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This article covers breaking news and events in August 2006.

Daily events

Tuesday August 1, 2006

A comma

El Paso, USA, behind that Juarez, Mexico

• German-speaking countries : For the second time since 2004, changes to the German spelling reform come into force as a revision of the 1996 reform of German spelling . It is now more difficult than ever to use the wrong comma .
• El Paso / United States : The city in the US state of Texas is hit by extremely heavy rainfall , which leads to the worst flooding of the Rio Grande in almost 50 years. Roads are being washed away or blocked by rubble and dirt. The areas to the north and northeast are hardest hit. Ciudad Juarez , across the US-Mexico border, is also being devastated.
• Koblenz / Germany : A suitcase bomb is discovered in a regional train from Cologne in Koblenz main station . The main station is evacuated for several hours and completely sealed off. The sharp suitcase bomb was supposed to explode on the way, but this did not happen due to technical defects in the construction of the bomb.

Wednesday August 2, 2006

• Beirut / Lebanon : Israel's army hacked the broadcast signal of Hezbollah- affiliated television station Al-Manar for psychological warfare . During the news, the Israeli technicians cut the signal so that a 90-second broadcast is shown instead, intended to undermine Hezbollah's morale. In addition, Israel uses the VHF signal from several radio stations and sends text messages to Lebanese cell phone owners , in which they say that their fight is aimed at Hezbollah and not the Lebanese people.
• Muttur / Sri Lanka : In fighting between government troops and rebels of the LTTE ( Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ) in Sri Lanka, at least 45 people are killed in the fighting for the city of Muttur in the northeast of the country. On Monday, 67 people lost their lives in the heaviest fighting since the armistice of 2002 .

Thursday August 3, 2006

F16A

• Berlin / Germany : The state media authorities criticize the plans to encrypt the television programs of the broadcasters RTL and MTV .
• Kiev / Ukraine : The four-month severe government crisis in Ukraine seems to be over: The protagonist of the “Orange Revolution”, Viktor Yushchenko , finds a compromise candidate with his rival, the pro-Russian Viktor Yanukovych .
• Munich / Germany : The ProSieben Sat.1 broadcasting group acquires the rights to broadcast the UEFA Cup and the UEFA Super Cup on free-to-air television and announces this to the press. The contracts with UEFA were signed the day before. The three-year agreement covers up to six UEFA Cup matches per year, from the quarter-finals in spring to the final.
• Stockholm / Sweden : Due to a serious incident at the Swedish Forsmark-1 nuclear power plant , four of the country's ten nuclear reactors are shut down. Thus, the opportunity should be used to check the security systems. Critics of the Swedish nuclear policy, anyway a controlled dismantling of the nuclear energy industry is planning to look into the incident at the plant north of Stockholm a near- meltdown .
• Tel Aviv / Israel : By means of a new ground offensive , Israel would like to create its targeted buffer zone in southern Lebanon opposite Hezbollah . With support units, the Israeli armed forces advanced up to six kilometers into Lebanon. The Air Force flies 120 attacks on suspected Hezbollah positions.

Friday 4th August 2006

Boulevard du 30 juin in Kinshasa

• Kinshasa / DR Congo : After the first free elections on July 30th for almost 45 years, election workers in the Congo count the votes. In the absence of democratic experience and logistical challenges, this is a sometimes chaotic undertaking, according to the journalist of Deutsche Welle , Alexander Göbel, who visits a counting center in a district of the Congolese capital. As soon as the pick-ups unload the ballot boxes , the police are called upon, as again voting bins made of cardboard-like plastic did not survive election day, leaving a wild mountain of paper. This is shoveled from the loading area by hand - at least under supervision. “For the fact that it was the first time, we did quite well. I don't think we can be said to have had a bad start. But of course, there are certain lessons that can be learned from the whole thing in order to do better at the next election in five years' time. But it's not chaotic here, ”says the Congolese election observer Mika Peri optimistically.

Saturday 5th August 2006

The Phonak team during the Tour de France 2004 team time trial

• Montmagny / Switzerland : The cycling team Phonak Cycling dismisses the winner of this year's edition of the Tour de France Floyd Landis from the United States without notice after a positive doping B test.

Sunday 6th August 2006

• Sucre / Bolivia : The constituent assembly begins its sessions in Sucre. The aim is to have a new constitution by August 6, 2007. In fact, after a long dispute, the constitution was not adopted until December 9, 2007, but has not yet entered into force.

