ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main stories that The Anadolu Agency's English News Desk is planning to cover on Tuesday, April 7, 2015:
TURKEY
ANKARA - Turkey's President Erdogan to meet Iran's President Rouhani in Tehran. Leaders to hold joint press conference after chairing second meeting of Turkey - Iran High Level Cooperation Council.
Erdogan also to meet Iran's religious leader Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei.
ANKARA - Developments after Saturday's assault on Turkey's Fenerbahce football team bus.
ANKARA - Last day for political parties to submit slates to Supreme Electoral Council of Turkey for upcoming June 7 general elections.
EUROPE
HUNGARY
BUDAPEST - Hungarian Prime Minister Orban to receive Turkey's EU Minister Bozkir. Turkish minister will also attend energy safety meeting at Hungarian National Assembly.
Bozkir to separately meet Hungarian State Secretary for European Affairs Szabolcs Takacs and foreign ministers of Hungary, Greece, Macedonia, and Serbia.
GERMANY
COLOGNE - European Commissioner for Transport Violeta Bulc to visit European Aviation Safety Agency in Cologne, Germany.
UNITED STATES
NEW YORK - Nominees to be announced for Webby Awards for excellence on Internet.
NEW YORK - WHO to brief journalists on food safety as part of World Health Day.
SOUTH ASIA
NEPAL
KATHMANDU – General strike underway as political opposition alliance demands progress on forming Nepali constitution.
BANGLADESH
DHAKA – Profile of Mohammad Kamaruzzaman, a leader in the Jamaat-e-Islami party, who is expected to be executed for war crimes after rejection of request for review of his trial.
SE ASIA-PACIFIC
SOUTH KOREA
SEOUL - Tokyo reiterates self-proclaimed sovereignty over South Korean-controlled islets positioned between two countries.
MALAYSIA
KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysian parliament passes controversial Prevention of Terrorism Act bill in bid to contain expanding Daesh and other "terrorism-related" ideologies in country.
AUSTRALIA
MELBOURNE - Bali 9 lawyer tells AA that legal team and family very “disappointed” with yesterday’s Indonesian court ruling that failed to grant Australian duo chance to challenge death sentence. Will now file application with constitutional court.
MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA
SAUDI ARABIA/YEMEN
RIYADH/SANAA – Following ongoing Saudi-led military campaign against Houthi militants in Yemen.
NIGERIA
LAGOS - President-elect Buhari expected to campaign in Lagos for party’s candidate in Saturday's governors' elections.
SPECIAL REPORTS
Boko Haram: Decimated or merely hibernating?
By Rafiu Ajakaye
LAGOS (AA) – In the run-up to Nigeria's general election, Boko Haram militants went on a rampage across the country's northeast, killing over a thousand people and displacing hundreds of thousands between January and early March. In a video released late January, Boko Haram kingpin Abubakar Shekau threatened to disrupt the polls even at the "cost" of his own militants' lives.
Zimbabweans oppose urban tollgates
By John Cassim
HARARE (AA) – A plan by the Zimbabwean government to introduce urban tollgates in order to raise money to build and maintain roads in major cities has drawn rebuke from many citizens who say tolls are already being levied by their respective city councils.
