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This article covers breaking news and events in December 2018.

Daily events

Saturday 1st December 2018

Participants of the G-20 summit in Argentina 2018 without the German Chancellor Angela Merkel , who arrived later because of a flight cancellation

Inauguration of the Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador

• Berlin / Germany : The Federal Government announces that 57,112 migrants who are obliged to leave Germany live without a permit, while a further 177,874 migrants are tolerated even though they are required to leave the country. The publication of the figures follows a request from politician Ulla Jelpke from the Left Party to the federal government.
• Buenos Aires / Argentina : The G20 summit with the final document "Building consensus for fair and sustainable development", which deals with the three priorities of the future of work, infrastructure for development and food control, is coming to an end. The talks focused on new protectionist strategies in trade policy that led to the conflict between the United States and the People's Republic of China , as well as climate policy .
• Bucharest / Romania : Celebrations with several military parades for the 100th anniversary of the founding of the state on December 1, 1918 in Alba Iulia (Weißenburg). With the collapse of Austria-Hungary after the First World War and the annexation of the formerly Hungarian province of Transylvania and territorial gains, the Romanian area was enlarged by about a third. Numerous people demonstrated during the anniversary in the capital against the incumbent social democratic government under Prime Minister Viorica Dăncilă ( PSD ) and demanded its resignation because of corruption allegations.
• Guadalajara / Mexico : Unknown perpetrators carry out a bomb attack on the consulate of the United States and damage a building wall. But nobody is injured. The Jalisco Nueva Generación cartel threatened to attack the consulate online.
• Mexico City / Mexico : Andrés Manuel López Obrador , a political scientist from the Movimiento Regeneración Nacional , elected in June, is introduced to his post as the new president . It promises a "peaceful revolution" in the country's economic policy.
• Paris / France : 130 people are injured in several protests by the yellow vests movement , including 23 police officers and at least 380 arrests. Masked protesters also stormed to the Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile (Triumphal Arch) on the Champs-Élysées .
• Vancouver / Canada : The CFO Meng Wanzhou of the Chinese telecommunications group Huawei is arrested at the request of the US law enforcement authorities.

Sunday 2nd December 2018

• Dublin / Ireland : UEFA draws the qualifying groups for the European Football Championship 2020 . The Switzerland of the strongest Lostopf meet u. a. on Denmark . From the second strongest lottery pot, Germany and Austria are drawn to the "group heads" Netherlands and Poland respectively . Liechtenstein's top opponent is Italy .
• London / United Kingdom : Prime Minister Theresa May announces that Great Britain is withdrawing from the military part of the Galileo PRS (Public Regulated Service) satellite communication system , as British companies are no longer involved as a result of the exit from the European Union (EU), according to the European Commission become. There are plans to work with Australia, New Zealand and possibly Canada for an alternative navigation system.
• Seville / Spain : After the parliamentary elections in Andalusia , the ruling Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) only got 33 of the 109 seats in parliament. Since 1982 the PSOE has formed all the governments of the autonomous community of Andalusia .

Monday 3rd December 2018

Demonstrations in the run-up to the UN Climate Change Conference in Katowice on December 1, 2018 in Berlin (and Cologne): "Stop coal!" - "Climate protection now!"

• Baikonur / Kazakhstan : The Russian spacecraft Soyuz MS with the Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko ( Roskosmos ), the US astronaut Anne McClain ( NASA ) and the Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques ( CSA ) successfully starts to the International Space Station (ISS) for replacement the ISS expedition 57 .
• Berlin / Germany : At the presentation of the German Reporter Award , the American journalist Ronan Farrow was awarded a special award for investigation for his research in connection with the allegations against Harvey Weinstein for sexual assault .
• Chemnitz / Germany : The Center for Political Beauty under the direction of Philipp Ruch opens a “Research Office East” and calls for participants in unauthorized demonstrations in Chemnitz in the aftermath of a homicide in August to be “ denounced ”, according to the center literally To inform employers about the participation of workers in the demonstrations.
• Katowice / Poland : The 24th UN Climate Change Conference (until December 14th) (COP 24 / CMP 14 / CMA 1-3) officially begins. The focus is on agreements that should enable the two-degree target to be achieved.
• Paris / France : The Croatian Luka Modrić and the Norwegian Ada Hegerberg are awarded the Ballon d'Or by France Football magazine as the world's best footballers of 2018.

Tuesday 4th December 2018

• Bonn / Germany : The non-profit environmental organization and think tank Germanwatch publishes its annual Global Climate Risk Index and reports for 2017 on a particularly large number of severe weather extremes with high damage. According to the authors David Eckstein, Marie-Lena Hutfils and Maik Winges, more than 11,500 people died from extreme weather events and the property damage amounted to the equivalent of 375 billion US dollars.
• London / United Kingdom : Former leader of the UK Independence Party , Nigel Farage , announces that he is leaving the party.

Yellow vest with the inscription: "Stop the blackmail"

• Nuremberg / Germany : The two-day 12th Digital Summit on this year's key topic Artificial Intelligence (AI) is coming to an end. The subject of data protection is also discussed . Chancellor Angela Merkel ( CDU ) sees this as a danger to the individuality of users if online service providers process personal data in an uncontrolled manner.
• Paris / France : The government suspends the increase in taxes on diesel fuel and motor gasoline . The announcement of the tax increase led to the formation of the yellow vests movement in November , which has resulted in serious riots in recent days .

