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This article covers breaking news and events in February 2014.

Daily events

Saturday 1st February 2014

• Berlin / Germany : Bruno Ganz is awarded the Golden Camera for his life's work .
• Berlin / Germany : A central service regulation of the Bundeswehr on the outward appearance of soldiers, which was issued on January 10, 2014 by Inspector General Volker Wieker , replaces the previous " Hair and Beard Decree for Soldiers" within the dress code for soldiers in the Bundeswehr in force. Soldiers are now allowed to let their hair grow longer than before.
• Washington, DC / United States : Economist Janet Yellen is sworn in as President of the US Federal Reserve , succeeding Ben Bernanke .

Sunday February 2, 2014

• Aleppo / Syria : At least 83 people die in attacks with barrel bombs in Aleppo and Damascus .
• Bangkok / Thailand : The general election in Thailand takes place. The incumbent Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra was confirmed in office. The opposition boycotted the elections.
• Belgrade / Serbia : Thunderstorms paralyze large parts of Europe due to snowfall and persistent rainfall . Large parts of Serbia and Italy are fighting floods , while the Alpine region is being affected by heavy snowfalls .
• East Rutherford / United States : In Super Bowl XLVIII the Seattle Seahawks win their first Super Bowl title with 43: 8 over Denver Broncos .
• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The 116 m high AfE tower of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main is blown up.
• Khartoum / Sudan : The government forbids the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to work.
• San José / Costa Rica : The first round of the presidential election in Costa Rica takes place.

Monday 3rd February 2014

• Berlin / Germany : As a consequence of the publication of tax evasion and the subsequent public debate, the Berlin State Secretary for Culture André Schmitz resigns from his office. At the end of 2012, the tax proceedings were discontinued in return for a fine of 5,000 euros.

Tuesday 4th February 2014

NSA logo

• Berlin / Germany : According to research by Norddeutscher Rundfunk and Süddeutsche Zeitung , the US National Security Agency (NSA) apparently wired the mobile phone of former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder (SPD) from 2002 onwards . According to unconfirmed reports, the connection of the Federal Chancellor is said to have been on a National Sigint Requirement List of the NSA because of his critical stance on the Iraq war and Germany's non-participation in the coalition of the willing .
• Edinburgh / United Kingdom : The Scottish Parliament decides to legalize same-sex marriage . In contrast to the Anglo - Welsh part of the Kingdom, the MPs grant the Scottish religious communities the right to refuse a marriage with reference to the homosexuality of the applicant. There will still be no same-sex marriages in Northern Ireland .
• San Francisco / United States : The US companies Facebook , Google , Microsoft and Yahoo are the first to announce statistics on customer data inquiries by the US secret services. According to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), a total of between 59,000 and 63,000 user data from US citizens were officially forwarded to the secret services for all four companies in the first half of 2013.
• Strasbourg / France : The European Parliament passes 640 votes in favor, 18 against and 22 abstentions on a new directive on cross-border licenses for online music services . From 2016 it should be possible for online music services in the EU to receive licenses from collecting societies that represent the rights of authors across borders, so that negotiations about the respective use of individual licenses in an EU country are no longer necessary. The artists can then, in turn, freely decide which collecting society in a country would like to have represented in the EU internal market .
• Tripoli / Libya : The Libyan Foreign Minister Mohammed Abdel Asis announces the destruction of the last stocks of the warfare agent mustard gas . In the presence of the Director General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), Ahmet Üzümcü , he referred to the help of the international community as well as the technical and logistical support from Canada, Germany and the USA. Under revolutionary leader Muammar al-Gaddafi , Libya had confirmed in 2004 possession of 25 tons of mustard gas and 1,400 tons of chemicals for the production of warfare agents.

