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This article covers breaking news and events in January 2019.

Daily events

Tuesday 1st January 2019

Logo of the Romanian EU Council Presidency 2019

Jair Bolsonaro is the new President of Brazil

• Bankass / Mali : At least 37 people are killed in an armed attack by the Dogon ethnic group on the Fulbe ethnic group in the village of Koulogon. The ethnic conflicts between the Fulbe, who breed cattle, and the Dogon and Bambara who practice agriculture, have intensified in recent years.
• Berlin / Germany : The statutory minimum wage will be increased by 35 cents to 9.19 euros per hour. In addition, the law on the further development of part-time law introduces the right to bridge part-time, i.e. temporary part-time, so that after the part-time phase one can return to the previous working time if the employer usually employs more than 45 employees, the employment relationship longer than six months, the operational organization, work processes or safety in the company will not materially impair and the employee requests in writing at least three months before the start of the shortening to reduce his full-time or part-time work for 12 to 60 months. In addition, the legislature has changed the additional contribution to the statutory health insurance (GKV) so that employees and employers pay in equally and the Nursing Staff Strengthening Act comes into force. In addition, according to the new Packaging Act , as a successor to the previous Packaging Ordinance , companies must first bring the commercial sales packaging filled with goods for private end consumers into circulation; in the packaging register LUCID the Foundation Central Office Packaging Register Register.
• Bern / Switzerland : The term of office of Ueli Maurer ( SVP ) becomes Swiss Federal President for one year. He already held the office in 2013. His deputy (and thus Federal President-elect for 2020) is Simonetta Sommaruga ( SP ).
• Bottrop / Germany : A right-wing extremist attack by car in Bottrop, Essen and Oberhausen leads to ten injured shortly after midnight.
• Brasília / Brazil : Jair Bolsonaro ( PSL ) is sworn in as President of Brazil .
• Bratislava / Slovakia : Slovakia takes over the presidency of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
• Bucharest / Romania : Romania takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union ( Romanian EU Council Presidency 2019 ).
• German Bight / North Sea : During the violent storm Alfrida , the container ship MSC Zoe of the Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) sailing under the Panamanian flag on the way from Sines to Bremerhaven was damaged . 342 ISO containers fall into the sea. The flotsam that washes up on the West Frisian and East Frisian islands includes car spare parts, furniture, televisions, refrigerators, plastic toys, surgical clothing and three containers with dangerous goods . Around 280 bags of the bleaching agent dibenzoyl peroxide (trade name Perkadox CH-50X) and 1.5 tons of lithium-ion batteries are lost. The MSC Zoe docked in Bremerhaven on January 3rd. Numerous helpers and soldiers from the Dutch armed forces help with the collection of the debris.
• Ma'rib Governorate / Yemen : According to US reports, terrorist Jamal Ahmad Mohammad Al Badawi is killed in his vehicle in a US air strike in Ma'rib Governorate . US President Donald Trump confirmed the targeted killing on January 6 via the micro-blogging service Twitter . Al Badawi is regarded as a mastermind and accomplice in the attack on October 12, 2000 on the destroyer USS Cole in which 17 US military personnel were killed and 39 wounded.
• Kuiper Belt / Space : The New Horizons space probe of the US space agency NASA flies past the Kuiper Belt object ( 486958) 2014 MU69 (Ultima Thule) 6.4 billion kilometers away .
• Leverkusen / Germany : The former German State Secretary for Consumer Protection, Matthias Berninger , will head the “Public and Sustainability” department at Bayer and is therefore also responsible for lobbying for glyphosate .
• London / United Kingdom : In Alexandra Palace , the Dutchman Michael van Gerwen defeated the Englishman Michael Smith in the final of the 26th Darts World Championship of the Professional Darts Corporation .
• Matera / Italy and Plovdiv / Bulgaria : The European Capitals of Culture 2019 of the European Union are Matera in Italy and Plovdiv in Bulgaria.
• New York / United States : Belgium , Germany , the Dominican Republic , Indonesia and South Africa become non-permanent members of the UN Security Council for two years .
• Sar-i Pul / Afghanistan : In an attack by the Islamist Taliban on the Afghan security forces in the center of the Sayyad district, on outposts and guarding an oil field in the northern Sar-i Pul province, at least 21 people are killed and 23 others are wounded.
• Washington / United States : The Director of the Office of Administration and Budget , John Michael Mulvaney becomes, initially acting , instead of John F. Kelly Chief of Staff of the White House . The former Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Heather Nauert follows Nikki Haley as a representative of the United States at the United Nations , and Patrick M. Shanahan acts as defense minister , the successor to James Mattis on.
• Vienna / Austria : The New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic will be conducted for the first time by Christian Thielemann .
• Vienna / Austria : Same-sex marriage (“marriage for all”) is officially legalized in Austria. The first marriage takes place shortly after midnight in Velden am Wörther See ( Carinthia ) between a lesbian couple. At the same time, the Ministry of the Interior regulates that persons who are neither male nor female can be entered in the civil status register with the note "diverse" or (at least temporarily) without indication of their gender (in Germany a corresponding legal regulation came into force on December 22, 2018 ) .

