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The main topics The Anadolu Agency's English News Desk will cover on Monday, Dec. 29, 2014

29.12.2014 - Update : 29.12.2014
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 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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