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This article covers breaking news and events in December 2010.
Daily events
Wednesday December 1, 2010
- Brussels / Belgium : The External Action Service of the European Union (EU) officially starts its work. The external representation of the interests of the European Communities by the European Commission and various EU commissioners will be reduced with this step.
Thursday December 2, 2010
- Astana / Kazakhstan : The first summit meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe after an eleven-year break ends without the adoption of reforms of the organization.
- Haifa / Israel : Forest fires in the north of the country kill at least 41 people and injure more than 17 others.
- Washington, DC / United States : At a press conference pushes NASA - Fellow Felisa Wolfe-Simon their conviction that from their team cultured GFAJ-1 - bacterium was able to the semi-metal arsenic in its deoxyribonucleic acid install. Wolfe-Simon's views are immediately reflected in media reports around the world, while they arouse great skepticism among scientists.
- Zurich / Switzerland : The FIFA Executive Committee awards the 2018 World Cup to Russia and the 2022 World Cup to Qatar .
Friday 3rd December 2010
- Europe : As a result of the onset of winter, in the last seven days a. at least 60 people died in floods .
- Seoul / South Korea , Washington, DC / United States : After three years of negotiations, the governments of both countries agree on the contents of the “Korus” free trade agreement signed in 2008 .
Saturday 4th December 2010
- Baghdad / Iraq : At least 17 people are killed and more than 100 others are injured in several bomb attacks.
- Düsseldorf / Germany : The TV show Wetten, dass ..? is canceled for the first time in the history of the program after the competitor Samuel Koch was seriously injured while trying to jump over a moving car with spring springs . The contestant suffered a complex injury to the cervical spine and spinal cord and was operated on twice. Since then he has suffered from paralysis.
- Tallinn / Estonia : In the 23rd ceremony of the European Film Awards will be Roman Polański's political thriller The Ghost Writer awarded in six categories, including Best Film , Best Director , Best Actor ( Ewan McGregor ) and Best Screenplay (Polanski together with the author of the original novel, Robert Harris ).
Sunday 5th December 2010
- Cairo / Egypt : In the second round of parliamentary elections , the ruling National Democratic Party of President Husni Mubarak wins , while the New Wafd Party and the Muslim Brotherhood boycott the election.
- Medellín / Colombia : At least 13 people are killed and more than 200 more are missing in landslides as a result of heavy rainfall.
Monday December 6, 2010
- Ghalanai / Pakistan : At least 40 people are killed and more than 60 others are injured in two Taliban bombings in the north-west of the country.
- Pontoise / France : Ten years after the crash of a Concorde near Paris , a court of the American airline Continental Airlines is complicit.
- Stockholm / Sweden : Bishop Erwin Kräutler receives the Alternative Nobel Prize for "his tireless efforts against the ecological and social destruction of the Amazon region".
Tuesday December 7th 2010
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- Larvik / Norway : Start of the women's handball European championship
- London / United Kingdom : Six days after Interpol began the manhunt for the rape allegations against him in Sweden , Julian Assange , co-founder of the Internet platform WikiLeaks , turns himself in to the police.
- Varanasi / India : An bombing of the terrorist organization "Indian Mujahideen " dies in for Hindus a toddler holy city. 40 other people are injured.
Wednesday December 8, 2010
- Islamabad / Pakistan : At least 17 people are killed and more than 25 others are injured in a suicide attack by the Taliban in the north-west of the country.
- Santiago / Chile : At least 81 people are killed and more than 18 others are injured in a fire in a prison.
Thursday December 9, 2010
- Graz / Austria : The University of Graz chooses the word “foreign shame” before “behaviorally creative” as the word of the year . “Humane deportation” becomes the bad word of the year, the youth word becomes “ cabin party ”.
- Paris / France : Estonia becomes 34th member state of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development .
- Salzburg / Austria : Former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader is arrested after his immunity has been lifted.
Friday December 10, 2010
- Cancún / Mexico : The UN climate conference ends with the decision to continue the Kyoto Protocol until 2012, a forest protection program and an aid fund for developing countries .
- Laschkar Gah / Afghanistan : At least 15 people are killed in a bomb attack in Helmand province .
Saturday December 11th 2010
- Stockholm / Sweden : In a bomb attack , the assassin is killed and two passers-by are injured.
