December 2006

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Portal history | Portal Biographies | Current events | Annual calendar

◄ | 20th century | 21st century    
◄ | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s      
◄ | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | ►
◄ | September 2006 | October 2006 | November 2006 | December 2006 | January 2007 | February 2007 | March 2007 | ►

Contents:
Mon Tuesday Wed do Fr. Sat So
1 2 3
4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 10
11 12 13 14th 15th 16 17th
18th 19th 20th 21st 22nd 23 24
25th 26th 27 28 29 30th 31

This article covers breaking news and events in December 2006.

Daily events

Friday December 1, 2006

Mayon volcano
Symbol of solidarity with HIV-positive and AIDS-sick people

Saturday 2nd December 2006

Sunday 3rd December 2006

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
  • Caracas / Venezuela : President Hugo Chávez is confirmed in office in the presidential elections with 63% approval.
  • Manila / Philippines : President Gloria Arroyo declared a state of emergency after the devastating mudslides on Friday , asked for international help and released $ 20 million for immediate measures. The Red Cross fears that the death toll will rise to over 1,000. According to reports from survivors, the mudslide tore tree trunks and boulders with it and came so quickly that it was difficult to save yourself to higher floors. Over 100,000 houses were completely destroyed and nearly a million people left homeless . In addition to the province of Albay around the volcano, the typhoon, which reached over 200 km / h, also raged in other provinces and is now moving on to Vietnam , where around 50,000 evacuations are starting.

Monday 4th December 2006

Moon and Pleiades in size comparison
  • Belém / Brazil : The world's largest primeval forest reserve is decided for the Amazon rainforest. Simao Jatene , the governor of the northern province of Pará , announces the merger of 7 national parks , which cover 160,000 km² and also extend into the states of Amapa and Amazonas . This would mean that 42% of the Amazon would be protected. The region is affected by countless land conflicts , illegal deforestation and slave-like exploitation of Indians; according to Imazon (Institute for Environmental Research in the Amazon region) and should now become a model for sustainable development.
  • London / United Kingdom : Ten days after the death of ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko , British detectives travel to Russia to question several witnesses of the poisoning. They include the former secret service agent Andrei Lugovoi and two Russians with whom Litvinenko met on November 1st in a London hotel bar. Confidants of Litvinenko are calling for the former FSB officer Mikhail Trepashkin to be questioned. He is imprisoned for betrayal of secrets and spoke on December 1 of a special group of agents intended to kill Litvinenko and other critics of Russian President Vladimir Putin . The Italian Mario Scaramella , who was present on November 1st and was lying in a London clinic, also announced revelations. The radioactive poison polonium 210 was also found in his urine .
  • Moscow / Russia : In this context, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warns that relations between Russia and Great Britain will be damaged if the case is further “politicized”. The "campaign" about an alleged involvement of Russian authorities in the death of the ex-spy is unacceptable. In the Monday edition of the Kommersant newspaper, Litvinenko's father made serious allegations against the government: “There was an order from above to kill my son”.
  • Solar system : In the morning hours, from the perspective of the earth, one of the rare occultations of the Pleiades by the moon occurs .

Tuesday December 5, 2006

  • Assen / Netherlands : The Dutch Srebrenica protection unit " Dutchbat " receives a decoration from Defense Minister Kamp in protest of the survivors of the Srebrenica massacre . Under observation by the UN protection unit, over 8,000 people were killed in the 1995 massacre of the Serbian units.
  • Moscow / Russia : In Russia, the head of the independent gas company Itera-Samara , Alexander Samoilenko , was shot by killers.
  • Beijing / China : China wants to push the DVD out of the market in order to be able to maximize its profit with the EVD .
  • Suva / Fiji : After the police had to hand over their armament to the military in the past few days, the military surrounds the residence of Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase and takes power in the South Pacific state. Qarase was elected to a second five-year term in May 2006 and has so far refused to resign. Fiji's military chief Frank Bainimarama , a supporter of the Indian minority, accuses the government of corruption and stirring up ethnic tensions. Australia is sending three navy ships to the region to bring vacationers home if necessary.
  • Washington, DC / United States : At a meeting with US President George W. Bush , Abdul Asis al-Hakim , party leader of the largest Iraqi ruling party , Sciri , calls for the United States to crack down on insurgents in Iraq to prevent a civil war . The Shiite leader denies stirring up violence against Sunnis and the existence of Shiite death squads. He is praised by Bush for his "strong position against the murder of the innocent". Political scientists see Hakim's visit as a signal that Bush wants to take a more direct role in the fight against violence in Iraq. The proposals of an independent Iraq commission under ex-Foreign Secretary James Baker on a possible change of strategy are expected shortly .

