What's Happening Today - Thursday 7 October

Japan:

Japan's ruling party, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), has unveiled a proposal for a 4.8 trillion yen ($57.9 billion) stimulus plan to boost its economy

China:

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao is urging European political and business leaders at the China-EU Business Summit in Brussels not to join with other nations in pressuring China to allow the yuan to appreciate, saying that the world would not benefit from the yuan appreciating by 20-40 percent, as requested by the United States, because it would slow down the Chinese economy and damage global growth.

South Korea: 

US Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell arrives, meets Deputy Foreign Minister Kim Jae-shin, chief nuclear envoy Wi Sung-lac, other officials, discusses denuclearisation of North Korea

Vietnam:

The Russian navy command has proposed to re-establish a marine logistics base for Russian warships in the Vietnamese port of Cam Rahn Bay, formerly the largest Russian base outside Russian territory

Philippines:

President Benigno Aquino III gives speech on first 100 days in office 

Russia: 

Moscow hosts first day of World Thematic Conference of Compatriots, involving Russian scientists, intellectuals based abroad, as well as representatives from Russian Presidential Administration, parliament, local and central government (-8)

Russia: 

Communist Party of Russian Federation holds rallies outside government offices in Krasnodar Territory and Tambov Region to protest against "pressure" on candidates ahead of 10 October regional elections

Russia: 

TENTATIVE Test-launch of sea-based ballistic missile Bulava from strategic nuclear submarine Dmitriy Donskoy in White Sea 

India: 

Russian Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov visits, meets counterpart A. K. Antony, senior army officials for talks on security, military cooperation; attends session of bilateral intergovernmental commission on military-technical cooperation 

Kyrgyzstan:

The Kyrgyz Prosecutor-General's Office has opened a criminal case against the Ata-Jurt party. The case is based on a speech given by a parliamentary candidate, Kamchybek Tashiyev, in the south, and a statement released by the party's political council.

Pakistan: 

Chairman of Joints Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC) General Tariq Majeed retires; Lieutenant-General Khalid Shamin Wayne takes over from 8th 

Pakistan:

Watching for reaction as around another 40 NATO fuel tankers were set on fire during an attack in the northwestern Pakistani city of Nowshera, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province

Pakistan:

Anne Patterson, the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, has apologized for a recent helicopter attack that killed Pakistani soldiers near the Afghan border, but made no mention of the Pakistan civilians regularly caught up in un-manned drone attacks.

Afghanistan:

The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan will use an alternate supply route from Russia and Central Asia to bypass the main supply routes through Pakistan. (NB The alternate route will carry supplies from Riga, Latvia, through Russia, around the Caspian Sea, through Kazakhstan and south through Uzbekistan.)

Afghanistan: 

Anniversary of 2001 US-led invasion

Kazakhstan: 

Serbia's President Boris Tadic visits; second and final day 

Turkey: 

NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen visits, meets President Abdullah Gul, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu

Turkey:

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao visits as part of European tour; meets counterpart Silvio Berlusconi; goes on to Turkey for talks with counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President Abdullah Gul (-9) (Chinese news agency Xinhua, China Daily website, Turkish news agency Anatolia)

Turkey:

Austrian Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger to visit Turkey.

Lebanon:

Iranian Energy Minister Majid Namjou will visit Lebanon today at the invitation of Lebanese Minister of Energy and Water Gebran Bassil to finalize joint water and power projects

Egypt: 

Egyptian Bar Association general conference; party leaders, church representatives discuss Egypt's national security, ideological identity

Sudan: 

UN Security Council delegation continues visit to Darfur and South Sudan regional capital Juba ahead of next year's independence referendum; no plans to meet President Umar al-Bashir (-8) 

Libya: 

Two-day meeting of Arab foreign ministers (Arab Follow-Up Committee) starts in Sirte ahead of Arab League summit (9-10); Mahmud Abbas attends meeting (possibly tomorrow), may announce whether he is pulling out of peace talks with Israel 

Ethiopia: 

Ruling Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) and nine opposition parties meet to discuss five-year National Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP)

Cyprus:

Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev visits, discusses reunification of long-divided island with counterpart Dhimitrios Khristofias (-8)

Ukraine: 

International economic forum held in Truskavets, Lviv Region; attended by businessmen, experts, government representatives from Poland, Belarus, Russia, Germany, Slovakia, Hungary, USA (-8) 

Bulgaria:

The Bulgarian National Agency for State Security and the anti-mafia police unit in the southern town of Gotse Delchev have carried out a special “anti-radical Islam police operation”, raiding the home of the Lazhnitsa Imam, Muhammad Kamber, and seized a large amount of leaflets.

Greece:

Greece's public sector union ADEDY strike to protest against the government's austerity policies, including wage and pension cuts to slash deficits

Sweden:

Nobel Prize in Literature due to be announced (1100).

Luxembourg: 

EU interior ministers meet to discuss terrorist threat

Germany:

Argentinean President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner visits, meets Chancellor Angela Merkel, local

France:

The French Foreign Ministry warned its citizens about travelling to Britain because authorities in London see a “very high” risk of a militant attack

France:

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Health Ministerial Meeting 

France: 

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych visits, meets counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy 

UK:

Opposition Labour Party shadow cabinet election results announced.

Spain: 

Watching for reaction after Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero asked Venezuela to respond to his request for help in investigating the suspected training of members of the Basque militant group ETA in Venezuela

US: 

Countries trying to prevent their currencies from rising in value could undermine the efforts of other countries to re-balance their economies, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner warned 

US:

World Bank President Robert Zoellick holds a news briefing at the start of the annual meeting of the IMF and World Bank.

Mexico:

Fernando Adrian Larios, chief of a municipal police station in Ciudad Juarez, was shot (at least 50 times) to death by an armed group 

Ecuador: 

An Ecuadorian judge extended the arrest of opposition party member Fidel Araujo to 90 days to guarantee his presence at inquiries into his alleged role in the September 30 police riots

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