January 2007

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This article covers the latest news and events in January of 2007.

Daily events

Monday January 1, 2007

Logo of Germany's EU Council Presidency

The expansion of the EU to 27 countries, yellow: Bulgaria, Romania

• Berlin / Germany : The sales tax in Germany will be increased by 3% to 19%, the commuter allowance for the first 20 km to work will be reduced. Various tax benefits in income tax law are no longer applicable. At the same time, parents are now entitled to parental allowance .
• Berlin / Germany : The Federal Republic of Germany takes over the presidency of the Council of the European Union for six months . Chancellor Merkel wants to dedicate the presidency to the EU constitution and create new foundations for better communication in the international community. The constitution has already been ratified in 19 states, but the French and Dutch voters rejected it in a referendum in 2005.
• Bern / Switzerland : Micheline Calmy-Rey becomes Federal President . At the same time, the revised partnership law for homosexual couples comes into force nationwide . This change was adopted in a referendum in 2005 .
• Bucharest / Romania , Sofia / Bulgaria : Romania and Bulgaria have been members of the European Union (EU) since midnight . The right to a free choice of job in all EU countries does not apply to citizens of the two new member states for the time being in some member states that have stipulated a transition period.
• Ljubljana / Slovenia : The country replaces the tolar currency, which has been in effect since 1991, with the euro . One euro is equivalent to 239.64 tolar. Slovenia, the economically most successful successor state of Yugoslavia , joined the European Union with nine other countries in May 2004.
• Luxembourg , Sibiu / Romania : According to a decision by the Commission of the European Union , the “Greater Luxembourg region” and Sibiu are the 2007 European Capitals of Culture . Luxembourg proposed the 170,000-inhabitant city of Sibiu as a partner because the Siweberjesch Såksesch of the German minority there , which Sibiu usually calls Hermannstadt, is similar to the Lëtzebuergesch spoken in Luxembourg .
• New York / United States : UN Secretary General Kofi Annan is handing over his post after 10 years to the South Korean Ban Ki-moon , who was elected by the General Assembly in October 2006 .
• New York / United States : Belgium , Indonesia , Italy , Panama and South Africa are new non-permanent members of the Security Council of the United Nations .
• Surabaya / Indonesia : A Boeing 737-400 passenger plane operated by Adam Air has been missing on its way from Java / Surabaya to the northeastern island of Sulawesi (Celebes) since 1 p.m. CET . There are 96 passengers and six crew members on board. According to an air traffic controller , the machine got into extremely bad weather and probably crashed due to lack of fuel, as it only had gasoline on board for the planned four hours of flight time.
• Wolfsburg / Germany : At Volkswagen AG , Martin Winterkorn replaces Bernd Pischetsrieder as the new CEO .

Tuesday January 2, 2007

Aboriginal flag

• Bad Reichenhall / Germany : One year after the collapse of the municipal ice skating and swimming pool due to structural defects under a snow load, the city commemorates the 15 deaths. All church bells ring for six minutes. Lord Mayor Herbert Lackner ( CSU ), surviving dependents and rescue workers lay a wreath at the temporary memorial at the former location of the hall.
• Berlin / Germany : Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble is under heavy criticism in the coalition for his plan to allow hijacked aircraft to be shot down in a "quasi-defense case" anchored in the Basic Law . The SPD - faction will, according to its domestic policy spokesman Dieter Wiefelspütz not agree to a softening of the Basic Law: "The proposal of Mr. Schäuble's half-baked" and should not be implemented; “The Basic Law knows no quasi-defense case.” The SPD accuses Schäuble of wanting to introduce a different understanding of national defense into the Basic Law. The question of what is the lesser evil in the case of imminent aircraft attacks like 2001 in the USA has been a controversial issue for years.
• Berlin / Germany : The community portal StudiVZ is being sold to the Georg von Holtzbrinck publishing group for up to 100 million euros . The previous operators around Ehssan Dariani, who have been heavily criticized in recent months, should remain in the management.
• Canberra / Australia : The indigenous Aborigines get their rights back to the rainforests on the Australian east coast after a ten year legal battle . You are now allowed to use the 6,000  km² area bordering Byron Bay and the most popular beaches in southern Queensland for hunting and fishing , as well as managing several national parks ( Border Ranges and Toonumbar ). The indigenous people hope that the latter will provide additional jobs.
• Madrid / Spain : The public smoking ban that has existed for a year has led 750,000 Spaniards to give up smoking. The proportion of smokers fell from 25.8% to 23.7%, and nicotine-induced heart attacks by 10%. In 2006, around 200 million fewer cigarette packets were bought than in the previous year, which is a decrease of almost five percent. Despite initial skepticism, 67% now support the law, which is one of the strictest in Europe. There are still problems because there are too few smoking rooms in restaurants and the barely existent controls, which distort the generally positive statistics.
• Makassar / Indonesia : Contrary to initial information, the wreckage of the Adam Air passenger plane, which has been missing since yesterday with 102 people, has not yet been found in the inaccessible mountains of Sulawesi ; probably the Boeing 737 fell into the sea. The relatives of the missing people direct their displeasure against the government's information policy, which initially spoke of 10-12 survivors.
• Nuremberg / Germany : According to a study by the Institute for Employment Research (IAB), the increase in sales tax from 16 to 19 percent in the next three years will threaten 190,000 jobs if the additional income largely benefits budget consolidation - which was decided in the 2006 Budget Accompanying Act . It is true that 1 percentage point is intended to reduce the contribution to unemployment insurance . At the same time, however, the tax-financed subsidies for pension and health insurance would be cut by almost the same amount, which was a zero-sum game.
• Vienna / Austria : After the surprising death of Interior Minister Liese Prokop , Federal Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel ( ÖVP ) is sworn in as the new Interior Minister. This double burden will only be short, as the negotiations on the grand coalition with the SPÖ are due to be concluded on January 11th.