Wednesday December 6, 2006

Robert Gates
  • Düsseldorf / Germany : The North Rhine-Westphalian government parties CDU and FDP agree on a bill on the right to vote . In future there should be a second vote in state elections . This would help “smaller” parties to win more mandates, because it has been shown in federal elections that voters who give their first vote to a candidate from one of the large parties - CDU or SPD - rarely give their second vote to the other large party. A split between a large party and one of the smaller parties, e.g. B. between CDU and FDP.
  • Suva / Fiji : As announced days ago, the military will take over the government and the army chief Voreqe Bainimarama will take over the powers of the president. He dismisses Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase and appoints retired doctor Jona Senilagakali as his successor. After the formation of a transitional government to initiate parliamentary elections , President Ratu Josefa Iloilo is expected to return to office. Qarase is accused of fueling ethnic tensions between the majority of Fiji's indigenous people and the Indian minority through unconstitutional laws. Internationally, the coup is condemned and a return to the elected government is demanded. The state of emergency could also seriously endanger the economy, which is based primarily on sugar exports and winter tourism .
  • Washington, DC / United States : The new defense minister Robert Gates thinks that US troops can hardly win against the insurgents in Iraq . The joint Iraq Commission under James Baker recommends a fundamental realignment of Iraq policy. The US military should concentrate on supporting the Iraqi security forces instead of combat missions. The experts are said to propose halving the number of troops by the end of 2007 and involving the neighboring countries Syria and Iran in political talks.
  • Washington, DC / United States : NASA plans to build a permanently manned lunar station by 2020 . It should be the starting point for further space research , for raw material extraction and for the manned Mars flight . The first test flights are to take place in 2009. At the beginning of 2010 a return to the moon is expected within 10 years and a moon station from 2025.Template: future / in 5 years
  • Washington, DC / United States : At the same time, NASA announces that water on Mars exists in liquid form and not just as ice. Images from the Global Surveyor show young sediments at the foot of two steep gullies. In contrast, the previously proven Martian canals are many millions of years old and are attributed to sudden meltwater.
  • Vienna / Austria : The government negotiations between SPÖ and ÖVP stall because of the funding of several proposals. Now a finance group with Christoph Matznetter and Finance Minister Karl-Heinz Grasser is supposed to examine all proposals and avoid new national debts. In the last few days one had u. a. agreed on a needs-based basic security of 725 euros, as left-wing parties and Catholic social teaching have long been demanding, but the additional costs of which would have to be negotiated with the 9 federal states .
  • Wiesbaden / Germany : The study “Living in Europe” by the Federal Statistical Office shows that 13% of Germans are at risk of poverty . Without social benefits it would be almost a quarter. The FRG is thus roughly in the middle of the EU , whose complex project aims to produce internationally comparable data on poverty reduction. They are based on 25,000 surveys in 2004 , i.e. before the von Hartz IV labor market reform. Single parents in particular are at risk of poverty up to 30%, but it is also 7-10% for parents with 1–2 children. Many large families are only just above the poverty line.

Thursday December 7, 2006

  • Paris / France : The new news channel France24 goes on air. The project, supported by President Chirac, aims to spread “France's view of the world” and counteract the overwhelming power of Anglo-Saxon market leaders such as CNN and BBC . Initially only on the Internet and from Saturday onwards via Astra satellites and cable networks, the bilingual program (English and French) is to be received in 90 countries and over 75 million households and will be supplemented in Arabic in 6 months .

