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This article covers breaking news and events in December 2014.
Daily events
Monday 1st December 2014
- Brussels / Belgium : Former Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk succeeds Herman Van Rompuy as President of the European Council .
- Lima / Peru : Beginning of the 20th UN Climate Change Conference (until December 12th).
Tuesday 2nd December 2014
- Jerusalem / Israel : Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismisses ministers from two liberal parties and calls for new elections to be held on March 17th the following day. The background to this is a dispute in the government coalition over the draft budget and thus the question of whether the defense or social budget should be increased.
- Mandera / Kenya : At least 36 non-Muslims are killed in an attack on workers in a quarry in northeastern Kenya near the Somali border. The attack bears the signature of the Islamist Shaabab terrorist militia.
- Sofia / Bulgaria : The planned South Stream natural gas pipeline will be stopped.
- Vatican City : Pope Francis and representatives of the world religions sign a resolution for the abolition of worldwide slavery. The aim is to end human trafficking and slavery by 2020.
Wednesday 3rd December 2014
- Bern / Switzerland : Simonetta Sommaruga is elected as the new Federal President for 2015 with 181 out of 246 votes . Your deputy is Johann Schneider-Ammann . This is the first time that the President and Vice President of the Federal Council come from the same canton , namely from Bern .
- Stockholm / Sweden : After only two months in office, the Swedish government fails after its budget proposal fails to find a majority in parliament. Prime Minister Stefan Löfven announces new elections for March 22nd.
Thursday 4th December 2014
- Grozny / Russia : Ten police officers and nine rebels die in an attack by rebels on Grozny, the capital of the Russian autonomous republic of Chechnya . A school and a media building are badly damaged.
- Malé / Maldives : A cable fire in the only Maldivian seawater desalination plant interrupts the drinking water supply. A state of emergency is declared on the island of Malé . In the following days, India and China begin deliveries of water.
Friday 5th December 2014
- Cape Canaveral / United States : The first flight of the Orion spacecraft is successful.
- Erfurt / Germany : The state parliament elects Bodo Ramelow ( Die Linke ) as prime minister. He heads a red-red-green government and refers the CDU to the opposition, which has always been the head of government in the country since 1990 , most recently Christine Lieberknecht . In his inaugural address, Ramelow apologized to the victims of the SED .
- Tehran / Iran : Iran confirms that it has carried out air strikes against the Islamic terrorist organization Islamic State in Iraq for the first time at the request of the Iraqi government .
Saturday 6th December 2014
- Mogadishu / Somalia : Parliament removes Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed with a vote of no confidence due to disagreements with the President .
- Taizz / Yemen : When their boat capsizes, at least 70 Ethiopian refugees drown off the Yemenite coast in the Red Sea .
Sunday 7th December 2014
Monday 8th December 2014
- Roseau / Dominica : The parliamentary elections are won by the ruling Labor party , which can win 15 seats. The remaining six seats go to the United Workers' Party (UWP).
Tuesday December 9, 2014
- Pristina / Kosovo : After the agreement of the two largest parties on the opposition politician Isa Mustafa as the new Prime Minister, the Mustafa government is elected and sworn in in the parliament of Pristina . This ends a month-long political stalemate that had come about through the renewed victory of the party of the previous Prime Minister Hashim Thaçi in the parliamentary elections and the stance of the other parties to prevent it.
Wednesday December 10, 2014
- Monaco / Monaco: Princess Charlène of Monaco gives birth to twins and thus a new heir to the throne for Monaco.
- Port Louis / Mauritius : Allianz Lepep wins the parliamentary elections with 47 seats. The largest opposition faction is the PTr / MMM alliance with 13 seats.
Thursday December 11, 2014
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- Berlin / Germany : The ruling mayor of Berlin, Klaus Wowereit , resigns from his office. Michael Müller is elected as his successor . Its Senate includes two innovations compared to that of its predecessor.
- New Delhi / India : During a visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Indian capital , the two states agree new supply agreements for Russian exports of gas, oil and nuclear technology, the expansion of ailing Indian infrastructure and cooperation in the air - and space travel.
