ANKARA
Here are the main stories that Anadolu Agency’s English News Desk will cover Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2015:
TURKEY
ANKARA – President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to meet Hamas leader Khaled Mashal.
ANKARA – Erdogan to address mukhtars – heads of Turkish villages and neighborhoods – in Presidential Palace.
ANKARA - Turkish Prime Minister and AK Party Chairman Ahmet Davutoglu to head party's central administration meeting amid coalition talks.
ISTANBUL – Details from early-morning anti-terror raids in Kucukcekmece area of the province.
EUROPE
SWITZERLAND
GENEVA – A new round of talks to deal with the political crisis in Libya to continue at the United Nations in Geneva.
SPECIAL REPORT
Ukraine debt talks at crucial point
By Andrew Jay Rosenbaum
ANKARA (AA) – Ukraine will meet its creditors on Wednesday in what Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko called a "last opportunity" to avoid a breakdown.
AMERICAS
NEW YORK – UN Security Council to receive briefing on Syria chemical weapons destruction.
NEW YORK – UN Special Envoy for Yemen, Ismael Ould Cheikh Ahmed, to brief Security Council.
SOUTH ASIA
KABUL, Afghanistan (AA) - Afghans launch boycott of Pakistani goods after their president, Ashraf Ghani, accuses Pakistan of sponsoring suicide bombings in the Afghan capital.
SPECIAL REPORT
Nepal Dalits discriminated against for earthquake relief
By Deepak Adhikari
KATHMANDU (AA) – Caste discrimination against Nepal's Dalits means that many have been left without relief after devastating earthquakes that struck the country three months ago.
SE ASIA & PACIFIC
INDONESIA
JAKARTA – Court orders family of former military dictator Suharto to pay back $324 million in allegedly misappropriated funds
JAKARTA – President Joko Widodo expected to announce cabinet reshuffle.
SOUTH KOREA
SEOUL – Man sets himself alight at Japanese embassy in Seoul.
CAMBODIA
PHNOM PENH – Government anti-graft department requests opposition lawmaker to account for how he spent $55,000 of donations to inspect contested border demarcation with Vietnam.