Wednesday 5th February 2014

• Ankara / Turkey : The Turkish parliament decides to tighten censorship on the Internet in Turkey. In the future, authorities will be able to block websites without a court order. In addition, the authorities should be given the right to record the surfing behavior of Internet users and to store it for two years without informing those affected.
• Biarritz / France : A storm surge damaged numerous places on the European Atlantic coast. In Biarritz, the Spanish freighter Luno runs aground on a pier and breaks in two.
• Salzburg / Austria : During a raid in the house of the art collector Cornelius Gurlitt in Salzburg-Aigen , investigators discovered more than 60 valuable works of art by the artists Claude Monet , Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Pablo Picasso .
• Sochi / Russia : After a good 65,000 kilometers, the Olympic torch arrives for the Winter Olympic Games that start on Friday, where it passed many stations such as the Antarctic and the ISS ( International Space Station ) in space.
• Washington, DC / United States : A conversation between the Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and the US Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey R. Pyatt is bugged and published on the Internet video portal YouTube , which discusses possible solutions to the crisis in Ukraine ( Euromaidan ) left. In it Nuland says "You know, fuck the EU" (" Fuck the EU"), to which Pyatt replies: "Oh, that anyway ..." ("Oh, exactly, and I think we've got to do something ...") The US State Department said Nuland apologized to her colleagues in the European Union.
• Woonsocket / United States : The nationwide US drugstore chain CVS Caremark has announced that it will stop selling cigarettes and other tobacco products in all 7600 branches by October 2014 . CVS Caremark expects sales to drop by around two billion US dollars. CEO Larry Merlo justified this step with the company's intentions.

Thursday February 6, 2014

• Berlin / Germany : With the film The Grand Budapest Hotel from director Wes Anderson will be the 64th Berlin International Film Festival opened.
• Berlin / Germany : The federal treasurer of the CDU and former finance minister in North Rhine-Westphalia , Helmut Linssen , announced his resignation in April 2014. As a reason, he gives the allegations in the media of tax evasion on financial investments of around 800,000 euros in the tax havens of the Bahamas and Panama, which he claims to have carried out on behalf of his mother from 1997 onwards.
• Ceuta / Spain : During a mass onslaught of African refugees on the Spanish North Africa exclave of Ceuta, several Africans jumped into the sea and about ten people drowned.
• Sarajevo / Bosnia and Herzegovina : Demonstrations by thousands of Bosnians in several cities, triggered by the poor economic situation and high unemployment, are turning into violence. 104 police officers and 30 demonstrators are injured. In the capital, the presidential building and the building of the regional government are set on fire, in Tuzla the seat of the regional administration is stormed and a fire is set.

Friday 7th February 2014

Olympic Park of the 2014 Winter Games

• Istanbul / Turkey : An F-16 of the Turkish Air Force intercepts an Airbus A320 of Pegasus Airlines with 110 passengers on the flight from Kharkiv ( Ukraine ) to Istanbul after the pilot triggered the alarm. A Ukrainian passenger has threatened to detonate a bomb if the plane does not head for the Russian Olympic city of Sochi. After landing in Istanbul, security forces overpower the suspected air pirate, who, according to the Ukrainian security service, is drunk.
• Seedorf / Germany : In the military security area of the paratrooper battalion 373 of the Bundeswehr , a total of 10 of 24 smaller ammunition bunkers were broken through a cut open fence. After an inventory it was found that several wooden boxes with around 28,000 rounds of ammunition for the HK G36 assault rifle and the HK P8 pistol were missing.
• Sochi / Russia : Vladimir Putin officially opens the XXII. Winter Olympics .

Saturday 8th February 2014

• Kabul / Afghanistan : The United Nations Support Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) announces a 14 percent increase in the number of civilian casualties. According to this, a total of 2,959 civilians were killed and 5,656 injured in Afghanistan in 2013.
• Tehran / Iran : The Iranian admiral Afshin Rezayee Haddad announces that the small fleet (29th fleet), led by the destroyer IRIS Sabalan (73) (Alvand class), deployed from the Bandar Abbas naval base on January 21, 2014 over South Africa to Atlantic Ocean will be ordered to the US maritime border for the first time in the next few weeks. Iran describes this as a symbolic act towards the US 5th Fleet stationed in the Persian Gulf .

