ANKARA
Here are the main stories that The Anadolu Agency's English News Desk will cover on Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015:
TURKEY
ANKARA – Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to chair Council of Ministers meeting and attend a private security briefing.
ISTANBUL – Coverage from T20 think tank held after Turkey's first major G20 meeting amid falling lira value and economic crises in Greece and Russia. Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey responsible for the Economy Ali Babacan to speak.
LATIN AMERICA
CUBA
HAVANA – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to attend a meeting between delegations in Cuba following an official welcoming ceremony.
UNITED STATES
NEW YORK – Brooklyn District Attorney expected to announce grand jury decision whether to bring charges against a police officer in November’s fatal shooting of unarmed African-American man Akai Gurley.
WASHINGTON D.C. – Turkey/U.S. Economic Partnership Commission meeting in Washington DC.
WASHINGTON D.C. – President Barack Obama to speak on Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
EUROPE
BELGIUM
BRUSSELS – Mahmoud Abbas, president of the State of Palestine, Nicos Anastasiades, president of the Greek Cypriot administration and Volkan Bozkir, Turkey’s chief EU negotiator, will be visiting Brussels.
FRANCE
PARIS – The Collective Against Islamophobia in France to issue its 2015 annual report.
LILLE – Hearings continue at the trial of former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn over charges of "aggravated pimping in an organized group."
BELARUS
MINSK – French President Francois Hollande, Germany's Angela Merkel, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Russia's Vladimir Putin to meet in Minsk to discuss conflict in eastern Ukraine.
MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA
YEMEN
SANAA – Yemenis mark fourth anniversary of revolution.
EGYPT
CAIRO – Egyptians mark four-year anniversary of the fall of former ruler Hosni Mubarak.
NIGERIA
ABUJA – Coverage of the live edition of “Presidential Media Chat” where President Goodluck Jonathan responds to questions from a panel of journalists, with Nigeria’s general election delay and Boko Haram high on the agenda.
MALAWI
LILONGWE – President Bingu wa Mutharika expected to launch a public service reform scheme.
SPECIAL REPORTS:
Displaced Nigerians recount Boko Haram nightmare - By Ogbodo Ndidi
BAUCHI, Nigeria (AA) – Zara Buba, a mother of ten, has been running from one corner to another over the past year – through no fault of her own.
"There was a series of Boko Haram attacks on Bama," Buba told The Anadolu Agency, referring to a town located some 60 kilometers from Maiduguri, provincial capital of Nigeria's northeastern Borno State.
Prepaid water meters stir debate in Zimbabwe - By Wallace Mawire
HARARE (AA) – Plans by government authorities to install prepaid water meters in households has stirred debate in Zimbabwe.
"We are currently working on the modalities to install smart water meters," Michael Chideme, a spokesman for the Harare City Council, told The Anadolu Agency.
SOUTHEAST ASIA-PACIFIC
MALAYSIA
KUALA LUMPUR – Gov’t cracks down on dissent following Anwar case.
CHINA
BEIJING – President Xi accepts invite to visit U.S. in September, his first American visit.
AUSTRALIA
MELBOURNE – Police arrest two men for terror offenses, claiming they were planning to carry out an imminent attack
SOUTH ASIA
PAKISTAN
SPECIAL REPORTS:
Surviving bitter winters in Pakistan's mountains - By Aamir Latif
KARACHI (AA) – Social inequality in Pakistan means the cold winters in its mountain regions leaves many of its poorest desperate for warmth.
