Today: East Timor referendum on autonomy or independence. UN International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia sentences Dusan Tadic. Hearings into potential European commissioners begin before European Parliament's election committees. African trade ministers meet in Algiers. Taiwanese prime minister visits Panama. Russian deputy prime minister visits Japan.
Tomorrow: Palestinian Authority meets radical Islamic groups. Trial of Bosnian Serb, Gen Momir Talic, expected at The Hague. Bundesbank President Hans Tietmeyer steps down. Congolese rebels expected to sign peace accord.
Wednesday: Mireya Mosco so takes office as president of Panama. Ernst Welteke takes over as president of Bundesbank. S.R. Nathan sworn in as new president of Singapore. US State Department presents annual report on religious freedom to Congress. Representatives from UNEP, WHO and IAEA meet in Geneva. Madeleine Albright begins visit to the Middle East. Jacques Chirac arrives in Canada.
Thursday: Israel's Likud party holds primaries following defeat in May. Canada-EU ministerial meeting in Helsinki. New WTO head appears at press conference in Geneva. Hearings into potential European commissioners from UK, Luxembourg, France and Sweden. Russian defence minister expected in South Korea. Sweden's opposition Moderate Party holds party conference in Stockholm.
Friday: European Parliament hearings into new European Commissioners question Irish and Portuguese nominees. Latvian foreign minister visits Estonia. Cambodian prime minister visits Canada. Gerhard Schroder visits Poland. Russian foreign minister visits Georgia. Francophone summit opens in Canada with leaders from 52 countries.
Saturday: Parliamentary by-elections in Nairobi. Venezuelan president visits Brazil. Finnish president begins visit to Middle East. Informal meeting of EU foreign ministers in Finland.
Sunday: Elections to Landtag in German states of Brandenburg and Saarland. Election of governors in north-west Russian town of Novgorod and Omskoblast in western Siberia. Madeleine Albright visits Vietnam.
Ireland
Wednesday: 16 children from Chernobyl fly in to Dublin to stay in Kildare.
Friday: President Mary McAleese receives Mr Conor Murphy, the new Ambassador to Saudi Arabia.
Irish events of a world news interest should be received by David Shanks, Foreign Desk, on the Friday before publication.