ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main stories that The Anadolu Agency's English News Desk will cover Monday, March 23, 2015:
TURKEY
ANKARA - President Erdogan to address village heads, known as Mukhtars, for the fifth time at the presidential palace, as part of a plan to meet around 50,000 such Mukhtars across the country.
ANKARA - Prime Minister Davutoglu to chair cabinet meeting for the first time at the Cankaya Palace, the former presidential palace that was later transferred to the prime ministry.
ANKARA - The Turkish Statistical Institute, TurkStat, to announce the Consumer Confidence Index.
SPECIAL REPORTS:
Searching for a blockbuster: Gallipoli on film
By Burcu Arik
ISTANBUL - Big-minded but small-budget Turkish Canakkale Campaign movies have not done as well as expected at the box office. AA speaks to directors and critics about depictions of this famous battle.
Telecom, IT spending on the rise in Turkey: report
By Andrew Jay Rosenbaum
ANKARA - Telecommunications and Information Technology spending is on the rise in Turkey, according to a report by research firm IDC released Monday.
MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA
SUDAN
KHARTOUM - Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia are expected to sign an agreement regulating their water relations and Ethiopia's controversial Grand Renaissance Dam.
SOUTH AFRICA
CAPE TOWN - Police to announce result of probe into claims that apartheid-era assassin Eugene de Kock was being held against his will after his release on parole.
MALAWI
LILONGWE - The government expects positive outcome from a meeting of the International Monetary Fund on resumption of lending.
NIGERIA
ABUJA - Nigeria's latest preparations for the March 28 general polls.
ABUJA - Ongoing military operations against Boko Haram in the north.
SPECIAL REPORTS:
Jonathan: Nigeria's substantive president
By Rafiu Ajakaye
LAGOS - If your deputy at work is named Goodluck, make sure he gets sacked as soon as possible. That is one of the many jokes Nigerians cracked about incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan. The joke aptly captures the rise of the former teacher to the helm of power in Africa's most populous country, without necessarily standing for election.
Youths in Mogadishu seek solace in basketball (photos)
By Yassin Juma
MOGADISHU - The screech of trainers on the court, the bouncing of the ball, the shout from players, the dunk on the basket and the sudden loud applause from a fully-packed stadium. Welcome to the newly opened Haji Abdullahi Yabarow Basketball Stadium, the most popular hangout for residents of Mogadishu, a city otherwise associated with bombings and bloodshed.
UNITED STATES
NEW YORK - Hearing takes place in the case of Evgeny Buryakov, an alleged Russian spy in the U.S.
EUROPE
GERMANY
BERLIN - Greek PM Tsipras to visit Berlin at a time of strained relations between Greece and its biggest creditor Germany.
SE ASIA-PACIFIC
SOUTH KOREA
SEOUL - Activists postpone plans to launch half-a-million leaflets into North Korea on the fifth anniversary of the North's fatal sinking of a South Korean naval ship.
MALAYSIA
KUALA LUMPUR - Singapore's founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew remembered after passing away at the age of 91.
CHINA
BEIJING - Ministry of Water Resources warns that resources in several rivers overexploited as total nationwide consumption approaches level forecast for 2020.
INDONESIA
JAKARTA - Anti-terrorism police arrest man suspected of financing Daesh supporters, investigate how many people were sent to Syria.
