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This article covers breaking news and events in December 2016.

Daily events

Thursday 1st December 2016

• Baikonur / Kazakhstan : A few minutes after take-off from the Roskosmos spaceport, the Progress MS-04 space freighter burns up .
• Banjul / Gambia : The authoritarian President and Prime Minister Yahya Jammeh ( APRC ), who has been in office since 1994, loses the presidential election after four terms in office. With 45.5% of the vote, the previously largely unknown opposition candidate Adama Barrow received the most support from the socialist UDP . Jammeh got 36.6% and former ruling party MP Mamma Kandeh got 17.8% of the vote.
• Berlin / Germany : The Wikileaks disclosure platform publishes 2,420 documents with a size of 90 gigabytes, which the NSA investigative committee of the German Bundestag received. Including 125 documents from the Federal Intelligence Service (BND), 33 documents from the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) and 72 other documents from the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) in response to questions from committee members to the services. It also includes written correspondence between the Federal Chancellery, the services and committee members as well as background reports from various media.
• Paris / France : President François Hollande of the Socialist Party rules out a new candidacy for the office of president. The election in France is to take place on April 23, 2017, with a possible second round on May 7, 2017.
• Unterföhring / Germany : The specialty broadcaster Sky Sport News starts broadcasting on German free TV .
• Vienna / Austria : Alexander Van der Bellen ( Greens ) and Norbert Hofer ( FPÖ ) meet in a final TV duel before the run-off election for the federal presidential election in Austria in 2016 is repeated . Hofer accuses Van der Bellen of being a spy . With this he contradicts the work of the Abwehramt , which has no suspicions against Van der Bellen.

Friday 2nd December 2016

• Jakarta / Indonesia : Around 200,000 people demonstrate against the governor of Jakarta Basuki Tjahaja Purnama . Most conservative Muslims accuse the Christian of having accused his political opponents of incorrectly interpreting the Koran . Similar demonstrations took place in November. At that time, President Joko Widodo was at the center of the protests for similar reasons.
• Montevideo / Uruguay : The South American organization Mercosur , whose member states form a single market , excludes Venezuela until further notice. Requirements for trade and human rights policy have not been met.
• Moscow / Russia : The Russian central bank is the target of a hacker attack in which the equivalent of 29.2 million euros is withdrawn from accounts. The FSB secret service announced that it had fended off a targeted cyber attack on the Russian banking system at the same time . As a weak point in the attack on the Russian Central Bank and the central bank of Bangladesh in February this year that applies payment system of Swift .
• Oakland / United States : More than 30 people are killed in a warehouse fire on the sidelines of an electric party.
• Qitaihe / China : An explosion in a private coal - mining without approval 22 workers are killed.

Saturday 3rd December 2016

Mourning for Fidel Castro in Latin America

• Santiago / Cuba : In honor of the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro , who died on November 25th , head of state from 1959 to 2006, a mass rally takes place in Antonio Maceo square. The mourning convoy with the Castro urn reaches its end here after a four-day tour through various Cuban cities.

Sunday 4th December 2016

President-elect of Austria: Alexander Van der Bellen

• Kuala Lumpur / Malaysia , Naypyidaw / Myanmar : The Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak is at the forefront of a protest movement against the suppression of the Muslim Rohingya ethnic group in the predominantly Buddhist neighboring country of Myanmar. The government of Myanmar urges Razak not to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries.
• Rome / Italy : In the referendum on the reform of the Senato della Repubblica to redistribute competencies between the Republic of Italy and the regions of the country, voters refused to approve the proposed reforms . In this case, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi had announced his resignation.
• Tashkent / Uzbekistan : Prime Minister Shavkat Mirziyoyev is elected as the new President of the Republic of Uzbekistan . As a temporary solution, he had been head of the state since September.
• Vienna / Austria : The repeat of the runoff election for the federal presidential election in Austria in 2016 ends with the victory of the Green politician Alexander Van der Bellen .

Monday 5th December 2016

• Lausanne / Switzerland : The International Court of Justice confirms that the suspension of former FIFA President Joseph Blatter is justified. FIFA banned Blatter for concealing cash payments to his then deputy Michel Platini .
• Rome / Italy : After voters voted no to the reorganization of competencies between the republic and regions, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi says that he will step down in the foreseeable future. Until then he will continue to run the government.
• Sirte / Libya : During the civil war in Libya , the army , together with militia groups that support the ruling Alliance of National Forces , recaptured the port city of Sirte from the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS). This means that after four months the operation to take the IS “stronghold” in Libya ends.

