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Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover on Monday, Feb. 4, 2019
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Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover on Monday, Feb. 4, 2019 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):
TURKEY
ANKARA - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to chair Cabinet meeting at
ANKARA - Parliament speaker Binali Yildirim to meet Alassane Bala Sakande, president of the National Assembly of Burkina Faso, and to host him at lunch.
ANKARA - Yildirim to separately receive Asaf Hajiyev, Secretary General of the Parliamentary Assembly of Black Sea Economic Cooperation (PABSEC), and chairman of American-Turkish Council (ATC) James Jones.
ANKARA - Turkey’s statistical authority, TurkStat, to release inflation figures for January.
ANKARA - Trade Ministry to release preliminary foreign trade figures for January.
TURKISH REPUBLIC OF NORTHERN CYPRUS
LEFKOSA - President Mustafa Akinci to meet UN special envoy on Cyprus Jane Holl Lute for the second time.
BELGIUM
BRUSSELS - EU, Arab League to meet at foreign ministers level.
UK
LONDON - UK's Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) to make
LONDON - Brexit related developments to be followed.
SERBIA
BELGRADE - Lantern Festival or Chinese Festival of Light marking
KYRGYZSTAN
BISHKEK - Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to pay
SOUTH AFRICA
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa to host
PRETORIA - South Africa's Foreign Ministry expected to sermon heads of mission of US, UK, the Netherlands, Germany
VENEZUELA
CARACAS - Monitoring developments on opposition-held demonstrations and demonstrations in support of President Nicolas Maduro in different parts of capital Caracas.
SYRIA
ALEPPO/IDLIB - Monitoring developments in Syrian civil war in wake of US decision to withdraw its troops.
YEMEN
SANAA - Monitoring developments in humanitarian crisis amid civil war.
SPECIAL REPORT
Afghanistan bleeds with 1700 casualties in January
By Shadi Khan Saif
KABUL, Afghanistan (AA) - Afghanistan saw a bloody start to the new year with over 1,700 war-related casualties in January alone.
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