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This article covers breaking news and events in February 2005.

Daily events

Tuesday February 1, 2005

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• Augsburg / Germany : The district court opened against Walter Bau AG , a bankruptcy procedure . Walter Bau is the fourth largest construction company in Germany with around 9,400 employees.
• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : From midnight, tickets for the 2006 men's soccer world championship in Germany can be ordered online . Around 4 p.m., 500,000 tickets have already been sold.
• Kathmandu / Nepal : The Nepalese King Gyanendra deposes the government of the country because it failed to contain the Maoist uprisings and is devoting himself to all government tasks.

Wednesday February 2, 2005

• Mainz , Nuremberg / Germany : The Federal Employment Agency puts the number of unemployed in January at 5.037 million. The economist Wolfgang Franz estimates the actual number of unemployed in Germany at around 6 million for the year 2004. "Many job seekers are still not covered by the statistics", said Franz in an interview with the TV broadcaster ZDF .
• Jerusalem / Israel : In the Israeli parliament, Federal President Horst Köhler describes “responsibility for the Holocaust ” as part of German identity. The order of the victims of the Shoah to Germany is "never to allow genocide again ".

Thursday February 3, 2005

• Afghanistan : A passenger jet of the type Boeing 737 of the company Kam Air disappears on a flight from Herat to Kabul from the radar of air traffic controllers. There are 105 people on board the machine, including three Americans . The plane crashes on a mountain, there are no survivors.
• Berlin / Germany : After Israel's insistence , German foreign politicians want to step up their efforts for a new ban against the NPD .
• Washington, DC / United States : US President George W. Bush accuses Iran of terrorism : “Iran remains the world's most important state supporter of terrorism. He seeks nuclear weapons while denying his people the freedom they desire and deserve. ”Iran rejects accusations of illegally developing nuclear weapons. Iranian state television calls the allegations an insult to the state and the people.

Friday February 4, 2005

• Bell County , United States : A US military tribunal at Fort Hood sentenced soldier Javal Davis to six months in prison for participating in torture in Abu Ghuraib prison in Iraq .
• Bormio / Italy : The Croatian ski racer Janica Kostelić becomes world champion in the alpine combination .
• Kiev / Ukraine : Julija Tymoshenko is confirmed as Prime Minister by the Ukrainian parliament .
• London / United Kingdom : US - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice begins in London her inaugural trip to Europe, which they then to Berlin and Paris leads. Thematically is the commitment of European forces under the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan at the center. After that, Rice will visit Israel and the Palestinian Territories . Rice emphasizes on the current occasion that Iran's stance in the nuclear dispute is "a concern" for the world. The possibility of peaceful use of atomic energy should not be used by Iran to gain access to nuclear weapons .

Saturday 5th February 2005

• Berlin / Germany : After the Berlin visit of US - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice defends CDU - politician Wolfgang Schaeuble , the tough stance of the US in the nuclear dispute with Iran . “Everything must be done” to ensure that Iran renounces nuclear weapons , says Schäuble. This requires the offer of cooperation, but also “military pressure”.
• Kabul / Afghanistan : The wreck of the Kam Air passenger plane with 104 people on board, which has been missing for two days, is discovered 30 kilometers southeast of Kabul. According to government sources, there are no survivors of the crash.
• Mumbai / India : The Times of India newspaper reports that police officers in Izzatnagar in the north-west of the country found almost 254  g of weapons- grade uranium from two suspected drug dealers , which the Bhabha Atomic Research Center has now identified as "99 percent uranium". According to the investigators, it comes from the Narora nuclear power plant .
• Tbilisi / Georgia : 35-year-old Giorgi Chewiaschwili, an employee of President Mikheil Saakashvili , shot himself in his apartment - just two days after the death of Prime Minister Zurab Schwania in a gas accident.
• Warsaw / Poland : A list of 240,000 names of former secret service - agents , informants , but also victims from the period of existence of the Polish People's Republic is publicized on the Internet. The former critic of the regime and editor of the right-wing conservative daily Rzeczpospolita , Bronislaw Wildstein , succeeded in copying the list that was kept under lock and key, which is why it is also called " Lista Wildsteina " ( German  Wildstein list ). However, he rejects responsibility for distributing the list on the Internet.

