hundreds of thousands of people again take to streets of capital urging police to arrest Jakarta governor accused of insulting Islam.
MYANMAR
YANGON – Kofi Annan-led Advisory Commission on Rakhine State tours Myanmar’s western most state amid international cries for probe into violence which has seen between 86 and 417 people killed.
KOREA
SEOUL – Impeachment vote on president set for Dec. 9, but Park Geun-hye seeks to dissuade key ruling party lawmakers from backing motion.
