ANKARA
Here are the main stories that Anadolu Agency’s English News Desk will cover Friday, July 3, 2015:
TURKEY
SPECIAL REPORT
SOCAR CEO: TANAP to create 15,000 jobs
by Andrew Jay Rosenbaum
ANKARA (AA) - The Trans Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline will have significant effect on economies involved, SOCAR Turkey CEO Kenan Yavuz told Anadolu Agency in an interview on Friday. It will also have a significant role in the energy policies of the EU.
EUROPE
GERMANY
BERLIN - Political reactions to recent revelations of WikiLeaks pointing to years of NSA spying on German government.
BERLIN - German parliament debates reforming domestic intelligence agency BfV.
SWITZERLAND
GENEVA - Voting on resolution in UN Human Rights Council on Situation of human rights of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar
GENEVA - Voting on resolution in UN Human Rights Council on Occupied Palestinian territories
MONTREUX - The Montreux Jazz Festival -- one of the most famous Jazz festivals in the world -- to kick off
MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
PALESTINE
JERUSALEM - Third Ramadan Friday prayer takes place at Al-Aqsa Mosque
SPECIAL REPORT
During rainy season, Ethiopians delight in corn
By Abebech Hailekal
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AA) - Alganesh Alemayehu and Amina Kedir sit on the streets of Addis Ababa fanning small charcoal furnaces on which they grill cobs of corn that they sell to hungry passersby.
SOUTH ASIA
AFGHANISTAN
KABUL - This week's attack on foreign troops in the Afghan capital Kabul exposed lingering anger among many Afghans at their continuing presence in the country, with reports that locals pelted stones at soldiers in the explosion's aftermath.
SOUTHEAST ASIA-PACIFIC
CHINA
BEIJING - At least two people killed after magnitude 6.5 earthquake hits northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
SOUTH KOREA
SEOUL - Four dead, two missing after storage tank containing waste explodes at chemical plant in coastal southern city of Ulsan.
CAMBODIA
PHNOM PENH - Frontline Defenders rights group calls on Cambodian court to drop defamation charges against leading human rights advocate after he spoke out against a land dispute.