Sunday December 12, 2010
- Baghdad / Iraq : At least 19 people are killed and more than 31 others are injured in two bomb attacks.
- Pristina / Kosovo : In the parliamentary elections , President Hashim Thaçi's Democratic Party won with 36 percent of the vote, while the Democratic League won 24 percent, the Vetëvendosje won 12 percent, the Alliance for the Future 11 percent and the Alliance New Kosovo 7 percent.
Monday December 13, 2010
- Kingstown / St. Vincent and the Grenadines : In the general election, the United Labor Party won with 51.64% of the vote, while the New Democratic Party won 48.13%.
- Tehran / Iran : Foreign Minister Manutschehr Mottaki is dismissed by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad .
Tuesday December 14, 2010
- Dhaka / Bangladesh : At least 25 people are killed and up to 100 others are injured in a fire in a textile factory.
- Rome / Italy : Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi survives two votes of no confidence in the Senate and Chamber of Deputies .
- Tshwane / South Africa : The 17th World Festival of Youth and Students opens in Atteridgeville township . Most of the non-native participants are from Cuba .
Wednesday December 15, 2010
- Baikonur / Kazakhstan : Launch of the Soyuz TMA-20 mission to the International Space Station .
- Brussels / Belgium : The citizens of the two Balkan states Albania and Bosnia and Herzegovina are allowed to travel to the Schengen area again without a visa after almost two decades .
- Hamburg / Germany : The citizenship decides to dissolve itself. The parliamentarians of the city and state of Hamburg are paving the way for new elections next February.
- Kathmandu / Nepal : A plane crash in the north of the country kills all 22 passengers on board.
- Strasbourg / France : This year's Sakharov Prize is awarded to the Cuban regime critic and doctor Guillermo Fariñas .
- Tschabahar / Iran : At least 38 people are killed in a suicide attack on a Shiite mosque in the southeast of the country.
- Christmas Island / Australia : When a refugee boat goes down, at least 50 people are killed and more than 30 others are injured.
Thursday December 16, 2010
- Berlin / Germany : The Society for Technical Cooperation (GTZ), the German Development Service (DED) and the educational organization InWent sign a merger agreement that merges them into the new German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ).
- Brussels / Belgium : At its summit, the European Council decides to anchor a permanent euro crisis mechanism in the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union .
Friday 17th December 2010
- Brussels / Belgium : The heads of state and government of the European Union vote at the summit of the European Council to start negotiations with Montenegro on the country's accession to the EU .
- Wiesbaden / Germany : The Society for German Language chooses the term “ Wutbürger ” before “ Stuttgart 21 ” and “ Sarrazin-Gen ” as the word of the year , youth word becomes “ Niveaulimbo ”.
Saturday December 18, 2010
- Abu Dhabi / United Arab Emirates : With a 3-0 win over the Congolese club Tout Puissant Mazembe from Lubumbashi , the Italian football club Inter Milan wins the FIFA Club World Cup for the first time .
- Bangladesh : At least 37 people are killed and 18 more are missing in a boat accident in the northeast of the country.
Sunday 19th December 2010
- Baden-Baden / Germany : The ski racer Maria Riesch , the Formula 1 driver Sebastian Vettel and the men's national football team are voted athletes of the year .
- Herning / Denmark : In the final of the European Women's Handball Championship , defending champion Norway wins against Sweden by 25:20 (10:11).
- Minsk / Belarus : In the presidential election , incumbent Aljaksandr Lukashenka wins with 79.67 percent of the vote.
- San Martín Texmelucan / Mexico : At least 28 people are killed and more than 52 others are injured in a gas explosion in the state of Puebla .
- Tuguegarao / Philippines : A fire in a hotel kills 15 people and injures twelve more.
- Yamoussoukro / Ivory Coast : At least 50 people are killed and more than 200 others are injured in rioting after the runoff election for the presidency .
Monday December 20, 2010
- Kuala Lumpur / Malaysia : A bus accident in the north-west of the country kills 26 people and injures 11 others.
- Podgorica / Montenegro : Prime Minister Milo Đukanović announces his resignation and nominates Finance Minister Igor Lukšić as his successor.
- Tehran / Iran : The film director Jafar Panahi is sentenced to six years in prison and a 20-year professional ban for criticizing the regime.
- Zahedan / Iran : Execution of eleven members of the radical Sunni group Jundollah .
