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This article covers breaking news and events in February 2017.

Daily events

Wednesday February 1, 2017

• London / United Kingdom : 223 days after the failed referendum on British EU membership , the Lower House of Parliament voted 498 to 114 in principle in favor of the May I government making the exit procedure legally effective for the UK by notifying the European Council initiates.
• Ratingen / Germany : arrest of an urgent suspect in relation to the bomb attack in Düsseldorf in 2000.
• Vienna / Austria : Awarding of the Austrian Film Prize 2017 in the Vienna City Hall. Thank You for Bombing by director Barbara Eder is awarded as the best feature film.

Thursday February 2, 2017

Demonstration in Bucharest on January 29, 2017

• Bucharest / Romania : Over 150,000 people took part in the largest mass protests in Romania since 1989 against the government under Prime Minister Sorin Grindeanu ( PSD ) that was formed after the parliamentary elections in 2016 and the promulgated decree granting hundreds of officials accused of abuse of office impunity.

Friday 3rd February 2017

• Bucharest / Romania : The number of demonstrators against the government's anti- corruption law increases to 250,000 people. They protest u. a. against the fact that corruption cases with a volume of less than 50,000 euros should remain unpunished in future, but also against the Sorin Grindeanu government in general.
• Paris / France : A 29-year-old Egyptian attacks a patrolling soldier with a machete in the Carroussel du Louvre shopping gallery in front of the Louvre . The soldier is easily injured. Another soldier opens fire and seriously injures the attacker.
• Seoul / South Korea : During his visit to Seoul, US Secretary of Defense James N. Mattis sent the message to North Korea , which carried out two internationally confirmed nuclear weapons tests in 2016 , that a possible nuclear attack on South Korea would be answered with an “effective and overwhelming” counter-attack.
• Valletta / Malta : Informal meeting of the European Council with the Heads of State or Government of the European Union (EU), with the exception of the United Kingdom, on migration issues. The EU- Turkey agreement of March 20, 2016 to deal with the refugee crisis on the Western Balkans route is adhered to . In order to contain the refugee crisis on the Mediterranean route , cooperation with Libya , which is affected by the civil war, is to be intensified. This includes training, equipment and support for the Libyan National Coast Guard and other relevant agencies.

Saturday 4th February 2017

• ar-Raqqa / Syria : The military alliance Democratic Forces Syria (SDF), supported by the United States with Operation Inherent Resolve , is starting a new offensive to encircle the city held by the terrorist militia Islamic State (IS) and to cap the important supply route to Deir ez-zor . In US air strikes against targets near Idlib , ten al-Qaeda fighters are killed and the Egyptian Abu Hani al-Masri, who is also a member of al-Qaeda, dies after a drone attack .
• Berastagi / Indonesia : The Sinabung volcano emits ash, smoke and rocks in seven eruptions .
• New Delhi / India : Start of regional elections , which last around five weeks in the five Indian states of Goa , Manipur , Punjab , Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, with around 20 million eligible voters. The results will be announced on March 11th.
• New York / United States : The United Nations Security Council lifts sanctions against the Hizb-i Islāmī militia leader and former Prime Minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyār, who is responsible for serious human rights violations in Afghanistan .

Sunday 5th February 2017

• Ankara / Turkey : Anti-terrorism units of the police arrest over 420 suspected terrorists of the Islamic State (IS) in nationwide raids . Among them 150 people in the border province of Şanlıurfa , 60 in the capital Ankara, 47 in Gaziantep , 18 in Istanbul and in the province of Kocaeli as well as in Adana , Bingöl , Bursa , Konya and Izmir .
• Hindu Kush / Afghanistan , Pakistan : At least 135 people die in avalanches in the Afghan province of Nuristan and the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa .
• Houston / United States : The Super Bowl LI in American football between the New England Patriots and the Atlanta Falcons went to a 18-point comeback the Patriots in the extension . In the end, the Patriots win 34:28.
• Libreville / Gabon : In the final of the 31st African Football Championship in the Stade de l'Amitié , Cameroon wins 2-1 against Egypt .
• Vaduz / Liechtenstein : In the state elections , the Christian-conservative Progressive Citizens' Party (FBP) emerged as the strongest force with 35.2% of the party votes, followed by the socially conservative Patriotic Union (VU) with 33.7%.