Friday December 8, 2006

  • Hamburg / Germany : The case of with polonium poisoned former KGB - agent Alexander Litvinenko has now reached German soil. In Hamburg-Ottensen, investigators also find traces of the highly radioactive polonium 210 in the apartment building of his contact, Dmitri Kowtun . Kowton had met Litvinenko in London on November 1, the presumed time of the poisoning . 41-year-old Kowton is in a Moscow hospital because of his own radiation sickness. Scotland Yard is supporting the German public prosecutor's investigation.
  • Stuttgart / Germany : The World's Largest Automotive supplier Bosch plans for 2007 with a workforce reduction , as a result of the price pressure from auto manufacturers , the profit margin will increasingly shortened. Manufacturers are currently demanding annual price cuts of three to four percent instead of two to three percent previously. In addition to the rise in raw material prices on the world market, the crisis in the automotive industry in the USA is also responsible for the misery. Around 110,000 people work for Bosch in Germany.

Saturday December 9, 2006

  • Ankara / Turkey : 2 days before the expiry of the European Union's ultimatum that Turkey must open its airports and seaports to (South) Cyprus , Ankara orally offers a compromise that should affect a port and Ercan airport . Despite the urgency of the matter, there is no written statement so that the partial suspension of the accession negotiations remains in effect. Even a meeting of the North Cypriot President Mehmet Ali Talat with EU enlargement commissioner Olli Rehn does not solve the ambiguities. The Finnish EU Presidency proposes to suspend some chapters of the accession negotiations at the foreign ministers' meeting on Monday.
  • Zhytomyr / Ukraine : The Austrian Jesuit Georg Sporschill opens a Concordia house for 72 abandoned street children in the city of Zhytomyr, 120 km west of the Ukrainian capital Kiev ; the later expansion to three houses is planned. The children are to be looked after in six large families and receive an education. In 1991 Sporschill started a first project in Bucharest with three volunteers and soon expanded it due to the great demand. It was extended to Moldova in 2003 , where tens of thousands of children live on the streets.

Sunday December 10, 2006

Monday December 11, 2006

  • Brussels / Belgium : Turkey's accession negotiations to the European Union will be “put on hold” in eight of 35 areas, according to the decision of the EU foreign ministers . After ten hours of negotiations, the 25 ministers find a compromise that replaces the previous ultimatum to open all Turkish ports and airports to Cyprus . The negotiations in these sub-areas are only to be continued when Turkey no longer refuses to open its ports and airports to the EU member state Cyprus and thus implements the Ankara Protocol on the Customs Union . With this, however, the German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier prevailed over the tougher course of Chancellor Angela Merkel , who had called for constant revision with fixed deadlines. In return, Cyprus pledges that it will no longer block direct trade between Turkish Northern Cyprus and the EU.


Wednesday December 13, 2006

Thursday December 14, 2006

Friday December 15, 2006

Bawag PSK logo

Saturday December 16, 2006


Monday December 18, 2006

Karwendel main chain
  • Alps : The Wegener Research Institute in Graz has for the first time simulated the weather in the Eastern Alps over six decades (starting with the 1980s ) in a 10 km grid. According to Andreas Gobiet, a temperature increase of up to 2.5 ° can be expected by 2040 , which confirms a ZAMG study - “more than double what we expect on the global average. Up to now the warming since the pre-industrial period is around 0.7 °, in the Alpine region 1.5 - 1.6 degrees ”. Between the Alps and the Mediterranean region , the drought will increase in summer and autumn , in the north the precipitation (-30% and + 20% respectively). On average, it is 1 rainy day less / more per month, but extreme events have hardly been investigated.
  • Iran : The local elections bring heavy losses to the radical party of President Mahmoud Ahmadineschād , who has been in office since 2005 . According to partial results, the moderate conservatives won a majority in most city and town councils . The reformers around former President Akbar Hāschemi Rafsanjāni , who far outstripped his ultra-conservative candidate for the council of experts Ayatollah Yasdi , are also on the rise . In the city council of Tehran , the moderate mayor Mohammed Bagher Kalibaf is expected to receive 7 of the 15 seats, the reformers 4, and Ahmadineschād's supporters only 3. It was similar in the second largest city of Isfahan , with none of the radicals in the city parliament in Bandar Abbas in southern Persia .
Observers see the election result as a sign of change within the political leadership. Political scientist Mostafa Mirsaeian says that "a new coalition is being formed between reformers and moderate conservatives at the expense of the extreme hardliners who support Ahmadinejad." The president is criticized within the conservatives for seeking too much a confrontation with the West and for neglecting the socio-economic conditions in Iran.

