ANKARA
Here are the main stories that The Anadolu Agency's English News Desk is planning to cover on Thursday, April 16, 2015:
TURKEY
ANKARA - Turkish President Erdogan to meet Kazakh counterpart Nazarbayev.
The presidents will co-chair cooperation council meeting, appear at joint press conference, and attend business forum.
ANKARA – Turkish PM Davutoglu to attend ceremony to introduce female candidates of AK Party for general elections. Event to take place at party's headquarters in Ankara.
EUROPE
BELGIUM
BRUSSELS - EU energy ministers to hold informal meeting in Latvian capital Riga.
NETHERLANDS
THE HAGUE - Turkish Deputy Foreign Minister Naci Koru to attend International Cyber Security Conference.
UNITED STATES
WASHINGTON - Turkish Deputy PM Babacan to speak at panel titled "Challenges Facing Global Economy and the Role of G20" at International Trend Center.
Babacan also to speak at seminar jointly held by IMF and G20 Presidency titled "Islamic Finance" at George Washington University.
The Deputy PM will also meet World Bank President Jim Yong Kim and will introduce “2015 OECD SME Scoreboard” Report at OECD Press and Public Affairs Center together with OECD Secretary General Angel Gurria.
WASHINGTON - Iraqi PM Haider al-Abadi to speak at Center for Strategic International Studies at panel titled "Looking Forward: A Holistic Strategy for Iraq."
NEW YORK - International conference commemorating centennial of Canakkale victory, co-organized by consulates general of Turkey, Australia and New Zealand in New York.
NEW YORK - UN Security Council holds informal, closed-door meeting on chemical weapons attacks in Syria.
SE ASIA-PACIFIC
SOUTH KOREA
SEOUL – One-year anniversary of Sewol ferry disaster that left more than 300 people dead commemorated.
SEOUL – Embattled PM Lee Wan-koo rejects calls for resignation as main opposition party threatens to impeach him over alleged involvement in bribery scandal.
JAPAN
TOKYO – Japan’s nuclear regulation watchdog estimates that evacuation of residents near nuclear complex on Sea of Japan coast would take 16 hours max, after district court orders power supplier not to restart two reactors at Takahama.
MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA
SAUDI ARABIA/YEMEN
RIYADH/SANAA – Continued airstrikes by Saudi-led coalition against Houthi militants in Yemen.
SUDAN
KHARTOUM - Covering extended fourth day of voting in presidential and parliamentary elections.
PALESTINE
JERUSALEM - Covering series of rallies and activities making Palestinian Prisoner Day, which is scheduled for Friday.
ISRAEL
TEL AVIV - Activities commemorating Holocaust victims.
SOUTH AFRICA
CAPE TOWN - Following ongoing anti-foreigners attacks in South Africa.
ZIMBABWE
HARARE - Activists and politicians to march to South African Embassy in Harare to protest xenophobic attacks against African migrants in South Africa.
MOROCCO
RABAT - Follow up on Libyan dialogue sessions.
SPECIAL REPORTS
How terrorism changed funding to Uganda police
By Halima Athumani
KAMPALA (AA) - For a country still haunted by the 2010 bombings, terrorism has – ironically – helped finance the Uganda Police.
Budget allocations went from nearly 133 billion shillings in the financial year 2008/09 to nearly 418.5 billion shillings in the 2014/15 financial year.
Fear grips African immigrants in Johannesburg
By Hassan Isilow
JOHANNESBURG (AA) – Abdi Mohammed, an Ethiopian textile dealer, has closed down his shop in Johannesburg's central business district amid fears that ongoing xenophobic violence in the coastal city of Durban could spill over into the country's economic hub.
Tanzania to hire over 30,000 new teachers
By Peter Saramba Ongiri
ARUSHA, Tanzania (AA) – The Tanzanian government has decided to hire over 30,000 new primary and secondary school teachers before the end of the 2014/2015 financial year ending June 30. Some say it is an electoral bribe before the October general elections.
SPORTS
GERMANY
WOLFSBURG - Wolfsburg meet Napoli in UEFA Europa League quarter-finals first leg in Germany. The match at Volkswagen Arena kicks off at 21:05 CET (20:05 GMT).