Wednesday January 3, 2007

THAAD launch pad

• Berlin / Germany : According to assessments by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) and the Federal Association of Consumer Organizations (vzbv), German end consumers must expect rising gas prices with the “high price strategy” of Russian producer Gazprom . The energy supplier Wingas , subsidiary of Wintershall AG and the Russian OAO Gazprom, on the other hand, claims that these fears are unfounded.
• Bethesda / USA : The defense contractor Lockheed Martin Corp. receives a major order for 619 million by the Government of the United States dollar . To this end, the group is to provide the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) weapon system to the Missile Defense Agency by 2009 . The anti-ballistic missile defense system includes 48 interception systems, six launch pads, two fire controls and communication units.
• Brussels / Belgium : Under the leadership of Janelly Fourtou , wife of the chairman of the board of the French media conglomerate Vivendi , some MEPs want to criminalize all copyright infringements . Your sharp amendments to the preservation of intellectual property see the restriction of the planned criminalization of, for example, copyright or trademark rights to infringements "on a commercial scale" as superfluous. They have mainly sharers in their sights as they may be detected with the proposed correction of the anti-piracy law. While she assumes fines of at least 600,000 euros, Dutch liberal Toine Manders demands that any purchase of a black copy be viewed as " stolen goods " and punished accordingly. In the minority are those parliamentarians such as Eva Lichtenberger or Edith Mastenbroeck who want to limit the scope of the directive to deliberately committed trademark infringements and copyright piracy in accordance with the recommendations of the Industry Committee .

Thursday January 4, 2007

• Brussels / Belgium : Due to the demonstrative chainsaw campaign by Environment Minister Hans-Heinrich Sander ( FDP ) at the end of November 2006 in the core zone of the "Lower Saxony Elbe Valley" biosphere reserve , the EU Commission, following a complaint from Deutsche Umwelthilfe, demands detailed information by January 20th about the deforestation in the area. According to the DUH, it is about " stopping Sanders ' rampage on the Elbe ". Even then, the Federal Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel ( SPD ) had rated Sanders' unauthorized action as mere " actionism " and emphasized that an impact assessment had priority. Now it is about the possible violation of European environmental law .
• Hamburg / Germany : The news magazine Der Spiegel celebrates its 60th birthday. Exactly 60 years ago, Rudolf Augstein published the first edition in Verlag Land und Garten. The intended by the Allied Powers Reeducation d. H. the re-education of Germans to become democrats was an educational program for him and the following decades. Today economically on solid feet, there is a struggle behind the scenes for future management.
• Munich / Germany : In Bavaria the discussion about the top candidate for the Bavarian state elections in 2008 is noticeably intensifying . Gabriele Pauli , the district administrator of Fürth and most prominent critic of the CSU Prime Minister Edmund Stoiber , announces a CSU member survey given poor poll results for Stoiber. Even if other CSU politicians would protectively stand in front of Stoiber, she reiterates her accusation of misogyny : "It seems to me that he has a problem in dealing with women in political office (...) He might not have said to a man like her: ' You are not important '. "

