News: DIARY-Political and General News Events from Jan 24

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    THURSDAY, JANUARY 24 
    
    • ANKARA - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan holds a joint news conference with Maltese President Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca - 1500 GMT.
    • DAVOS, Switzerland - Paul Kagame, president of Rwanda, and Cyril Ramaphosa, president of South Africa, speak on Africa's leadership in the new global context - 1615 GMT.

    SINGAPORE - Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena visits Singapore and will attend the 'Asia-Pacific Ministerial Summit on the Environment' during his stay (to Jan. 27).

    BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN - Malaysian Defence Minister Mohamad Sabu is on a visit to Brunei Darussalam (Final Day).

    NEW DELHI - Mauritian Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth will visit India (to Jan. 28).

    BRUSSELS - European Motor Show Brussels 2019 (to Jan. 27).

    FRANKFURT - Handelsblatt Annual German Energy Conference, speakers include Vattenfall CEO Magnus Hall, EnBW CEO Frank Mastiaux, Germany's Economy Minister Peter Altmaier (Final Day). DAVOS, Switzerland - World Economic Forum 2014 Annual Meeting (to Jan. 25). PANAMA CITY, Florida - Pope Francis celebrates his third World Youth Day in Panama (to Jan. 27)

    MOSCOW - Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan will pay a working visit to Russia and give a speech about the priorities of Armenia's Eurasian Economic Union chairmanship (to Jan. 25).

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    FRIDAY, JANUARY 25 
    

    ROME - China Foreign Minister Wang Yi attends plenary session Italy-China Governing Committee with Italian Foreign Affairs Minister Enzo Moavero Milanesi - 1050 GMT.

    BRUSSELS - New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern meets NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg - 1400 GMT

    BRUSSELS - New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern meets EU Council President Donald Tusk and EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker in Brussels - 0800 GMT. DAVOS, Switzerland - World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

    EGYPT – Eighth Anniversary of beginning of Egyptian revolution, which marked a series of mass popular protests leading to the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak.

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    SATURDAY, JANUARY 26 
    

    NEW DELHI - India celebrates its Republic Day with a grand parade exhibiting its military might and national culture with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa as the chief guest - 0230 GMT.

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    SUNDAY, JANUARY 27 
    

    CAIRO - French President Emmanuel Macron visits Egypt (to Jan. 29).

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    MONDAY, JANUARY 28 
    
    • ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast - Togo President Faure Gnassingbe visits Ivory Coast for a meeting with his counterpart Alassane Ouattara.

    SOFIA - European Commission's Vice President in charge of the euro currency Valdis Dombrovskis to discuss Bulgaria's path to the euro zone in a public debate

    in Sofia. Bulgarian Finance Minister Vladislav Goranov to attend. - 1230 GMT.

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    TUESDAY, JANUARY 29 
    

    MOSCOW - Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohammed Ali Al-Hakim will pay a visit to Russia (to Jan. 30). SOFIA - Bulgaria will host an economic forum on its bid to join the euro zone. EU Commission Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov and Finance Minister Vladislav Goranov to attend. LONDON - Costa Book of the Year will be announced.

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    WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30 
    
    • MOSCOW - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov meets with his Iraqi counterpart Mohammed al-Hakim.

    MEXICO CITY - Spain Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez begins two-day official visit to Mexico, meets President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (to Jan. 31).

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    SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2 
    
    • CAIRO - German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier visits Egypt and meets Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi (to Feb. 4).

    GLOBAL - World Wetlands Day.

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    SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3 
    

    SAN SALVADOR - EI Salvador Presidential Election.

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    MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4 
    

    SAPPORO, Japan – 2019 Sapporo Snow Festival (to Feb. 11).

    NEW YORK – Men's New York Fashion Week 2019 (to Feb. 6). GLOBAL - World Cancer Day. ABU DHABI - Pope Francis will visit Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates to attend an interfaith meeting - 0800 GMT.

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    TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5 
    

    GLOBAL - Safer Internet Day 2019 will be celebrated with a theme of 'Create, connect and share respect: A better internet starts with you'.

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    WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6 
    

    GLOBAL - International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation.

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    FEBRUARY 7 
    
    • BERLIN – 69th Berlin International Film Festival (to Feb. 17). NEW YORK – Women's New York Fashion Week 2019 (to Feb. 13). BRATISLAVA - German Chancellor Angela Merkel will meet the prime ministers of the Visegrad group - Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia - at a summit in Bratislava.

    PARIS - Environment ministers of France, Portugal, Spain and Britain as well as EU Energy Chief Maros Sefcovic will speak at Paris SER renewable energy conference - 0800 GMT.

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    FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8 
    

    ASIA - Nirvana day, Buddhist festival marking the anniversary of Buddha's death

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    SATURDAY,  FEBRUARY 9 
    
    • BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - 2019 Winter European Youth Olympic Festival (to Feb. 16).
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    SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10 
    
    • LONDON – EE British Academy Film Awards 2019.
    • LOS ANGELES – 61st Annual Grammy Awards.
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    MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11 
    
    • NEW YORK - 142th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show (to Feb 12). BRUSSELS – Eurogroup meeting.

    BRUSSELS - Euro Zone finance ministers meet in Brussels.

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    TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12 
    

    BRUSSELS – EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council meeting.

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    WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13 
    
    • BEIRUT - 11th anniversary of the death of Hezbollah commander Imad Moughniyah.
    • GLOBAL - World Radio Day.
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    THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14 
    
    • GLOBAL - Valentine's Day.
    • BEIRUT - 14th anniversary of the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri.
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    FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15 
    
    • LONDON - London Fashion Week Winter 2019 (to Feb. 19).
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    SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16 
    
    • VENICE, Italy - Venice Carnival 2019 (to March 5). ABUJA - Nigerian Presidential Election.

    ABUJA - Nigerian House of Representatives election.

    ABUJA - Nigerian Senate election.

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    SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17 
    
    • PRISTINA - 11th anniversary of Kosovo's declaration of independence from Serbia.
    • NEW YORK - 2019 Writers Guild Awards New York Ceremony.
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    MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18 
    

    BRUSSELS – EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting.

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    TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19 
    
    • BERLIN - European Police Congress (To Feb. 20) BRUSSELS - EU General Affairs Council meeting.
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    WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20 
    
    • LONDON - The BRIT Awards 2019. CAIRO - The first summit between EU Member States and the Arab League to be held. European and Arab state leaders to discuss migration and other issues at the summit to be hosted by Egypt.
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    SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24 
    

    HAVANA - Referendum election.

    CAIRO - EU-League of Arab States summit (to Feb. 25).

    CHISINAU - Moldovan Parliament election.

    BANGKOK - Thailand Senate election.

    BANGKOK - Thailand House of Representatives election.

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    WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27 
    

    CARACAS – 30th anniversary of deadly Caracas riots.

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    THURSDAY, February 28 
    
    • VIENNA - VIENNA Opera Ball 2019.
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