Diary

ANKARA

Here are the main stories that Anadolu Agency’s English News Desk will cover on Tuesday, August 4, 2015:

TURKEY

ANKARA – President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to meet Governor-General of Australia Peter Cosgrove at the Presidential Palace.

ANKARA – Republican People's Party leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu to meet Peoples' Democratic Party co-chairman Selahattin Demirtas at parliament amid ongoing violence in Turkey and coalition talks between four main parties.

ISTANBUL – Coverage of police operation against suspects linked to violent far-left group DHKP-C, responsible for gun and bomb attacks in Turkey.

SPECIAL REPORT

Daesh struggles to manage economy

by Andrew Jay Rosenbaum and Mahmoud Barrakat

ANKARA (AA) – Daesh struggles to manage the economy and obtain funds in the territories it occupies in Iraq and Syria.

EUROPE

SWITZERLAND

GENEVA – WHO Assistant Director-General Dr. Bruce Aylward to update UN on Ebola operational response.

AMERICAS

UNITED STATES

WASHINGTON – U.S. President Barack Obama holds bilateral meeting with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA

SPECIAL REPORTS

Ivory Coast: West Africa's cybercrime hub

By Cleophas Mosala

YAMOUSSOUKRO, Ivory Cost (AA) – Who has not received an online message claiming he or she has won the lottery or inherited billions of dollars? While most internet users ignore these messages, others fall into the trap by responding to the cyber-criminals who send them – and who often get rich through such unscrupulous practices.

Gazans keep searching for missing relatives after war

By Abdullah Saad

GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – More than a year after Israel pulverized the besieged Gaza Strip, the pain is not over for the Omran family who are still searching for their son, Noor.

SOUTH ASIA

SPECIAL REPORT

Nepal's caste system leaves Dalits with secret suffering

By Deepak Adhikari

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AA) – In public, Nepal's Dalits often seem to be treated as others are but in private they face discrimination and humiliation in renting, marrying and at work.

SE ASIA-PACIFIC

AUSTRALIA

MELBOURNE – Human-rights advocates slam editorial piece by Nauru President Baron Waqa that describes holding facility – dubbed “a hell hole” by more than one refugee advocate – in glowing terms.

MALAYSIA

KUALA LUMPUR – Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu in Kuala Lumpur to attend ASEAN meeting.

SOUTH KOREA

SEOUL – South Korean soldiers wounded in border explosion; North Korea not suspected.