Wednesday 5th December 2018

• Bern / Switzerland : The United Federal Assembly elects the SVP politician Ueli Maurer as Federal President for 2019. Maurer already held the office of Federal President in 2013. In the replacement elections to the Federal Council , the FDP politician Karin Keller-Sutter and the CVP politician Viola Amherd are elected as new Federal Councilors.
• Geneva / Switzerland : The International Labor Organization (ILO) publishes a report on the increasing number of migrant workers in the world. Of the 277 million migrants worldwide, around 164 million people work in foreign countries. Around 52.5 million (32%) of migrant workers are in Europe.
• Luxembourg / Luxembourg : Re-election of Prime Minister Xavier Bettel ( DP ) and swearing-in of the new government.

Thursday 6th December 2018

• Berlin / Germany : The renovation of the Berlin Ostkreuz train station has been completed after twelve years. The costs for the construction work on the station with the highest number of train stops in Germany per day amount to around 500 million euros .
• Kiev / Ukraine : The friendship treaty between Russia and Ukraine, which has existed since 1999, with the obligation according to Article 2 to preserve territorial integrity and the existing borders, expires on April 1, 2019 and is implemented by Ukraine due to the Crimean crisis and the war in Ukraine not renewed since 2014 . The majority of parliament approves a government bill.
• Novo-Ogarjowo / Russia : Russian President Vladimir Putin pledges Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to financial aid of around six billion US dollars during his state visit to Venezuela , five billion US dollars of which for the oil industry ( Petróleos de Venezuela ) and one Billion for the gold mining of the economically hard hit country. Maduro insists that national gold exports continue despite U.S. sanctions.
• Okinawa / Japan : During a tank maneuver by the United States Marine Corps, an F / A-18D type multi- role fighter with two crew members collides over the sea with a KC-130J tanker with five crew members. Two soldiers have been saved so far. In addition to the US armed forces, Japan is participating in the rescue operation with nine aircraft and three ships at the scene of the accident.
• Paris / France : Nationwide demonstrations by students against tougher selection criteria for university access and feared cuts lead to serious riots and around 700 arrests, including particularly in Bordeaux , Marseille and Paris. At least 280 educational institutions were closed. For the planned demonstrations of the "yellow vests" movement on December 8, 2018, the government ordered the mobilization of a further 89,000 security officers.
• Rimbo / Sweden : Under the mediation of the UN Special Representative of the Secretary General for Yemen (OSESGY), Martin Griffiths, begin peace talks with representatives of the internationally recognized government of Yemen and the Huthi -Rebellen. An agreement is reached on an exchange of prisoners.

Friday 7th December 2018

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

• Ankara / Turkey : At the instigation of the public prosecutor in Ankara, the police arrested 87 former members of the Turkish air force across the country who are accused of having links to the Gülen movement . The Izmir Prosecutor's Office ordered 53 people to be detained. The public prosecutor in Istanbul is looking for 41 other suspects of the paramilitary Jandarma (gendarmerie). According to official figures from mid-November 2018, around 218,000 people have been arrested since 2016, of which 16,684 have so far been convicted. 14,750 people are still on remand. More than 140,000 people were fired from civil service.
• Bonn / Germany : On International Pyro Action Day, the Cologne Public Prosecutor's Office, in cooperation with the Customs Criminal Police Office and eight customs investigation offices, searched 53 apartments and storage sites of illegal fireworks across Germany on suspicion of a violation of the Explosives Act. During the action, 27,264 fireworks with an explosive mass of 315 kilograms were confiscated in Germany. Seven apartment buildings in Bad Berleburg were evacuated and the material found was destroyed on site in several explosions because it was not transportable. There were 57 provisional arrests across Europe.
• Hamburg / Germany : Beginning of the two-day 31st party congress of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) with the election of the federal executive board. The CDU party leader and Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel announced her resignation from the party chairmanship on October 29, 2018. The candidates for the successor include Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer , Friedrich Merz and Jens Spahn . 999 of the 1001 delegates give Kramp-Karrenbauer 450 votes, Merz 392 and Spahn 157 votes in the first ballot. In the runoff election, in which a simple majority is sufficient, Kramp-Karrenbauer prevails with 517 votes against Merz with 482 votes and is the new CDU federal chairman.
• Hamburg / Germany : BR-Spielwaren, which has been in existence since 1950 and has 180 employees and 21 branches in Northern Germany, files for bankruptcy with the Hamburg District Court after the parent company TOP-TOY A / S initiated legal restructuring proceedings in Denmark on November 30, 2018 and withdrew from Northern Germany has announced.
• Milagres / Brazil : Heavily armed gang members attacked a branch of Banco do Brasil and a branch of Banco Bradesco . There is an exchange of fire with the security forces. 12 people are killed, including six hostages.
• Munich / Germany : Under the coordination of Europol , around 300 searches were carried out in 13 countries as part of Operation Green Heart from December 3 to 6, 2018. The starting point of the pan-European raids on counterfeit money trading was the excavation of a counterfeit money printer belonging to a 32-year-old Austrian in Leoben by the Federal Criminal Police Office (.BK) and the State Criminal Police Office in Vienna, which is said to have sold euro banknotes via illegal darknet marketplaces and brought them into payment transactions. In Germany, the Bavarian State Criminal Police Office (BLKA) coordinated 178 searches of 160 suspects in all 16 federal states. Investigations were initiated against 220 suspects.
• Vienna / Austria : Closing of the annual meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) with the announcement of the production quotas, which will be throttled by 800,000 barrels per day, of which 500,000 barrels by Saudi Arabia . Russia , which does not belong to OPEC , is also participating in a throttling of around 130,000 barrels per day in order to achieve higher prices. On December 3, 2018, the Qatari energy minister and chairman of the state-run Qatar Petroleum , Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi, announced that Qatar would leave the oil cartel on January 1, 2019 . Qatar has been a member of OPEC since 1961.

