December 2017

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This article covers breaking news and events in December 2017.

Daily events

Friday 1st December 2017

• Tokyo / Japan : Emperor Akihito announces his abdication on April 30, 2019.

Saturday 2nd December 2017

The bridge in Prague one day after it collapsed.

• Prague / Czech Republic : The Trojská lávka pedestrian bridge over the Vltava collapses.

Sunday 3rd December 2017

• Saarbrücken / Germany : Four people were killed in a fire in a multi-storey residential building in Saarbrücken. There are also numerous injuries.

Monday 4th December 2017

• Munich / Germany The Bavarian Prime Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) announces his resignation for the beginning of 2018. The current Bavarian Finance Minister Markus Söder (CSU) is planned as his successor .

Tuesday 5th December 2017

• Berlin / Germany : The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung's Human Rights Prize is awarded to the organizing committee of the Candle Citizens' Demonstrations in South Korea .
• Brussels / Belgium : The European finance ministers publish a black list of 17 countries that are classified as tax havens .
• Lausanne / Switzerland : The International Olympic Committee forbids the Russian Committee to participate in the 2018 Winter Olympics .
• Meerbusch / Germany : A regional express has run into a freight train. 47 people were injured in the accident, three of them seriously.
• Vienna / Austria : The Constitutional Court decides that same-sex couples are allowed to marry on January 1, 2019.

Wednesday December 6, 2017

• Jerusalem / Israel : The United States, under US President Donald Trump, is the first foreign state to diplomatically recognize Jerusalem as the undivided capital of Israel. The United States Embassy in Tel Aviv will be relocated from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in the coming years .

Thursday 7th December 2017

• Damascus / Syria : The Russian Defense Ministry declares ISIS defeated in Syria.

Friday 8th December 2017

Mateusz Morawiecki (2012)

• Warsaw / Poland : Mateusz Morawiecki is designated as Prime Minister of Poland ; he is to succeed Beata Szydło .

Saturday 9th December 2017

• Baghdad / Iraq : Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi told the IS in Iraq defeated.

Sunday 10th December 2017

• Berlin / Germany : The social satire The Square by Ruben Östlund is awarded the European Film Prize.

Monday December 11, 2017

• Buenos Aires / Argentina : The 11th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization ( WTO ) begins.
• Riyadh / Saudi Arabia : As part of a cautious opening and modernization of the country, the royal family has announced that it will reopen cinemas in 2018 for the first time in three decades.

Tuesday December 12, 2017

• Baumgarten an der March / Austria : There was an explosion at a gas station in Baumgarten, Lower Austria . Several people were injured and one person was killed.

Wednesday December 13, 2017

• Dresden / Germany : The Saxon State Parliament elects Michael Kretschmer ( CDU ) as the new Prime Minister . His predecessor and party colleague Stanislaw Tillich declared in October that he wanted to "transfer the office to younger hands".
• Istanbul / Turkey : At a special summit of the Organization for Islamic Cooperation in Istanbul, at least 20 heads of state and government decided to recognize East Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine .

Thursday December 14, 2017

• Burbank / United States : The planned sale of the American media company 21st Century Fox , with the exception of the news - and some national sports channels, to the Walt Disney Company is officially announced. The price of the acquisition is expected at 52.4 billion US dollars lie.
• Washington, DC / United States : The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) votes against net neutrality in the United States.

Friday 15th December 2017

• Hamburg / Germany : With Beate Uhse AG, Germany's oldest adult retailer files for bankruptcy.
• Java / Indonesia : At least 11 people are killed by the effects of an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.5.

Saturday, December 16, 2017

• Abu Dhabi / United Arab Emirates : In the final of the Club World Cup in football, Spanish representatives Real Madrid beat Gremio FC from Porto Alegre in Brazil 1-0 . It is Madrid's sixth title in the competition, including three World Cup titles .
• Villa Santa Lucia / Chile : At least 16 people die from flash floods and landslides.
• Eastern Samar / Philippines : Tropical storm Kai-Tek hits the province of Eastern Samar. The effects of the storm destroyed more than 4,000 homes and killed 91 people.

