TODAY: Deadline for Albanians to hand in weapons. Luxembourg PM visits Czech Republic. Verdict in Berlin trial of former East German leader Egon Krenz. All-party talks in Arusha on Burundi crisis. Bosnian Croat ruling party begins election campaign. French ceremony honours allies and foreign resistance workers who helped liberate Paris in 1944.
Tomorrow: Japanese cabinet discusses setting up task force to deal with chemical weapons left in China by Japanese troops. National Party in South Africa goes to High Court with application against Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Wednesday: Israeli PM visits South Korea. West African Economic summit in Nigeria. Conference on UN peacekeeping opens in Tokyo. EU commissioner Hans van den Broek visits Russia.
Thursday: President Biljana Plavsic of Republika Srpska establishes new political party, the Serb National Alliance. German Chancellor and French Prime Minister meet in Bonn. Annual convention of Democratic Party of South Korea. Ukrainian parliament debates election law and constitutional amendments.
Friday: King Norodom Sihanouk returns to Cambodia from China. Teacher (35), who had baby following affair with pupil (13), for sentence in Washington State for rape.
Saturday: Opposition Bulgarian Socialists assess government's first 100 days.
Sunday: British Secretary for International Development visits Montserrat. Independence Day in Trinidad and Tobago, Kyrgyzstan and Malayasia. Liberation day in Lithuania.
Irish events of a world news interest for this column should be received by David Shanks, Foreign Desk, on the Friday before publication.