Saturday 8 December 2018

• Corinaldo / Italy : Six people die in a mass panic in the Lanterna Azzurra club during a concert by the rapper Sfera Ebbasta . Five young people between the ages of 14 and 16 are among the dead. 120 other people were injured, including 10 seriously. The mass panic was triggered when a visitor sprayed irritant gas. According to the public prosecutor's office, around 1,400 tickets were also sold for the concert, although only 870 visitors were allowed.
• Hanover / Germany : At the end of 2018, the German brewery Krombacher and the automotive group Daimler AG discontinued their collaboration with Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH). Both companies emphasized that these decisions were not related to the controversial issue of driving bans for diesel vehicles, which was controversial at the time. The CDU adopted, at its party congress on December 8, 2018 Hamburg, to have check-profit DUH. Such a check is carried out annually by the responsible tax office, regardless of this decision. The CDU would also like to ensure that the association no longer receives any funds from the federal budget .
• Xichang Cosmodrome / China : A Long March 3B launcher will launch into space on December 8th according to local time and on December 7th according to coordinated universal time as part of the lunar program of the People's Republic of China under the direction of the CNSA . The Chang'e-4 lunar probe with a robot vehicle on board is scheduled to land on the back of the moon on New Year's Day.
• Lisbon / Portugal : As their top candidate in the 2019 European elections , the delegates of the Congress of the Party of European Socialists (PES) elect the only candidate, the former Dutch Foreign Minister and current EU Commissioner for Better Lawmaking, Interinstitutional Relations, the Rule of Law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights, Frans Timmermans from the Dutch Labor Party .
• Oran / Algeria : The Pope's envoy, Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu takes the beatification in front of 19 martyrs who Islamist during the Algerian civil war between 1994 and 1996 victims of terror by the GIA were. Including seven French Trappists murdered in 1996 from the Notre-Dame de l'Atlas monastery in Tibhirine.
• Paris / France : In renewed protests by the yellow vests movement for social justice and against the reform policies of President Emmanuel Macron , at least 1,000 people across the country are provisionally arrested, including 600 in the capital. Protesters erected barricades on the Champs-Élysées and set fire to car tires. Many shops in the capital are closed and traffic is restricted. Over 89,000 police officers are deployed across the country, including armored vehicles from the National Gendarmerie .
• Paris / France : In the La Seine Musicale cultural center , the preliminary round groups of the 2019 Women's World Cup will be drawn. The German national soccer team for women will meet PR China , Spain and South Africa in June 2019 .

Sunday 9th December 2018

• Brussels / Belgium : The New Flemish Alliance (N-VA) party leaves the ruling coalition led by the reform movement (MR) after Prime Minister Charles Michel (MR) announced his intention to promote the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration of the To sign the United Nations in Marrakech , affirmed.
• Gallabat / Sudan : When a multipurpose helicopter of the type Mi-17 crashes near the border with Ethiopia , the governor of the state of al-Qadarif , Merghani Saleh, the agriculture minister Omer Mohamed Ibrahim, brigadier general Youssef al-Tayeb, the intelligence officer Major Mohieddin Al Rayah ( El-Rayah Mohy al-Din), the deputy police director Al-Nur Ahmed Osman, the head of the governor's office Magdi Hassan al-Nur and the director of the border administration Salah Al Khabir (Salah al-Khabeer) were killed.
• Yerevan / Armenia : New elections to the National Assembly after the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who has been in office since May 2018 . His party, the My Step Alliance , received 70.4% of the vote, while the Republican Party , which so far held the majority in parliament, failed to pass the five percent hurdle .
• Lima / Peru : A large majority of voters supported the constitutional referendum ( s ) on the initiative of President Martín Vizcarra ( PPK ). The required changes relate to a. the reintroduction of the Senate, the second parliamentary chamber until the next parliamentary elections in 2021, the ban on direct re-election in the same parliamentary chamber (the deputies will be able to move from one chamber to the other), the reorganization of the judges nomination body Consejo Nacional de la Magistratura (CNM) and the tightening of private campaign funding for political parties.
• Madrid / Spain : The final second leg of the Copa Libertadores between River Plate and Boca Juniors will take place in the Estadio Santiago Bernabéu , which River Plate wins 3: 1 afterwards.

Monday 10th December 2018

• London / United Kingdom : Prime Minister Theresa May is postponing the vote scheduled for December 11 in the House of Commons on the Brexit Deal agreed with the European Union to shape the time after the EU scheduled for March 30, 2019 -Location of the United Kingdom in the face of the threat of an indefinite vote defeat .
• Marrakech / Morocco : At the start of the two-day summit meeting of the United Nations on the global pact for safe, orderly and regular migration (UN migration pact ), this is adopted by 164 countries. Some governments have refused to sign or postponed a decision because of reservations, including those of Australia , the United States , the People's Republic of China , Israel , Japan , South Korea , Switzerland , the Dominican Republic and EU member states Bulgaria , Estonia , Italy , Latvia , Austria , Poland , Slovakia , Czech Republic , Hungary .
• Ubari / Libya : The state oil company National Oil Corporation (NOC) announces the cessation of production in the El Sharara oil field west of Ubari due to a "case of force majeure" that is operated by the joint venture Akakus Oil Operations . In addition to the Libyan NOC, Repsol (Spain), Total (France), OMV (Austria) and Equinor (Norway) are involved in the company. This concerns a production quota of 315,000 barrels per day. The reason is a local, partly armed protest movement (Anger of Fezzan) demanding better conditions, including the reconstruction of cities affected by the civil war. The oil company criticized the behavior of the local militia, the Petroleum Facilities Guard (PFG).
• Washington, DC / United States : The US space agency NASA announces that the Voyager 2 space probe, launched in 1977, passed the heliopause about 17.85 billion kilometers away on November 5th and thus reached interstellar space .