Sunday February 6, 2005

• Bangkok / Thailand : In the Thai parliamentary elections, the party of the incumbent Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra wins an unexpectedly high victory and receives 374 of the 500 parliamentary seats.
• Jacksonville / Florida : The New England Patriots win Super Bowl XXXIX by 24:21 against the Philadelphia Eagles. Paul McCartney sings at halftime .
• Lomé / Togo : After the death of President Gnassingbé Eyadéma , the Togolese military chose his son Faure Gnassingbé as his successor. The action, which is tantamount to a military coup, is met with opposition from the population and abroad.
• London / UK : Martin Mubanga, one of the four from the US -Gefangenenlager Guantánamo dismissed British citizen , was in Camp X-Ray claims to be abused . Once during an interview, he was forced to relieve himself in a corner of the room, says the man, who was born in Zambia and later grew up in Great Britain . His interrogator wiped up the urine with a rag and smeared it on him. Racist and all other types of insults are part of everyday life.

Monday February 7, 2005

• Berlin / Germany : The Turkish community in Germany seeks indulgence for their compatriots who illegally have both Turkish and German citizenship . According to the law that has been in force since 2000, anyone who tries to obtain another one loses his or her German citizenship . The spokesman for the Federal Ministry of the Interior , Rainer Lingenthal, said that dual citizenship approved by the authorities was the "absolute exception".
• Berlin / Germany : Cornelie Sonntag-Wolgast, the chairman of the interior committee of the German Bundestag , spoke out against a new NPD - prohibition proceedings from. She doubted that there would be enough material for this without the help of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution . The SPD - politician called for a ban on demonstrations in which evidence would be fulfilled that there the Nazi dictatorship should be glorified. The inside experts Hartmut Koschyk ( CSU ) and Thomas Strobl ( CDU ) also spoke out in favor of a stricter right of assembly .
• Washington, DC / United States : The defective Hubble space telescope is no longer being repaired. In the budget of NASA , presented in Washington on February 7, the estimated expenditure of 750 million are US dollars for a rescue mission for the defective telescope not included.
• Washington, DC / United States : CIA releases some classified files about collaboration with Nazis . Under pressure from historians and Congress - Representatives , the US has intelligence for publication of secret documents agreed to the spy - inserts former German Nazis for the United States in the Cold War against Moscow show. The CIA's statement on Monday came in response to an open letter in which 150 prominent US citizens asked for the files to be released.

Tuesday February 8, 2005

• Atlantic : 60 nautical miles northeast of the Faroe Islands , the Icelandic freighter MS Jøkufelli sinks shortly after midnight . Five of the eleven crew members from Estonia will later be rescued from the water alive.
• Baghdad / Iraq : In the event of an attack on a recruiting office of the Iraqi army in Baghdad, min. 21 people killed and min. 27 other people were injured.
• Basel / Switzerland : The major Swiss bank UBS has presented a record profit of 8 billion Swiss francs . In the last quarter of 2004 it was able to increase sales by around 12%. Financial analysts had already expected a high profit , but the presented income is above expectations. The dividend will be increased by around 15%.
• Copenhagen / Denmark : Parliamentary elections are held in Denmark and the incumbent government of Anders Fogh Rasmussen is confirmed.
• Sharm el-Sheikh / Egypt : For the first time since 2000 - the year started the second intifada - will be a meeting between an Israeli prime minister and a president of the Palestinian Authority of Palestinian territories instead. Mahmoud Abbas for the Palestinian Authority and Ariel Sharon for Israel declare a ceasefire after the meeting.

Wednesday February 9, 2005

• Berlin / Germany : Michael Herbig is awarded the Golden Camera for his comedy programs .
• Madrid / Spain : 42 people are injured in a bomb attack in Madrid on the Square of Nations. The act is attributed to the Basque ETA.
• Pyongyang / North Korea : North Korea officially admitted the possession of nuclear weapons for the first time . The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Pyongyang said on Wednesday in a report by the state news agency KCNA that the People's Republic of North Korea had already "manufactured nuclear weapons for self-defense ". The communist state wanted to protect itself from the United States , which Pyongyang accused of "an undisguised policy of isolating and suffocating" North Korea. It was North Korea's clearest statement to date that the country had nuclear weapons.

