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ANKARA

Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover Monday, April 25, 2016 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TURKEY

ANKARA - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Parliament Speaker Ismail Kahraman, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, Republican People’s Party Chairman Kemal Kilicdaroglu to commemorate anniversary of Turkey’s Constitutional Court.

ANKARA - Erdogan to receive organizers of Thanks Turkey campaign at presidential complex ahead of departure to Azerbaijan.

ANKARA - Davutoglu to chair security meeting at Cankaya Palace.

ISTANBUL - Conference on “new Turkey”, constitutional changes. Kahraman to attend.

ISTANBUL - EU Minister Volkan Bozkir to attend EU-Turkey business summit.

ISTANBUL - Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Simsek to address high-level EU-Turkey economic meeting.

EUROPE

UNITED KINGDOM

LONDON - Demonstration to be held outside prime minister’s office against Islamophobia.

LONDON - Meeting on multiculturalism to be held at Turkish consulate.

FRANCE

PARIS - Scientists, public health experts to assess Zika virus at international conference.

GERMANY

HANNOVER - U.S. President Barack Obama, Chancellor Angela Merkel to open trade fair.

HANNOVER - Merkel to host Obama, President Francois Hollande of France, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron for talks on trans-Atlantic trade deal, counter-terrorism, NATO, migration and Syria, Libya and Ukraine.

SWITZERLAND

GENEVA - Syrian regime delegation to meet UN envoy on Syria Staffan de Mistura following opposition postponement of involvement in peace talks.

GENEVA - UN’s deputy high commissioner for human rights, Kate Gilmore, to brief media on Iraq.

AMERICAS

WASHINGTON - Protesters expected to mark first anniversary of demonstrations over death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore.

AFRICA

GAMBIA

BANJUL - Bail hearing for opposition leader Ousainou Darboe, arrested last week at protest against deaths in custody of three United Democratic Party members.

SOUTH AFRICA

CAPE TOWN - Institute for Justice and Reconciliation to hold debate on legacy of post-Apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

MIDDLE EAST-NORTH AFRICA

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

ABU DHABI - Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu to meet UAE counterpart Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

EGYPT

CAIRO - Major protests planned over President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi’s ceding of Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia.

PALESTINE

JERUSALEM - Interview with youngest female Palestinian prisoner, released from Israeli prison Sunday.

SOUTHEAST ASIA-PACIFIC

SOUTH KOREA

SEOUL - Government dismisses North Korean proposal to suspend its nuclear tests if U.S. ends military exercises.

THAILAND

BANGKOK - Defense volunteer killed, two soldiers wounded in separate attacks in Muslim south.

AUSTRALIA

MELBOURNE - Teenager charged over alleged ANZAC Day terror plot as memorial services take place across Australia.