Wednesday August 9, 2006

Rice panicle

• Davis / United States : Scientists from the University of California and the International Rice Research Institute have succeeded in isolating a gene that allows rice plants to survive completely under the water surface for two weeks, one week longer than usual. The scientists hope that the gene will provide better protection for rice harvests around the world against the risk of flooding .

Thursday August 10, 2006

• London / United Kingdom : According to police , Scotland Yard thwarted a presumably large-scale terrorist attack by arresting 25 suspects. According to this, suicide bombers wanted to detonate several aircraft using liquid explosives.
• Wenzhou / China : Typhoon "Saomai" killed more than 110 people. The tropical storm hit the hardest in Zhejiang Province , where it hit the mainland on Thursday. According to the Chinese media, “Saomai” is the worst typhoon since the People's Republic of China was founded in 1949 .

Friday August 11, 2006

• New York / United States : A diplomatic solution seems to be on the verge of failure in the Lebanon war . Both the UN resolution negotiated by France and the United States and a draft submitted by Russia are taking effect. The Ambassador of Russia to the UN Churkin announced a text of his own calling for a 72-hour ceasefire in Lebanon to enable humanitarian aid. Israel rejects this proposal so that Hezbollah does not reorganize.

Saturday August 12, 2006

• Shanghai / China : The first Wiki - Conference in Shanghai excluded from the really sensitive issues. After Wikipedia has been continuously blocked by the state for around nine months due to politically unacceptable content, the Chinese e-Wiki was also forced to close last week. Wikis that are still accessible do not cover controversial topics such as Falun Gong due to indirect self- censorship .

Sunday August 13, 2006

• Castel Gandolfo / Italy : Pope Benedict XVI. gives a television interview for the first time with ARD , ZDF , Deutsche Welle and Radio Vatican . In it he attests to the western world , to which Germany belongs, a new wave of "drastic enlightenment and secularity ", but at the same time the "West" is "strongly affected by other cultures in which the originally religious is very strong" be. He then advises the Germans to strengthen their faith in God.

Monday August 14, 2006

Horst Koehler

• Berlin / Germany : Federal President Horst Köhler honors the men's national soccer team at a ceremony in Bellevue Palace with the Silver Laurel Leaf for exemplary behavior during the Soccer World Cup 2006 and thereby honors their contribution to a “wonderful, unforgettable summer”.
• Berlin / Germany : According to deputy government spokesman Thomas Steg, the federal government does not want to decide on the type and scope of German participation in the implementation of the peace process in the Middle East until next week at the earliest .
• Havana / Cuba : Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez visits his Cuban colleague, the sick Fidel Castro , in the hospital for his 80th birthday on Sunday. To curb further speculation about his health, the press organ of the Cuban Communist Party Granma published photos of the two heads of state on its website showing how Chavez congratulated Castro in bed and presented him with gifts.
• Tel Aviv / Israel : Both the Israeli army and the Lebanese Hezbollah - militia are holding up to the agreed since 7:00 ceasefire . This is part of a resolution by the UN Security Council . There is u. a. envisaged that 15,000 Lebanese and international soldiers each, instead of Israelis and Hezbollah, would move into southern Lebanon.

Tuesday August 15, 2006

Jun'ichirō Koizumi

• Chiyoda / Japan : The Japanese Prime Minister Jun'ichirō Koizumi visits the Yasukuni Shrine on the anniversary of the Japanese surrender in World War II in 1945 , although war criminals are also venerated there. The governments of South Korea and the People's Republic of China are protesting.
• Düsseldorf / Germany : In the collective bargaining between the medical profession and the municipal clinics , the hope of an early agreement is growing. The spokesman for the Marburger Bund , Athanasios Drougias , also declared after a 20-hour marathon session: “Both sides have a clear will to bring it to a close”.
• Mexico City / Mexico : In the Mexican capital, there are violent clashes between the supporters of the loser Andrés Manuel López Obrador and the police, in which batons and tear gas are used.