Thursday February 10, 2005

• Balochistan / Pakistan : At least 350 people were killed after severe storms and a break in the Shakidor Dam in Balochistan .
• Berlin / Germany : According to information from the " Financial Times Deutschland", the right-wing extremist NPD can count on around 700,000 euros in government grants. Wolfgang Thierse plans to announce the subsidies to all parties represented in German parliaments in mid-February.
• Berlin / Germany : The 55th Berlin International Film Festival opens with the film Man to Man by director Régis Wargnier .
• Pyongyang / North Korea : The North Korean government has announced that it is withdrawing from the six-party talks on its nuclear program and has announced an expansion of its nuclear arsenal. Participation in the international round of negotiations will be suspended for an "indefinite period" because the US is working towards the overthrow of the government in Pyongyang, according to a statement by the State Department that was broadcast on Thursday morning via the state news agency KCNA and on North Korean TV. At the same time, North Korea will take “measures to strengthen its nuclear arsenal ” in order to “protect its ideology and its state system”.
• Windsor / United Kingdom : The British heir to the throne, Prince Charles , announces his engagement to his long-time girlfriend Camilla Parker Bowles .

Friday February 11, 2005

• Berlin , Frankfurt am Main / Germany : In the 2005 soccer betting scandal , the v. a. concerns the first round game in the DFB Cup between SC Paderborn 07 and Hamburger SV , the DFB awards the defeated Hamburger SV a compensation of 2 million euros . Yesterday the association suspended referee Robert Hoyzer, who was suspected of match- fixing . On the same day, the Tiergarten district court in Berlin ordered Hoyzer's imprisonment, which has not yet been completed.

Saturday February 12, 2005

• Madrid / Spain : A fire broke out in the 110 meter high Torre Windsor on Sunday night. The fire broke out on the 21st floor. Three firefighters suffered smoke inhalation , no other people were harmed because the building had been vacated for renovation work.

Sunday February 13, 2005

• Bormio / Italy : The World Ski Championships is over, the final team competition surprisingly won Germany ahead of Austria and France . Austria was the most successful nation with a total of 11 medals.
• Dresden / Germany : The 60th anniversary of the bombing raids on Dresden ended relatively peacefully. Around 5,000 alleged right-wing extremists protested and tried to use the anniversary for their own interests, but there were no noteworthy riots. Over ten thousand people peacefully protested the abuse of the Memorial Day, lit candles and called for reconciliation.
• Tehran / Iran : According to official announcements from Tehran, the Iranian parliament is preparing a law that makes the production of nuclear fuel elements mandatory. The law is intended to oblige the Iranian Atomic Energy Agency to “ produce some of the fuel rods required by the power plants in the country ,” said the agency's deputy director, Mohammed Saidi, on Sunday for the Irna news agency . The Iranian government will not do without uranium enrichment , he affirmed.
• Washington, DC / United States : According to a newspaper report, the United States used unmanned aircraft in Iran several times last year to scout Iran's nuclear facilities and air defense. Since April 2004 so-called drones have been collecting espionage material via radar , video and cameras as well as air filters , reported the US newspaper “ Washington Post ” on Sunday, citing US officials. The Iranian government officially protested.

Monday February 14, 2005

• Beirut / Lebanon : Prime Minister Rafiq al-Hariri , like nine of his companions and numerous bystanders, is killed by a car bomb in an attack on his convoy of vehicles . Shortly thereafter, rumors spread that Syria commissioned the attack.
• Colombo / Sri Lanka : After seven weeks full of uncertainty, the drama about “Baby 81” is over: The parents of the four-month-old boy Abilass Jeyarajah , who was torn from his mother's arms during the flood disaster in Sri Lanka, have been determined. A judge announced the result of the DNA test on Monday.
• Colombia , Venezuela : Floods claim at least 64 lives.
• San Mateo / USA : The domain www.youtube.de for the planned Internet - video portal YouTube is registered.
• Tehran / Iran : 59 people are killed in a fire in a mosque in the Iranian capital.
• United States : The NOAA service has upgraded the December 26, 2004 earthquake in South Asia to magnitude 9.3, making it the second strongest earthquake since earthquake records began.

Tuesday February 15, 2005

• Redmond / United States : Microsoft announces a new Internet Explorer 7. This will contain more security functions and is available for Windows XP with Service Pack 2 . IE 7 will be available to the general public as a test version in the summer.
• South Carolina / United States : The Christopher Pittman case is coming to an end. Pittman, who killed his grandparents when he was 12, was sentenced by a jury to 30 years in prison.

