ANKARA
Here are the main stories that The Anadolu Agency's English News Desk is planning to cover on Wednesday, March 25, 2015:
TURKEY
ANKARA – Turkey’s PM Ahmet Davutoglu to meet separately Poland’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Grzegorz SCHETYNA and the speaker of the Council of Representatives of Iraq Salim al-Jabouri.
ANKARA – Turkey’s Central Bank to announce real sector confidence index and manufacturing industry capacity utilization ratio.
KARABUK – Turkey’s Minister of Environment and Urbanization Idris Gulluce to deliver a speech in a conference organized by Economic Cooperation Organization.
UNITED STATES
WASHINGTON - Afghan President Ashraf Ghani to deliver a speech before a joint meeting of Congress.
WASHINGTON - Turkey's Parliament Speaker Cemil Cicek visiting Washington.
NEW YORK - UN Security Council holds consultations on UN peacekeeping mission in Golan Heights.
EUROPE
GERMANY
BERLIN - Greek PM Tsipras to meet with German opposition party leaders on the second day of his visit to Berlin.
BERLIN - Developments on the Germanwings crash in southern France. The company is expected to announce he name and nationalities of 144 passengers and six crew who were aboard.
BERLIN - Residents in the western German town of Haltern am See mourn 16 teenagers and two teachers who were on board the flight 4U 9525.
FRANCE
PARIS - The French Civil Aviation Authority to hold press conference on Germanwings plane crash.
BARCELONNETTE – French President François Hollande, Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel and Spanish PM Mariano Rajoy to visit Germanwings plane crash site in France.
ITALY
ROME—Turkey’s EU Minister Volkan Bozkir to speak at the Italian representative assembly’s EU policies commission and to meet Sandro Gozi, Deputy Secretary to the Prime Minister of Italy for European Affairs.
SE ASIA-PACIFIC
CHINA
BEIJING - China gives U.S. list of corrupt officials alleged to have fled to U.S.
MYANMAR
YANGON - Nearly 100 people due in court in connection with student protest that ended in violence.
HONG KONG
HONG KONG - Unpopular chief exec hints he might seek another five-year term as leader when his current term ends 2017.
JAPAN
TOKYO - China invites Japanese leader to WWII commemoration in Beijing.
TOKYO - Japan nuclear regulator determines reactor at Atomic Power Co.'s Tsuruga nuclear plant is sitting directly above an active geological fault.
AFGHANISTAN
KABUL - Protests against the killing of a woman falsely accused of burning a Quran have grown into a movement against hardline interpretations of Islam.
MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA
ISRAEL
Netanyahu expected to be assigned by Israeli president to form new government.
ETHIOPIA
Last day of Egyptian President Sisi's visit to Ethiopia.
SAUDI ARABIA
Sudan's Bashir visits Saudi Arabia.
NIGERIA
Electoral commission starts moving voting materials to different states in preparation for the vote on Saturday.
UGANDA
The Korea International Cooperation Agency and UNICEF in Uganda will sign a grant agreement to support efforts to strengthen maternal, newborn and child health services in Uganda.
SPECIAL REPORTS:
Nigeria's Buhari: Political has-been or cat with nine lives?
By Rafiu Ajakaye
LAGOS (AA) – Nigeria's looming March 28 presidential vote will be very important – especially for opposition candidate Gen. Muhammadu Buhari.
Having unsuccessfully contested all three presidential polls since 2003, Buhari will be seen as a political has-been if he loses the fourth.
But if he wins, the 73-year-old Sunni Muslim will be the oldest president Nigeria has ever produced – and a proverbial "cat with nine lives."
S. Africa mulls contraceptives to curb school pregnancy
By Hassan Isilow
JOHANNESBURG (AA) – Educational authorities in Gauteng, South Africa's richest province, are considering underarm contraceptive implants to help reduce soaring numbers of teenage pregnancy in schools.
Cow dung to fight jiggers in Uganda
By Halima Athumani
KAMPALA (AA) – Theresa Josephine Nakazzi, a 79-year-old frail woman, lives with her son Stephano Kakooza, 62, in a two small-roomed mud house in Kasubi village in central Uganda's Masaka Municipality.
What attracts immediate attention is a litter of dirty clothes and remains of what used to be blankets and bed sheets spread on the small compound floor as well as dried up bushes in front of the house.
SPECIAL REPORT
Life inside Armenia’s fallen city
By Handan Kazanci
Gyumri, ARMENIA (AA) – Gyumri was once a thriving trading point between east and west. A 1988 earthquake, poor Soviet rebuilding and a closed border with Turkey have kept it in the shadows since then. AA talks to people in Gyumri, just 15 minutes from the Turkish border.
