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This article covers breaking news and events in January 2018.

Daily events

Monday 1st January 2018

Logo of the Bulgarian EU Council Presidency 2018

• Berlin / Germany : With the new investment tax law, domestic investment funds, domestic dividends and real estate income are directly subject to 15 percent corporation tax . In addition, funds that distribute or reinvest profits are treated equally for tax purposes.
• Berlin / Germany : In Germany, a new construction law contract law applies to contracts from January 1st . In the new Sections 631 et seq. Of the German Civil Code (BGB), various regulations were specifically incorporated specifically for construction and consumer construction contracts .
• Bern / Switzerland : Alain Berset takes up the post of Swiss Federal President according to schedule .
• Kinshasa / Democratic Republic of the Congo : The state power under President Joseph Kabila reacted with brutal repression to calls to protest about the miserable economic situation by the Committee of Catholic Laity at the turn of the year . Shooting at demonstrators and the use of tear gas in Catholic churches resulted in many injuries and several fatalities.
• Cologne / Germany : Against the AfD politician Beatrix von Storch , the Cologne police filed a criminal complaint. She had responded to several tweets on Twitter in which the Cologne police wished a Happy New Year in several languages, asking whether the police would appease my " barbaric , Muslim , group- raping hordes of men". Twitter also temporarily blocked her user account due to the Network Enforcement Act that came into force that day .
• Beijing / China : The ban on the trade and processing of ivory comes into force in the People's Republic of China .
• Reykjavík / Iceland : In Iceland, a law comes into force, according to which companies with at least 25 employees must prove the same pay for male and female employees for the same performance. This is intended to legally close the gender pay gap .
• Riyadh / Saudi Arabia : The governments of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are introducing VAT for the first time in their country's history .
• Rome / Italy : Italy takes over the presidency of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
• Sofia / Bulgaria : Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union ( Bulgarian EU Council Presidency 2018 ).
• Vienna / Austria : The New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic will be conducted for the fifth time by Riccardo Muti .

Tuesday January 2, 2018

• Berlin / Germany : Winter storm Burglind is approaching Germany and is causing severe damage, especially in the west and south as well as in Switzerland .
• Chișinău / Moldova : After refusing to confirm several pro-European ministers, the Moldovan Constitutional Court temporarily suspends President Igor Dodon's powers .
• Jerusalem / Israel : The Israeli government has announced that it will request illegal immigrants from African countries to return to their homes within 90 days or to emigrate to third countries. Otherwise, there is a threat of arrest from April.

Wednesday January 3, 2018

• Addis Ababa / Ethiopia : The Ethiopian government announces that it wants to release all political prisoners and annul proceedings against political opponents. The infamous Makelawi prison is to be converted into a museum. Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn wants to strengthen democracy and promote national reconciliation.
• Graz / Austria : A team of international IT security researchers from Austria, Germany , Australia and the United States publishes two serious security vulnerabilities under the names " Specter " and " Meltdown " , which affect a large part of the microprocessors produced since the 1990s .

Thursday 4th January 2018

• Bloemfontein / South Africa : At least 18 people are killed in the collision of a train with a truck near Kroonstad in the Free State of Bavaria . Another 250 people are injured.

Friday 5th January 2018

• New York City / United States : An emergency meeting of the UN Security Council requested by the United States because of the ongoing protests in Iran comes to the conclusion that no interventions by the international community are necessary at this point in time.

Saturday 6th January 2018

Kamil Stoch

• Bischofshofen / Austria : Defending champion Kamil Stoch from Poland wins the 66th Four Hills Tournament in ski jumping ahead of German Andreas Wellinger . Stoch won all four competitions on this year's tour.
• Ciudad Juárez / Mexico : At least 31 people suspected of being linked to the Sinaloa drug cartel are killed in Chihuahua state . In the border town of Ciudad Juárez alone, 21 people, including four women and one child, are killed. The local press reports that some victims were also tortured.
• Maiduguri / Nigeria : After days of fighting and bombing by the Nigerian armed forces on their positions in the Monguno region in Borno state and near Lake Chad , hundreds of fighters from the Islamist terrorist organization Boko Haram surrender .
• Riyadh / Saudi Arabia : After protests against the end of state subsidies for their electricity and water bills, eleven princes from the Saudi royal family are arrested and taken to the Ha'ir maximum security prison south of Riyadh. The princes demonstrated publicly in front of a palace in the Qasr Al-Hokm district of Riyadh on January 4.
• Shanghai / China : The Panamanian flagged oil tanker Sanchi of the Iranian shipping company Bright Shipping , leased by Hanwha Total Petrochemical Co Ltd., with around 136,000 tons of oil on board, collides with the bulk carrier CF Crystal under the Hong Kong flag of a Chinese shipping company with 64,000 tons Grain from the USA in the East China Sea 300 km from Shanghai. The oil tanker tilts and is on fire. The 32-man crew of the Sanchi is still missing. The 21 crew members of the CF Crystal can be saved.