Wednesday August 16, 2006

Günter Grass

• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The Hessian Social Court prohibited the AOK in this state, in future advertising for mail order pharmacies as DocMorris to switch. Accordingly, it is not permitted to recommend to insured persons, for example via call centers or member publications, to order medication from mail-order pharmacies in order to save costs.
• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : In an interview with the Frankfurter Rundschau , the German historian Hans Mommsen defends Günter Grass against the latest hostility. Because the recruitment to the Waffen SS was quite widespread in the late summer of 1944, the public excitement about Grass was "inappropriate"; so misjudged the looming “ gauntlet run ”, that the 17-year-old was hardly to blame for formal membership of the Waffen-SS and that Grass had a right to face it personally.

Thursday 17th August 2006

Air Berlin logo

• Berlin / Germany : The second largest German airline Air Berlin takes over competitor dba for an unspecified amount. While the company speaks of a "mid double-digit million range", the magazine Focus is assuming 120 million euros .
• Hallein / Austria : In Hallein near Salzburg , a conflict between Chechen asylum seekers and Dagestans ends with the death of a Chechen.
• California / United States , Mexico : The US Coast Guard arrested Javier Arellano-Felix , drug lord of the notorious Tijuana - cartel , and ten other people in the international waters off the coast of California.

Friday August 18, 2006

• Toronto / Canada : After presented at the World AIDS Conference in Toronto study of the World Health Organization WHO in South Africa one can circumcision , the risk of HIV - infection reduced by 60 percent. "But even if there are good new data on circumcision, it is important to say that it is not a complete protection," said Kevin De Cock , director of the WHO HIV / AIDS division . Circumcision must always have additional protection, e.g. B. be accompanied by condoms .
• Vienna / Austria : The discussion that flared up a few days ago about the " care emergency " claimed by the opposition has escalated. According to Chancellor Schüssel, the presumably 40,000 illegally working carers from the eastern EU accession countries should not be “criminalized” because without them care for the elderly would be unaffordable for many. Critics agree, but consider this prescribed procedure to be questionable and prefer a statutory regulation. Opinions differ widely about their nature. Journalists find out that even Schuessel's mother-in-law was temporarily cared for by an unregistered assistant.
• Wiesbaden / Germany : The Federal Criminal Police Office considers a terrorist background to be possible with the two suitcase bombs in local trains to Dortmund and Koblenz . Arabic characters, clues and telephone numbers from Lebanon were discovered. Both explosives should have detonated simultaneously ten minutes before reaching the terminal stations and were about the strength of the underground bombs in London . BKA President Joerg Ziercke already makes the first evidence that one the identity of a perpetrator, with a basis of video footage from Cologne Central Station Michael Ballack - jersey could determine was clothed.

Saturday 19th August 2006

Art in Wuppertal

• Hamburg / Germany : Monika Böttcher , the two-time child murderer , whose trial caused a stir for years, is released from prison after a total of 16 years.
• Kiel / Germany : In Kiel, one of the two suspects who deposited suitcase bombs on regional trains in July is arrested on the basis of DNA traces and other evidence.
• Wuppertal / Germany : The so-called " Pinguinale " celebrates the 125th anniversary of the Wuppertal Zoo . Despite the changeable weather, around 20,000 visitors follow the program.

Sunday August 20, 2006

• Baghdad / Iraq : Snipers cause a bloodbath among Shiite pilgrims in the Iraqi capital . According to the government, around 20 people are killed and more than 300 people injured. During the pilgrimage festival with hundreds of thousands of participants, the assassins shoot the believers in different parts of the city from the roofs of buildings or from ruins. The security forces manage to kill four of the terrorists .
• Düsseldorf , Munich / Germany : The shareholders criticize the management of Deutsche Telekom because of the profit warning from the beginning of August and the ongoing power struggles within the executive board. According to Focus, CEO Kai-Uwe Ricke has to fear that his contract will not be extended. Since the federal government, as shareholders of a total of approx. 31% of the shares, is anything but happy, Walter Raizner and Lothar Pauly must also fear for their posts.