Tuesday 6th December 2016

• Essen / Germany : The delegates of the party congress of the CDU confirm Chancellor Angela Merkel as party leader. At the party congress, the Chancellor also receives the plebiscite from the delegates for the top candidacy in the 2017 federal election . There are no opposing candidates.
• Freiburg / Germany : The criminal case Maria L. intensifies the debate about the consequences of the refugee crisis in Europe from 2015 . An underage Afghan is suspected of abusing a Freiburg student and throwing her into the Dreisam , where she drowned. Statistics show an increase in hate crimes against strangers as well as property crimes and reported sexual assaults in recent years.
• Karlsruhe / Germany : With the ruling of the Federal Constitutional Court , the operators of German nuclear power plants are entitled to a compensation payment, because in the course of the “ nuclear phase-out ” politicians first extended the remaining operating times of the reactors in quick succession and, after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011 , drastically shortened them again. The money payments to the nuclear industry are now raised from tax revenues.

Wednesday 7th December 2016

• Accra / Ghana : Incumbent John Dramani Mahama ( National Democratic Congress ) and Nana Akufo-Addo ( New Patriotic Party ) are the favorites in the presidential election held today.
• Aceh / Indonesia : A 6.4 M _w earthquake kills at least 97 people in the northern part of Sumatra .

Pre-war panorama of the old town of Aleppo

• Aleppo / Syria : In the civil war in Syria , the Syrian armed forces claim to have completely recaptured the old town of Aleppo .
• Bern / Switzerland : Doris Leuthard ( CVP ) will be re- elected as Federal President for the coming year 2017 by the United Federal Assembly after 2009 with 188 out of 207 valid votes .
• Khyber Pakhtunkhwa / Pakistan : An aircraft of the state airline disappears from the radar on Pakistan International Airlines flight 661 . Rescue workers report that it crashed between Abbottabad and Haripur . Around 40 people were on board, including the Pakistani pop star and preacher Junaid Jamshed.
• Rome / Italy : The President of the Council of Ministers and Prime Minister Matteo Renzi submits his resignation to President Sergio Mattarella .

Thursday 8th December 2016

• Geneva / Switzerland : The United Nations found in a report that in the war in Ukraine between April 2014 and November 2016, almost 10,000 civilians died from fighting and over 22,000 others were injured.
• Hamburg / Germany : 40 Foreign Ministers and 80 delegations take part in the meeting of the OSCE Council of Ministers , which the German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier opens with the assessment that there are “new rifts between East and West”.
• Yokohama / Japan : At the start of the Club World Cup in football, the Japanese club Kashima Antlers wins against New Zealand's Auckland City FC 2-1.

Friday 9th December 2016

Park Geun-hye

• Accra / Ghana : Nana Akufo-Addo ( New Patriotic Party ) is announced as the winner of the presidential election. His opponent was incumbent John Dramani Mahama ( National Democratic Congress ).
• Aleppo / Syria : Despite reports of a complete capture of the city by the Syrian armed forces , heavy fighting continues in the city, which is partly held by rebels .
• Banjul / Gambia : One week after his defeat in the presidential election, President Yahya Jammeh , who has been in office for 22 years, announced on television that he did not recognize the election result because of "unacceptable errors by the electoral commission".
• Košice / Slovakia : A major fire at the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the Pavol-Jozef-Šafárik University in Košice destroys the entire top floor and causes large parts of the roof to collapse.
• Madagali / Nigeria : Two schoolgirls commit suicide bombings in the city's market . At least 30 people are killed. A connection between the assassins and the Islamist organization Boko Haram is suspected.
• Neu-Isenburg / Germany : In addition to the United States , Germany - in the person of Michael Vesper , Chairman of the Board of the German Olympic Sports Confederation - is calling for consequences from the publication of the second part of the McLaren Report on the system of state doping in Russian sport. The report concludes that around 1,000 Russian Olympic participants have started doped in recent years .
• Seoul / South Korea : The national parliament ( Gukhoe ) votes for the provisional disempowerment of President Park Geun-hye .
• Tokyo / Japan : Parliament ratifies the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a planned trade agreement to which u. a. Australia , Chile , Canada , Mexico and, for the time being, the United States are interested.
• Wiesbaden / Germany : "Post factual" is the word of the year in Germany for the Society for the German Language . It usually appears in the phrase " post-factual politics ".