Friday 5th January 2007

Keith Ellison

• Hamburg / Germany : The Moroccan terrorist Mounir al-Motassadeq is on trial for the third time. The Hanseatic Higher Regional Court has to decide on the sentence for the Moroccan who prepared the logistical aspects of the September 11, 2001 assassins and "kept their backs free". The Federal Court of Justice (BGH) in Karlsruhe had in November 2006 the verdict of the Court of Appeal from the August 2005 tightened against al-Motassadeq and the method of determining the sentence to Hamburg remanded. The judges sentenced him not only for membership in a terrorist organization but also for aiding and abetting the murder of 246 passengers and crew members of the four aircraft that crashed. The BGH considered it certain that he knew about the plan in detail. Initially, five days of negotiations are scheduled. The sentence can be 15 years imprisonment.
• Los Angeles / United States : The nominations for the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) awards have been announced in the Californian metropolis . In the unity of the nominated films, initial conclusions can be drawn about the best Oscar opportunities for Babel , Departed - Unter Feinden and Little Miss Sunshine .
• Madrid / Spain : Almost a week after the bomb attack by the Basque underground organization ETA on Madrid 's Barajas airport , the body of the second victim was found in a car wreck .
• Sydney / Australia : The French group Axa sells the Winterthur -US insurance line acquired in June 2006 to the Australian QBE Insurance . This will presumably also herald the end of the “Winterthur” brand. The transaction amounts to 1.156 billion dollars (2.2 billion Swiss francs). Winterthur US, which is active in real estate and liability insurance, posted premium income of $ 1.48 billion and net income of $ 81 million in 2006. The approval of the authorities is still pending, but is expected in the second quarter.
• Washington, DC / United States : On her short visit to the United States, Chancellor Angela Merkel initiates a new meeting of the Middle East Quartet to revive the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians . At the joint press conference, US President Bush declared this to be “a good idea” for the new G8 leaders. The goal is "two democracies that support the other's right to exist." US Foreign Minister Condoleezza Rice will therefore travel to the Middle East shortly. The Middle East Quartet was formed in the summer of 2000 when the peace negotiations agreed in Oslo in 1993 failed.
• Washington, DC / United States : For the first time, Keith Ellison , a Democrat from the US state of Minnesota, is a new member of the US Congress who swore his oath on the Koran at the constituent session .

Saturday 6th January 2007

• Lisbon / Portugal : The Dakar Rally starts a week later than in previous years , with Volkswagen taking places 1 to 5 on its first stage from Lisbon to Portimão .

Sunday 7th January 2007

Identical Lama Alouette II

• Adelboden / Switzerland : In the men's alpine slalom , Marc Berthod managed the bravado of being the 27th of the first run in the second run, setting the fastest time with a two-second lead. For the first time since 1999, a Swiss has won a goal run. Austrian favorite Benjamin Raich came in second .
• Bischofshofen / Austria : The Norwegian ski jumper Anders Jacobsen wins the 55th Four Hills Tournament on his first participation. After a fourth place in Oberstdorf , a fifth in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , the victory in Innsbruck and the second place in the last competition, the discovery of the season wins its greatest success. The Austrian Gregor Schlierenzauer finished second in the overall standings ahead of the Swiss Simon Ammann . The best German was Michael Uhrmann in ninth place. Ski jumping national trainer Peter Rohwein is still under criticism due to the mixed performance of his athletes, but will look after the squad at least until the World Ski Championships in Sapporo .
• Salin-de-Giraud / France : When a light helicopter of the type Alouette II crashes in the Camargue in southern France near Vaccères Lake, three spectators are beheaded during the take-off process. Another woman is critically injured. The victims are among the guests of a nearby restaurant who wanted to see the start in the associated parking lot. The occupants of the helicopter get away with no injuries.
• Warsaw / Poland : The planned Archbishop Stanisław Wielgus submits his resignation to the Pope, which the Pope accepts and appoints Cardinal Józef Glemp as interim successor . In December 2006 , Wielgus was accused of being an informant for the former Communist Party secret service. A press release from the Vatican states that Wielgus' reputation has been damaged, “also among the faithful. Therefore, renunciation [...] seems to be the appropriate solution. ”The case is not the first and hardly the last, but one should consider that the incriminating material“ was made by functionaries of a dictatorial and extortionate regime ”. Two days earlier, the Polish daily Dziennik published a survey, according to which 67 percent of those questioned were in favor of Wielgus' resignation.

Monday January 8, 2007

• Düsseldorf / Germany : The discussions about the solution of the BenQ Mobile - insolvency between the insolvency administrator , representatives of the North Rhine-Westphalian state government and a German-American investor committee are ended without result. During the rescue attempts, 800 employees in production in Kamp-Lintfort were to be saved from unemployment . The negotiations failed because the investors demanded extensive guarantees from the state and free labor for the first few months. The latter alone is impossible for legal reasons, as the Federal Employment Agency would not be able to pay out any contributions in such a case. The workforce is now hoping to consult with a US investor, Sentex Technologies , based in Cleveland , who even wants to save 1,700 jobs in North Rhine-Westphalia and Munich and who will announce its plans in Munich on January 9th.
• Hamburg / Germany : The Moroccan terrorist Mounir al-Motassadeq is sentenced by the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court as a responsible accomplice in the attacks of September 11, 2001 for aiding and abetting murder in over 200 cases to a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison. The defense lawyers immediately announce the revision of the judgment at the Federal Court of Justice .
• Riyadh / Saudi Arabia : For the third time, a child is killed while "reenacting" the execution of Saddam Hussein . After the cases of a ten-year-old boy in Texas and a nine-year-old in Pakistan , a twelve -year-old boy in Saudi Arabia hanged himself involuntarily after television broadcast the video of the execution on December 30, 2006, recorded on a mobile phone .
• Vienna / Austria : 99 days after the elections, government negotiations for a grand coalition are successfully concluded. The SPÖ is with Alfred Gusenbauer the Federal Chancellor and five ministers who ÖVP as many ministers, including finance and interior ministers , which SP base is heavily criticized at the. The party committees will decide on their approval on Tuesday, and the government will be sworn in on January 11th. Whether the previous Federal Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel will take over as Vice Chancellor is still being discussed internally by the ÖVP.

