DIARY - Political and General News Events From Sept. 14

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 ** WASHINGTON - Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi meets U.S. President Barack Obama ** STRASBOURG - European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker gives state of union address to European Parliament. ** LONDON - British Prime Minister Theresa May speaks in parliament - 1100 GMT. ** BEIJING - Peru's President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski holds talks with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang.

NEW DELHI - Afghan President Ashraf Ghani visits India.

KIEV - German and French Foreign Ministers, Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Jean-Marc Ayrault will visit Kiev (to Sept. 15).

KIEV - EU Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighborhood Policy Johannes Hahn will visit Ukraine (to Sept. 16). ** KIEV - Foreign ministers of Germany, Britain and France visit Ukraine

SOFIA/PLOVDIV - Bulgaria hosts Arraiolos meeting of EU Presidents (to Sept. 15). Presidents of Estonia, Italy, Latvia, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Hungary, Germany and Finland to attend the meeting.

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 ** CHICAGO - London Mayor Sadiq Khan speaks at a conference in Chicago on the challenges of social integration during his first official visit to the United States - 2200 GMT. ** PARIS - French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are to meet in Paris - 1030 GMT.

NEW DELHI/MUMBAI - Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal visits India (to Sept. 18).

BRUSSELS - U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman visits Brussels.

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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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 ** BRATISLAVA - EU summit. Leaders of the 27 European Union states excluding Britain meet to discuss how to bolster the bloc following the British vote to leave. ** MONTREAL - Canada will host the Fifth Replenishment Conference of the global fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. ** MONTREAL - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau addresses global health conference in Montreal. ** KIEV - YES (Yalta European Strategy) forum (to Sept. 17). ** PANAJI, India - Environment ministers of the BRICS nations will meet in Goa to strengthen mutual cooperation in critical areas like air and water pollution, liquid and solid waste management, climate change and conservation of biodiversity.

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17

MUNICH - 183rd Munich Oktoberfest (to Oct. 1).

http://www.oktoberfest.de/en/

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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 ** HAVANA/WASHINGTON/NEW YORK - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will make a visit to Cuba and United States (to Sept. 24) which will include a speech before the U.N. General Assembly in New York.

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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 ** JERUSALEM/HELSINKI/PARIS - Top Chinese legislator Zhang Dejiang will visit Israel, Palestine, Finland and France (to Sept. 28).

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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 ** ALGIERS - Members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries are due to meet in Algeria on the sidelines of the International Energy Forum (IEF) (to Sept. 28).

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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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1

GLOBAL - International Day of Older Persons.

ABUJA - Nigeria celebrates its 56th year of independence.

CHINA - 67th founding anniversary of the People's Republic of China.

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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2

GUINEA - 58th anniversary of independence from France.

GLOBAL - International Day of Non-Violence.

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5

GLOBAL - World Teachers' Day.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - 5th Death Anniversary of Apple co-founder.

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7

WASHINGTON - 2016 Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund (to Oct. 9). MOSCOW - 10th anniversary of the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9

GLOBAL - World Post Day.

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MONDAY, OCTOBER 10

GLOBAL - World Mental Health Day.

GLOBAL - World Day Against the Death Penalty.

GLOBAL - World Sight Day.

FIJI - 45th Anniversary of Independence.

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12 ** MOSCOW/ST PETERSBURG - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic is expected to visit Russia (to Oct. 14) to take part in the opening ceremony of a Serbian honorary consulate in Russia's second biggest city of St. Petersburg.

BALI - 14th anniversary of Bali bombings.

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13

GLOBAL - International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction.

SAN JOSE, Chile - 6th anniversary rescue of 33 Chilean miners trapped in a collapsed Andean mine.

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15

GLOBAL - United Nation's World Hand-Washing day.

GLOBAL - International Day of Rural Women.

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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16

GLOBAL - World Food Day.

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MONDAY, OCTOBER 17

GLOBAL - International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18 ** WASHINGTON - U.S. President Barack Obama will meet Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.

JERUSALEM - 5th 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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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20

TRIPOLI - 5th anniversary of capture and killing of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22

SAUDI ARABIA - 5th death anniversary of Saudi Arabia's Crown.

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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23

LIBYA - 5th anniversary of declaration of Libya's Liberation.

VAN, Turkey - 5th anniversary of earthquake that killed more than 600 people and injured more than 4,000 others.

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