ANKARA
Here are the main stories that Anadolu Agency's English News Desk will cover on Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014.
TURKEY
- The Anadolu Agency will examine the future of Turkey's electric car industry, with investors and designers saying it could revitalize the domestic automotive sector.
- Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu will hold a press conference regarding workplace safety. He will also meet with the prime minister of the Syrian National Coalition, Ahmet Toumah. Later Wednesday, Davutoglu will depart for the G-20 summit in Australia.
- Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus to attend the Jerusalem Contact Group meeting (Al-Quds Committee) of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Rabat, Morocco.
- Turkey’s EU minister and chief negotiator, Volkan Bozkir, to meet in Brussels with Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus Foreign Minister Ozdil Nami and members of Friends of Turkey -- supporters of the country in the European Parliament.
UNITED STATES
- UN-mediated talks between Greece and Macedonia will be held regarding the dispute over Macedonia's name. Balkan media claim UN Envoy Matthew Nimetz will propose a new name -- either Upper Republic of Macedonia, or Republic of Upper Macedonia.
- UN Security Council to hold emergency session to discuss alleged Russian military movements in eastern Ukraine. Kiev authorities claim dozens of military convoys carrying weapons have crossed into the region from Russia.
EUROPE
BELGIUM
- European Parliament will take up Turkey-Greek Cypriot conflicts regarding natural resources exploration off the island's coast.
SWITZERLAND
- Parents of Michael Brown, shot dead by police in Ferguson, U.S., will testify at the UN Committee against Torture and hold press conference.
- Turkish national Murat Kurnaz, who was held in Guatanamo for five years without trial, to hold a press conference.
- UN Committee against Torture will review the U.S.
- Human Rights Watch will hold press conference on incendiary weapons and cluster munitions in Ukraine, Syria and elsewhere in relation with the Convention on Conventional Weapons.
FRANCE
- European Space Agency tries to land probe on a comet in historic leap.
- French foreign minister Laurent Fabius to speak at French Senate on issue of foreigner fighters.
GERMANY
- German government unveils draft law under which athletes caught doping could face three years in jail.
- Trial of members of far-right NSU, charged with killing Turkish nationals, continues.
- German FM Steinmeier and Hungarian counterpart Peter Szijjerto to hold joint press conference.
MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA
EGYPT
- Following trial of Muslim Brotherhood leader and his deputy.
- Cabinet to discuss preparations for parliamentary elections.
MOROCCO
- Organization of Islamic Cooperation Al-Quds Committee meets in Rabat over Israeli aggression in Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.
NIGERIA
- Reporting on government reaction after Boko Haram militants reportedly capture Maiha, a town in Nigeria's northeastern Adamawa State.
SPECIAL REPORTS
- Ethiopia’s herbal high remains popular despite ban:
By Seleshi Tessema
ADDIS ABABA (AA) – Khat, a herbal stimulant chewed in the Horn of Africa for centuries, has remained popular on Ethiopian streets despite bans targeting exports of the leafy narcotic around the world over its negative effects. With photos.
- Kenya's funeral industry wants law to protect the dead
By James Shimanyula
NAIROBI
Kenyan embalmers, morticians, funeral directors and pathologists meet later this week to discuss country's increasing number of unregistered practitioners and mull means of obtaining legal protection for the dead.
ASIA PACIFIC
REGION:
Measures taken around the region to protect against Ebola following the return and quarantine of 108 Philippine UN troops from Liberia.
SOUTH KOREA/JAPAN
- South Korean and Japanese leaders meet in Myanmar for ASEAN summit to discuss divisive issues stemming from Japan's 1910-45 occupation of Korea, as well as territorial disputes.
CAMBODIA
- Case of seven land rights activists arrested, charged and sentenced to a year in prison for blocking a road - all within 72 hours.
- Minimum wage agreement of $123 a month.
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