Monday February 6, 2017

• Huila / Colombia : An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.7 M _w shakes the Departamento del Huila .

Tuesday February 7, 2017

• Kabul / Afghanistan : When an explosive device detonates in front of the Stera Mahkama (Supreme Court) at least 20 people die and 41 other people are injured.
• Vitória / Brazil : In unrest during a police strike in the state of Espirito Santo , at least 75 people die within four days. The state declared a state of emergency and called on the paramilitary military police .

Wednesday February 8, 2017

Farmajo, President-elect of Somalia

• Kirov / Russia : More than two years after his first conviction of fraud , the Russian oppositionist Alexei Navalny is again found guilty in a controversial trial before the district court.
• London / United Kingdom : In its final reading, the House of Commons accepts the law with which Theresa May's government can apply to the Council of the EU for the country to leave the European Union . 494 parliamentarians vote for the law, 122 against.
• Mogadishu / Somalia : Selected envoys gather to elect the new president . Due to the poor security situation, the meeting takes place in an airplane hangar near Mogadishu and ends with the decision in favor of Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo . A truly representative election of the government has not existed in the East African country since 1969 .
• Zurich / Switzerland : Due to continuing spiteful mood and insults disables the newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) , the comment column in virtually the entire range of online news site NZZ.ch . The editors no longer believe that it still makes sense for readers to be able to comment on all articles. Especially when it comes to news reports, disputes quickly arise over the facts reported in them. The interactive component of the offer should be converted into moderated debates with the aim of taking a path of constructive discussion culture again.

Thursday February 9, 2017

The cast and crew of Django in the Berlinale Palast

Countries whose citizens want the US government to prevent entry

• Al-Bab / Syria : For the first time there is fighting between units of the Turkish armed forces and the Syrian army in the north of the civil war country . Three Turkish soldiers are accidentally killed and eleven injured in an air raid by Russian fighter planes near Al-Bab.
• Berlin / Germany : The 67th Berlin International Film Festival opens with the film Django by director Étienne Comar .
• Nairobi / Kenya : The government imposed a state of emergency in 23 of 47 districts after a persistent drought .
• San Francisco / United States : A federal appeals court rejects the US government's motion to revoke an injunction against Executive Order 13769 , issued on January 27 , which, among other things, ordered an entry ban for citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries into the US.
• Vienna / Austria : The Federal Administrative Court prohibits the construction of a third runway for Vienna-Schwechat Airport because this project is incompatible with climate protection .

Friday February 10, 2017

• Kowloon / China : At least 19 people are injured in a Molotov cocktail fire attack in the Tsim Sha Tsui subway station in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region .
• Lima / Peru : For corruption allegations in connection with the scandal surrounding the Brazilian construction company Organização Odebrecht , the former President Alejandro Toledo is wanted with an international arrest warrant that Interpol is supposed to carry out. Toledo lives in the United States and is in France .
• Panama City / Panama : Ramón Fonseca and Jürgen Mossack from the law firm Mossack Fonseca , made famous by the Panama Papers, are arrested. You are said to be involved in a Brazilian corruption network around the construction group Organização Odebrecht through your law firm . The investigating attorney general Kenya Isolda Porcell raises serious allegations against Mossack Fonseca: "The firm is apparently a criminal organization that hides assets and funds of dubious origin."
• Uíge / Angola : In a mass panic in the Estádio 4 de Janeiro football stadium , at least 17 people die and 59 others are injured, some seriously , during the Girabola encounter between Santa Rita de Cássia FC and Clube Recreativo Desportivo do Libolo .

