World Bulletin / News Desk

TURKEY

ISTANBUL - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to depart to attend EU-Turkey summit in Varna, Bulgaria.

ANKARA - Prime Minister Binali Yildirim to preside over Cabinet meeting at Cankaya Palace.

GERMANY

BERLIN - Former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont expected to appear before judge one day after being arrested in northern Germany, on European arrest warrant.

UNITED KINGDOM

LONDON - Parliament to debate national security and Russia in wake of March 4 poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury.

LONDON - Dateline to be reached for Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to appear before parliamentary committee on Cambridge Analytica data harvesting scandal.

RUSSIA

MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin to hold talks with Qatar Emiri Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani.

SYRIA

IDLIB / AZAZ / AFRIN - Desk to monitor Turkish-led Operation Olive Branch against YPG/PKK-Daesh terror groups in Afrin, Syria.

EGYPT 

CAIRO - Egyptians to start voting in presidential elections, Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi’s re-election assured.

UGANDA

Congolese refugees in Uganda recount horror stories