Saturday 10th December 2016

• Aden / Yemen : At least 48 soldiers die and 70 others are injured in a suicide attack on the Al-Sawlaban military base near the airport. The terrorist organization Islamic State has committed itself to the attack through its propaganda mouthpiece Amaq .
• Wroclaw / Poland : At the European Film Awards , the film Toni Erdmann wins in five categories, including the competition for “Best Film”.
• Hitrino / Bulgaria : At least eight people died in the derailment and subsequent explosion of a freight train with gas tanks from Bulmarket. In the village in Shumen Oblast , at least 20 houses, including the station building and the town hall, are destroyed on the railway line between Burgas and Russe.
• Istanbul / Turkey : At least 38 people are killed and another 166 injured in two bomb attacks . One of the explosions occurs after a first division soccer game in front of the Vodafone Arena stadium in Beşiktaş , so the proportion of police officers among the victims is particularly high. The Kurdish terrorist organization Teyrêbazên Azadîya Kurdistan (TAK) ( Freedom Falcons of Kurdistan ) has assumed responsibility in a letter of confession.
• Manama / Bahrain : At the 12th regional security conference of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), US Secretary of State Ashton Carter announced, in addition to air support, another 200 US soldiers to be deployed to support Syria's Kurdish-dominated Democratic Forces against the Islamic State (IS) in ar-Raqqa . So far, around 300 US soldiers have been stationed in Syria.
• Paris / France : At a special meeting, the government under Bernard Cazeneuve extended the state of emergency until July 2017 due to the continuing terrorist threat. The country has been in a state of emergency since the terrorist attacks in Paris on November 13, 2015 .
• Tiraspol / Transnistria : Presidential elections are being held in the internationally unrecognized Sepratist republic in Moldova . President Yevgeny Shevchuk is standing for re-election and stands against the opposition candidate and chairman of the Supreme Council, Vadim Krasnoselski .
• Uyo / Nigeria : The collapse of the roof of the Reigners Bible Church under construction during a mass in the city in the state of Akwa Ibom kills at least 200 people.

Sunday 11th December 2016

Gotthard tunnel entry in Pollegio

Paolo Gentiloni becomes Prime Minister of Italy

• Amman / Jordan : Federal Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen ceremoniously hands over 16 Marder armored personnel carriers to the Jordanian armed forces . A further delivery of 18 armored personnel carriers is planned for the end of 2017. In addition, Germany provides intelligence services interception technology for tapping cell phone calls, SMS messages and data communication in the fight against the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS).
• Bishkek / Kyrgyzstan : Constitutional referendum on the extension of the prime minister's powers.
• Bucharest / Romania : Parliamentary election in Romania
• Gotthard / Switzerland : A pageant from Zurich to Lugano heralds the scheduled operation of the 57 km long Gotthard railway base tunnel . Construction of the tunnel began in 1996 .
• Cairo / Egypt : 25 people die and 49 are injured in a bomb explosion in the Coptic Church of Saint Peter and Paul near St. Mark's Cathedral .
• Mogadishu / Somalia : At least 30 people are killed and 48 others injured in a car bomb attack by the Islamist Al-Shabaab militia on a military post and a police station at the seaport of Mogadishu.
• Palmyra / Syria : The terrorist organization Islamic State (IS) has again recaptured the ancient world cultural heritage sites from the Syrian armed forces. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, fighter planes flew more than 60 attacks on positions, convoys and supplies of ISIS overnight.
• Rome / Italy : After the resignation of the Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi , the previous Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni ( PD ) is tasked with forming a government by President Sergio Mattarella .
• Skopje / Macedonia : The national conservative VMRO-DPMNE , which has ruled since 2006 under the acting Prime Minister Emil Dimitriev , won the parliamentary elections with 41 percent of the votes cast, according to initial projections. The previously co-ruling Albanian Democratic Union for Integration (DUI) party achieved 6.6 percent. The opposition Social Democratic League of Macedonia (SDSM) receives around 36 percent.