Saturday February 11, 2017

Movement for Muqtada al-Sadr

• Baghdad / Iraq : During a demonstration by thousands of supporters of the Shiite clergyman and militia leader Muqtada al-Sadr for electoral reform, supporters try to break the barrier to the Green Zone . At least five demonstrators and two police officers are killed and around 200 people injured. After the demonstration was violently broken up, several Katyusha rockets hit the government district of the Iraqi capital.
• Brussels / Belgium : The President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker announces that he will not run for a second term. Juncker will be in office until the end of 2018.
• Frisal / India : During riots in the Kulgam district in the course of the Kashmir conflict, at least eight people die in skirmishes between the Indian armed forces and Hizbul-Mujahideen and Laschkar-e-Toiba militias .
• Laschkar Gah / Afghanistan : At least three soldiers and five civilians die in a car bomb attack by the radical Islamist Taliban on military vehicles and soldiers picking up their wages from a bank. 21 other people are injured.

Sunday February 12, 2017

Frank-Walter Steinmeier (2014)

• Ashgabat / Turkmenistan : In the presidential elections, incumbent Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow will be re-elected with 97.7% of the votes cast, thus enabling him to take up a third term. In the last election in 2012, it achieved a result of 97.1%.
• Berlin / Germany : The Federal Assembly elects the former Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier ( SPD ) as Federal President .
• Hamburg / Germany : If irritant gas escapes at Hamburg Airport, at least 68 people are injured in the airways.
• Panghyon / North Korea : The Korean People's Army is again firing a medium-range missile , for the first time of the Pukguksong-2 type , into the Sea of ​​Japan for test purposes . According to South Korean information, the rocket flies around 550 km. Initially, there was talk of a BM25 Musudan missile from the South Korean side and in the media .

Monday February 13, 2017

• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The German Bank for Reconstruction (KfW) signed on behalf of the federal government with the Iraqi government a framework agreement on a unbound financial loan of 500 million euros for the reconstruction of water, energy and other public key infrastructure in Iraq to To enable internally displaced persons to return to the areas liberated from the Islamic State (IS).
• Kuala Lumpur / Malaysia : Kim Jong-nam , eldest son of the former North Korean head of state Kim Jong-il and half-brother and regime critic of Kim Jong-un , is at Kuala Lumpur airport by at least one woman who is apparently contaminated with the chemical warfare agent and neurotoxin VX Cloth murdered. A liquid had been splashed on his face, he had explained to the airport staff.
• Lahore / Pakistan : During a demonstration by pharmacists against a new law to regulate the health sector, a suicide bomber blows himself up, killing at least 16 people and injuring 53 others. The Taliban splinter group Jamaat-ul-Ahrar ( German  "Community of Freedom Fighters" ) is committed to the act.
• Taichung / Taiwan : 32 people die in a serious bus accident and 13 other occupants are injured, some seriously.

Tuesday February 14, 2017

• Kananga / DR Congo : According to the Red Cross, at least 90 people died in Tshimbulu in the province of Kasaï-Central in fighting between the armed forces and the Kamuina-Nsapu militia.
• Washington, DC / United States : US President Trump's National Security Advisor , Michael T. Flynn , resigns because of his contacts with Russian leaders and his talks with Russian Ambassador Sergei Kisljak in December 2016 about the possible lifting of US sanctions against Russia back from his office. He did not hold an office at the time and was therefore not allowed to negotiate.

Wednesday February 15, 2017

The Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea annexed by Russia (red)

• Strasbourg / France : The European Parliament approves the controversial "comprehensive economic and trade agreement between the EU and Canada" ( CETA ) with 408 votes in favor, 254 against and 33 abstentions . CETA aims to stimulate trade by cutting tariffs on most goods and services traded, as well as increasing investment flows. Imports and exports are expected to increase by 20 percent when the agreement is fully in place.
• Washington, DC / United States : The Trump administration spokesman said Russia should return Crimea to Ukraine . The President of the Russian Parliament Vyacheslav Volodin reacts indignantly: "The Crimea is part of Russia."

