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ANKARA

Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover Saturday Nov. 21, 2015 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TURKEY

ANKARA - Opposition Nationalist Movement Party leadership challenge expected after poor showing at general election.

SPECIAL REPORT: Football: Galatasaray cling to title race

By Can Erozden

ANKARA (AA) - Defending champions, who this week sacked the manager who won them the league and two cups last season, are hoping to stay in touch with leaders Besiktas this weekend.

SPECIAL REPORT: Turks turning off their TVs to go online

By Fatma Bulbul

ISTANBUL (AA) - Television seems to be losing ground to the internet and, as World Television Day approaches, Turkish research reveals more people are going online than ever.

EUROPE

SPAIN

BARCELONA - Prime Minister Mariano Roy in Barcelona to announce national candidates as Catalonia eyes independence.

SPECIAL REPORT: Germany pays Spanish volunteers who fought with Nazis

By Alyssa McMurtry

MADRID (AA) - German taxpayers are still paying pensions to Spanish fascists who volunteered to fight with the Nazis in World War II.

SERBIA

BELGRADE - European Council President Donald Tusk visits Belgrade to discuss refugee crisis, EU accession.

AFRICA

MALI

BAMAKO - 10-day state of emergency in effect after 21 killed in attack on hotel.

MIDDLE EAST-NORTH AFRICA

PALESTINE

JERUSALEM - Palestinian Prisoner Society says 400 Palestinian children remain in Israeli jails.

YEMEN

TAIZ - Forces loyal to deposed President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi enter western Taiz province.

SOUTHEAST ASIA-PACIFIC

THAILAND

BANGKOK - Thai junta claims deported Chinese pro-democracy activists were “human traffickers”.

MALAYSIA

KUALA LUMPUR - Prime Minister Najib Razak attacks extremism, terrorism at ASEAN summit.

CHINA

BEIJING - 21 miners feared dead in coal mine fire​.