Diary

ANKARA

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

TURKEY

- ISTANBUL --Pope Francis in Turkey. Pontiff visits Hagia Sophia and Blue Mosque in Istanbul, attends mass at St. Esprit Cathedral, meets Fener Greek Patriarch Bartholomew.   

- ANKARA -- Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu meets Greek counterpart, Evangelos Venizelos. Meeting comes amid stalled reunification talks in divided Cyprus island.  

UNITED STATES

- 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

GERMANY

- OFFENBACH -- Funeral ceremony for a woman of Turkish-descent who died in hospital after allegedly assaulted by group of Serb youths.

- BERLIN -- "Initative of Black People in Germany" set to stage rally in front of Brandenburger Gate in solidarity with protests in Ferguson, Missouri, USA.

- BERLIN -- Pro-Palestinian protesters to demonstrate against Israeli aggression on Al-Aqsa Mosque and Gaza blockade.

FRANCE

- PARIS -- French opposition party UMP votes to elect new leader. Possible second round on December 6. Former French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, Herve Mariton and Bruno Le Marie runnig for job.

MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA

EGYPT

- CAIRO -- Cairo court set to announce verdict in retrial of former president, Hosni Mubarak, on charges of conspiring in killing of protesters during uprising in 2011. Security meaures tightened ahead of verdict.

 NIGERIA

- KANO STATE -- Nigerian security forces on alarm after attack on mosque kills 53.

SPECIAL REPORTS:

Aid workers caught in middle of S. Sudan conflict

By Okech Francis

JUBA (AA) - Conflict continues to rage in South Sudan, displacing hundreds of thousands of people and leaving many hapless residents without desperately needed food and medicine.  
For hundreds of thousands of displaced South Sudanese, humanitarian aid from foreign organizations and agencies is the only hope.

Kenya creates police squad to combat 'public stripping' 

By James Shimanyula

NAIROBI (AA) - Kenyan authorities have created a special police squad tasked with tracking down men notorious for stripping women in public.
"The unit is known as the Anti-Stripping Squad. We have recruited specially trained police officers to stamp out this… degrading crime," police spokesman Masoud Mwinyi told The Anadolu Agency.
Mwinyi, however, did not disclose the precise number of squad members or how the new squad would carry out its duties.

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