Press agenda on March 1

Here are the main topics World Bulletin’s English Desk plans to cover Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Press agenda on March 1

World Bulletin / News Desk

 

TURKEY

ANKARA - Prime Minister Binali Yildirim to hold rallies in northern Amasya and Tokat provinces as part of a campaign for constitutional amendment referendum in April.  

 

AMERICAS

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump expected to issue new executive order to replace controversial "Muslim ban".

 

FRANCE 

PARIS- Court of Appeal is expected to deliver its verdict in a challenge from National Front party founder Jean-Marie Le Pen to a lower court's guilty verdict over Holocaust comments.​

STRASBOURG - Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag to meet Secretary-General of Council of Europe Thorbjorn Jagland and President of the European Court of Human Rights Guido Raimondi.

Bozdag and Jagland to hold a joint press conference. 

 

SWITZERLAND

GENEVA - Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov to meet Syrian opposition delegation as part of the ongoing peace talks​.

 

DENMARK

Afghan boy reunited with family in Denmark

COPENHAGEN - An Afghan child found half-frozen in Turkey's eastern Erzurum province last year as he is reunited with his family in Denmark with the help of the Turkish Red Crescent (Kizilay) and the Danish Red Cross.

 

PAKISTAN 

ISLAMABAD - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to attend the 13th Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) summit.

 

PALESTINE 

Fleeing Israeli bulldozers, Palestinians resort to caves

NABLUS - Majid Hanani, 64, has been forced to live the life of a caveman after his home in the West Bank was razed by Israeli bulldozers. ​

 

NIGERIA 

LAGOS - Nigeria's parliament to consider the confirmation of the chief justice-nominee Walter Onnoghen, the first chief justice nominee from southern Nigeria in almost three decades.

MAIDUGURI - Army commander to hold a news briefing on the fight against terrorism and insurgency in the North East. 

 

 

 

 

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