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Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TURKEY

ANKARA - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to chair Cabinet meeting at the presidential complex.

ANKARA - Turkey’s Ministry of Industry and Technology to release quarterly productivity statistics for the April-June period.

ANKARA - Eurostat, statistics office of the European Union, to release employment figures for the second quarter of this year.

ANKARA - Turkish Treasury to hold an auction for two-year government bonds.

LONDON - Turkey's First Lady Emine Erdogan to be presented with Humanitarian Service Recognition Award by the Global Donors Forum.

LONDON - Turkish Trade Minister Ruhsar Pekcan to hold meetings in London.

LONDON - The 8th Global Donors Forum to continue in London on its second day.

LONDON - British Prime Minister Theresa May to chair Cabinet meeting.

ROMANIA

BUCHAREST - Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu to attend meeting of Turkey-Romania-Poland foreign ministers, appear in joint news conference.

WASHINGTON - Americans to mark 17th anniversary of Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that took nearly 3,000 lives. President Donald Trump to deliver remarks at Flight 93 memorial in Pennsylvania.

NEW YORK - UN humanitarian official for Myanmar to address reporters at daily UN press briefing.

SPECIAL REPORT

Shutting PLO office 'disqualifies US as peace mediator'

By Umar Farooq

WASHINGTON

The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the Palestinian mission in Washington, D.C. is by no means surprising, according to analysts, who say the move disqualifies America as a legitimate broker of peace in the region.

SWITZERLAND

GENEVA - UN Special Envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura to meet high-level diplomats from the Astana process' guarantor countries -- Turkey, Russia, and Iran -- to discuss establishment of Syria's constitutional committee.

RUSSIA

VLADIVOSTOK - President Vladimir Putin to meet his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping.

VLADIVOSTOK - First day of the Eastern Economic Forum.

MOSCOW - U.S. secretary of energy to visit Russia.

MOSCOW - Russian-Chinese-Mongolian joint defense drill "East-2018".

GERMANY

BERLIN - Chancellor Merkel to meet EU Council President Donald Tusk ahead of EU leaders’ summit on Sep. 19-20.

FRANCE

STRASBOURG - Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to address MEPs on future of Europe.

STRASBOURG - Lebanon's President Michel Aoun also set to speak to MEPs.

STRASBOURG - MEPs to debate situation in Hungary with Prime Minister Viktor Orban ahead of Wednesday's vote on whether to ask the European Council to activate Article 7 against Budapest government.

SPAIN

CATALONIA - Massive pro-independence protests expected as Thursday marks National Day of Catalonia, La Diada.

SOUTH AFRICA

JOHANNESBURG - Parliament to discuss current recession affecting country, one week after statistics body announced GDP contracted 0.7%.

ETHIOPIA

ADDIS ABABA - Ethiopians across country celebrate 2011 Ethiopian New Year with colorful festivities.

PALESTINE

RAMALLAH - Saeb Erekat, secretary general of Palestine Liberation Organization, expected to hold news conference after U.S. shutters PLO office in Washington.

EGYPT

CAIRO - The Arab League to convene to discuss recent U.S. decision to cut funding for UN Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA.

SYRIA

IDLIB - Civilians in Idlib, Syria’s last opposition stronghold, brace for expected attack by Assad regime.

YEMEN

SANAA - War-weary Yemenis struggle with effects of recent plunge in value of local currency.