Tuesday December 19, 2006

  • Ipswich / United Kingdom : British police arrest a suspected serial killer in his apartment in Felixstowe, southeast of Ipswich, who is believed to have murdered five prostitutes . The 37-year-old supermarket clerk had made himself increasingly suspicious by telling the Sunday Mirror newspaper in an interview that he knew all of the murdered women and that he did not have a sufficient alibi for the time of the crime . The bodies had been found in the Ipswich area within eleven days and had brought back memories of Jack the Ripper among the British public. Yet another suspect, a 49-year-old, is arrested because the exhibitionistic nature of the interviews with the first suspect means that he can be seen as a free rider or an accomplice .

Wednesday December 20, 2006

Thursday December 21, 2006

Heathrow Airport Tower
  • London / United Kingdom : Persistent fog blocked for hours the operation of the airport Heathrow . More than 300 intra-European flights have to be canceled, hundreds of people have to spend the night at the airport, all hotels in the area are fully booked. British Airways alone canceled 170 flights. The obstruction to air traffic extends to neighboring European countries, as the neighboring British airports Gatwick , Norwich , Southampton and Coventry are also affected by the chaos of fog. As a rule, Heathrow handles 200,000 air passengers every day.
  • Paris / France : French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin testifies as a witness in the Clearstream affair . In contrast to the beginning of the investigation, there are no longer any suspicions against him. The affair is about a list of alleged secret black money accounts that came to the public and only later turned out to be a fake . This list included well-known names, especially that of Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy , Villepin's political rival. The illegal accounts should have been administered by the Luxembourg Clearstream Bank.


Saturday December 23, 2006


Monday December 25, 2006

Tuesday December 26, 2006

  • Aceh / Indonesia : In the north of Sumatra, which was hardest hit in 2004, around 500 villages are flooded after heavy rains . Over 80 people die, 200,000 flee to emergency shelters. On the Indonesian holiday island of Bali , the commemoration is combined with a tsunami exercise, during which 15,000 people get to safety from the beaches.
  • Brussels / Belgium , Moscow / Russia : In Western Europe there is growing concern about the energy supply and the dispute over natural gas between Russia and Belarus , which also affects gas pipelines. The Gazprom group wants to turn off the gas tap in Belarus if it does not agree to a contract with higher prices by January 1st. The gas coordination group in Brussels is to discuss possible consequences on January 4th. The group includes EU energy companies and consumer organizations; it was founded last winter in a similar Russia- Ukraine gas dispute . Ukraine offers to help out with transit deliveries through its territory.
  • India , Indonesia , Sri Lanka , Thailand : Millions of people commemorate the tsunami disaster of December 26 , 2004 , which killed around 230,000 people on the coasts of South and Southeast Asia, with commemorations, minutes of silence and visits to mass graves. Reconstruction is not going well everywhere, but tourism is booming again in some holiday regions, e. B. Patong Beach and the diving centers of Phuket .
  • Philippines , Taiwan : Exactly two years after the devastating tsunami in the Indian Ocean, two more powerful seaquakes occur in Southeast Asia every eight minutes . The epicentres are about 200 km south of the island of Taiwan , the depth is 10 km each. The first quake reached a strength of 7.1  M w , the second 6.9 M w . Japan's Meteorological Office recommends a tsunami warning for southern Taiwan and the Philippines , but the Philippine authorities waived this because the feared waves up to 1 m high would not occur.
  • Thailand : A memorial for anonymous victims of the tidal waves is inaugurated in Phang Nga Province . In the former fishing village of Bang Muang near Ban Nam Khem, an orphanage and a school are being opened for children whose parents were killed at the time. It was built by the Swiss hotelier Lothar Schudt and his friends, who has lived on Phuket for 12 years. Rotjana Phraesrithong, the director: “In the past we didn't need orphanages, children without parents were taken in by the family as a matter of course. But that many are simply not there anymore. ”The completely destroyed Ban Nam Khem , where a third of the 4,000 inhabitants perished, has now largely been rebuilt.


