Here are the main stories that The Anadolu Agency's English News Desk will cover on Monday, Jan. 19, 2015:
TURKEY
ANKARA – Turkish President Erdogan chairs cabinet meeting for first time in the new Presidential Palace in Ankara.
GERMANY
DRESDEN – Police ban all demonstrations in the city on Monday due to concrete terrorism threat against leading member of anti-Islam movement PEGIDA.
UNITED KINGDOM
LONDON - Turkish PM Davutoglu begins his United Kingdom visit.
Special report:
Oxfam: 50 percent of world's wealth owned by 1 percent
By Andy Rosenbaum
OXFORD - Fifty percent of the world's wealth is now owned by 1 percent of the population, Oxfam reported on Monday.
BELGIUM
BRUSSELS - EU Foreign Ministers focus on EU relations with Russia. Ministers will discuss climate change diplomacy in preparation for the Paris climate conference in December 2015 as well as situation in Libya in light of continuing violence. Fight against terrorism following attack against Charlie Hebdo on Jan. 7, 2015, will also be discussed in the meeting.
SWITZERLAND
GENEVA - World Health Organization to release Global Status Report for noncommunicable diseases 2014.
GENEVA - UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs to release World Economic Situation and Prospects 2015 report.
UNITED STATES
NEW YORK - Martin Luther King Day, marking 85th anniversary of birth of iconic civil rights activist.
BANGLADESH
DHAKA – After more than two weeks, a police barricade around the office of Khaleda Zia, the leader of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party, has been removed. Zia had protested the barricade, which prevented her from attending party rallies, by calling a nationwide transport blockade.
AUSTRALIA
MELBOURNE - Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs says could recall ambassador if Indonesia executes two Australians on death row for smuggling drugs. Meanwhile, worldwide revulsion at Indonesian executions of foreign nationals grows.
MELBOURNE - Protests at Manus Island detention center grow as up to 700 detainees - most of them Muslim - continue a hunger strike as they grow increasingly desperate to avoid the federal government's plan to resettle them in Papua New Guinea.
JAPAN
TOKYO - Japan's opposition Democratic Party chooses new leader.
HONG KONG
HONG KONG - Judge rules 14-year-old girl who was arrested for posting a message of encouragement to pro-democracy demonstrators could remain in her family's care, denying a police application to put her under guardianship of the state.
LIBERIA
MONROVIA - Registration for re-opening of school starts across the country despite Ebola fears and economic hardship.
NIGERIA
ABUJA - President visits north central Benue and Plateau states as part of election campaign.
Special Reports:
Sierra Leone drug distribution fights malaria, Ebola
By Cinnatus Dumbuya
FREETOWN - Sierra Leone has launched a mass distribution of an anti-malaria drug with the aim of not only reducing the mobility and mortality of malaria but also helping to contain the ongoing Ebola outbreak.
Uganda's Museveni uses house arrest as weapon: Experts
By Halima Athumani
KAMPALA – House arrests, usually with no official charges, have been Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni's mightiest weapon in silencing critics over the years, experts argue.
