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Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover Wednesday Feb. 10, 2016 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TURKEY

ANKARA - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to address local leaders -- muhktars -- at presidential palace.

SPECIAL REPORT: Egyptian women speak out about post-Mubarak era

By Fatma Bulbul

ISTANBUL (AA) - Years on from the fall of the autocratic Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian women living in Turkey have mixed feelings about their post-revolution country.

EUROPE

BELGIUM

BRUSSELS - NATO defense ministers to meet for two days.

FRANCE

PARIS - Lawmakers to vote on proposed constitutional changes, including emergency anti-terrorism powers.

NETHERLANDS

ROTTERDAM - Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to meet Dutch counterpart Mark Rutte, focusing on Turkey’s EU accession.

AMERICAS

UNITED STATES

WASHINGTON - Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL, Brett McGurk, testifies before House committee on anti-Daesh mission.

SPECIAL REPORT: Turkish Airlines’ success becomes case study at Harvard

By Ovunc Kutlu

NEW YORK (AA) - Europe's leading carrier Turkish Airlines' success has become a case study at one of the world's most prestigious collegial institutions -- Harvard Business School (HBS).

MIDDLE EAST-NORTH AFRICA

SPECIAL REPORT: Experts rule out impending Israeli onslaught on Gaza

By Ola Atallah

GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) - Many Palestinian political analysts have ruled out a new Israeli war on the Gaza Strip in the foreseeable future.

SOUTHEAST ASIA-PACIFIC

THAILAND

BANGKOK - NGOs detail systematic torture by security forces in Thailand’s Muslim south.

CAMBODIA

PHNOM PENH - Cham Muslim researcher, author Ysa Osman to testify at Khmer Rouge tribunal on break up of Muslim communities, widespread killings in 1970s.

CHINA

[MOVED] BEIJING - Police detain developers of high-rise that collapsed in weekend earthquake, killing 42 people.