ANKARA
Here are the main stories that Anadolu Agency’s English News Desk will cover on Wednesday, July 15, 2015.
TURKEY
ANKARA – Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu will hold coalition discussions with Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) co-chairs Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yuksekdag at party headquarters at 11 a.m. local time (0800GMT).
ISTANBUL – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to attend graduation ceremony of the Turkish War Academies.
ISTANBUL – HDP press conference on solution process; a key issue at the heart of government coalition talks between Turkey’s political parties.
EUROPE
FRANCE
PARIS – French parliament to hold a debate, followed by vote, on Greece's Monday bailout agreement with creditors.
BELGIUM
BRUSSELS – European Parliament will exhibit photos documenting torture carried out on prisoners by the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria.
GERMANY
BERLIN – Monitoring developments on EU’s conditional bailout deal with Greece.
BERLIN – German court is expected to give verdict in the trial of a 94-year-old ex-Nazi officer who is accused of complicity in killing of least 300,000 people at Auschwitz during WW2.
GREECE
SPECIAL REPORT
- Tsipras: 'A bad deal, but the best Greece could get'
by Magda Panoutsopoulou
ANKARA (AA) – Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, in a televised speech late on Tuesday, called the new bailout agreement “a bad deal, but the best Greece could get”.
AMERICAS
U.S.
NEW YORK – Business magazine Forbes to release annual ranking of world's richest sports teams.
NEW YORK – UN Security Council to discuss United Nations support mission in Libya.
WASHINGTON – Reflections/developments regarding Iran nuclear deal agreed in Vienna.
WASHINGTON – President Obama to hold a press conference at the White House.
WASHINGTON – Photo exhibition featuring images of torture inside Assad regime prisons in Syria to be displayed at U.S. Congress.
SPECIAL REPORTS
- Iran nuclear agreement a ‘good deal’, say experts
By Michael Hernandez
WASHINGTON (AA) – A long-sought nuclear accord between world powers and the Islamic Republic is the best possible outcome for both sides, according to experts.
- US Republican presidential candidates blast Iran nuke deal
By Esra Kaymak Avci and Michael Hernandez
WASHINGTON (AA) – Republican candidates for the 2016 presidential election have harshly criticized a deal reached Tuesday concerning Iran’s nuclear program.
MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA
SPECIAL REPORTS
Former criminal reaches out to misguided Ivorian youth
By Fulbert Yao
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AA) – Mohamed Olivier Mahan, a Muslim preacher and former delinquent from the Ivory Coast, tries to instill moderate Islamic values in young people.
Soaring prices take away from Eid joy in Egypt
By Mohamed Sabry
CAIRO (AA) – Like every year, Naglaa Fawzi took her two young children to a nearby mall to buy new clothes for them in preparation for Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan. But her hopes faded away due to the skyrocketing prices.
SOUTH ASIA
SPECIAL REPORT
Nepal Armed Police dig out post-civil war role
By Deepak Adhikari
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AA) – Nepal follows a South Asian trend by empowering its Armed Police paramilitaries, despite their role apparently diminishing in the decade since the end of a bloody civil war.
SE ASIA-PACIFIC
CAMBODIA
PHNOM PENH – Cambodian guards and locals ordered to stop reshaping border in deals with Vietnamese friends.
INDONESIA
JAKARTA – Indonesians start to prepare for Eid.
AUSTRALIA
MELBOURNE – International NGOs call on Australia to take lead against human rights situation in Egypt at September UN meeting.