Wednesday February 16, 2005

• Hamburg / Germany : Former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt ( SPD ) has expressed skepticism about the upcoming visit by US President George W. Bush to Germany and accused the USA of abusing NATO . The USA is on the way to "transforming the alliance into an instrument of its strategy in the Middle East - and beyond", writes Schmidt in the latest edition of " Zeit ". “The pact by no means has the task of spreading freedom and democracy beyond its geographically defined borders ; Nor does it oblige the contracting states to cooperate, ”continues Schmidt's contribution. Bush's visit could not remove the uncertainty about the future of NATO.
• Indonesia : An earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale hits the coasts of Indonesia and the Philippines .
• London / UK : British Prime Minister Tony Blair has London Mayor Ken Livingstone on Wednesday prompted for the offensive remarks to a Jewish newspaper - journalists to apologize. Livingstone had told a reporter for the London Evening Standard at a press conference last week that he was acting like a “ concentration camp guard”.
• New York / United States : The season of the professional ice hockey league National Hockey League is canceled due to a labor dispute .
• Washington, DC / United States : According to the US secret service CIA, North Korea has operable bio and chemical weapons . "We believe that North Korea active programs for chemical and biological weapons runs that are ready," said CIA Director Porter Goss on Wednesday before the Intelligence Committee of the US Senate . Incidentally, the communist leadership in North Korea could test missiles again at any time - "including missiles with a longer range that could reach the United States". North Korea committed to Japan in September 2002 to suspend its missile tests.
• Worldwide: The Kyoto Protocol on climate protection comes into force in the signatory countries.

Thursday February 17, 2005

• Baghdad / Iraq : The electoral commission announces the final result of the parliamentary elections in Iraq on January 30th. The 275 seats are distributed as follows: United Iraqi Alliance 140, Kurdish Alliance 75, Alliance of Interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi 40, List of Interim President Ghazi al-Yawar five, Turkmen Front three, National Independent Elites and Cadres Party (list of supporters of the radical Shiites -Predigers Muqtada as-Sadr ) three and the remaining nine seats are shared by smaller parties that only get one or two seats each.
• Jerusalem / Israel : Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz , the armed forces on, no houses of Palestinian suicide bombers to more damage . Mofas is responding to a recommendation from Israel's chief of staff, Moshe Jaalon . Israel reserves the right to return to controversial retribution if "circumstances change dramatically".
• Washington, DC / United States : US President George W. Bush nominates the previous US ambassador to Baghdad , John Negroponte (65), as the future national secret service director of the United States. In his new position, Negroponte will be responsible for coordinating the work of all 15 different US intelligence services, with a total of around 100,000 military and civilian employees.

Friday February 18, 2005

• Baghdad / Iraq : Around 30 people are killed in an attack on a Shiite mosque in Baghdad.
• Berlin / Germany : The Federal Council starts deliberations on the EU constitution ; starting next Thursday also dealing parliament - Plenary with the text. Among other things, an FDP motion to amend the Basic Law is to be discussed, with which the Liberals want to achieve a referendum on the EU constitution in Germany.
• Berlin / Germany : In connection with the controversial visa issues at German embassies , according to a newspaper report by the Berliner Zeitung , further negligence has occurred within the federal government . Accordingly, when issuing so-called travel protection passports, the Federal Ministry of the Interior had a company issued since April 2002, the owner of which the BKA had already assigned to organized crime seven months earlier . Despite information from the BKA, in the summer of 2002 the Ministry of the Interior spoke out in favor of retaining the misuse- prone travel protection system at German embassies. It is unclear whether the BKA reports also reached the Foreign Office .
• Brussels / Belgium : US President George W. Bush does not rule out a military strike in the nuclear dispute with Iran, but prefers a diplomatic solution. "A president should never say never," said George W. Bush in an interview with Belgian television on Friday night. "But a military action ... is never the first choice of the president." That is rather diplomacy , "at least that is my first choice".
• London / United Kingdom : Fox hunting with hunting dogs is banned in the UK . There are violent demonstrations against this.
• Vienna / Austria : Defense Minister Günther Platter ( ÖVP ) instructs as part of the reform of the armed forces that military service will be shortened from the current eight to six months from 2006.

Saturday 19th February 2005

• Baghdad , Baquba / Iraq : In three attacks in the two cities, seven people are killed and more than 35 others injured.
• Beirut / Lebanon : A UN commission of experts is sent to Lebanon to investigate the circumstances surrounding the murder of Rafiq Hariri .
• Sulawesi / Indonesia : In the southeast of the island there is an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.9.

