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Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2016 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TURKEY

ANKARA – Anadolu Agency Editor’s Desk to host Turkey's minister of forestry and water affairs, Veysel Eroglu.

ISTANBUL – Coverage of memorial event to mark the 2007 murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink in Istanbul.

SPECIAL REPORT
- What could a 'new' Cyprus look like?
By Ilker Girit
ISTANBUL (AA) - Divided since 1974, Cypriots could soon be living in a new, unified state; Anadolu Agency asks what the future holds for the two communities.

EUROPE

SWITZERLAND
DAVOS – Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to attend meetings of World Economic Forum to be held between Jan. 20-23.

FRANCE
STRASBOURG – European Parliament President Martin Schulz and Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo hold talks.

UNITED STATES
NEW YORK – Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush to speak at Council on Foreign Relations think-tank on U.S. foreign policy. [MERITS]



MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA

SYRIA
DAMASCUS – Reaction to Daesh killing of 57 government troops in Syria's eastern city of Deir ez-Zor.

AFRICA

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
KINSHASA – Amnesty International and African Resources Watch (Afrewatch) to launch a new report exposing child labor and other abuses in cobalt mining in the DRC.

SOUTH EAST ASIA & PACIFIC

AUSTRALIA
MELBOURNE – Knife-wielding man shot dead by police at station in west Sydney in incident believed to not be terror-related.

CHINA
BEIJING – At least three people killed and 18 others – mostly students – wounded after man drives car into crowd in eastern Jiangxi province.