Friday December 12, 2014
- Wiesbaden / Germany : " Light limit " as the name for the light installation in Berlin on the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall is the word of the year in Germany for the Society for German Language .
Saturday 13th December 2014
- Nanjing / China : The People's Republic commemorates the massacre of Japanese soldiers in Nanking in 1937 for the first time. President Xi Jinping stressed that the responsibility lies with a few militarists and not with the Japanese people.
Sunday December 14, 2014
- Lima / Peru : At the 20th UN Climate Change Conference , the 195 participating countries can only agree on very vague criteria for reducing carbon dioxide . The point of contention is particularly the financing, so the developing countries see the industrialized nations as being responsible for the damage caused to them by climate change .
- Tokyo / Japan : In the elections to the lower house of the national parliament, Prime Minister Shinzō Abe's Liberal Democratic Party achieved an absolute majority. The turnout has dropped to an all-time low. Abe wants this election to confirm his economic policy.
Monday 15th December 2014
- Dresden / Germany : At a demonstration by the Citizens' Alliance of Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West (Pegida), over 15,000 people gather to draw attention to what they consider to be a failed European immigration and asylum policy .
- Sydney / Australia : In the Sydney hostage-taking, 17 employees and customers are taken hostage in a downtown café. Three people, including the hostage-taker Man Haron Monis , are killed and four others are injured. The hostage-taker revealed himself as a representative of the Islamic State and said that it was a terrorist attack.
Tuesday December 16, 2014
- Peshawar / Pakistan : At least 141 people are killed in a terrorist attack in Peshawar , including 132 children.
Wednesday 17th December 2014
- Athens / Greece : In the election to the Greek President in 2014 , the candidate of the ruling coalition, the former missed EU - Commissioner Stavros Dimas , the majority in Parliament. A second round of voting will take place on December 23.
- Havana / Cuba : The Cuban and US governments announce in televised speeches by their presidents that diplomatic and economic relations will be resumed and sanctions lifted. The US wants to reopen an embassy in Cuba.
Thursday December 18, 2014
- Berlin / Germany : Hans-Peter Bartels ( SPD ) is elected Defense Commissioner of the German Bundestag. He takes office on May 20, 2015.
Saturday 20th December 2014
- Marrakech / Morocco : Real Madrid wins the Club World Cup in football after beating the Argentine club Atlético San Lorenzo de Almagro from Buenos Aires 2-0 in the final .
- Monrovia / Liberia : In the Senate elections, the opposition party Congress for Democratic Change received the most votes, but only two seats. The ruling party , the Unity Party , only got the third best number of votes, but it can win 4 seats in the Senate. The remaining seats go to five other parties and three independent candidates.
Sunday December 21, 2014
- Tashkent / Uzbekistan : President Islom Karimov's Liberal Democratic Party can maintain its supremacy in the parliamentary elections . Only parties that support the president's course have been allowed to vote, since opposition parties such as Birlik (unity) or Erg (freedom) are refused registration. The turnout is 89%.
- Tunis / Tunisia : The long-time government politician Beji Caid Essebsi wins the runoff election for the office of president with over 55% of the vote against the current interim president Moncef Marzouki .
Monday 22nd December 2014
- Managua / Nicaragua : President Ortega gives the go-ahead for construction work on the Nicaragua Canal . Investors from the People's Republic of China , who received the concession without a tender, want to build highways, two ports, an artificial lake, a free trade zone, a tourism complex and a steel and concrete company in addition to the interoceanic waterway. In addition, China receives licenses to mine the raw materials. Thousands of farmers protest against the canal because they fear the destruction of their livelihoods. Environmentalists, opposition and citizens' groups criticize numerous violations of environmental regulations. The entire ecosystem is threatened if the drinking water of Lake Nicaragua , through which the canal runs, is polluted.
Tuesday December 23, 2014
- Athens / Greece : In the second round of the election to the Greek President in 2014 , the candidate of the ruling coalition, the former missed EU - Commissioner Stavros Dimas , again the majority in Parliament. A third and final round of voting will take place on December 29th.
- Kiev / Ukraine : With a large majority the parliament adopts a legislative proposal that ends the country's status as a non-aligned state. In the medium term Ukraine is aiming to join NATO . Russia criticizes this step and sees the accession of its neighbor to NATO as a threat to its own security.
