China: Regions in northwest, central and southern China suffer further flooding and landslides after continued heavy rain.
China: Protests took place in China's Guangdong province against a government official's suggestion that the Cantonese dialect be replaced by the country's official language, Mandarin, on Guangdong state television. Guangzhou People's Political Consultative Conference member Ji Kekuang reportedly sparked the demonstrations with his comments.
India: Military reinforcements being sent to Tibet border, including 15 new battalions, three recruit training centers, a counterinsurgency and jungle warfare school and a high-altitude medical training center
Kyrgyzstan: First international donor conference held in Bishkek to raise funds for economic recovery, infrastructure development
Armenia: The International Court of Justice's recent ruling that Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence in 2008 was legal backs people's right to self-determination over territorial integrity, the Armenian National Assembly's vice speaker, Samvel Nikoyan, said
Iran: Watching developments after European Union foreign ministers adopted tough new sanctions targeting Iran's energy sector yesterday
Iran: Turkish Deputy Interior Minister Osman Gunes visits to participate in Iran-Turkey security meeting (-28) ; holds talks with Interior Minister Mohammad Mostafa Najjar; foreign ministers of Turkey, Brazil and Iran had talks on Sunday; this follows uranium swap deal agreed by Iran, Turkey and Brazil in May
Iran: Navy gets new Iranian-made submarines
Turkey: British Prime Minister David Cameron expected to visit Turkey. Cameron will be accompanied by British Foreign Secretary William Hague, and Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne. Cameron said he would fight for Turkey's membership in the European Union
Turkey: German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle arrives in Istanbul from Slovenia in evening; dines with counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu; talks to cover bilateral and international issues
Iraq: Emergency parliament session held to discuss political deadlock following inconclusive March general election
Iraq: Following up after two car bombs in Karbala killed between 19 and 22 people and wounded between 47 to 68 people
UAE: Following up after United Arab Emirates declared BlackBerry mobile phones to be a potential national security threat because the devices operate beyond the jurisdiction of national laws, they are the only phones operating in the country that send users' information to data centers overseas run by foreign commercial organizations.
Yemen: Following up after Huthi rebels captured the Zuala army base, taking prisoner as many as 70 soldiers, in lethal clashes with troops and tribesmen
Lebanon: The Lebanese army is deploying an additional brigade to southern Lebanon, French Ambassador to Lebanon Denis Pietton said
Gaza: Iranian parliamentary delegation headed by MP Mahmud Ahmadi-Bighash visits Gaza
Israel: Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim meets Israeli counterpart Avigdor Lieberman.
Egypt: Two police officers implicated in the killing of activist Khalid Said, who was beaten to death in public, will appear in court for the first time.
Egypt: U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder will meet with his Egyptian counterpart as well as Egypt's Ministers of Justice and the Interior and a key Parliamentarian responsible for drafting Egypt's controversial Emergency Law, which has been criticised by the Obama administration.
Egypt: The Federation of Arab Journalists - that praised Tunisian president Zain al-Abideen in April for his services to protect journalism! - launches a report on Arab press freedom.
Contact Fathy Youssef +20101569204 head of the press office at the Federation for Arab Journalists.Potential guests - Makram Mohamed Ahmed, the secretary general of the Federation +20105741777 and Ibrahim Nafaa, the president of the federation, +20123222229
Sudan: National Congress Party (NCP), Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) kick off talks on arrangements after January 2011 referendum on South Sudan independence; basic principles were agreed on 20 July; among topics on agenda is oil production, Nile waters, security
Morocco: Independent Moroccan Association of Human Rights holds press conference on human rights in country (0930 gmt)
Somalia: African Union (AU) leaders agreed to reinforce the AU peacekeeping mission in Somalia (AMISOM), with 2,000 more troops to reinforce the 6,000 Burundian and Ugandan soldiers already in the Somalian capital
Uganda: Three-day African Union summit concludes in Kampala; final declaration expected to include outline of strengthened AU mission in Somalia and Sudan
Mali: French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner visits Mali and Niger from Mauretania in wake of killing of French hostage Michel Germaneau by Allahu Aalim; President Nicolas Sarkozy has said his death will not go unavenged; Germaneau was kidnapped in Niger
Niger: Niger will delay the process of handing power back to civilians by one month, which means the first round of presidential polls will take place on Jan. 31, 2011
Belarus: Final day of visit by Syrian President Bashar al-Asad
Bulgaria: Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou visits; proposed Burgas-Alexandroupolis oil pipeline on agenda (0800 gmt)
Switzerland: Georgia, Russia hold 12th round of talks in Geneva following 2008 conflict over Georgian breakaway regions of South Ossetia, Abkhazia; Abkhaz delegation suspended participation in June, accusing UN, EU, OSCE mediators of bias; press conference follows (1500 gmt) (NB This is first meeting since Kosovo ruling)
Belgium: Start of formal talks on Iceland's membership bid; negotiations over some key issues such as fishing and whaling expected to be difficult
France: France upgraded its diplomatic ties with the Palestinian Territories and will consider the Palestinian diplomatic representatives in France as a “mission” headed by an “ambassador, chief of mission”
UK: Hans Blix, former head of the UN's Monitoring, Verification, and Inspection Commission in Iraq (from 2000-2003) is set to appear before the Chilcot Inquiry on the war in Iraq. Blix is due in for the afternoon session from 1300-1600gmt.
UK: Former Bosnian president Ejup Ganic will hear whether he is to be extradited from London to Belgrade on war crimes charges. Court ruling expected at 1300gmt.
UK: BP to release second-quarter results.
UK: London2012 give media a tour of the Olympic site and demonstrations inside the new venues as part of the official 2 year countdown until the 2012 Olympics opens in London.
Spain: The local parliament in Catalonia will debate on bullfighting ban.
US: New Arizona immigration law goes into effect, gives the police broad powers to detain any individual whom they suspect may be in the United States illegally based on what they look like.
US: Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak arrived in Washington, meets with U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates and National Security Adviser Gen. Jim Jones, then meets with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon in New York on July 29
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