Sunday February 20, 2005

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• Berlin / Germany : The jury of the 55th Berlin International Film Festival honors the film U-Carmen by director Mark Dornford-May as the best contribution of the festival with the Golden Bear .
• Kiel / Germany : In the elections in Schleswig-Holstein , the CDU becomes the strongest political force for the first time since 1983 . 40.2% of the voters opted for the conservative party with top candidate Peter Harry Carstensen , and only 38.7% and 6.2% for the governing parties , the SPD and the Greens .
• Lisbon / Portugal : In the Portuguese parliamentary elections, the socialists come to 45.0%, the Social Democratic Party falls to 28.8%.
• Madrid / Spain : In the first referendum on the European constitution , around 35 million Spaniards are called to vote on the 300-page treaty.
• New York / United States : UNHCR boss Ruud Lubbers resigns after an internal United Nations investigation finds him of sexual harassment.
• Tel Aviv / Israel : The Israeli cabinet decides to extend the barrier to the Palestinian West Bank . According to official information, the fence will in future include the two large settlement blocks Gush Ezion and Maale Adumim near Jerusalem . To do this, the plant cuts several kilometers deep into the occupied West Bank in the south of Jerusalem. In the south of the Palestinian city of Hebron , on the other hand, it should largely follow the border that has actually been in force since 1967. Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas sharply criticized the plan in the magazine “ Der Spiegel ”. Israel must give up all settlements and stop the construction of the barriers , he said. "What right does Israel have to build settlements on our land?"
• Vatican City : Pope John Paul II's comparison between Holocaust and abortion causes excitement. In his book, the head of the Catholic Church writes that a legally elected parliament made the election of Adolf Hitler possible in the 1930s and endowed it with the power to pave the way for the establishment of concentration camps and the so-called Final Solution . Nowadays the legal regulations on abortion must be questioned, continues the Pope. "Parliaments that create and promulgate such laws must be aware that they are overstepping their powers and are in open conflict with the law of God and the law of nature ." The controversial passage in the new Pope's book "Remembrance and identity - conversations on the threshold between the millennia ”outraged the Central Council of Jews in Germany . "The top of the Catholic Church did not understand or did not want to understand that the Holocaust could not be compared with abortion," said the President of the Central Council , Paul Spiegel .

Monday February 21, 2005

• Berlin / Germany : The red-green Berlin government coalition has a According to press report on an extension of the criminal offense of sedition agreed. In future, anyone who approves or glorifies human rights violations committed under the National Socialist rule of violence and arbitrary rule and thereby violates the human dignity of the victims should be punished , reported the " Berliner Zeitung " (Tuesday edition), citing coalition circles. The maximum sentence is three years in prison .
• Heinsberg / Germany : The so-called " Eschweiler Wolf " is shot in the city. The animal probably came from Belgium.
• Madrid / Spain : The turnout for the election of the new EU constitution was 42 percent, the lowest in Spain since the restoration of democracy after Franco's death in 1975 . The result of the referendum is not binding, the final decision rests with the Spanish Parliament . What happens if the ratification in one of the 25 EU - States is rejected, is not clearly regulated.
• New York / United States : The Secretary General of the United Nations Kofi Annan accepts the resignation of UNHCR boss Ruud Lubbers . Lubber's remaining in office was made impossible by the controversy over his person.
• Paris / France : On the Memorial of the French NS - deportation camp Drancy one is arson attack perpetrated. As the prosecutor of the Paris suburb of Bobigny announced on Monday threw Unknown on Sunday evening an incendiary device on the railway - wagon , which in Drancy to commemorate the deportation and murder of tens of thousands of Jews is from France. The fire in the freight car that had been converted into a museum was therefore quickly extinguished by the fire department . A letter with an inverted swastika and the signature "Bin Laden" was found at the site of the attack . The prosecutor of Bobigny, François Molins , opened an investigation .

Tuesday February 22, 2005

• Hamburg / Germany : Before US President George W. Bush's visit to Germany, Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder ( SPD ) pointed out the shared responsibility of Europe and America, beyond the fight against terrorism , for the world climate. “We are allies and partners in the fight against terrorism, against the spread of weapons of mass destruction , against poverty and epidemics like AIDS . We have a shared responsibility for the protection of creation and the defense against threats to the global climate, ”wrote Schröder in a guest article in the newspaper Bild .
• Sarand / Iran : In the province of Kerman in southeastern Iran, a severe earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4 on the Richter scale occurred in the morning . The epicenter is about 60 km northwest of the provincial capital Kerman near the small town of Sarand, which is largely destroyed. On the first day, more than 420 dead are rescued, the estimated number of injured varies between 1,000 and 5,000 depending on the source. However, significantly higher numbers of victims are expected.

