ANKARA
Here are the main stories that The Anadolu Agency's English News Desk is planning to cover on Monday, May 4, 2015:
TURKEY
SIIRT / MARDIN - President Erdogan to deliver speeches in Turkey's southeastern cities of Siirt and Mardin. (12.00 / 16.00 Turkish Time)
ANKARA - Turkish Statistical Institute to announce Consumer Price Index and Domestic Producer Price Index for April.
(SPECIAL REPORT)
UNCTAD: Keeping sovereign debt crises under control
By Andrew Jay Rosenbaum
ISTANBUL (AA) - Sovereign debt crises have tested governments from Iceland to Argentina to Greece since the global financial meltdown of 2008. Now UNCTAD has published a "roadmap" of steps that countries can take before and during debt restructuring.
UNITED STATES
NEW YORK
- President Obama delivers remarks at launch of new NGO “My Brother's Keeper Alliance.”
- Reactions to shootings and related incidents outside anti-Islamic cartoon event in Texas.
EUROPE
BELGIUM
BRUSSELS - European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management Christos Stylianides to hold briefing following Nepal visit.
GERMANY
BERLIN - Chancellor Merkel meets visiting Czech PM Sobotka.
BERLIN - Reactions to reports BND helped NSA spy on French politicians and EU officials for years.
BERLIN - Germany's GDL train drivers' union calls for seven-day strike.
FRANCE
PARIS-DOHA - French President Hollande to head to Doha to sign deal with Qatar where Gulf state will buy 24 Rafale fighter jets.
PARIS – Several Human rights groups to protest French government’s proposed “anti-terror” bill, which would grant more powers to intelligence services.
(SPECIAL REPORT)
PARIS - Turkish expert on history of art talks to The Anadolu Agency about Louvre Museum’s Islamic works.
SWITZERLAND
GENEVA - Talks between Syria’s warring factions and UN’s Syria envoy to begin in effort to end country’s four-year-old civil war.
MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA
KENYA
U.S. Secretary of State Kerry to visit 1998 bombing memorial.
SOUTH AFRICA
Deputy Minister for Higher Education and Training Mdu Manana and Student Representative Council (SRC) presidents from five universities expected to make announcement on academic boycotts of Israel.
(SPECIAL REPORTS)
Iraqi Turkmens not happy with Abadi
ERBIL (AA) - Turkmens are “displeased” with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, Iraqi Turkmen leader tells The Anadolu Agency, adding that they are opposed to a U.S. Congress draft bill that arms Kurds and Sunnis, but ignores Turkmens.
Nigeria's mountain worship
By Rafiu Ajakaye
LAGOS (AA) - Huge mountains stretching several kilometers and thick forests are some of the hallmarks of Nigeria's countryside. But these are often times more than just landmarks. For the most part, mountains are deified in many parts of Nigeria.
S. Africa accused of spying on civil society groups
By Hassan Isilow
JOHANNESBURG (AA) - South African intelligence agencies have been accused of illegally spying on civil society groups and community leaders in the country.
ASIA
NEPAL
SPECIAL REPORT
After centuries, old Newari town of Nepal destroyed
By Deepal Adhikari
SANKHU – Preserved town of centuries-old Newari kingdom destroyed in Nepal earthquake
SE-ASIA
SOUTH KOREA
SEOUL – Government calls on North Korea to release New York University student and three other detained South Koreans.
SEOUL – Ceremonial head of North Korean state to visit World War II anniversary ceremony in Russia in place of leader Kim Jong-un.
AUSTRALIA
MELBOURNE – Federal Police Commissioner defends force’s decision to inform Indonesian authorities in 2005 about the Bali Nine drug smuggling ring, whose ringleaders Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran were executed in Indonesia last week.