Thursday December 28, 2006

  • Brussels / Belgium , Kiev / Ukraine : The " gas dispute " between the Russian energy company Gazprom and Belarus is triggering increasing concerns in Europe about uncertainties in the fuel supply. EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs appeals to the parties to the conflict to find a quick solution so as not to endanger gas deliveries to Europe, something which German Economics Minister Michael Glos is also campaigning for. The Ukrainian energy minister Jurij Boiko offers deliveries in transit routes in the event of bottlenecks.
  • Dushanbe / Tajikistan , Minsk / Belarus : Belarus is to pay more than double the price for Russian natural gas in future and is also to cede 50% of the shares in the pipeline distribution system to the Gazprom Group. Meanwhile, Tajikistan's energy company Tajikgaz agrees to also double the prices for natural gas from Uzbekistan ; In 2007, deliveries of 700 million cubic meters of gas for 70 million dollars are planned. Central Asian Uzbekistan is the third largest supplier of natural gas to the former Soviet Union after Russia and Turkmenistan .
  • Kiev / Ukraine : The new government under the pro-Russian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych is avoiding another gas dispute and this time agreed early on with Gazprom on base prices for 2007 : 130 dollars (around 100 euros) for 1,000 m³ of gas is 40% more than in 2006, but only half the price of gas that Russia charges other former Soviet republics.
  • New York , Washington, DC / United States : Despite the high oil price , which has increased sevenfold in ten years to the current record high of 78 dollars per barrel on the New York commodity futures exchange , the global economy is booming . The slowdown in growth in the United States since the middle of the year has had a dampening effect. Since the bursting of the dot-com bubble on the stock market, more and more capital has flowed into the real estate market , a dangerous development for some analysts. The strongly negative US current account with a deficit of 6.6% can develop into a further danger for the American and global economies.

Friday December 29, 2006

  • Baghdad / Iraq : Rumors are growing in Iraq that the death sentence of the former dictator Saddam Hussein will soon be carried out. The Court of Appeal has confirmed the precipitated in November verdict form and content, on Tuesday.
  • Yemen : Somali boat refugees are forced to turn away by the coast guard of the South Arabian state. Some heavily overloaded boats are even shot at or capsize during the forced maneuvers, around 200 Somalis are killed.
  • Minsk / Belarus , Moscow / Russia : In the wake of the increasingly violent gas dispute between Belarus and the Russian energy company Gazprom , Russia is increasing its price to 200 dollars per 1000 m³ of natural gas and threatens to stop gas deliveries from January 2nd. The Belarusian government has announced that it would interrupt gas transit to Western Europe in the event of such a delivery stop .
  • Austria , Switzerland : The Red Cross reports that numerous skiing accidents are currently more severe than in previous years in the Alpine countries . To blame u. a. the lack of snow in the fall areas to the side of the ski slopes , and the artificial snow that is often applied is harder than its natural shape.
  • Somalia : In the fight between the transitional government and the rebel troops of the Islamists , the Ethiopian army intervenes and, after several bombings, conquers the Somali capital Mogadishu . The rebels - which according to Western reports also include fighters from Al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups - are withdrawing to the south, while the international v. a. US-backed transitional government relocated to the capital. It formally controls again over half of the country's area, while the northeastern secessionist areas remain in the hands of the Ogaden and the other civil war parties. In Mogadishu, however, some clan chiefs are trying to regain their former spheres of power.
  • United States : President George W. Bush reportedly informed of the imminent execution of Saddam. He contradicts the expectation that this will soon reduce the bomb attacks in Iraq , but sees them as the first step towards democratic normalization. However , he will not present the US strategy that will be changed in future due to the Iraqi civil war to the public until January 2007 .
  • United Kingdom : Four suspected war criminals from the Rwandan Civil War (1994), whose extradition requested, are arrested in different parts of the country . More arrests are expected.
  • Washington, DC / United States : Former US President Gerald Ford , who died on December 27, is laid out in the Capitol . The government has declared January 2 a national day of mourning .