Wednesday January 2, 2019

• La Paz / Bolivia : The Bolivian government under President Evo Morales begins the official gradual registration of citizens for free universal health care, Sistema Único de Salud (SUS), which is to be introduced in March 2019. Health Minister Adolfo Zarate announces that it will cover around 5.8 million residents between the ages of 5 and 60 who have not yet received any health insurance . The budget is therefore the equivalent of around 230 million US dollars. The president of the medical school, Erwin Viruez, sees a necessary need of at least one billion US dollars. The medical association is also calling for more staff for implementation and a better infrastructure.

Cross-strait map showing the formerly contested Quemoy and Matsu Islands

• Beijing / China : In a speech on the Taiwan conflict in the Great Hall of the People , President Xi Jinping declares that "reunification" with Taiwan can also be enforced by force if necessary. China must and will be reunified. The Chinese leadership has recently been able to enforce the international isolation of Taiwan as part of the one-China policy . In her New Year's speech on 1 January 2019, the State President who declared Republic of China , Tsai Ing-wen that their country was not ready to "give up or to make concessions in terms of autonomy," its sovereignty.
• Storebæltsbroen / Denmark : In a railway accident during the Alfrida storm on the railway and road bridge over the Great Belt in the western part between Funen and Sprogø , eight people are killed and another 16 are injured. The Inter City - passenger ICL 210 is charged by the charge of the oncoming freight train of DB Cargo Scandinavia taken or drove into the already lying on the track in charge.

Thursday 3rd January 2019

Logo of the US pharmaceutical company Celgene

• New York City / United States : The three former investment bankers Andrew Pearse, Surjan Singh, Jean Boustani as well as the former employee Detelina Subeva of the Swiss bank Credit Suisse and the former Mozambican Finance Minister Manuel Chang, who was in office from 2005 to 2015, are in custody and will be in custody before the Brooklyn District Court charged with fraud, corruption and money laundering. They are said to have diverted around US $ 200 million for personal gain and bribes from loans totaling US $ 2 billion that were taken out to fund maritime projects in Mozambique. In 2013, a Mozambican state-owned company with the support of Credit Suisse, BNP Paribas and VTB issued government bonds worth US $ 850 million to purchase 24 vessels for tuna fishing, coastal surveillance and shipyards.
• New York City / United States : The US pharmaceutical company Celgene , based in Summit, accepts the takeover by the US pharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) for 74 billion US dollars. The shareholders of both companies have yet to agree. The completion is expected in the 3rd quarter of 2019.
• From Kármán / back of the moon : As part of the lunar program of the People's Republic of China under the direction of the CNSA , the Chang'e-4 lunar probe with the rover Jadehase 2 lands successfully in the Von Kármán lunar crater in the South Pole Aitken Basin on board at 3:26 a.m. CET Moon back.
• Washington, DC / United States : Less than two months after the House and Senate elections , the two houses of the US Parliament are meeting for their constituent sessions. The House Speaker- designate is Nancy Pelosi of the Democrats ; Also to be re-elected is the President pro tempore of the Senate after incumbent Orrin Hatch decided not to run again.

Friday 4th January 2019

• Bonn / Germany : The Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) announces that when private data from German politicians and celebrities were hacked and published in 2018/2019 , numerous personal user data and documents from German politicians from the CDU and CSU parties represented in the Bundestag were already released at the beginning of December 2018 , SPD , Greens , FDP , Die Linke with the exception of the AfD and individual celebrities were published via the US microblogging service Twitter via the account @ _0rbit or G0D . The cross-agency coordination point for protective and defensive measures against IT security incidents, the National Cyber ​​Defense Center (NCAZ), met for a crisis meeting. Four days later, the 20-year-old perpetrator Johannes S. from Homberg (Ohm) was arrested and confessed to the crime.
• Buthidaung / Myanmar : Fighters of the separatist - Islamist rebel group Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) of the ethno-religious minority of the Rohingya attack the police stations in Kyaung Taung, Kahtee Hla, Gotepi and Nga Myin Taw near Buthidaung in the northern Maungdaw district. At least 13 police officers are killed.
• Koszalin / Poland : In a fire in the entrance area of ​​a house where Escape Games are offered, five 15-year-old girls are killed by carbon monoxide poisoning and a 25-year-old man is seriously injured. The operator of the Escape Room To Nie Pokój was arrested. According to initial investigations, gas escaped from a container and caught fire. A check of the fire safety of the escape rooms offered was ordered nationwide .
• Beijing / China : During a test by the state armaments company Norinco , a strategic bomber of the type Xian H-6K dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb in China to date on an unknown test site . This five to six meter long conventional bomb is comparable to the US MOAB (GBU-43 / B) (also known as the mother of all bombs) or the larger Russian father of all bombs (АВБПМ) at which is also an aerosol bomb .

