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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9 ASHGABAT - President of Kyrgyzstan, Sadyr Zhaparov, will pay a working visit to Turkmenistan (Final Day)

ACCRA/YAMOUSSOUKRO/ADDIS ABABA - ​Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar embarked on a five-day official visit to Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire and Ethiopia (To Oct 10) MANILA - ASEAN energy ministers, ‌senior officials hold ​meetings. (Final day)

SEOUL - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi pays a state visit to South Korea and will hold a summit with President Lee Jae Myung. (Final day) BEIJING - European Trade Commissioner Maros Sefcovic visits Beijing for discussions with Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao on addressing the EU's goods trade deficit with China, which totals around 1 billion euros per day. Sefcovic says he wants 'tangible results' in October from these discussions (Final day)

KUALA LUMPUR - Egypt President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to make two day visit to Malaysia (Final day) ASHGABAT - President of Russia Vladimir Putin will make a working visit to Turkmenistan. (Final day)

CANBERRA - Nepal Foreign Minister Shisir Khanal to attend programmes organized by the Nepali Embassy ‌in Canberra and the Nepali diaspora in Sydney and to hold bilateral talks with Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong (to October 12). BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN – Singapore Prime Minister Lawrence Wong will make an official visit to Brunei (To Oct 10)

PHNOM PENH - Vietnamese Prime Minister Le Minh Hung will undertake an official visit to Cambodia at the invitation of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet (To Oct 10) ASHGABAT - Russian President Vladimir Putin takes part in CIS and Caspian ecology summits in Turkmenistan. The venue is the Avaza National Tourist Zone on Caspian Sea coast of Turkmenistan. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian is taking part in the gathering and he is expected to hold a bilateral meeting with the Russian president. - 0500 GMT

PARIS – French President Emmanuel Macron hosts Germany President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, as Steinmeier visits France. BANGKOK - The prime minister of East Timor, Xanana Gusmão, will make an official visit to Thailand (To Oct 10)

LUXEMBOURG - EU finance ministers meet in Luxembourg (0630 GMT). GLOBAL - World ‌Post Day

LUXEMBOURG - EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council CZECH REPUBLIC - Czech Senate Election

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GLOBAL - World Mental Health Day GLOBAL - World Day Against Death Penalty

FIJI – 56th anniversary of independence - - - - - - - - -

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11 SLOVENIA - Slovenia Referendum Election.

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LUXEMBOURG - EU foreign ministers meet in Luxembourg to discuss Russia's war against Ukraine, developments in the Middle East, and the security implications of further EU enlargement. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha will join via videoconference. - 0600 GMT NEW DELHI - Nepal Home Minister Sudan Gurung to visit India for BIMSTEC meeting (To Oct. 14)

LUXEMBOURG – EU Foreign Affairs Council BALI – 24th anniversary of Bali bombings

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GLOBAL - International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction SAN JOSE, Chile – 16th anniversary of rescue of 33 Chilean miners trapped in a collapsed Andean mine.

LUXEMBOURG – EU General Affairs Council BANGKOK - Boards of Governors of the World Bank Group ⁠and IMF, Annual meetings. (To Oct ​18)

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BANGKOK, Thailand - IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva ⁠holds a press conference during the IMF-World Bank Summit in Bangkok - 0300 GMT - - - - - - - - -

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15 BANGKOK - G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors

BRUSSELS - French President Emmanuel Macron and other EU liberal leaders to meet ahead of the European Council meeting taking place in Brussels - 0600 GMT BRUSSELS - European Council (To Oct 16)

GLOBAL - World Handwashing Day GLOBAL - International Day of Rural Women

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GLOBAL - World Food Day - - - - - - - - -

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17 GLOBAL - International Day for the Eradication of Poverty

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JERUSALEM – 15th anniversary ⁠of release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit after more than five years of being held incommunicado by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. - - - - - - - - -

MONDAY, OCTOBER 19 HONG KONG, People's Republic of China - APEC Finance Ministerial Meeting (To Oct. 21)

COPENHAGEN - Vietnamese President To Lam and his spouse, Ngo Phuong Ly, will make a state visit to Denmark (To Oct 21) - - - - - - - - -