Thursday February 16, 2017

The Lal Shahbaz Qalandar Shrine in Sehwan (2014)

• Baghdad / Iraq : A car bomb kills at least 52 people in Baghdad. The terrorist organization Islamic State claims the authorship for itself.
• Sehwan Sharif / Pakistan : In a suicide attack with an explosive vest on the 14th century temple with the Lal Shahbaz Qalandar shrine of Sufism in the province of Sindh , at least 85 people are killed and another 248 are injured. The terrorist organization Islamic State (IS) is committed to the attack.
• Tripoli / Libya : The Libyan Prime Minister Fayiz al-Sarradsch from the internationally recognized Libyan government asks NATO for support in rebuilding its security structures. The Libyan government largely only has influence through the capital. The European Union is already supporting the Libyan coast guard as part of Operation Sophia . The use of Western special forces and US air strikes as part of Operation Odyssey Lightning are part of the fight against the terrorist militia Islamic State (IS).

Friday 17th February 2017

53rd Munich Security Conference

• Bonn / Germany : The Federal Network Agency takes action under Section 90 TKG against children's toys that have radio-capable transmission systems and thus enable secret picture or sound recording. For example, she pulls the first internet-enabled toy doll My Friend Cayla from the manufacturer Genesis Toys (distributed in Germany by Vivid Germany), which has been on the market since 2014, from the market because of unsecured access to the microphone via Bluetooth and asks parents to destroy the toy.
• Ceuta / Spain : In a mass storm on the Spanish exclave of Ceuta in North Africa, around 500 African refugees manage to overcome the six-meter-high border fence of the EU's external border . Around 18 people are injured. Around 400 people receive medical care in the Centro de Estancia Temporal de Inmigrantes (CETI) reception center.
• Hamburg / Germany : The energy supply company Care-Energy files for bankruptcy .
• Islamabad / Pakistan : After the terrorist attack in Sehwan Sharif the day before, the border with Afghanistan is closed and, according to the armed forces, over 100 extremists are being detained. Because of the persistently difficult security situation, the Pakistani government has deported almost 600,000 Afghans since September 2016. She is also demanding that the Afghan government extradite 76 suspected terrorists.
• Leverkusen / Germany : Karim Bellarabi from TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen reached the 50,000 gate of football - Bundesliga credit history.
• Munich / Germany : Beginning of the three-day 53rd Munich Security Conference with around 80 foreign and defense ministers. The focus is on the transatlantic relationship and the situation in the Near and Middle East .
• Seoul / South Korea : New evidence from the public prosecutor's office supports suspicion of corruption against the chairman of the Samsung Group, Jay Y. Lee , and leads to his arrest.

Saturday 18th February 2017

• Berlin / Germany : Hungarian director Ildikó Enyedi receives the Golden Bear at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival for her feature film Testről és lélekről ( German  From the body and from the soul ) .

Sunday 19th February 2017

• Mogadishu / Somalia : A car bomb attack on a market in the Medina district of the capital kills at least 35 people and injures more than 40 others, some seriously.
• Mosul / Iraq : With a renewed military offensive by the 9th Division of the Iraqi Armed Forces with Kurdish Peshmerga associations and Shiite militias of the al-Hashd al-Shaʿbī (PMF), supported by US elite units and the US Air Force , the recapture of the western part begins the Iraqi metropolis occupied by the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS). A total of around 100,000 soldiers and fighters are involved in the Battle of Mosul.
• Quito / Ecuador : Among the 12.8 million eligible voters in the presidential election to succeed Rafael Correa , a relative majority of almost 40% voted for his party colleague Lenín Moreno . He will face Guillermo Lasso in a runoff election on April 2nd.
• Wiesbaden / Germany : The European Headquarters of the United States (EUCOM) announces the relocation of some 1,000 soldiers of the 2nd US Cavalry Regiment with several Stryker wheeled armored personnel from the end of March 2017 under NATO Enhanced Forward Presence (EFP) to Orzysz in Poland known . There they will be set up together with around 350 soldiers from Great Britain and Romania at the side of the Polish 15th Lötzen Mechanized Brigade as a military deterrent against Russia .