Monday August 21, 2006

Michelle Bachelet

• English Channel : Due to a fire on a freight train , the Eurotunnel has to be closed for a few hours. The train was 12  km from Folkestone in the UK when the fire started. There was no danger to life and limb, according to a spokesman for the operating company .
• Berlin / Germany : Despite strong criticism, Chancellor Angela Merkel is sticking to the increase in VAT planned for 2007 : The forecast additional income has already been factored into the planning of the next budget.
• Halkidiki / Greece : A forest fire is spiraling out of control on the northern Greek peninsula of Chalkidiki . A German tourist who tries to get to safety on a boat drowns.
• Chile , China : Chile's President Michelle Bachelet signs the state declaration on the agreed trade and customs union with China. The agreement is the first that China has signed with foreign countries of this kind and will come into force in October. It reduces the tariffs on Chilean exports by 92% and those of China by 50% (by 2001 by 71%). China is Chile's second most important trading partner after the USA because the exchange of goods has increased by 704% since 1996. In 2005 it was $ 4.3 billion. China imported goods of $ 2.5 billion from Chile, which is now its market v. a. opens for Chinese cars, computers and cell phones.
• Karlsruhe / Germany : After the arrest of the 21-year-old Lebanese mechatronics student Youssef Mohamad EH on Saturday morning in Kiel Central Station , the investigative judge of the Federal Court of Justice issued the arrest warrant.
• Oslo / Norway : According to unconfirmed information from the newspaper “ Dagbladet ”, a Norwegian criminal offers the police the return of the prominent pictures “ The Scream ” and “ Madonna ” by Edvard Munch, which were stolen from the Munch Museum on August 22, 2004 . Apparently David Toska, who was sentenced to 19 years in prison for a major bank robbery in Stavanger, would like to obtain a reduction in the appeal proceedings. In the bank robbery that Toska organized, the thieves stole € 7 million and shot a policeman on the run. The police believe that the picture theft was a red herring.
• Qalyub / Egypt : In a train accident north of Cairo , a passenger train runs into another passenger train, killing at least 57 people.

Tuesday August 22, 2006

Tu-154 of Pulkovo Airlines

• Berlin / Germany : After the failure of collective bargaining at Deutsche Bahn , the workers' side ( Transnet and GDBA ) declares former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder ( SPD ) to be their arbitrator .
• Gothenburg / Sweden : The drugs found in the garbage near a hotel in the course of the European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg in 2006 have shown in laboratory analyzes to be “mostly harmless”. With the exception of the drug Aktovegin , which is classified as doping by the athletics federations , all the drugs examined were both legally approved in Sweden and within the association. Because Aktovegin is generally allowed in Sweden to accelerate acid transport, the police refrained from further investigations.
• Pyongyang / North Korea : Because of a joint military maneuver by South Korea and the USA , North Korea declares the ceasefire agreement "null and void" and threatens a " preventive strike for self-defense ".
• Saint Petersburg / Russia : a Russian passenger plane of the type Tupolev Tu-154 of Pulkowo Airlines crashes in eastern Ukraine . According to the authorities, who rule out a terrorist attack, 170 people are killed.
• Stockholm / Sweden : The Swedish state television broadcasts the news, while a porn film can be seen in the background of the monitor surface . There are no reactions from the audience. The breakdown arose when TV employees switched on the sports broadcast of a cable channel that broadcasts pornographic films during the night and forgot to switch to in good time.

Wednesday 23rd August 2006

• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The energy trade ( VEH ) is expecting hamster purchases in autumn because of the 2007 sales tax increase . The high demand also caused prices to rise.
• Los Angeles / United States : The 100 m Olympic champion Justin Gatlin is banned for eight years for doping with testosterone . Due to his cooperation, the sprinter gave up his world record and admitted his guilt, he escapes a lifelong ban and hopes that it will be shortened in the future.
• Strasshof / Austria : Natascha Kampusch , who was kidnapped eight years ago on the way to school and has since disappeared , is found alive in Lower Austria. The kidnapper had held the girl in a basement in Strasshof since March 1998 and was able to escape to a garden. The kidnapper committed suicide when he found out about the police raid. In the first comparison with relatives, they identify the now 18-year-old.

Thursday August 24, 2006

Trans-Neptunian object Pluto

• Brussels / Belgium : The European Union is making 67 million euros available to the North African country Morocco to improve border controls , as it is an important transit country for migrants heading for Europe.
• Munich / Germany : In a new corruption - scandal employees of the Dutch household appliance manufacturer Philips accused of around 100 employees of Media Markt and Saturn have bribed with cash benefits.
• Prague / Czech Republic : The International Astronomical Union recognizes the far extreme planet Pluto to planet status and assigns it instead to dwarf planet or the trans-Neptunian objects to. The solar system now only has eight classical planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune).
• Tripoli / Lebanon : The second alleged suitcase bomber Jihad D. cannot withstand the pressure of a wanted man and faces the Lebanese authorities, who are handed over to German investigators for questioning .

