ANKARA
Here are the main stories that Anadolu Agency’s English News Desk will cover Friday, June 19, 2015:
TURKEY
ANKARA - Ex-president Suleyman Demirel's funeral service to be held with state honors. Ceremony to take place at parliament in Ankara between 9.00 a.m. and 10.00 a.m. local time (between 0600 and 0700GMT) before funeral prayers at Kocatepe Mosque at 1.45 p.m. (1045GMT). Following funeral prayers, Demirel's body to be taken to his hometown of Isparta, southwestern Turkey, by plane.
ANKARA - Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu to meet UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres.
SPECIAL REPORT:
Bittersweet Ramadan for Syrians on the Turkish border
-Syrians sheltering in southeastern Turkey, with their country still in turmoil after five years, have mixed emotions as Ramadan arrives
By Nilay Kar Onum
AKCAKALE, Sanliurfa, Turkey (AA) - With the azan -- the Islamic call to prayer -- finally ringing out, everybody went into their tents to break their 17-hour fast on the first day of Ramadan.
For these Muslims however, their iftar meal will be held on foreign soil.
EUROPE
SWITZERLAND
GENEVA - The UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions to release annual report to the Human Rights Council on the use of information and communications technologies to secure the right to life.
GENEVA - UNRWA Commissioner-General Pierre Krahenbuhl to speak on priorities and challenges facing UNRWA’s work with five million Palestinian refugees.
GREECE
SPECIAL REPORT:
Greece faces banking crisis after bailout talks break down
-Run on Greek banks brings them close to failure
By Andrew Jay Rosenbaum
ANKARA (AA) - After the breakdown of talks between Athens and its creditors on Thursday, a run on Greek banks is close to putting the country's banking system in crisis.
AMERICAS
UNITED STATES
WASHINGTON - State Department to hold an on-camera, on-the-record briefing on the annual Congressionally mandated Country Reports on Terrorism 2014.
SPECIAL REPORT:
America’s political dynasties loom large in 2016 race
By Michael Hernandez
WASHINGTON (AA) - The prospects of another Bush-Clinton presidential face-off were significantly heightened Monday when Jeb Bush joined former first lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in seeking America’s top office.
SE ASIA-PACIFIC
HONG KONG
HONG KONG - Two pro-Beijing lawmakers call on allies who led walkout during vote on defeated election reform package to apologize.
SOUTH KOREA
SEOUL - South Korea’s new PM Hwang Kyo-ahn apologizes for belated government response to MERS as death toll reaches 24 and approval rating of President Park Geun-hye hits all-time low.
MALAYSIA
KUALA LUMPUR - Navy chief says hijacked oil tanker rescued after pirates flee as navy ships and helicopter tail vessel, which had been repainted and renamed.
MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA
SPECIAL REPORT:
Eight million South Sudanese hungry amid $1.1 billion aid funding gap
By Okech Francis
JUBA, South Sudan (AA) - About 80 percent of South Sudan's eight million people lack access to food, in a country ravaged by an ongoing civil war sparked by political wrangles within the ruling party.
Analysts: Boko Haram may launch 'dramatic attacks' as comeback sign
By Mohamed Abdellaoui
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) - Monday's attacks in the heart of the Chadian capital, which left 33 people dead and at least 100 others injured, is the beginning of a series of “dramatic attacks” by Boko Haram as a comeback sign, experts claim.
