ANKARA
Here are the main stories that Anadolu Agency’s English News Desk plans to cover Tuesday, June 30, 2015:
TURKEY
ANKARA - MPs to vote for parliament speaker.
ANKARA - Turkish President Erdogan to meet with former MPs for iftar meal.
ANKARA - TurkStat to report trade balance for May.
EUROPE
GERMANY
BERLIN - NATO's Stoltenberg to visit Berlin on 60th anniversary of Germany’s accession to Alliance.
BELGIUM
BRUSSELS - European Commission President Juncker to deliver speech at 40th anniversary of International Press Association in Brussels.
SPECIAL REPORT:
-Varoufakis threatens lawsuit against Commission
by Magda Panoutsopoulou
ATHENS - Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis told the press on Tuesday that his government would sue the European Commission for the imposition of capital controls on banks, and against an eventual expulsion from the euro system.
MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA
LIBERIA
MONROVIA - Liberian health officials investigate new suspected case of Ebola, more than a month after WHO declared the country Ebola-free.
SPECIAL REPORT:
-Nigerian activists launch 'schoopreneurship' to roll back Boko Haram gains
By Rafiu Ajakaye
LAGOS, Nigeria - Boko Haram militants have repeatedly targeted schools, a crime that reached its height with the April 14 abduction of around 276 school girls from their dormitory in Borno state.
SOUTH ASIA
SPECIAL REPORT
-Nepali minorities struggling for burial spaces
By Deepak Adhikari
RAJAHAR (AA)- Without their own graveyards, Nepal's Muslim and Christian minorities struggle to bury their dead.
AFGHANISTAN
KABUL - HRW criticizes army chief for promise to protect soldiers accused of offenses in conflict.
SE ASIA-PACIFIC
SOUTH KOREA
SEOUL – South Korea fires warning shots to ward off North Korean patrol vessel.
CAMBODIA
PHNOM PENH -- Khmer Rouge tribunal set to start four-day appeal hearings this week after two elderly officials were found guilty of crimes against humanity in 2013.
JAPAN
TOKYO – Japanese media reporting that man sets fire in bullet train, forcing emergency stop as smoke detected.