Friday 25th August 2006

MacBook

Trinity Cathedral in St. Petersburg in Flaamen

• Berlin / Germany : The Nazi Forced Labor Documentation Center opens in Berlin .
• Brussels / Belgium : The EU foreign ministers discuss with UN Secretary General Kofi Annan who should lead the Lebanon peacekeeping force . Italy (up to 3,000 soldiers) and recently France , which originally only wants to increase its 200 men to 1,600, have offered themselves . The UN considers a total of 10,000 soldiers to be necessary.
• Cupertino / United States : The computer company Apple is recalling 1.8 million notebooks because a device ignited due to faulty batteries . Because Dell also had 4.1 million batteries replaced in laptops three weeks ago, the problem becomes a serious burden for the original manufacturer Sony .
• Hamburg / Germany : Murat Kurnaz , who was arrested in Pakistan after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 , is released from the US prison camp in Guantanamo after five years and is now back in Germany.
• Rivers / Nigeria : In the oil-rich Niger Delta, three foreigners are kidnapped again, including an Italian. According to ANSA, armed attackers kidnapped three employees of the Italian company Saipem , a subsidiary of the ENI oil group, in Port Harcourt . A guard is killed in the process.
• Saint Petersburg / Russia : A fire in the Trinity Cathedral leads to the collapse of its wooden main dome and a secondary dome.

Sunday August 27, 2006

• Eton / United Kingdom : The eighth rowers in Germany wins the world championship title against Italy and defending champion USA for the first time in eleven years .
• Gelsenkirchen , Sankt Augustin - Hangelar / Germany : In severe storms , 30 people are injured, some seriously, by lightning strikes. During a flight day in Hangelar near Bonn , 24 people are seriously injured, three of them are critically injured. Two people have to be resuscitated, one man dies. In Gelsenkirchen, lightning strikes as a ball lightning via the "detour" of a floodlight pole into a tree under which numerous visitors to a regional football match had fled, and injured five people. Again, a person needs to be resuscitated.
• Lexington / United States : 49 people are killed in an air accident in the US state of Kentucky . The CRJ-100 machine from Comair (Comair flight 5191), a subsidiary of Delta Airlines , crashes into a forest after take-off at 6:00 a.m. local time and burns out. A policeman rushing up can just pull the copilot out of the cockpit . According to initial findings, the pilots took off from the wrong runway, which was 900 m too short for their aircraft type.
• Los Angeles / United States : At the 58th Emmy TV award ceremony , u. a. Kiefer Sutherland awarded.

Monday August 28, 2006

• Izmir / Turkey : Three people are killed in bomb attacks on several Turkish tourist locations ( Antalya , Marmaris ) as a result of terrorist actions by a splinter group of the PKK , the " Freedom Falcons of Kurdistan ". The Turkish police succeed in thwarting another attack in Izmir that evening.
• Los Angeles / United States : At the 58th Emmy Awards ceremony , u. a. the action series 24 and the comedy series The Office were recognized as best series.
• Rajasthan / India : In the state of Rajasthan in the Indian East, 47 people are killed when a water tank collapses during a village festival.
• Uganda : In Uganda, the government and the rebel group Lord's Resistance Army agree a ceasefire. The conflict has claimed thousands of victims over the past 20 years.
• Wuppertal / Germany : During a registered demonstration by the Kurdish Center from Bonn to propagate a free Kurdistan in the Wuppertal district of Vohwinkel , a fight broke out in the early evening on Stackenberger Strasse between a Turkish resident and some demonstrators. The resident had to be hospitalized with several minor injuries, and the police recorded the personal details of all those involved.

