Today: Verdict due in trial of Iranian newspaper editors. Churches and other Christian sites in Israel and West Bank close for two days in protest at Nazareth mosque plans.
Tomorrow: Clinton visits Kosovo. Chernobyl's reactor number three restarts after repairs.
Wednesday: Speaker of Knesset meets Dalai Lama. Multi-ethnic Bosnian state border police set up. Second round of Niger election.
Thursday: French PM and President visit London. Javier Solana takes up new post as WEU General Secretary. Turkish appeals court hears case of PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan. Report on Indonesian human rights abuses in East Timor submitted to UNCHR. Turkish military begins manoeuvres in Eastern Mediterranean and Cyprus.
Friday: Carribean heads of states meet in Trinidad. EU delegation visits Kashmir.
Saturday: General election in New Zealand.
Sunday: Run-off in Uruguayan presidential election. Wahid at informal ASEAN summit in Manila. Hong Kong holds first district council elections since handover.
Ireland
Today: Institute of European Affairs launches report The World Trade Organisation: Issues for the Millennium Round, 12.45 p.m. (Telephone: 01-8746756) Wednesday: Oireachtas foreign affairs committee on alleged interceptions of telecommunications by British authorities, 4 p.m. Thursday: Oireachtas committee on Europe discusses drugs with Minister for Justice, 2 p.m. Friday: Ogoni Solidarity Ireland Ken SaroWiwa Memorial Seminar in Calgash Centre, Derry (Telephone: 01-4553066). Saturday: Ireland and East Timor: Frank Aiken Memorial Lecture (organised by the Peace and Neutrality Alliance) by Tom Hyland of the ETISC, the Oak Room, Mansion House, Dublin, 2.30 p.m.
Irish events of a world news interest for this column must be received by David Shanks, Foreign Desk, on the Friday before publication.