Tuesday December 11, 2018

• Campinas / Brazil : In a rampage in the Catedral Metropolitana de Campinas , the 49-year-old perpetrator Euler Fernando Grandolpho kills at least four people with two revolvers during a mass and then kills himself in front of the altar.
• Maiquetía / Venezuela : The Russian air and space forces are relocating two strategic Tu-160 bombers , a heavy military transporter An-124 and an IL-62 long-haul aircraft with around 100 soldiers to the Venezuelan air force base Maiquetia near the capital Caracas. According to media reports, a military exercise is planned.
• Strasbourg / France : At the Christkindelsmärik (Christmas market) on Kléberplatz there is an attack in which the 29-year-old perpetrator Chérif Chekatt kills at least five people and injures another 10. The perpetrator, classified as a threat , was shot by a soldier as part of the Opération Sentinelle and fled to the Neudorf district . The security authorities do not rule out a terrorist motive. The European Parliament has been cordoned off. On December 13, 2018, the perpetrator was shot dead by a special police unit.
• St. Pölten / Austria : The system catering and hotel chain Rosenberger-Restaurant , based in Loosdorf , applies to the regional court to initiate restructuring proceedings . 17 Austrian locations with at least 600 employees of the subsidiary Rosenberger Restaurant GmbH are affected. The liabilities are estimated at around 12 million euros. The shareholders of the Rosenberger Holding are the Chinese Jiang Haiping, Liu Xudon and Liu Wen-Yi.

Wednesday December 12, 2018

• London / United Kingdom : Prime Minister Theresa May survives a vote of no confidence by MPs from her own party in the lower house of Parliament. The vote came because a minority in the parliamentary group rejected the agreement negotiated between May and the European Union (EU) to shape the transition period after the United Kingdom left the EU .
• Strasbourg / France : The European Parliament ratifies the EU-Japan Free Trade Agreement (JEFTA), the approval of the Council of the European Union is still pending . The parliament also awards the Sakharov Prize to the Ukrainian film director Oleh Sentsow, who is imprisoned by the Russian intelligence service FSB .

Thursday December 13, 2018

• Ankara / Turkey : An express train and a locomotive collide near the Marşandiz suburban train station on the Ankara – Konya high-speed line operated by the state railway company TCDD . At least nine people are killed and another 47 are injured.
• Cardiff / United Kingdom : Mark Drakeford is sworn in as the new Prime Minister and thus Head of Government of Wales .
• London / United Kingdom : The 26th PDC World Darts Championship begins in Alexandra Palace .
• Taishan / People's Republic of China : The first EPR reactor in the Taishan nuclear power plant near Yaogu in the Guangdong province begins commercial operation. The nuclear power plant is operated by a joint venture between the China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN) and the French Électricité de France (EDF).

Friday 14th December 2018

• Berlin / Germany : The Expert Council of German Foundations for Integration and Migration , which u. a. is financed by Vodafone GmbH , Volkswagen AG and the Zeit-Stiftung , calls on the federal government to facilitate the immigration of unskilled persons from non- member states of the European Union . Only an immigration of 400,000 people annually could secure the potential of the labor force . The newspaper Die Welt points out that fewer jobs are already being offered for unskilled workers than there are for these applicants.
• Pristina / Kosovo : At the instigation of the government of Ramush Haradinaj ( AAK ), the Kosovar parliament unanimously decided, contrary to UN Resolution 1244 , to add the previously lightly armed security forces of Kosovo (FSK) to the country's new army forces , the Ushtria e Kosovës, with a strength of 5000 soldiers. In a military parade, 24 American military all-terrain vehicles of the type HUMVEE , which had previously been delivered, also took part. The Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabić threatened military intervention on December 7, 2018: "I hope that we never have to use our army, but at the moment that is one of the possible options," said Brnabić. The country's international legal status is controversial. Around 4,030 soldiers from the NATO military mission KFOR , 4,700 police officers from the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) and around 800 forces from EULEX Kosovo are deployed in Kosovo . UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres criticized the decision of the parliament in Kosovo.
• Wiesbaden / Germany : The Society for German Language (GfdS) selects Heißzeit as Word of the Year 2018 by a jury . At No. 2 and 3 follow Funkloch Republic and anchor centers .

Saturday 15th December 2018

Epiphanius , head of the new Orthodox Church of Ukraine

• Diriyya / Saudi Arabia : First race of the fifth FIA Formula E championship .
• Kiev / Ukraine : After the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople confirmed the separation of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church from the Moscow Patriarchate within the Russian Orthodox Church of Russia in a holy synod chaired by Patriarch Bartholomeos I on October 11, 2018, Ukraine In the presence of President Petro Poroshenko, a new independent Ukrainian Orthodox regional church from Russia was officially founded by a council. Metropolitan Epiphanius is elected as its first head . Its seat is the St. Michael's Monastery in Kiev. It is expected that the Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomeos I, will hand over the bull (Tomos) to the church at the beginning of Orthodox Christmas on January 6, 2019, conferring church independence (autocephaly). The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate largely boycotted the synod. She called the meeting "illegal" and banned her clergy from attending.
• Saqqara / Egypt : Ancient Minister Chaled al-Enani officially announces the discovery of a 4400 year old tomb of the high priest Wahtye under Pharaoh Neferirkare from the ancient Egyptian 5th dynasty in the Old Kingdom in the Saqqara pyramid complex.
• Sevilla / Spain : At the award ceremony of the European Film Awards in 2018 , the Spanish actress receives Carmen Maura the price for lifetime achievement . As best European film is The latitude of love - Cold War by Paweł Pawlikowski excellent.