Wednesday February 23, 2005

• Bratislava / Slovakia : Beginning of a summit meeting of several days between the President of the United States George W. Bush and the President of Russia Vladimir Putin .
• Brussels / Belgium : The European Union has threatened the West African Republic of Togo with sanctions . If the country does not make progress in restoring constitutional order and in the democratic process, the EU reserves "measures" in support of the sanctions imposed by the West African economic community ECOWAS , according to a statement published in Brussels by the President of the European Council Union .
• Jerusalem / Israel : The Israeli Supreme Court has temporarily stopped the construction of a section of the barrier to the West Bank near the city of Ramallah . Israel's military radio reported on Tuesday evening that the entry of three Palestinian residents of the village of Kfar Saffa , over whose property the barrier is to run, was granted . Details of the decision were initially not given.
• Munich / Germany : Accompanied by further criticism, the new book by Pope John Paul II hit bookstores on Wednesday . The spokesman for the Lesbian and Gay Association , Manfred Bruns , called it “shocking, with what aggressive hatred the Pope turns against the civil rights of lesbians and gays .” It was an “unbearable derailment” that the Pope allowed the legal recognition of same-sex couples as a new ideology of evil denounce and draw a line to the crimes of the National Socialists .
• Rome / Italy : Pope John Paul II has been hospitalized again. The 84-year-old was brought back to the Gemelli Clinic in Rome for a flu relapse.
• Tehran / Iran : In the words of its Foreign Minister Kamal Charrazi, Iran is “determined” to resume uranium enrichment . "The others cannot stop us," the official news agency "Irna" quoted the minister as saying . The Europeans would have "serious action" meeting, with regard to their commitments transfer of technology , investment and security to meet Iran.

Thursday February 24, 2005

• Juba / Sudan : The explosion of an ammunition dump near Juba in the embattled southern Sudan kills over 18 people.
• Kyrgyzstan : In Kyrgyzstan, there are mass demonstrations ahead of the upcoming elections, from which many opposition politicians are excluded.
• Ottawa / Canada : Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin declares that Canada will not participate in the US National Missile Defense program. US missiles will be banned from flying over Canadian territory.

Friday February 25, 2005

• Ituri / DR Congo : Nine UN soldiers from Bangladesh are killed in an ambush in the Congolese Ituri district and at least 11 others are injured.
• Tel Aviv / Israel : 4 people die and 50 are injured in an attack on the Stage Club in Tel Aviv. Israel blames Syria for the crime.

Saturday February 26, 2005

• Lomé / Togo : President Faure Gnassingbé announces after the ECOWAS sanctions against his country that he will resign.
• Vatican City : For the first time in his pontificate, Pope John Paul II cannot hold the weekly Angelus prayer because of his illness.

Sunday February 27, 2005

• Aomori / Japan : In the prefecture of Aomori, Japanese construction workers succeed in cutting through what is currently the longest land tunnel in the world at 26.5 km. It is a railway tunnel for the new Tokyo-Aomori line, which is due to be completed in 2012. The previous record holder was a 25.8 km tunnel in the immediate vicinity.
• Bishkek / Kyrgyzstan : In the parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan in 2005 , over 400 candidates ran for the 75-member unicameral parliament by direct vote .
• Los Angeles / United States : 77th Academy Awards

Monday February 28, 2005

• Beirut / Lebanon : The pro- Syrian Lebanese government resigns after weeks of opposition demonstrations (despite a ban on assembly). The reason for the demonstrations was the assassination attempt on the former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri .
• Brussels / Belgium : The President of the Commission of the European Union (EU) José Manuel Barroso , rejects the request of the EU Parliament for a new draft of the EU directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions and prefers the adoption of the existing draft for software patents , which meets with resistance in the national parliaments of Germany , the Netherlands and Spain as well as in some states of the EU enlargement round of 2004 .
• United States : Federated Department Stores has bought its competitor May Department Stores for $ 11 billion. A department store giant emerges in the United States alongside Wal-Mart , Target and Home Depot .

See also

• Nekrolog February 2005 for deaths this month
• List of annually recurring commemorative and action days in February
• Category for commemorative days, holidays or action days in February

Web links

Saxony in February 2005

Commons : February 2005  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

 Wikinews: Article Published February 2005  - In The News

Individual evidence

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