Tuesday January 9, 2007

Antonov An-26

• Balad / Iraq : When a Turkish charter plane of the Antonov An-26 type crashed in thick fog 2.5 km from the runway of the US military airfield Balad , 33 occupants were killed. According to the first information from the Foreign Ministry, two people survived the crash.
• Minsk / Belarus , Moscow / Russia : After the laborious agreement on new natural gas prices (100 instead of 50 dollars per 1000 m²), the gas dispute escalated again. Belarus wants to collect a transit tax for the pipelines through its national territory, which the Russian Transneft answers with the closure of the important Druzhba pipeline . Moscow officially accuses the Belarusians of illegally drawing natural gas from the pipelines. The gas supplies to the Czech Republic, Poland and Germany (20% of demand) are already affected, while Austria’s OMV does not yet see a problem. Chancellor Angela Merkel warns against being overly dependent on Russia, which signed the Energy Charter of 1994 but never ratified it.
• Ouarzazate / Morocco : On the fourth stage of the Dakar Rally from Errachidia to Ouarzazate , the South African 29-year-old motorcycle rally driver Elmer Symons with his private KTM had a fatal accident in a fall in the sand dunes . The rescue team rushed to the scene of the accident within eight minutes can only determine that he was dead. Symons is the 54 fatality in the history of the Dakar Rally. Meanwhile, VW driver Carlos Sainz defends his top position in front of his teammate, Giniel de Villiers , who was second last year , with second place behind Jean-Louis Schlesser . Last year's winner Marc Coma was able to reach the top of the motorcycle category for the first time.
• San Francisco / United States : Apple introduces the iPhone at the Macworld Conference & Expo .
• Tokyo / Japan : Japan has a Ministry of Defense for the first time since World War II and is thus saying goodbye to its pacifist guideline in the constitution. At a ceremony, Prime Minister Shinzō Abe named the "dramatically changed situation of national security" as the reason for this decision.
• Washington, DC / United States : President George W. Bush announces the deployment of even more soldiers in Iraq as part of his changed Iraq policy. More details on his strategy are expected on January 11th. Due to various obligations that Iraq fulfilled, the troops will be increased from the current 140,000 to 160,000 men. The opposition protests against this measure.

Wednesday January 10, 2007

Flag of the ASEAN

• Guinea : A general strike begins in Guinea, leading to rioting with fatalities in the following days. The opposition demands the resignation of President Lansana Conté .
• Managua / Nicaragua : Daniel Ortega is sworn in as President of Nicaragua.
• Manila / Philippines : Shortly before the opening of the ASEAN summit with 16 heads of state and government in Manila, two explosive devices explode in the Philippines. In General Santos City, 1000 km south of it, a bomb detonated at a busy weekly market. Six people are killed and 23 others injured. Six people are injured in an additional terrorist attack on a police post in neighboring Kidapawan . Even though the government there postponed the last date of the summit in December 2006 to this month due to an alleged risk of typhoons and secretly talked about Muslim terror threats, the Philippine Foreign Minister Alberto Romulo declared that the safety of all participants was guaranteed.
• Minsk / Belarus : Belarus announces a compromise in the oil dispute with Russia . President Aljaksandr Lukashenka announced that in a telephone conversation with the President of Russia Vladimir Putin he had found a consensus that has not yet been confirmed by the Russian side. EU Commission President José Manuel Barroso once again describes the interruption of oil supplies from Russia as "unacceptable".
• Osnabrück / Germany : According to experts from the Osnabrück public prosecutor's office, the Transrapid accident in September 2006 can be traced back to different, incompatible communication systems: "The special vehicle and the Transrapid could not communicate."