Sunday 7th January 2018

Fatih Akin (2009)

• Beverly Hills / United States : At the Golden Globe Awards , the film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and the series Big Little Lies were the most successful with four prizes each. The German-French contribution Out of Nowhere by Fatih Akin is recognized as the best foreign language film .
• Caracas / Venezuela : After numerous looting in the country, especially in Caicara de Maturín , the armed forces and the police take control of the entrances to the food markets in the country in order to enforce and monitor the price reduction ordered by the government.
• Sanaa / Yemen : After the assassination of former president and chairman of the ruling party Ali Abdullah Saleh by Huthi -Rebellen Sadeq Ameen Abu Rass as the new chairman of the ruling party is General People's Congress appointed. The ruling party is open to all Yemeni groups working towards national unity. Civil war has been raging in Yemen for years between the government supported by Saudi Arabia and Houthi rebels, who are said to have support from Iran.
• Tehran / Iran : The Iranian government prohibits English lessons in primary schools. The country's top religious leader , Ayatollah Chamene'i , describes English as part of a cultural invasion of the West.

Monday 8th January 2018

Demolition of the Immerather Cathedral

• Erkelenz / Germany : In the district of Immerath , the demolition of the listed Immerath Cathedral begins , which has to give way to the brown coal opencast mine .
• Wewak / Papua New Guinea : The eruption of the Kadovar volcano on the island of the same name in the province of East Sepik leads to the evacuation of the entire island population with around 2,000 people, 1,300 more than stated in the first reports, which were based on the electoral roll.
• Vienna / Austria : The complexity researcher Stefan Thurner is named Austrian Scientist of the Year 2017 by the Club of Education and Science Journalists .

Tuesday January 9, 2018

• Canberra / Australia : The opening of marriage in Australia comes into force.
• Makurdi / Nigeria : Authorities in the state of Benue announce that after days of fighting over land disputes between Christian farmers and herders of the Muslim Fulani ethnic group, at least 80 people have died and thousands have fled because of the conflict.
• Tegucigalpa / Honduras : Off the Caribbean coast of Honduras, one of the heaviest earthquakes in recent years occurs with a magnitude of 7.6. A tsunami warning is quickly lifted, and the Honduran civil protection authorities have not received any reports of damage.
• Tehran / Iran : According to a member of parliament, around 3,700 people were arrested in connection with the protests of regime critics in Iran, significantly more than previously assumed. The highest religious leader, Ayatollah Chamene'i , describes the unrest as a struggle of the country's enemies against Iran and its citizens, as well as against Islam .
• Warsaw / Poland : Poland's new Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki reshuffles his cabinet. In addition to the controversial ministers Witold Waszczykowski (foreign policy) and Antoni Macierewicz (defense), many others were dismissed in the conflict with the European Union . The new Foreign Minister will be Jacek Czaputowicz , the new Defense Minister Mariusz Błaszczak .

Wednesday January 10, 2018

• Tunis / Tunisia : After protests against tax increases and price increases in numerous cities, clashes between demonstrators and security forces led to clashes, during which almost 50 security officers were injured and over 200 demonstrators were arrested. In addition, there was an attempted arson attack on the Djerba synagogue .

Thursday January 11, 2018

• Amsterdam / Netherlands : The publisher announces that after 140 years the last printed edition of the telephone directory will appear in the Netherlands. In future, only online editions will be maintained. Training courses are designed to make the transition easier for senior citizens in rural areas.