Tuesday December 21, 2010
- Baghdad / Iraq : Nine months after the parliamentary elections , the Iraqi Council of Representatives confirms Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in his office.
- Budapest / Hungary : The parliament passes a controversial media law, according to which the newly created media authority will in future be responsible for monitoring private television and radio stations, newspapers and internet portals in addition to overseeing the state media.
- Milan / Italy : The public prosecutor's office is investigating Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for promoting the prostitution of minors and abuse of office.
- New York / United States : The public prosecutor is bringing charges against the auditing firm Ernst & Young in connection with the bankruptcy of the Lehman Brothers bank .
Wednesday December 22, 2010
- Buenos Aires / Argentina : The former dictator Jorge Rafael Videla and the two co-defendants Luciano Benjamín Menéndez and Vicente Meli are each sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of 31 political prisoners.
- Leipzig / Germany : In the journal Nature , a group of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology around Svante Pääbo reports on the sister group Denisova humans of the Neanderthals , of which only a finger bone and a tooth have so far been transmitted, but whose genes are in modern humans live on.
- Washington, DC / United States : President Barack Obama signs repeal of military law Don't ask, don't tell .
Thursday December 23, 2010
- Islamabad / Pakistan : At least 35 people are killed in skirmishes between soldiers and Taliban on the border with Afghanistan .
- Vientiane / Laos : Prime Minister Bouasone Bouphavanh , who has been in power since 2006, is stepping down; his successor will be the previous President of the National Assembly, Thongsing Thammavong .
Friday December 24th 2010
- Diepenbeek / Belgium : Shortly after the Christmas midnight mass with around 200 participants, the 72-year-old brick church in the Lutselus district collapses. The police suspect the reason is the excessive snow load on the flat roof of the building.
- Jos / Nigeria : At least 38 people are killed and more than 74 others are injured in several bomb attacks.
- Quito / Ecuador : At least 41 people are killed and more than 30 others are injured in a bus accident in the south-west of the country.
Saturday 25th December 2010
- Khar / Pakistan : At least 40 people are killed and more than 70 others are injured in a suicide attack in the northwest of the country.
- Sri Potti Sriramulu Nellore / India : A few minutes after the launch from the Satish Dhawan Space Center , a GSLV rocket explodes after deviating from its orbit, and the GSAT-5P satellite on board is also destroyed.
Sunday December 26, 2010
- Moroni / Comoros : In the runoff election for the presidency , Ikililou Dhoinine wins with 61.12 percent of the vote, while Mohamed Said Fazul wins 32.65 percent and Abdou Djabir 6.23 percent.
- Yamoussoukro / Ivory Coast : After the controversial presidential election at the end of November , 14,000 people flee to neighboring Liberia and at least 170 people are killed in violent clashes.
Monday December 27, 2010
- Moscow / Russia : Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky is found guilty of alleged embezzlement of revenues amounting to 20 billion euros by a court.
- Ramadi / Iraq : At least 17 people are killed and more than 47 others are injured in several suicide attacks.
Tuesday December 28, 2010
- Minsk / Belarus : President Aljaksandr Lukashenka appoints Mikhail Mjasnikowitsch to succeed Sjarhej Sidorski as prime minister.
- Moscow / Russia : All twelve occupants are killed in a plane crash south of the capital.
Thursday December 30, 2010
- Emerald / Australia : The worst floods in 50 years affected over 200,000 people in 22 locations.
- Offenbach / Germany : The German Weather Service declares the month the coldest December since 1969.
Friday December 31, 2010
- Minsk / Belarus : The authorities have ordered the closure of the OSCE office because of the ongoing criticism of the presidential election .
See also
- Nekrolog December 2010 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
Commons : December 2010 - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ "European answer for the 21st century". In: tagesschau.de . December 1, 2010, accessed March 11, 2018 .
- ↑ Heads of state make a fool of themselves on the mammoth show. In: Spiegel Online . December 3, 2010, accessed March 11, 2018 .
- ↑ At least 41 dead in Israel. In: fr.de . December 3, 2010, accessed March 11, 2018 .
- ↑ Burl Uhrig: Environmental Microbiology . Lulu Pr , Morrisville 2017, ISBN 978-1-365-78779-9 , pp. 75 .
- ↑ The bacteria that are supposed to be completely different. In: heise.de/tp . May 28, 2011, accessed March 11, 2018 .