Saturday December 30, 2006

Sunday December 31, 2006

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
Mobile phone BenQ-Siemens E71
  • Bucharest / Romania , Sofia / Bulgaria : In Bulgaria and Romania, the public celebrations at the turn of the year are marked by the accession of both states to the European Union , which will expand to 27 member states on January 1, 2007.
  • Madrid / Spain : Thousands are demonstrating in Spain against ETA and the policies of the government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero after the bombing the previous day. The two missing men are two Ecuadorians who slept in their car and were therefore surprised by the detonation. The government breaks off talks with ETA.
  • Munich / Germany : The manufacturer of mobile phones BenQ Mobile Deutschland , the former “mobile phone” division of Siemens AG , will not find an investor until midnight and will file for bankruptcy at the local court in January 2007 . After 2,000 employees lost their jobs in the past few months, another 1,000 employees at the headquarters in Munich and at the Bocholt and Kamp-Lintfort locations are about to be laid off.
  • Paris / France : According to a report by the aid organization Reporters Without Borders , 2006 was one of the most dangerous years for journalists since the survey began : 81 media representatives were killed in the course of their work in 21 countries. In addition, 56 reporters were kidnapped , primarily in Iraq and Gaza . In addition, 32 media representatives (drivers, translators and technicians) were killed in their supporting work. As expected, Iraq was the most dangerous country for journalists for the fourth time in a row with 64 victims, followed by Mexico with nine and the Philippines with six deaths.
  • Sankt Pölten / Austria : Interior Minister Liese Prokop dies surprisingly from the consequences of a tear in the aorta during the transport from her home town of Annaberg to the Lilienfeld hospital . When the politician lost consciousness and the emergency medical measures had no effect, the transport was diverted to St. Pölten, where only her death could be determined. Prokop's death caused general consternation in Austria. The politicians of all parties appreciate the deceased as "social, warm-hearted and human" .
  • Udscha / Iraq : Saddam Hussein , who was hanged the day before , is buried in close family circles in his hometown. Meanwhile, international voices condemn the execution, as it repaid wrong with wrong and only glorified Saddam as a martyr in the Islamic world . Indications of an imminent uprising by the Sunnis have not yet been confirmed.

See also

Web links

Jerusalem in December 2006
Commons : December 2006  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
 Wikinews: Article Published December 2006  - News

