ANKARA
Here are the main stories that Anadolu Agency's English News Desk is planning to cover Thursday, May 14, 2015:
TURKEY
ANTALYA - Turkish FM Cavusoglu to meet Danish counterpart Lidegaard, followed with a press conference on sidelines of NATO FMs Meeting.
SPECIAL REPORTS
- Turkish parties target floating voters on social media
By Tuncay Kayaoglu
ISTANBUL (AA) - The online campaign in Turkey's general election is hotting up with parties devoting serious resources to social media.
- Blind Turkish pop star in election race
By Nilay Kar Onum
ISTANBUL (AA) - Metin Senturk promises to improve the rights of disabled people if he enters Turkey’s parliament.
- Turkey: Golf resort development market among Europe's strongest
By Andrew Jay Rosenbaum
ANKARA (AA) - Turkey's market for golf resort development is among the strongest in Europe, experts told Anadolu Agency.
AMERICAS
NEW YORK - UN Security Council to receive briefing on security situation in Iraq.
WASHINGTON - Obama hosts Gulf Cooperation Council leaders at the presidential retreat in Camp David, Maryland.
WASHINGTON - Center for Study of Islam and Democracy hosts 12th annual conference focusing on Tunisia and Egypt's revolutions and transitions to democracy.
SPECIAL REPORT
- Better US-Russia relations unlikely after potato diplomacy
By M. Bilal Kenasari
WASHINGTON (AA) - John Kerry's visit Tuesday to Sochi, Russia for a "frank discussion" with Russian leaders likely yielded no major changes in a stable but bad relationship between Washington and Moscow, experts told Anadolu Agency.
MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA
PALESTINE
RAMALLAH - Anadolu Agency continues to publish special reports on the 67th anniversary of Nakba in Palestine.
ALGERIA
ALGIERS - Mali rebel groups expected to sign peace deal.
YEMEN
SANAA - Situation in Yemen in light of ongoing five-day humanitarian truce, which came into effect late Tuesday.
SPECIAL REPORT
Civil society voices concern over S. Sudan NGO bill
By Okech Francis
JUBA (AA) - An independent coordinating body of approximately 160 national and 140 international NGOs in South Sudan has voiced concern over an NGO bill passed by parliament Tuesday.
SOUTH ASIA
INDIA
MUMBAI - Indian PM Modi arrives in China for talks focused on boosting trade links.
SOUTHEAST ASIA & PACIFIC
THAILAND
BANGKOK - International rights groups call on Southeast Asia countries to stop pushing back migrant ships as hundreds believed to be stranded in vessels in the Andaman Ocean and Malacca Straits.
AUSTRALIA
MELBOURNE - Immigration Minister Dutton confirms small number of refugees from Nauru who arrived at Darwin airport are expected to be sent to Cambodia "shortly".
PHILIPPINES
ZAMBOANGA CITY - Death toll from footwear factory fire in Metro Manila rises to 45 as 26 workers remain missing.