Saturday 5th January 2019

• Abu Dhabi / United Arab Emirates : Opening of the 17th Asian Football Championship .
• Caracas / Venezuela : The National Assembly of Venezuela elects Juan Guaidó ( VP ) as its president. The opposition parties have a majority in it.

Patriarch Bartholomeos I signing the Tomos (Decree) on autocephaly of the United Orthodox Church of Ukraine

• Istanbul / Turkey : After the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople confirmed the detachment of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church Moscow Patriarchate from the Russian Orthodox Church of Russia in a holy synod chaired by Patriarch Bartholomew I on October 11, 2018 , it took place on Christmas Eve of the Ukrainian Christmas in the presence of President Petro Poroshenko, the confirmation of the independent Orthodox Church of Ukraine founded on December 15, 2018 . The head of the church is Metropolitan Epiphanius .
• London / United Kingdom : The non-governmental organization " Syrian Network for Human Rights" (SNHR) reports on the civil war that broke out in Syria in 2011 that at least 223 massacres of the documented conflict parties were committed in 2018 , with a particularly high number in December. In addition, as early as March 2017, the NGO estimated that in the six years since the uprising in Syria there have been around 207,000 civilian casualties, around 94% of whom were victims of the Syrian-Iranian-Russian alliance.
• Mount Maunganui / New Zealand : The Russian early warning satellite Kosmos 2430 of the Oko series burns up in the atmosphere during the television recording of a cricket match between New Zealand and Sri Lanka.
• Perth / Australia : Final of the 31st edition of the Hopman Cup in tennis .

Sunday 6th January 2019

Ryoyu Kobayashi

• Beverly Hills / United States : The Golden Globes ceremony will take place at the Beverly Hills Hilton Hotel . With three awards, the work Green Book - A Special Friendship by American director Peter Farrelly received the most awards. In the Best Foreign Language Film category , the German feature film Werk ohne Autor by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck was nominated, and Daniel Brühl received a nomination for his role in The Alienist - Die Einkreisung as the best leading actor in a mini-series .
• Bischofshofen / Austria : Ryoyu Kobayashi of Japan won the 67th Four Hills Tournament . It is the second overall victory for a Japanese and also the second for a non- European ski jumper in the history of the tour. Kobayashi won all four competitions of the current edition.
• Faizabad / Afghanistan : In the northwestern district of Kuhistân in Badachschan province , at least 40 people are killed while working on an illegal gold mine and another 10 are injured. Villagers had dug a 60 meter deep shaft in a river bed to look for gold until the tunnel collapsed.
• Kuala Lumpur / Malaysia : The King of Malaysia, Muhammad V , abdicates.
• Paris / France : According to the French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner, around 50,000 people nationwide take part in several protests by the yellow vests movement. Supporters of the protest movement also penetrated the ministry building of government spokesman Benjamin Griveaux in Paris. Several hundred women supporters of the “yellow vests” come together on the Place de la Bastille for a peaceful rally. In Dijon an attack on a police station, while two security guards were injured and arrested 25 demonstrators took place. In Bordeaux , 4,600 people took part in a rally. Some activists threw stones at the security forces, who responded with tear gas and water cannons. Five police officers are injured and eleven protesters are arrested. 22 people were arrested in Toulouse . Numerous “yellow vests” also blocked the A 7 autoroute in Lyon .
• Tokyo / Japan : A partial solar eclipse can be observed in East Asia .