Sunday 17th December 2017

Sebastian Piñera (2010)

• Rome / Italy : Presentation of the 16th European Theater Prize to Isabelle Huppert and Jeremy Irons . Yael Ronen and Susanne Kennedy are awarded the European Theater Prize for New Realities .
• Santiago de Chile / Chile : Sebastián Piñera wins the runoff election in the presidential election in Chile 2017 .

Monday December 18, 2017

• Johannesburg / South Africa : Cyril Ramaphosa is elected as the new chairman of the ANC .
• Tacoma / United States : A passenger train derailed near Tacoma, Washington and crashed onto the busy Interstate 5 highway . 77 people were injured. See: DuPont Railway Accident .
• Vienna / Austria : The Federal Government Kurz I is appointed and sworn in by Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen .

Tuesday December 19, 2017

• Riyadh / Saudi Arabia : One of Yemeni Huthi -Rebellen rocket fired missed their target, the Saudi royal residence Yamama , south of the capital and can be without causing damage, intercepted.

Wednesday December 20, 2017

• Wellington / New Zealand : New Zealand legalizes the medicinal use of cannabis .

Thursday December 21, 2017

• Barcelona / Spain : In the early elections in Catalonia scheduled by the central government in Madrid, the separatists win again. After the elections in early October, the Catalonia crisis broke out . The aim of the separatists is to separate Catalonia as an independent state from Spain.
• Manila / Philippines : Typhoon Tembin causes landslides and floods in the Philippines. At least 349 people lose their lives.

Friday 22nd December 2017

• Washington, DC / United States : His signing allows the extensive tax reform promised by US President Donald Trump in the election campaign to come into force.

Saturday 23rd December 2017

• Berlin / Germany : The Federal Ministry of the Interior announces plans to deport unaccompanied minor migrants to specially built youth homes in Morocco .
• Niamey / Niger : During a state visit, French President Emmanuel Macron announced, on the one hand, the strengthening of the multinational African armed forces deployed to ward off militant Islamists in northern Mali and, on the other hand, aids for the education of girls in Niger.

Sunday December 24, 2017

Railway from Typhoon Tembin via Mindanao and Palawan into the South China Sea to Vietnam (left; red-orange = intensification).

• Berlin / Germany : A person, according to the police, a 58-year-old man, drove a car into the Willy Brandt House . He did this after placing a bag with easily flammable materials in front of the CDU party headquarters. The flames set off in the house were extinguished by a sprinkler system .
• Guatemala City / Guatemala : Guatemala is the first country after the decision of US President Donald Trump announced that Jerusalem as the capital of Israel to recognize and relocate its embassy there.
• Manila / Philippines : Typhoon Tembin destroys houses built in the Philippines in the mountain villages near Tubod and in the city of Piagapo close to the rivers, killing hundreds as well as numerous missing people.
• Vals / Austria : In a rock fall in Vals, around 150 inhabitants of the valley are trapped.

Monday December 25, 2017

• Moscow / Russia : The Central Election Commission has banned the most promising candidate from the opposition parties, Alexei Navalny , from participating in the 2018 presidential election due to an earlier criminal conviction.

Tuesday December 26, 2017

George Weah (2019)

• Monrovia / Liberia : Former professional soccer player George Weah from Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) wins the second round of the presidential election.

Wednesday December 27, 2017

• Kiev / Ukraine : In the war in Ukraine , the conflicting parties swap hundreds of prisoners.

Thursday December 28, 2017

• Benghazi / Libya : After the conquest of the last district held by Islamist militias, the second largest city in Libya is again completely under the control of the Libyan National Army .
• Kabul / Afghanistan : 41 people are killed in a suicide attack on a cultural center in the Afghan capital. The terrorist organization IS is committed to the act.

Friday December 29, 2017

• Cairo / Egypt : At least 10 people are killed and more people are injured in a terrorist attack in front of a Coptic church.
• Munich / Germany : A suspected war criminal from Bosnia-Herzegovina is arrested at Munich Airport .

