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This article covers breaking news and events in February 2016.

Daily events

Monday February 1, 2016

• Des Moines / United States : The vote in Iowa will begin the primaries for the presidential election in the United States .
• Geneva / Switzerland : The World Health Organization (WHO) declared mainly in Brazil continuously expanding Zika virus - epidemic to the international emergency. This should enable international cooperation to combat the virus to be better organized and coordinated.
• London / United Kingdom : The British Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority (HFEA) allows genetic testing on human embryos for the first time . The experiments are intended solely for research purposes and, for example, provide insights into early human development. Only non-viable embryos may be used for research.

Tuesday February 2, 2016

• Jawhar / Somalia : During the Daallo Airlines - Flight 159 from Aden Adde International Airport in Mogadishu for Ambouli International Airport it is in the airspace of the Somali province of Middle Shebelle an explosion killed at a person and two other passengers are injured. The captain of the aircraft can make an emergency landing after returning to the airport of departure. In retrospect, it was revealed that the only person killed was a suicide bomber and alleged al-Shabaab supporter.
• London / United Kingdom : In order to avoid a possible UK exit from the European Union , EU Council President Donald Tusk and British Prime Minister David Cameron agree on a list of reforms that grant the British government special powers and special regulations within the European Union should be. The proposals made by Tusk are also to be negotiated at the EU summit on February 18 and 19 in Brussels .

Wednesday 3rd February 2016

• Geneva / Switzerland : The peace talks to find a peaceful solution to the Syrian conflict , which began just five days earlier, will be interrupted because of “work still to be done” and postponed until February 25.
• Greifswald / Germany : With the generation of the first hydrogen plasma, the Wendelstein 7-X fusion device of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) begins its scientific experimentation. With the aid of the stellarator- type system, the basic suitability for power plants of nuclear fusion reactors is to be examined and demonstrated.

Thursday 4th February 2016

• Auckland / New Zealand : Government representatives from Australia , Brunei , Chile , Japan , Canada , Malaysia , Mexico , New Zealand, Peru , Singapore , the United States and Vietnam sign the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP), which eases tariffs and trade barriers between the contracting parties or should be abolished. Thousands of opponents of globalization demonstrate against the signing.
• Ouarzazate / Morocco : With the opening of Noor I , the first of four subsystems of the Ouarzazate solar thermal power plant goes into operation, which is to be the largest power plant of its kind with a planned total output of 580 megawatts .
• Wismar / Germany : German Pellets GmbH, the world's largest producer and trader of wood pellets , files for bankruptcy at the Schwerin District Court , whereby the court rejects the self-administration requested .

Friday February 5th

Destroyed building in Kaohsiung

• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : After fierce criticism, the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes the Agreement on Net Financial Assets (ANFA), which is initially confidential and allows the national central banks of the Eurosystem to buy up bonds from their own state.
• Harare / Zimbabwe : Due to the persistent drought and the threat of famine , the government under President Robert Mugabe has declared a state of emergency for the particularly affected rural areas. More than 2.4 million people are said to already suffer from food shortages.
• Kaohsiung / Taiwan : An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4 on the moment magnitude scale , which particularly shakes the south of the island state, kills 116 people. More than 500 other people suffer mostly minor injuries.

Saturday February 6th

• Hamburg / Germany : Dunja Hayali is awarded the Golden Camera for the best TV information program. In the acceptance speech, she commented on the rise in hate crime in Germany: "Journalists are being attacked on the street, does anyone think that this will do anything?"
• Washington, DC / United States : After a legal battle with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the US Department of Defense released 198 of over 1900 photos of prisoners abused by US soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan between 2004 and 2006 demonstrate. Eleven US soldiers have so far been convicted of these acts of violence.

