ANKARA
Here are the main stories that Anadolu Agency’s English News Desk will cover Wednesday, July 1, 2015:
TURKEY
ANKARA - Turkish parliament to elect speaker in two further rounds of voting after initial ballot on Tuesday saw no winning majority.
ANKARA - TurkStat to announce exports statistics.
EUROPE
GERMANY
BERLIN - German parliament debates response to deepening debt crisis in Greece.
BERLIN - Chancellor Angela Merkel meets Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.
BELGIUM
BRUSSELS - Turkish Cypriot President Mustafa Akinci will meet European Parliament President Martin Schulz.
BRUSSELS - Johannes Hahn, European Commissioner in charge of European Neighborhood and Enlargement Negotiations will open an exhibition on the Women of Srebrenica at the European Commission.
SPECIAL REPORT
SERBIA
Migrants in Serbia dream of EU
- Number of asylum seekers in Serbia quadrupled in past two years
by Talha Ozturk
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) - Abbas Mohammadi, 32, has finally made it to Serbia after a three-month trek from Afghanistan.
With his six children and 17 of his relatives, he has traveled from country to country to reach the Serbian capital, Belgrade.
SE ASIA-PACIFIC
INDONESIA
JAKARTA - Search-and-rescue team has now removed 135 bodies from crash site of air force cargo plane.
MALAYSIA
KUALA LUMPUR - Father and son get combined 30 years in jail after father found guilty of joining Daesh in Syria and then returning as a ‘spiritual leader’ to encourage others to perform ‘terror’ activities in Malaysia.
AUSTRALIA
MELBOURNE - Prisons in state of Victoria remain in lockdown after a riot at Melbourne’s largest remand center over a statewide cigarette ban
AMERICAS
US
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama delivers a statement on Cuba and mutual opening of embassies in capitals.
WASHINGTON - U.S. Department of Labor to declare non-farm payrolls
WASHINGTON - The Bipartisan Policy Center holds a discussion on "Turkey and the Kurds: Post-Election Prospects for Progress?"
