ANKARA
Here are the main stories that The Anadolu Agency's English News Desk will cover Friday, Dec. 26, 2014:
TURKEY
ANKARA -- Deputy PM Numan Kurtulmus will attend Kyrgyz-Turkish commission for trade and economic cooperation and the signing ceremony of several other agreements in Bishkek. He will be received by President Almazbek Atambaev.
SPECIAL REPORT
The Turkish lottery winners who lost everything
By Tuncay Kayaoglu
ISTANBUL -- Many fantasize that hitting the jackpot is a road to happiness. For some, it was a highway to hell.
UNITED STATES
SPECIAL REPORT
New year brings old issues for Obama
By Michael Hernandez
NEW YORK -- American president's foreign policy efforts in 2015 likely to face significant congressional opposition.
MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA
EGYPT
CAIRO -- Possible meeting between Sisi and Qatar's Hamad in Riyadh
ETHIOPIA
ADDIS ABABA - Visit by Uganda's Museveni
Special Reports
Now a campaign issue, Zambia retirement law draws ire
By Francis Maingaila
LUSAKA, Zambia - A new law raising Zambia's retirement age from 55 to 65 has not only been criticized by workers' rights advocates, but also by officials from all the country's political parties, including the ruling Patriotic Front, which promised to revoke the offensive legislation once voted into office in January presidential by-elections.
Africa has governance deficit: Researcher
By Hassan Isilow
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - There is still instability in parts of Africa because some governments do not control their entire territories, a security analyst has said.
"Africa has a governance deficit; most countries lack capacity to manage their boundaries," Jakkie Cilliers, executive director of the Institute for Security Studies, told The Anadolu Agency in an interview.
SOUTH EAST ASIA/PASIFIC
MALAYSIA
KUALA LUMPUR -- Over 100,000 evacuated in four Malaysian states due to record flooding
SOUTH KOREA
SEOUL -- North Korea repatriates a South Korean man accused of illegal entry through truce village of Panmunjom
HONG KONG
HONG KONG -- 37 protesters arrested in Mong Kok district in second night of clashes during Christmas holiday
THAILAND
BANGKOK -- Trial of two Myanmar men accused of murdering two British tourists starts
BANGKOK -- Thai PM to lead memorial ceremony marking ten-year anniversary of Boxing Day tsunami in Khao Lak
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