Sunday December 16, 2018

• Baden-Baden / Germany : In the Kurhaus are Athletes of the Year 2018 award. This year's winners are the tennis player Angelique Kerber , the triathlete Patrick Lange and the national ice hockey team .
• Berlin / Germany : In the Grips Theater are Leyla IMRET and Ottmar Miles-Paul with the Carl-von-Ossietzky-Medal of the International League for Human Rights Award.
• Bhubaneswar / India : Final game of the men's field hockey world championship in the Kalinga Stadium.
• Incheon / South Korea : The ITTF World Tour in table tennis comes to an end with the Grand Finals . The winners in the individual are the Japanese Tomokazu Harimoto in the men and the Chinese Chen Meng in the women.
• Jamaame / Somalia : According to the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) with headquarters in Stuttgart (Germany), at least 62 fighters from the Islamist Al-Shabaab militia were killed in air strikes by the US armed forces . At least 34 fighters were killed in four bombings near the town of Gandarshe north of Jamaame on December 15, and at least 28 others were killed in two attacks on December 16.
• Paris / France : In the final of the women's handball championship in the AccorHotels Arena in the Bercy district , France beat Russia 24:21 .

Monday 17th December 2018

• Berlin / Germany : The German Federal Ministry of Finance and the Jewish Claims Conference (JCC), based in New York, agree on symbolic compensation for survivors of the Kindertransport in the form of a one-off payment of 2500 euros. Around 10,000 Jewish children were brought from the German Reich and the annexed or occupied territories to safe states during National Socialism after the Reichspogromnacht on November 9, 1938 , most of them initially to Great Britain. According to the JCC, the children's transport fund will start on January 1, 2019.
• Berlin / Germany : The party executive of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) initiates a third party regulation procedure against Thilo Sarrazin . According to the SPD General Secretary Lars Klingbeil , the basis is a report by a commission of inquiry into Sarrazin's previous statements and publications. The commission came to the conclusion "that Sarrazin propagates theses which are incompatible with the principles of the SPD and cause serious damage to the party". Sarrazin had previously stated that he felt “still in good hands” in the SPD.
• Berlin / Germany : The federal executive committee of Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) decides to initiate party exclusion proceedings against Doris von Sayn-Wittgenstein , chairwoman of the AfD Schleswig-Holstein , who has been in office since July 2017, and to exclude her from exercising her party offices until the competent arbitration tribunal has decided. The background for the exclusion are activities for the right-wing extremist association Gedächtnisstätte eV in Guthmannshausen , Thuringia , for which Sayn-Wittgenstein is said to have solicited support in an advertising letter on December 18, 2014.
• Brussels / Belgium : The European Commission imposed a fine of around 77.07 million euros on the state-owned energy supply company Bulgarian Energy Holding (BEH Group), as well as its gas supply subsidiary Bulgargaz and the gas infrastructure subsidiary Bulgartransgaz, because between 2010 and 2015 they fined their competitors in violation of the EU antitrust rules have denied access to essential gas infrastructure in Bulgaria . The Commission has also fined US fashion company Guess € 30.9 million for violating EU competition rules by geoblocking online advertising to prevent online sales to consumers.
• Cambridge / United States : The Minor Planet Center assigns a provisional name for the trans-Neptunian object 2018 VG ₁₈ , the object furthest from the sun at this point that was ever observed.
• New York City / United States : At the General Assembly of the United Nations , 181 of 193 member states officially adopt the legally non-binding Global Compact for Refugees (GCR), also known as the UN Refugee Compact .
• Paris / France : Economy and Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire surprisingly announces the introduction of a digital tax from January 1, 2019, in which, in addition to sales tax, advertising income and the sale of personal data will be taxed and should generate additional income of around 500 million euros per Year lead. At the same time, the French government under President Emmanuel Macron continues to rely on a digital tax within the European Union (EU). The digital tax primarily affects the US Internet companies such as Google , Apple , Facebook and Amazon (also commonly referred to as GAFA ). For example, Facebook has around 39 million subscribers in France and generates sales of 850 to 950 million euros, but currently only pays taxes of 1.9 million euros and employs only 108 people in the French subsidiary. So far, Google has paid 14 million euros in France and employs around 639 people.
• Piraeus / Greece : A night bomb attack on the building of the private television station Skaï TV and the morning newspaper Kathimerini in the Neo Faliro district caused serious damage to property. Previously, an anonymous caller warned ANT1 about the attack. The TV channel and the newspaper are part of the Skaï Group, which is owned by the Greek shipowner Giannis Alafouzos . The police are on site with anti-terrorist units and are investigating Greek left-wing extremists.
• Zurich / Switzerland : As part of the group's transformation, the energy and automation technology group ABB is selling 80.1 percent of its power division (power grids) valued at around 7.8 billion US dollars to the Japanese electrical engineering and mechanical engineering group Hitachi . ABB will initially retain 19.9 percent of the power grid division, but has an option to sell this stake after three years. This affects around 36,000 employees. ABB Semiconducters, with its production facility in Lenzburg , also goes to Hitachi .

Tuesday December 18, 2018

• Geneva / Switzerland : The UN special envoy for Syria , Staffan de Mistura , and the foreign ministers of Russia, Iran and Turkey announce the establishment of a 150-member committee that will draw up a new constitution for the country, which has been hard hit by civil war since 2011 should. It is scheduled to start work in Geneva in early 2019.

The partially collapsed Polcevera Viaduct in Genoa

• Genoa / Italy : The architect Renzo Piano is commissioned to coordinate the reconstruction of the Polcevera Viaduct, which collapsed in August 2018 . The new bridge should be completed by the end of 2019.
• Al-Hudaida / Yemen : In the port city on the Red Sea , after mediation by the United Nations , a ceasefire between the Houthi rebels , who captured them in the course of the Yemeni civil war in 2014, and the government troops supported by several other states, comes into force .
• Bering Sea / Russia : A meteor several meters in size explodes 26 km above the Bering Sea near the Kamchatka Peninsula .

