Diary

ANKARA

Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover Wednesday March 2, 2016 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):



TURKEY

ANKARA - PM Davutoglu to meet with Turkish Cypriot counterpart, Omer Kalyoncu.

ISTANBUL - UNICEF and IKEA to announce result of Child Friendly City project.

EUROPE

LONDON - David Cameron to answer questions from MP's in House of Commons in weekly PM's Question Time. ​

LONDON - Foreign Affairs Committee holding an inquiry into government’s approach to Daesh threat and UK’s role in international response.

LONDON - Developments regarding EU referendum to be followed.

BERLIN - International Narcotics Control Board releases annual report on world drug problem.

AMERICAS

WASHINGTON - First two Muslims elected to the US Congress to hold discussion at Diyanet Center in Maryland.

WASHINGTON - Turkish Minister for EU Affairs, Volkan Bozkir to speak to Harvard University scholars at luncheon.

MIDDLE EAST-NORTH AFRICA

SPECIAL REPORT:

-UN envoy warns against military intervention in Libya

By Hussein Mahmoud

CAIRO (AA) - Foreign military intervention in Libya will only exacerbate the war-torn country’s already dire humanitarian crisis, UN deputy envoy to Libya Ali al-Zaatari tells Anadolu Agency. ​

AFRICA

NIGERIA

ABUJA - President Erdogan to meet with Nigerian counterpart Muhammadu Buhari.

SOUTHEAST ASIA-PACIFIC

INDONESIA

TUBAN – Police announce arrest of total of eight ‘terrorists’ in East Java who were allegedly planning an attack on police.

SOUTH KOREA

SEOUL - Koreas on collision course once more over North's human rights record.

PHILIPPINES

ZAMBOANGA CITY – Joint task force formed to investigate attack by gunman that wounded two Saudis, an Islamic scholar and a religious attaché, after a forum at a university in Zamboanga.