ANKARA
Here are the main stories that Anadolu Agency’s English News Desk will cover on Tuesday, July 21, 2015.
TURKEY
ANKARA - Republican People's Party (CHP) and Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) will separately hold their central executive board meetings after Monday’s bomb attack that killed at least 30 people in the border town of Suruc.
SANLIURFA - Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus, Interior Minister Sebahattin Ozturk and Labor Minister Faruk Celik will hold a press conference in Sanliurfa in the wake of the bomb attack. (09:15 local time)
EUROPE
GERMANY
BERLIN - Reactions to recent revelations of WikiLeaks claiming that the NSA systematically monitored telephones of German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and senior diplomats.
AMERICAS
U.S.
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's nominee to be Army Chief of Staff, Army Gen. Mark Milley, testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee.
WASHINGTON - Senate Armed Services Chairman John McCain participates in a discussion at the Hudson Institute on U.S. national security challenges.
WASHINGTON - Former State Department Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure, Cliff Sloan speaks at the American Constitution Society regarding the long-sought closure of the controversial military facility.
MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA
SPECIAL REPORT
-Newz Beat: Ugandan rappers engage youth with news
By Halima Athumani
KAMPALA, Uganda (AA) - On the outskirts of Kampala, Uganda, a small group of young people are rocking living rooms across the country. They aim to encourage young people to watch the news by presenting it in the form of rap music.
-Kenya beautifies capital ahead of Obama visit
By Andrew Ross
NAIROBI, Kenya (AA) - Nairobi is currently undergoing a facelift ahead of U.S. President Barack Obama’s visit on July 24.
SOUTH ASIA
SPECIAL REPORT
-Drought a new normal in Pakistan’s Thar Desert
By Aamir Latif
KARACHI (AA) - With yet another drought predicted in Pakistan’s Thar Desert, experts say consecutive years of disaster highlight Pakistan’s need for a coherent policy on climate change.
SE ASIA-PACIFIC
PHILIPPINES
ZAMBOANGA - Abu Sayyaf frees teenager kidnap victim in Sulu.
CHINA
BEIJING - 2 killed in Chinese park explosion, 24 injured.
SOUTH KOREA
SEOUL - South Korean and Japanese relations cool again as Seoul protests Tokyo's renewed territorial claim and denies forging military pact -- all following recent UNESCO furor.
