ANKARA
Here are the main stories that Anadolu Agency’s English News Desk will cover on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2015:
TURKEY
ANKARA - MPs to whom Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu offered Cabinet seats will have to answer by Thursday evening as to whether they will accept ministerial positions.
ANKARA - Turkey’s Chief of General Staff, General Hulusi Akar, will meet President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and PM Davutoglu.
ANKARA - Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party co-chair Figen Yuksekdag will speak before today's party assembly meeting.
SPECIAL REPORT
-Fighting spirit of Syrian boy burned in bombing
By Nilay Kar Onum
ISTANBUL (AA) - “Are you feeling OK?”
“Pray for me,” answers eight-year-old Kusay, communicating through sign language as he lies in his Istanbul hospital bed.
Suffering from extreme burns, Kusay al-Fariz is just one of thousands of children caught up in the unforgiving conflict in his home country and who have now fled to Turkey.
UNITED STATES
NEW YORK - UN Security Council to hold closed consultations on Syrian civil war.
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama delivers remarks on the New Orleans area's recovery upon the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
EUROPE
NATO Secretary-General Jen Stoltenberg visits Georgia.
SPECIAL REPORT
GREECE
-SYRIZA split widens ahead of election
by Andrew Jay Rosenbaum and Magda Panoutsopoulou
ANKARA (AA) - The split in the ruling SYRIZA party has widened ahead of a general election expected to take place in September.
MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA
SPECIAL REPORTS
-Egypt and Russia renew relations
By Asmaa Ashraf
CAIRO (AA) - Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi has embarked on another visit to Russia, his third since he came to power last year following his military coup against Egypt’s first democratically elected civilian president.
-Uganda using Twitter to detect disease outbreaks
By Halima Athumani
KAMPALA, Uganda (AA) - Uganda’s Ministry of Health is using Twitter to collect real-time information regarding disease outbreaks in the East African country.
SOUTHEAST ASIA & PACIFIC
THAILAND
BANGKOK - Preparatory session for talks between Thai government and southern insurgents takes place.
KOREA
SEOUL - South Korean President Park Geun-hye confirms she will attend massive military parade in China next week commemorating 70th anniversary of end of World War II.
CHINA
BEIJING - China accuses 11 officials of neglecting management of Tianjin port, where explosions killed 139.