Monday 7th January 2019

• Bremen / Germany : The Bremer AfD chairman Frank Magnitz is seriously injured in an attack.
• Dhaka / Bangladesh : Sheikh Hasina Wajed is sworn in for another term as Prime Minister of Bangladesh.
• Indianapolis / United States : The US pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly and Company accepts for around eight billion US dollars (or 235 US dollars per share) which the cancer treatment specialist US biotechnology company Loxo Oncology , based in Stamford . Loxo Oncology developed the cancer drug Vitravki ( Larotrectinib ). A cooperation agreement was signed with the German Bayer AG in November 2017 for the global marketing of the drug .
• Libreville / Gabon : Members of the Gabonese special unit of the national gendarmerie (Groupe d'intervention de la gendarmerie nationale; GIGN) led by Lieutenant Kelly Ondo Obiang fail in an attempt to carry out a coup "to restore democracy" while the country's President Ali Bongo in Morocco is receiving medical treatment.
• Lingang New City / China : The US electric car manufacturer Tesla, Inc. lays the foundation stone for the construction of Gigafactory 3 . In the first plant in China, which is wholly owned by a foreign automaker, the Tesla Model 3 is to be produced from the end of 2019 and the planned SUV Tesla Model Y in the future .
• Lyon / France : The trial for covering up sexual crimes against Archbishop Philippe Barbarin begins. On the same day, the American actor Kevin Spacey was tried for sexual harassment in Nantucket .
• Washington, DC / United States : The President of the World Bank , the American Jim Yong Kim , announces his resignation on February 1, 2019. The managing director of the World Bank, Bulgarian Kristalina Georgiewa , will take over as interim president .
• Bonn / Germany : Ulrich Kelber takes up his post as Federal Data Protection Officer .

Tuesday January 8, 2019

• Berlin / Germany : The AfD board blocks the former chairman of the Saxony-Anhalt state association André Poggenburg for two years from all party offices.
• Dakar / Senegal : The African continental football federation CAF awards the organization of the Africa Cup 2019 to Egypt . Mohamed Salah from Liverpool FC and the Mauritanian national team for the men and Chrestinah Thembi Kgatlana from Houston Dash and the Nigerian national team for the women were named Africa's Footballer of the Year .
• Homberg (Ohm) / Germany : 20-year-old Johannes S. is arrested on suspicion of having leaked data from several celebrities.
• India : Former Indian MP Jayantilal Bhanusali is murdered on a train between Gujarat and Rajasthan .

Wednesday January 9, 2019

• London / United Kingdom : The British House of Commons asks the government to present a new plan within three days if the Brexit agreement is rejected.
• Medina (Washington) / United States : Amazon boss Jeff Bezos and his wife MacKenzie Bezos announce their divorce. It is probably the most expensive divorce in the world.

• Upper Styria / Austria : Heavy snowfalls in the Alps and in Central Europe lead to the issuing of the highest avalanche warning level in some places if the snowfall continues. Several places in Germany are also enclosed by the snow, including Jachenau in Upper Bavaria and Galtür , Gosau and Lech in Austria . There is 4.20 m of snow on the Dachstein plateau .
• Warendorf / Germany : The German retail chain Schuhpark Fascies files an application with the Münster District Court to open insolvency proceedings under self-administration . Schuhpark operates a total of 89 branches in North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony, Bremen and Schleswig-Holstein and employs 912 people.

Thursday 10th January 2019

• Aribinda / Burkina Faso : In an attack by 30 Islamist attackers on a weekly market in Gasseliki in the northern province of Soum , 12 people are killed, two are injured and several shops are set on fire. It is believed that the jihadist Ansar ul Islam or the Jamāʿat Nusrat al-Islām wa-l-Muslimīn (JNIM) carried out the attack.
• Berlin / Germany : Opening of the 26th men's handball world championship in Germany and Denmark .
• Caracas / Venezuela : The incumbent President Nicolás Maduro starts his second term after he was confirmed in office in early elections on May 20, 2018.
• Ciudad Miguel Alemán / Mexico : 21 bodies are found near the border with the United States. They are victims of rival drug trafficking gangs . Photos showed the bodies on a dirt road next to burned-out vehicles. The area is "highly competitive" among arms and drug traffickers, said Tamaulipas State Attorney General Irving Barrios.
• Kinshasa / Democratic Republic of the Congo : The opposition politician Félix Tshisekedi has been declared the winner of the presidential election on December 30, 2018 by the election commission . He won with the alliance Cap pour le changement - including his Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social (UDPS).
• Al houta / Yemen : At Air Force Base Al-Anad six people at a military parade by one of the be Huthi guided -Rebellen and stocked with a bomb drone killed, including Brigadier General Saleh Tamah. Several people are injured, including the deputy chief of staff Saleh al-Zindani, the military commander Mohammad Jawas and the governor of Lahij , Ahmed al-Turki, who are being flown to Saudi Arabia for treatment .
• Magdeburg / Germany : The former state chairman of the AfD Saxony Anhalt and parliamentary group leader in the state parliament , André Poggenburg , resigns from the party.
• Taipei / Taiwan : The government of Taiwan resigns.