- ↑ World Cup 2018 in Russia - World Cup 2022 in Qatar. In: bazonline.ch . December 2, 2010, accessed March 11, 2018 .
- ↑ At least 60 people are killed in the freezing cold. In: Focus Online . December 3, 2010, accessed March 11, 2018 .
- ^ Trade agreement between the USA and South Korea. In: dw.com . December 4, 2010, accessed November 12, 2018 .
- ↑ orf.at: Bomb attacks in Iraq: At least 17 dead (accessed on December 4, 2010).
- ↑ Spiegel Online : ZDF cancels "Wetten dass" broadcast from December 4, 2010
- ↑ faz.net: Roman Polanski awarded for “ghostwriter” (accessed December 5, 2010).
- ↑ welt.de: Victory for Mubarak - violence and repression overshadow the election in Egypt (accessed December 9, 2010).
- ↑ nzz.ch: Up to 200 people missing after a landslide - weeks of rain in Colombia trigger a catastrophe (accessed on December 6, 2010).
- ↑ tagesschau.de : More than 40 dead at tribal meetings ( Memento from December 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Spiegel.de: France - Court convicts Continental of Concorde crash (accessed December 6, 2010).
- ↑ orf.at: Bishop Kräutler received the Alternative Nobel Prize (accessed December 7, 2010).
- ↑ spiegel.de: Allegations in Sweden - WikiLeaks founder is wanted internationally (accessed December 1, 2010).
- ↑ spiegel.de: British police arrest Julian Assange (accessed December 7, 2010).
- ↑ Signals From the Varanasi Blast. In: thediplomat.com . December 20, 2010, accessed October 11, 2018 .
- ↑ focus.de: Suicide attack - At least 17 dead in Pakistan (accessed on December 8, 2010).
- ↑ n-tv.de: 81 dead in Santiago de Chile - prisoners die in a major fire (accessed on December 8, 2010).
- ↑ orf.at: “Fremdschämen” is the word of the year 2010 (accessed on December 18, 2010).
- ^ Estonia's accession to the OECD. December 9, 2010, accessed July 21, 2016 .
- ^ Faz.net: Former Prime Minister Sanader arrested in Austria (accessed December 9, 2010).
- ↑ n24.de: UN climate conference decides on extensive package of measures ( 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 11, 2010).
- ↑ derstandard.at: Numerous dead and injured in attacks (accessed on December 11, 2010).
- ^ Nzz.ch: Suicide attack in Stockholm (accessed on December 13, 2010).
- ↑ derstandard.at: At least 17 dead in suicide attack - More than 20 injured - No new government before Christmas (accessed December 12, 2010).
- ↑ spiegel.de: Kosovo - Prime Minister Thaçi wins parliamentary elections (accessed on December 14, 2010).
- ^ Government of St Vincent and the Grenadines: Election 2010 ( Memento of December 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- ↑ spiegel.de: Iran - Ahmadinejad fires its foreign minister (accessed on December 13, 2010).
- ^ Nzz.ch: Numerous dead in fire in textile factory in Bangladesh - Up to 100 people injured - Inconsistent information on the number of victims (accessed on December 14, 2010).
- ↑ spiegel.de: Italy's House of Representatives - Berlusconi survives the vote of no confidence (accessed on December 14, 2010).
- ^ Meeting of the World Youth in South Africa. In: afrika-travel.de, Zarenga GmbH. December 16, 2010, accessed April 28, 2017 .
- ↑ rian.ru: New long-term crew started for the ISS (accessed on December 21, 2010).
- ↑ tagesschau.de: Visa-free in Albania and Bosnia - Will the urge to travel come after the compulsion? ( Memento of December 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed December 16, 2010).
- ↑ hamburg.de: Hamburg election on February 20, 2011: Countdown is running ( Memento from March 11, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ N-tv.de: All 22 passengers dead - plane wreck discovered in Nepal (accessed on December 16, 2010).
- ↑ tagesschau.de: Awarding of the Sakharov Prize - EU Parliament honors Cuban dissidents (accessed on October 21, 2010).
- ↑ focus.de: Iran - At least 38 dead in a suicide attack in front of a mosque (accessed on December 15, 2010).
- ↑ dw-world.de: Australia - refugee drama off the Australian coast (accessed on December 15, 2010).
