December 2008

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This article covers breaking news and events in December 2008.

Daily events

Monday December 1, 2008

• Helmand / Afghanistan : At least ten people are killed in a suicide attack.
• Poznan / Poland : Opening of the UN climate conference in Poznan
• Stuttgart / Germany : At the federal party congress of the CDU , Angela Merkel is confirmed as party leader with 94.83 percent of the votes cast.
• Washington, DC / United States : US President Barack Obama officially nominates Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State in his cabinet.

Tuesday December 2, 2008

• Bangkok / Thailand : After months of opposition protests , the Constitutional Court bans the ruling PPP party for electoral fraud and removes Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat from his post.
• Vienna / Austria : Inauguration of the federal government Faymann

Wednesday December 3, 2008

• Bangkok / Thailand : After the judicial dissolution of the People's Power Party , the demonstrators are evacuating the Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi Airport , which can then resume operations. The first vacationers are flown out.
• Brussels / Belgium : Four months after Russia's intervention in the 2008 Caucasus conflict and a subsequent suspension of cooperation with Russia, NATO foreign ministers are in favor of resuming talks in the NATO-Russia Council .
• Oslo / Norway : signing of an agreement banning cluster bombs by 111 states.

Thursday December 4, 2008

• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The European Central Bank cuts its key interest rate by 75 basis points to 2.5 percent. In addition, the Bank of England is lowering its key rate by 100 basis points to 2.0 percent and the Swedish Reichsbank is lowering its key rate by 175 basis points to 2.0 percent.
• Harare / Zimbabwe : The government declares a state of emergency because of a severe cholera epidemic , which has already caused more than 11,000 diseases and around 500 deaths.
• London / United Kingdom : Joanne K. Rowling's book The Fairy Tales of Beedle the Bard appears worldwide with a circulation of eight million copies.

Friday 5th December 2008

• Islamabad / Pakistan : A joke caller posing as the Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee called the Pakistani Prime Minister Asif Ali Zardari and warned him that India would resort to military means if Pakistan were to be the perpetrators of the November 26, 2008 attacks in Mumbai not deliver. The subsequent alert of the Pakistani Air Force was only lifted hours later after US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called the real Indian Foreign Minister.
• Peshawar / Pakistan A bomb attack kills at least 20 people.
• Tokyo / Japan : Honda increases because of the financial crisis from the Formula 1 from. This means that only nine teams will start next season .

Saturday 6th December 2008

• Gdansk / Poland : A meeting between French President Nicolas Sarkozy and the Dalai Lama is heavily criticized by China .
• Greece : The riots in Greece in 2008 began after the killing of a 15-year-old by a police officer.
• Copenhagen / Denmark : The film Gomorrah - Journey into the Empire of the Camorra by director Matteo Garrone wins the European Film Award 2008 .

Sunday 7th December 2008

Monika Hauser

• Accra / Ghana : In the presidential elections , opposition politician John Atta-Mills ( NDC ) is declared the winner, who just manages to prevail against his rival Nana Akufo-Addo from the ruling NPP .
• Athens / Greece : After a police officer shot a 15-year-old the day before under unexplained circumstances, there are serious riots and riots between police officers and autonomous groups in major Greek cities .
• Dublin / Ireland : Ireland is recalling all pork products sold since September due to possible dioxin contamination . The Federal Ministry of Agriculture therefore calls on the food industry to take meat off the market as a precaution.
• Peshawar / Pakistan : More than 300 Taliban attack two loading stations of the NATO ISAF mission and set fire to 146 trucks with supplies for the troops in Afghanistan , a security guard is shot.
• Awarded the Right Livelihood Award , the “Alternative Nobel Prize”. The winners include the doctor Monika Hauser , the peace activist Asha Haji Elmi and the journalist Amy Goodman .

Monday December 8, 2008

• Brussels / Belgium : The European Union Commission announces that from September 2009 incandescent lamps with more than 100 watts, from 2010 incandescent lamps with more than 40 watts and from 2012 weaker incandescent lamps will no longer be allowed to be sold in the European Union.
• Los Angeles / United States : the crash of an F-18 - combat aircraft over a residential area in San Diego three people die.

