ANKARA
Here are the main stories that the Anadolu Agency's English News Desk is planning to cover Friday, May 1, 2015:
TURKEY
ISTANBUL - May Day celebrations. Labor activists, unions to march to Istanbul's central Taksim Square, designated off-limits for the rallies.
UNITED STATES
NEW YORK - Lithuania takes over UN Security Council's rotating presidency.
EUROPE
GERMANY
BERLIN - Thousands are expected to join a rally in Berlin, to mark International Worker's Day
BERLIN - Reactions to reports BND helped the NSA to spy on French politicians and EU officials for years.
BELGIUM
BRUSSELS - Follow up Labor Day rallies
MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA
SOUTH SUDAN
The UNICEF deputy chief executive director expected to meet foreign and health officials
KENYA
Former US President Bill Clinton due in Kenya and will visit the sites of several Clinton Foundation projects that are improving the lives of thousands of people across the country.
SAUDI ARABIA
Follow up reactions to the recent cabinet reshuffle in the kingdom.
YEMEN
Follow up Saudi-led offensive against Houthi militants in Yemen
JORDAN
Muslim Brotherhood plans to celebrate 70th anniversary despite warning from authorities.
LABOR DAY
Follow up Labor Day activists in a number of Arab and African countries
SPECIAL REPORTS:
S. Sudan's Pibor: Peace, but still no services
By Okech Francis
PIBOR, South Sudan (AA) – Ngaido Kongkong, a 30-year-old mother, sells tea for a living in South Sudan's eastern town of Pibor, some 342 km from capital Juba.She lost her husband back in 2006 and has since had to fend for herself and her five children.
Malawi activists want abortion legalized
By Moses Michael-Phiri
BLANTYRE, Malawi (AA) – Local human rights groups are pressing the Malawian government to legalize abortion on grounds it would save the lives of young women who might otherwise die while procuring unregulated abortions.
ASIA
MALDIVES
MALE - Opposition parties protest against alleged human rights abuses with mass rallies for International Labor Day
NEPAL
SPECIAL REPORT:
At the centre of Nepal’s disaster zone By Deepak Adhikari
CHAUTARA - Anger grips Sindhupalchok, a district near the heart of Nepal earthquake where aid has been slow to arrive
SE-ASIA
PHILIPPINES
ZAMBOANGA - Indonesian government rejects request for Filipina saved at last minute from execution from travelling to the Philippines to appear in court to testify in human trafficking case against her alleged recruiter.
MALAYSIA
KUALA LUMPUR -Imprisoned former opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim applies for judicial review of his jail term for sodomy
THAILAND
BANGKOK - Thailand's army chief-cum-prime minister begs EU to "show mercy" to Thailand on illegal fishing issue and pending sanctions.
