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Here are the main stories that The Anadolu Agency's English News Desk will cover on Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014:
BRUSSELS - Anti-ISIL coalition to meet with NATO; Kerry to chair.
TURKEY
ANKARA -- The 'Judicial Package' passed the Turkish legislature late Tuesday. Details and reactions of the new bill, which institutes a series of judicial changes, that would give more powers to law enforcement agencies in Turkey followed.
ANKARA - Russia-Turkish gas pipeline will bypass Bulgaria. More information on Turkey's energy agreements with Russia to follow.
ANKARA - Replacement Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga troops are heading to Kobani through Turkey.
ANKARA -- President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to attend a ceremony to be held at presidential palace for winners of Presidential Culture and Arts Grand Awards.
BURSA -- Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to attend a ceremony to be held in TOFAS's facility located in western Bursa province on exportation of commercial vehicles to the U.S..
UNITED STATES
WASHINGTON - U.S. denies cooperation with Iran on Iraq airstrikes.
NEW YORK -- Nationwide protests to highlight perceived injustices within US justice system, a week after grand jury's declining to indict white police officer Darren Wilson in shooting of unarmed black teen Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
NEW YORK -- Grand jury decision possible any day on whether to bring charges against a white police officer, Daniel Pantaleo, for putting an unarmed black man, Eric Garner, in a fatal chokehold in July in the NYC borough of Staten Island.
TURKISH REPUBLIC OF NORTHERN CYPRUS -- Turkey's EU Minister and Chief Negotiator Volkan Bozkir to meet with Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus President Dervis Eroglu and Parliament Speaker Sibel Siber as well as Prime Minister Ozkan Yorgancioglu and Foreign Minister Ozdil Nami in Lefkosa.
EUROPE
FRANCE -- President Francois Hollande to meet Haidar al-Abadi, the Iraqi prime minister, in Paris.
GERMANY
BERLIN -- 13th Berlin Security Conference to focus on Ukraine, Middle East and Africa.
A special panel to be held on Turkey’s defense industry and cooperation with NATO partners, as this year Turkey is the partner country of the conference.
OFFENBACH – The funeral ceremony for Tugce Albayrak, the Turkish girl who was beaten to death by a group of thugs while trying to help two threatened girls, to be held at a mosque in Waechtersbach. Thousands are expected to participate at the funeral. Tugce became a symbol for civic courage in Germany.
UK
LONDON -- Weekly PMQs, Questions to the Prime Minister, to take place at the Parliament
LONDON -- UK Chancellor George Osborne makes Autumn speech at the Parliament.
SWITZERLAND -- The World Meteorological Organization to hold a press conference on the status of the Global Climate in 2014
MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA
ZIMBABWE -- The 6th National Congress ruling ZANU PF party to begin.
SPECIAL REPORTS
Zimbabwe looks to wind for power generation - By Wallace Mawire HARARE
(AA) – In a bid to promote the use of environmentally-friendly renewable power technologies, the Zimbabwean government is intensifying efforts to tap into wind energy for power generation.
In rebel-held town, S. Sudan's Nuer trade services for safety - By Okech Francis
LANKIEN, South Sudan (AA) – Life in Lankien, a rebel-held town in Nyirol County in South Sudan's Jonglei State, is difficult, with meager food supplies and medical services.But for many members of the Nuer tribe, it has become a safe haven in a country at war along political and, some say, ethnic lines.
SE ASIA-PACIFIC
HONG KONG -- Occupy Central leaders 'surrender' and student leaders ponder 'where now?' for territory's pro-democracy movement.
SOUTH KOREA
SEOUL -- More bodies recovered from fishing vessel sunk in Bering Sea.
PHILIPPINES
ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines -- Typhoon Hagupit heads towards islands, residents prepare.
ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines -- New Bangsamoro autonomous govt sparks federalism hopes around Philippines.
AUSTRALIA
MELBOURNE -- Naval personnel tell of patrolling Australia's waters and trauma of turning back refugee boats.
MELBOURNE -- Funeral of cricketer Phillip Hughes, killed by ball on field of play.
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