ANKARA
Here are the main stories that The Anadolu Agency's English News Desk will cover on Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015:
TURKEY
Turkey’s Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu is visiting Pakistan:
- Davutoglu is expected to meet with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to discuss bilateral, regional and international issues.
- Turkish Prime Minister will be received by Pakistani President Mamnoon Hussain and attend fourth meeting of the Turkey-Pakistan High Level Strategic Cooperation Council.
ANKARA
-Group meetings of political parties will be held at Turkish Parliament.
UNITED STATES
NEW YORK -- UN Syria envoy Steffan de Mistura to brief Security Council.
EUROPE
BELGIUM
BRUSSELS -- Economic and Financial Affairs Council ("Ecofin") will take place. It is composed of the Economics and Finance Ministers of Member States, as well as Budget Ministers when budgetary issues are discussed. It meets once a month.
SWITZERLAND
GENEVA -- U.S. Permanent Mission to UN to hold a press conference on additional U.S. contributions to humanitarian efforts for Syria crisis. U.S. participation in high level meetings on the Syria and Iraq crises.
GENEVA -- Permanent Mission of Ukraine to hold a press conference on implementation of Minsk Agreement, reached on Feb. 12, 2015.
SE ASIA-PACIFIC
CHINA
BEIJING -- Day after being expelled from Communist Party, Su Rong, former vice chairman of China’s top parliamentary advisory body, now investigated by Supreme People's Procuratorate over allegations of accepting bribes.
JAPAN
TOKYO -- 6.9-magnitude earthquake strikes Pacific off Japan's coast
MYANMAR
YANGON -- President vows not to lose an inch of Myanmar¹s territory in battles with rebels.
INDONESIA
JAKARTA -- Chief of Corruption Eradication Commission now suspected of falsifying documents in latest in battle between police and country’s main anti-corruption body.
AUSTRALIA
MELBOURNE -- Latest on attempts to stop execution of Australians on death row in Indonesia.
THAILAND
BANGKOK -- Former Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra ready for talks to advance political reconciliation in country, but only if he can meet with somebody who “really holds power.”
MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA
EGYPT / LIBYA -- Follow up on coordinated airstrikes against ISIL sites in Libya.
IRAQ
BAGHDAD -- Iranian Vice-President Isaac Jahangir visits Iraq.
ISRAEL
JERUSALEM -- Court to decide on whether Arab-Israeli lawmaker Hanin Zoabi can contest upcoming Knesset elections.
NIGERIA
ABUJA -- Parliament resumes sitting with the 2015 budget high on agenda.
SPECIAL REPORTS
Breeding African lions
By Columbus Mavhunga
GWERU, Zimbabwe (AA) -- A group of conservationists are breeding lions in neighboring Zimbabwe and Zambia to fight the possible extinction of the "king of the jungle" as a result of human encroachment.
S. Sudan's little shoe shiners
By Okech Francis
JUBA (AA) -- Charles Sebit Lokule, 11, wakes up every morning at around 6:00am. In less than an hour, he must hit the street carrying a pair slippers and a bag containing shoe polish tins and brushes.
