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Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover Friday, April 29, 2016 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TURKEY

ISTANBUL - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu will attend historic Kut al-Amara battle centennial commemorations in Istanbul. The battle was a key clash for the Ottoman Empire during the First World War.

ANKARA - Prime Minister Davutoglu will attend ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party's Executive Board meeting in Ankara.

ANKARA - Trade Minister Bulent Tufenkci to speak at Anadolu Agency Editors’ Desk.

SPECIAL REPORTS:

Social-media savvy British diplomat saying goodbye to Istanbul

By Handan Kazanci

ISTANBUL (AA) – Leigh Turner, prolific blogger, tweeter and U.K. consul-general in Istanbul speaks to Anadolu Agency before departing his post

EUROPE

UNITED KINGDOM

LONDON – UKIP Leader Nigel Farage expected to give a significant speech on upcoming ‘Brexit’ referendum.

SPECIAL REPORTS:

British imam calls UK leader ‘racist’ and ‘Islamophobic’

By Busra Akin Dincer

LONDON (AA) – In an exclusive interview, London imam Suliman Gani demands an apology from Prime Minister David Cameron over allegations linking him to Daesh

Centenary of Ottoman victory in WWI Baghdad siege

By Michael Daventry

LONDON (AA) – Friday marks the centenary of one of the most significant British defeats to the Ottoman Empire during fighting in the First World War.

SWITZERLAND

GENEVA - United Nations to be awarded the Olympic Cup by International Olympic Committee (IOC). Olympic flame will stop at UN office in Geneva. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and IOC President Thomas Bach to attend.

LAUSANNE – Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter will testify at the Court of Arbitration for Sport during Michel Platini's appeal against six-year ban from football.

GERMANY

BERLIN - Chancellor Angela Merkel meets Latvian PM Maris Kucinskis for talks on European issues, the refugee crisis and conflict in eastern Ukraine.

AMERICAS

U.S.

WASHINGTON – General Joseph Votel, commander of U.S. Central Command, to hold briefing on the release of the U.S. Forces-Afghanistan investigation into the U.S. airstrike on the Doctors Without Borders trauma center in Kunduz, Afghanistan, on Oct. 3, 2015.

SOUTHEAST ASIA & THE PACIFIC

CHINA

BEIJING – Two people killed and four others injured after fire breaks out at underground construction site at Hongqiao Airport in Shanghai, burning around 100 square meters at site.

CAMBODIA

PHNOM PENH – Anti-corruption unit accused of targeting rights workers in relation to case regarding alleged affair committed by opposition party leader.

AUSTRALIA

MELBOURNE – An Iranian refugee who set himself on fire at Australia’s offshore detention center on the island of Nauru has died.