Friday 11th January 2019

• Berlin / Germany : The Bundestag parliamentary group Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen published a response from the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) on December 10, 2018 to a small request from Member of the Bundestag Anton Hofreiter on the prevalence of diarrhea in broiler carcasses and fresh chicken in Germany. According to this, in 2017 there was evidence of Campylobacter , which can cause Campylobacter enteritis , in 51.8 percent of chicken meat samples in food retailers . In the case of the samples from the Federal Office for Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) in 2017 at the slaughterhouse , it was even 78.8 percent (2011 with a higher number of samples still at 40.9 percent).
• Caracas / Venezuela : The President of the Venezuelan National Assembly Juan Guaidó declares himself to be the interim president because Nicolás Maduro's term of office ended the day before and the new term of office is unconstitutional.
• Libreville / Gabon : By decree, President Ali-Ben Bongo Ondimba appoints Julien Nkoghe Bekalé as the new Prime Minister with effect from the following day and appoints his predecessor Emmanuel Issoze-Ngondet as the republic's mediator. A few days earlier, a coup had been attempted against Bongo Odimba, who had been in Morocco to treat a serious illness for months , but it failed.
• Riesa / Germany : The AfD is continuing its party congress in Magdeburg (November 16-19, 2018), on which it elects the federal list for the 2019 European elections . The party conference lasts until January 14th.
• Skopje / Macedonia : After reaching an agreement with Greece in the dispute over the name of Macedonia, Parliament votes with a two-thirds majority of 81 of the 120 MPs to rename the state from "Republic of Macedonia" to Republic of North Macedonia. 39 opposition MPs boycotted the vote.
• Warsaw / Poland : The Polish domestic secret service Agencja Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego (ABW) announces the arrest of Stanislaw Wang (originally Wang Weijing), a Chinese manager of the network equipment supplier Huawei, on January 8, 2019, on suspicion of espionage. In addition, the former secret service officer of the ABW and cybersecurity expert Piotr D. was provisionally arrested. According to TVP , the offices of Huawei and the telecommunications company Orange Polska are also being searched.

Saturday 12th January 2019

• Damascus / Syria : Syrian television and the SANA news agency report on Israeli air strikes near the capital. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights , the attacks were aimed at a military base of the Iranian armed forces in Syria and one of the Shiite Hezbollah militia.
• Paris / France : In the capital and other cities of France, including Bourges , Caen , Nîmes and Toulouse , clashes between the yellow vests movement and the police occur again. According to the Interior Ministry, around 84,000 people took part in the demonstrations across the country, 8,000 of them in Paris. In addition, 244 people were arrested.
• Santa Cruz de la Sierra / Bolivia : The left-wing Italian terrorist Cesare Battisti is arrested on his escape. Battisti will shortly be transferred to Brazil and from there presumably extradited to Italy . "On the website of the daily newspaper Die Welt it says," Interior Minister Matteo Salvini confirmed on television that the means and men to bring Battisti back were already on the way. "

Sunday 13th January 2019

• Athens / Greece : Two days after the Macedonian parliament approved the renaming of their country to the Republic of North Macedonia with the necessary two-thirds majority in the course of resolving the dispute over the name of Macedonia , Panos Kammenos ( Independent Greeks ) resigns as defense minister.
• Berlin / Germany : In the capital, several thousand participants at the Liebknecht-Luxemburg-Demonstration are commemorating this year's 100th anniversary of the death of the murdered founders of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht , including representatives of political parties such as Die Linke , the German Communist Party (DKP), the Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany (MLPD) and the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP). There are also calls for solidarity with the French yellow vests movement .
• Caracas / Venezuela : The Venezuelan interim president Juan Guaidó is briefly arrested and released again.
• Gdansk / Poland : Danzig's mayor Paweł Adamowicz is fatally stabbed at a rally. He dies the following day.

Monday January 14, 2019

• Gdansk / Poland : The mayor of Gdansk Paweł Adamowicz dies the day after the knife attack on him.
• Yerevan / Armenia : One month after the parliamentary elections in Armenia in 2018 , election winner Nikol Pashinyan is appointed prime minister.
• Karaj / Iran : In the unfortunate landing one of Bishkek arriving in Kyrgyzstan cargo aircraft of type Boeing 707-300 of Saha Airlines on an airfield Air Force Base Fath get 15 of the 16 crew members died. The pilot is said to have headed for the wrong runway. The original destination was Payam Airport .
• Melbourne / Australia : Start of the Australian Open
• Taipei / Republic of China : As the successor to the retiring Lai Ching-te is Su Tseng-chang as the new Prime Minister of Taiwan sworn.

