ANKARA
Here are the main stories that Anadolu Agency’s English News Desk is planning to cover on Friday, June 5, 2015:
TURKEY
SPECIAL REPORT: 'Smart' move for Turkish army recruits could net $12 million
By Tuncay Kayaoglu
ISTANBUL (AA) - While much of the world has moved on from the reliable, “brick”-type mobile phones of the 1990s, such out-of-date technology is having a mini-revival in an unlikely place: among young Turkish army recruits.
SPECIAL REPORT: UAE reaches for the stars
By Andrew Rosenbaum
ANKARA (AA) - The UAE has announced an ambitious space program, one which will include a mission to Mars in a few years.
EUROPE
GERMANY
BERLIN - Reactions to visit of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. German opposition criticizes German government for putting economic interests ahead of human rights
BELGIUM
BRUSSELS - EU enlargement commissioner Johannes Hahn to visit Washington D.C.
AMERICAS
UNITED STATES
NEW YORK - UN Security Council to discuss recent escalation of violence in Ukraine
WASHINGTON - Egyptian Americans for Human Rights’ news conference on mass death sentences in Egypt
WASHINGTON - Brookings Institution think-tank discussion on Turkey's forthcoming general election
SPECIAL REPORT: US coalition failing to degrade Daesh
By Kasim Ileri
WASHINGTON (AA) - U.S. officials have consistently said the Daesh militant group is being degraded thanks to efforts by a U.S.-led coalition but experts and statistics on the ground say otherwise.
MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA
SPECIAL REPORT: Tarnished teeth: Millions of Ethiopians suffer from fluoridated water
By Tesfa Mogessie
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AA) - Brook Solomon was born and raised in the town of Shashemene, 230 kilometers south of Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa. Growing up, he drank fluoride-contaminated water. Now, 23-years-old, he rises early every morning to care for his fluoride-tainted teeth.
SOUTH ASIA
SPECIAL REPORT: Modi goes to Bangladesh without water sharing deal
By Mainul Islam Khan
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) - India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives in Bangladesh on Saturday to launch projects for greater connectivity but a decades-delayed water-sharing deal for the River Teesta, which runs through both countries, will not be finalized.
SPECIAL REPORT: Rohingya refugees fear Bangladesh camp relocation plans
By Kaamil Ahmed
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) - Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh say they do not want to be relocated to island vulnerable to extreme weather.
SOUTHEAST ASIA-PACIFIC
CHINA
BEIJING - Rescue workers right cruise ship that capsized in bad weather on Yangtze River, start to drain off water in search for 330 missing people
SOUTH KOREA
SEOUL - Government accused of not doing enough to contain MERS outbreak as number of dead increases to four
MYANMAR
YANGON - Bangladesh refutes claim that most of the 900 migrants Myanmar recently brought ashore were Bangladeshi
AUSTRALIA
MELBOURNE - International panel singles out Australia out as climate change “free-rider”
JAPAN
TOKYO - Turkish Parliament Speaker Cemil Cicek to visit Japanese parliament and meet with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