Wednesday December 24, 2014
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- Mogadishu / Somalia : Parliament elects Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke as the new Prime Minister.
- Tokyo / Japan : Prime Minister Shinzō Abe's third term begins.
Thursday December 25, 2014
- Mogadishu / Somalia : Several people are killed in an attack by fighters of the Shabaab militia on a Christmas party at the headquarters of the peacekeeping mission of the African Union .
Friday 26th December 2014
- Moscow / Russia : President Putin confirms a new military doctrine in which the conflict in Ukraine and NATO's eastern expansion are seen as a threat to their own security. Specifically, the laying of offensive weapons by NATO to the borders of Russia and the planned are US - missile defense system called.
- Simferopol / Ukraine : The Crimean German minority in the Autonomous Republic reports of increasing reprisals such as restriction of the sovereignty of assembly, requests to accept Russian citizenship and restrictions on the use of the mother tongue since the annexation of the Crimean peninsula by Russia.
Saturday December 27, 2014
- Minsk / Belarus : Against the background of the strong economic dependence on Russia , which has come under economic pressure due to the decline in the ruble and Western sanctions in the wake of the Ukraine crisis , President Alyaksandr Lukashenka undertakes a profound cabinet reshuffle and swaps the head of the central bank. The current chief of staff, Andrej Kabjakou , will be the new prime minister .
- Stockholm / Sweden : After an agreement with the bourgeois opposition, Prime Minister Stefan Löfven can avert the government crisis provoked by the Sweden Democrats and cancels the new elections announced for March.
Sunday 28th December 2014
- Kousséri / Cameroon : The Cameroonian army stops a massive attack by the Islamist terrorist militia Boko Haram with air strikes. This has temporarily occupied the Achigachia military base in the far north of the country on the border with Nigeria .
- Ravenna / Italy : Not far from the port, in bad weather, the Turkish freighter Gökbel collides with the freighter Lady Aziz sailing under the flag of Belize . The Gökbel sinks, two of the eleven crew members die, four more are missing.
- Surabaya / Indonesia : The AirAsia aircraft with the flight number QZ8501 disappears from the radar on its way from Surabaya to Singapore 42 minutes after take-off in a thunderstorm area and is temporarily lost. There are 162 people on board. Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore use naval ships, airplanes, helicopters and destroyers to search for debris in the Java Sea , where two days later the wreckage of the machine is discovered and the first corpses are recovered.
- Vlora / Albania : The outbreak of a fire on board the Norman Atlantic ferry on the way from Patras in Greece to Ancona in Italy near Albania kills at least ten. Dozens of passengers are still missing. When trying to salvage the wrecked ship, two Albanian seamen are killed the following day.
- Zagreb / Croatia : In the presidential elections the incumbent Ivo Josipović got 38.5% of the vote, his challenger, the former Foreign Minister Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović got 37%. This means that a run-off election will be necessary, which is to take place on January 11, 2015.
Monday December 29, 2014
- Athens / Greece : The third round of the election to the Greek President in 2014 , the candidate of the ruling coalition, the former missed EU - Commissioner Stavros Dimas , again and finally the majority in Parliament. So there are new elections that are set for January 25, 2015. Against the background of a possible election victory for the left-wing alliance Syriza and its intention to end the austerity program, Greek share prices collapse as default risks increase.
- Manama / Bahrain : Sheikh Ali Salman, the leader of the most important Shiite opposition movement, is charged. He incited "violence, threats and illegal means" to overthrow the government. Since his arrest yesterday there have been repeated clashes between his supporters and security forces, which the latter forcibly break up.
Tuesday December 30, 2014
- Bad Hersfeld / Germany : A coach crashed on the federal highway 4 near Bad Hersfeld. Four people are killed and 40 injured. The trigger was a car that skidded and rammed the bus.
Wednesday December 31, 2014
- Ramallah / Palestinian Autonomous Territories : For Palestine, its President Mahmud Abbas signs the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court .
- Shanghai / China : At a public celebration at the turn of the year on the Bund , at least 36 people die and 47 are injured in a mass panic .
