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NOVEMBER (UNDATED)
** BRUSSELS - Five major world powers and Germany due to meet.
TEHRAN - Syrian national dialogue meeting.
JUBA - Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir will visit
South Sudan.
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15
** BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel meets French Prime
Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault (1600) and Dutch Prime Minister Mark
Rutte (1900).
PHNOM PENH - Summit of leaders from Southeast Asian states
(ASEAN) and partner countries (to Nov. 20).
NEW YORK - U.S. President Barack Obama will visit the New
York City area still reeling from the devastation brought by
Superstorm Sandy.
LONDON - British Prime Minister David Cameron meets Chilean
President Sebastian Pinera (1500).
** PARIS - Foreign and Defence Ministers of Germany, Spain,
Italy, Poland hold meeting on European Defence (1230).
HELSINKI - EU's economic commissioner Olli Rehn to hold a
speech about Europe's economic outlook (0830).
** PARIS - French President Francois Hollande meets Peruvian
President Ollanta Humala-Tasso meets (1130).
** LISBON - Troika heads meet with Portugal's Parliament
members (1200).
NEW DELHI - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi meets
Indian Vice-President Hamid Ansari and Foreign Minister Salman
Khurshid.
BRUSSELS - Chilean President Sebastian Pinera meets EU
Commission President Jose Manual Barroso (1100).
TOKYO - Japan's Lower house of parliament is expected to
vote on a deficit financing bill.
HELSINKI - Finnish Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen meets NATO
Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen. A news conference to
follow (1015).
** BERN, Switzerland - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas
visits Switzerland.
** ANKARA - Turkish President Abdullah Gul to meet his
Congolese counterpart Denis Sassou Nguesso (1045). A news
conference to follow (1130).
** TOKYO - (CANCELLED) Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
visits Japan (to Nov. 19).
PARIS - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas visits France.
** BANGKOK - U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta meets Thai
Defense Minister Sukampol Suwannathat.
HAVANA - (DELAYED UNTIL NOV. 19) Colombian government and
leftist rebel Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)
negotiators to meet.
RIGA - Latvia's parliament expected to hold its second and
final reading of the 2013 budget.
ISTANBUL - Atlantic Council Energy & Economic Forum (to Nov.
16).
** SEOUL - Defence ministry officials of 16 Asia-Pacific
countries and military experts attend an opening ceremony of the
first Seoul Defence Dialogue.
** BERLIN - German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, Jewish
Claims Conference chairman Julius Berman and others attend a
ceremony to sign a new version of the 1952 'Luxembourg
Agreement' to recompense Holocaust victims.
PARIS - French Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici and Bank of
France Governor Christian Noyer speak at a conference about how
to finance the economy.
TALLINN - 4th annual Baltic Energy Summit (to Nov. 15).
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate intelligence committee will
hold hearings on security and intelligence issues raised by the
Sept. 11 attacks on American facilities in Libya.
LAS VEGAS - XIII Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards. Link: http://www.grammy.com/news/xiii-latin-grammy-nominations-to-be-announced-sept-25
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16
WASHINGTON - U.S. President Barack Obama to hold a meeting
with Democratic and Republican leaders of the House of
Representatives and the Senate to begin negotiations.
MOSCOW - German Chancellor Angela Merkel meets Russian
President Vladimir Putin.
TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda is expected
to dissolve the lower house of parliament.
WARSAW - French President Francois Hollande meets Polish
President Bronislaw Komorowski and Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
TOKYO - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh meets Japanese
Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda.
WASHINGTON - U.S. President Barack Obama will meet with
civic leaders for fiscal talks.
** LONDON - Syria opposition coalition meeting with British
Foreign Secretary William Hague.
** CADIZ, Spain - Iberoamerican Summit. Leaders from Spain,
Portugal and Latin America gather to attend.
** SIEM REAP, Cambodia - U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta
meets ASEAN Defense Ministers.
** UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency
(IAEA) is expected to submit its next quarterly Iran report to
member states.
HANNOVER, Germany - Germany's Greens party congress (to Nov.
