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All times in GMT unless otherwise stated.
Items marked denote new or amended listings.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 7
BRUSSELS - US and EU trade negotiators hold a second round of negotiations towards a transatlantic trade deal (to Oct 11).
PARIS - 13th International Economic Forum on Africa hosted by the OECD Development Centre. Speakers include OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria, Senegal President Macky Sall, France Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici, African Development Bank President Donald Kaberuka, Central Bank of Nigeria Governor Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi and Senegal Finance Minister Amadou Kane.
** BRUSSELS - EU facilitated talks between Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic and Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci on the preparation of the upcoming elections in Kosovo.
COLOMBO - Indian External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid will visit Srilanka (to Oct 8). He will meet his Srilankan counterpart Gamini Lakshman Peiris and President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
BALI - Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Bali, Indonesia.
BUDAPEST - Serbian Foreign Minister Ivan Mrkic will meet his Hungarian counterpart Janos Martonyi and hold a joint news conference - 1000 GMT.
** BALI, Indonesia - APEC Economic Leaders Meeting (AELM). by US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian President Vladimir Putin will be attending.
** ANKARA - Turkish President Abdullah Gul and Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan meet Indian President Pranab Mukherjee.
** ANKARA - Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to meet Costa Rican counterpart Enrique Castillo Barrantes.
LONDON - The Duke of Cambridge and President of the Football Association, Prince William hosts Buckingham Palace's first ever football match as part of the 150th birthday celebrations of the Football Association.
MOSCOW - 7th anniversary of the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8
WASHINGTON - World Economic Outlook press briefing with IMF Economic Counsellor and Director of Research Department Olivier Blanchard.
CRACOW, Poland - Informal Meeting of European Presidents hosted by Poland President Bronislaw Komorowski (to Oct 9). Presidents of Bulgaria, Italy, Latvia, Portugal, Germany and Estonia will also be attending.
BRUSSELS - Japan's ambassador Kojiro Shiojiri to the EU speaks to British Chamber of Commerce in Brussels - 1300 GMT.
JERUSALEM/TEL AVIV - Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras visits Israel. He is schedule to participate in a high-level Greek-Israeli ministerial council and meet Israeli President Simon Peres in Jerusalem. He will also visit Tel Aviv to speak at a Greek-Israeli business conference.
ETHIOPIA - Presidential election.
BUDAPEST - Budapest Water Summit 2013 (to Oct 11).
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9
LONDON - Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban speaks at Chatham House on The Role of Traditional Values in Europe's Future.
AZERBAIJAN - Presidential election.
GLOBAL - World Post Day.
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10
WASHINGTON - G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors' Deputies Meeting.
WASHINGTON - Turkey Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan speaks on "Turkish Economy and Foreign Policy in Light of Recent Global Developments" at an event hosted by the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington - 1400 GMT.
NEW YORK - Members of the UN Security Council are due to meet to discuss Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's recommendations related to chemical weapons use.
GLOBAL - World Mental Health Day.
GLOBAL - World Day Against the Death Penalty.
GLOBAL - World Sight Day.
FIJI - 43rd Anniversary of Independence.
WASHINGTON - G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors' Meeting (to Oct. 11).
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11
WASHINGTON - Institute of International Finance(IIF) Annual Membership Meeting (Day 1). Speakers include:- ECB Executive Board Member Peter Praet, OECD Deputy Secretary-General and Chief Economist Pier Carlo Padoan, Central Bank of Malaysia Governor Akhtar Aziz Zeti, Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey Ali Babacan and Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem.
WASHINGTON - 2013 Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund (to Oct. 13).
DUNROVNIK - The Croatian Parliament will host the NATO Parliamentary Assembly's 59th Annual Session in Croatia (to Oct 14).
MANILA - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will visit Philippines (to Oct 12).
OSLO - The Norwegian Nobel Committee announces the 2013 Peace Prize.
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12
BALI - 11th anniversary of Bali bombings.
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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13
GLOBAL - International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction.
SANJOSE, Chile - 3rd anniversary rescue of 33 Chilean miners trapped in a collapsed Andean mine.
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 14
LUXEMBOURG - Euro zone and EU Finance Ministers Meeting (to Oct 15).
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15
** BEIJING - Australian Governor General Quentin Bryce to visit China (to Oct 23). The visit will focus on Australia's growing links with China in commerce, education and culture.
KALUGA, Russia - Ukrainian-Russian intergovernmental committee on economic cooperation will meet in Kaluga.
GLOBAL - United Nation's World Hand-Washing day.
GLOBAL - International Day of Rural Women.
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16
BRUSSELS - European Economic and Social Committee plenary session (to Oct. 17).
BRUSSELS - European Commission due to release annual progress report on Turkey's bid to join European Union.
GLOBAL - World Food Day.