Tuesday August 29, 2006

• Belgium , Germany , France : The bluetongue disease feared by farmers in cattle and sheep , which has also been rampant in Germany for a week, has now attacked 38 farms in the vicinity of Aachen . All of Belgium, where the epidemic started, as well as parts of France and the area around Aachen were declared a restricted area. In addition to North Rhine-Westphalia , Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate have set up restricted zones. According to current knowledge, the disease is not dangerous for humans.
• Bethesda / United States : The armaments and technology group Lockheed Martin has been commissioned by the space agency NASA to build the next generation of manned spacecraft called Orion .
• Haiti : The first hurricane of this season, called "Ernesto", left Haiti devastated and one person killed. In Cuba , the authorities are taking precautionary measures. Due to the approaching storm, the governor of the US state Florida , Jeb Bush , calls a state of emergency . Evacuations and a further delay in the start of the US space shuttle Atlantis are the result.
• Johannesburg , South Africa : South Africa is expected to receive a $ 11 million grant from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) to improve infrastructure , transportation and waste management for the 2010 World Cup .
• London / United Kingdom : In the center of the British capital London, a fire breaks out in the afternoon in a three-story annex building of the Royal Academy of Art , which the fire brigade does not bring under control until the evening hours. As a precautionary measure, the surrounding buildings are being evacuated. The fire originated in the upper exhibition rooms, which are currently being renovated . The exhibition on the models by the Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani , located in the actual Royal Academy, is not affected. As a result of the cordoning off measures, traffic chaos breaks out for several hours around the tourist center and Piccadilly Circus .
• Mexico City / Mexico : In Mexico, the electoral court has rejected numerous complaints against the result of the presidential election.
• Passau / Germany : Hesse’s Prime Minister Roland Koch would like to put some of the financial surpluses from the Federal Employment Agency into a nationwide training program. The 600 million euros he proposed could be used to finance an apprenticeship for around 50,000 trainees.
• Sydney / Australia : Gary Neiwand , Australian cycling Olympic medalist (two silver and bronze medalists, 1988–2000) is sentenced to 18 months in prison for molesting his ex-girlfriend Amanda Lamont, her mother, boss and his employees, as well as for theft . The presiding judge Ian Gray still certifies Neiwand obvious depression disorders after the end of his sporting career, which, however , could not excuse his stalking with partly stolen cell phones .
• Wuppertal / Germany : The 36-year Remscheid anesthetist Dino E. of Helios - Hospital Barmen admits, in his capacity as head of training for the field of rescue four partly underage male wards drugged and abused to have.

Wednesday August 30, 2006

• Baghdad , Hilla / Iraq : Bomb attacks in Iraq kill around 40 people in attacks on a wholesale market and a recruiting office . 24 victims alone are killed when a bomb explodes in a busy wholesale market in central Baghdad . According to the police, 35 injured people are to be complained about. In the neighboring Karrada district, a bomb kills two people and injures 21 people. In the city of Hilla, about 100 kilometers south of Baghdad, twelve people are killed in an attack in front of an army recruitment office. 38 injured are to be complained about. Here the explosive device was mounted on a parked bicycle. Hilla is mostly inhabited by Shiite Muslims . This ends a temporary period of calm in the vicinity of the Iraqi capital.
• Cupertino / United States : The head of Google , Eric Schmidt , is elected to the board of directors of the computer manufacturer Apple . This creates a close interdependence between those groups that see Microsoft as their main common competitor.
• Florida Keys / United States : The hurricane Ernesto, which hit the US coast, loses its force contrary to the expectations of meteorologists. At top speeds of a comparatively low 72  km / h, it only gives Florida abundant continuous rain. Due to the improvement in the weather, NASA is now considering resuming the Atlantis launch procedure by September 7th at the latest and will let the space shuttle and launch pad roll out of the hangar to the launch point .
• Moscow / Russia : In Russia it becomes known that the companies Rusal and Sual will merge to form the world's largest aluminum manufacturer.
• Sydney / Australia : The New South Wales Register of Medical Practitioners revokes doctor Suman Sood 's license to practice medicine . It has been shown that Sood performed illegal abortions , including a. on a 20-year-old five months pregnant.