18).
GLOBAL - International Day for Tolerance.
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17
BANGKOK - U.S. President Barack Obama visits Thailand.
** CAIRO - Arab foreign ministers will meet to discuss the
Israeli attack on Gaza.
** PHNOM PENH - ASEAN foreign ministers meeting.
SIERRA LEONE - Presidential and Parliamentary elections.
** CAIRO - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan visits Egypt
(to Nov. 18) and meets President Mohamed Mursi.
ISTANBUL - International Istanbul Book Fair (to Nov. 25).
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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18
NATIONWIDE - France's opposition UMP party votes to pick a
new leader.
PHNOM PENH - U.S. President Barack Obama to visit Cambodia.
** MADRID - Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy meets
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff (to Nov. 19).
GLOBAL - World Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Day.
VUKOVAR, Croatia - 21st 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.
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19
BRUSSELS - EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting.
** YANGON - U.S. President Barack Obama to visit Myanmar and
meets both his counterpart, Thein Sein, and Nobel Peace Prize
winner Aung San Suu Kyi.
STRASBOURG, France - European Parliament Plenary Session (to
Nov 22).
HAVANA - (DELAYED FROM NOV. 15) Colombian government and
leftist rebel Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)
negotiators to meet.
** OTTAWA - David Jacobsen, U.S. Ambassador to Canada and Gary
Doer, Canadian Ambassador to the U.S. to talk about the sate of
U.S.-Canada relations at the CABC forum (1530).
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20
BRUSSELS - Eurogroup meeting.
AMSTERDAM - Slovakian President Ivan Gasparovic visits the
Netherlands (to Nov. 22).
BRUSSELS - EU Agriculture and Fisheries Council meeting.
LONDON - The Church of England is to vote on whether to
allow the ordination of women bishops, the culmination of more
than 10 years of debate on one of the most divisive issues
within the Anglican community.
GLOBAL - World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims.
ANKARA - Hearings in trial of former president Kenan Evren
and retired Air Force commander Tahsin Sahinkaya for staging
Sept. 12, 1980, military coup (to Nov. 22).
NUREMBERG, Germany - 67th anniversary of the Nuremberg
trials.
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22
BRUSSELS - EU summit (to Nov. 23).
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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25
CATALONIA, Spain - Regional elections.
GLOBAL - International Day for the Elimination of Violence
against Women.
YEREVAN - 2012 AIBA Youth World Boxing Championships (to
Dec. 8).
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26
VIENNA - IAEA Technical Assistance and Cooperation Committee
meeting.
DOHA - The 18th session of the Conference of the Parties to
the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
(UNFCCC) and the 8th session of the Conference of the Parties
serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (to
Dec. 7).
TOKYO - Canada and Japan to hold first round of bilateral
trade talks.
MUMBAI - 4th 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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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27
LONDON - British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)
British Academy Children's Awards.
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28
BRUSSELS - Eruo Zone finance ministers expected to hold a
news conference.
QUITO, Ecuador - Meeting of Ministers of Justice or other
Ministers or Attorney General of the Americas (REMJA VI) (to
Nov. 30).
PARIS - A French court rules on whether to drop the Carlton
investigation against Dominique Strauss-Kahn. The former IMF
chief is accused of participating in a suspected prostitution
ring that operated out of the luxury Carlton Hotel in the
northern French town of Lille.
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29
** UNITED NATIONS - (TBC) U.N. is expected to hold a debate on
whether to upgrade the Palestinians' U.N. status to a sovereign
country.
VIENNA - IAEA Board of Governors Meeting.
GLOBAL - International Day of Solidarity with the
Palestinian People.
TEHRAN - 1st 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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DECEMBER (UNDATED)
NEW DELHI - Russian President Vladimir Putin to visit India.
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1
KUWAIT - Parliamentary elections.
GLOBAL - U.N. World Aids Day.
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - Launch of egasus XL,
Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) to provide
significant new information to increase our understanding of
energy transport into the corona and solar wind and provide an
archetype for all stellar atmospheres.
