ANKARA
Here are the main stories that The Anadolu Agency's English News Desk will cover Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014:
TURKEY
ANKARA --Turkey’s Minister for EU Affairs and Chief Negotiator Volkan Bozkir to meet with Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee and Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament Member Kati Piri in Ankara.
SPECIAL REPORT:
'Battle-hardened' Caucasus fighters boosting ISIL
By Handan Kazanci
ISTANBUL (AA) – As ISIL maintains its grip on parts of Iraq and Syria despite U.S.-led airstrikes, experts say the return of the militant group’s experienced fighters from the Caucasus region to their hometowns poses a deadly future threat to Russia.
UNITED STATES
WASHINGTON DC -- The Senate Foreign Relations Committee to convene to mark up legislation on formal authorization on the use of military force FOR operations against ISIL.
WASHINGTON DC -- Turkish Cypriot Day is celebrated in Capitol Hill.
NEW YORK -- TIME reveals its pick for "Person of the Year."
NEW YORK -- Demonstration planned at Herald Square against grand juries failure decline to indict white police officers in deaths of unarmed black men.
EUROPE
SWITZERLAND
GENEVA -- WHO, UN Office on drugs and crime to release global status report on violence prevention 2014
GERMANY
COLOGNE -- The second and final day of the party congress of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union, or CDU.
FRANCE
PARIS -- French President to welcome at the airport ex-hostage Serge Lazarevic,
PARIS -- NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden talks via videoconference in event organized by Amnesty International
UK
LONDON -- Reactions and developments regarding Cameron's visit to Turkey visit
LONDON -- A demonstration in solidarity with the chokehold death of Eric Garner by police
BELGIUM
BRUSSELS -- The two-day 11th International Conference ''on the European Union, Turkey, the Middle East and the Kurds'' begins on Wednesday at the European Parliament
BRUSSELS -- Turkey’s Minister of Education Nabi Avci visits Brussels.
BRUSSELS -- President Juncker and Commission members will be sworn in by the Court of Justice of the EU in Luxembourg.
MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA
DJIBOUTI -- Turkey’s Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci’s visit in Djibouti.
NIGERIA
ABUJA -- Both ruling PDP and opposition APC parties will hold conventions to name their presidential candidates
EGYPT
CAIRO -- Government expected to endorse a bill on new constituencies for upcoming legislative elections
LEBANON
BEIRUT -- Parliamentary session to elect new president
SPECIAL REPORTS:
- Zambia's male circumcision campaign in hot waters
By Francis Maingaila
LUSAKA (AA) – Zambia is most likely to miss set targets for having two million males between the ages of 15 and 49 voluntarily circumcised by 2015.
"We are not happy with the response people are making to the call for male circumcision," Health Minister Joseph Kasonde told The Anadolu Agency in an exclusive interview.
- S. Africans angry by continuing power cuts
By Hassan Isilow
JOHANNESBURG (AA) – South Africans are upset by power cuts which have been ongoing for the past three consecutive weeks and blamed on over-burdened power plants, among other causes.
BALKANS
BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA
SARAJEVO -- On the occasion of International Anti-Corruption Day, conferences and seminars are held in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro
ALBANIA
Tirana -- Anti-Corruption Forum held with the participation of Prime Minister Edi Raama and some Ministers of Albania.
SE ASIA-PACIFIC
HONG KONG
- HONG KONG -- Police and students prepare for clearance of main protest site.
CHINA
- BEIJING -- Official Liu Tienan jailed for life in corruption case.
PHILIPPINES
- ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines -- Ambush kills five members of leading clan.
MALAYSIA
- KUALA LUMPUR -- Tens of thousands of Indonesians face deportation.
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