Friday January 12th 2018

• Berlin / Germany : After the failure of the formation of a government for a so-called Jamaica coalition ( Jamaica-Aus ), the party and parliamentary groups from the CDU, CSU and SPD agree in exploratory talks to start coalition negotiations with the aim of re-launching the grand coalition as a stable one Government after the general election in September 2017 .
• Prague / Czech Republic : The presidential election begins. There are a total of nine candidates. The incumbent Miloš Zeman has the greatest chance .
• Zagreb / Croatia : The 13th men's handball European championship begins with opening victories for Belarus and Iceland. The Icelandic Bundesliga professional Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson equalized the world record for international goals.

Saturday 13th January 2018

Mário Centeno (2016)

• Paris / France : Former Portuguese finance minister Mário Centeno is introduced as chairman of the Eurogroup. Centeno names his goal of deepening monetary union and completing it institutionally.
• Johannesburg / South Africa : After an unsuccessful advertising campaign by the textile retail chain H&M , which can be interpreted as racist, shops of the fashion chain in South Africa are temporarily closed following demonstrations and looting.
• Sevastopol / Crimea : Russia stations two S-400 anti-aircraft batteries on the occupied and annexed Crimean peninsula.
• Trabzon / Turkey : A Boeing 737 of the Turkish Pegasus Airlines coming from Ankara slips off the runway of Trabzon airport, which is parallel to the coast of the Black Sea , on approach in rain and with limited visibility and gets stuck in the mud on the slope 25 meters above the coastline. None of the 162 passengers and six crew members were injured in the accident, but the plane was seriously damaged. A sudden thrust in the right engine is said to be the cause of the accident.

Sunday January 14, 2018

• Lima / Peru : A severe earthquake with an epicenter near Acari off the southern Peruvian coast kills at least two and injures over 60.
• Shanghai / China : According to a report on Chinese state television, the oil tanker Sanchi of the Iranian shipping company Bright Shipping , which was damaged a week ago, sank in the East China Sea in Japanese territorial waters. The Iranian Ministry of Transport confirms the deaths of all 30 Iranian seamen. Two Bangladeshi seamen are still missing. China is preparing for an oil spill, the extent of the oil pollution is not yet foreseeable.

Monday 15th January 2018

• Athens / Greece : In protest against reform plans of the government, which among other things provide for a tightening of the right to strike, there is a general strike in Greece, which affects local public transport, air traffic and the public service.
• Bucharest / Romania : After the loss of political support for his social democratic party , Prime Minister Mihai Tudose , who has only been in office for seven months, resigns . Defense Minister Mihai Fifor takes over his official duties .

Tuesday January 16, 2018

• Yakutsk / Russia : A cold spell causes the temperature in the Russian Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) to drop to -67 ° C, only 4 Kelvin higher than the minimum recorded there.

Wednesday 17th January 2018

• Ellwangen / Germany : The US company Energizer takes over the German company VARTA AG .
• Panmunjeom / Demilitarized Zone Korea : In talks on détente on the Korean peninsula between the warring states of North and South Korea in the demilitarized zone that separates the two states, both sides agree to jointly under the flag of unity at the upcoming Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea to march in and compete in women's ice hockey with a team. To this end, the South Korean team is to be supplemented by seven North Korean athletes.
• Temuco / Chile : During his trip abroad to Chile, Pope Francis denounces the suffering of the indigenous Mapuche people , who are mostly at home in the Araucania region . The Mapuche are demanding the return of lands that were taken from them during the Pinochet dictatorship. The Pope's visit is overshadowed by attacks on several churches.

Thursday January 18, 2018

Blown tree in the Netherlands

• Afrin / Syria : In Syria , the armed forces of Turkey begin an attack on the Kurdish militias allied with the Americans in the province of Afrin , which had helped fight the terrorist organization Islamic State .
• Amsterdam / Netherlands : Storm Friederike causes massive disruption to road, rail, air and ship traffic in the Netherlands, Belgium , Germany and Switzerland . Hundreds of flight connections will be canceled at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol , Deutsche Bahn will discontinue its long-distance traffic and in large parts of central Germany also all local traffic. In addition to a lot of property damage, several people are killed as a result of weather-related accidents. Previously, the hurricane hit Ireland and Great Britain , where there are also traffic disruptions and power outages.
• Aqtöbe / Kazakhstan : 52 inmates, presumably Uzbek migrant workers on their way to Russia , are killed in a fire in a coach near Yrghys . Only five people survive the fire.

