ANKARA
Here are the main stories that Anadolu Agency’s English News Desk will cover on Wednesday, July 22, 2015.
TURKEY
ANKARA – Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to chair cabinet meeting.
ISTANBUL - Coverage of the funeral for one of the victims of Monday's bomb attack in Suruc, southern Turkey: Hatice Ezgi Saadet.
EUROPE
BRUSSELS – European Council President Donald Tusk will visit Azerbaijan.
AMERICAS
NEW YORK - UN Security Council to hold consultations regarding situation in Iraq.
WASHINGTON
- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew brief bipartisan group of lawmakers on Capitol Hill regarding the recent Iran nuclear deal.
- Ali Rezaian, brother of Jason Rezaian – the Washington Post Tehran bureau chief being held in an Iranian prison for one year without charge – to address media alongside Martin Baron, Washington Post executive editor.
- Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari to speak at U.S. Institute of Peace on the country’s March election, government transition and Boko Haram insurgency.
MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA
MONROVIA, Liberia – Thousands attend funeral of Liberia's top Muslim scholar Sheik Kafumba Konneh.
SPECIAL REPORT
-Experts say Gaza resistance more 'sophisticated'
By Ali Abo-Rezeg
GAZA CITY, Palestine, (AA) - Analysts and writers are claiming that resistance movements in Gaza have become more "powerful and sophisticated," one year after Israel's onslaught against the strip.
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CHINA
(MOVED) BEIJING - At least two miners have been confirmed dead while 13 others remain trapped after a coal mine flooded in China’s northeast Heilongjiang province.
SOUTH KOREA
SEOUL - South Korea says North Korea has built a new long-range rocket launch pad and advanced artillery fire capabilities at sea border.
CAMBODIA
PHNOM PENH - Supplementary communication on land grabs filed with the International Criminal Court in The Hague, which a Global Diligence lawyer says contains fresh evidence supporting how violations should be probed as crimes against humanity.