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20 WINDSOR, England - Oman's Haitham bin Tariq visits United Kingdom to headline a three-day state visit hosted by King Charles III and Queen Camilla (To Oct 22)

TRIPOLI – 15th ​anniversary of capture and killing of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. - - - - - - - - -

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21 ANKARA - Prime Minister of Canada Mark Carney will travel to Ankara and Istanbul. (To Oct. 23)

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BRUSSELS - EU Informal meeting of trade ministers. (To Oct 23) SAUDI ARABIA – 15th death anniversary of Sultan bin Abdulaziz, who served as crown prince of the Kingdom from 2005 until his demise in 2011.

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LIBYA – 15th anniversary of ⁠declaration of Libya's Liberation. VAN, Turkey – 15th anniversary of earthquake that killed more than 600 people and injured more than 4,000 others.

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SOFIA - Bulgaria holds a presidential election. - - - - - - - - -

MONDAY, OCTOBER 26 TOKYO - Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman is set to visit Japan for a four-day official trip. (Oct. 29)

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ISRAEL - Israeli Knesset Election - - - - - - - - -

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28 EL SALVADOR - Peru's President Keiko Fujimori is scheduled to travel to El Salvador from Oct 28 to Oct 31 at the invitation of her right-wing counterpart, Nayib Bukele ( To Oct 31)

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MANILA - ASEAN defense ministers hold an annual meeting ⁠with ​dialogue partners, dubbed as ADMM-Plus. OTTAWA - EU-Canada summit (To Oct 30)

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ATLANTA, United States - US Secretary of State Marco Rubio hosts a G20 foreign ministers' meeting. (To Oct 31) - - - - - - - - -

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1 LONDON - Seven OPEC+ ministers meet on Sunday to set their output policy for December.

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DUBLIN - Irish Finance Minister Simon Harris, EU Financial Services Commissioner Maria Luisa Albuquerque and Evelien Witlox, the ECB's Director of the Digital Euro also speak at Irish central bank conference. - - - - - - - - -

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3 Guam - Guamanian Legislature election.

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4 TEHRAN – 47th 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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MADRID - Presidents, heads of state gather in Madrid for the Iberoamerican Summit. (To Nov 05) - - - - - - - - -

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6 GLOBAL - International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict.

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NEW ZEALAND - New Zealand ⁠holds a general election MONTEVIDEO - Pope Leo visits Uruguay (To Nov 08)

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BUENOS AIRES - Pope Leo embarks on an official visit to Argentina (To Nov 11). - - - - - - - - -

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11 LIMA - Pope Leo visits Peru (To Nov 17).

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BRUSSELS - World Pneumonia Day. - - - - - - - - -

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13 YANGON, Myanmar – 16th Anniversary of release of Myanmar's detained opposition Leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, From House Arrest.

MANILA - Leaders of ASEAN countries hold annual meetings in Manila (To Nov ⁠15). - - - - - - - - -

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14 GLOBAL - World Diabetes Day.

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GLOBAL - World Prematurity Day. GLOBAL - World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims.

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ST. JOHN, Antigua and Barbuda - International Day for Tolerance. - - - - - - - - -

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18 GLOBAL - World Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Day.

VUKOVAR, Croatia – 35th Anniversary of Vukovar Massacre. SHENZHEN, China - Russian President Vladimir Putin to lead a Russian delegation at APEC Summit in Shenzhen.

SHENZHEN, China - China hosts the 33rd Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders' Meeting in Shenzhen. (To Nov 19) - - - - - - - - -

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25 ST. JOHN, Antigua and Barbuda - International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.

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MUMBAI, India - 18th Anniversary of a series of devastating attacks on the Indian city by militants. The attacks, which began on Nov. 26, 2008 and lasted nearly three days, left 174 people dead, including nine gunmen. - - - - - - - - -

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER ‌29 TEHRAN, Iran – 15th Anniversary of an attack on the British Embassy by dozens ‌of Iranian Students and Protesters angry over Britain's Unilateral Sanctions.

LONDON - OPEC+ and OPEC are set to hold ministerial meetings on Sunday to decide on output policy. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

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