Monday February 20, 2017

• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The regional court sentenced a South Korean woman to six years' imprisonment who carried out a fatally expelling devil in the city in 2015 . Her victim died after two hours of "treatment".

Tuesday February 21, 2017

• Karlsruhe / Germany : The XI. Civil Senate of the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) decided in two appeal proceedings (Az. XI ZR 185/16 and XI ZR 272/16) that a building society should have building society savings contracts in accordance with Section 489 (1) No. 3 BGB in the version applicable until June 10, 2010 can terminate if the contracts have been ready for allocation for more than ten years, even if they have not yet been fully saved. In Germany there are around 30 million home loan and savings contracts with an average home loan and savings sum of around 30,000 euros. Around 250,000 home loan and savings contracts have already been terminated by the health insurers after they were ready for allocation, primarily because of their high interest rates.
• Munich / Germany : The Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia Adel al-Dschubeir tells the Süddeutsche Zeitung that his country is ready to join the civil war in Syria with its own ground troops in an alliance with the United States .

Wednesday February 22, 2017

Jovenel Moïse

• Mocha / Yemen : At least 40 people die in heavy fighting between government soldiers and Shiite Houthi rebels . Deputy army chief Ahmed Saif al-Jafi is also killed by rocket fire.
• Port-au-Prince / Haiti : The two weeks ago as president sworn Jovenel Moïse appointed by Twitter - Send the gastroenterologist Jack Guy Lafontant the Prime Minister of the country. The men are considered friends.
• Sofia / Bulgaria : The public Bulgarian National Radio (BNR) has been playing music pieces by performers who are at least 70 years old and whose copyright in Europe has expired for two months because of a dispute over increased license fees with the collecting society Musicautor mainly classical music, jazz, Bulgarian folklore or, for example, oldies by Glenn Miller and the Andrew Sisters. As the polling institute Ipsos found, the number of listeners increased by 20 percent in January 2017 compared to the contemporary pop music previously broadcast.
• Washington, DC / United States : The US space agency NASA announces the discovery of four more exoplanets in the Trappist 1 planetary system. The discovery was the result of weeks of observation by Trappist-1 using the Spitzer Space Telescope . There are three planets in the habitable zone of its central star and are therefore potentially habitable .

Thursday February 23, 2017

• al-Bab / Syria : The revolutionary and opposition forces occupy the center of the city previously held by the terrorist organization Islamic State , with the support of the Turkish armed forces .
• Athens / Greece : The foundation of the late shipowner Stavros Niarchos hands over the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center to the Greek state as the new home for the national library and opera. The financing of the operation is not fully clarified.
• Geneva / Switzerland : The negotiators from the Syrian government and the opposition arrive for the United Nations peace talks for the civil war country.
• Mosul / Iraq : With the recapture of the western part of the metropolis, the Iraqi armed forces and their allied militias succeed in taking the airport with massive air support from the US armed forces . The terrorist organization Islamic State (IS) is massing its forces in the remaining parts of the city and is also being supported by violent sympathizers in the east of the city.

Friday February 24, 2017

• Al-Bab / Syria : At least 50 people die in a car bomb attack by the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS), including many fighters from the Free Syrian Army and two Turkish soldiers .

Saturday 25th February 2017

• Heidelberg / Germany : A 35-year-old man drives a rented car into a group of pedestrians. One person dies, two others are slightly injured. The perpetrator is seriously injured during arrest.
• Homs / Syria : At least 42 people die in suicide attacks by the Salafist Jabhat Fatah asch-Scham (formerly al-Nusra Front) on two locations of the state security and the military intelligence service of the Syrian armed forces, including the head of the military intelligence service General Hassan Daaboul .
• Patikul / Philippines : The Philippine armed forces attack bases of the Islamist Abu Sajaf on the island of Jolo in the province of Sulu with attack helicopters of the type Hughes OH-6 . Ground troops are preparing an offensive to free the German sailor Jürgen Kantner who was kidnapped in November 2016.

