ANKARA
Here are the main stories that The Anadolu Agency's English News Desk will cover Sunday, March 29, 2015:
FRANCE
PARIS -- France holds second round of local elections. In the first round held on March 22, the center-right Union for a Popular Movement party and its allies came first, far-right National Front second and the ruling Socialist party third.
SWITZERLAND
LAUSANNE -- British, French, German, Russian, Chinese FMs together with the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini, join the ongoing Iranian nuclear program negotiations between Iranian FM Mohammad Javad Zarif and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, in Lausanne, Switzerland.
SLOVENIA
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
- Slovenia firmly supports Turkey's EU membership
Slovenia is looking forward to achieve key results during Turkish President Erdogan's visit, says Slovenian President
LJUBLJANA - Slovenia is firmly supporting Turkey's membership in the European Union, said Slovenian President Borut Pahor.
Borut Pahor evaluated the relations between Slovenia and Turkey, Turkey's EU accession process and assess developments in the Western Balkans in an exclusive interview with Anadolu Agency before Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's official visit to Slovenia.
SE ASIA-PACIFIC
THAILAND
BANGKOK -- Investigation opened into military raid in Thai Muslim south in which four men were killed, whose parents and community leaders say were not connected to separatist rebellion.
AUSTRALIA
MELBOURNE -- Government confirms intention to join negotiations to set up China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.
CHINA
BEIJING -- Six miners at a shale mine in central Hunan province confirmed dead.