Tuesday December 9, 2008

• Chicago / United States : The Governor of the US state of Illinois Rod Blagojevich is arrested on suspicion of corruption . He is said to have tried to sell the vacant Senate seat of Barack Obama in exchange for financial support.
• Karlsruhe / Germany : The Federal Constitutional Court declares the reduction in the commuter allowance inadmissible.
• Kiev / Ukraine : Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko agree to continue their pro-western government coalition.

Wednesday December 10, 2008

Ueli Maurer

• Bern / Switzerland : Ueli Maurer is elected as the new Federal Councilor and Hans-Rudolf Merz is elected Swiss Federal President for 2009.
• Washington, DC / United States : The World Bank is lowering its forecast for global economic growth in 2009 due to the financial crisis and is predicting the worst crisis since the Great Depression in the 1930s.

Thursday December 11, 2008

• Baghdad / Iraq : At least 55 people died in a suicide attack in a restaurant near Kirkuk and around 120 others were injured.
• Brussels / Belgium : As a result of the financial crisis, the member states France , Great Britain , Latvia and Lithuania are now violating the Maastricht criterion of new indebtedness in the Stability and Growth Pact .
• Leipzig / Germany : Vehicle owners can no longer drive a vehicle in Germany with driving licenses from other EU countries if their residence was in Germany on the day the driving license was issued, and they can subsequently take the MPU in Germany, the so-called "idiot test", be asked.
• Los Angeles / United States : The German film Der Baader Meinhof Complex is nominated as best foreign language film in the Golden Globe nominations .
• Wiesbaden / Germany : " Financial crisis " as a name for part of the global economic crisis from 2007 is the word of the year in Germany for the Society for German Language .

Friday December 12, 2008

Member States of the Schengen Agreement in blue

• Bern / Switzerland : As part of the Schengen Agreement , the systematic checks on persons at the borders with the EU neighboring countries are no longer necessary. The physical checks will remain in place, however, as no customs union agreement has been concluded with the European Union . The identity checks on flights to and from Switzerland will only be canceled after March 29, 2009.
• Brussels / Belgium : The 27 EU states agree on an economic stimulus package of 200 billion euros, which corresponds to 1.5% of gross domestic product .

Saturday December 13, 2008

• Passau / Germany : The Passau police chief Alois Mannichl is seriously injured in a knife attack in Fürstenzell . The act probably has a right-wing extremist background.
• Washington, DC / United States : A violent winter storm cuts off electricity supplies to more than one million people in the northeastern United States. In the states of New Hampshire and Massachusetts , the governors declare a state of emergency.

Sunday December 14, 2008

• Ashgabat / Turkmenistan : The parliamentary elections are taking place.
• Baghdad / Iraq : In protest, an Iraqi journalist throws his shoes at US President George W. Bush , who was on his farewell visit, at a press conference .
• Germany : With an average fare increase of 3.9 percent, the new Deutsche Bahn timetable comes into effect.
• Cairo / Egypt : At least 53 people are killed in a serious bus accident in southern Egypt.
• Manila / Philippines : At least 22 people die in a ferry crash near the mouth of the Cagayan River , and 34 more are still missing.
• Skopje / Macedonia : In the final of the European women's handball championship , Norway defeated Spain 34:21 and thus became European champions for the third time in a row and for the fourth time .

Monday December 15, 2008

Montenegro and the European Union

• Bangkok / Thailand : Abhisit Vejjajiva from the opposition Democratic Party is elected by parliament as the new prime minister , succeeding Somchai Wongsawat, who was forced to resign by the constitutional court at the beginning of December.
• Harare / Zimbabwe : The UN office OCHA announces that the number of fatalities from the cholera epidemic is now around 1,000 deaths and almost 20,000 suspected cases.
• Lyon / France : After heavy snowfall in the Massif Central and the Alps, around 80,000 households are without electricity, and three people die.
• Paris / France : Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Đukanović presents the EU Council President Nicolas Sarkozy with the application for membership in the European Union .
• Washington, DC / United States : The Electoral College elects Barack Obama as US President.