Sunday February 26, 2017

The musical film receives six Oscars

• Ankara / Turkey : The three-meter-high border wall to the neighboring state of Syria already covers around 290 kilometers. This means that more than half of the barrier with a total length of 511 kilometers has been completed. The mobile border wall is being built from concrete elements with barbed wire and watchtowers on behalf of the Turkish state housing authority Toplu Konut İdaresi Başkanlığı (TOKİ) to protect against illegal border crossings .
• Barcelona / Spain : At the GSMA Mobile World Congress , the Chinese telecommunications supplier ZTE is presenting the world's first smartphone that supports the Pre5G Giga + MBB standard, which transfers a gigabit of data per second. However, the 5G standard with up to ten times faster download speeds than LTE technology will probably not be ready for the market until 2020 .
• Ismailia / Egypt : After violent attacks by radical Islamic groups, including the Wilayat Sinai (formerly Ansar Bait al-Maqdis), hundreds of Copts fled the Sinai Peninsula , including many families from al-Arish . Around 250 Copts seek refuge in the Coptic Catholic Church of the Ismayliah Eparchy alone .
• Los Angeles / United States : At the 89th Academy Awards for the film industry, the musical film La La Land by director Damien Chazelle won six Oscars from 14 nominations. Best Picture is Moonlight by Barry Jenkins excellent.
• Southern hemisphere : During the ring-shaped solar eclipse , the moon covers 99% of the sun in phases.

Monday February 27, 2017

• Berlin / Germany : The district court sentenced two participants in an illegal street race to life imprisonment , who drove a car at 160 km / h into an uninvolved vehicle in 2016 , the occupant of which was killed as a result. The charge was murder , with prosecutors considering base motives and dangerous substances as characteristics of the murder. In pronouncing the verdict, the judge recognizes the dangerous substances as a proven murder feature. It is the first murder sentence against participants in an illegal street race (and will be overturned by the BGH in February 2018).
• Nassau County / United States : In Rockville, the city with the highest percentage of Jews in the United States, 143 students from the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School are evacuated. A total of 20 Jewish establishments received bomb threats by telephone , but none of them found explosives.

Tuesday February 28, 2017

Chinese steel mill (2009)

• Brussels / Belgium : The European Commission decides punitive tariffs on steel and solar modules from China . Investigations had shown that the People's Republic made the low sales prices of these products in Europe possible through subsidies .
• Müllrose / Germany : A 24-year-old man kills his grandmother on her 79th birthday after consuming crystal meth , then steals her car and runs over two police officers aged 49 and 52 while on the run.