Saturday 30th December 2017

• Cape Town / South Africa : A prolonged period of drought is forcing the authorities to heavily ration water for the population. If the drought continues, there is a risk that the water supply will be suspended at the end of April 2018 and that it will be replaced by centralized collection points.
• Tehran / Iran : In Iran there are increasing demonstrations across the country against excessively high prices and against government policy .

Sunday December 31, 2017

• The Hague / Netherlands : The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia ceases its work after 24 years . Out of a total of 161 accused, 90 were convicted.
• Gundremmingen / Germany : In the course of the energy transition, Block B of the Gundremmingen nuclear power plant (KGG) with an output of 1344 megawatts was shut down after 33 years of operation in accordance with the Atomic Energy Act (Section 7) of 2011 . Block C will follow by the end of 2021 at the latest. The shareholders of the KGG are RWE Power and PreussenElektra (formerly E.ON Kernkraft).

See also

The New Year starts a little earlier in Australia - Fireworks in Wagga Wagga ( UTC + 10 )

• Nekrolog December 2017 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

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Commons : December 2017  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

 Wikinews: Articles Published December 2017  - News

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kaori Enjoji, Ben Westcott: Akihito to become first Japanese Emperor to abdicate in 200 years. In: CNN . December 1, 2017, accessed December 30, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Pedestrian bridge crashes into the Vltava in Prague - injured. In: Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine . December 2, 2017, accessed December 30, 2017 . 
3. ^ Four dead and many injured in the fire in downtown Saarbrücken. In: Volksfreund.de. Retrieved December 3, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Markus Söder has reached his goal: He will be Bavaria's next Prime Minister. In: zeit.de , accessed on December 5, 2017.
5. ↑ Human Rights Prize 2017 of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. In: fes.de , December 5, 2017, accessed December 5, 2017
6. ↑ EU blacklisted 17 states. In: Zeit.de , accessed on December 6, 2017.
7. ↑ Russia excluded from the Olympics as a nation. In: sueddeutsche.de , accessed on December 5, 2017.
8. ↑ Dozens of people injured in a train accident in Meerbusch. In: Der Spiegel , accessed December 7, 2017.
9. ^ The constitutional court allows marriage for everyone in Austria. In: Zeit.de , accessed on December 5, 2017.
10. ^ The constitutional court in Austria allows "marriage for everyone". In: Sueddeutsche.de , accessed on December 5, 2017.
11. ↑ USA recognizes Jerusalem as the undivided capital of Israel. In: Welt.de , accessed on December 6, 2017.
12. ↑ Russia announces victory over IS in Syria. In: FAZ.net , accessed on December 14, 2017.
13. ↑ Monika Sieradzka: Change of Prime Minister in Poland: Szydlo leaves, Morawiecki comes. In: Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk . December 8, 2017, accessed December 30, 2017 . 
14. ↑ Iraq proclaims the end of IS. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, accessed on December 14, 2017.
15. ↑ "The Square" is the best European film. In: Zeit Online . December 10, 2017, accessed December 30, 2017 . 
16. ↑ Ivo Marusczyk: WTO summit in Buenos Aires - NGO exclusion overshadowed upbeat. In: Deutschlandfunk . December 11, 2017, accessed December 30, 2017 . 
17. ↑ Saudi Arabia to allow cinemas to reopen from early 2018. In: BBC . December 11, 2017, accessed December 30, 2017 . 
18. ↑ Explosion in a gas station in Austria - several injured, one fatality. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . Retrieved December 12, 2017 . 
19. ↑ Landtag elects Kretschmer as the new Prime Minister. In: Freiepresse.de . December 13, 2017. Retrieved December 13, 2017 . 
20. ↑ Sueddeutsche.de: Islamic states recognize East Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine , accessed on December 14, 2017.