Wednesday 19th December 2018

• Antananarivo / Madagascar : Second round of the presidential elections
• Hamburg / Germany : The news magazine Der Spiegel announces that the multiple award-winning German journalist Claas Relotius "manipulated his own stories on a large scale". The forgeries were uncovered because the Spiegel reporter Juan Moreno , who worked together with Relotius on the report "Jaegers Grenz" about a US vigilante on the border between Mexico and the USA, noticed inconsistencies in the text and checked information in November 2018 and reported his suspicions to the head of the department. Relotius has since returned all of its prizes. Der Spiegel researched all previously published texts for their truthfulness and was able to determine further cases of fraud and discrepancies, including reports from the Syrian civil war or during an interview with Traute Lafrenz on September 28, 2018.
• London / United Kingdom : At 9 p.m. GMT, flight operations at Gatwick Airport were temporarily suspended. One or more drones were spotted repeatedly over the airport premises. The drones are apparently used specifically to hinder flight operations. On the following day, flight operations were briefly possible in the morning at 3 a.m. for around 45 minutes. After that, air traffic was stopped again because at least one drone was spotted again. The National Police Air Service and the British armed forces were called in to support the search for the operators of the apparently professional drones . Two suspects were arrested on December 21, 2018.
• Washington, DC / United States : The US government announces the withdrawal of US forces from Syria . Most recently, around 2000 US soldiers were deployed against the Islamic State (IS) and in support of the Syrian Democratic Forces .

Thursday 20th December 2018

• Doha / Qatar : The German Joshua Filler wins the world championship in 9-ball billiards . In the final he defeated Carlo Biado from the Philippines.
• Jezkazgan / Kazakhstan : The German ESA - astronaut Alexander Gerst returns together with his astronaut colleagues Sergei Valeryevich Prokopjew ( Roskosmos ) and Serena Auñón-Chancellor ( NASA ) of the International Space Station back. The Soyuz MS-09 lands on schedule at 06:02 CET in the Kazakh steppe .
• Washington, DC / United States : The US Secretary of Defense James Mattis has announced his resignation for the end of February 2019. The US president can now appoint a defense secretary whose views are more on his line, Mattis said. US President Donald Trump announced on December 23, 2018 that the previous Deputy Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan would take office on January 1, 2019.

Friday December 21, 2018

• Berlin / Germany : The German company Delivery Hero is selling its food delivery services Foodora , Lieferheld and pizza.de in Germany for around 930 million euros to the Dutch competitor Takeaway.com , which already operates the Lieferando.de portal. As part of the sale, Delivery Hero will acquire around 18 percent of Takeaway.com.

Prosper-Haniel mine

• Bottrop / Germany : The last active coal - mine in Germany, the Prosper-Haniel is closed. The last coal was mined on September 14, 2018 in regular operation.
• Erlenbach / Germany : The medium-sized and owner-managed energy company Deutsche Energie GmbH (DEG) (formerly named envitra Energie from 2011 to the end of 2014) based in Erlenbach near Heilbronn has to file for bankruptcy after the transmission network operator Tennet TSO terminated the balancing group contract . Most recently, the network operator 50Hertz Transmission followed suit . Since then, all around 50,000 affected customers have received the statutory replacement energy supply (electricity, natural gas) from the respective basic supplier .
• Hanover / Germany : According to data from the German Foundation for World Population (DSW), 7,674,575,000 people will be living on earth at the beginning of the new year. The population is growing particularly rapidly in Africa . According to current United Nations forecasts, it will almost double there from around 1.3 billion people today to around 2.5 billion in 2050.
• Stonava / Czech Republic : 13 miners, including 11 Polish nationals, are killed in a firedamp explosion in the Důl ČSM coal mine of the state operator OKD (Ostravsko-karvinské doly) .
• Kiel / Germany : The Schleswig-Holstein state government grants the demolition permit for the Brunsbüttel nuclear power plant . Complete dismantling is expected to take around 15 years.

Saturday 22nd December 2018

• Abu Dhabi / United Arab Emirates : In the final of the FIFA Club World Cup in the Zayed Sports City Stadium , the Spanish club Real Madrid wins 4-1 against the al Ain Club from the United Arab Emirates .

The most important settlement centers on Sundastraße

• Bandar Lampung , Banten / Indonesia : The Anak Krakatau volcano , located in the strait between Java and Sumatra , erupts and triggers a landslide , as a result of which massive amounts of water flood the coasts of the neighboring Indonesian islands . At least 429 people were killed and 1,485 injured in the tsunami on Java and Sumatra . 154 people are also still missing. Over 430 houses, nine hotel complexes, ten ships and dozens of cars are damaged.
• Berlin / Germany : The law that enables intersex people to be entered in the birth register with the option “ diverse ” as a third gender characteristic comes into force.
• Managua / Nicaragua : One of the last independent television stations in the country, 100% Noticias (Canal 15), has its broadcasting license withdrawn by the government under Daniel Ortega ( FSLN ) . The director and journalist Miguel Mora Barberena was arrested, as was the journalist Lucía Pineda. They are accused of terrorism and agitation.
• Mogadishu / Somalia : In two suicide attacks by the Islamist al-Shabaab militia , car bombs near the national theater and at an intersection near the presidential palace killed at least 13 people and injured another 17.
• Washington, DC / United States : The work of the government and numerous federal agencies is partially paralyzed by a budget freeze (Government Shutdown). The Democratic Party is opposed to a bill by the Republican Party in Congress on the budget item of more than five billion US dollars for the construction of a wall on the border with Mexico .
• Vienna / Austria : President Alexander Van der Bellen announced in a daily order as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces to ensure during the budget negotiations in 2019 that the government provides the necessary resources and that the "constitutional state of the Armed Forces is restored".