See also

• Nekrolog February 2017 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

Canton Schwyz in February 2017

Commons : February 2017  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

 Wikinews: Articles Published in February 2017  - News

Individual evidence

1. ^ MPs hand Theresa May the starting gun on Brexit. In: The Independent . February 2, 2017, accessed 2017 . 
2. ↑ Wehrhahn attack cleared up after almost 17 years. In: wz.de . February 1, 2017, accessed February 9, 2017 . 
3. ^ Austrian Film Prize 2017. In: Academy of Austrian Films . Retrieved February 9, 2017 . 
4. ^ Romania: Three days of anger at the government. In: Zeit Online . February 3, 2017, accessed February 9, 2017 . 
5. ^ Romania: mass protests against the relaxation of anti-corruption laws. In: FAZ.net . February 2, 2017, accessed February 4, 2017 . 
6. ^ Louvre attack: French soldier shoots machete-wielding man. In: BBC News . February 2, 2017, accessed February 4, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Mattis: North Korea's nuclear attack would result in an “overwhelming” counter-attack. In: AFP . February 3, 2017, accessed February 3, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Malta Declaration, issued by the members of the European Council, on the External Aspects of Migration: Action on the Central Mediterranean Route. In: consilium.europa.eu . February 3, 2017, accessed February 3, 2017 . 
9. ^ War in Syria: New offensive on the IS stronghold Raqqa. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . February 4, 2017. Retrieved February 4, 2017 . 
10. ^ "US forces killed 11 al-Qaeda operatives in two air strikes in Syria says Pentagon" The Telegraph of February 9, 2017
11. ↑ Sinabung volcano spews ash columns. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . February 4, 2017. Retrieved February 4, 2017 . 
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15. ^ New England Patriots - Atlanta Falcons 34-28. In: nfl.com . Retrieved February 6, 2017 . 
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17. ↑ State elections 2017. In: landtagswahlen.li . Retrieved February 5, 2017 . 
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29. ↑ US Court of Appeals ruled against Trump: Entry ban still suspended. In: Legal Tribune Online . February 9, 2017. Retrieved February 11, 2017 . 
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32. ↑ International arrest warrant for Peru's ex-president Toledo. In: swissinfo . February 11, 2017, accessed February 10, 2017 . 
33. ↑ Panama Papers: Mossack-Fonseca founder arrested. In: Spiegel Online. February 10, 2017. Retrieved February 11, 2017 . 
34. ↑ 17 dead in mass panic in the stadium: Angola's football bears mourning. In: RP Online . February 11, 2017, accessed February 10, 2017 . 
35. ↑ Missile attack on government district in Baghdad. In: The press . February 11, 2017. Retrieved February 11, 2017 . 
36. ↑ EU Commission: Juncker is not in the mood for a second term. In: Zeit Online . February 2, 2017. Retrieved 2017 . 
37. ↑ Kashmir clashes: Eight dead as troops surround gunmen. In: BBC News . February 11, 2017, accessed February 11, 2017 . 
38. ↑ Dead and injured in the Taliban attack in Afghanistan. In: The press . February 11, 2017. Retrieved February 11, 2017 . 
39. ↑ 98 percent for the President of Turkmenistan. In: tagesschau.de. February 13, 2017. Retrieved February 13, 2017 . 
40. ↑ Federal President-designate Steinmeier: "Let's be brave!" In: vorwaerts.de . February 12, 2017. Retrieved February 12, 2017 . 
41. ↑ Hamburg Airport: The cause of the gas leak remains a mystery. In: Abendblatt.de . February 11, 2017. Retrieved February 11, 2017 . 
42. ^ North Korean missile test; Pyongyang celebrates its medium-range missile. In: Focus . February 13, 2017. Retrieved February 15, 2017 . 
43. ↑ Kim Jong Un provokes with a new missile test. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . February 13, 2017. Retrieved February 15, 2017 . 
44. ↑ North Korea continues to research the missile. In: Deutsche Welle . February 12, 2017. Retrieved February 12, 2017 . 
45. ↑ Press release: Support for Iraq: KfW provides a loan of EUR 500 million. In: KfW.de . February 13, 2017. Retrieved February 13, 2017 . 
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47. ↑ Kim Jong Uns half-brother poisoned in Malaysia. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, February 14, 2017, accessed on February 14, 2017 . 
48. ↑ At least 13 dead in the explosion in Pakistan. In: Deutsche Welle . February 13, 2017. Retrieved February 13, 2017 . 
49. ↑ Pakistan: 16 killed, 53 hurt as suicide bomber hits Mall Road in Lahore. In: Hindustan Times . February 13, 2017, accessed February 13, 2017 . 
50. ↑ Traffic accident in Taiwan: Dozens of dead in bus accident. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . February 13, 2017. Retrieved February 13, 2017 . 
51. ↑ Skirmishes between the army and rebels: More than 100 dead in fighting in the Congo. In: Deutsche Welle . February 14, 2017. Retrieved February 15, 2017 . 
52. ↑ First resignation in the Trump team: The Flynn affair is not over yet. In: FAZ.net . February 13, 2017. Retrieved February 13, 2017 . 
53. ↑ CETA: Parliament approves trade agreement between EU and Canada. In: uroparl.europa.eu . February 15, 2017. Retrieved February 15, 2017 . 
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