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