Sunday 23rd December 2018

• Berlin / Germany : In the special account of the Federal Ministry of Finance set up by the then CDU / CSU / SPD federal government at the Deutsche Bundesbank (Bundeskasse Halle) since 2006 for the repayment of national debts, citizens can make voluntary payments in the period from January 1 to December 6, 2018 received in the amount of 609,822.69 euros. This amount is higher than all voluntary transfers made between the account opening in 2006 and the end of 2017. Until May 2018, payments were broken down into 16 individual donations.
• Budapest / Hungary : Based on the test results of doping samples taken at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, the world association IMF is suspending weightlifters Oleksiy Torochtij (Ukraine), Ruslan Nurudinov (Uzbekistan), Valentin Xristov (Azerbaijan), Meline Dalusjan (Armenia) and Mikalai Nowikau (Belarus).
• Mogadishu / Somalia : The government forbids nationwide Christmas celebrations outside of private rooms. According to the government, celebrating the festival publicly endangers the Islamic state religion.
• Solikamsk / Russia : In a fire in the Uralkali potash mine in Solikamsk, nine miners are killed at a depth of around 340 meters. Eight miners were saved.

Monday December 24, 2018

• Kabul / Afghanistan : At least 44 people are killed and over 24 injured in a terrorist attack on two ministries and other government offices. A suicide bomber blew himself up in a car in front of the Ministry of Public Works, and then attackers stormed the Ministry of Social Affairs, killing scores and taking hostages. 357 people were rescued from the buildings after hours of firefight with the security forces.
• Puebla / Mexico : In the crash of an AgustaWestland AW109S Grand helicopter near the town of Santa María Coronango, the governor of the central state of Puebla , Martha Erika Alonso Hidalgo and her husband and former governor Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas are killed.

Tuesday December 25, 2018

• Damascus / Syria : According to the state news agency SANA, the air defense of the Syrian armed forces shot down several "enemy targets" west of the capital in the evening. There were several major detonations near Damascus and near the Mezzeh air force base. Media speculate about a renewed attack by the Israeli air force. Meanwhile, a military offensive by the Turkish armed forces together with the rebel movement Syrian National Army (formerly the Free Syrian Army founded in 2017) and the city ​​of Manbij , which has been evacuated by the US armed forces, is expected during the Syrian civil war . The city is currently controlled by the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces . The Syrian army is said to have relocated soldiers to Arima west of Manbij with the help of Russia .
• Dhaka / Bangladesh : At least 7,021 functionaries and supporters of the national-conservative opposition party Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) are in police custody ahead of the parliamentary elections on December 30, 2018. The opposition Islamist Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami , who was not allowed to vote , announced the arrest of more than 3,500 of its supporters.

The Bogibeel Bridge in the Indian state of Assam (2016)

• Dhemaji / India : Prime Minister Narendra Modi officially opens the country's longest road and rail bridge in the state of Assam . The 4.94 kilometer long Bogibeel Bridge , a road and rail bridge with construction costs of the equivalent of 740 million euros, connects the cities of Dibrugarh and Silapathar across the Brahmaputra River and is also of strategic importance for the state of Arunachal Pradesh on the border with the People's Republic of China . The two-story bridge also allows armored vehicles to be transported and fighter planes to land. The general contractor for the project, which began in 2002, is the Hindustan Construction Company (HCC).
• Khartoum / Sudan : During the protests against the government of President Omar al-Bashir, who is called to resign, the security forces prevent a march on the presidential palace. Since December 19, 2018, there have been numerous demonstrations because of the economic situation in the country. According to Amnesty International , 37 people have been shot dead in clashes between demonstrators and security forces.
• Longyan / China : An unknown 48-year-old perpetrator kidnaps a public bus and drives into a group of pedestrians, killing at least eight people and injuring 21 others.
• Tripoli / Libya : At least three people are killed in a terrorist attack on the official headquarters of the Libyan Foreign Ministry in Tripoli, including the diplomat Ibrahim al-Schaibi. Several attackers detonated a car bomb and first attacked the building before at least one person got into the building and blew himself up. An assassin was shot dead by security forces in front of the ministry before he could detonate his explosive device.

Wednesday December 26, 2018

• Chan al-Baghdadi / Iraq : US President Donald Trump makes a surprise visit to the US soldiers stationed as part of Operation Inherent Resolve at the Al Asad airbase near Chan al-Baghdadi. According to media reports, soldiers from the United States Navy SEALs (SEAL Team FIVE) are also stationed on the base, whose presence the US President apparently unconsciously made public. This was followed by a brief troop visit to Ramstein Air Base in Germany .

Test start of the Russian ICBM with the Avantgarde hypersonic march slider

• Jasny Cosmodrome / Russia : On the personal order of President Vladimir Putin , the Russian Defense Ministry tested the hypersonic gliding vehicle Awangard (Авангард) with the UR-100UTTKh ICBM ( NATO code name : SS-19 Stiletto). The modified rocket with 20 times the supersonic speed in the atmosphere successfully hit the target at the Kura missile test site . The hypersonic - intercontinental ballistic missile with nuclear warheads should equippable possibly from 2019 the Strategic Missile Forces are fed and existing according to Russian sources missile defense systems effectively overturn. In the future, the new RS-26 Rubesch ICBM could also serve as a carrier for the hypersonic marching glider. According to the Commander in Chief of the United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM), John E. Hyten, there is currently no defense option for such weapon systems.
• Damaturu / Nigeria : According to Colonel Onyema Nwachukwu, at least 13 soldiers and police officers from the Multi-national Joint Task Force (MNJTF) were killed in an attack by the Islamist Boko Haram on a military convoy near the town of Kukareta in the state of Yobe .
• Tianjin / China : The trial of the arrested human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang , who has disappeared for three years, begins . According to the accusation that has become known so far, Wang was accused of " subversion of state power" and contacts with the Swedish activist Peter Dahlin with the aim of "training enemy forces".
• Tokyo / Japan : The chief cabinet secretary Yoshihide Suga ( LDP ) in the government under Shinzō Abe announces Japan's withdrawal from the International Convention on the Regulation of Whaling (IWC) on June 30, 2019 and then resumes commercial whaling of minke whales , sei whales and Bryde's whales in its waters.

