The World this week

8226; The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon is slated to chair an annual meeting of UN agencies8217; chiefs in Berne, Switzerland, on April 28 and 29. The meeting will focus on the global food crisis.

8226; Vietnam will mark its Reunification Day on April 30, commemorating the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, in 1975 by armed forces. It marked the end of the war and the beginning of the transition towards a formal reunification of Vietnam under Communist rule. Saigon was immediately renamed Ho Chi Minh City.

8226; International Workers8217; Day, popularly celebrated by millions of working people around the world on May 1, is on Thursday. A commemoration of the Haymarket riots in Chicago in 1886, it is marked by demonstrations and street marches. May Day is a national holiday in India, as in most other countries of the world, with the notable exception of the United States and Canada.

8226; Post-election violence is likely to intensify in Zimbabwe, after the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change accused armed riot police of storming their headquarters and arresting scores of supporters on April 25. The result of the recount ordered by Robert Mugabe is now indefinitely postponed.