DIARY - Political and General News Events From Aug. 3
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3
DETROIT - U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch will meet with community leaders in Detroit to discuss policing and community issue in the wake of fatal shootings by police of black men as well as the subsequent shootings of police officers around the country - 1330 GMT.
KUALA LUMPUR - Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko will make his first official visit to Malaysia (to Aug. 5).
ISLAMABAD - Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh is expected to visit Pakistan (to Aug. 4) for the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation or SAARC home ministers meeting. ** NEW DELHI - Conference on sustainable development. ** ROME - Italian Economy Minister Pier Carlo Padoan addresses the lower house of parliament, to speak about Italy's bad debt-laden banking system and the state of fragile Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena in particular - 1400 GMT.
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 4 ** BUENOS AIRES - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry begins state visit to Argentina. ** GENEVA - UN Special advisor to UN envoy for Syria Jan Egeland holds a briefing on humanitarian situation on the ground and humanitarian access following weekly task force meeting - 1100 GMT. ** MAKATI CITY - Philippines Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno holds news conference - 0400 GMT. ** RIO DE JANEIRO - International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach holds a news conference
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 5
JAKARTA - Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko will make his first official visit to Indonesia (to Aug. 7).
EDINBURGH, Scotland - Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2016 (to Aug 29). https://www.edfringe.com/
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Olympic Games 2016 (to Aug. 21).
https://www.rio2016.com/en
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 6
HIROSHIMA, Japan - Hiroshima Commemorations 71st Anniversary of 1945 nuclear attacks.
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 7
THAILAND - Referendum election.
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MONDAY, AUGUST 8 ** BAKU - Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Baku at the invitation of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev to attend the first trilateral meeting of the leaders of Azerbaijan, Iran and Russia.
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 9
NAGASAKI, Japan - Nagasaki Commemorations 71st Anniversary of 1945 nuclear attacks.
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 11
ZAMBIA - National Assembly election.
ZAMBIA - Referendum election.
ZAMBIA - Presidential election.
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 12
GLOBAL - International Youth Day.
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 13
EDINBURGH, Scotland - Edinburgh International Book Festival (to Aug 29). https://www.edbookfest.co.uk/
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 14
PAKISTAN - 70th Independence Day
LEBANON - Hezbollah marks 10th anniversary of its "divine victory" - - the end of its war with Israel.
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MONDAY, AUGUST 15
JAPAN - 71st anniversary of country's surrender in World War Two.
INDIA - 70th Indian Independence Day
LIECHTENSTEIN - 210th Anniversary of Independence.
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17
TRALEE, Ireland - 2016 Rose of Tralee International Festival (to Aug 23). http://www.roseoftralee.ie/#!2016/x5fuc
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 19
GLOBAL - World Humanitarian Day
MOSCOW - 25th anniversary of the failed Soviet coup against Mikhail Gorbachev which accelerated the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 21
ROTTERDAM - 2016 World Rowing Junior Championships (to Aug 28). http://www.worldrowing.com/events/2016-world-rowing-junior-championships/event-information
SYRIA - 3rd anniversary of nerve gas attack which killed hundreds of people in rebel-held neighborhoods on the edge of Damascus.
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 23
BALTIC WAY - 27st anniversary of the Baltic Way, a human chain of people in 1989 stretching from Vilnius to Tallinn to mark solidarity in the struggle for independence from the Soviet Union.
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24
POLAND - Poland marks the 27th anniversary of the creation of the first post-communist government in 1989.
UKRAINE - 25th Anniversary of Independence.
WASHINGTON - 202nd anniversary of the Burning of Washington, including the White House and the US Capitol building, by the British troops during the War of 1812.
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 25
URUGUAY - Uruguay's Independence Day
PARIS - 72nd anniversary of the liberation of Paris from Nazi occupation in the Second World War.
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THUSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1
NORTH OSSETIA, Russia - 12th Anniversary of the terrorist attack at Beslan School.
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 ** VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Russian President Vladimir Putin and South Korean President Park Geun-hye will meet in Vladivostok
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5
MUNICH, Germany - 44th Anniversary of the attack on Israeli Olympic team by Palestinian gunmen which killed 11 Israelis.
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6
INDIA/BANGLADESH - 5th anniversary of a pact to end a 40-year border demarcation dispute between India and Bangladesh.
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8
TORONTO, Canada - Toronto International Film Festival 2016 (to Sept 18). http://tiff.net/tiff/
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11
UNITED STATES - 15th anniversary of 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon.
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14
LONDON - World Nuclear Association (WNA) Annual Symposium (to Sept 16). http://www.wna-symposium.org/ehome/index.php?eventid=154881&
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15
GLOBAL - International day of Democracy.
GUATEMALA - 195th Anniversary of Independence.
EL SALVADOR - 195th Anniversary of Independence.
COSTA RICA - 195th Anniversary of Independence.
HONDURAS - 195th Anniversary of Independence.
NICARAGUA - 195th Anniversary of Independence.
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17
MUNICH - 183nd Munich Oktoberfest (to Oct 1).
http://www.oktoberfest.de/en/
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24
BISSAU - Guinea-Bissau marks 43rd anniversary of independence from Portugal.
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25
BERLIN - 43rd BMW Berlin Marathon.
http://www.bmw-berlin-marathon.com/en/
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
VIENNA - IAEA 60th General Conference (to Sept 30).
https://www.iaea.org/about/policy/gc/gc60
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28
GLOBAL - World Rabies Day.
SEOUL - South Korea marks the 66th anniversary of recovering Seoul from North Korea during the Korean War.
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