Sunday February 7th

• Algiers / Algeria : The Algerian parliament approves a comprehensive constitutional reform which includes the inclusion of freedom of the press and freedom of assembly in the constitution, a limitation of the term of office of the president and the upgrading of Kabyle to the official language.
• Port-au-Prince / Haiti : President Michel Martelly is stepping down without an elected successor. Since December 2015, two scheduled runoff elections for the presidency have been canceled due to allegations of manipulation.
• Santa Clara / United States : With a 24: 10-victory against the Carolina Panthers win Denver Broncos to Super Bowl 50 (Super Bowl L).
• Sohae / North Korea : A modified Unha-3 rocket successfully puts the Earth observation satellite Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4 (Shining Star 4) into orbit. Japan , South Korea and the United States fear through the progressive development of long-range missiles in North Korea that such as intercontinental ballistic missiles with a nuclear warhead could be fitted. The United Nations Security Council meets again for an emergency meeting.
• Tunis / Tunisia : A 200-kilometer-long border fortification between Ras Ajdir and Dahibah is completed. The system, consisting of sand walls and moats, is intended to prevent terrorists and smugglers from crossing the border from Libya . According to the state news agency Tunis Afrique Presse (TAP), another electronic upgrade is planned with the help of German and US military technicians.

Monday February 8th

Storm Ruzica, Western Europe

• Cizre / Turkey : According to the state television broadcaster TRT , up to 60 people are killed in skirmishes between Turkish armed forces and PKK fighters . The pro-Kurdish HDP describes the act as a "massacre" of civilians.
• Mainz / Germany : The Mainz Carneval Association (MCV) cancels the Mainz Rose Monday procession due to the storm Ruzica .
• Ottawa / Canada : Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ( Lib ) announces that the air strikes carried out by the Royal Canadian Air Force against positions of the Islamic State (IS) as part of Operation Impact will cease on February 22, 2016.

Tuesday February 9th

Recovery of the wagons at the Mangfall Canal near Kolbermoor

• Bad Aibling / Germany : In a head-on collision between two meridian trains of the Bayerische Oberlandbahn , eleven people die and 80 others are injured, some seriously. The investigators assume a human error .
• Washington, DC / United States : The director of the United States Intelligence Community (IC), James R. Clapper , announces the alleged resumption of plutonium production at the North Korean nuclear facility in Nyŏngbyŏn . If the main reactor was operated for a sufficiently long period of time, the East Asian state could produce weapons- grade plutonium after only a few weeks and thus suitable for use in nuclear weapons .
• Washington, DC / United States : The US Supreme Court announces that US President Barack Obama 's climate protection plans to curb CO ₂ emissions from US power plants do not have to be implemented for the time being. The reason for the decision are open lawsuits against the plans, which still have to be checked for their legality.

Wednesday February 10th

• Brussels / Belgium : As a reaction to Russia's intervention in the Ukraine conflict and its “threatening” foreign policy, the defense ministers of the NATO allies decide at a meeting to massively expand the military presence of their own troops on the border with Russia and in the eastern NATO area . Up to 1000 soldiers each will then be stationed in Bulgaria , Estonia , Latvia , Lithuania , Poland and Romania , additional military material will be stored and the regional infrastructure will be expanded. The planning for the procedure should be completed by the next NATO summit in July 2016 in Warsaw .
• Dikwa / Nigeria : 58 people are killed and 80 others injured in a suicide attack by two women in a refugee camp in Borno state .

Thursday February 11, 2016

Coen movie

Māris Kučinskis

• Berlin / Germany : The 66th Berlin International Film Festival will feature the film Hail, Caesar! opened by directors Ethan and Joel Coen .
• Monterrey / Mexico : More than 50 people are killed in a revolt in Topo Chico prison, which is attributed to a conflict between the Los Zetas and the Gulf cartel . The prison has long been considered overcrowded.
• Riga / Latvia : The Saeima elects Māris Kučinskis as prime minister and approves the cabinet composed by him.
• Washington, DC / United States : Physicists Announce First Direct Detection of Gravitational Waves Using Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). Evidence was already provided on September 14, 2015 based on the measured collision of two black holes around 1.3 billion light years away, but the data first had to be sufficiently analyzed and evaluated.

Friday February 12, 2016

• Brussels / Belgium : To better protect the European steel industry , EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström ( ALDE ) is launching new anti-dumping investigations against Chinese steel imports and imposing provisional import duties on imports of cold-rolled flat steel from the People's Republic of China and Russia . In addition, the existing punitive tariffs on solar modules will be extended again.
• Havana / Cuba : For the first time since the Oriental Schism and the division of Christianity into the Orthodox and Catholic Church, the two church leaders Pope Francis and Patriarch Kyrill I meet in the protocol room of Havana airport to discuss the persecution of Christians in the trouble spots in the Middle East , Africa and Asia to advise.
• Kidal / Mali : In an Islamist attack by Ansar Dine on the camp of the Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission of the United Nations in Mali (MINUSMA), six blue helmet soldiers from Guinea are killed and another 30 injured.
• Munich / Germany : The 52nd Munich Security Conference begins at the Hotel Bayerischer Hof .

