ANKARA
Here are the main stories that The Anadolu Agency's English News Desk will cover Monday, December 1, 2014:
TURKEY
- ANKARA -- Russian President Putin’s visit to Turkey. Prime Minister Davutoglu will receive Putin at the Presidential Palace in Ankara.
- ANKARA -- Foreign Minister Cavusoglu to meet with his Russian counterpart Lavrov for brunch in Ankara.
- ANKARA -- Deputy Prime Minister Babacan to hold press meeting in Ankara over Turkey’s G20 presidency.
- ANKARA -- Economy Minister Zeybekci to meet President of Tatarstan Minnikhanov; Tatarstan is a federal subject of Russia.
- ANKARA -- Prime Minister Davutoglu to chair cabinet meeting in Ankara.
UNITED STATES
- NEW YORK -- A grand jury decision is possible any day on whether to bring charges against a white police officer, Daniel Pantaleo, for putting an unarmed black man, Eric Garner, in a fatal chokehold in July in the NYC borough of Staten Island.
- NEW YORK -- Nationwide protests following a grand jury's decision to not indict a white cop in shooting of a black teen in Ferguson.
EUROPE
BELGIUM
- BRUSSELS -- Former Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk to officially take over as the EU Council Chief. Tusk is the first Polish politician ever from a former communist or Soviet state to take a top EU job since the 2004 wave of enlargement.
- BRUSSELS -- Johannes Hahn, European Commissioner for Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, to hold midday press briefing (12 a.m. local time) at the European Commission, following his visit to Ukraine last week.
- BRUSSELS -- EU foreign policy chief Mogherini to exchange views with Members of European Parliament. The exact topic of the exchange of views was not disclosed in the parliament’s draft agenda.
- BRUSSELS -- Pieter de Gooijer, Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the EU, to give a briefing on the state of investigations in the presumed shooting down of an international passenger plane, MH17, in Ukraine.
GERMANY
- BERLIN -- Lufthansa pilots have announced a two-day strike that will begin midday (1100 GMT).
- BERLIN -- Turkey will be the partner country at the “Berlin Security Conference, 13th Congress on European Security and Defense” that will begin Tuesday. Organizer Uwe Proll spoke to The Anadolu Agency about the goals of the conference.
- BERLIN -- Developments in the police investigation of the death of Turkish girl, Tugce Albayrak, who was beaten to death by a group of thugs in Offenbach near Frankfurt.
- BERLIN – Foreign Minister Steinmeier to meet Thabo Mbeki, a former South African president and chief of the African Union’s mediating team.
-BERLIN -- German government’s summit on integration and problems of immigrants.
-BERLIN -- Press conference of a German government spokesman.
UK
-LONDON -- British Members of Parliament to debate human rights in Palestine.
- LONDON -- Turner Prize announces its winner.
SWITZERLAND
- GENEVA -- The World Health Organization to hold a press briefing on Ebola and challenges to control the outbreak of the virus.
MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA
NIGERIA
Nigeria judiciary workers begin national strike.
SPECIAL REPORTS
- Aid workers caught in the middle of South Sudan conflict
By Okech Francis
JUBA (AA) – Conflict continues to rage in South Sudan, displacing hundreds of thousands of people and leaving many hapless residents without desperately needed food and medicine.
For hundreds of thousands of displaced South Sudanese, humanitarian aid from foreign organizations and agencies is the only hope.
Aid workers, however, are finding themselves stuck in the middle of the fight between government troops and rebel forces.
- Ugandan youth dance to raise HIV/AIDS awareness
By Halima Athumani
KAMPALA (AA) – On a hot, sunny afternoon, residents of Kampala's Kisenyi slum are taken aback as a young man dressed like a doctor steps forward carrying an empty box.
With loud music – from rhythm and blues, South African Kwaito and local Ugandan music – blaring from loudspeakers, more young people join the doctor in his dance.
Dressed in black and red t-shirts bearing the words "If it's not on, it's not safe," young people keep dancing in an effort to promote safe sexual behavior with a view to preventing HIV/AIDS.
"We are dancing for life and dancing for protection," team leader Humphrey Nabimanya told The Anadolu Agency.
SE ASIA-PACIFIC
PHILIPPINES
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Four civilians killed in an ambush by communist insurgency, New People’s Army, in southern Agusan del Sur province.
HONG KONG
HONG KONG - 40 arrested, 40 hospitalized as Hong Kong police use pepper spray and baton charges after protest leaders call to lay siege to government headquarters.
SOUTH KOREA
SEOUL – U.S. air base lifts lockdown ordered following reports of an active shooting at a school within the grounds.
CAMBODIA
PHNOM PENH – Vietnamese authorities request that Cambodia arrest and deport 16 members of Montagnards indigenous minority who recently fled across the border.
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