Thursday January 11, 2007

Location of Helmand Province in Afghanistan

• Berlin / Germany , Brussels / Belgium : After three days of delivery stop coming over Poland again crude oil from Russia in the refineries of Leuna and Schwedt on. The Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier , currently also the EU Council President, has announced new talks with Russia on the future foundations of bilateral and multilateral energy trade. The EU Commission has also reacted more easily to the resumption of deliveries.
• Bern / Switzerland : The city of Bern receives its next major construction site after legal quarrels. Starting at the end of January 2007, the station square will be rebuilt for 80 million francs in the course of the renovation of two tram turning loops. The responsible building director Regula Rytz speaks of the "largest and most complicated construction site the city of Bern has ever seen."
• Dhaka / Bangladesh : President Iajuddin Ahmed imposed a state of emergency on his country after serious unrest ahead of the controversial parliamentary elections scheduled for January 22nd . He intends to ensure "free and fair" elections. He is also stepping down from his position as head of the transitional government to hand it over to his advisor, Fazlul Haque . The unrest was sparked by allegations of falsifying election lists by the opposition Awami League , which accuses the government of inventing 14 million “phantom voters”. The European Union and the UN are withdrawing their election observers from Bangladesh.
• Grenoble / France : The Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov , head of the mining company OAO Norilsk, is arrested during a raid in the noble ski resort Courchevel for participating in a luxury call girl ring and, according to the public prosecutor Xavier Richaud, is interrogated.
• Helmand / Afghanistan : According to police chief Mohammad Nabi Mullahchail, 16 civilians and 13 Taliban are killed in a NATO attack on Taliban positions in the southern Afghan province of Helmand . A spokesman for the British troops, however, claims that, according to current information, all those killed belong to the Taliban.
• Orbit : A Chinese anti-satellite weapon hits the Chinese weather satellite Fengyun-1C at an altitude of 800 km . It is the first successful launch of a satellite by the People's Republic of China.
• Washington, DC / United States : US President George W. Bush announces in a TV speech that the US Congress will send another 21,500 soldiers to Iraq . In addition, he reiterated for the second time the statement he made for the first time in December 2006 that he had underestimated the conditions in Iraq.
• Vienna / Austria : The new federal government Gusenbauer is sworn in . The event had to be held under heavy police protection, while the 1,500 to 2,000 primarily student demonstrators loudly chanted “Who betrayed us - The Social Democrats”. In Salzburg, members of the VSStÖ and the youth trade union wall up the SPÖ headquarters.

Friday January 12, 2007

BVerfG building in Karlsruhe

• Accra / Ghana : "Two generations, one future" is this year's theme of the Africa Forum, which is taking place on African soil for the first time at the request of German President Horst Köhler . Young executives from Africa and Germany meet representatives from politics and business.
• Karlsruhe / Germany : The Federal Constitutional Court rejected in a published decision, the constitutional complaint of the Moroccan terrorist Mounir al-Motassadeq off with his lawyers next to the revision , the penalty decision of the Higher Regional Court in Hamburg wanted to prevent.

Saturday January 13, 2007

• Chemnitz / Germany : Florian Silbereisen wins the “Super-Krone” at the Krone der Volksmusik .

Sunday January 14, 2007

• Paris / France : Nicolas Sarkozy is presidential candidate of the conservatives for the forthcoming presidential election in France.

Monday January 15, 2007

Edmund Stoiber

• Amrum , Sylt / Germany : Last week's storm fronts caused serious damage to the North Sea islands in Schleswig-Holstein . In the south of the island of Sylt, which lists Region Sylt after the hurricane "Fritz" a land loss of 30 to 50 meters. In Kampen (Sylt) pieces are already being washed out of the cliff . The front dunes between Westerland and Wenningstedt are already threatened. In most other places, the artificially washed up beach to protect the island is almost completely removed. For example, 100,000 cubic meters of sand were carried away by the waves without a chance to take countermeasures during the ongoing storm. Amrum was also hit hard. There are reports of dune losses of up to 20 meters in the northwest of the island. Even in Helgoland you lose an estimated 10,000 m³ of sand on the dunes on the north beach, which corresponds to around 1000 truckloads.
• Baghdad / Iraq : Despite ongoing international protests against the death penalty , two close confidants of the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein are executed. Official film recordings of the execution prove that one of the executed, Saddam's half-brother, Barzan Ibrahim at-Tikriti , the former head of the secret service, had his head torn off by the hanging . The Sunnis have again criticized the Shiite government for staging the death penalty against Awad Hamed al-Bander as an act of revenge. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice expressed her disappointment with the "manner in which the execution was carried out", while EU Commission President José Manuel Barroso and Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi condemned the execution.
• Munich / Germany : The Bavarian Constitutional Court decides that the existing ban on headscarves for teachers at state schools in Bavaria is legal, and has a popular action of the association Islamic religious community from.
• Quito / Ecuador : The politically left-wing Rafael Correa is sworn in as the new President of Ecuador. In doing so, he announced decisive democratic reforms and an end to the neoliberal economic system in his country. He would like to push through the necessary reforms with a referendum, as he does not have the necessary majority in parliament to amend the constitution.
• Wildbad Kreuth / Germany : Bavaria's Prime Minister Edmund Stoiber struggles for his political future; He fights for his "goals, for the success of Bavaria, for the success of the CSU ." Leading CSU politicians condemn a report in the Bild newspaper about an extramarital affair between the deputy party chairman Horst Seehofer and an office worker as a defamatory mud fight that could Stoiber's successor is already trying to dismantle. Stoiber stands behind Seehofer, expresses his unreserved trust and describes him as the "political alpha animal of our party." The Bavarian SPD might want to force new elections by means of a referendum if Stoiber does not go voluntarily.