Sunday February 9, 2014

• Bern / Switzerland : In the referendum on the popular initiative “Against mass immigration” , the population voted for the initiative of the national conservative to right-wing populist Swiss People's Party (SVP). After acceptance, effects on the bilateral agreements between Switzerland and the European Union are to be expected.
• Homs / Syria : Following the agreement of the Syrian civil war parties on a humanitarian ceasefire, the first aid deliveries from the Red Crescent, in cooperation with the UNHCR, have reached the city that has been besieged for around two years.
• Copenhagen / Denmark : The scientific director of the Copenhagen Zoo , Bengt Holst, has the 18-month-old giraffe bull "Marius" killed with a nail gun and later fed to the lions because of the risk of inbreeding . Holst acted in accordance with the rules of the European Zoo and Aquarium Association (EAZA) and because no other zoo wanted to accept the animal. According to information, there was a private interested party who wanted to buy the giraffe bull for € 500,000 and a zoo asked to take Marius in, but the offers were rejected.
• Minyat Mahallat Damanah / Egypt : During excavations in the northern Nile delta, archaeologists discover a grave with valuable gifts, consisting of 43 amulets, a gilded mummy mask and almost 600 small burial statues . Among the treasure found in a pharaoh's cemetery in the province of Dakahlija is an amulet that shows a divine trinity with the gods Amun , Horus and Nephthys , as well as a cartouche with the engraved name of King Psammeticus I.

Monday February 10, 2014

• Munich / Germany : Peter Mayer resigns as President of the ADAC automobile club .

Tuesday February 11, 2014

• Duisburg / Germany : The Duisburg public prosecutor's office is bringing charges against those suspected of being responsible for the accident at the 2010 Love Parade .
• Kampala / Uganda : The US Ambassador Scott DeLisi has declared that Al-Shabaab poses a specific terrorist threat to Uganda and advises US citizens to leave the country.
• Rehburg / Germany : The Hanover public prosecutor's office opened an investigation against the SPD politician Sebastian Edathy on suspicion of child pornography .
• Sigus / Algeria : When a Hercules C-130H-30 military transporter of the Algerian Air Force (Al Quwwat aljawwiya aljaza'eriiya) crashed between Oum al-Bouaghi and Constantine on Mount Djebel Fertas, at least 77 passengers died. One inmate survived seriously injured.
• Washington, DC / United States : US President Barack Obama rejects the European Union's no-spy agreement , according to which countries with good diplomatic relations refrain from spying on one another .

Wednesday February 12, 2014

• Karlsruhe / Germany : The XII. Civil Senate of the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) ruled that a unilateral break in contact with their adult children initiated by the dependent is usually not sufficient to forfeit their claim to parental maintenance (Az. XII ZB 607/12). The adult children also have to pay for the benefits provided for their parents' home stay in accordance with the Social Security Code, even if they have not had any contact with each other for years (here 27 years).
• Nanjing / China : For the first time since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949, delegations from the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China (Taiwan) are officially holding talks at government level. The heads of the delegations are Zhang Zhijun (PRC) and Wang Yu Chi (Republic of China).

Thursday February 13, 2014

• Brussels / Belgium : The Belgian Chamber of Deputies passed a draft law on active euthanasia for children and young people with 86 votes to 44, with 12 abstentions . The law limits the scope to children with an incurable disease and requires parental consent. The Belgian Senate had previously voted for the law.
• Philadelphia / United States : The largest US cable operator Comcast announces the takeover of the competitor Time Warner Cable (TWC) based in New York City . The takeover will cost Comcast around 45.2 billion US dollars per share swap (the equivalent of 33.1 billion euros).

