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Main topics Anadolu Agency's English Desk will cover on Friday, Oct. 9, 2015

Feyza Süsal, Hatice Kesgin  | 09.10.2015 - Update : 09.10.2015
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ANKARA

 Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk will cover on Friday, Oct. 9, 2015:

TURKEY

SPECIAL REPORT:

- Worldwide PC sales decline sharply: IDC

By Andrew Rosenbaum

ANKARA (AA) - Sales of PCs across the world declined sharply in the third quarter of 2015, as volatile exchange rates dampened demand.

EUROPE

GERMANY

BERLIN - Violence against refugee centers in Germany has dramatically increased, with police recording more than 490 such acts of criminality this year.

BERLIN - German state of Bavaria’s cabinet is  to hold extraordinary meeting on refugee crisis, may announce possible new measures on border controls as Bavaria’s conservative president Seehofer continues criticism of Merkel. (MERITS)

BERLIN - Developments after police raided Volkswagen offices in Wolfsburg. (MERITS) 

SPECIAL REPORT:

- Greece struggles to finance debt

by Vasiliki Mitsiniotou

ATHENS (AA) - The Greek government is struggling to reduce its debt to the level imposed by the bailout agreement with its European creditors.

AMERICAS

NEW YORK - UN Security Council expected to vote on draft resolution that would approve EU naval operations to fight human trafficking and smuggling of migrants off Libya.

MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA

ANKARA  - IMF Middle East director Masood Ahmed will answer questions about economic conditions in the Middle East.

SPECIAL REPORT:

- Marijuana cultivation and use rises rapidly in Africa

by Andrew Jay Rosenbaum and Francis Maingalia

LUSAKA, ZAMBIA/ANKARA (AA) - The cultivation and use of marijuana is rapidly rising across Africa, as farmers, hit by low commodity prices, increasingly see the drug as a cash crop. 

SYRIA

ALEPPO - Anadolu Agency Aleppo photojournalist Saleh Mahmoud Laila, 27, died in a suicide car bomb attack Thursday.

MOROCCO

RABAT - UN announces Libya unity government following months of negotiations.

SOUTHERN AFRICA

GHANA

ACCRA - Daesh has agents in Ghana to recruit fighters, National Security Agency says.

SOUTH AFRICA

JOHANNESBURG- Executives of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) to meet with representatives of coal mines to talk how to end ongoing strike involving over 30,000 coal mine workers.

GUINEA

CONAKRY- One person was killed in fresh violence that shook the Guinean capital ahead of presidential election on Oct. 11.

SOUTH ASIA

SPECIAL REPORT

- Afghan Sikhs, Hindus fear violence but long for home

By Zabihullah Tamanna

KABUL (AA) – When the Taliban seized Afghanistan's capital Kabul in 1996, Gurvinder, an Afghan Sikh, sold his properties and left the country. 

SOUTH EAST ASIA & PACIFIC

MYANMAR

YANGON - Myanmar army gives rebel group ultimatum to abandon key base.

AUSTRALIA

MELBOURNE - Government in talks about resettling 'refugees' in Philippines.

PHILIPPINES

ZAMBOANGA - Nine prisoners killed, one still missing in Philippines penal colony fire.‏

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