Today: Extradition hearings against Gen Pinochet begin in London. EU Agriculture Council meets in Brussels. Japan-Cuba foreign policy dialogue in Tokyo. UN Conference on Trade and Development releases World Investment Report for 1999. Leaders of Russia's North Caucasus republics meet in Nalchik. Trial of Mayor of Venice Massimo Cacciariand over fire at opera house. Latvian defence minister presents NATO membership plan in Brussels. EU-Mexico free trade talks in Mexico. Two armed cargo ships carrying mixed plutonium-uranium oxide arrive in Japan.
Tomorrow: Commonwealth Secretary-General addresses UN. Exiled King Leka of Albania appears before South African court on illegal arsenal charges. President of Guatemala in Cuba. Namibian president in Brazil. Italian president in Finland.
Wednesday: World Bank member countries meet in New York over East Timor. Albanian president visits Slovenia. Evidence heard in retrial of German businessman sentenced to death in Iran. South Korean foreign minister speaks at UN General Assembly. Venezuelan president visits Vatican.
Thursday: Biography of Reagan released. Schroder in Czech Republic. Union protest in Belarus over living standards. Presidents of Ecuador and Colombia meet in Miami.
Friday: Synod of Bishops for Europe begins in Rome. China holds 50th anniversary of Communist rule celebrations. Members of Indonesia's new People's Consultative Assembly sworn in. UN co-ordination meeting of the foreign ministers of Islamic countries. State of the World Forum opens in San Francisco.
Saturday: New centre-left socialist group holds first congress in Moscow. Ku Klux Klan holds "unity gatherings" in Kentucky. Vietnamese PM in Mongolia.
Sunday: Parliamentary elections in Austria. Presidential election in self-declared republic of Abkhazia, Georgia. South Pacific Forum opens in Palau. Day of German unity to be marked.
Ireland
Today: Father Shay Cullen speaks on child sex workers in the Philippines at Barnardos meeting in Buswells Hotel, Dublin, at 6 p.m. Irish Chinese Cultural Society exhibition opens in Central Library, ILAC Centre, Dublin (01) 8734333. Irish events of a world news interest for this column should be received by David Shanks, Foreign Desk, on the Friday before publication