ANKARA
Here are the main stories that Anadolu Agency's English News Desk is planning to cover on Wednesday, May 20, 2015:
TURKEY
ANKARA - Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to attend Justice and Development Party meeting in Ankara, then election rallies in Corum and Yozgat
ISTANBUL - Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan, in charge of economy, speech to Turkish banks association amid debate over banking regulations
SPECIAL REPORT: Delivery Hero CEO seeks vision when acquiring companies
By Andrew Rosenbaum
ANKARA (AA) - Deliver Hero CEO Niklas Ostberg looks for more than just tasty dishes when he buys an online food company. Above all, it's a clear vision of the future, he told Anadolu Agency in an exclusive interview.
EUROPE
GERMANY
BERLIN - German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier meets Albanian counterpart Ditmir Bushati
FRANCE
STRASBOURG - MEPs to debate the agenda on migration
STRASBOURG - European parliament’s rapporteur for Turkey Kati Piri gives press conference on Turkey's progress report. Vote on draft resolution assessing Turkey’s 2014 reform
BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA
SARAJEVO – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attends talks
AMERICAS
UNITED STATES
NEW YORK – Yemen’s UN envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed to brief Security Council
WASHINGTON – Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research, a think tank focusing on U.S.-Turkey issues, holds annual conference. Turkey's presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin keynote speaker
WASHINGTON – Secretary of State John Kerry meets Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi
WASHINGTON - House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Egypt Two Years After Morsi
SOUTH ASIA
NEPAL
SPECIAL REPORT: Saving Nepal libraries after quake disaster
By Deepak Adhikari
KIRTIPUR, Nepal (AA) - The race is on to save the contents of Nepal’s largest library before the monsoon rains compound the destruction caused by the devastating earthquake.
AFGHANISTAN
SPECIAL REPORT: Afghans skeptical about Pakistan intelligence sharing
By Shadi Khan Saif
KABUL, Afghanistan (AA) - Despite assurances, many Afghans are deeply skeptical about a recently signed intelligence sharing pact with neighboring Pakistan, which has long been seen as interfering in Afghan affairs.
MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA
PALESTINE/ISRAEL
JERUSALEM/GAZA CITY - EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini talks with Palestinian and Israeli officials
RAMALLAH - FIFA chief Sepp Blatter holds press conference
NIGERIA
LAGOS - Federal Executive Council, headed by President Goodluck Jonathan, holds farewell meeting
TANZANIA
DODOMA - East African legislative assembly debates budget
ZIMBABWE
SPECIAL REPORT: Harare, one big, second-hand clothes market
By John Cassim
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AA) - Ever since First Lady Grace Mugabe said last year that police should stop harassing informal traders, the once glamorous capital city of Harare has come to look more like a huge vending market.
UGANDA
SPECIAL REPORT: NGOs bill scares Ugandan civil society
By Halima Athumani
KAMPALA, Uganda (AA) - An NGO bill recently tabled in parliament has shaken Ugandan civil society, members of which are urging lawmakers to amend – not endorse – the text.
SOUTHEAST ASIA-PACIFIC
MALAYSIA
KUALA LUMPUR - Thai, Malaysian, Indonesian foreign ministers meet to discuss solution to boat people crisis
MYANMAR
YANGON - Myanmar says it is "ready" to provide humanitarian assistance to boat people. Cancels Muslim conference citing “destabilizing potential”
SOUTH KOREA
SEOUL - North Korea cancels scheduled visit by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
INDONESIA
JAKARTA - Hundred more Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants land in Indonesia
