December 2005

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This article covers breaking news and events in December 2005.

Daily events

Thursday December 1, 2005

  • Alagoas / Brazil : A leading member of the landless movement is shot dead in the northeastern state of Alagoas . As reported by the Catholic "Pastoral Commission for Soil", the 24-year-old is the 39th fatality among farm workers this year . In the course of the agrarian reform , several families were given land and received death threats as a result.
  • Solar system : In December all five bright planets are visible in the firmament from Europe during the night.

Friday December 2, 2005

Jack Straw

Saturday 3rd December 2005

Rafiq al-Hariri (2001)

Sunday 4th December 2005

Monday 5th December 2005

  • Caracas / Venezuela : The alliance of the official supporter parties of President Hugo Chávez claims to win all seats in the national parliamentary elections. The Chavez 'party (movement for the fifth republic) also achieved the necessary two-thirds majority for constitutional amendments with 114 out of 167. After all major opposition parties had surprisingly withdrawn from the election, the turnout was around 25%.

Tuesday December 6, 2005

  • Tehran / Iran : A type C-130 military aircraft crashes over the capital while attempting an emergency landing. At least 90 people die. Iran owns 15 Hercules C-130s. Because of the economic sanctions imposed by the USA, there has been a lack of spare parts for aircraft in Iran for over 25 years.

Wednesday December 7, 2005

Angela Merkel, Condoleezza Rice
  • China : In another mine accident near Beijing, 96 miners are buried, another 27 can save themselves. The explosion at the Liuguantun mine near Tangshan City marks the fourth major accident in 10 days and is expected to increase the death toll from 229 to over 320.
  • Germany : On the occasion of the visit of the US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and the discussions about anti-terrorism activities of the CIA in Europe, the new Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks of the fact that the US government has made a mistake with regard to the apparently erroneous arrest of the German-Lebanese Khaled al-Masri accept. American media contradict this: Rice only admitted to Merkel that mistakes sometimes happen in the political field and that they are corrected if necessary. The official silence of the USA regarding the kidnapping at the time has put a strain on transatlantic relations again.

Thursday December 8, 2005

Friday December 9, 2005

Saturday December 10, 2005

  • Nigeria : Apparently a passenger plane crashed while taking off in Nigeria. According to media reports, up to 100 people are said to have died. The plane of the Nigerian airline "Sosoliso" should have flown from Port Harcourt to Abuja .
  • Spain : Spanish police arrested seven men in the south of the country. They are charged with the support of Algerian Muslim extremists linked to Al Qaeda . According to the police, there is currently no evidence of planned attacks in Spain.

Sunday December 11, 2005

  • London / United Kingdom : A fuel dump exploded this morning near London. The explosion occurred about 15 kilometers from Luton Airport . According to police, 40 people were injured, two of them seriously. After several hours, the fire brigade got the fire under control. However, police warned there could be further explosions. Hertfordshire Police believe there was an accident. There is no evidence of another cause, said a spokeswoman. Reports by an eyewitness that he saw a plane crash into the camp were expressly denied by the police.

Monday December 12, 2005

  • Moscow / Russia : The gas company Gazprom is to increase gas delivery prices for Ukraine fourfold in 2006, demanded President Vladimir Putin in a television speech. The price would then double the international market price. The price increase is seen as revenge for the events of the Orange Revolution , which was provoked by the election rigging of the presidential candidate supported by Russia and which ended with the victory of the democratic movement. Such drastic price increases would significantly worsen the economic situation in Ukraine and restrict the government's room for maneuver. At the same time, delivery prices for the Belarusian President Aljaksandr Lukashenka are guaranteed to be five times lower in 2006.