Friday February 14, 2014

Ash rain in Yogyakarta after the Kelut eruption

Vladimir Putin, Abd al-Fattah as-Sisi

Enrico Letta

• Berlin / Germany : Hans-Peter Friedrich ( CSU ) declares his resignation from his office as Federal Minister for Food and Agriculture . In the case of the investigation against the SPD politician Sebastian Edathy , Friedrich is suspected of betraying secrets during his tenure as Federal Minister of the Interior .
• Kediri / Indonesia : The Kelut volcano erupted on the Indonesian island of Java . Several thousand people are on the run. The airports Achmad Yani (Semarang) , Adisucipto (Yogyakarta) , Adisumarmo (Surakarta) and Juanda (Surabaya) will cease operations due to the thick ash clouds.
• Kiev / Ukraine : Prosecutor General Viktor Pschonka confirms the release of 234 people from the Euromaidan protests, who were arrested from December 23, 2013 to February 2, 2014. Prosecution will cease after a month if the people who have now been released meet the conditions of the government's amnesty law.
• Moscow / Russia : The Russian daily Vedomosti reported on an extensive arms deal on February 13th after a meeting between President Vladimir Putin and the Egyptian commander in chief of the armed forces Abd al-Fattah as-Sisi . According to this, the Egyptian armed forces will receive armaments worth three billion US dollars , including MiG-29M fighter jets, Mil Mi-35 attack helicopters and modern air defense systems. The arms business for Egypt is financed by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates .
• Rome / Italy : The Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta resigns after less than ten months after the Partito Democratico (PD) under the party chairman Matteo Renzi refused to support him.

Saturday 15th February 2014

• Berlin / Germany : The jury of the 64th Berlin International Film Festival honored the film Fireworks in Broad Daylight by director Diao Yinan as the best contribution of the festival with the Golden Bear .
• Geneva / Switzerland : The second round of negotiations with representatives of the Syrian civil war parties , mediated by Lakhdar Brahimi , Special Representative of the United Nations and the Arab League, ends with no result.

Sunday February 16, 2014

• Arghakhanchi district / Nepal : In a crash, a passenger aircraft of type De Havilland DHC 6-300 of Nepal Airlines are 18 inmates died.
• Benoni / South Africa : In a disused gold mine (New Kleinfontein 6) , more than 200 illegally active mine workers were buried after a tunnel collapse.
• Colón / Panama : The North Korean cargo ship Chong Chon Gang , arrested in July 2013 for undeclared armaments , left Panama with a course for Cuba . Three crew members remain in custody and the armaments, including two Cuban MiG-21bis fighter planes, 15 Tumanski turbojet engines for the MiG-21 and nine anti-aircraft missiles for the S-125 Neva / Pechora system, will remain under the control of Panama until a court decision is made .
• Taba (Egypt) : Four South Korean tourists and the Egyptian driver are killed in an explosives attack on a bus . Another 14 people are injured. The tourists visited St. Catherine's Monastery and were in Israel on their way back to Eilat . Two days later, the Islamist underground organization Ansar Bait al-Maqdis confessed to the attack.
• Tokyo / Japan : In heavy snowfalls in the eastern parts of the country twelve people were killed and 1500 people were injured. Several thousand households are without electricity. According to the airline All Nippon Airways (ANA), a total of 338 domestic flights and twelve international flights have been canceled. In a collision between two trains at Kawasaki , 20 train passengers are injured.

Monday 17th February 2014

• Berlin / Germany : As the successor to Federal Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich ( CSU ), who resigned in connection with the Edathy affair , the previous Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development Christian Schmidt (CSU) was appointed as the new Federal Minister for Food and Agriculture .
• Geneva / Switzerland : A United Nations commission of inquiry into human rights in North Korea, led by Michael Kirby, reports on the human rights situation in North Korea on behalf of the UN Human Rights Council and accuses the government of crimes against humanity and recommends proceedings before the International Criminal Court . The report is based on testimony from more than 80 people who have fled the country.
• Gyeongju / South Korea : During a student party at the University of Busan, a hall ceiling collapses in the Mauna Ocean Resort due to the masses of snow. Eight students are killed and 75 injured, including 15 seriously.
• Maiduguri / Nigeria : At least 90 people are killed in an attack by the Islamist Boko Haram in the Christian village of Izge Rana (Izghe) in the state of Borno .
• Munich / Germany : After a review by the auditing company Deloitte Germany , the automobile club ADAC has confirmed the manipulation of the results for the award of the “Yellow Angel” car award since at least 2009. The German automaker who won the award announced that they would return the awards.

