DIARY - Political and General News Events From Sept. 16
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 ** WASHINGTON - Second day of a conference held by U.S. Secretary of State John of foreign ministers, environment ministers and fisheries ministers to discuss unsustainable fishing practices, marine pollution, and the effects of climate change on the world's oceans. ** WASHINGTON - U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama and former first lady Laura Bush participate in a conversation at the National Archives on the role of first ladies in supporting the nation's troops, veterans and their families - 1500 GMT. ** VIRGINIA - U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama campaigns for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in northern Virginia.
BRATISLAVA - EU Summit. Leaders of the 27 EU states, excluding Britain, meet to discuss how to bolster the bloc following the British vote to leave - 0600 GMT.
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 ** WASHINGTON - U.S. President Barack Obama addresses a conference of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation - 2200 GMT.
MUNICH - 183rd Munich Oktoberfest (to Oct. 1).
http://www.oktoberfest.de/en/
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 ** NEW YORK - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and U.N. officials take part in Social Good Summit.
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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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21
OTTAWA/MONTREAL - Chinese Premier Li Keqiang will pay a three-day visit to Canada (to Sept. 24) for talks on trade - including a dispute over Canadian canola exports - as well as boosting the economy. ** MOSCOW - German Vice Chancellor and Economic Affairs Minister Sigmar Gabriel will visit Russia (to Sept .22) to hold talks with Russian government officials about the state of bilateral trade relations.
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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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