Tuesday December 16, 2008

• Denmark , Sweden : An earthquake measuring 4.2 on the Richter scale with an epicenter 40 km east of Malmö around 6:20 a.m. can be felt in large parts of Denmark. It is the strongest earthquake ever recorded in Denmark.
• Offenbach / Germany : According to the German Weather Service , 2008 is one of the seven warmest since the beginning of the weather record. The DWD sees the main cause in climate change .
• Washington, DC / United States : The Federal Reserve System is cutting the key interest rate to the historically lowest level of 0 to 0.25 percent.
• Washington, DC / United States : President- elect Barack Obama nominates Steven Chu, Nobel Prize winner in physics, as Minister of Energy . Former head of the Environmental Protection Agency , Carol M. Browner , will become Obama's advisor on energy and climate. Since Chu and Browner have been committed to climate protection in the past, this is seen as a sign of a turnaround in US energy policy.

Wednesday December 17, 2008

• Oran / Algeria : The OPEC oil ministers decide to reduce the daily oil production volume by 2.2 million barrels .
• Strasbourg / France : The Chinese dissident Hu Jia is honored with the Sakharov Prize , the European Parliament's human rights prize.

Thursday December 18, 2008

• Arusha / Tanzania : The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda sentenced Théoneste Bagosora to life imprisonment as one of the organizers of the genocide in Rwanda .
• Berlin / Germany : The nationwide minimum wage for the postal sector is inadmissible according to a ruling by the Berlin- Brandenburg Higher Administrative Court . Its decision followed a ruling by the Berlin Administrative Court in March. The federal government put Revision at the Federal Administrative Court one.
• Berlin / Germany : The 21-year-old photographer Alice Smeets from Eupen ( Belgium ) wins the international competition » UNICEF Photo of the Year« 2008. At the award ceremony, the photographer is awarded for a picture from her series "Growing up in Haiti" , the shows a girl in Cité Soleil , a slum in Port-au-Prince . The child wears a clean white dress and white bows in their hair as they walk barefoot through puddles full of dirt and debris.

Friday December 19, 2008

• Bruchsal / Germany : After 26 years in prison, the 56-year-old former RAF Terrorist leaves Christian Klar , the prison Bruchsal .
• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The rating agency Standard & Poor’s has downgraded its rating for Deutsche Bank and ten other institutes in Europe and the United States in the course of economic development. For Deutsche Bank, S&P reduced the long-term and short-term rating by one notch to "A +" and "A-1".

Saturday December 20, 2008

• Denver / United States : If the take-off attempt was unsuccessful, a Boeing 737 operated by Continental Airlines crashes into a ditch and catches fire. 38 inmates are injured.

Sunday December 21, 2008

• Dresden / Germany : The state of Saxony , the semiconductor manufacturer Infineon and the Portuguese Investment Bank are granting the economically troubled memory chip manufacturer Qimonda a loan totaling 325 million euros , thereby securing its liquidity .
• Yokohama / Japan : Manchester United won the Club World Cup after beating the Ecuadorian team LDU Quito 1-0 in the final .

Monday December 22, 2008

• Brussels / Belgium : King Albert II accepts Prime Minister Yves Leterme's resignation . Leterme, who is stepping down because of the Fortis bank scandal, will continue to run the business until a successor is appointed.
• Bucharest / Romania : After the parliamentary elections on November 30th, PD-L chairman Emil Boc becomes the new prime minister.

Tuesday December 23, 2008

Singapore Flyer

• Conakry / Guinea : Military coup in Guinea: After the death of Lansana Conté , the military takes power and suspends the constitution.
• Italy : At 4:24 pm, an earthquake measuring 5.3 hits northern Italy. The hypocenter was registered 20 km south-southeast of Parma at a depth of 28.9 km and was felt throughout northern Italy and in the Swiss canton of Ticino .
• Singapore / Singapore: Due to a power failure, 173 passengers are stuck in the Singapore Flyer ferris wheel for more than six hours at a height of over 150 meters .
• Witten / Germany : Through the intervention of the Minister for Innovation, Science, Research and Technology of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Andreas Pinkwart , the solvency of the private university Witten / Herdecke is restored.