Tuesday February 18, 2014

Euromaidan protesters in Kiev

• Bangkok / Thailand : In repeated protests against the government, three demonstrators and a police officer are killed. 60 people are injured. Around 15,000 security guards are deployed in the capital.
• Bonn / Germany : The Federal Cartel Office imposed fines totaling around 280 million euros on the three German sugar producers Nordzucker , Pfeifer & Langen and Südzucker as well as on seven persons responsible for restricting competition on territorial, quota and price agreements.
• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main has sentenced the former mayor of Kiziguru (Gatsibo district) in Rwanda , Onesphore Rwabukombe, to a prison term of 14 years for complicity in genocide in Rwanda . According to presiding judge Thomas Sagebiel, the court saw complicity in the murder of 1,200 Tutsi on the grounds of the Catholic Church in Kiziguru. Rwabukombe fled to Germany in 2002 and applied for asylum.
• Kiev / Ukraine : 11 demonstrators are killed and over 185 injured in heavy street fighting between the Euromaidan demonstrators and the security forces. Seven police officers are killed and at least 135 security guards are injured.
• Rülzheim / Germany : The Frankenthal public prosecutor's office announces that a robbery has discovered gold decorations on a ceremonial robe, a large silver plate, a silver bowl and remains of a gold-plated and silver-plated folding chair, probably from the 5th century . The pieces of jewelry are said to be worth over a million euros.

Wednesday 19th February 2014

• Bonn / Germany : The Federal Network Agency has imposed fines totaling 225,000 euros on three telecommunications companies (including Telefónica Germany (O2) and Vodafone ). According to the President of the Federal Network Agency Jochen Homann , the three providers have repeatedly violated their legal obligations when switching providers.
• Kiev / Ukraine : In a speech to the nation, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has declared war on the opposition. "Without any mandate from the people, illegally and against the Constitution of Ukraine, these politicians have tried to usurp power through pogroms, arson and murder," said Yanukovych. According to the Ministry of Defense, soldiers now have the right to use firearms and arrest people under Article 15 of the Anti-Terrorism Act. The domestic secret service Slushba bespeky Ukrajiny (SBU) has accused the government opponents of “concrete terrorist acts”. In the evening it was announced that the commander of the naval forces Admiral Yuri Ivanovich Ilyin was replacing the previous chief of staff Volodimir Samana .
• Menlo Park / USA : The US Internet company Facebook Inc. announced the takeover of the US instant messaging provider WhatsApp Inc. for a total of 19 billion US dollars (13.81 billion euros), broken down into 4 billion cash and Facebook Shares in residual value, known.