Saturday February 13th

Anti-mosquito campaign in Brazil

• Aʿzāz / Syria : The Turkish air force attacks the Syrian military airfield Menagh south of Aʿzāz, which was captured by Kurdish People's Defense Units (YPG) only a few days ago . In contrast to other parties involved, such as the United States, which see the YPG as an important ally in the fight against the Islamic State (IS), Turkey looks at the Kurdish militias in the Syrian-Turkish border area supported by the Democratic Union Party (PYD) still as a direct threat.
• Brasília / Brazil : Around 220,000 soldiers support thousands of employees of the health authorities across the country on the “Zika Zero” day of action to educate the population in the fight against the spread of the Zika virus , which is transmitted by the yellow fever mosquito and possibly also by the Asian tiger mosquito . In the next few weeks, 50,000 soldiers are to make mosquitoes and egg-laying areas in affected areas permanently harmless with insecticides .

Sunday February 14th

• Bangui / Central African Republic : Runoff election for the office of President between Georges Dologuélé and Faustin Archange Touadéra and repetition of the parliamentary elections of December 30, 2015, which had been canceled due to “irregularities”.
• Jazan / Saudi Arabia : Patriot anti-aircraft missiles of the Saudi armed forces destroy a Scud- type ballistic missile allegedly shot down by Houthi rebels in Sanaa , Yemen at Jazan .
• İncirlik / Turkey : As part of its participation in the United States-led International Alliance against the “Islamic State” , the Royal Saudi Air Force is relocating six F-15SA combat aircraft to the Turkish air base Incirlik, which is also used by NATO .
• Munich / Germany : On the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference , French Prime Minister Manuel Valls announced that France was not ready to take in more refugees and called for a clear implementation of the previously negotiated strategies to permanently reduce the influx of refugees to Europe . He also rejects a system that provides for the relocation of refugees within the European Union .
• Port-au-Prince / Haiti : The previous Senate President Jocelerme Privert is elected as interim president.
• Washington, DC / United States : In order to be able to decisively influence a possible replacement of the post of the late Supreme Court judge Antonin Scalia , a dispute breaks out between the Democratic and Republican parties in which the Republicans under Mitch McConnell on a possible one-year blocking of the candidate nomination envisaged by US President Barack Obama . Obama, on the other hand, has announced that a decision will be taken soon.

Monday February 15th

• Ariha / Syria : At least nine people are killed in a suspected Russian rocket attack on a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital in Ma'arat Al Numan. More than 14 people died in another air strike on a hospital in the city of Aʿzāz .
• Brussels / Belgium : The Foreign Affairs Council of the European Union announced that since the beginning of 2012 against President Alexander Lukashenko and other government officials, companies and Belarusian citizens existing sanctions , as a result of the crackdown by the police against demonstrators at the 2010 presidential election have been imposed were to be repealed in full by February 29th. An arms embargo will remain in place for another year for the time being.
• Los Angeles / United States : The 58th Grammy Awards ceremony takes place.
• Prague / Czech Republic : At the summit of the Central European Visegrád Group , the heads of government of the four member states Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary speak out in favor of closing off the Balkan route for migrants in Macedonia and Bulgaria if Greece and Turkey do not limit the influx of further people can.
• Sarajevo / Bosnia and Herzegovina : The Chairman of the Bosnian State Presidency, Dragan Čović , officially submits the application for membership in the European Union .

Tuesday February 16

• Paris / France : The French National Assembly votes in favor of a three-month extension of the state of emergency that has been in force since the terrorist attacks of November 13, 2015 , which now runs until May 26, 2016 and which continues to grant the authorities additional rights to take action against private individuals and suspected threats .

Wednesday February 17th

• Ankara / Turkey : A car bomb attack on a military convoy of the Turkish armed forces leaves 28 dead and around 80 injured. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Prime Minister Ahmed Davutoglu ( AKP ) hold the Kurdish PYD responsible for the attack, which in turn denies participation. Two days later, the terrorist organization Teyrêbazên Azadîya Kurdistan (TAK) confessed to the attack.
• Rancho Mirage / United States : First summit of the heads of state and government of the ASEAN states with the United States.
• Yongxing Dao / China : Satellite images show the deployment of several HQ-9 surface-to-air guided missile systems , a Chinese further development of the Russian S-300P , by the People's Liberation Army on the coral island of Yongxing Dao ( Woody Island ), which belongs to the Paracel Islands . The island has been under the control of China for over 40 years, but is also claimed by Vietnam and Taiwan .