Monday December 12, 2016

• Aleppo / Syria : Complete recapture of Aleppo by the Syrian army

Thursday December 15, 2016

• Aleppo / Syria : In view of the devastating humanitarian situation in East Aleppo, the evacuation of the district that was destroyed in the civil war begins . The Syrian armed forces have set up a 21-kilometer corridor for this purpose. According to the Russian General Staff, around 5,000 fighters and their relatives have started to leave Aleppo. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports that insurgents began destroying their headquarters, vehicles and weapons before the evacuation mission started.
• Geneva / Switzerland : Kosovo is assigned the international telephone code +383 by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).
• Prague / Czech Republic : The European satellite navigation system Galileo of the Agency for the European GNSS is activated for the general public.
• Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume / France : The courier express parcel service DPDgroup is introducing the first logistics drone in scheduled traffic. Once a week, a fully autonomous drone with a payload of three kilograms shuttles between a pickup parcel shop in Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume and a delivery address 15 kilometers away in the technology start-up center in Pourrières . After two years of testing, the French aviation authority DGAC approved regular operations.
• Subic Bay / Philippines : The rescue ship ASR-510 of the People's Liberation Army - Lake of the Dalang III class confiscated an underwater research drone (UUV) of the US Navy from the sea around 80 kilometers off the Philippine Subic Bay . This was supported by the survey vessel (AGS-21-T) USNS Bowditch of Military Sealift Command exposed. The US Department of Defense is demanding that China return it immediately.

Friday December 16, 2016

• Dresden / Germany : Opening of the Kulturquartier Kraftwerk Mitte . The construction costs amounted to 100 million euros.

Saturday 17th December 2016

Gregor Gysi becomes chairman of the European Left

Dálnice 8 near Lovosice-východ in the direction of Dresden

• Arba Minch / Ethiopia : After a nine-year construction period, the Gilgel Gibe III hydropower project on the Omo River around 90 kilometers northwest of Arba Minch and thus Africa's third largest dam is officially inaugurated by President Hailemariam Desalegn . The construction of the project, which cost the equivalent of 1.5 billion euros, was 60 percent financed by the China Exim Bank .
• Berlin / Germany : At the 5th Congress of the Party of the European Left , Gregor Gysi is elected party leader with 67.6 percent with no opposing candidates. He succeeds Pierre Laurent . Deputy party chairman is the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras .
• Birmingham / Great Britain : In the HMP Birmingham penal institution with around 1450 inmates, there is a prisoner uprising. Security forces from the private operator G4S and police units can secure the four affected wings again after several hours. According to the Prison Governors' Association, it is an outdated facility with poor hygiene and staff.
• Kandahar / Afghanistan : Five women and the driver are killed on the way to their place of work in an attack on a minivan carried out by security staff at Kandahar Airport . The employees had previously received death threats.
• Kayseri / Turkey : A car bomb attack occurs at the entrance to Erciyes University. The detonation hits a passing public bus in which soldiers of the Turkish Air Force are sitting. According to the military, at least 13 people are killed and 56 injured. Seven suspects are arrested. The Turkish government blames the PKK for the attack. After the attack, members of the right-wing extremist MHP ( Gray Wolves ) storm the local office of the pro-Kurdish opposition party HDP and set furniture on fire.
• Prague / Czech Republic : With the planned opening of the last section of Dálnice 8 (D8), the new Berlin – Dresden – Prague motorway will be completed as part of European route 55 .

Sunday December 18, 2016

• Aden / Yemen : At least 49 soldiers are killed and 29 others injured in a suicide attack by the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS) near the al-Solban military base in the northeast of the city.
• Fizi / DR Congo : At least 20 people are killed in a mining accident in the Makungu gold mine.
• Kerak / Jordan : Four terrorists kill seven Jordanian police officers and three civilians, including a tourist from Canada, in Qatraneh and the Kerak crusader castle . 22 other people are injured. Special forces storm the castle, where all attackers are killed.
• Wamena / Indonesia : When a military transport of the type C-130B Hercules of the Indonesian Air Force crashes in the Jayawijaya Mountains , all 13 crew members die. The machine took off in Timika and was on a training flight with cement and rice sacks on board.
• Yamoussoukro / Ivory Coast : The country's electorate elects the new Assemblé Nationale . The social democratic opposition party Front Populaire Ivoirien (FPI), which abstained from voting in 2011, is also running again for parliamentary elections.
• Yokohama / Japan : In the final of the Club World Cup in soccer, Real Madrid from Spain defeated the Kashima Antlers from Japan 4-2 after extra time.

