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The main topics The Anadolu Agency's English News Desk will cover Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2014
ANKARA
Here are the main stories that The Anadolu Agency's English News Desk will cover Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2014:
TURKEY
ANKARA - Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to hold talks with the President of Macedonia Gjorge Ivanov and Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski in the capital Skopje.
ANKARA - Turkish Statistical Institute to release house sales statistics for November.
ISTANBUL - The 'language of hope': Esperanto in Turkey
Turkish enthusiasts of the world’s self-proclaimed 'easiest' language – Esperanto – tell their stories to The Anadolu Agency.
ISTANBUL (AA) - If a Turk, a Cuban, an Armenian and an American were all in the same room, which language would they speak to each other? English? Not always.
They could be speaking in Esperanto, an artificial language created at the end of the 19th century by Polish eye doctor and linguist Ludwik Lazarus Zamenhof.
“Esperanto gathers very different people from different cultures on different occasions,” says one Turkish Esperantist, 19-year-old international relations and sociology student at Istanbul’s Koc University, Selcuk Mert Koseoglu.
UNITED STATES
NEW YORK - UN General Assembly to discuss a draft resolution calling for a fresh inquiry into a mysterious 1961 plane crash that killed then-secretary-general Dag Hammarskjold.
EUROPE
GERMANY
BERLIN - Reactions by German politicians to ongoing anti-Islam protests by Dresden-based right-wing groups.
SWITZERLAND
GENEVA - [The United Nations Institute for Training and Research] UNITAR's Satellite Applications Program UNOSAT to release a report revealing major damage to Syria's cultural heritage sites caused by the ongoing conflict.
RUSSIA
MOSCOW - Andrei Kelin, Russia's envoy to the OSCE, will discuss the situation in Ukraine and negotiations for peace in the region.
MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA
ZAMBIA
LUSAKA - Presidential candidates file nomination papers for January 20 elections.
NIGERIA
LAGOS - Opposition holds mega rally in Lagos as part of its election campaign.
Special Reports:
2014: The rise of Zimbabwe's Grace Mugabe
By John Cassim
HARARE (AA) – Zimbabwe's first lady, Grace Mugabe, entered active politics in 2014 with a bang, causing heads to roll and changing the face of the country's ruling party and government. Her utterances at public meetings were able to split the ruling ZANU–PF, a political party that has remained in power since independence in 1980.
Transport fares rise in S. Africa as festivities draw close (photos)
By Hassan Isilow
JOHANNESBURG (AA) – Transport fares have risen in most bus and train stations around Johannesburg as holidaymakers rush to book tickets back to their hometowns for the upcoming holidays.
SE ASIA-PACIFIC
SOUTH KOREA
SEOUL - South Korea guards against cyber-attacks following the North Korean internet outage and UN tabling of Pyongyang’s human rights record.
THAILAND
BANGKOK - Electoral commission calls for cost of cancelled February 2014 elections to be repaid.
CHINA
HONG KONG - Former Chief Secretary Rafael Hui and property developer Thomas Kwok jailed for corruption.
JAPAN
TOKYO – Emperor Akihito calls for peace on 81st birthday.
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