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ANKARA

Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover Sunday, Feb. 14, 2016 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

EUROPE

GERMANY

MUNICH – Qatari Foreign Minister al-Thani, head of Syrian opposition's High Negotiation Committee Hijab and U.S. Senator McCain to speak on final day of Munich Security Conference.

UNITED KINGDOM

LONDON – U.K. Foreign Secretary Hammond to appear on BBC for an interview.

LONDON - BAFTA film awards to be announced at a ceremony.

UNITED STATES

SPECIAL REPORT:

Washington experts cautious about Munich deal on Syria

By Kasim Ileri, Erkan Avci and Hakan Copur

WASHINGTON – The "cessation of hostilities" deal over Syria will be just words on paper if the Bashar al-Assad regime and its allies, Russia and Iran, do not comply with it, according to Washington experts.

MIDDLE EAST

SPECIAL REPORT:

Russian airstrikes in Syria hinder cease-fire

By Selen Temizer

ANKARA - Ongoing Russian airstrikes in Syria are hindering a political solution to the conflict, in which an estimated quarter of a million people have already died and some six million have been displaced, say observers.

SE ASIA - PACIFIC

AUSTRALIA

MELBOURNE - Five years after a deadly quake destroyed much of New Zealand's Christchurch, a magnitude 5.8 tremor again shakes the city.

SOUTH KOREA

SEOUL - South Korea claims North Korea using wages from now abandoned jointly-run factory park to fund nuclear weapons program.

MALAYSIA

KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia requiring Syrian refugees brought into country to undergo security screening with help of UNHCR and Interpol to ensure they are not Dash members, or involved in militant activities.