ANKARA
Here are the main stories Anadolu Agency's English News Desk is planning to cover Friday, May 8, 2015:
UK
LONDON - UK general election results.
TURKEY
ISTANBUL - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to attend Business World Leaders Forum.
ANKARA - Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to hold election rallies in Bitlis and Adiyaman.
ANKARA - Turks living in Germany, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Switzerland and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus to start casting their votes ahead of Turkey’s general election on June 7. Voting ends on May 31.
TURKISH REPUBLIC OF NORTHERN CYPRUS
LEFKOSA - Turkish Cypriot President Mustafa Akinci to meet UN special adviser on Cyprus, Espen Barth Eide.
LEFKOSA - Turkish citizens to start casting their votes ahead of Turkey’s general election on June 7.
EUROPE
BELGIUM
BRUSSELS - Turkish community in Brussels going to the voting booths to vote in the 2015 Turkey general election.
GERMANY
BERLIN - German parliament commemorates 70th anniversary of the end of WWII.
BERLIN - Turkish Cypriot Foreign Minister Ozdil Nami is visiting Berlin for talks with German government officials and senior politicians.
BERLIN - Turkish citizens living in Germany will start casting their votes ahead of Turkey’s general election on June 7.
FRANCE
PARIS - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to hold a press briefing following a meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council at the U.S. Ambassador’s Residence in Paris.
MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA
YEMEN
- Aftermath of the Saudi-led offensive against Houthi militants and ongoing attacks by Houthis and pro-Saleh loyalists in Aden.
MALAWI
- Malawi to start enforcing an order for all foreign traders to relocate from rural to urban centers. The government wants rural areas dedicated to local business owners.
SOUTH AFRICA
- South African authorities expected to update media on the recent security operation launched to clamp down on illegal immigrants, instigators of the anti-immigrant violence and other forms of crimes.
SPECIAL REPORTS:
SOMALIA
Reviving culture to fight radicalization
By Magdalene Mukami
NAIROBI (AA) - The Somali government believes that reviving the country's culture can help tackle radicalization among its youth, a view shared by the European Union. "We are called a nation of poets," Somali Information, Culture and Tourism Minister Mohammed Abdi Hayir told Anadolu Agency on the sidelines of a cultural event organized by the EU's delegation to Somalia.
Under Boko Haram, 'you speak, you die': Rescued women
YOLA, Nigeria (AA) - Boko Haram captives lived solitary lives as they were barred from speaking to one another in a calculated bid to forestall organized escape, some of the women recently freed from the group's hideouts in the Sambisa Forest have said. "Rule number one is never to speak to anyone except to militants and that is on request," 27-year-old Lami Musa, one of the 657 women recently liberated from the forest told Anadolu Agency at an IDP's camp in Yola, the provincial capital of the Adamawa State.
SOUTHEAST ASIA-PACIFIC
AUSTRALIA
MELBOURNE - Turks start casting votes ahead of the 2015 Turkey general election on June 7.
THAILAND
BANGKOK - Thai junta chief-cum-prime minister calls for talk with regional countries including Myanmar and Malaysia over human trafficking, after discovery of dozens of mass migrant graves.
SOUTH KOREA
SEOUL - North Korea threatens attack on South Korean warships without warning, claiming Navy speedboats committed "military provocation" by entering North's territorial waters.
CHINA
BEIJING - Five workers killed in pyrite mine fire in northeast Liaoning province.