Tuesday January 16, 2007

Joachim Herrmann

• Havana / Cuba : The Cuban head of state Fidel Castro is allegedly in a precarious state of health after a perforated bowel through which he loses considerable amounts of fluids every day.
• Messina / Italy : In a collision between the container ship "Susan Borchard" and a much smaller passenger ship, the hydrofoil "Segesta Jet" in the Strait of Messina , four people from the crew there, including their captain , are killed. 130 passengers survived the disaster.
• Munich / Germany : The long-term convalescent Sebastian Deisler announced his departure from professional football at a press conference of FC Bayern Munich due to persistent health problems . The 27-year-old athlete was considered to be one of the greatest technical talents in German professional football, but in the end he was never able to assert himself internationally because of his unstable psyche and his five-fold knee injury.
• Washington, DC / United States : Barack Obama took the first step towards becoming the first African-American candidate with a real chance of being elected 44th President of the United States and successor to George W. Bush in November 2008. Since the incumbent is not allowed to run for a third time, there is power struggle among both the Republicans and the Democrats . With the establishment of an exploratory committee to collect donations for his planned election campaign and to recruit planning staff, Obama has for the first time announced ambitions that cannot be overlooked for the presidency, which the African-American civil rights activist Jesse Jackson sought for the last time in a comparable way in 1988 .
• Wildbad Kreuth / Germany : The pressure on Bavaria's Prime Minister Edmund Stoiber continues to grow in the CSU : According to the chairman of the parliamentary group, Joachim Herrmann , the party leader must “open the way for a renewal at the right time”. An announcement at a party congress in September 2007 was rejected. Herrmann makes it clear that the majority of the parliamentary group would like a different top candidate than Stoiber. In a half-hour militant speech, he announced that he wanted to be available, “but he didn't have to” at any cost.

Wednesday January 17, 2007

Airbus logo

• Paris / France : According to Airbus boss Louis Gallois , in 2006 the group fell behind its rival Boeing from the USA for the first time in seven years . While Airbus had 824 orders in 2006, its rival from the USA achieved 1,050. Despite record production, Airbus is writing losses, and the delivery crisis for the A380 model is reducing profit margins.
• Brussels / Belgium : The EU Commissioner Stavros Dimas wants above all to force the German automotive industry to adhere to an upper limit for carbon dioxide of 120 grams per kilometer for new vehicles by 2012 . There is currently a voluntary value of 140 grams, which is supposed to apply for 2008, but is not being achieved by most manufacturers. Dimas' German colleague Günter Verheugen firmly rejects the Greek's plans.
• London / United Kingdom : The Doomsday Clock of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is presented to two minutes at five to twelve. The scientists justify this with the nuclear programs in North Korea and Iran .

Thursday January 18, 2007

Hurricane Kyrill on January 18, 2007, 12.30 p.m. UTC

• Europe : Hurricane Kyrill will be the worst storm for Germany and parts of Europe in almost 20 years. With wind speeds above wind force 12 and over 200 km / h, it leads to nationwide traffic chaos in Germany, as Deutsche Bahn completely stops train traffic for safety reasons from the early evening for the first time in the history of German railways. The worst of the storm is in North Rhine-Westphalia , where a motorcyclist in Essen and a car driver near Lippstadt as well as two fire fighters are killed by falling trees. In Bavaria, a barn door torn out kills a 73-year-old. Likewise, a two-year-old lost her life through a balcony door that could not withstand the storm; two more drivers are killed in Saxony-Anhalt and Baden-Württemberg . The numerous motorway bridges over the Rhine have to be closed almost without exception. However, there is no real storm surge on the North Sea coast . A total of ten people died in Germany from hurricane Kyrill; 29 people across Europe.
• Munich / Germany : Bavaria's Prime Minister Edmund Stoiber announces his resignation on September 30, 2007. He will also no longer be available for the new election of the CSU chairman in autumn 2007.

Friday January 19, 2007

• Halle (Westphalia) / Germany : The men's handball world championship begins with the game between Germany and Brazil . It ends 27:22.

Saturday 20th January 2007

• Washington, DC / United States : The Democrat , Senator and wife of ex-President Bill Clinton , Hillary Clinton , announces her candidacy for the office of US President . The core themes of their policy are to end the Iraq war, energy policy, the high national deficit and health insurance for all Americans.