Friday 19th January 2018

• Khartoum / Sudan : The National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) arrests seven journalists who exposed economic protests in Khartoum. The background to this is unclear.
• Munich / Germany : At the 39th Bavarian Film Prize , Diane Kruger , David Kross and Frederick Lau are honored as best actors, Verena Altenberger and Jonas Dassler as best young actors, Fatih Akin with the director's award for Out of Nowhere and Adrian Goiginger with the young director's award for the best of all worlds .

Saturday 20th January 2018

Operation Olive Branch

• Ankara / Turkey : The Turkish General Staff announces the military offensive called " Operation Olive Branch " and, with the support of the Free Syrian Army, wants to free the residents of the northern Syrian border region around Afrin in the Syrian Governorate of Aleppo from "terrorist repression". Turkey is thus making use of its right to self-defense. The terrorist organization Islamic State (IS) is also a target of the operation. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan previously stated that the announced ground offensive had "de facto" started. Afterwards, the city ​​of Manbij , controlled by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), was attacked.
• Washington, DC / United States : After Republican and Democratic Congressmen fail to agree on a transitional budget, numerous federal agencies in the country come to a standstill and their dependents are forced to take unpaid leave.

Sunday January 21, 2018

• Bonn / Germany : At a special party conference of the SPD, a majority of 362 of the 642 delegates vote in favor of coalition negotiations with the CDU / CSU to form a grand coalition at the federal level.
• Kabul / Afghanistan : At least 24 people are killed in an attack on the Hotel Inter-Continental in Kabul , including 14 foreign nationals and four Afghan civilians. 153 people could be evacuated from the hotel. The alleged six Islamist attackers exchanged guns with the security forces for over 17 hours. The hotel was attacked by the Taliban on June 28, 2011 .
• Thessaloniki / Greece : In the northern Greek port city, tens of thousands of people demonstrate against a compromise in the dispute over the future name of the neighboring country Macedonia .
• Wairoa / New Zealand : With the successful launch of the launch rocket Electron by the New Zealand space company Rocket Lab at the company's own spaceport on the Mahia peninsula , three research satellites of the Cubesat type and the small satellite Humanity Star will be launched into space .

Monday 22nd January 2018

• Monrovia / Liberia : The newly elected President George Weah takes office. Jewel Howard-Taylor becomes Vice-President . For Liberia, this is the first peaceful change of power in 74 years.
• Washington, DC / United States : After Democratic Congressmen abandon their delaying tactic and agree to a compromise on a transitional budget, the deadlock on many federal agencies in the country will end.

Tuesday January 23, 2018

• Davos / Switzerland : The 48th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) begins with an opening speech by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi .
• Kodiak / United States : A strong 8.0 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Alaska with an epicenter in the Gulf of Alaska triggers a tsunami warning not only for Alaska but also for Canada and initially for the island of Hawaii .

Wednesday January 24, 2018

• Luxembourg / Luxembourg : The Court of the European Union decides that the title of the Fack Venezia goehte - movies on an idea by Bora Dagtekin may not be protected as a trademark, as it constituted "an offensive and vulgar insult".
• Shanghai / China : After an animal was cloned for the first time with the sheep Dolly 22 years ago and meanwhile 22 different animal species have been cloned, Chinese scientists publish that they have cloned a monkey for the first time .

Thursday 25th January 2018

Cloudy Lahn valley in the afternoon with Marburg Castle in the fog

• Kourou / French Guiana : An Ariane 5 ECA rocket brings the communications satellites SES 14 and Al Yah 3 into geotransfer orbit . Due to a malfunction of the rocket, the satellites were launched in a suboptimal orbit. However, both satellites should be able to reach their target orbits.
• Milan / Italy : In a train accident in the morning rush hour, three people are killed and around 110 are injured.
• Offenbach am Main / Germany : According to the German Meteorological Service (DWD), winter in Germany has never been as gray and cloudy as this time of the year since the weather records began. December 2017 and January 2018 are the months with the lowest registered sunshine duration.
• Xichang / China : A Chinese CZ-2C rocket puts three earth observation satellites from the Yaogan-Weixing series and the Weina 1A nanosatellite from the Xichang cosmodrome into orbit.

Friday 26th January 2018

• Guatemala City / Guatemala : Former Guatemalan Defense Minister Williams Mansilla is arrested on corruption charges.
• Miryang / South Korea : At least 37 people die in a large fire in a hospital.
• South Tarawa / Kiribati : Following the disappearance of the Kiribati ferry MV Butiraoi on its way to the capital on the Tarawa Atoll with allegedly 100 people on board, extensive search operations are being started, coordinated by the New Zealand Air Force and supported by Australia and the United States . Seven castaways have been rescued so far.