Tuesday 15th January 2019

• Caracas / Venezuela : The National Assembly of Venezuela declares the 2018 presidential election in Venezuela illegal.
• The Hague / Netherlands : The International Criminal Court acquits the former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo in an appeal .
• Erfurt / Germany : Klaus Rietschel leaves AfD faction in the Thuringian state parliament .
• Kuantan / Malaysia : Abdullah Shah is crowned Sultan of Pahang . He is also sworn in as King of Malaysia on January 31st .
• London / United Kingdom : The vote originally planned in December 2018 in the House of Commons (lower house) on the Brexit Deal agreed with the European Union on the time after the United Kingdom's exit from the EU , scheduled for March 30, 2019 should take place.
• Nairobi / Kenya : At least 21 people are killed in a terrorist attack on the DusitD2 boutique hotel owned by the Thai Dusit Thani Group in the Westlands, including an Australian, a British and an American. Five heavily armed attackers from the Islamist al-Shabaab militia detonated bombs in front of the luxury hotel, storm the building complex, which also houses offices, and then exchanged fire with the security forces until the next day. All four attackers are killed. One of the perpetrators blew himself up.
• Prayagraj / India : Beginning of the Kumbh Mela , the largest religious festival of Hinduism and the world in Prayagraj. The metropolis was still called Allahabad until October 2018, but it was changed due to the Muslim name.
• Wiesbaden / Germany : Alexander Dobrindt's designation "anti-deportation industry" is declared a bad word of 2018.

Wednesday January 16, 2019

• Athens / Greece : A vote of no confidence in the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras fails.
• London / United Kingdom : One day after her defeat in the vote on the Brexit agreement, British Prime Minister Theresa May received a majority of the votes in the British House of Commons in a vote of no confidence.
• London / United Kingdom : More than 28 international corporations from the petrochemical , chemical , plastics , consumer goods and waste management industries set up the Alliance to End Plastic Waste (AEPW) and put one billion US dollars immediately and another 500 million US dollars into the ready to fight plastic waste pollution for the next five years . Founding members of the alliance are BASF , Berry Global , Braskem , Chevron Phillips Chemical , Clariant , Covestro , Dow Chemical , DSM , ExxonMobil , Formosa Plastics Corporation USA , Henkel , LyondellBasell , Mitsubishi Chemical , Mitsui Chemicals , NOVA Chemicals , OxyChem , PolyOne Corporation , Procter & Gamble , Reliance Industries , Royal Dutch Shell , Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC), Sasol , Suez , SCG Chemicals , Sumitomo Chemical , Total , Veolia Environnement and Versalis (to Eni ). The US beverage groups The Coca-Cola Company and PepsiCo are also participating
• Manbij / Syria : At least 16 people are killed in a suicide attack by the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS) in front of the Qasr al-Umara restaurant , including two US soldiers and a civilian who worked for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and all of them Were stationed as part of Operation Inherent Resolve .
• Sevilla / Spain : The last month newly elected regional parliament elects Juan Manuel Moreno as the new head of government of Andalusia . He is at the head of a minority government formed by his conservative Partido Popular and the liberal Ciudadanos , which is supported by the right-wing populist Vox .

Thursday 17th January 2019

• Bogota / Colombia : At least 21 people are killed and at least 66 others are injured in a bomb attack on the General Santander Police Officer School.
• Bonn / Germany : The Federal Audit Office submits a special report on Deutsche Bahn to the German Bundestag . The President of the Federal Audit Office Kay Scheller explains, “The federal government and the DB AG failed to meet the core goals of the rail reform that was initiated 25 years ago . Especially in relation to the road, there was hardly any traffic on the rails. In freight transport , the share of rail traffic is even lower than in 1990 ”. In addition, the Deutsche Bahn is continuously supported by the public sector in the billions and the company is currently in debt with around 20 billion euros. So far, the railway has not used international profits to finance the railway in Germany, but reinvested them internationally.
• Bolzano / Italy : Almost three months after the state elections , Arno Kompatscher ( SVP ) is re-elected Governor of South Tyrol .
• Sandringham / United Kingdom : The British Prince Philip causes a car accident.
• Tunis / Tunisia : A general strike is taking place in Tunisia .
• Wiesbaden / Germany : One day before the constitution of the Hessian state parliament , the deputy AfD parliamentary group chairman Nikolaus Pethö dies .

