Diary
The main topics The Anadolu Agency's English News Desk will cover on Monday, Dec. 29, 2014
ANKARA
Here are the main stories that The Anadolu Agency's English News Desk will cover on Monday, Dec. 29, 2014:
TURKEY
ANKARA -- Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to separately chair meeting of Council of Ministers and central executive board of his Justice and Development (AK) Party.
ANKARA -- Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu to meet with Foreign Minister Erlan Idrissov of Kazakhstan and his delegation, followed by a press conference.
EUROPE
ITALY
ROME -- A tortuous international rescue effort under way in gusting winds after a car ferry with some 480 people on board caught fire while sailing from Greece to Italy and its captain ordered its evacuation.
ROME -- Latest developments after a Turkish-flagged freighter sank after colliding with another merchant ship in a snowstorm off the Adriatic port of Ravenna, killing sailors and four others remaining missing.
SWITZERLAND
A feature story 'People are afraid of going to hospital' in Ebola-hit W Africa
By Betul Yuruk
GENEVA (AA) - People infected with Malaria are afraid of going to hospital in the West African countries hit hardest by the Ebola outbreak as they fear contracting the deadly virus, the WHO spokesperson, who just returned from Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, told the Anadolu Agency.
SE ASIA-PACIFIC
INDONESIA
JAKARTA -- Search for AirAsia flight resumes. Pilot had been given permission to deviate course but not climb, aviation agency head says.
CHINA
BEIJING -- Ten dead in Beijing school scaffolding collapse.
SOUTH KOREA
SEOUL -- South offers talks to North, aiming at reunification.
MALAYSIA
KUALA LUMPUR -- Floods kill dozens in Malaysia and southern Thailand, force more than 200,000 to flee homes.
MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA
LIBERIA
UNMEER chief Banbury to meet Sirleaf, visit Ebola epicenter
EGYPT
CAIRO -- Somali president expected on 2-day visit
CAIRO -- Court to rule on designating Hamas terrorist organization
PALESTINE
GAZA -- National unity government ministers to visit Gaza.
Special Reports:
Polls, Pistorius, scandals colored S. Africa's 2014
By Hassan Isilow
JOHANNESBURG (AA) – General elections that brought no new rulers, growing political opposition, and high-profile court cases -- including that of Paralympian Oscar Pistorius -- colored South Africa during 2014.
2014: Liberia's Ebola nightmare
By Evelyn T. Kpadeh
MONROVIA (AA) – Liberia, a mineral-rich West African country, was [and still is] ravaged by the deadly Ebola virus for the greater part of 2014, claiming the lives of thousands of people – many in the prime of their youth – undermining economic activity and bringing life almost to a standstill.
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