See also
- Nekrolog December 2014 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 2014 - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ^ New EU Council President: Donald Tusk takes office in Brussels , deutschlandfunk.de, from December 1, 2014
- ^ New elections in Israel will take place on March 17th. Focus Online , December 3, 2014, accessed December 3, 2014 .
- ↑ Massacre in Kenya: Shabab terrorists kill dozen quarry workers. Spiegel Online , December 2, 2014, accessed December 2, 2014 .
- ↑ Spiegel.de: Southstream - Putin threatens to stop the pipeline to southern Europe , accessed on December 3, 2014.
- ↑ Religious leaders sign resolution "United against modern slavery" ( Memento from December 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), tagesschau.de, from December 2, 2014
- ↑ Michael Schoenenberger: Sommaruga elected with good results. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , December 3, 2014, accessed on January 1, 2015 .
- ^ Government at the end: Sweden's prime minister announces new elections. Spiegel Online , December 3, 2014, accessed December 3, 2014 .
- ↑ Rebels attack Grozny. Deutsche Welle , December 4, 2014, accessed December 4, 2014 .
- ↑ Emergency after fire: China and India send water to the Maldives. Spiegel Online , December 7, 2014, accessed December 7, 2014 .
- ↑ NASA space capsule "Orion": First test for the long flight to Mars. Tagesschau.de , December 5, 2014, accessed December 6, 2014 .
- ↑ Lenz Jacobsen: Memories of History. Zeit Online , December 5, 2014, accessed December 6, 2014 .
- ↑ Bodo Ramelow's speech in full. Zeit Online, December 5, 2014, accessed December 6, 2014 .
- ^ Julian Borger: Iran air strikes against Isis requested by Iraqi government, says Tehran. The Guardian , December 6, 2014, accessed December 6, 2014 .
- ^ Somali parliament deposed head of government. Tiroler Tageszeitung , December 6, 2014, accessed on March 5, 2020 .
- ↑ Refugees from Ethiopia: At least 70 dead in a boat accident in the Red Sea. Spiegel Online , December 7, 2014, accessed December 9, 2014 .
- ↑ Islamist attack in the Congo. Deutsche Welle , December 7, 2014, accessed December 9, 2014 .
- ^ Labor wins 15, UWP six. The Sun Dominica, December 8, 2014, accessed December 14, 2014 .
- ^ Political crisis in Kosovo resolved. Deutsche Welle , December 9, 2014, accessed December 9, 2014 .
- ↑ Birth in the Principality: Charlène von Monaco gives birth to twins. Spiegel Online , December 10, 2014, accessed December 10, 2014 .
- ^ Législatives: l'alliance Lepep l'emporte 47-13; Navin Ramgoolam battu au no 5. Le Defi Media Group, December 11, 2014, archived from the original on December 14, 2014 ; Retrieved December 14, 2014 (French).
- ↑ This is the new Müller cabinet. Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg , December 11, 2014, archived from the original on December 11, 2014 ; accessed on December 14, 2014 .
- ^ Russian President in India: Putin is looking for new friends. Focus Online , December 11, 2014, accessed December 15, 2014 .
- ↑ "Light limit" elected Word of the Year 2014 . Society for the German Language . December 12, 2014. Retrieved October 10, 2016.
- ↑ China commemorates the Nanking massacre. Deutsche Welle , December 13, 2014, accessed on December 14, 2014 .
- ↑ Climate summit in Lima reached only minimal consensus. Zeit Online , December 14, 2014, accessed December 29, 2014 .
- ↑ Prime Minister Abe consolidates majority. Süddeutsche Zeitung , December 14, 2014, accessed on December 15, 2014 .
- ↑ 15,000 “Pegida” followers demonstrate in Dresden. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of December 15, 2014, accessed on December 16, 2014.
- ↑ Ben Doherty: Hostages in the Sydney cafe siege: 'We're not getting out of here'. The Guardian, December 16, 2014, accessed December 16, 2014 .
- ↑ Mohamed Amjahid, Christine Möllhoff: After the attack on school in Peschawar: September 11 of Pakistan. Der Tagesspiegel , December 17, 2014, accessed on December 23, 2014 .
