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Historic visit
Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan visits India; it is the first visit by a Turkish foreign minister after break of 30 years. (Turkish news agency Anatolia)
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Business delegation
Russian Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov is likely to visit India with a business delegation for the India-Russia Forum on Trade and Investment. (Indian newspaper The Economic Times)
Jean-Claude Juncker
G7 meeting
Luxembourg Prime Minister and Finance Minister Jean-Claude Juncker holds talks with counterpart Yasuo Fukuda and attends G7 financial chiefs' meeting as president of "Eurogroup" of eurozone finance ministers. (Japanese news agency Kyodo)
Rocket
Satellite launch
A Russian Proton-M booster rocket carrying communications satellite Thor-2R launches from Baykonur. (Russian news agency RIA Novosti)
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Bilateral talks
Paraguayan Foreign Minister Ruben Ramirez Lezcano visits Ukraine for talks with his counterpart Volodymyr Ohryzko. (Ukrainian news agency UNIAN)
Viktor Yushchenko
Action plan
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yushchenko chair second meeting of interstate commission in Moscow to discuss bilateral relations and sign 2008 Ukraine-Russia action plan. (Ukrainian UNIAN news agency)
Donald Tusk
Moscow talks
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk visits Russia for talks with President Vladimir Putin. (Russian news agency Interfax)
Guitars
Rock and roll
The state gas firm Gazprom has booked Deep Purple to fly from the UK to Moscow to perform at a special concert celebrating the 15th anniversary of the utility. The concert is a thank-you to Dmitry Medvedev, who steps down as Gazprom chairman next month after Russia's presidential elections.
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Energy security conference
Kiev hosts a Black Sea energy security conference, to be attended by EU foreign ministers, and the European Commissioner for External Relations and European Neighbourhood Policy Benita Ferrero-Waldner. (Interfax-Ukraine news agency)
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Slovenia meeting
An EU Troika-Russia meeting takes place in Brdo, Slovenia. (EU website)
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Togo trip
German Foreign Minister Frank Walter Steinmeier visits Togo. (Togolese government website)
George Bush
Africa tour
US President George Bush tours Africa, visiting Benin, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana and Liberia. (Tanzanian newspaper The Guardian)
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Troop deployment
Irish troops will not begin their deployment to Chad as part of a delayed European Union peacekeeping mission until this week at the earliest. Up to 3,700 European Union peacekeepers are due to travel to Chad's turbulent east to protect hundreds of thousands of refugees from violence spilling over from Sudan's Darfur region.
