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Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018
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Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):
TURKEY
ANKARA - TurkStat to release 2018 survey results of using information and communication technology (ICT) by enterprises.
ANKARA - Eurostat, statistics office of the European Union, to release industrial production figures for July.
U.S.
NEW YORK - UN Security Council to debate peacekeeping missions amid US push to wind down operations.
GERMANY
BERLIN - Chancellor Angela Merkel to deliver a speech at parliament on her government's budget proposal for 2019.
BERLIN - Hans-Georg Maassen, head of domestic intelligence service BfV, is expected to testify before parliament’s intelligence committee after his controversial remarks on far-right unrest in eastern Germany.
FRANCE
STRASBOURG - Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker delivers his fourth and last “State of the Union” address eight months before the European elections.
STRASBOURG - Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) will debate and vote on Parliament’s position on copyright rules for the digital sphere.
U.K.
LONDON - British Prime Minister Theresa May to respond to lawmakers’ questions at the House of Commons.
LONDON - The House of Commons to hold a debate on the Salisbury poisoning incident.
LONDON - Turkey's Trade Minister Ruhsar Pekcan will attend the first Turkey-Britain Joint Economic and Trade Commission (JETCO) meeting after the country voted for Brexit.
RUSSIA
VLADIVOSTOK - President Vladimir Putin to meet with his Mongolian counterpart Khaltmaa Battulga and South Korean Prime Minister Lee Nak-yeon. Putin later to attend the plenary session of the Eastern Economic Forum along with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Battulga and Lee.
MOSCOW - Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak to meet Moldovan President Igor Dodon.
IRAQ
ERBIL - Northern Iraq’s Kurdish region gears up for parliamentary polls slated for Sept. 30.
YEMEN
SANAA - War-weary Yemenis struggle with effects of recent plunge in value of local currency.
PALESTINE
RAMALLAH - Following reactions to US decision to close Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) office in Washington and cut funding to UN Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA.
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