Diary

ANKARA

 Here are the main stories that The Anadolu Agency's English News Desk will cover Friday, Nov. 28, 2014:

TURKEY

- ANKARA -- President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will receive Pope Francis at the Presidential Palace.

- ANKARA -- Turkey's head of religious affairs directorate, Mehmet Gormez, to meet with Pope Francis; the two will hold a joint press conference.

- ANKARA -- Russian President Vladimir Putin gives an exclusive interview to The Anadolu Agency about regional and global issues, plus Turkish-Russian relations, ahead of his visit to Turkey.

- ANKARA -- Foreign Affairs Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu will meet with president of the Syrian National Coalition Hadi al-Bahra.

UNITED STATES

- NEW YORK -- The ‘Black Friday’ shopping frenzy which marks the beginning of the Christmas season. Spending reached $1.2 billion in 2013.

- NEW YORK -- Nationwide protests following a grand jury's decision not to indict a white police officer for the fatal shooting of a black teenager in Ferguson.

EUROPE

FRANCE

- PARIS -- French National Assembly debates resolution on recognition of State of Palestine; vote is due on Tuesday Dec.2.

- PARIS -- Turkish Film Festival starts on Friday, runs until Nov. 30.

SPECIAL REPORT:

French Parliament debates recognizing the 'State of Palestine'

UK

- LONDON -- PM Cameron speaks about government's new plans on capping EU migration.

SWITZERLAND

- GENEVA -- UN Committee Against Torture's concluding report on the U.S.

SWEDEN

- STOCKHOLM -- Turkey's EU Minister Volkan Bozkir meets Swedish Minister for Housing and Urban Development Mehmet Kaplan.

BALKANS

ALBANIA

- TIRANA -- Albania celebrates its Declaration of Independence Day.

RUSSIA

- MOSCOW -- Turkey's Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci meets with Russian Economic Development Minister Alexey Ulyukaev and Russian businessmen.

MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA

EGYPT

- CAIRO -- Salafist Front holds protests to call for the 'preservation of Islamic identity.'

MALAWI

- LILONGWE -- Madonna meets with President Peter Mutharika

SPECIAL REPORTS

- Liberians divided over Nov. 29 beach ban.

By Evelyn T. Kpadeh

MONROVIA (AA) – Liberians are divided over a recent government warning against going to the beach on an upcoming national holiday on November 29. The government will allow senatorial elections to be held, but insists that restricting access to beaches on November 29 will help it contain the deadly Ebola virus. November 29 is widely celebrated in Liberia, being the birthday of the country's 18th president, Williams V.S. Tubman.

- Sierra Leone's Ebola nurse: Saving lives by risking his own

By Cinnatus Dumbuya

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AA) – Isaac Sesay, a slim, tall man in his mid-30s, is a nursing student at the University of Sierra Leone's medical school. He had been about to graduate when the deadly Ebola virus broke out in the West African country.

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PHILIPPINES

- ZAMBOANGA CITY -- Tropical depression leaves two people dead, nine others missing in central and southern Philippines.

CAMBODIA

- PHNOM PENH – Cambodia’s information minister says opposition party will only be granted a license for a digital television station since there are no available analog television channels – a condition under a July political deal.

- PHNOM PENH -- U.S. embassy in Phnom Penh says remains of 19-year-old U.S. soldier who went missing during Vietnam War have been identified and returned to his family

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