Wednesday December 24, 2008

• Conakry / Guinea : The leader of the putschists, Moussa Dadis Camara , declares himself interim president. The African Union condemns the takeover.
• Covina / United States : A disguised as Santa gunman kills at a family Christmas party nine people and then himself.
• Gaza Strip / Palestinian Territories : Palestinian militants step up their rocket attacks on Israel . More than 60 Qassam rockets hit the border area on the Israeli side.
• London / United Kingdom : Nobel laureate in literature Harold Pinter dies of throat cancer .

Thursday December 25, 2008

• Kiev / Ukraine : At least 27 people die in the explosion of a residential building in Evpatorija on the Crimean peninsula .
• Sukkur / Pakistan : Eight people were killed when a new five-story house collapsed.

Friday December 26, 2008

• Beijing / China : The Navy of the People's Republic of China participates in the European Union's Operation Atalanta against piracy off the coast of Somalia and sends three warships into the Gulf of Aden .

Saturday December 27, 2008

Gaza Strip

• Baghdad / Iraq : At least 22 people are killed when a car bomb explodes.
• Gaza Strip / Palestinian Territories : Operation Cast Lead : Around 200 fatalities have been recorded so far after the Israeli air force attacks Hamas positions in the Gaza Strip. The bombings are in retaliation for Hamas rocket attacks in recent years.
• Beijing / China : At least 17 people die when an elevator crashes on a construction site in Changsha , the provincial capital of Hunan .

Sunday December 28, 2008

• Baghdad / Iraq : The security situation for civilians in Iraq improved in 2008, the number of citizens killed every day fell from 76 in the previous year to 25, according to the Iraq Body Count .
• Kabul / Afghanistan : More than 40 people are killed in two attacks in the border area between Afghanistan and Pakistan . A bomb attack in a school used as a polling station in Pakistan's Swat Valley kills 27 and in the Afghan province of Khost a suicide bomber kills 16 people, including 14 children.

Monday December 29, 2008

• Dhaka / Bangladesh : In the first parliamentary election in seven years, around 70 percent of the 81 million eligible voters cast their votes. The winning Awami League of Sheikh Hasina who achieved along with future government partners 262 of the 300 parliamentary seats.
• Gaza Strip / Palestinian Territory : The Israeli Air Force continues attacks on Gaza Strip for the third day in a row. Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak speaks of a “war to the bitter end”, and Chief of Staff Dan Harel adds that the worst is not over yet. At least 345 people have been killed in the attacks so far.

Tuesday December 30, 2008

• Bangkok / Thailand : The new Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva takes up his work, accompanied by heavy protests. He is giving his inaugural address at the Foreign Ministry as the parliament building is being blocked by the demonstrators.
• Brussels / Belgium : King Albert II appoints former Finance Minister Herman Van Rompuy as Belgian Prime Minister . Rompuy wants to continue the five-party coalition of predecessor Yves Leterme .

Wednesday December 31, 2008

• Jerusalem / Israel : The Israeli security cabinet rejects the global calls for a ceasefire and decides to continue the military offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip . According to Palestinian sources, almost 400 people have died so far.
• Vatican City : The Holy See will devote special attention to Africa in 2009. The spokesman for Pope Benedict XVI. , Federico Lombardi SJ, describes Africa as "a continent with great potential and great wealth of resources [...] above all human resources", which "can finally make its contribution to humanity". In March 2009 the Pope is expected to travel to Africa.

See also

• Nekrolog December 2008 for deaths this month
• List of annually recurring commemorative and action days in December
• Category for commemorative days, holidays or days of action in December