Monday 19th December 2016

• Ankara / Turkey : Russian ambassador Andrei Gennadjewitsch Karlow is killed in an attack during a photo exhibition in the government district of Çankaya . Two other people are injured. The attacker, a Turkish policeman and bodyguard, is shot dead by the police.
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  Attack on the Berlin Christmas market
  Berlin / Germany : A truck drives into a Christmas market on Breitscheidplatz . 56 people are injured, twelve are killed. →  Main article:  Attack on the Berlin Christmas market at the Memorial Church
• Washington, DC / United States : The 538 electors elect the 45th President of the United States of America: Republican Donald Trump . There are two dissenters among the Republicans and four among the Democrats.
• Zurich / Switzerland : Three people are seriously injured in a shooting in a prayer room of the Somali-Islamic cultural center. The perpetrator, a 24-year-old Swiss with Ghanaian roots, committed suicide.

Tuesday 20th December 2016

• Tultepec / Mexico : 29 people die and more people are injured in the explosion of a pyrotechnics store in Mexico.
• Yamoussoukro / Ivory Coast : The ruling coalition that emerged as Rassemblement des houphouëtistes pour la démocratie et la paix ( RHDP ) emerged as the winner of the parliamentary elections in Ivory Coast and gained additional seats in the National Assembly .
• Zurich / Switzerland : The perpetrator of yesterday's shooting in a mosque has directed himself. The Swiss of Ghanaian origin apparently stabbed a former friend in Schwamendingen last Sunday . The Zurich police initially found no evidence of terrorist or right-wing extremist motives; the three people shot in the mosque are not in danger of death.

Wednesday December 21, 2016

• Rome / Italy : The Italian parliament votes in favor of the government of Paolo Gentiloni for a possible state aid package for the ailing third largest Italian bank Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena (MPS) in the amount of up to 20 billion euros. The bank's board of directors officially applied for state aid beforehand. The Italian banks are currently sitting on "bad loans" totaling 360 billion euros.

Thursday 22nd December 2016

Soldier with gun in Aleppo

• Aleppo / Syria : After years of fighting, the last rebels have withdrawn from East Aleppo.
• Ankara / Turkey : The Islamic State (IS) terrorist militia publishes a 19-minute propaganda video on the Internet that also shows the burning of two Turkish soldiers who, according to media reports, were captured by IS on November 29, 2016 near al-Bab in northern Syria . The Turkish government then ordered the blocking of social media such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in the country.
• Tourouvre / France : The French energy and environment minister Ségolène Royal opens the world's first street with solar modules in the Arrondissement of Mortagne-au-Perche . The one kilometer long pavement of a national road with an area of ​​2800 square meters, known as the Wattway , cost around five million euros and is intended to supply the city's street lighting with electricity.

Friday 23rd December 2016

• Leipzig / Germany : The Czech holding company Rockaway Capital SE announces the takeover of the German Unister Travel-Assets. These are the online platforms ab-in-den-urlaub.de (AIDU), fluege.de , Reisen.de, cheapfluege.de, reisegeier.de, Urlaubstours.de, hotelreservierung.de and TravelViva. The transaction is being financed by Rockaway Capital and the Chinese conglomerate CEFC (China Energy Company Limited).
• New York / United States : For the first time since 1979, the United Nations Security Council votes against Israeli settlement policy in UN resolution 2334 . This was made possible by the decision of the United States not to make use of its right of veto but to abstain. The 14 other member states, including their neighbor Egypt , voted for the UN resolution.
• Salvador / Brazil : In an international corruption process, the Brazilian conglomerate Odebrecht and the chemical company Braskem agree to pay a record fine of 3.5 billion US dollars. The United States Department of Justice said Odebrecht is willing to pay $ 4.5 billion in principle, but is only able to pay $ 2.6 billion. The subsidiary Braskem takes over 957 million US dollars. The fines are paid to Brazil, Switzerland and the USA. Argentina, Venezuela, Peru and Colombia announced investigations to identify suspected bribes.
• Valletta / Malta : An Airbus A320 from the Libyan state airline Afriqiyah Airways with 118 people on board is hijacked on the domestic flight with flight number 209 from Sabha to Tripoli and lands at Malta Airport .
• Washington, DC / United States : In a settlement with the United States Department of Justice, Deutsche Bank pledged a $ 3.1 billion civil fine to settle civil claims related to the mortgage-backed securities issue between 2005 and 2007 as well Stretched over several years to provide an additional $ 4.1 billion in financial relief for borrowers in the United States. The Credit Suisse is committed to a settlement over 5.3 billion US dollars.