- ↑ Tagesschau: German development aid is bundled ( Memento from January 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ spiegel.de: Summit in Brussels - Merkel implements her euro rescue plan (accessed on December 17, 2010).
- ↑ Signal of unity. (PDF): kas.de . December 2010, accessed July 11, 2017 .
- ↑ zeit.de: Language - Wutbürger "is the word of the year (accessed on December 18, 2010).
- ^ Club World Championships, competitions 1999-2015 . ifosta.de. Retrieved November 3, 2016.
- ↑ rp-online.de : At least 37 people drown ( Memento from January 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ kicker.de: Election to the athletes of the year 2010 - triumph for Vettel, Riesch and the DFB-Elf (accessed on December 20, 2010).
- ↑ kicker.de: Romanians take bronze - difficult lot for Germany - serial offender Norway is doing it again (accessed on December 20, 2010).
- ↑ de.rian.ru: Presidential elections in Belarus: Lukashenko wins, opposition is storming (accessed on December 20, 2010).
- ↑ tagesschau.sf.tv: Mexican city on fire after pipeline explosion (accessed on December 20, 2010).
- ↑ 15 dead student sisters retired from fire. In: rp-online.de . December 19, 2010, accessed March 3, 2018 .
- ↑ morgenpost.de: Ivory Coast: 50 dead in clashes (accessed on December 20, 2010).
- ↑ focus.de: Accidents - 26 tourists in Malaysia died in an accident (accessed on December 20, 2010).
- ↑ diepresse.com: Montenegro's strong man gives up prime office (accessed December 22, 2010).
- ↑ guardian.co.uk: Iran jails director Jafar Panahi and stops him making films for 20 years (accessed December 20, 2010).
- ↑ spiegel.de: Authorities have eleven extremists executed (accessed on December 20, 2010).
- ↑ welt.de: Al-Maliki and his 42 ministers sworn in in Iraq (accessed on December 22, 2010).
- ↑ dw-world.de: Luxembourg's violent criticism of the Hungarian media law ( memento of January 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on December 22, 2010).
- ↑ tagesschau.de: Cover for accounting tricks - auditors accused of Lehman bankruptcy (accessed on December 22, 2010).
- ↑ derstandard.at: Lifelong for ex-dictator Videla (accessed on December 23, 2010).
- ↑ 20min.ch: Neanderthal brother on the move in Asia (accessed on December 23, 2010).
- ↑ nzz.ch: Obama signs homosexual regulation for US Army - US President fulfills one of his biggest campaign promises (accessed December 23, 2010).
- ↑ spiegel.de: Pakistan - 35 dead in fighting in the border area (accessed on December 25, 2010).
- ↑ leMonde.fr: Changement surprise de premier ministre au Laos (accessed on December 23, 2010).
- ↑ Focus Online : Church collapses ( Memento from January 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ derstandard.at: 38 deaths in attacks on Christmas Eve ( memento of January 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on December 26, 2010).
- ↑ n-tv.de: Tragic accident in Ecuador - bus accident claims 41 victims (accessed on December 25, 2010).
- ↑ welt.de: Woman as an Assassin - At least 40 dead in suicide attack in Pakistan (accessed on December 25, 2010).
- ↑ de.rian.ru: Second false start: India does not bring its GSLV rocket into space (accessed on December 26, 2010).
- ↑ stern.de: Government candidate Dhoinine wins presidential election in Comoros ( Memento from April 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on December 30, 2010).
- ↑ tagesschau.de: Unrest after the presidential election - Thousands of people are fleeing the Ivory Coast ( Memento from December 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on December 28, 2010).
- ↑ spiegel.de: Controversial process - Khodorkovsky found guilty (accessed on December 28, 2010).
- ↑ de.reuters.com: At least 19 dead in suicide attack in Ramadi, Iraq (accessed December 27, 2010).
- ↑ welt.de: Belarus - Lukashenko exchanges Prime Minister after re-election (accessed December 29, 2010).
- ↑ focus.de: Russia - Twelve dead in military plane crash (accessed on December 29, 2010).
- ↑ stern.de: Heaviest flood in 50 years (accessed on December 31, 2010).
- ↑ dwd.de: Deutschlandwetter in December 2010 , accessed on January 9, 2011.
- ↑ derstandard.at: Government closes OSCE office (accessed December 31, 2010).