Web links

Spain in December 2008

Commons : December 2008  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

 Wikinews: Article Published December 2008  - News

Individual evidence

1. ↑ focus.de: Afghanistan: Ten dead in suicide bombing (accessed on December 1, 2008)
2. ↑ focus.de: CDU party conference: Merkel confirmed in office (accessed on December 1, 2008)
3. ↑ stern.de: Hillary Clinton becomes US Secretary of State (accessed December 1, 2008)
4. ↑ Constitutional Court bans ruling party (accessed December 2)
5. ↑ tagesschau.de: Bangkok: First tourists flown out ( Memento from December 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on December 3, 2008)
6. ↑ A compromise in parting (accessed December 3, 2008)
7. ↑ boerse.ard.de: EZB does not give everything ( Memento of the original from December 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed December 4, 2008)  
8. ↑ süddeutsche.de: Up to 10,000 cholera deaths in Zimbabwe feared ( Memento from December 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on December 4, 2008)
9. ↑ focus.de: Joke call: Pakistan lets fighter jets soar (accessed December 7, 2008)
10. ^ Attacks in Pakistan (accessed December 6, 2008)
11. ↑ sport.ard.de: "This is a wake-up call" ( Memento from December 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on December 4, 2008)
12. ↑ AFP: Sarkozy meets Dalai Lama despite severe criticism from China (accessed December 6, 2008)
13. ↑ spiegel.de: Riots plunge the Greek government into serious crisis (accessed December 8, 2008)
14. ↑ European Film Awards 2008. In: europeanfilmacademy.org . Retrieved September 13, 2018 . 
15. ↑ dw-world.de: Narrow election victory for opposition candidate Atta Mills in Ghana (accessed on January 6, 2009)
16. ↑ tagesschau.de: Riots in Greece continue ( Memento from December 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed December 7, 2008)
17. ↑ focus.de: Ireland completely recalls pork due to dioxin (accessed December 7, 2008)
18. ↑ dpa: Taliban destroy 150 trucks with troop supplies. Retrieved April 18, 2014 . 
19. ↑ dpa: EU committee decides to end classic light bulbs (accessed December 8, 2008)
20. ↑ tagesschau.de: USA: Three dead in fighter jet crash in residential area ( Memento from December 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed December 9, 2008)
21. ↑ n-tv.de: Governor of Illinois arrested (accessed December 9, 2008)
22. ↑ Tagesschau: Federal Constitutional Court overturns cut ( memento of December 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on December 9, 2008)
23. ↑ Second infusion in Kiev - coalition revived (accessed December 10, 2008)
24. ↑ Merz brilliantly elected Federal President (accessed December 10, 2008)
25. ↑ World Bank warns of worst recession since the 1930s (accessed December 10, 2008)
26. ↑ focus.de: Iraq: Suicide attack claims at least 55 dead (accessed on December 11, 2008)
27. ↑ sueddeutsche.de: The Bad Guy in the Right ( Memento of the original from December 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed December 11, 2008) 
28. ↑ Judgment of December 11, 2008 - BVerwG 3 C July 26. In: bverwg.de . Retrieved November 1, 2018 . 
29. ↑ Baader Meinhof Complex nominated for Golden Globe. Norddeutscher Rundfunk, 2008, archived from the original on December 15, 2008 ; Retrieved April 18, 2014 . 
30. ↑ “Financial Crisis” elected word of the year 2008. Society for the German Language , December 11, 2007, accessed October 10, 2016 . 
31. ↑ nzz.ch: Introduce the Schengen system in stages - Federal Council proposes a timetable for cross-border cooperation (accessed on December 12, 2008)
32. ↑ n-tv.de: Against the recession - EU gives 200 billion (accessed on December 12, 2008)
33. ^ Br-online.de: Debate about neo-Nazi attack on police chief ( Memento from December 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on December 14, 2008)
34. ↑ dpa: Onset of winter: Millions of Americans without electricity. Retrieved April 18, 2014 . 
35. ↑ tagesschau.de: Baghdad: Journalist protests against US President Bush with a shoe throw ( Memento from December 18, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on December 15, 2008)
36. ↑ n-tv.de: New timetable, new prices - rail travel is becoming more expensive (accessed on December 15, 2008)
37. ↑ AP: 53 dead in a bus accident in Egypt. Archived from the original on December 15, 2008 ; Retrieved April 18, 2014 . 
38. ↑ AP: At least 22 dead in a ferry accident in the Philippines. Retrieved April 18, 2014 . 
39. ↑ welt.de: New head of government has been elected - again protests (accessed on December 15, 2008)