Thursday August 31, 2006

Nuri al-Maliki

Goldcorp logo

Helen Clark

• Baghdad / Iraq : The ongoing terrorism after the overthrow of the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein kills over 50 people in a new series of rocket attacks , and around 150 more are injured. In the meantime it has been shown that some officers of the armed forces, which were disbanded in 2003, are jointly responsible for the situation. The Sunni insurgents are opponents of the Nuri al-Maliki government .
• Düsseldorf / Germany : The telecommunications group Vodafone will enter the DSL market from September 2006 . Under the slogan "Flat to three", Vodafone will offer cell phone , landline and Internet connections via DSL at very aggressive prices, marking a new high point in the price war in the telecommunications market.
• Milky Way : The first supernova that can be observed directly from Earth occurs in the constellation Aries . The dying sun briefly shines brighter than the entire galaxy. Scientists use NASA's Swift satellite to register an unusually long outbreak of gamma radiation before the explosion .
• Sacramento / United States : The largest US state adopts a program to reduce greenhouse gases . Their emissions are to be reduced by 25% by 2020. According to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger , who u. a. stimulated by Austria's environmental policy, the world has long been waiting for such initiatives from the USA, which has caused the greatest pollution to date . This can also be seen as indirect criticism of his fellow party member George W. Bush .
• Stockholm / Sweden : After the 23-day war between Israel and the Lebanese Hezbollah , an international donor conference with over 50 countries is taking place in Stockholm to finance an aid program for the reconstruction of the partially destroyed infrastructure in southern Lebanon . At least 700 million  euros are planned , initially mainly to repair schools and bridges.
• Tehran / Iran : The United Nations deadline to stop uranium enrichment in Iran is running out. However, the country's government continues to oppose the suspension.
• Thailand : 20 bomb attacks are carried out in the south of the country, mainly in front of banks. A militant Muslim group wants to promote the establishment of a separate state in southern Thailand, where Islam is strongly represented. There was a series of arson attacks as early as the beginning of August.
• Vancouver / Canada : The Canadian metal company Goldcorp announces that it is taking over its American competitor Glamis Gold . This creates a global leader in gold mining.
• Wellington / New Zealand : The MP Taito Phillip Field published an opinion on the new allegations of the alleged acceptance of bribes and reiterated that Prime Minister Helen Clark have not asked him his seat for the Labor Party and Mangere resign. As long as no police investigations are pending, he sees no need for action.

See also

• Nekrolog August 2006 for deaths this month
• List of annually recurring commemorative and action days in August
• Category for commemorative days, holidays or action days in August

Web links

Carinthia in August 2006

Commons : August 2006  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

 Wikinews: Article Published August 2006  - News

Individual evidence

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2. ^ Meteorological aspects of the 2006 El Paso Texas Metropolitan Area floods. In: weather.gov . August 2009, accessed April 24, 2019 . 
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14. ↑ mdr.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
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16. ↑ "He who believes is never alone". In: dw.com . August 13, 2006, accessed July 28, 2019 . 
17. ^ Greetings from Federal President Horst Köhler at the award of the Silver Laurel Leaf to the German national soccer team. In: bundespraesident.de . August 14, 2006, accessed July 28, 2019 . 
18. ↑ portale.web.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
19. ^ Sick Castro received Chavez. In: wienerzeitung.at . August 14, 2006, accessed April 25, 2019 . 
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35. ↑ faz.net  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
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37. ↑ German drowns while fleeing from the fire . In: Die Welt , August 22, 2006
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43. ↑ Former Chancellor Schroeder mediates the wage dispute . In: Die Welt , August 22, 2006
44. ↑ n-tv.de
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46. ↑ netzeitung.de ( Memento from December 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
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53. ↑ rbb-online.de ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
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55. ↑ orf.at ( Memento from September 29, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
56. ↑ orf.at
57. ↑ Russia cathedral fire. In: bbc.co.uk . August 25, 2006, accessed October 11, 2019 . 
58. ↑ Abendblatt.de
59. ↑ heute.de ( Memento from September 1, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
60. ↑ stltoday.com- St. Louis City Today  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
61. ↑ Kiefer Sutherland. In: emmys.com. Retrieved April 28, 2017 (English). 
62. ↑ focus.msn.de
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69. ↑ stern.de
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71. ↑ tagesanzeiger.ch
72. ↑ derstandard.at
73. ^ Westdeutsche Zeitung online
74. ↑ Deaths after attacks on the wholesale market and recruiting office - faz.net
75. ↑ www.ftd.de - Financial Times Deutschland ( Memento from September 1, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
76. ↑ ^{a b} handelsblatt.com
77. ↑ nachrichten.ch, Vadian.net AG: Rocket attacks on residential areas in Baghdad ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
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81. ↑ ftd.de : International community supports Lebanon more than expected ( Memento of September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
82. ↑ n-tv.de
83. ↑ nzz.ch : Series of attacks on more than 20 banks in the south of Thailand ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
84. ↑ c6-magazin.de
85. ↑ home.nzcity.co.nz