Thursday February 18, 2016

Confirmed for the fifth time in the presidency: Yoweri Museveni

• Brussels / Belgium : Start of the two-day summit of the European Council chaired by Donald Tusk . The focus is on the planned referendum by the British on whether the United Kingdom should remain in the European Union (EU) and advice on decisions taken and planned to find a solution to the ongoing refugee crisis .
• Clausnitz / Germany : There are massive xenophobic riots against refugees in the eastern German district .
• Kampala / Uganda : Presidential and parliamentary elections in Uganda. Protesters clash with police officers during the elections. Three days after the election with numerous irregularities, President Yoweri Museveni was re-elected for the fifth time with 61 percent of the vote.
• Kintampo / Ghana : 61 people die and 25 others are injured in a collision between an intercity bus operated by the state-owned Metro Mass Transit Bus and a truck.
• Shanghai / China : After the merger of the state-owned large shipping companies COSCO and the China Shipping Group (with the subsidiary CSCL ) to form the China Cosco Shipping Corporation (COSCOCS), it starts operations with around 180,000 employees and a fleet of 830 ships.

Friday 19th February 2016

• Brussels / Belgium : The permanent NATO task force Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 (SNMG2) begins its planned mission for the reconnaissance, surveillance and observation of boat and ship movements in the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey. The mission is to cooperate with the EU Frontex mission “Poseidon Sea” and curb the uncontrolled flow of refugees towards Europe.
• Meme / Cameroon : Two suicide bombers kill 24 people and injure another 112 people in a vegetable market near the border with Nigeria . It is believed that the perpetrators belonged to the terrorist group Boko Haram .
• Sabrata / Libya : US Air Force F-15E fighter planes bomb a training camp of the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS) around 70 kilometers west of Tripoli , killing at least 40 people. The attack is considered the first preventive measure to prevent the Islamists from spreading further in the region, which is also affected by civil war . Two officials from the Serbian embassy who were abducted in November 2015 also died in the attack .

Saturday February 20th

Faustin Archange Touadéra

Gianfranco Rosi

• Bangui / Central African Republic : The former Prime Minister Faustin-Archange Touadéra emerged as the winner of the presidential run-off on February 14 with over 62 percent of the vote.
• Berlin / Germany : The jury of the 66th Berlin International Film Festival honors the film Sea Fire by director Gianfranco Rosi as the best contribution of the festival with the Golden Bear .
• Chandigarh / India : In several cities in the northern Indian state of Haryana there are violent riots with ten dead and around 150 injured, as the Jat are demanding job quotas for their ethnic group in authorities and in the education system. A curfew is imposed and soldiers from the Indian army are deployed. Thousands of demonstrators cordoned off the central administration and set ten train stations on fire. Some of the demonstrators also paralyzed the water supply to the Indian capital New Delhi via the Haryana Canal.

Sunday February 21

• Damascus / Syria : At least 31 people died in a series of attacks with a car bomb and two suicide bombers in Sayyidah Zaynab, around ten kilometers south of the capital.
• Homs / Syria: The explosion of two car bombs, at least 57 people in mainly of Alawites killed residential district Sahraa. During the Syrian civil war , the city was a stronghold of the Free Syrian Army until 2014 , and has since been largely controlled by government troops again .
• La Paz / Bolivia : The referendum on the constitutional amendment, which is supposed to allow President Evo Morales ( MAS ) to have another term of office beyond the next election in 2019, fails.
• Moroni / Comoros : In the presidential elections none of the candidates achieve an absolute majority, so a second ballot will be necessary. Vice President Mohamed Ali Soilihi faces the governor of the state of Grande Comore , Mouigni Baraka.
• Niamey / Niger : In the presidential elections , President Mahamadou Issoufou ( PNDS-Tarayya ) is aiming for a second five-year term in office, while his biggest opposition candidate, the country's former Prime Minister, Hama Amadou ( MODEN-FA Lumana Africa ), is in custody. The parliamentary elections will also take place at the same time .
• Skopje / Macedonia : Macedonia also prohibits Afghan refugees from entering and passing through Serbia . Only refugees from the civil war states of Syria and Iraq are allowed to cross the border.
• Suva / Fiji : The strongest hurricane ever measured over Fiji, Cyclone Winston , crosses the Pacific island nation and causes severe devastation there. At least 42 people die in Fiji. Other South Pacific nations such as Tonga and Niue will also be badly hit by the cyclone.