40. ↑ AFP: UN: Almost 1000 cholera deaths in Zimbabwe ( memento from January 24, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (accessed on December 15, 2008)
41. ↑ AP: 80,000 French households still without electricity due to snow chaos. Retrieved April 18, 2014 . 
42. ↑ derstandard.at: Montenegro officially applied for EU membership (accessed on December 23, 2009)
43. ↑ Electoral College weighs in for Obama. In: politico.com . December 15, 2008, accessed October 31, 2018 . 
44. ↑ TV2: Danmark rystet af jordskælv (accessed on December 16, 2008)
45. ↑ 2008 was one of the warmest years (accessed December 17, 2008)
46. ↑ US Federal Reserve cuts key interest rate to record low (accessed December 17, 2008)
47. ↑ Tagesschau.de: Obama nominates climate protectors as energy minister ( Memento from December 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on December 16, 2008)
48. ↑ tagesschau.de: OPEC wants to reduce oil production by 2.2 million barrels (accessed on December 17, 2008)
49. ↑ Website on the Sakharov Prize ( Memento of the original from May 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed December 1, 2008)  
50. ↑ Genocide in Rwanda: Life sentence for "Colonel Death" ( Memento from February 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
51. ↑ Chronicle of the Hans Böckler Foundation ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed December 19, 2008)  
52. ↑ UNICEF photo from 2008, courage to face life in the face of misery (accessed December 19, 2008)
53. ↑ Former RAF terrorist Christian Klar is free. Retrieved April 18, 2014 . 
54. ↑ de.reuters.com: S&P lowers ratings for Deutsche Bank and ten other financial institutions (accessed December 19, 2008)
55. ↑ tagesschau.de: 38 people injured in a plane crash in the USA ( memento from December 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on December 21, 2008)
56. ↑ n-tv.de : Millions for Qimonda ( Memento from March 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
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58. ↑ Belgium's king accepts the resignation of the government. In: AP. Retrieved April 18, 2014 . 
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61. ^ US Geological Survey Earthquake Hazards Program. US Geological Survey, December 23, 2008, archived from the original on December 28, 2008 ; accessed on April 18, 2014 (English). 
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63. ↑ Camara declares himself interim president of Guinea after the coup. The Associated Press, 2008, archived from the original on December 25, 2008 ; Retrieved April 18, 2014 . 
64. ↑ spiegel.de: Massacre at Christmas party: The devilish plan of the US gunman (accessed on December 27, 2008)
65. ↑ n-tv.de : Hamas is firing again ( Memento from May 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
66. ↑ AP: At least 27 deaths in explosion accident in Crimea  ( 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. (Accessed December 26, 2008)  
67. ↑ tagesschau.de: Dead and injured in house collapse in Pakistan ( Memento from January 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on December 25, 2008)
68. ↑ reuters.de: China sends ships to fight pirates (accessed on December 26, 2008)
69. ↑ reuters.de: Car bomb in Iraq kills at least 22 people (accessed on December 27, 2008)
70. ↑ dw-world.de: 200 dead in Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip (accessed on December 27, 2008)
71. ↑ dpa: At least 17 dead when a building elevator crashed in China ( memento of the original from December 30, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed December 27, 2008)  
72. ↑ n-tv.de: The situation calms down - Fewer civilian victims in Iraq (accessed on December 29, 2008)
73. ↑ AFP: Numerous dead in attacks in Afghanistan  ( 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. (Accessed October 29, 2009)  
74. ↑ AP: High turnout in parliamentary elections in Bangladesh ( Memento of the original from December 30, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed December 29, 2008)  
75. ↑ spiegel.de: Parliamentary election in Bangladesh: landslide victory for Sheikh Hasina (accessed on December 30, 2008)
76. ↑ n-tv.de : "War Without Mercy" ( Memento from May 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
77. ↑ focus.de: Thailand: Inauguration in the alternative quarters (accessed on December 31, 2008)
78. ↑ tagesschau.de: New government sworn in Belgium (tagesschau.de archive) (accessed on December 31, 2008)
79. ↑ AFP: Israel rejects ceasefire in the Gaza Strip  ( 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. (Accessed January 1, 2009)  
80. ↑ Vatican spokesman: "2009 will be the year of Africa" (accessed on May 21, 2017)