Thursday February 20, 2014

• Berlin / Germany : With 498 yes-votes, 17 abstentions and 84 no-votes, the German Bundestag approved the continuation of the participation of armed German forces in the NATO- led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) until December 31, 2014 with up to 3,300 soldiers decided.
• Bonn / Germany : The Federal Minister of Defense Ursula von der Leyen (CDU) dismisses State Secretary Stéphane Beemelmans . He is said to have not conclusively explained how the cost increases and delays in central armaments projects of the Bundeswehr could come about. In mid-December 2013, State Secretary Rüdiger Wolf was replaced by Gerd Hoofe .
• Bonn / Germany : In one of the largest mergers in the German hospital market , the Federal Cartel Office has approved the takeover of 40 clinics and 13 medical care centers from the Rhön-Klinikum by the private clinic group Helios Kliniken . So far, Helios has 72 clinics and is a subsidiary of the Fresenius Group .
• Brussels / Belgium : In a special meeting of the foreign ministers of the European Union , the participants agreed on sanctions against the Ukrainian leadership, which should be implemented very quickly, explained the Italian foreign minister Emma Bonino . Entry bans and the freezing of bank accounts are mentioned. Meanwhile, Foreign Ministers Frank-Walter Steinmeier (Germany), Laurent Fabius (France) and Radosław Sikorski (Poland) are negotiating with the Ukrainian government of President Viktor Yanukovych and with representatives of the opposition movements in Kiev .
• Kiev / Ukraine : Several people were killed in clashes similar to civil wars, including the use of live ammunition. Security forces, including the Berkut special unit , are again using water cannons, tear gas and stun grenades against the Euromaidan demonstrators. Snipers have posted themselves on Independence Square. The government opponents take 67 police officers hostage. Both the European Union and Russia are trying to mediate. The mayor of Kiev, Volodymyr Makeienko , who was only appointed in mid-December 2013 , left the ruling Party of the Regions in protest . Ukrainian alpine skier Bohdana Mazjozka and her trainer have canceled their participation in the Winter Olympics in Russia because of the events in their home country.
• Miranshah / Pakistan : At least 35 people are killed in attacks by the Pakistani air force on at least six alleged bases of the terrorist organization Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in North Waziristan .
• Tripoli / Libya : In the election of the constituent assembly members, attacks by extremists overshadow the vote. The turnout remains modest.

Friday February 21, 2014

Kiev City Hall occupied by Euromaidan protesters

• Berlin / Germany : The German Bundestag votes with 463 of 588 MPs present for an amendment to the MPs Act , in which the diets of MPs will increase in two steps by around 10 percent to 9082 euros per month by the end of 2014. From 2016, the diets are to be adjusted to the development of gross wages.
• Kiev / Ukraine : After mediation by the European Union , President Viktor Yanukovych and the opposition politicians Arsenij Jazenjuk , Vitali Klitschko , Oleh Tjahnybok and the Foreign Ministers of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Poland Radosław Sikorski sign an immediate agreement to resolve the crisis in the presidential palace. After negotiations with the opposition, an interim agreement on the political future of Ukraine is to be implemented. In a first step, a total of 386 MPs, including 140 MPs from the ruling Party of Regions , voted in the 450-seat Verkhovna Rada for the introduction of the previous constitution from 2004 until the planned adoption of a new constitution in autumn 2014. According to the agreement there is to be a new government of “national trust” within 10 days and early presidential elections are also planned for 2014. The Ukrainian parliament also voted with 336 of the 450 MPs for the immediate dismissal of Interior Minister Vitaly Sakharchenko , whom the opposition blames for the use of firearms against the Euromaidan demonstrators. The Deputy Chief of Staff, Yuri Dumanski, has resigned, fearing that the Ukrainian soldiers could be used against civilians under martial law. Two days ago, soldiers of the 25th Airborne Brigade from Cherkaske , the 79th Airborne Brigade from Mykolaiv and units of the marine infantry were marching towards Kiev.
• Reykjavík / Iceland : The Icelandic governing parties agree on a draft law, according to which the 2010 candidacy to join the European Union is to be withdrawn without a referendum . The point of contention is the fisheries policy in particular , as the EU is demanding more concessions to animal and environmental protection.
• Sochi / Russia : The German biathlete Evi Sachsenbacher-Stehle and the Italian bobsledder William Frullani were convicted of doping at the Olympic Winter Games .