21. ↑ Spiegel.de: Walt Disney buys parts from Fox Group ( Memento of the original from December 15, 2017 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.  
22. ↑ At Christmas, the US gives a few companies the Internet. In: Sueddeutsche.de , accessed on December 15, 2017.
23. ↑ Beate Uhse files for insolvency. In: Zeit Online . December 15, 2017, accessed December 30, 2017 . 
24. ↑ ^{a b c d} Aon Benfield: Global Catastrophe Recap December 2017 ( English ) January 23, 2018. Retrieved February 7, 2018.
25. ↑ Real Madrid repeat the triumph. In: fifa.com . December 15, 2017. Retrieved December 16, 2017 . 
26. ↑ European Theater Prize: Theater should save the whole world . In: derStandard.at , December 17, 2017, accessed on December 17, 2017.
27. ↑ Sebastián Piñera wins presidential election in Chile. In: time online . December 18, 2017, accessed December 30, 2017 . 
28. ↑ ANC elects Ramaphosa as its new boss. In: Spiegel online. December 18, 2017. Retrieved December 18, 2017 . 
29. ↑ US train crashes on highway - dead and injured. In: Spiegel Online. December 18, 2017. Retrieved December 18, 2017 . 
30. ↑ List of ministers is fixed: black and blue before the inauguration . Article dated December 14, 2017, accessed March 9, 2020.
31. ^ Katie Paul, Rania El Gamal: Saudi Arabia intercepts Houthi missile fired toward Riyadh; no reported casualties. In: Reuters . December 19, 2017, accessed December 30, 2017 . 
32. ^ Nicholas Jones: Medicinal cannabis legislation introduced to 'ease suffering'. In: The New Zealand Herald . December 20, 2017, accessed December 30, 2017 . 
33. ↑ Separatists succeed in electoral hammer in Catalonia - but the result is actually different. In: Focus online . December 22, 2017, accessed December 30, 2017 . 
34. ^ Dan Merica: Trump signs tax bill before leaving for Mar-a-Lago. In: CNN . December 22, 2017, accessed December 30, 2017 . 
35. ↑ Federal government wants to deport underage migrants. In: Deutsche Welle . December 23, 2017, accessed December 31, 2017 . 
36. ^ Macron: France ready to strengthen force in Sahel fighting Islamists. In: Reuters . December 23, 2017, accessed December 30, 2017 . 
37. ↑ By car to SPD headquarters - arrest warrant issued against driver. In: Spiegel online . December 27, 2017. Retrieved December 27, 2017 . 
38. ↑ Guatemala wants to move the embassy to Jerusalem. In: zeit.de . December 24, 2017. Retrieved December 26, 2017 . 
39. ↑ 230 dead from tropical storm Tembin. In: tagesschau.de . December 24, 2017. Retrieved December 24, 2017 . 
40. ↑ 150 people included - another rock threatens to break off. In: n-tv.de . December 26, 2017. Retrieved December 26, 2017 . 
41. ^ Russian presidential election: Alexei Navalny barred from competing. In: BBC . December 25, 2017, accessed December 30, 2017 . 
42. ^ Clair MacDougall, Helene Cooper: George Weah Wins Liberia Election. In: The New York Times . December 28, 2017, accessed December 30, 2017 . 
43. ^ Ukraine crisis: Exchange of hundreds of prisoners takes place. In: BBC . December 27, 2017, accessed December 30, 2017 . 
44. ^ Eastern Libyan forces say they fully control Benghazi. In: Reuters . December 28, 2017, accessed December 30, 2017 . 
45. ↑ Ehsan Popalzai, Euan McKirdy, Angela Dewan: ISIS suicide bombing in Kabul kills dozens. In: CNN . December 28, 2017, accessed December 30, 2017 . 
46. ^ Attack on the Coptic Church , Zeit.de , December 29, 2017
47. ↑ FOCUS Online: At Munich Airport: LKA arrests suspected war criminals from Bosnia . In: FOCUS Online . December 29, 2017 ( focus.de [accessed December 30, 2017]).
48. ↑ Cape Town is drying up. In: Tagesschau . December 30, 2017, accessed December 31, 2017 . 
49. ↑ Protests in Iran, Even the Revolutionary Guard becomes a target In: faz.net , December 31, 2017.
50. ↑ Serge Brammertz: End of the UN war crimes tribunal on Yugoslavia - "We have to listen to the victims". In: Spiegel online . December 31, 2017, accessed December 31, 2017 . 
51. ↑ kkw-gundremmingen.de: Block B: Reliable power generation ended after 33 years. In: kkw-gundremmingen.de. December 31, 2017, accessed December 31, 2017 .