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Coalition passes smoking ban with exceptions. In: welt.de . December 1, 2006, accessed December 24, 2014 .
  2. ↑ netzeitung.de : Dead by mudslide in the Philippines ( Memento from March 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ tsarchive.wordpress.com: More than 1,000 dead after mudslide feared ( Memento from October 6, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Kofi Annan : Message on the occasion of World AIDS Day. In: unaids.org . December 1, 2006, accessed August 16, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Cuba celebrates - without Fidel. In: dw.com . December 2, 2006, accessed December 24, 2014 .
  6. ↑ orf.at
  7. ^ British Litvinenko investigators travel to Moscow. In: dw.com . December 5, 2006, accessed December 24, 2014 .
  8. ↑ Astro tips December 2006. In: pro-physik.de, Wiley-VCH Verlag . November 27, 2006, accessed August 22, 2019 .
  9. ↑ AP: Netherlands honor Srebrenica unit. In: welt.de . December 5, 2006, accessed December 24, 2014 .
  10. ↑ head of Russian gas company Itera-Samara shot - 05.12.2006. In: verivox.de. December 5, 2006, accessed December 24, 2014 .
  11. ↑ China wants to force DVD out of the market. In: heise.de . December 5, 2006, accessed December 24, 2014 .
  12. ↑ US condemns Fiji coup Suspends Military Aid. In: voanews.com. October 31, 2009, accessed December 24, 2014 .
  13. ↑ NRW government coalition wants to change electoral laws. In: Wahlrecht.de . December 6, 2006, accessed April 24, 2019 .
  14. ^ State of emergency in the Fiji Islands. In: dw.com . December 6, 2006, accessed August 6, 2019 .
  15. ↑ 20min.ch
  16. ^ The Iraq Study Group's Recommendations. In: nytimes.com. December 6, 2006, accessed December 24, 2014 .
  17. ↑ Iraq Report Says Situation 'Grave And Deteriorating'. In: rferl.org . December 6, 2006, accessed November 21, 2019 .
  18. ↑ A. Passenheim and D. Donne Tree: lava tunnels as a basis for future lunar stations. In: welt.de . January 28, 2010, accessed December 24, 2014 .
  19. ↑ dw.com
  20. ↑ Rainer Kayser: Return to the moon. US space agency plans a manned station. In: Der Tagesspiegel . December 6, 2006, accessed February 18, 2011 .
  21. ↑ news.ch: NASA probe discovers water on Mars. In: nachrichten.ch. December 6, 2006, accessed December 24, 2014 .
  22. ↑ AK wants basic security that eliminates poverty. In: ots.at. December 6, 2006, accessed December 24, 2014 .
  23. ↑ When heating becomes a luxury. In: taz.de . December 6, 2006, accessed December 24, 2014 .
  24. ↑ News à la française. In: spiegel.de . December 6, 2006, accessed December 24, 2014 .
  25. ↑ Scotland Yard supports German investigators in the Litvinenko case. In: dw-world.de. November 30, 2006, accessed December 24, 2014 .
  26. ↑ Price pressure: Bosch plans to cut staff. In: manager-magazin.de. December 8, 2006, accessed December 24, 2014 .
  27. ↑ Katharina Schuler: Turkey joining: "Not enough". In: zeit.de . December 8, 2006, accessed December 24, 2014 .
  28. ↑ Open dispute over Turkey - Kauder rejects Steinmeier's advice to the Chancellor / EU also divided on the Cyprus question ( Memento from December 11, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) on www.tagesspiegel.de
  29. ^ Father Sporschill at Christian Ludwig - Wien-Magazin. In: orf.at. March 21, 2005, accessed December 24, 2014 .
  30. ↑ www.concordia.co.at ( Memento from May 3, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  31. ↑ International flight no. 248: STS-116. In: spacefacts.de. Retrieved February 8, 2017 .
  32. ↑ EU partially freezes accession negotiations with Turkey. In: dw-world.de. November 7, 2006, accessed December 24, 2014 .
  33. ↑ Problems with hauling in the sun sails. In: rp-online.de . December 14, 2006, accessed December 24, 2014 .
  34. ↑ Israel refuses to return Haniyeh to Gaza - border occupied. In: derstandard.at . December 15, 2006, accessed December 24, 2014 .
  35. ↑ Bhutan's King Wangchuck abdicates. In: nzz.ch . December 16, 2006, accessed December 24, 2014 .
  36. ↑ Ban Ki-Moon Sworn in as UN Secretary-General. In: opiniojuris.org. December 15, 2006, accessed December 24, 2014 .
  37. ↑ Cerberus grabs the Bawag. In: handelsblatt.com . December 15, 2006, accessed December 26, 2017 .
  38. ↑ BAWAG being sold to Cerberus for $ 3.4 billion. In: reuters.com . December 14, 2006, accessed December 24, 2014 .
