ANKARA
Here are the main stories that Anadolu Agency’s English News Desk will cover Monday, August 3, 2015:
TURKEY
ANKARA - Justice and Development Party and Republican People's Party delegations to hold an exploratory meeting for a coalition bill.
ANKARA - Supreme Military Council to convene at headquarters of General Staff; Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to attend.
ANKARA - Turkish Statistical Institute to announce July's inflation rates.
ISTANBUL - Report from event to mark one-year anniversary of massacre of Ezidi civilians by Daesh in northern Iraq.
SPECIAL REPORTS
Greece: Stock market to re-open Monday amid troubled economy
by Andrew Jay Rosenbaum
ANKARA (AA) – The Greek stock market opens on Monday but its sharp decline shows the troubled state of the country's economy.
Far-right party threatens democracy in Ukraine
by Andrew Jay Rosenbaum
ANKARA (AA) – A private army of the far-right poses a dangerous threat to democracy in Ukraine.
MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA
DOHA, Qatar – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will meet Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Qatari capital Doha to discuss Syria.
SPECIAL REPORTS
Port of Aden to reopen after being damaged in Yemen war
By Mohammed Al Shubairi
ADEN, Yemen (AA) – The Port of Aden in southern Yemen is back in business just days after the Yemeni government announced the recapture of the city from Houthi militants and forces loyal to the former president, Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Ethiopia plans to become carbon-neutral by 2030
By Addis Getachew
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AA) – In mid-June, Ethiopia – Africa’s second most populous nation – told the UN it plans to slash carbon emissions and become a carbon-neutral middle-income country by 2030.
SOUTH ASIA
AFGHANISTAN
KABUL – Divisions in Taliban under scrutiny in aftermath of leader Mullah Omar's death amid first clashes over legitimacy of new leadership.
SE ASIA-PACIFIC
THAILAND
BANGKOK – Police say key suspect wanted for insurgency-related violence in south killed in clash.
MALAYSIA
KUALA LUMPUR – Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu in Kuala Lumpur to attend ASEAN Foreign Ministerial Meeting.
CHINA
BEIJING – State media reports that the People's Liberation Army navy has conducted its largest ever live-ammunition drill in South China Sea.
