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Mon, Mar 1 2010
Polish-French composer and pianist Frédéric Chopin was born on 1 Mar 1810, and plans are under way in Poland for a year of concerts, recitals and conferences marking the bicentennial of his birth. The country's parliament has declared 2010 the Year of Fryderyk Chopin. A Chopin Centre and renovated Chopin Museum will be inaugurated to honor the great Romantic composer, whose work is regarded as a Polish cultural treasure.
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Mon, Mar 1 2010
The third Indian Ocean Naval Symposium comes at a time when regional super-powers India and China are vying for more presence in an area stretching from Gulf of Aden to the Malacca Straits. The meeting is a cornerstone of the Indian Navy's aim to increase its influence in the region. Twenty-six littoral countries of the Indian Ocean comprise this pan-Asian maritime security forum. The meeting could upset the Arab world: Pakistan argues that IONS is grouped against the Islamic world.
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Mon, Mar 1 2010
The trial of Radovan Karadzic at the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia resumes in March. The former Bosnian Serb leader boycotted the trial when it started in September, and the tribunal has appointed an attorney to represent him should he boycott the resumption of the case. Karadzic faces 11 counts of war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity from the 1992-95 war in Bosnia-Herzigovina when he was president of a breakaway Serb republic. He faces life in prison if convicted.
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Mon, Mar 1 2010
The United Nations General Assembly convenes a meeting during the 54th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) to mark the 15th anniversary of the adoption of the Beijing Declaration in 1995. The commemoration invites a look at wins and losses for women since since the declaration, a task the CSW will undertake at their meeting. The CSW has highlighted climate change as an emerging issue for women, nothing that it exacerbates pre-existing inequalities.
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