ANKARA
Here are the main stories that The Anadolu Agency's English News Desk will cover Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014:
SPECIAL REPORT
ISTANBUL - Plastic surgery for abused woman debated in Turkey
By Furkan Naci Top
ISTANBUL (AA) – Advocates of women’s issues are torn by a court decision that ruled the state should provide plastic surgery -- a new face -- for a woman to escape an abusive ex-boyfriend.
UNITED STATES
NEW YORK -- Racial protests against perceived racial injustice continue to rock the US after grand juries decline to indict two white police officers in deaths of two unarmed blacks.
NEW YORK -- UN Security Council scheduled to adopt resolution renewing sanctions on Liberia.
NEW YORK -- Duke and Duchess of Cambridge to tour Sept. 11 Memorial Museum
TURKEY
ANKARA -- President Erdogan meets with British Prime Minister Cameron and Georgian Foreign Minister Beruchashvili separately, in Ankara.
ANKARA -- Prime Minister Davutoglu meets Polish President Komorowski in Poland.
ANKARA -- Davutoglu returns to Turkey for talks with Cameron; they hold joint press conference.
ANKARA -- Foreign Minister Cavusoglu to meet with Georgian Foreign Minister Beruchashvili; they will sign cooperation protocol and hold joint press conference.
ANKARA -- Parliament Speaker Cicek meets with Jordanian Prime Minister Ensour in Jordan.
EUROPE
SWITZERLAND
GENEVA -- UNHCR to hold ministerial-level press conference on resettlement and other forms of admission for Syrian refugees. Participating states to make pledges on how many resettlement or other places they will make available for Syrian refugees currently staying at countries bordering Syria, including Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan, Egypt and Iraq.
GERMANY
COLOGNE – German Chancellor Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union convenes annual two-day congress in Cologne.
FRANCE
PARIS
- OECD publishes Harmonized Unemployment Rates report and second report that analyses economic impact of income inequality.
BELGIUM
BRUSSELS -- EU ministers meet as Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council. They will discuss the EU’s 2030 Climate and Energy Framework. EU trying to find way to be less reliant on Russian gas.
MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA
QATAR
DOHA -- Gulf Cooperation Council summit kicks off; terrorism high on agenda
EGYPT
CAIRO -- Morsi due in court again on espionage charges.
CAIRO -- Follow-up on closure of foreign embassies due to security concerns.
TUNISIA
- Campaigning starts for presidential runoff.
SPECIAL REPORTS
- South Africa's Sangoma healers (with photos)
By Hassan Isilow
JOHANNESBURG (AA) – The smell of freshly pounded medicinal plants fills the air in the Faraday area of Johannesburg, where over 60 herbalists and traditional ancestral healers have set up shop.
- Malawi making inroads in fighting gender-based violence
By Moses Michael-Phiri
BLANTYRE (AA) – The government of Malawi says it is slowly winning the battle against gender-based violence. "There is a lot of progress," Minister for Gender and Child Welfare Patricia Kaliati tells The Anadolu Agency.
SE ASIA-PACIFIC
HONG KONG
HONG KONG - Hong Kong court orders main protest site cleared
MALAYSIA
KUALA LUMPUR - Another Myanmar national murdered in Malaysia, suspected to be linked to ongoing sectarian strife in Myanmar.
PHILIPPINES
ZAMBOANGA – Army leaders continuing to clamp down on Abu Sayyaf insurgents in south, tell AA that Swiss birdwatcher being held by group in mountains of Sulu.
INDIA
DELHI – Indian hardline group claim to have “reconverted” 200 Muslims in northern city of Agra.
AFGHANISTAN
KABUL – On International Anti-Corruption day, analysis of attempts to deal with corruption in Afghanistan, which was ranked 172 out of 174 by anti-corruption group Transparency International. By Zabihullah Tamanna.
BALKANS
KOSOVO
PRISTINA, Kosovo -- New government of Kosovo elected at extraordinary session of Assembly of Kosovo.
BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA
SARAJEVO -- On the occasion of International Anti-Corruption Day, conferences and seminars are held in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro
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