Saturday 22nd February 2014

Viktor Yanukovych

• Caracas / Venezuela : During ongoing social protests against the high inflation , 9 people were killed and 137 injured.
• Kharkiv / Ukraine : President Viktor Yanukovych ( PR ) has fled to Kharkiv and refuses to resign. He explains that the country is experiencing a coup d'état and that “everything that is currently happening in this parliament is banditry” and “we are seeing the repetition of the Nazi coup of the 1930s in Germany.” The new parliamentary speaker Oleksandr Turchynov tells the press that Yanukovych has tried to take a plane to Russia , but was prevented from doing so. He is said to be near the city of Donetsk .
• Kiev / Ukraine : The Verkhovna Rada , with 275 of the 324 MPs present, resolves to immediately release the imprisoned former president and party leader of the All-Ukrainian "Fatherland" association, Yulia Tymoshenko , who is giving a speech on the Maidan that evening and has already announced that she will run again in presidential elections . The Verkhovna Rada voted in the afternoon with 328 MPs for the impeachment of President Viktor Yanukovych . With 288 out of 326 votes cast, Oleksandr Turchynow was also elected as the new President of Parliament and, until the early elections, Arsen Avakov was appointed as the new Minister of the Interior. Parliamentary elections are scheduled for May 25, 2014.
• Mazatlán / Mexico : The drug boss of the Sinaloa cartel , El Chapo , is arrested in a joint operation by Mexican marines and the US anti-drug agency DEA .
• New York / United States : In a draft resolution drawn up by Australia , Jordan and Luxembourg , the United Nations Security Council unanimously voted for the "immediate lifting of the siege" of cities in Syria and the immediate cessation of attacks on civilians in the ongoing civil war there . In addition, aid organizations should have unhindered access to those in need.
• Rome / Italy : Matteo Renzi ( PD ) has been sworn in as the new President of the Council of Ministers by President Giorgio Napolitano . His cabinet , to which eight ministers belong, has also been sworn in. These include Vice Prime Minister Angelino Alfano ( NCD ), Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini , Defense Minister Roberta Pinotti and Finance Minister Pier Carlo Padoan .
• Vatican City : Pope Francis awarded a total of 19 clergymen from all over the world the cardinal dignity in his first cardinal creation. Among them is the current Archbishop of the Curia, Gerhard Ludwig Müller from Germany.

Sunday February 23, 2014

• Ghaziabad / Afghanistan : In one of the worst attacks by the Taliban on checkpoints of the Afghan national army in the province of Kunar near the border with Pakistan, 21 soldiers are killed and another six soldiers are missing.
• Kiev / Ukraine : The Verkhovna Rada has elected parliamentary president Oleksandr Turchynov from the All-Ukrainian Association "Fatherland" , elected the day before, as the interim president to succeed Viktor Yanukovych with 285 votes in favor .
• Sydney / Australia : The finance ministers and the governors of the central banks of the group of the twenty most important industrialized and emerging countries (G-20) are planning around two percent additional growth for the next five years, which corresponds to more than two trillion US dollars in real terms. There should also be a continuous dialogue on monetary policy measures. The final declaration also states “Profits should be taxed where they are made”.

Monday February 24, 2014

• Jerusalem / Israel : At the 5th German-Israeli government consultations, Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) visits the Israeli government under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ( Likud ) with 13 of 15 federal ministers . Cooperation agreements are signed in 19 policy areas at a joint cabinet meeting. The Middle East conflict and the Iranian nuclear program are one of the topics of the joint talks .
• Cairo / Egypt : The interim government under Prime Minister Hasim al-Beblawi ( SDP ) has surprisingly resigned. Including Defense Minister Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi , who, according to media reports, is still not ruling out a candidate for the presidency.
• Kampala / Uganda : President Yoweri Museveni ( NRM ) signs a law passed by parliament in December 2013 under which homosexuals face life imprisonment if they are "repeat offenders" and which prohibits the "promotion of homosexuality " in public. Same-sex sex with minors or an HIV-positive person also faces life imprisonment. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights , Navanethem Pillay , said: "Some people's rejection of homosexuality can never justify violating the fundamental human rights of others".
• Melilla / Spain : According to the Moroccan Ministry of the Interior, at least 27 people were injured, including 13 Moroccan security forces, in a simultaneous onslaught of around 500 African refugees at several points of the border barriers (including a seven-meter-high barbed wire fence) . Around 150 Africans managed to flee to EU territory. On February 14, 2014, around 100 migrants armed with batons and stones managed to cross the border.