Friday 18th January 2019

• Berlin / Germany : The Bundestag votes in favor of declaring four other states ( Algeria , Georgia , Morocco and Tunisia ) as safe countries of origin .
• Bogotá / Colombia : After the deadly bombing the day before at the General Santander Police officer school in the capital President declared Iván Duque ( CD ), the peace talks with the Marxist -oriented guerrilla - movement National Liberation Army (ELN) over. In addition, the arrest warrants against 10 ELN negotiators who took part in the negotiations in Cuba are being reinstated.
• Beijing / People's Republic of China : At the 2nd German-Chinese financial dialogue, Federal Finance Minister Olaf Scholz and Vice-Prime Minister Liu He sign an agreement on closer economic cooperation in the financial sector , which enables better mutual market access for banks and insurance companies in Germany and China. In detail, the state banking and insurance regulators , the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission (CBIRC) and the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) signed an agreement on Sino-German cooperation in banking regulation and an agreement on cooperation in securities trading , as well as a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) of the Deutsche Bundesbank and the Chinesischen Volksbank (PBoC).
• Idlib / Syria : A car bomb attack in the south of the city against a suspected base of the Islamist Haiʾat Tahrir asch-Scham (HTS) (Committee for the Liberation of the Levant), which previously largely controlled the region, kills at least 15 people and injures another 20 . The jihadist groups split off from the HTS and supported by Turkey - National Liberation Front (NLF) announced on January 10th that they would hand over their areas in the Idlib region to the HTS.
• Mediterranean : up to 170 people drown in two boat accidents.
• Stockholm / Sweden : A good four months after the Reichstag election , the social democrat Stefan Löfven is re-elected Prime Minister of Sweden .
• Stockholm / Sweden : The writer Katarina Frostenson announces that she is leaving the Swedish Academy .
• Tapachula / Mexico : After at least 3,000 migrants left San Pedrhidalo Sula in Honduras on January 15, around 1,500 migrants from Central American countries illegally crossed the border between Guatemala and Mexico over the border river Suchiate during the night and several want to continue illegally move on to the United States.
• Tatarensund / Russia: During a training flight, two unarmed Russian Su-34 fighter-bombers collide over the Tatarensund in the Sea of ​​Japan. A Su-34 with two crew members crashes. The pilot is killed. The second Su-34 can reach the Churba Air Force Base near Komsomolsk-on-Amur .
• Tlahuelilpan / Mexico : After a leak in the gasoline pipeline of the state-owned oil company PEMEX in the San Primitivo district of Tlahuelilpan in the state of Hidalgo , numerous people are illegally trying to get hold of gasoline when an explosion breaks out and a fire breaks out. At least 66 people are killed and another 76 injured. As of January 21, 7 a.m.CET, more than 85 deaths and 72 injuries were reported in hospitals and at the time of the accident hundreds of people were reported in the area.
• Washington, DC / United States : 46th March for Life .
• Wiesbaden / Germany : The newly elected Hessian state parliament meets for its constituent session and Volker Bouffier ( CDU ) is re-elected as Prime Minister of Hesse .

Saturday 19th January 2019

• Jilib / Somalia : Air strikes by the US armed forces kill at least 52 fighters of the Islamist al-Shabaab in Jubaland near Jilib. Al-Shabaab attackers had previously attacked a Somali military base, killing at least seven soldiers; According to government sources, 71 attackers were killed.
• Kinshasa / Democratic Republic of Congo : The Congolese Constitutional Court declared the victory of Félix Tshisekedi in the elections in the DRC in 2018 to be legal.
• Munich / Germany : At a special party conference, the delegates of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) in the Small Olympic Hall elect the Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder as their new party chairman to succeed Horst Seehofer with 87.4% .
• Saarbrücken / Germany : At the Max Ophüls Prize Film Festival is The melancholy girl of Susanne Heinrich named best feature film. Joy from Sudabeh Mortezai receives the prize for socially relevant film, Nevrland from Gregor Schmidinger the prize of the youth jury and Kaviar from Elena Tikhonova the audience award for feature film.
• Uchinoura Space Center / Japan : The Japanese space agency JAXA is using an Epsilon 4 launcher to launch the Rapid Innovative payload demonstration Satellite 1 (RAPIS-1) satellite from Tōhoku University and several small satellites into space, including MicroDragon, RISESAT, ALE-1 and the Cubesats OrigamiSat-1, Aoba VELOX-IV and NEXUS (demonstrator for packet radio in space). In ALE 1 of the Japanese start-ups ALE (Astro Live Experiences) is the first artificial satellite to a space for entertainment meteors can produce. In it there are 400 small balls that can be ignited for 20 to 30 colorful meteor showers upon request and payment. Each artificial star shines for several seconds and should be so bright that they can even be seen over metropolises like Tokyo . The first man-made meteor shower is scheduled to fall over the Japanese city of Hiroshima in spring 2020 .