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17
GLOBAL - International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18
JERUSALEM - 2nd anniversary of release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit after more than five years held incommunicado by Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20
MOSCOW - World Economic Forum Meeting in Moscow.
TRIPOLI - Second anniversary of capture and killing of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22
BRUSSELS - Meetings of the North Atlantic Council (NAC) at the level of Defence Ministers will be held at NATO Headquarters in Brussels (to Oct 23). The meeting will be chaired by the NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
SAUDI ARABIA - 2nd death anniversary of Saudi Arabia's Crown.
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23
MOSCOW - G20 Sherpas' Meeting (to Oct 24).
LIBYA - Second anniversary of declaration of Libya's Liberation.
VAN, Turkey - 2nd anniversary of earthquake that killed more than 600 people and injured more than 4,000 others.
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24
BRUSSELS - European Council meeting (to Oct. 25).
UNITED NATIONS - United Nations Day.
LUSAKA, Zambia - 49th Anniversary of Independence.
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25
CZECH REPUBLIC - Parliamentary election.
VILNIUS - Celebration of the 21th anniversary of the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania in co-operation with the Constitutional Court.
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26
BRUSSELS - 2nd anniversary of an EU agreement to tackle the European sovereign debt crisis that included a writedown of 50 percent of Greek bonds, a recapitalisation of European banks and an increase of the bailout fund of the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) totaling to euro 1 trillion.
BUTOVO, Russia - Russia Marks Annual Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Soviet Dictator Joseph Stalin's Purges.
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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27
HANOI - Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev visits Vietnam.
GEORGIA - Presidential elections.
ARGENTINA - Legislative elections.
GLOBAL - The World Day for Audiovisual Heritage.
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 28
PHILIPPINES - Local Municipal Elections.
JOHANNESBURG - The 8th African Economic Conference will take place in South Africa under the theme "Regional Integration in Africa"(to Oct 30). South African President Jacob Zuma and African Development Bank President Donald Kaberuka will be attending the Conference.
VIENNA - United Nations and Iran to hold nuclear talks.
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30
BUTOVO, Russia - Russia marks annual day of remembrance for the victims of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin's purges.
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31
GLOBAL - World population reached 7 billion in Oct 2011.
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1
TOKYO - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu will visit Japan (to Nov. 2).
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4
TEHRAN - 33rd anniversary of U.S. embassy takeover. In 1979 Iranian militants seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran and captured 90 hostages; 52 were held captive for 444 days.
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5
NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS - Parlimentary elections.
ROME - 82nd INTERPOL General Assembly Presidents, Prime Ministers and Interior Ministers from 100 Countries to Attend.
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6
TAJIKISTAN - Presidential elections.
GLOBAL - International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict.
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7
FALKLAND ISLANDS - Legislative elections.
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12
BRUSSELS - World Pneumonia Day.
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13
NAIROBI - 124th Meeting of the Committee of Permanent Representatives to United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
YANGON, Myanmar - Third Anniversary of Release of Myanmar's Detained Opposition Leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, From House Arrest.
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14
GLOBAL - World Diabetes Day.
GLOBAL - World Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Day.
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16
ST. JOHN, Antigua and Barbuda - International Day for Tolerance.
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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17
CHILE - First round of Presidential & Legislative elections.
GLOBAL - World Prematurity Day.
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18
VUKOVAR, Croatia - 22nd Anniversary of Vukovar Massacre. On Nov. 18, 1991, Serb Militia and Yugoslav Army Troops Who Refused to Accept Croatia's Independence Captured the Once Prosperous, Ethnically Mixed Town on the Banks of the Danube, after Reducing it to Rubble in a Brutal three-Month Siege.
GLOBAL - World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims.
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19
NEPAL - Legislative elections.
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20
NUREMBERG, Germany - 68th anniversary of the Nuremberg trials.
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22
TOKYO - 43rd Tokyo Motor Show 2013 (to Dec. 1).
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23
MAURITANIA - First round of Parlimentary elections.
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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24
HONDURAS - Presidential & Legislative elections.
GUINEA-BISSAU - Presidential & Legislative elections.
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25
VIENNA - International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors Meeting (to Nov. 29).
ST. JOHN, Antigua and Barbuda - International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26
MUMBAI, India - 5th Anniversary of a Series of Devastating attacks on the Indian City by Militants. The Attacks, which Began on 26 November 2008 and Lasted Nearly Three Days, Left 174 People Dead, Including Nine Gunmen.
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28
VILNIUS - 3rd Eastern Partnership Summit (to Nov. 29). The event will be hosted by the President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaite, President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy and President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso.
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29
TEHRAN, Iran - 2nd Anniversary of an Attack on the British Embassy by Dozens of Iranian Students and Protesters Angry over Britain's Unilateral Sanctions.
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