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ANKARA

Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover Friday, Feb. 19, 2016 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TURKEY

ANKARA - PM Davutoglu to lay carnations at site of Ankara bomb attack and to attend ceremony at Gulhane Military Medical Academy (GATA).

EUROPE

UNITED KINGDOM

LONDON - Developments regarding UK's EU membership at summit in Brussels.

SWITZERLAND

GENEVA - WHO update on global response to microcephaly, neurological disorders and Zika virus.​

GENEVA – UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs to hold press conference about 2016 Yemen Humanitarian Response Plan.

AMERICAS

SPECIAL REPORT:

-US partisan battle looms after Justice Scalia’s death

By Michael Hernandez

WASHINGTON (AA) -- The death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has set the stage for a divisive showdown between Republican lawmakers in the Senate and President Barack Obama.

-Oil market unsatisfied with prod. freeze as prices slide

By Ovunc Kutlu

NEW YORK (AA) - The global oil market looks unsatisfied with the latest move by four major crude producers calling for a freeze of their output levels, as prices began to slide once again late Thursday.

CAUCASUS

GEORGIA

TBILISI - Turkish FM Mevlut Cavusoglu to attend fifth trilateral meeting with foreign affairs ministers of Azerbaijan, Georgia.

MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA

SPECIAL REPORT:

-Fatah-Hamas reconciliation deal awaits ‘practical vision’

By Ola Atala

GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Following bilateral talks in the Qatari capital Doha this month, rival Palestinian groups Hamas and Fatah have reached a tentative agreement aimed at implementing a reconciliation deal signed in 2014.



AFRICA

ETHIOPIA

ADDIS ABABA - Commemoration of the massacre and imprisonment of Ethiopians by invading Italian troops in 1937.

SOUTH AFRICA

PRETORIA - South Africa’s ruling ANC will hold march in capital Pretoria calling for unity, end to all forms of racism.

SOUTHEAST ASIA & PACIFIC

THAILAND

BANGKOK – Thai junta attempts to extend its hold on power beyond the establishment of an elected government.

MYANMAR

YANGON – 12 jade mining companies agree to work together to avoid further landslides in northern Kachin state's Hpa Kant township after series of landslides killed hundreds over last year.

AUSTRALIA

MELBOURNE – PM Malcolm Turnbull welcomes New Zealand’s offer to take in refugees held at offshore detention center on Nauru but underlines that Australia unwilling to make moves that could give ‘marketing opportunities’ to smugglers.