Saturday 27th January 2018

In October 2017, Puigdemont unilaterally declared Catalonia's independence

• Afrin / Syria : Large parts of the ancient temple of Tell Ain Dara are devastated during a Turkish bombardment in the course of Operation Olive Branch . The temple complex is considered to be one of the most important testimonies from the time of the Aramaeans in Syria.
• Kabul / Afghanistan : At least 95 people die and another 158 people are injured in a suicide bomb attack.
• Madrid / Spain : Following a complaint from the Spanish government, the Spanish Constitutional Court will only allow the candidate Carles Puigdemont proposed by the Catalan parliamentary president Roger Torrent in the election of the Catalan regional president planned for Tuesday in the event of his personal presence at the electoral process in the Catalan regional parliament in Barcelona . Puigdemont, who was deposed as Catalan regional president in October 2017, is currently in exile in Brussels because he has been arrested in Spain for rebellion, riot and misappropriation of public funds, and wanted to rule from exile. The separatists defended their majority in the parliamentary elections in December .
• Prague / Czech Republic : incumbent Miloš Zeman narrowly prevails against his challenger Jiří Drahoš in the runoff election for president .
• Vienna / Austria : The SPÖ Vienna elects a new state party leader after around 24 years. The incumbent City Councilor for Housing, Michael Ludwig, replaces the long-term mayor Michael Häupl at the head of the most influential social-democratic state group.

Sunday 28th January 2018

• Addis Ababa / Ethiopia : The 30th summit of the African Union (AU) begins in the Ethiopian capital . The focus of the deliberations is a reform of the AU and the fight against corruption on the African continent. The AU elects the Rwandan President Paul Kagame as its new President.
• Helsinki / Finland : In the Finnish presidential election , the incumbent Sauli Niinistö will be re-elected in the first ballot.
• Nicosia / Cyprus : incumbent Nikos Anastasiades missed an absolute majority in the Cypriot presidential election . His challenger in the runoff election is the leftist candidate, Stavros Malas.
• St. Pölten / Austria : In the state elections in Lower Austria , the ÖVP won an absolute majority.
• Zagreb / Croatia : In the final of the European handball championship , the Spanish selection prevailed against the Swedish team.

Monday 29th January 2018

Fan posters with the Chief Wahoo logo

• Bonn / Germany : The International Paralympic Committee IPC follows the decision of the International Olympic Committee IOC and excludes the Russian National Committee RPT from the Paralympic Games . Individual athletes from Russia are allowed to start under a neutral flag.
• Bucharest / Romania : Viorica Dăncilă is the first woman to be elected Prime Minister of Romania.
• Cleveland / United States : The Baseball - Franchise Cleveland Indians announced that starting from the season 2019 on its logo "Chief Wahoo" to dispense. Since the figurative mark shows an indigenous American , the club management has to deal regularly with accusations of racism .

Tuesday 30th January 2018

• Aden / Yemen : After two days of fighting, South Yemeni separatists of the Southern Transitional Council (STC) succeed in capturing the port of Yemen's important port city of Aden and the current seat of government of President Hadi, who is backed by Saudi Arabia .
• Nairobi / Kenya : Almost two months after the Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta took office , his rival Raila Odinga can also be proclaimed "President".
• Wolfsburg / Germany : The car maker Volkswagen AG provides its Plenipotentiary Thomas Steg free and thus respond to the notification of emission tests on monkeys and people with whom the harmlessness of diesel engine - emissions should be occupied.

Wednesday January 31, 2018

• Ottawa / Canada : The Canadian Senate decides that the English-language version of the national anthem O Canada will in future include all genders. This is already the case with the French-speaking variant.
• Bissau / Guinea-Bissau : President José Mário Vaz appoints Artur Silva as Prime Minister. This follows the resigned Umaro Sissoco Embaló .
• Grafenegg / Austria : At the Austrian Film Prize 2018 , the films Light and The Best of All Worlds are each awarded in five categories.

See also

• Nekrolog January 2018 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

Rhine flood on January 7, 2018 at the gauge in Cologne

Commons : January 2018  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

 Wikinews: Articles Published January 2018  - News

Individual evidence

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