Tuesday December 13, 2005

Wednesday December 14, 2005

Thursday December 15, 2005

Friday December 16, 2005

Sunday December 18, 2005

Monday December 19, 2005

Tuesday December 20, 2005

  • Düsseldorf / Germany : The energy and chemicals group RAG Aktiengesellschaft becomes the future majority owner of the world's largest specialty chemicals group, Degussa .
  • La Paz / Bolivia : In the presidential election on December 18, Evo Morales from the “Movement to Socialism” ( MAS ) wins an absolute majority. This makes the well-known representative of the “ coca farmers” the first Indian president of the country, which returned to democracy in 1982. The conservative candidate receives around a quarter of the vote.

Wednesday December 21, 2005

  • Bucharest / Romania : Bank BCR , the largest bank in the country, is taken over by the Austrian Erste Bank . The top institution of the Austrian savings bank sector, which has taken over several large savings banks in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Croatia since 2000 , pays 3.7 billion euros for the majority stake, which is the largest transaction by an Austrian company abroad to date. BCR has a 25-30 percent market share in Romania, 300 branches and around 12,000 employees.
  • Karlsruhe / Germany : the Federal Court of Justice lifts the acquittals of the Düsseldorf Regional Court in the Mannesmann trial . This is now decided by another chamber, taking into account the legal opinion of the BGH. The renewed trial of Deutsche Bank boss Ackermann and 5 other managers is estimated to take a few months.
  • Kinshasa / DR Congo : According to the UN, the Sunday referendum on the new constitution was successful. After counting a third of the votes, an 80 percent approval of the voters is indicated, which is a prerequisite for the final pacification of the multiethnic state torn by civil wars. A total of around 40,000 polling stations were available to the 25 million eligible voters . There were transport problems in only a few places, but demonstrations by constitutional opponents in Goma and Kinshasa. The UN has deployed its largest contingent of peacekeeping forces in the vast country and spoke of the most complex and difficult election it has ever organized.
  • New York / United States : The United Nations sets up a peacekeeping commission . According to the experience of the last decade, wars break out again in around half of all conflict cases after the UN has succeeded in finding a provisional settlement. The new commission will primarily contribute to the prevention of further civil wars in Africa (Burundi, Congo (?), Liberia and Sierra Leone), but will also act in Haiti .

Thursday December 22, 2005

Friday December 23, 2005

Saturday December 24, 2005

  • Hokuriku / Japan : Unusually heavy snowstorms have caused at least 8 deaths so far. Avalanches have been triggered in many areas. Traffic chaos broke out across the country. Well over a thousand households were without electricity. A person was killed in a train derailment in the north of the country. 26 were injured.

Sunday December 25, 2005


Wednesday December 28, 2005

Thursday December 29, 2005

Friday December 30, 2005

  • Cairo / Egypt : When a protest camp of Sudanese refugees was stormed by the Egyptian police, a mass panic broke out. At least ten Sudanese refugees were killed. The refugees had demonstrated for better living conditions and for moving to a third country.

Saturday December 31, 2005

See also

Web links

North Rhine-Westphalia in December 2005
Commons : December 2005  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. History of Austrian foreign policy in 2005. In: afa.at . January 16, 2006, accessed August 18, 2018 .
  2. Eugen Drewermann resigned from the Catholic Church. In: bibelpraxis.de, Manuel Seibel. December 14, 2005, accessed September 20, 2016 .
  3. ^ Vienna and its Balkan clients. In: diepresse.com . June 2, 2014, accessed July 11, 2017 .
  4. "Federal Chancellor" is the word of the year 2005. In: faz.net . December 16, 2005, accessed October 10, 2016 .
  5. ^ Club World Championships, competitions 1999-2015. In: ifosta.de. Retrieved November 3, 2016 .
  6. Ex-State Secretary Chrobog kidnapped. In: tagesspiegel.de . December 28, 2005, accessed July 28, 2019 .
  7. CIA prisoner transports have been running since 1995. In: nzz.ch . December 28, 2005, accessed January 30, 2018 .
  8. Wikinews: Ten Sudanese refugees killed while storming their camp
  9. The chrobogs are free again. In: Mittelbayerische.de . December 31, 2005, accessed October 9, 2018 .