ANKARA
Here are the main stories that The Anadolu Agency's English News Desk will cover Friday, March 20, 2015:
TURKEY
SPECIAL REPORT:
Turkey becomes global capital of hair transplants
By Bahattin Gondulas and Andrew Jay Rosenbaum
ANKARA (AA) -- Tourists now flock to Turkey from all over the world for hair transplants, an industry that is now worth close to $1 billion.
UNITED STATES
NEW YORK -- Ukraine's Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko to discuss the state of country's economy at Council on Foreign Relations
WASHINGTON -- White House to host second annual student film festival highlighting movies that focus on service and volunteering.
SPECIAL REPORT:
Parents of Rachel Corrie still pursuing justice 12 years later
WASHINGTON (AA) – Twelve years after they lost their daughter in a tragic incident in the Gaza Strip, Craig and Cindy Corey are still searching for justice for their daughter, and for those she was seeking to help.
EUROPE
UKRAINE
KIEV -- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to visit Ukraine, will separately meet with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, PM Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Crimea's Tatar National Parliament Chairman, Rifat Cubarov and delegation of Meskhetian Turks.
BELGIUM
BRUSSELS -- EU heads of government gather in Brussels for a second day of the summit, during which Greek bailout negotiations, situation in Libya and Tunisia will be discussed.
MIDLE EAST AND AFRICA
TUNISIA
TUNIS -- French interior minister expected in Tunisia.
UGANDA
KAMPALA -- South Korean government administration and home affairs minister Chong Sup starts a three-day visit to Uganda.
NIGERIA
ABUJA -- Ongoing military operations against Boko Haram in northern Nigeria after militants attacked liberated towns and killed at least 11.
SPECIAL REPORTS:
Kenya's harassing baboons (photos & video)
By Andrew Ross
NYERI COUNTY, KENYA (AA) – Baboons are making Mary Wairimu's life a nightmare. "As you can see, we have just planted new crops," Wairimu, a farmer in Endarasha village in Kenya's central Nyeri County, told The Anadolu Agency as she pointed to her farm in the distance.
Nigerian women: Back to school at 60 (photos)
By Ogbodo Ndidi
BAUCHI, Nigeria (AA) – Hannatu Ishaku, a 60-year-old grandmother in northern Nigeria, is back to school."When my children saw me in my school uniform, they laughed at me," Ishaku told The Anadolu Agency in reference to her seven children: five university graduates and two undergraduates.
SOUTH ASIA
SPECIAL REPORT
The daunting task of educating Afghanistan
By Shadi Khan Saif
KABUL – Afghanistan’s state universities are struggling to cope with increasing numbers of university applicants, leaving space for a rapidly-growing private sector.
SE ASIA-PACIFIC DIARY
THAILAND
BANGKOK -- Three brothers of former princess Srirasmi each handed five and a half year prison sentences for lese-majeste, illegal detention, theft and illegal possession of firearms.
MYANMAR
YANGON -- Student union says activists going into hiding after last week’s crackdown on protests against new education law
AUSTRALIA
MELBOURNE -- Malcolm Fraser, a former prime minister from the Liberal Party, remembered after passing away at the age of 84
MALAYSIA
KUALA LUMPUR -- Malaysian opposition People's Justice Party to decide stance on partner’s bill to implement sharia penal code in Kelantan state (MERITS)