Sunday 25th December 2016

• Augsburg / Germany : In the run-up to the defusing of an air mine from the Second World War , around 54,000 people are being evacuated in the city , more than ever before in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany.
• Beni / DR Congo : Rebels from the Islamist Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) from Uganda kill at least 22 people in the Congolese province of North Kivu , including several in the town of Eringeti.
• Sochi / Russia : A Tupolev Tu-154 of the Russian Defense Ministry is shortly after takeoff with 92 people on board the Black Sea overthrown. Among them are 64 members of the Alexandrow Ensemble .

Monday 26th December 2016

• Albay / Philippines : Typhoon Nock-Ten killed at least five people and caused great damage. More than 380,000 people are brought to safety.
• Ankara / Turkey : An anti-terrorist unit of the Turkish police arrests the politician of the pro-Kurdish HDP , Aysel Tuğluk . She was arrested as part of an investigation by the Diyarbakır Public Prosecutor's Office in Ankara. In the past seven days, the Turkish police have already arrested 1,682 suspects in anti-terrorism operations, 516 of whom received an arrest warrant.
• Nanyang / China : The former sports minister and former president of the Chinese fencing association CFA, Xiao Tian, ​​is sentenced to ten and a half years in prison for corruption by an intermediate people's court. Between 1997 and 2014, he is said to have accepted 7.96 million yuan (equivalent to around 1.1 million euros) in bribes as a sports official.

Tuesday December 27, 2016

• Buenos Aires / Argentina : According to the Ministry of Justice, the former President Cristina Kirchner is officially charged with corruption allegations. Federal judge Julián Ercolini accused the ex-president of fraudulent administration and illicit connections and also ordered Kirchner's assets of ten billion pesos (the equivalent of 600 million euros) to be frozen. The former Federal Planning Minister Julio De Vido and his secretary José Francisco López and Lázaro Báez , head of the construction company BTP , were also charged .
• Pearl Harbor / United States : 75 years after the Japanese surprise attack on the US Pacific fleet in Pearl Harbor , Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visits the historic site in Hawaii and, together with US President Barack Obama, commemorates the 2,403 dead in the attack.
• Zurich / Switzerland : Zürcher Kantonalbank (ZKB) reaches an amicable agreement with the judicial authorities in Cologne in the tax dispute and makes a one-off payment of 5.7 million euros in connection with untaxed assets of German customers.

Wednesday December 28, 2016

• Mogadishu / Somalia : Heads of the local clans have appointed 14,025 delegates over the past few weeks who are to elect the new President of Somalia today . Due to disputes, the election has been postponed to an unspecified date in January 2017 and Hassan Sheikh Mohamud remains in office.

Thursday December 29, 2016

Location in Mosul on December 7, 2016

• Guizhou / China : The Beipanjiang Bridge , part of the Hangzhou-Ruili highway and the highest bridge in the world , is opened to traffic.
• Mosul / Iraq : With a second military offensive by the 9th Division of the Iraqi Armed Forces with Kurdish Peshmerga associations and Shiite militias of the al-Hashd al-Sha'bi (PMF) supported by US elite units and the US Air Force , the recapture of the terrorist organization begins Islamic State (IS) occupied Iraqi metropolis. A total of around 100,000 soldiers and fighters are involved in the Battle of Mosul.

Saturday December 31, 2016

• Düsseldorf / Germany : The peace activist Barbara Gladysch announced that she did not want to accept the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia because of the deportation of ten refugees to Afghanistan.
• New York / United States : The United Nations Security Council supports the ceasefire negotiated by Russia and Turkey for the civil war country Syria . UN resolution 2336 (2016) was passed unanimously. The peace plan drawn up by Russia and Turkey provides for the ceasefire that has been in force across the country since December 30, 2016, further peace talks in Astana in January 2017 and the formation of a transitional government. This does not apply to the continued fight against terrorist groups such as the Islamic State (IS) and the Al-Nusra Front .
• Rome / Italy : The Italian telecommunications company Wind Tre SpA was founded, which was a merger of the former autonomous companies H3G and Wind Telecomunicazioni . At the time of the merger, it was one of the largest corporate mergers in Italy since 2007. According to the company, it was Italy's largest telecommunications company, but also the country's third-largest mobile operator.