Monday January 22, 2007

Erwin Huber

• Belgrade / Serbia : The nationalist Srpska Radikalna Stranka led by Tomislav Nikolić emerged from the parliamentary elections in Serbia as the strongest party. But this has no majority to form a government.
• Munich / Germany : Talks are taking place in the Bavarian capital about the successor to Prime Minister Edmund Stoiber , who retired from the CSU party leadership in September 2007 . This meeting is overshadowed by the power struggle between Federal Agriculture Minister Horst Seehofer , who is Stoiber's preferred candidate for party leadership, and Bavaria's Minister of State for Economics, Infrastructure, Transport and Technology, Erwin Huber , who is favored by the grassroots. The latter insists on the party chairmanship, while Günther Beckstein is seen as the favorite for the post of Prime Minister.
• Conakry / Guinea : In Guinea, the nearly two-week general strike against the government of Lansana Conté is escalating . At least 11 people were killed and at least 100 others were injured in the nationwide protests. The opposition accuses the government of corruption , arbitrariness and brutality.
• Germany : The so-called “voluntary” winter sales are entering the decisive phase throughout Germany. Due to the mild climate is at Winterbekleidungs- and winter sports with discounts expected of up to 70 percent.
• Paris / France : The legendary poor priest and founder of the Emmaus Abbé Pierre charity , Henri Antoine Grouès , dies of pneumonia at the age of 94 .

Tuesday January 23, 2007

Listening devices

• Berlin / Germany : An alleged bug is found in the office of Bundestag member Wolfgang Nešković ( Die Linke ) . This meant that the member of the BND committee and the secret parliamentary control body ( PKG ), which is responsible for monitoring the secret services, could have been wiretapped. In the meantime, however, it is only assumed that electrical devices are not “ready for operation” and that they do not belong there.
• Düsseldorf / Germany : In the North Rhine-Westphalian state capital, the police are carrying out a separate raid in 26 cases in the protection money environment.
• Tel-Aviv / Israel : The Israeli attorney general's office has announced that it will bring charges against President Moshe Katzav of sexual assault against female employees.

Wednesday January 24, 2007

• Berlin / Germany : The Minister of Foreign Affairs Frank-Walter Steinmeier ( SPD ) comes into conflict with his statements in the case of the by the publication of secret documents United States in Guantanamo Bay detention camp detainees Bremer Murat Kurnaz . The documents show that US intelligence services complained to the Federal Intelligence Service in November 2002 that Germany, contrary to the presumption of innocence, was refusing to return Kurnaz. Steinmeier, as the head of the chancellery at the time, must have known the process.
• Brussels / Munich : The Siemens group is punished by the EU Commission with a record fine of 418 million euros for illegal market and price fixing. The Swiss company ABB , which initiated the investigation, is the beneficiary of the leniency program and emerges without penalty. The from France coming Schneider Group is 8.1 million euros relatively modest it. However, the Japanese companies Mitsubishi , Toshiba , Hitachi , Fuji and AE Power Systems will “wait” for further penalties .
• Wuppertal / Germany : The so-called death pill trial , which has been going on since December 2006 , is coming to an end in the Wuppertal district court . The accused is the 23-year-old event manager and student Kejdi S., who since 2004 has commercially sold fatal drugs to people at risk of suicide via the Internet in 16 cases . Two people died, including a young policewoman, the rest fell into a coma , survived the deadly dose of Luminal and Truxal thanks to the help of third parties , but will suffer from the consequences for life due to serious necrosis . The public prosecutor's office demands five years due to the commercial offense and the fact that the accused logged into relevant chat rooms as a like-minded person under false circumstances in order to pursue his lucrative business there. Since suicide is not punishable in the Federal Republic of Germany, for example in Great Britain , the aid cannot be punished in a comparable form, but only as a serious violation of the Medicines Act . The defense demands a lighter sentence for counterfeit prescriptions or misuse of medication. Kejdi S. is sentenced to three years and nine months in prison. In the grounds of the verdict, the presiding judge emphasizes the unscrupulousness, great criminal energy and conspiratorial methods with which the Wuppertal man proceeded. Since the public prosecutor had initially assumed six deaths, they had asked for five years in prison. The defense announces an immediate appeal to the Federal Court of Justice .

Thursday January 25, 2007

• Stockholm / Sweden : This year's Polar Music Awards go to tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins and composer Steve Reich .

Friday January 26, 2007

UEFA logo

• Nyon / Switzerland : Michel Platini is elected as the new President of the European Football Association UEFA . He prevails in a first fight vote against the previous incumbent Johansson . He had headed UEFA since 1990.

Saturday January 27, 2007

• Potsdam / Germany : In the vote at the CDU state party conference on January 27, 2007, Petke is defeated by 110 to 112 votes to his opponent Ulrich Junghanns , whom the previous incumbent Schönbohm favored.

Sunday January 28, 2007

• Dublin / Northern Ireland : At a special party conference, the Sinn Féin recognized the Northern Irish police in a historic vote by 2000 delegates . Thus it removes an important obstacle on the way to the restoration of a Northern Irish regional government. According to party chairman Gerry Adams , she “created the opportunity to change the political landscape on this island forever”. In return, the British government promised to limit the role of the MI5 secret service in the province.

