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Main topics Anadolu Agency’s English News Desk plans to cover Thursday, May 28, 2015

28.05.2015 - Update : 28.05.2015
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 Here are the main stories Anadolu Agency’s English News Desk is planning to cover on Thursday, May 28, 2015:

 

TURKEY

AKSARAY, NEVSEHIR - President Erdogan to attend various opening ceremonies. 

SIIRT, TUNCELI, MALATYA - Prime Minister Davutoglu to attend ruling Justice and Development Party general election rallies.

AYDIN - Main opposition Republican People's Party leader Kilicdaroglu to attend general election rally.

GIRESUN/RIZE/TRABZON - Opposition Nationalist Movement Party leader Bahceli to attend general election rallies. 

 

SPECIAL REPORT:

- IBM: Turkish companies move into the Cloud

By Andrew Rosenbaum

ANKARA (AA) - Turkish companies are “reluctantly” moving into the Cloud, Onur Bucukoglu, IBM Enterprise Sales Unit Manager in Ankara told Anadolu Agency in an interview.

 

EUROPE

BELGIUM

BRUSSELS - Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid visiting Brussels

BRUSSELS - TTIP negotiations: Members of the European Parliament for international trade expected to approve recommendations to EU negotiators in ongoing Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) talks with U.S. Once deal is signed, it will need European Parliament’s approval.

GERMANY

BERLIN – Reactions to German government’s draft law which forces telecom companies to store customers’ phone and Internet data for 10 weeks.

SWITZERLAND

ZURICH - FIFA’s 65th congress in Zurich

ZURICH- International Labour Organization (ILO) to launch annual report on "The situation of workers of the occupied Arab territories." 

ZURICH - A press conference at UN in Geneva about crisis in northeastern Nigeria and its impact on the region.

TURKISH REPUBLIC OF NORTHERN CYPRUS

LEFKOSA - Turkish Cypriot President Akinci to meet Greek Cypriot administration leader Anastasiadis in buffer zone.

 

SPECIAL REPORT

GREECE

Bailout negotiations to be concluded soon, Tsipras says

By Magda Panoutsopoulou

ATHENS (AA) - Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said an agreement with creditors would be concluded soon - an agreement is already being drafted.

 

AMERICAS

UNITED STATES

NEW YORK - UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova to hold press briefing on saving Iraq’s cultural heritage in face of Daesh’s attacks.

SPECIAL REPORT

Rising Islamophobia concerns US Muslim organizations

By M. Bilal Kenasari

WASHINGTON (AA) - Islamophobia was on rise particularly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks but it's frequency and notoriety has increased in the U.S. during the past decade, Muslim leaders here say.

 

SOUTH ASIA

SPECIAL REPORT

BANGLADESH

The missing boat people of Rohingya, Bangladeshi families

KUTUPALONG (AA) – Thousands of Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshi migrants have been trafficked from the Bay of Bengal to Southeast Asia in recent years but, according to their families, many of them are never heard from again. 

 

MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA

KUWAIT - Final day of OIC foreign ministers meeting on tolerance and terrorism.

NIGERIA - The federal executive council, comprising 42 ministers, special advisers and other top government aides, to be dissolved.

 

SPECIAL REPORTS:

-Uganda's bicycle-powered USB charger

By Halima Athumani

KAMPALA (AA) – On Nov. 23, 2013, Elliot Mwebaze Abangira was in a village over 400 kilometers from capital Kampala to attend a family function.The 25-year-old engineering student received a phone call from a colleague telling him about an upcoming school exam. 

-Rumor, myth turn Malawians away from circumcision

By Moses Michael-Phiri

BLANTYRE, Malawi (AA) – Rumors and popular misperceptions are scaring many Malawian men away from a Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) program launched in the country last year. 

 

SE ASIA-PACIFIC 

THAILAND

BANGKOK -- International Organization for Migration pleads for international cooperation on boat people crisis, on eve of regional meeting.

MYANMAR

YANGON – Governments delegations urged to pressure Myanmar to take specific steps to end persecution of Rohingya at regional meeting on Southeast Asian migrant crisis. 

SOUTH KOREA

SEOUL - Live anthrax sample accidentally sent to U.S. military base in South Korea destroyed after discovery that bacteria may not be an "inert training sample as expected." 

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