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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2
GHANA - Presidential election.
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MONDAY, DECEMBER 3
BRUSSELS - Eurogroup Meeting.
GLOBAL - International Day of Persons with Disabilities.
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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4
GEORGIA, U.S. - Primary run-off election.
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5
BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan - Launch of Soyuz TMA-07M to carry
three Expedition 34/35 crew members to the International Space
Station.
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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 9
ROMANIA - Parliamentary elections.
BEIJING - China celebrates the 11th anniversary of its entry
into the World Trade Organization.
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MONDAY, DECEMBER 10
STRASBOURG, France - European Parliament Plenary Session (to
Dec. 13).
GLOBAL - World Human Rights Day.
OSLO - Press conference with the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
at the Norwegian Nobel Institute.
SILIVRI, Turkey - Trial of 193 pro-Kurdish defendants,
including politicians, activists, academics and others, on
charges related to supporting terrorism.
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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11
GENEVA - WTO General Council meeting (to Dec. 12).
VIENNA - OPEC to publish Monthly Oil Market Report.
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13
BRUSSELS - European Council meeting (to Dec. 14).
BEVERLY HILLS Ca.- Announcement of Nominations for the 69th
annual Golden Globes Awards.
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14
BRUSSELS - European Council meeting (Final Day).
LOS ANGELES - (TBC)Nominations for the 18th Annual Screen
Actors Guild awards to be announced.
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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16
** JAPAN - General elections.
VENEZUELA - State elections.
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MONDAY, DECEMBER 17
TUNISIA - 2nd Anniversary of the self-immolation of street
vendor Mohamed Bouazizi in protest of the confiscation of his
wares and the harassment and humiliation that he reported was
inflicted on him by a municipal official and her aides. This act
became the catalyst for the Tunisian Revolution.
NORTH KOREA - First death anniversary of North Korean leader
Kim Jong-il.
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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18
GLOBAL - International Migrants Day.
TUNISIA - 2nd Anniversary of Protests sparked by the Dec 17
self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi, that led to the ousting of
President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali 28 days later on 14 January
2011.
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19
LONDON - The British government will respond to
recommendations by the Independent Commission on Banking on the
future of the financial services industry.
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20
MOSCOW - Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service to celebrate
its 92nd birthday.
GLOBAL - International Human Solidarity Day.
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26
INDIA/INDONESIA/SRI LANKA/THAILAND - 8th anniversary of the
Indian Ocean tsunami.
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan - 5th anniversary of the death of
Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto.
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MONDAY, DECEMBER 31
GENEVA - The current round of the Kyoto Protocol expires.
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SUNDAY, JANUARY 1
EUROPEAN UNION - Ireland takes over EU Presidency (to June
30).
UNITED KINGDOM - United Kingdom assumes G8 Presidency for
2013.
RUSSIA - Russia assumes G20 Presidency for 2013.
TALLIN - 2nd anniversary of adoption of the euro by Estonia.
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 3
PALM SPRINGS, Ca - 2012 Palm Springs Int'l Film Festival (to
Jan. 16).
CANBERRA - Summernats car festival (to Jan. 6).
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4
BURMA - 65th anniversary of Burma's independence.
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SATURDAY, JANUARY 5
ARGENTINA/CHILE/PERU - Dakar Rally 2012 (to Jan. 20).
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 11
CZECH REPUBLIC - Presidential election (to Jan. 12).
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SUNDAY, JANUARY 20
JERUSALEM - (POSTPONED) World Jewish Congress Plenary
Assembly (to Jan. 22).
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 22
ISRAEL - National election.
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23
JORDAN - Parliamentary elections.
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SUNDAY, JANUARY 27
SOFIA - Bulgaria will hold a referendum on whether to build
a new nuclear plant.
LOS ANGELES - Film, TV actors honor Dick Van Dyke with
lifetime award from the Screen Actors Guild, which represents
film, television and other performers in the United States.
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DAVOS, Switzerland - World Economic Forum Annual Meeting (to
Feb. 1).
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