ANKARA (AA) – Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):
SWITZERLAND
DAVOS – Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu to attend World Economic Forum in Davos where U.S. President Donald Trump will make speech on first day of session.
UNITED STATES
WASHINGTON – Senate to take up ground rules for President Trump’s impeachment trial.
UNITED KINGDOM
LONDON – Prime Minister Boris Johnson to meet Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
BELGIUM
BRUSSELS – Following panel of "Countering Anti-Muslim Racism in Europe", organized by Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research (SETA) in European Parliament.
LIBYA/RUSSIA/TURKEY
TRIPOLI/MOSCOW/ANKARA – Monitoring developments on diplomatic initiatives carried out to find solution to crisis in Libya following Berlin Conference, as well as on cease-fire process.
ETHIOPIA
ADDIS ABABA – Following African Union permanent representatives meeting in preparation of upcoming summit.
SYRIA
ALEPPO/IDLIB/RAQQA/HASAKAH – Monitoring developments after cease-fire brokered by Turkey and Russia came into effect in Idlib, which was targeted by Bashar al-Assad regime and allies.
IRAQ
BAGHDAD – Monitoring anti-government protests across country.
IRAN
TEHRAN – Following nationwide anti-government protests.
ECONOMY
ANKARA – European statistical authority Eurostat to release debt and deficit statistics of governments for third quarter of 2019.
SPORTS
MELBOURNE – Sports desk to follow 2020 Australian Open’s first round matches.
SPECIAL REPORT
Pakistan: Hindu custodian of mosque in Karachi
By Aamir Latif
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Visitors do not find any architectural attraction towards a mosque situated on Karachi’s busiest Faisal Street, but the difference in this mosque — in the heart of Pakistan’s commercial capital — is that its custodian is a Hindu.
SPECIAL REPORT
ANALYSIS – UK ditches democratic sensitivities for Egyptian cash
By Ahmet Gurhan Kartal
LONDON (AA) – Britain’s reserved approach towards Egypt certainly changed when putschists took over the North African country’s governance following a bloody coup by General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in 2013.
SPECIAL REPORT
OPINION – Myanmar gov't doggedly continues with its genocide denial
By Maung Zarni
LONDON (AA) – After having co-presided with the visiting Chinese president Xi Jinping over the signing 33 deals — trade and commercial deals, memorandums of understanding, strategic partnership agreements — Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi was all smile again this Monday.
SPECIAL REPORT
French ex-priest, accused of sex abuse, may get 10 years
By Cindi Cook
PARIS (AA) – Four-day trial of a former priest, accused of sexually abusing at least 80 Boy Scouts in the 1980s and 1990s, was concluded on Friday in Lyon, France.