See also

• Nekrolog December 2016 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

Portugal in December 2016

Commons : December 2016  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

 Wikinews: Articles Published December 2016  - News

Individual evidence

1. ^ Transport spaceship crashed on the way to the ISS. Zeit Online , December 2, 2016, accessed December 2, 2016 . 
2. ^ Opposition politician Barrow is Gambia's new president. Donaukurier , December 1, 2016, archived from the original on December 3, 2016 ; accessed on December 2, 2016 . 
3. ^ NSA committee of inquiry: WikiLeaks publishes intelligence documents. Zeit Online , December 1, 2016, accessed December 2, 2016 . 
4. ^ François Hollande: The hapless president . freepresse.de . December 1, 2016. Accessed December 2, 2016.
5. ↑ Football: innovation on TV . World online . December 1, 2016. Accessed December 1, 2016.
6. ↑ TV duel between Hofer and Van der Bellen: "Serious fouls" and a spy . DerStandard.at . December 1, 2016. Accessed December 2, 2016.
7. ↑ Muslims protest against Christian politicians . Time online . December 2, 2016. Retrieved December 2, 2016.
8. ↑ Mercosur economic bloc suspends Venezuela's membership . finanzen.net . December 2, 2016. Retrieved December 3, 2016.
9. ↑ Hackers steal millions in attack on Russia's central bank . Reuters . December 2, 2016. Retrieved December 3, 2016.
10. Jump up ↑ Hell of flames in the USA: Death toll after fire at warehouse party has risen. Merkur.de , December 4, 2016, accessed December 4, 2016 . 
11. ↑ China coal mine blast kills 21: report ( English ) Mail Online . December 2, 2016. Retrieved December 3, 2016.
12. ^ Farewell to Fidel Castro in Santiago de Cuba . Time online . December 3, 2016. Retrieved December 3, 2016.
13. ↑ Malaysian PM Najib Razak joins pro-Rohingya rally despite warning from Burma ( English ) asiancorrespondent.com. December 4, 2016. Retrieved December 4, 2016.
14. ↑ Faster, leaner, more stable: Italy's constitutional reform . europeonline-magazine.eu. September 25, 2016. Retrieved September 27, 2016.
15. ↑ Genuine congratulations ( English ) president.uz. December 5, 2016. Archived from the original on December 20, 2016. Retrieved on December 6, 2016.
16. ↑ Van der Bellen "turns" Salzburg and Lower Austria . DiePresse.com . December 5, 2016. Retrieved December 6, 2016.
17. ↑ CAS announces judgment in the Blatter case on Monday . fussballdaten.de. December 2016. Retrieved December 2, 2016.
18. ↑ After Renzi's resignation: The EU hopes for Italy to experience the crisis . Spiegel Online . December 5, 2016. Retrieved December 6, 2016.
19. ↑ Strike against IS in Sirte in Libya: Libyan troops overrun the positions of the terrorists . N24.de . December 5, 2016. Retrieved December 5, 2016.
20. ↑ Party Congress 2016 . CDU . Retrieved December 6, 2016.
21. ↑ Comment: There is a great danger that the mood will be poisoned . badische-zeitung.de . December 3, 2016. Retrieved December 6, 2016.
22. ↑ Do asylum seekers commit more sexual offenses? . badische-zeitung.de . December 5, 2016. Retrieved December 6, 2016.
23. ↑ Late turning point in the nuclear phase-out: Corporations are entitled to compensation . Abendblatt.de . December 6, 2016. Retrieved December 7, 2016.
24. ↑ Earthquake in Indonesia's Aceh province kills 97 - CNN.com. In: CNN. Retrieved December 7, 2016 . 
25. ↑ Pakistani plane with around 40 people on board, presumably crashed. In: tagesschau.de. ARD, accessed on December 7, 2016 . 
26. ↑ Matteo Renzi has officially resigned. In: Zeit Online . December 7, 2016, accessed December 8, 2016 . 
27. ↑ Civilians in Ukraine continue to suffer - UN report ( English ) United Nations . December 8, 2016. Retrieved December 9, 2016.
28. ↑ Steinmeier opens the OSCE Ministerial Council in Hamburg . Foreign Office . December 7, 2016. Retrieved December 8, 2016.
29. ↑ Kashima turns the game against Auckland . FIFA . December 8, 2016. Retrieved December 9, 2016.
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