Thursday December 27, 2018

• Antananarivo / Madagascar : The electoral commission announces the result of the runoff of the presidential election on December 19th. Then the former President Andry Rajoelina won with 55.7 percent of the vote against the competitor and former President Marc Ravalomanana with 44.3 percent. Ravalomanana spoke of massive election fraud and the Constitutional Court now has nine days to confirm the final result. President Hery Rajaonarimampianina , who was in office from 2014 to September 2018, was eliminated in the first ballot with just under nine percent. According to the constitution, he had to give up his office on September 7, 2018.
• Jerusalem / Israel : The former Chief of Staff (Ramatkal) of the Israel Defense Forces , Benny Gantz , founds a new political party called Hosen Leyisrael (translated: Resilience for Israel) and will run for the general election on April 9, 2019. According to initial polls, the party could become the second strongest force after the conservative Likud .
• Leipzig / Germany : The Chaos Computer Club is celebrating the 35th club meeting under the name 35C3 from December 27th to December 30th, 2018 . It is the largest non-governmental organization (NGO) industry event on computer security issues in Europe.
• Osaka / Japan : The Japanese Justice Minister Takashi Yamashita announces the execution of two robbery murderers sentenced to death in the detention center in Osaka. The two executed men, 60-year-old Keizo Okamoto (a former yakuza member) and 67-year-old Hiroya Suemori (a former investment advisor) had been convicted of kidnapping two businessmen in January 1988 and asking for a 100 million ransom Yen extorted. They both strangled, poured the bodies in concrete and buried them in the mountains. The Supreme Court dismissed all appeals in September 2004 and upheld the death sentences.

Friday 28th December 2018

• Giza / Egypt : Three Vietnamese and the Egyptian bus driver are killed near the pyramids in a bomb attack on a tour bus carrying Vietnamese tourists . Another 10 tourists and the Egyptian tour guide are injured.

HMV's retro flagship store on Oxford Street , London

• London / United Kingdom : The traditional British music retail chain HMV files for bankruptcy. In 2013 the company in need of restructuring was taken over by Hilco Capital . HMV currently operates 125 branches and employs around 2200 people. In the Christmas business, the DVD business is said to have declined by 30 percent compared to the previous year.
• Tirana / Albania : Following ongoing student protests against corruption and for lower tuition fees, Prime Minister Edi Rama ( PS ) is reshuffling the cabinet. Seven out of 14 ministers will be replaced by new staff, including the Minister of Finance, Economy, Labor and Social Welfare, Arben Ahmetaj by Anila Denaj , and the Minister of Energy and Infrastructure Damian Gjiknuri by Belinda Balluku . The previous Foreign Minister Ditmir Bushati was replaced by Gent Cakaj and the previous Minister for Education, Sport and Youth, Lindita Nikolla, was replaced by Besa Shahini .

Saturday 29 December 2018

• Cairo / Egypt : The Egyptian security forces announced that they had killed 14 suspected terrorists and 16 other terrorists in a residential complex west of Cairo and 10 other terrorists in al-Arish during two raids in Madinat al-Sadis min Uktubar (city of October 6) in the north of the Sinai Peninsula. Large amounts of ammunition, weapons and self-made explosives were found in the hiding places.

Sunday 30th December 2018

• Dhaka / Bangladesh : In the parliamentary elections (originally planned for December 23), the ruling Awami League of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed wins again and has 288 seats out of 300 in parliament. Even before the election, human rights organizations criticized a climate of fear in the country in which supporters of the opposition parties would be prevented from voting.
• Jilib / Somalia : Special forces of the Somali armed forces in cooperation with the US Africa Command killed 34 fighters of the Islamist Al-Shabaab militia in raids in Jilib . These include a Syrian and Libyan fighter and four commanders.
• Kinshasa / Democratic Republic of the Congo : The parliamentary and presidential elections originally planned for November 27, 2016, will take place after several postponements. Due to the Ebola virus epidemic and the continuing threat of terrorism, the elections in the cities of Beni and Butembo in the eastern province of North Kivu and in the city of Yumbi in the western province of Mai-Ndombe should not take place until March 2019.
• Tillabéri / Niger: As part of Operation Dongo, the Nigerien armed forces killed at least 15 suspected terrorists and seized several weapons and motorcycles in the west of the country near the border with Mali, together with French soldiers who are deployed as part of Opération Barkhane .

Monday December 31, 2018

• Berlin / Germany and Zurich / Switzerland : The TV channels VIVA Germany , VIVA Austria and VIVA Switzerland , which belong to the US media group Viacom and which most recently mainly broadcast music videos , stopped broadcasting.
• London / United Kingdom : More than 55 years after its recording, the NDR- produced Sketch Dinner for One is also being shown for the first time on British television (specialty broadcaster Sky Arts ).
• Magnitogorsk / Russia : A part of the building collapses in a gas explosion in a 12-storey prefabricated apartment building in Prospect Karla Marksa (Karl Marx). 39 people are killed, 35 apartments are destroyed.
• Paris / France : At the end of the year, Israel and the United States left the United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organization (UNESCO).

See also

• Nekrolog December 2018 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

Czech Republic in December 2018

Commons : December 2018  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

 Wikinews: Articles Published December 2018  - News

Individual evidence

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