ANKARA
Here are the main stories that Anadolu Agency’s English News Desk will cover on Thursday, July 23, 2015:
TURKEY
ANKARA - Djiboutian Economy Minister Dawaleh to meet Turkish Economy Minister Zeybekci and Forestry and Water Works Minister Eroglu.
ANKARA - Turkish Foreign Minister Cavusoglu to meet Kyrgyzstan President Atambayev and Prime Minister Sariyev in the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek.
ANKARA - Turkish Central Bank Monetary Policy Committee to announce decision on interest rate.
UNITED STATES
NEW YORK - UN Security Council to hold an open debate on the Middle East, focusing on Israel and Palestine as well as the humanitarian situation in Gaza.
WASHINGTON - U.S. President Obama to begin tour of Kenya and Ethiopia.
WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of State Kerry with Treasury Secretary Law and Energy Secretary Moniz to testify at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the nuclear agreement with Iran.
WASHINGTON - Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee to host demonstration against the July 14 deal reached with Iran.
WASHINGTON - A group of evangelical Christians and American Muslims to hold a news conference to discuss national security and religious freedoms in the U.S.
WASHINGTON - The Woodrow Wilson Center's Global Europe Program holds a discussion on "The Role of Humanitarian Non-Governmental Organizations in Turkey's Peace building".
EUROPE
BRUSSELS - Belgian parliament expected to vote on recognizing the 1915 events concerning Armenians as ''genocide''.
LUXEMBOURG - Turkey's Trabzonspor to take on the football club Differdange 03 in the UEFA Europa League second qualifying round.
LUXEMBOURG - Turkish EU Minister and Chief Negotiator Volkan Bozkir to attend meeting of European Affairs ministers.
GERMANY
BERLIN - Political reactions after Greece’s parliament approves a second set of reforms demanded by international creditors for a third bailout.
MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA
PALESTINE
SPECIAL REPORT:
Palestinian twins born of sperm smuggled from Israeli prison
By Ahmed Badawy
GAZA CITY, Palestine – Ahmed al-Sokani, a 35-year-old Gaza City native, had twins this week – a boy named Motaz and a girl named Siwar. Al-Sokani’s wife, Huwayda, used sperm smuggled from her husband, who is 13 years into a 27-year sentence in an Israeli prison, to become pregnant through in vitro-fertilization.
ASIA-PACIFIC
THAILAND
BANGKOK – Junta leader cum Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha says government has done its best to combat human trafficking -- casting the problem as one inherited from the government toppled last year – ahead of the U.S. State Department's annual Trafficking in Persons report.
CHINA
BEIJING – China expresses concern over Myanmar court sentencing 153 Chinese nationals to life for illegal logging, and handing two minors 10-year sentences.
CAMBODIA
PHNOM PENH - Local human rights group writes an open letter to Senate president, calling for senators to make a series of amendments to a controversial NGO law or reject it completely, ahead of vote Friday.
PAKISTAN
KARACHI - After a U.K.-based think tank reported that Pakistan is trying to build an American-style surveillance system, analysts say the country could use such a tool against its neighbors.
