Mayankote Kelath Narayanan
Meeting Hadley in Washington
India's National Security Adviser Mayankote Kelath Narayanan is slated to meet his US counterpart Stephen Hadley in Washington in a bid to break the deadlock in the signing of a bilateral agreement for civilian nuclear energy cooperation.
Ehud Olmert
Visiting Abbas
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas this week to discuss security cooperation and humanitarian needs in the Palestinian territories.
Sunshine
Warming up the mid-West
A hot spell could unfold across much of the mid-United States this week if medium range computer forecast scenarios prove accurate. The blistering heat that has gripped the West for more than a month is to be nudged eastward over the coming week.
Condoleezza Rice
Supporting emerging democracies
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will visit Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Wednesday to show support for the country's emerging democratic system. Rice will be the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit the DRC since Madeleine Albright in 1997. Rice will then attend a meeting of the 38 African countries of the African Growth and Opportunity Act in Accra, Ghana.
Rice (not Condi)
Helping the hungry
South Korea is to start sending 50,000 tons of rice aid to North Korea overland this week as part of its promised loan of 400,000 tons of rice aid. The rice aid to North Korea via an overland route will be made for five weeks starting from next Friday.
Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad
Visiting with the neighbours
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad is tentatively scheduled to visit Syria. It is possible that he will be attending the swearing-in ceremony of President Bashar al-Assad, which is due to take place on Tuesday.
Hervé Morin
Our Boys Abroad
The French defence minister Herve Morin is scheduled to travel to Lebanon. Morin is expected to pay a visit to the French United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon contingent.
Jose Luis Zapatero
Tour down South
The Spanish Prime Minister, Jose Luis Zapatero, is scheduled to visit Latin America. His tour is expected to see him meet senior political and business leaders for talks on various trade and investment issues, as well as political relations and other matters of mutual interest.
George W. Bush
It's not just a ball game...
US President George W Bush, is scheduled to attend a White House Tee Ball Game. The event takes place at 16:00, Sunday on the South Lawn of the White House.
Stephen Harper
New partnerships in the Americas
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, is scheduled to visit Colombia, Chile, Barbados and Haiti. The trip is part of an effort to "establish new partnerships in the Americas" and enhance Canada's relationships in Latin America and the Caribbean, according to Ottawa. In Bogota, Harper will meet Colombian President Alvaro Uribe. On Tuesday and Wednesday, he will visit Chile and meet President Michelle Bachelet. Then he will visit Barbados and meet Prime Minister Owen Arthur and other Caribbean leaders. He will conclude his trip with a visit to Haiti to meet President Rene Preval.
Gordon Brown
Scene of Success
Dr. Ian Paisley, the Northern Ireland first minister, and Martin McGuinness, deputy first minister, are scheduled to host a full plenary meeting of the British-Irish Council at Parliament Buildings, Belfast. UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown is also expected to take part in the event. This is his first visit to the region as prime minister.
Lech Kaczynski
Presidential Pole
Polish President Lech Kaczynski is scheduled to visit the White House in Washington, where he is due to meet US President George Bush. Poland is seen as one of the closest allies of the US in Europe. Poland has also expressed its interest in contributing to a missile defence system, along with the Czech Republic. The two leaders are expected to discuss these and other regional and international issues.
Angela Merkel
Reinforcing links with Sarkozy
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, is scheduled to visit France, where she is due to meet the President Nicolas Sarkozy in Toulouse. They are due to discuss the future of the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS), the aerospace corporation, formed in 2000 by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra of France, Construcciones Aeronáuticas of Spain, and DaimlerChrysler Aerospace of Germany. EADS has two co-CEOs, one French, Louis Gallois, and one German, Thomas Enders.
Vladimir Putin
Finn and Shark?
Russian President Vladimir Putin is scheduled to meet his Finnish President Ilkka Kanevra in Saransk. It follows a meeting between the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, and his Finnish counterpart, Ilkka Kanevra, on 5 July. Halonen and Putin are expected to discuss humanitarian co-operation, and the recovery of art objects from the Frau Maria ship, which sunk in the times of Catherine the Great and was discovered eight years ago in Finnish territorial waters.