  39. ↑ spiegel.de : "Fanmeile" wins over "Generation Internship" ( Memento from October 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  40. ↑ msnbc.msn.com : Time magazine's 'Person of the Year' is… You ( Memento from February 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  41. ↑ Fah can count on an election victory. In: derstandard.at. December 19, 2006, accessed December 24, 2014 .
  42. ↑ Climate simulation: Alpine region by 2040 up to 2.5 degrees warmer In: www.vol.at/
  43. ↑ www.baz.ch ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  44. ^ Club World Championships, competitions 1999-2015. In: ifosta.de, Jörg Thomas. Retrieved November 3, 2016 .
  45. ^ Chronology of Suffolk prostitute killings. In: reuters.com. December 19, 2006, accessed December 24, 2014 .
  46. ^ N-tv news television: Series of murders: New arrest in Ipswich. In: n-tv.de. December 19, 2006, accessed December 24, 2014 .
  47. ↑ Health insurances increase contributions in a row. In: handelsblatt.com . December 20, 2006, accessed December 24, 2014 .
  48. ↑ hrr-strafrecht.de , material from the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia : Law amending the law on the protection of the constitution in North Rhine-Westphalia ( Memento from May 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  49. ↑ dynamic trend continues - growth is slowing down until 2008. In: wifo.ac.at . December 20, 2006, accessed April 25, 2019 .
  50. ↑ tsarchive.wordpress.com: International horror at death sentences ( Memento from April 5, 2019 in the Internet Archive )
  51. ↑ Red Bull TV starts in Salzburg. In: ots.at. December 20, 2006, accessed December 24, 2014 .
  52. ↑ Bush no longer speaks of victory. In: Abendblatt.de . December 20, 2006, accessed December 24, 2014 .
  53. ↑ zeit.de : Fog chaos in Heathrow continues ( Memento from December 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  54. ↑ netzeitung.de : "As in the madhouse" at Heathrow Airport ( Memento from September 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  55. ↑ Villepin subit le contre coup de l'affaire Clearstream. In: lefigaro.fr . December 21, 2006, accessed December 24, 2014 (French).
  56. ↑ netzeitung.de : Greens criticize US "threatening gestures" against Iran ( Memento from September 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  57. ↑ Ethiopian troops advance on Mogadishu. In: dw-world.de. October 4, 2006, accessed December 24, 2014 .
  58. ↑ More than 80 dead in floods in Aceh. In: rp-online.de . December 26, 2006, accessed December 24, 2014 .
  59. ^ Federal government concerned about gas dispute. In: rp-online.de . December 28, 2006, accessed July 25, 2018 .
  60. ↑ M 7.1 - Taiwan region, 2006-12-26, 12:26:21 (UTC), 21.799 ° N 120.547 ° E, 10.0 km depth. In: Earthquake Hazards Program. USGS , accessed November 11, 2019 .
  61. ↑ M 6.9 - Taiwan region, 2006-12-26, 12:34:13, (UTC), 21.974 ° N 120.493 ° E, 10.0 km depth. In: Earthquake Hazards Program. USGS , accessed November 11, 2019 .
  62. ↑ 2 major earthquakes off the south coast of Taiwan. In: naturgewalten.de. December 26, 2006, accessed December 24, 2014 .
  63. ↑ focus.de : Tourism is booming after the tsunami ( Memento from January 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  64. ↑ EU Commissioner summons gas experts to special meeting. In: schwaebische.de . December 28, 2006, accessed September 26, 2018 .
  65. ↑ The comeback of the boom. In: wienerzeitung.at . December 28, 2006, accessed December 24, 2014 .
  66. ↑ Four arrests in London on suspicion of genocide. In: derstandard.at . Retrieved December 24, 2014 .
  67. ↑ Former US President Gerald Ford has died. In: dw-world.de. July 14, 1913, accessed December 24, 2014 .
  68. ↑ Saddam Hussein read, gardened, fed birds in custody. In: reuters.com. January 1, 2007, accessed December 24, 2014 .
  69. ↑ Saddam Hussein is dead. In: dw-world.de. October 19, 2005, accessed December 24, 2014 .
  70. ↑ Wikinews: EU expansion to the east is progressing
  71. ^ "Cold War wounds closed". In: tagesschau.de . December 31, 2006, accessed October 19, 2019 .
  72. ↑ Thousands demonstrate against the ETA. In: welt.de . December 31, 2006, accessed December 24, 2014 .
  73. ↑ BenQ Mobile has to file for bankruptcy. In: ksta.de . January 1, 2007, accessed May 29, 2019 .
  74. ↑ zeit.de : Black Year for Journalists ( Memento from April 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  75. ↑ tirol.com: Interior Minister Liese Prokop has passed away ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  76. ↑ Saddam Hussein is buried. In: nzz.ch . December 31, 2006, accessed December 24, 2014 .