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Main topics Anadolu Agency's English News Desk plans to cover on Thursday, May 7, 2015

07.05.2015 - Update : 07.05.2015
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 Here are the main stories that Anadolu Agency's English News Desk is planning to cover on Thursday, May 7, 2015:

 

UK

LONDON - Polls open for general election. Result expected early Friday

 

TURKEY

ANKARA - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to attend inaugural ceremony at Turkish Coordination and Cooperation Agency (TIKA), expected to give speech. 1100 local time (0800GMT)

ANKARA - Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to address election rallies in Bingol and Elazig

ISTANBUL - Mehmet Mehdi Eker, food and agricultural minister, to meet Canadian counterpart Gerry Ritz at Canadian-Turkish Business Council

ISTANBUL - Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek and Masatsugu Asakawa, chairman of the OECD’s fiscal committee, to attend G20 tax meeting

 

EUROPE

BELGIUM

BRUSSELS - EU Foreign Affairs Council to meet on trade and investment partnership (TTIP) with U.S.

BRUSSELS - European Council President Donald Tusk and European Parliament President Martin Schulz to receive Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte

GERMANY

BERLIN - Energy Security Summit

 

AMERICAS

UNITED STATES

NEW YORK - UN Security Council to discuss chemical weapons in Syria. Disarmament chief Angela Kane expected to brief

 

MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA

PALESTINE

GAZA STRIP - Opening of Ottoman school renovated by Turkish Coordination and Cooperation Agency. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to make video-conference speech.

TUNISIA

TUNIS - Final day of annual Jewish pilgrimage to the Ghriba Synagogue on island of Djerba

SOUTH AFRICA

CAPE TOWN - Nelson Mandela Foundation to hold talks on xenophobia and photography exhibition on neighboring countries role in struggle against apartheid

TANZANIA

DODOMA - Opposition Coalition for the People’s Constitution to meet in Dar es Salaam to agree candidates for October’s presidential and parliamentary elections

SPECIAL REPORT: Shabaab or UGUS, Somali media between rock and hard place

By Yassin Juma

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Somali journalists have found themselves in a fix, with the government banning the use of the name al-Shabaab to refer to the militant group while the militants threaten those who refer to them by the government-imposed title.

SPECIAL REPORT: Malawians pass time with traditional games, sex

By Moses Michael-Phiri

BLANTYRE, Malawi (AA) – After harvesting his tobacco yield in Malawi's central Kasungu district, Snowden Zimba has little to do at this time of year.

 

SOUTHEAST ASIA-PACIFIC

MALAYSIA

KUALA LUMPUR - Analysts say declining votes for ruling United Malay National Organization in its Rompin stronghold reflect problems facing government

KUALA LUMPUR – Wife of jailed opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim runs in by-election for husband’s seat

THAILAND

BANGKOK – Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha demands authorities locate and report human trafficking camps in south after discovery of dozens of bodies

 

SOUTH ASIA

BANGLADESH

DHAKA - Ministry of Religious Affairs to tackle public urination by painting over Bengali warnings with Arabic messages, which people mistake for being from the Quran

 

SPORTS

FOOTBALL

SPAIN

SEVILLE - Sevilla meet Fiorentina in Europa League semi-final first leg in Seville. Kick off 21.05 local time (2005 GMT)

ITALY

NAPLES - Napoli play Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk in Europa League semi-final first leg. Kick off 21.05 local time (2005 GMT)

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