WORLD AGENDA SEPTEMBER 2004

September 9, London: A treasure trove of Jimi Hendrix memorabilia, including 50 hours of unreleased music by the late guitarist, goes on show before being sold at auction. The 20,000-item collection includes 300 hours of video footage and a Fender Stratocaster guitar.

September 11, Cairo: The head of the worldwide Anglican Church, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, will give an address from the pulpit of an Egyptian mosque to mark the third anniversary of the terrorist attacks in the United States.

September 13-16, Vienna: IranÕs nuclear activities will come under the spotlight when the 35-nation International Atomic Energy Agency meets after the countryÕs foreign minister, Kamal Kharrazi, announced in August that it had resumed its centrifuge programme.

September 17-28, Athens: Four thousand athletes from 140 countries take part in the Paralympic Games. They will compete in 19 sports, four of which are exclusive to the competition: boccia, goalball, paralifting and wheelchair rugby.

September, Seoul: Tensions between the Koreas will intensify when a squadron of United States fighter jets is deployed in the South, a sign, the North claims, of preparation for a military strike against it.

September, Hanoi: Construction of a roof begins over VietnamÕs most important historical site -- layers of citadels and millions of artefacts dating back to the seventh century. The move aims to protect the recent excavations from the countryÕs tropical weather.

September, Germany: ÒFinal SolutionÓ, an award-winning documentary by Rakesh Sharma that chronicles the 2002 Hindu-Muslim rioting which killed more than 1,000 people in India, where the film has been banned, is released across 40 art house cinemas.

September, Dublin: Atlantis, the legendary island described by Plato in 360BC over whose existence controversy has raged for thousands of years, was actually Ireland, according to a new book, ÒAtlantis from a GeographerÕs Perspective: Mapping the Fairy LandÓ by Swedish scientist Ulf Erlingsson.

September, Washington: An international delegation of election observers arrives in the United States to assess monitoring needs for the November 2 poll, the first time such a team has overseen a U.S. presidential election. Their presence follows allegations of corruption in the 2000 vote.

Late September, United States: The number of deaths of American soldiers in Iraq will surpass 1,000 -- the highest rate for any U.S. military conflict since Vietnam -- just weeks before the countryÕs presidential election.

Parliamentary elections in Kazahkstan (Sept 19), Lithuania (Sept 19) and France (Senate, Sept 28). Presidential elections in Indonesia (second round, Sept 20).
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