Diary

ANKARA (AA) – Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover on Thursday, April 30, 2020 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TURKEY

ANKARA – Health Minister Fahrettin Koca to share Turkey’s experience regarding COVID-19 at weekly information meeting to be held under chairmanship of WHO head Tedros Adhonom via video conference.

ANKARA – Following latest developments in coronavirus outbreak in Turkey, worldwide.

ANKARA – Following latest cease-fire agreement for Idlib, northwestern Syria, along Turkey's southern border, reached by Turkey, Russia.

ANKARA – Following Muslim fasting month of Ramadan in Turkey, across Muslim world.

ANKARA – Following Turkey’s worldwide operations to bring back its citizens stranded abroad due to coronavirus pandemic.

UNITED STATES

WASHINGTON – Turkish Presidential Spokesperson Ibrahim Kalin and US’ Syria Envoy James Jeffrey to speak on webinar on future of Idlib and Syrian internally displaced persons’ to be organized by Atlantic Council in Turkey.

NEW YORK – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to hold press conference via videoconference on novel coronavirus.

UNITED KINGDOM

LONDON – Prime Minister Boris Johnson to chair Cabinet meeting after coronavirus death toll in UK surpasses 26,000.

RUSSIA

MOSCOW – Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to take part in a ministerial meeting of Normandy Four — Germany, France, Russia, Ukraine — on Ukrainian settlement.

LIBYA / RUSSIA / TURKEY

TRIPOLI / MOSCOW / ANKARA – Monitoring diplomatic initiatives to resolve Libyan crisis as clashes escalate between internationally recognized Government of National Accord, renegade general Khalifa Haftar around capital Tripoli.

IRAQ

BAGHDAD – Monitoring political developments after intelligence chief Mustafa al-Kadhimi tasked with forming government.

ECONOMY

ANKARA – Turkish Statistical Institute to release Tourism Statistics for first quarter.

ANKARA – Turkish Statistical Institute to announce foreign trade statistics for March.

ANKARA – Treasury and Finance Ministry to release borrowing strategy for next three months.

ANKARA – Turkish Statistical Institute to release Road Motor Vehicles data for March.

ANKARA – Turkish Central Bank to release second inflation report of 2020.

ANKARA – Turkish Statistical Institute to announce number of arriving-departing foreigners and citizens for March.

ISTANBUL – Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency to release Banking Sector and Bank Groups Capital Adequacy Data for March.

LUXEMBOURG – Eurostat to release unemployment figures for March.

SPECIAL REPORT

US food waste soars as job losses worsen amid pandemic

By Michael Hernandez

WASHINGTON (AA) – Spring is traditionally a time for harvest, but across American farms, there is a startling phenomenon of food being left to waste as livestock have been euthanized en masse, ripe produce destroyed, and fresh milk poured down drains.

SPECIAL REPORT

Millions of Pakistani laborers struggle amid COVID-19 lockdown

By Aamir Latif

KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Hundreds of charged laborers, including women, gathered outside a garment factory in the eastern district of Pakistan's commercial capital Karachi to protest against their forced layoff only a week before the International Labor Day.

SPECIAL REPORT

Cuba better placed than many nations to fight pandemic

By Laura Gamba

BOGOTA, Colombia (AA) – Waving Italian and Cuban flags, a group of 52 Cuban doctors and nurses arrived in Italy on March 22 to help stop the spread of the novel coronavirus in the worst-affected Lombardy region.

SPECIAL REPORT

Europe: Worst-hit countries to start relaxing lockdown measures

By Busra Nur Bilgic Cakmak

ANKARA (AA) – As the daily number of coronavirus-related deaths and infections continue to decrease in some of the worst-hit countries in Europe, governments starting to relax lockdown measures.

SPECIAL REPORT

Turkish volunteers organize online chess tournament amid coronavirus lockdown

By Emre Asikci

ANKARA (AA) – Three Turkish volunteer organizers decided to organize an online chess tournament amid coronavirus lockdown.

SPECIAL REPORT

Palestine encourages residents to grow vegetables in lockdown

By Salam Abu Sharar

RAMALLAH (AA) – To ensure food security in the wake of lockdown and to combat the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, Palestine Administration is distributing vegetable seedlings to 30,000 households and encouraging them to sow them in spaces available around their homes.

SPECIAL REPORT

'Real superheroes of people, not of Hollywood, are couriers'

By Seda Sevencan and Dilara Hamit

ANKARA (AA) – In a period of lockdown many people have been using the blessings of the internet and buying their needs through it, and couriers delivering these needs have become the real superheroes of the people, according to a cargo company manager.

SPECIAL REPORT

Majority of Middle Eastern students choose to stay in Turkey

By Ahmed Asmar

ANKARA (AA) – The majority of 150,000 international students and particularly those form Middle Eastern countries undertaking studies in various Turkish educational institutions have preferred to stay back and continue their studies amid the lockdown enforced due to the global coronavirus or COVID-19 outbreak.

SPECIAL REPORT

Most popular free internet service: World Wide Web

By Gokhan Ergocun

ISTANBUL (AA) – The most famous internet service, the World Wide Web (WWW), has been serving for many years, since the CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) made it publicly free on April 30, 1993.

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