Monday February 22nd

• Harare / Zimbabwe : The Zimbabwean government confiscates seven diamond mines in the eastern Marange diamond fields . The licenses of Marange Resources , Anjin Investments Ltd. , Diamond Mining Company , Gyn Nyame Resources , Jinan Mining Ltd. , Kusena Diamonds and the Mbada Diamonds had expired. The new operator is a state-owned company founded just a month ago.

Tuesday February 23

• Baton Rouge / United States : Several tornadoes cause severe damage , especially in the US state of Louisiana . Three people are killed.

Wednesday February 24th

• Berlin / Germany : The Federal Ministry of the Interior under Thomas de Maizière (CDU) approves the so-called " Federal Trojans " developed by the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) . The software is used for telecommunications monitoring (TKÜ) on computers and smartphones. Approval by the Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information Andrea Vosshoff (CDU) is not intended.
• Budapest / Hungary : Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announces a referendum on the distribution of refugees envisaged by the European Union, in which Hungarian citizens are to vote for or against a binding quota for refugee resettlement or relocation.
• Dana / Nepal : When Tara Air flight 193 crashes in the Nepalese district of Myagdi , all 23 passengers die.
• London / UK : 36th ceremony of the BRIT Awards .

Thursday February 25th

• Calais / France : The French administrative court in Lille rejects objections and paves the way for the partial evacuation of the refugee camp known as the " Calais Jungle ", which is home to around 3700 migrants, most of whom want to enter the United Kingdom illegally .
• Cologne / Germany : 17-year-old Jamie-Lee Kriewitz from Lower Saxony wins the German preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 in Stockholm .
• Suva / Fiji : A few days after cyclone Winston wreaked havoc on its way across the Pacific state, the local tourist office reports that flight operations have been restored and many hotels have already reopened.

Friday February 26, 2016

Enda Kenny , Acting Taoiseach of Ireland

Hashim Thaçi

• Brussels / Belgium : The EU Commissioner for the Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, Karmenu Vella , presents the European action plan to combat illegal wildlife trafficking, which comprises a total of 32 individual measures and aims to reduce the supply and demand for illegal animal products. and reduce plant species.
• Dublin / Ireland : In the 2016 elections for the Dáil Éireann , 158 members of the Irish lower house will be elected. In Ireland, the counting traditionally does not begin until the next day. According to polls, an end to the ruling coalition of Fine Gael and the Irish Labor Party is emerging.
• Mogadishu / Somalia : At least 22 people are killed in an attack by the Islamist militia Al-Shabaab on the SYL Hotel, which is popular with foreign diplomats and business people and is particularly secure .
• Pristina / Kosovo : Former Prime Minister Hashim Thaçi ( PDK ) is elected as the new President in the third ballot . He will take office on March 6, 2016.
• Tehran / Iran : Start of parliamentary elections and the election to the Expert Council , in which around 60 percent of the 55 million eligible voters take part.
• Vorkuta / Russia : A methane gas explosion in the Severnaya coal mine of the Vorkutaugol company (subsidiary of the Severstal group) kills 36.
• Zurich / Switzerland : In the FIFA presidential election , the Swiss Gianni Infantino prevailed against the Bahraini co- favorite Salman bin Ibrahim Al Chalifa in the second ballot . Infantino's first term lasts until 2019.

