South Korea: Fourth and final day of large-scale South Korea-US naval, air exercises Invincible Spirit off Korean peninsula's east coast to highlight "resolve to face any threat" from North Korea; in response, Pyongyang threatened to use "powerful nuclear deterrent"
Philippines: Main suspect in Maguindanao massacre, Andal Ampatuan Jr, and 12 others due to enter pleas; arrest warrants have been issued for further 135 people bring number of accused to 196; prosecution alleges that Ampatuan Jr led group of more than 100 local police and militiamen in attack on convoy of rival Mangudadatu clan; 57 people including 31 journalists accompanying convoy were shot dead and buried in mass graves
Russia: Russian Emergency Ministry workers and fire-fighters battle fires in forests and peat fields across the western part of Russia as record temperatures persist.
Russia: Pro-government youth movement camp Seliger-2010 held in Tver Region; four-week event concludes tomorrow (Russian news agency Interfax)
India: British Prime Minister David Cameron in India for a three-day visit aimed at strengthening business and political ties, Finance Minister George Osborne to meet business leaders in India's financial capital Mumbai.
Iran: President Mahmud Ahmadinejad inaugurates two petrochemical facilities in South Pars Special Economic Energy Zone, south-western Iran; their construction cost about 900m dollars and some 20,000 people will be employed there
Iran: Iranian Minister of Energy Majid Namjou said that the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant will come on line in September 2010
Turkey: German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle will meet with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu.
Turkey: German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle holds talks with counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu (0500 gmt) on Turkey's EU application and Cyprus; news conference follows (0630 gmt); France's Bernard Kouchner may also visit; comes amid recent flurry of diplomatic activity in Turkey: foreign ministers of Iran and Brazil visited on 25 July, UK Prime Minister David Cameron on 26-27
Syria: President Bashar al Assad has expressed interest in joining the Custom Union's Free Trade Zone, which includes Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan, Telegraf reported
Israel: Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos meets Israeli counterpart Avigdor Lieberman (0545gmt). Moratinos is then scheduled to meet Israeli President Shimon Peres (1300gmt).
Egypt: Saudi King Abdallah Bin-Abd-al-Aziz Al Sa'ud visits for talks with President Husni Mubarak in Sharm al-Shaykh; focus on situation in Lebanon, Middle East peace process; King Abdallah's tour also takes in Jordan, Syria (29), Lebanon (30)
Sudan: South Sudan regional capital Juba hosts conference on next year's referendum on South Sudan independence, organized by NGO My Referendum for Freedom, an Australia-based group; day one of two
Cyprus: President Christofias and Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu meet again for talks on re-unification
Ukraine: International Monetary Fund (IMF) considers granting Ukraine stand-by loan of 14.9bn dollars
Ukraine: Ukraine will move its Ground Troops Institute back to Odessa from Lviv, where it has been since 2005. (ie out of ethnic Ukrainian region into ethnic Russian one.)
Somaliland: Newly-inaugurated president of breakaway territory of Somaliland, Ahmad Mahmud Silanyo, announces cabinet
Somalia: African Union (AU) troops in Somalia can now execute preemptive attacks against Islamist insurgents following a change in the rules of engagement, the Ugandan Foreign Ministry Permanent Secretary James Mugume said.
Zimbabwe: Appeal heard against acquittal of Roy Bennett, treasurer of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC); in May, Bennett was acquitted on charges of plotting to overthrow President Robert Mugabe's previous administration
Uganda: The African Union (AU) asked the United Nations to suspend an arrest warrant on Sudanese President Umar al-Bashir for a year. AU Chairman Bingu wa Mutharika said the AU would like to investigate the situation in Sudan and corroborate its findings with those of the International Criminal Court, which has accused al Bashir of genocide in Darfur.
Burundi: Regional polls to elect senators
Nigeria: Nigeria will hold presidential polls in January after the House of Representatives passed a constitutional amendment that moved elections forward from April, Reuters reported.
Slovenia: Foreign Minister Samuel Zbogar hosts Croat counterpart Goran Jandrokovic in border town ahead of 31 July talks between their prime ministers about implementation of border arbitration treaty and liabilities of defunct LB bank towards Croatian clients; press conference follows (1500 gmt)
Italy: Italian lower house of parliament expected to vote on the government's austerity package.
France: Sarkozy convenes emergency meeting (15G) at the Elysee to discuss unrest and insecurity among France's Roma. A weekend of violence in central France erupted following the shooting of a young Roma at a police roadblock in Blois. Sarkozy pledged to look into "the problems created by the behaviour of certain travellers and Roma."
Spain: Catalan parliament to vote on possible bullfight ban in the region (1000 GMT)
US: A large demonstration is planned outside the state capitol building against the new Arizona immigration law which goes into effect on the 29th. The law gives the police broad powers to detain any individual whom they suspect may be in the United States illegally.
US: Congress passed a $58.8 billion spending measure which includes $37.1 billion for military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq
Argentina: Presidents of the Mercosur group attend a summit in the western province of San Juan. Cristina Fernandez, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Fernando Lugo and Jose Mujica are expected to attend.
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