ANKARA
Here are the main stories that The Anadolu Agency's English News Desk will cover on Friday, Jan. 9, 2015:
TURKEY
ANKARA – Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu to hold a press conference on the final day of the 7th Ambassadors Conference.
Special report:
Turkey can beat the 'middle income trap’: Economists
By Bahattin Gonultas & Andrew Jay Rosenbaum
ANKARA – Turkish per-capita income has risen to about $10,000 in 2010, from $2,245 in 2000, according to government statistics. But that income growth compares unfavorably with other emerging markets that have avoided the “trap.”
Goals like allowing greater flexibility in the labor market, and upgrading the value-added component of Turkish exports, must also be achieved if the “middle income trap” is to be decisively left behind.
ISTANBUL – Following news that Turkey’s small Assyrian Christian congregation has been granted official permission to build a new church, AA talks to those at the heart of this small community.
UNITED STATES
NEW YORK – Son of a hedge fund founder to face court hearing over his father’s shooting death. Police allege that Thomas Gilbert Jr tried to make his father’s death look like a suicide.
EUROPE
FRANCE – Manhunt continues for two suspects wanted over Charlie Hebdo attack.
BELGIUM – Turkey's economy minister, Nihat Zeybekci, in Brussels to meet EU commissioners.
GERMANY – Kazakhstan’s president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, to meet Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin for talks on a political solution to the crisis in eastern Ukraine.
– Reactions by German politicians and Muslim community leaders to the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine.
SWITZERLAND – World Health Organization talk about Ebola candidate vaccine clinical trials and proposed financing mechanisms.
UNITED KINGDOM – BAFTA nominees to be announced.
MIDDLE EAST
Impact of fierce winter storm affecting most countries in the region
LEBANON – Hezbollah's Nasrallah to give televised speech.
Special report:
High-tech startups launched by crowdfunding
By Andrew Jay Rosenbaum
-Incubator Gaza Sky Geeks supports hundreds of startup Internet companies – right through the bombings.
GAZA (AA) – In the midst of the rubble at the al-Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza, 25-year-old Mariam Abultewi has started a social media business with the help of Gaza Sky Geeks, a Gaza incubator which has just raised $70,000 with crowdfunding.
AFRICA
ETHIOPIA – Voter registration for May parliamentary elections
NIGERIA – Opposition candidate Buhari launches presidential campaign from Abia state in southeast Nigeria, stronghold of his rival, President Goodluck Jonathan.
Special reports:
Liberians given experimental anti-Ebola drug
By Evelyn T. Kpadeh
MONROVIA (AA) – Clinical trials for a possible Ebola treatment have begun at a treatment unit run by Doctors Without Borders in Monrovia, the second time experimental drugs are to be administered to infected Liberians.
Zambians fear looming 'vulture fund' crisis
By Francis Maingaila
LUSAKA (AA) – Many Zambians fear their landlocked country is heading for another "vulture fund" crisis due to uncontrolled borrowing by the government.
SOUTHEAST ASIA & PACIFIC
THAILAND
BANGKOK – Impeachment process to begin against former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra, overthrown in a May 22 coup and accused of neglect of duty.
INDONESIA
JAKARTA – Search teams try to lift tail section of AirAsia plane, thought to contain flight recorders, out of Java Sea
CAMBODIA
PHNOM PENH –- Khmer Rouge trial postponed until January 15 due to poor health of 83-year-old Khieu Samphan, the regime's head of state
SOUTH KOREA
SEOUL – South Korean unification ministry suggests defectors will be prevented from sending copies of “The Interview” film over the border into North Korea