Saturday February 27th

• Damascus / Syria : The ceasefire negotiated between Russia and the United States in the civil war country , to which the Syrian government under Bashar al-Assad , the High Negotiating Committee (HNC) established in Saudi Arabia of opposition representatives and over 100 different militias have agreed to begins. The terrorist organization Islamic State (IS) and the al-Qaeda- affiliated al-Nusra Front are excluded from the ceasefire . Compliance with the ceasefire is a prerequisite for continuing the peace talks to find a solution to the conflict under the chairmanship of the United Nations (UN).
• Kabul / Afghanistan : At least twelve people, including two soldiers, die in a suicide attack by the Islamist Taliban in front of the Defense Ministry. 45 people are injured. Another suicide attack on a tribal elder in Asadabad, Kunar province, kills 14 people and injures another 40.
• Munich / Germany : At the Federal Assembly of the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft (SL), as a sign of the course of reconciliation and understanding between Czechs and Sudeten Germans, an amendment to the statutes is resolved in which the Landsmannschaft will no longer advocate “regaining” the old homeland.
• Sanaa / Yemen : At a Saudi air raid as part of Operation Restoring Hope in three vehicles with alleged Huthi -Rebellen on the market in Naqīl Bin Ghaylan in Sana'a Governorate least 25 people are killed.
• Tall Abyad / Syria: The terrorist organization Islamic State (IS) is attacking the Syrian border town with Turkey held by Kurdish People's Defense Units (YPG). US warplanes are helping the YPG defend as part of Operation Inherent Resolve . At least 45 IS militiamen and 20 YPG fighters and their allies are killed in the fighting.

Sunday February 28, 2016

The film Revenant gives Leonardo DiCaprio an Oscar

Brie Larson

• Bern / Switzerland : Four federal referendums take place: renovation of the Gotthard road tunnel , speculation stop initiative (ban on speculative financial transactions relating to agricultural raw materials and food), family initiative (“For marriage and family - against the marriage penalty”) and the enforcement initiative for deportation criminal alien.
• Innsbruck / Austria : municipal council and mayoral elections in Tyrol.
• Los Angeles / United States : At the 88th Academy Awards, Leonardo DiCaprio receives the award for best leading actor in a movie. Since his leading role in Titanic , which was shown in the cinema in 1997, he has been nominated several times. The honor as best actress is Brie Larson granted.
• Sadr City / Iraq : At least 28 people die and 62 others are injured in two suicide attacks by the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS) on a market. An army post was also attacked near Baghdad Airport , killing at least twelve members of the security forces, according to government reports.

Monday February 29, 2016

• Rabat / Morocco : Morocco and Algeria are willing to cooperate to re- admit asylum seekers from these countries who have been rejected in Germany and who pretended to be Syrian refugees and have no prospect of remaining.