Monday January 29, 2007

• Düsseldorf / Berlin : The exit from subsidized hard coal mining for 2018 is considered a done deal between the state governments and the federal government, as the SPD has now also agreed to close the mines. The state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Social Democrats reserve the right to re-examine the feasibility study in 2012 with regard to social compatibility. The Saarland is also affected by this regulation .
• Istanbul / Turkey : Turkish security forces achieve success against global terrorism - Al-Qaida network : A total of 46 suspects are arrested in nationwide raids . The action takes place simultaneously in Konya , Istanbul, Izmir , İzmit and Mardin .
• The Hague / Netherlands : With the admission of the indictment against the Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubanga , there will be the first trial before the International Criminal Court , which has been in existence for five years .

Tuesday January 30, 2007

• Addis Ababa / Ethiopia : Somalia's President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed announces a national reconciliation conference at a meeting with EU Development Commissioner Louis Michel at the end of the African Union summit . In addition, the summit resolves to create a council of wise men.
• Brussels : The ten percent clause anchored in Turkish electoral law is valid in the opinion of the European Court of Human Rights . According to this law, the votes for a party that received less than ten percent in the National Council election are not taken into account at the national level.
• The Microsoft Windows Vista operating system appears

Wednesday January 31, 2007

• Germany : The most successful girl band in continental Europe, the No Angels , announced their comeback with four instead of five after a four-year break . Vanessa Petruo will not join the band again.
• Karlsruhe / Germany : The Federal Constitutional Court declares that the different taxation in inheritance tax law in its current form is unconstitutional. Since the value of real estate and business assets is determined according to different criteria, this leads to arbitrary results and thus violates the principle of equal treatment . The court gave the legislature a deadline of December 31, 2008 to amend the Inheritance Tax Act.
• London / United Kingdom : Tata Steel takes over the European steel company Corus , outpacing its main competitor, the Brazilian Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional .
• Munich / Germany : In the kidnapping case of Khaled al-Masri , the Munich public prosecutor issues 13 arrest warrants against alleged agents of the American intelligence service CIA .
• Wiesbaden / Germany : The Federal Criminal Police Office warns of fake e-mails that allegedly originate from their authority and inform the addressees that an investigation is being opened against the recipient for illegitimate copying . As an attachment, there is supposedly a criminal complaint to be printed out, which should be filled out and faxed to the BKA together with a statement. However, this is an executable file that appears to be a Trojan horse. The program in question embeds itself in the system and downloads files from the Internet in order to spy out passwords .

See also

• Nekrolog January 2007 for deaths this month
• List of annually recurring commemorative and action days in January
• Category for commemorative days, holidays or action days in January

Web links

Finland in January 2007

Commons : January 2007  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

 Wikinews: Article Published January 2007  - News

Individual evidence

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27. ^ Zeit Online : A power struggle for a birthday ( Memento from January 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
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35. ↑ rallye-magazin.de
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56. ↑ de.today.reuters.com  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
57. ↑ handelsblatt.com
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59. ↑ nzz.ch
60. ^ Tense calm in the capital Dhaka - tagesschau.de (tagesschau.de archive)
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62. ↑ 20min.ch
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72. ^ Decision of the Bavarian Constitutional Court of January 15, 2007 on the popular complaint of the Islamic Religious Community. V. in B. on the determination of the unconstitutionality of Art. 59 Para. 2 Clause 3 of the Bavarian Law on Education and Instruction (BayEUG) in the version of the announcement of May 31, 2000. In: bayern.verfassungsgerichtshof.de . Retrieved May 19, 2019 . 
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75. ↑ handelsblatt.de ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 
76. ↑ tagesanzeiger.ch
77. ↑ sueddeutsche.de
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86. ↑ Storm depression Kyrill kills dozens . In: Die Welt , January 19, 2007.
87. ↑ aachener-zeitung.de ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
88. ↑ spiegel.de
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91. ↑ spiegel.de
92. ↑ taz.de
93. ↑ businessnews.com ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) 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.  
94. ↑ A life fighting poverty . In: Die Welt , January 23, 2007
95. ↑ zeit.de/online
96. ↑ sueddeutsche.de
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98. ↑ ftd.de : Secret documents refute Steinmeier ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
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102. ↑ sport.orf.at
103. ↑ Sinn Fein recognizes the Northern Irish Police - tagesschau.de (tagesschau.de archive)
104. ↑ spiegel.de
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106. ↑ icc-cpi.int ( Memento of the original from December 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 
107. ↑ de.today.reuters.com  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
108. ↑ nzz.ch
109. ↑ cmiskp.echr.coe.int
110. ↑ t-online.de : No Angels back! ( Memento from February 3, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
111. ↑ n-tv.de
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113. ↑ List of names of the arrest warrant against alleged CIA agents. In: presseportal.de , material from ndr.de . January 31, 2007, accessed June 1, 2019 . 
114. ↑ Fake BKA mails contain Trojans. In: heise.de/tp . January 31, 2007, accessed October 13, 2019 .