ANKARA
Here are the main stories that The Anadolu Agency's English News Desk will cover on Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015.
TURKEY
ANKARA – President Erdogan to chair the National Security Council at presidential palace in Ankara.
ANKARA - PM Davutoglu to address governors in Turkish capital.
ANKARA – Turkish parliament continue to debate controversial security reform bill.
AZERBAIJAN
BAKU – Turkish FM Cavusoglu to attend commemoration ceremony of 1992 Khojaly Massacre in Azerbaijan, one of the bloodiest and most controversial incidents of the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
EUROPE
BELGIUM
BRUSSELS – EU 2016 budget: Parliament's key requests for next year's EU budget will be put to a vote in the Budgets Committee.
FINLAND
HELSINKI - Turkey's EU Minister Volkan Bozkir to meet Timo Soini, Chairman of Finnish Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee, and representatives of Union of European Turkish Democrats in Finland.
SPECIAL REPORTS
Kremlin memo leak shows Russian war plans
By Andrew Jay Rosenbaum
ANKARA (AA) - As pro-Russian separatists continue attacks outside the port of Mariupol, a leaked Kremlin memo details a strategy for destabilizing Ukraine that dates from well before the change of regime in that country.
UNTED STATES
WASHINGTON – Developments on recreational marijuana use being legalized.
WASHINGTON – Anniversary of the killing of 17-year-old black teen Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman. Zimmerman was acquitted on July 13, 2013 in a state court and earlier this week it was announced that there would not be any federal charges against him.
WASHINGTON – Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani, the Qatari emir will be delivering a speech at Georgetown University.
NEW YORK – New York's Azeri and Turkish communities to commemorate victims of the Khojaly massacre.
MIDLE EAST AND AFRICA
GHANA
ACCRA - President John Mahama will deliver the State of the Nation address to Parliament. He is expected to make key pronouncements on the energy crisis.
UGANDA
KAMPALA - ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda arrives in Uganda.
NIGERIA
ABUJA - Follow-up on ongoing military operation against Boko Haram militants in northern Nigeria.
SPECIAL REPORTS
HIV-positive women in S. Sudan face quandary
By Okech Francis
JUBA (AA) – The husband of 33-year-old Sharon Ben Apai left her when he discovered she had tested positive for HIV. "When my husband heard I was HIV-positive, he left me. I have not heard from him since," Apai told The Anadolu Agency at Juba Teaching Hospital's antenatal care unit, where she goes for routine medical checkups.
Uganda's cheap, accessible pornography
By Halima Athumani
KAMPALA (AA) – On Feb. 18 of last year, Ugandan Minister for Ethics and Integrity Simon Lokodo announced that President Yoweri Museveni had signed into law an Act to curtail pornography in the East African country. A year later, it remains easy, and cheap, to get pornographic materials in Uganda.
SE ASIA-PACIFIC
AUSTRALIA
MELBOURNE - FM Julie Bishop says up to 40 Australian women have traveled to Syria and Iraq to join extremist groups, or are providing them support.
SOUTH KOREA
SEOUL - Constitutional Court rules adultery should no longer be banned under South Korea’s founding principles.
CHINA
BEIJING - Tiger cub, found dead in parking lot after apparently being frightened by Lunar New Year fireworks, was illegally raised.
THAILAND
BANGKOK - Military-appointed constitutional drafting committee says Thai Senate will be appointed rather than elected.
BANGKOK - Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha warns ivory collectors to report possessions by end of April or face severe fines of up to 3 million baht under new law. (MERITS)
