ANKARA
Here are the main topics that Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015:
TURKEY
ANKARA - Turkish statistics authority to announce unemployment figures for June 2015.
ISTANBUL - Sports: Turkish top-flight football team Galatasaray to play Spain's Atletico Madrid in UEFA Champions League group stage game.
SPECIAL REPORT
Troubled times for emerging markets
By Andrew Jay Rosenbaum
ANKARA (AA) - Whether or not the Federal Reserve raises interest rates on Thursday, emerging markets around the world are facing a series of daunting challenges.
EUROPE
UNITED KINGDOM
LONDON - Defence and Security Equipment International [DSEI] fair opens. Turkey's London ambassador, Abdurrahman Bilgic, will visit Turkey's stand.
GREECE
SPECIAL REPORT
Tsipras and Meimarakis clash over Greece's future
By Magda Panoutsopoulou
ATHENS (AA) - Outgoing Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has clashed with his conservative opponent, Evangelos Meimarakis, on how to pilot the future of the country after elections to be held on Sunday.
MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA
LIBYA
SIRTE - Residents of Sirte asked to pay allegiance to Daesh before beginning of October or face consequences.
IRAQ
MOSUL - Hundreds of pilgrims return to Mosul after being prevented by Iraqi authorities from going to Hajj for "security reasons".
SPECIAL REPORTS:
Thyme cultivation fuels Palestinian ‘green’ gold rush
By Ali Abo-Rezeg
QALQILYA, Palestine (AA) - Early every morning, Muayyad Said, a Palestinian farmer, gathers his tools and goes to his field to harvest thyme, the cultivation of which has dramatically expanded in the West Bank over the past five years.
Elderly Kenyan man sells spices for 15 years to make Hajj
By Andrew Ross
NAIROBI, Kenya (AA) - For the first time ever, Kenya is sending 4,500 Muslims to Hajj. Among them is an elderly man who has been saving for over 15 years to make the pilgrimage.
SE ASIA-PACIFIC
SOUTH KOREA
SEOUL - Seoul warns North Korea to abandon rocket launch plan, while both sides maintain cooperation timeline
THAILAND
BANGKOK - Initial suspect arrested with false passports at apartment block housing bomb components denies involvement in August’s deadly blast.
MALAYSIA
KUALA LUMPUR - Daughter of imprisoned former opposition leader pleas to U.S. to pressure Malaysian government to grant permission for him to undergo surgery.
