ANKARA
Here are the main stories that Anadolu Agency’s English News Desk is planning to cover Wednesday, August 5, 2015:
TURKEY
ANKARA - New Zealand's Governor-General Mateparae to meet Turkish President Erdogan.
ANKARA - Turkish Statistical Institute to release 2014 households' consumption expenditure statistics.
SPECIAL REPORTS:
'Daesh fever' plagues half of Arab world
By Ahmed Badawy
ISTANBUL - More than a year after declaring a so-called Islamic state, Daesh has sought to use all means at its disposal to expand. It now has a presence in half of the Arab world’s 22 countries and threatens the other half.
Daesh struggles to manage economy
By Andrew Jay Rosenbaum, Mahmoud Barakat and Mohamad Misto
ANKARA - Daesh is struggling to manage the economy, and to obtain funds, in the territories it occupies in Iraq and Syria.
IMF mulls including China's renminbi in special currency
By Andrew Jay Rosenbaum
ANKARA - The International Monetary Fund is considering including the Chinese renminbi in its Special Drawing Rights currency -- a move that would raise the importance of the renminbi as an instrument for international trade.
Cameroon: Crushing stones helps villagers improve their lives
By Anne Nzouankeu
MAKABAYE, Cameroon - With a hammer in one hand and a piece of rubber in the other, dozens of women crush stones all day long despite the temperature often reaching 40 in northern Cameroon.
UNITED STATES
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama delivers remarks on the Iran nuclear deal.
WASHINGTON - Senate committee to hold hearing on implications of sanctions relief under the Iran agreement.
NEW YORK - UN Security Council to discuss situation in Central African Republic.
EUROPE
UNITED KINGDOM
LONDON - Personnel of the London Underground to go on strike for a day.
UKRAINE
LVIV - The third qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League is set to complete. Ukraine’s Shakhtar Donetsk to host Turkish side Fenerbahce at Arena Lviv.
SE ASIA-PACIFIC
MALAYSIA
KUALA LUMPUR - Turkish Foreign Minister Cavusoglu to meet with counterparts from other countries attending ASEAN meet.
KUALA LUMPUR - International group of experts examine wing part found on island in Indian Ocean to verify whether it is from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 (MERITS).
SOUTH KOREA
SEOUL - Former South Korean first lady heads to North Korea despite terror threat.
THAILAND
BANGKOK - Five men arrested for sending Thai women to work as prostitutes in China as part of human trafficking gang that police say was among those presented in an update to a U.S. report that ranked Thailand in the lowest tier.
