ANKARA
Here are the main stories that The Anadolu Agency's English News Desk will cover Monday, Jan. 26, 2015:
TURKEY
ANKARA – PM Davutoglu meets Hungarian Foreign and Trade Minister Szijjarto.
ANKARA – FM Cavusoglu meets Hungarian counterpart; the two will sign cooperation agreement and hold joint press conference.
ANKARA – FM Cavusoglu meets New Zealand's minister of veterans' affairs, Craig Foss.
ISTANBUL – Leader of Turkey's main opposition party, the CHP, meets religious leaders in Istanbul ahead of country's anticipated general election later this year.
SPECIAL REPORT:
Germany’s ugly legacy: Is Hitler's racist hatred back?
By Ahmet Gurhan Kartal
ANKARA – When Adolf Hitler ordered the walls of the German capital of Berlin to be redecorated with a Nazi party poster -- the first-ever anti-Semitic poster that invited “good” German citizens to boycott Jewish traders on April 1, 1933 -- nobody thought that piece of paper would lead to the history's worst genocide in 10 years' time.
EUROPE
ANKARA – Reactions after left-wing Syriza wins Greek elections. What lies ahead for Greece and the euro currency? Have EU officials successfully installed firewalls that will prevent the feared "contagion" should Greece abandon the euro? Will include reactions from Germany and from eurozone finance ministers meeting in Brussels.
GERMANY – Right-wing groups associated with anti-Islam movement PEGIDA rally in several cities including Berlin, Leipzig, Bremen, Hannover, Dusseldorf and Frankfurt. Major anti-PEGIDA demonstration will be held in Dresden.
GERMANY – Chancellor Merkel speaks at remembrance ceremony in Berlin, marking 70th anniversary of liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp.
FRANCE – Citizens protest Economy Minister Macron’s economic plan.
SWITZERLAND – New round of UN-facilitated Libya talks convenes in Geneva.
BELGIUM – Eurogroup welcomes Lithuanian Finance Minister Rimantas Sadzius as latest finance minister to join the group. Sadzius reports on changeover to euro, which became Lithuania's official currency on Jan. 1.
CZECH REPUBLIC – Turkish Parliament Speaker meets Czech PM Sobotka and speaker of the Chamber of Deputies.
UNITED STATES
NEW YORK – UN Security Council holds emergency meeting on situation in Ukraine.
AFRICA
NIGERIA – An assessment of repercussions of Sunday's Boko Haram attacks. Militants seized Monguno and now control one-third of Borno state.
ZAMBIA– Newly-elected President Lungu expected to name cabinet.
Special Reports:
S. Sudan upbeat about peace talks after SPLM unity deal
By Okech Francis
JUBA – The government of South Sudan has expressed optimism about the upcoming round of peace talks in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, after the recent signing of a deal to re-unite the ruling Sudan People's Liberation Movement in Arusha, Tanzania.
"The Arusha intra-party agreement did not undo the Intergovernmental Authority on Development peace process," presidential spokesperson Atent Wek Ateny told The Anadolu Agency on Sunday.
Malawi battles increased illegal mining
By Moses Michael-Phiri
BLANTYRE, Malawi – The government of Malawi is reviewing the Mining Act to check unregulated mining activities which have bred chaos in the country.
"We have told people to stop mining from those pits to avoid more deaths," Minister of Energy and Mining Atupele Muluzi told The Anadolu Agency in an interview.
SOUTH ASIA
INDIA – Barack Obama becomes first US president to attend India’s annual Republic Day parade as chief guest, amid some of the strongest security measures New Delhi has ever seen.
AFGHANISTAN
Special Report:
From gardens to garbage for Afghan capital
By Shadi Khan Saif
KABUL – Once known as a city of gardens, the Afghan capital, Kabul, is becoming increasingly polluted as both the population and number of cars continue to grow far beyond the city’s initial capacity.
SE ASIA-PACIFIC
PHILIPPINES – Talks on law to create autonomous Muslim region in southern Philippines suspended following violence between police and MILF, which signed peace deal last year.
JAPAN – Government liaising with Jordan over release of ISIL hostage amid militants' demand for release of Jordanian prisoner in exchange.
INDONESIA – Divers prepare second attempt to raise fuselage of AirAsia plane.
MALAYSIA – "Cyber Caliphate" group hacks Malaysia Airlines website, following attacks on Pentagon and North Korean airline.
AUSTRALIA – Country stunned by decision to award Britain's Prince Philip knighthood.
THAILAND – National Assembly votes to impeach former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, hours after attorney general’s office announces it will indict her for controversial rice-subsidies scheme.
SOUTH KOREA – South Korean President Park Geun-hye names new prime minister amid media pressure, lowest vote of public confidence since taking office.
CHINA – Ten Chinese fishermen missing after vessel collides with cargo ship near South Korea 's southern Jeju island.
CAMBODIA – UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Cambodia, Prof. Surya P. Subedi, to hold press conference.