Tuesday February 25, 2014

• Ghouta / Syria : In the Syrian civil war , the state news agency Sana reports of an ambush carried out by the army in which 175 rebels are killed. These are said to belong to the Islamist rebel organizations al-Nusra-Front and Liwa al-Islam and come from Qatar , Saudi Arabia and Chechnya in Russia. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reports at least 70 fighters killed and 89 missing in the village of Otaiba (Otaye).

Wednesday February 26, 2014

Ten micro and small parties win in the legal dispute with the German Bundestag

• Berlin / Germany : The public prosecutor's office in Berlin is applying for an investigation against the Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture and former Federal Minister of the Interior Hans-Peter Friedrich ( CSU ) , who resigned on February 17, on suspicion of disclosure of official secrets in connection with the Edathy affair and the Lifting of political immunity .
• Karlsruhe / Germany : The Second Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court evaluates the three percent threshold clause in European electoral law (Section 2 (7) EuWG) as a serious interference with the principles of electoral law , which cannot be justified under the given legal and factual circumstances. Several smaller parties in Germany made the request, the German Bundestag represented the other side. The next European elections will take place in May.

Thursday February 27, 2014

• Hanover / Germany : The presiding judge of the 2nd major criminal chamber of the Hanover regional court , Frank Rosenow, spoke to the former Federal President in the so-called Wulff trial . D. Christian Wulff (CDU) from the accusation of accepting benefits and the co-accused film manager David Groenewold released (Az. 40 KLs 6/13 4212 Js 27683/13).
• London / United Kingdom : The British newspaper The Guardian reports on the GCHQ intelligence service based on documents from the US whistleblower Edward Snowden . This is said to have saved millions of random webcam recordings from users of the Internet portal Yahoo via a program called “Optic Nerve” from 2008 to 2010 . The metadata of the video recordings were also used to determine the location of the video chat users and for test systems for automatic face recognition .
• Simferopol / Ukraine : According to the Prime Minister of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea , Anatoly Mohiljow , around 30 to 50 armed people have occupied the parliament building and the building of the regional government and have hoisted the Russian flag on the roof. In a closed session of the Supreme Council of Crimea immediately after the occupation, 61 out of 64 MPs present are voting for a referendum on the extension of the powers of autonomy within Ukraine with its new government under Arseniy Yatsenjuk from the AVV . The referendum is scheduled to take place on May 25, 2014.

Friday February 28, 2014

Fighters without a national emblem, locally referred to as " green men " in the Crimea

• Crimea / Ukraine : Around 50 unknown armed persons temporarily occupied Simferopol International Airport . Russia has also moved 13 Ilyushin Il-76 military transporters with a total of around 2,000 soldiers to the Crimea. The Ukrainian interim president Oleksandr Turchynow speaks, according to the dpa news agency, of a "military invasion " under the guise of a military maneuver. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is also protesting against violations of Ukrainian airspace by eleven Mil Mi-24 attack helicopters and violations of the whereabouts of soldiers of the Russian Black Sea Fleet detaining a post of the Ukrainian border police.
• Moscow / Russia : Russia is offering the members of the Ukrainian Berkut special unit stationed in Crimea and de facto disbanded new Russian passports through the Consulate General in Simferopol .
• Beijing / China : The Ministry of Public Security announced that on February 19, 2014, the authorities uncovered four child trafficking rings during raids in a coordinated action in 27 provinces, arresting 1,094 people and freeing 382 small children.
• Rostov / Russia : Former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych gives a press conference in Russia and continues to lay claim to the office of president. The Ukrainian Public Prosecutor's Office is investigating Yanukovych for "mass murder". The Switzerland and Austria have blocked the accounts of several members of the former Ukrainian state leadership, including that of Viktor Yanukovych and his son Oleksandr Yanukovych , where money laundering is accused.

See also

• Nekrolog February 2014 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

Copenhagen in February 2014

Commons : February 2014  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

 Wikinews: Articles Published in February 2014  - News

Individual evidence

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5. ^ Clare Farnsworth: Seahawks ride defense to Super Bowl victory . Seattle Seahawks. Archived from the original on February 20, 2014. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 2, 2013. 
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