ANKARA
Here are the main stories that Anadolu Agency’s English News Desk is planning to cover Thursday, August 6, 2015:
TURKEY
TRABZON/ISTANBUL – Football: Turkey's Trabzonspor and Medipol Basaksehir to host Macedonia's Rabotnicki and Holland's AZ Alkmaar respectively in second leg of UEFA Europa League third qualifying round.
SPECIAL REPORT
Anti-vaccination movement gains traction in Turkey
By Tuncay Kayaoglu
ISTANBUL (AA) – “I did not want to make a mistake,” says 'Mehmet', a 36-year-old father-of-two who tells Anadolu Agency about his decision to shun what he calls Turkey’s “mandatory vaccination program”.
EUROPE
UNITED KINGDOM
LONDON – Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee to announce decisions on interest rates.
SPECIAL REPORT
Greece: Bailout deal is Pyrrhic victory for Athens government
by Andrew Jay Rosenbaum and Magda Panoutsopoulou
ANKARA (AA) – The Greek government is close to reaching a bailout deal with its creditors, but it is likely to be a Pyrrhic victory. The deal is expected to bring the government down, and early elections are likely later this year.
AMERICAS
UNITED STATES
WASHINGTON – Seventeen presidential candidates vying for the Republican nomination participate in first two national debates ahead of the 2016 election.
WASHINGTON – SETA think-tank hosts discussion on proposed U.S.-Turkey ‘safe zone’ in northern Syria.
MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA
EGYPT
SUEZ – Egypt to hold celebration to mark the opening of a new shipping route in the Suez Canal.
SPECIAL REPORTS
Underground funfair provides relief for Syrian children
By Ahmed Badawy
DAMASCUS (AA) – A group of Syrian activists have built an underground funfair for children so they can play safely without the fear of being targeted by Assad regime warplanes.
DRC: Former child soldiers trained as driver-mechanics
By Al-Hadji Maliro
BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo (AA) – In the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a charity is reintegrating former child soldiers via its driver-mechanics training program.
Ethiopia: Turkish BMET aims at African power demand
by Addis Getachew
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AA) – Turkish cable manufacturer BMET is expanding production to meet rising demand across Africa, the firm's chairman tells Anadolu Agency.
SE ASIA-PACIFIC
AUSTRALIA
MELBOURNE – PM Tony Abbott vows Australia will continue leading search for more wreckage from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, after Malaysian counterpart announces confirmation that wing part found in Indian Ocean belonged to flight.
MALAYSIA
KUALA LUMPUR – ASEAN meetings in Kuala Lumpur wrap up.
THAILAND
BANGKOK – One Marine killed and four others wounded in bombing in insurgency-plagued south.