- ↑ First attempt failed: Election in Greece goes into the second round. n-tv , December 17, 2014, accessed December 23, 2014 .
- ^ Cuba - USA: The balance of power across America is being reshuffled , Die Zeit , December 17, 2014
- ↑ Hans-Peter Bartels is the new defense commissioner. Hamburger Abendblatt , December 19, 2014, accessed on December 23, 2014 .
- ^ Club World Championships, competitions 1999-2015 . ifosta.de. Retrieved November 3, 2016.
- ↑ Final Results 2014 Special Senator Election ( Memento from December 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), National Elections Commission, December 27, 2014, accessed on December 28, 2014.
- ↑ Daniel Wechlin: Uzbekistan's faked democracy. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , December 23, 2014, accessed on December 28, 2014 .
- ↑ Essebsi is the new president. Tagesschau.de , December 22, 2014, archived from the original on December 23, 2014 ; Retrieved December 25, 2014 .
- ↑ Klaus Ehringfeld: Groundbreaking for Nicaragua Canal. Frankfurter Rundschau , December 23, 2014, accessed on December 27, 2014 .
- ^ Greece: Stavros Dimas again failed in the presidential election. Spiegel Online , December 23, 2014, accessed December 25, 2014 .
- ↑ Golineh Atai : Ukraine no longer wants to be non-aligned. Tagesschau.de , December 23, 2014, archived from the original on December 23, 2014 ; accessed on December 27, 2014 .
- ^ Somali Parliament approves new PM. Voice of America , December 24, 2014, accessed December 27, 2014 .
- ↑ Al-Shabaab storms AU Christmas party. Deutsche Welle , December 25, 2014, accessed December 27, 2014 .
- ↑ Moscow classifies Ukraine and NATO as a "threat". Wirtschaftswoche , December 26, 2014, accessed on December 27, 2014 .
- ^ Repressions against Germans in the Crimea. Berliner Morgenpost , December 26, 2014, archived from the original on December 27, 2014 ; accessed on December 27, 2014 .
- ↑ Lukashenko fires heads of government and central bank. Süddeutsche Zeitung , December 27, 2014, accessed on December 28, 2014 .
- ^ Government cancels new elections. Zeit Online , December 27, 2014, accessed December 27, 2014 .
- ↑ Cameroon stops attack by 1000 Boko Haram warriors. Focus Online , December 29, 2014, accessed December 29, 2014 .
- ↑ Turkish Cargo Ship sinks in Adriatic, 2 dead, 4 missing. ABC News , December 28, 2014, accessed December 29, 2014 .
- ↑ Authorities suspect AirAsia machine on the ocean floor. Zeit Online , December 29, 2014, accessed December 29, 2014 .
- ↑ Air Asia flight QZ8501: Missing Airbus found. Spiegel Online , December 30, 2014, accessed December 30, 2014 .
- ^ "Norman Atlantic" ferry accident: evacuation ended, uncertainty remains. Tagesschau.de , December 29, 2014, archived from the original on December 29, 2014 ; accessed on December 29, 2014 .
- ^ Unlucky ship "Norman Atlantic": Two dead when recovered from a damaged car ferry. Spiegel Online, December 30, 2014, accessed December 30, 2014 .
- ↑ Croatia election: President Josipović just ahead. Der Standard , December 28, 2014, accessed December 29, 2014 .
- ^ Presidential election failed, new elections in Greece. Hamburger Abendblatt , December 29, 2014, archived from the original on November 23, 2015 ; accessed on December 29, 2014 .
- ^ Bahrain indicts opposition leaders. Deutsche Welle , December 29, 2014, accessed January 1, 2015 .
- ↑ Katharina Iskandar: Four seniors die in a bus accident in Hesse. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , December 30, 2014, accessed January 1, 2015 .
- ↑ Inge Günther: Palestinians want to join the Hague Criminal Court. Berliner Zeitung , January 1, 2015, accessed on January 1, 2015 .
- ↑ 36 dead in mass panic in Shanghai. Zeit Online , January 1, 2015, accessed January 1, 2015 .