See also

• Nekrolog February 2016 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

Moscow in February 2016

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

 Wikinews: Articles Published in February 2016  - News

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ Zika virus: WHO calls out the highest alarm. Süddeutsche Zeitung , February 1, 2016, accessed on February 1, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Great Britain allows genetic testing on embryos. Zeit Online , February 1, 2016, accessed February 1, 2016 . 
4. ↑ The assassin blew himself up from a Somali plane. Zeit Online, February 6, 2016, accessed February 8, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Somalia: Explosion tears hole in A321 - video shows return flight. Aero.de, February 1, 2016, accessed on February 1, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Tusk and Cameron agree on EU reform. Zeit Online, February 2, 2016, accessed February 4, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Peace talks suspended until the end of February. Tagesschau , February 3, 2016, accessed on February 6, 2016 . 
8. ↑ Wendelstein 7-X fusion system generates the first hydrogen plasma. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics , February 3, 2016, accessed on February 4, 2016 . 
9. ↑ Solar fire lit with hydrogen plasma. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , February 3, 2016, accessed on February 4, 2016 . 
10. ↑ China remains outside the TPP free trade zone. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, February 4, 2016, accessed on February 4, 2016 . 
11. ↑ Thousands protest against free trade signing. Hannoversche Allgemeine , February 4, 2016, accessed on February 4, 2016 . 
12. ↑ Morocco opens huge solar park on the edge of the Sahara. Focus Online , February 5, 2016, accessed February 6, 2016 . 
13. ^ German Pellets: Insolvency Court rejects self-administration. Handelsblatt , February 10, 2016, accessed on February 15, 2016 . 
14. ^ ECB publishes secret agreements after criticism. Reuters , February 7, 2016, accessed February 7, 2016 . 
15. ↑ Zimbabwe declares a state of emergency due to drought. Deutsche Welle , February 6, 2016, accessed February 7, 2016 . 
16. ↑ Remains of last unaccounted-for quake victim found. Focus Taiwan, February 13, 2016, accessed February 14, 2016 . 
17. ^ Dunja Hayali's appeal against hatred. In: augsburger-allgemeine.de . February 7, 2016, accessed March 6, 2017 . 
18. ↑ USA releases photos of abused prisoners. Deutsche Welle, February 6, 2016, accessed on February 6, 2016 . 
19. ^ Algeria's parliament approves constitutional reform. Deutsche Welle, February 7, 2016, accessed February 7, 2016 . 
20. ↑ Haiti's president resigns without an elected successor. Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , February 8, 2016, accessed on February 8, 2016 . 
21. ↑ Triumph against Carolina Panthers: Denver Broncos win 50th Super Bowl. Spiegel Online , February 8, 2016, accessed February 8, 2016 . 
22. ↑ Several states are threatening North Korea with consequences. Zeit Online , February 7, 2016, accessed February 7, 2016 . 
23. ↑ Fight against terror: Tunisia completes the border wall. Deutsche Welle , February 7, 2016, accessed February 7, 2016 . 
24. ↑ Cizre: Kurds speak of a "massacre". Frankfurter Rundschau , February 8, 2016, accessed on February 8, 2016 . 
25. ↑ Carnival 2016: Mainz cancels Rose Monday procession due to storm. RP Online , February 7, 2016, accessed February 7, 2016 . 
26. ↑ Canada ends air strikes on IS positions. Deutsche Welle , February 8, 2016, accessed February 8, 2016 . 
27. ↑ Seriously injured man dies after train accident. Zeit Online , February 11, 2016, accessed February 11, 2016 . 
28. ↑ North Korea may get plutonium from restarted reactor in weeks: US Reuters, February 9, 2016, accessed on February 9, 2016 . 
29. ↑ Findings of the US secret services: North Korea is apparently producing plutonium again. Spiegel Online, February 9, 2016, accessed February 9, 2016 . 
30. ↑ CO2 emissions: US chief judges stop Obama's climate protection plans. Spiegel Online, February 10, 2016, accessed February 10, 2016 . 
31. ↑ NATO is arming in the east. Zeit Online , February 10, 2016, accessed February 11, 2016 . 
32. ↑ NATO plans further armament in Eastern Europe. General-Anzeiger , February 10, 2016, accessed February 10, 2016 . 
33. ↑ Nigeria: Double attack on refugee camp. Spiegel Online , February 10, 2016, accessed February 10, 2016 . 
34. ↑ Hail, Caesar! by Joel and Ethan Coen opens the 66th Berlinale. In: berlinale.de . December 4, 2015, accessed December 4, 2015 . 
35. ↑ Mexico prison riot: at least 52 people killed and 12 injured in Monterrey. The Guardian , February 11, 2016, accessed February 13, 2016 . 
36. ↑ More than 50 dead as violence breaks out in Mexican prison. Deutsche Welle , February 11, 2016, accessed on February 13, 2016 (English). 
37. ^ Latvian Parliament approves the new government of Māris Kučinskis. (No longer available online.) German-Baltic Chamber of Commerce , February 11, 2016, archived from the original on February 15, 2016 ; accessed on February 15, 2016 . 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.  
38. ↑ Physicists measure gravitational waves for the first time. Spiegel Online, February 11, 2016, accessed February 11, 2016 . 
39. ↑ Einstein is confirmed: Researchers find gravitational waves. Hamburger Abendblatt , February 11, 2016, accessed on February 11, 2016 . 
40. ↑ Trade Commissioner Malmström takes action against the dumping of Chinese steel. European Commission , February 12, 2016, accessed February 12, 2016 . 
41. ↑ Havana: Francis meets Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill I. Zeit Online , February 12, 2016, accessed on February 12, 2016 . 
42. ^ Terrorist group: Attack in Mali, reaction to Gauck's visit. Deutsche Welle , February 13, 2016, accessed on February 13, 2016 . 
43. ↑ Turkey bombs Kurdish positions. Frankfurter Rundschau , February 13, 2016, accessed on February 13, 2016 . 
44. ^ "Zero Zika" day of action: Hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the "virus war". (No longer available online.) Mittelbayerische Zeitung , February 13, 2016, archived from the original on February 14, 2016 ; accessed on February 13, 2016 . 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.  
45. ^ Runoff election for the presidency. (No longer available online.) Deutschlandfunk , February 14, 2016, archived from the original on February 15, 2016 ; accessed on February 15, 2016 . 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.  
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