Sunday 20th January 2019

• Adjelhoc / Mali : In an attack by alleged Islamist fighters on a military base of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) near Adjelhoc, 10 Chadian blue helmet soldiers are killed and 25 others wounded.
• Athens / Greece : At least 60,000 Greeks demonstrate on Syntagma Square in front of the parliament building against a compromise between the government under Alexis Tsipras in the dispute over the name of Macedonia with neighboring Macedonia . The demonstration, which was largely carried out by nationalists, led to riots and the use of tear gas by the security forces. 10 police officers and two protesters were injured.
• London / United Kingdom : The Brexit Party is founded in London . Chairwoman is Catherine Blaiklock selected. Ex- UKIP chairman Nigel Farage will join the new party on February 13th.
• Pul-i-Alam / Afghanistan : Seven security guards are killed in a suicide attack by the Islamist Taliban on a vehicle convoy of the governor of Lugar province , Mohammad Anwar Ishaqzai. The governor survived the attack.
• Munich / Germany : The co-managing director Sheryl Sandberg of the US Internet company Facebook Inc. announced at the Digital Life Design (DLD) conference that she wanted to support an initiative of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) with 6.5 million euros Researching the ethical implications of artificial intelligence (AI). The money is to flow into the TUM Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence , a research facility that, according to project coordinator Christoph Lütge , wants to create guidelines for society, industry and lawmakers to identify and answer ethical questions relating to artificial intelligence.

Monday January 21, 2019

“Blood Moon” eclipse as seen from Canada

• Bielefeld / Germany : Elmar Brok , the longest-serving member of the European Parliament , is not running again in the 2019 European elections . He has been a member of the European Parliament since 1980 .
• Cotabato City / Philippines : Start of the referendum on the ratification of the law establishing the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region and the formal abolition of the current Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao .
• Guernsey : Argentine soccer player Emilio Sala dies in a plane crash in the English Channel .
• Maidan Schahr / Afghanistan : In a terrorist attack by the Islamist Taliban on a base of the domestic intelligence service Amaniyat (NDS) in Maidan Schahr in the province of Wardak , at least 65 security forces are killed, including by a car bomb. According to Provincial Councilor Nafisa Selia Wardak, at least 126 intelligence officials have been killed.
• Ouagadougou / Burkina Faso : Three days after Paul Kaba Thieba's resignation , President Kaboré appoints economic expert Christophe Dabiré as the country's new Prime Minister .
• Paris / France : The French data protection authority Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL) imposes after a complaint by the privacy - non-governmental organizations La Quadrature du Net from France and None of Your Business - European Center for Digital Rights (noyb) from Austria, a fine of 50 million euros against the US Internet company Google LLC for violating the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European Union. Justified, among other things, with a "lack of transparency" in the information on the use of the collected data and the storage period and that the consent obtained by Google to display personalized advertising is invalid.
• Black Sea : In front of the entrance to the Kerch Strait , two ships sailing under the Tanzanian flag catch fire after an explosion ; at least eleven seamen are killed.
• Solar system : Today 's lunar eclipse through the umbra of the earth towards the moon produces a reddish color of the moon for viewers on earth. Because of the clear sky, the nocturnal event can be easily observed from almost all of Central Europe and North America .
• Stockholm / Sweden : The new government under Prime Minister Stefan Löfven takes office.
• Washington, DC / United States : Former US Senator Harris Wofford dies after falling.

Tuesday 22nd January 2019

• Aachen / Germany : German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron sign the Treaty of Aachen on Franco-German cooperation and integration, which follows on from the Élysée Treaty signed in 1963 . The treaty provides for close coordination in European policy , a strong common foreign and security policy with stronger military cooperation and an economic area with common rules.
• Albany / United States : The Senate of the US state New York legalizes late abortions.
• Brussels / Belgium : The European Commission has imposed a fine of 570,566,000 euros on the US credit company and card payment system Mastercard for violating the ability of merchants to use better conditions from banks in other countries in the internal market Has restricted EU antitrust rules. Mastercard's regulations have prevented merchants from taking advantage of better terms from banks in other EU member states. "The cost of card payments has been artificially increased and to the detriment of consumers and retailers in the EU," said EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager . Mastercard is the second largest card payment system in the European Economic Area (EEA) and has recognized the fine.
• Davos / Switzerland : Start of the 49th World Economic Forum on the topic of Globalization 4.0: Shaping a Global Architecture in the Age of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Globalization 4.0: Shaping a Global Architecture in the Age of the Fourth Industrial Revolution ). Due to the government shutdown , the US delegation with US President Donald Trump canceled its participation. There were also cancellations due to the parliamentary process for the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union (Brexit) by Prime Minister Theresa May and French President Emmanuel Macron because of the yellow vests movement in the country and the Presidents of Russia, Vladimir Putin and the People's Republic of China are also missing , Xi Jinping .
• Moscow / Russia : In the negotiations for a peace treaty between Russia and Japan , there has so far been no breakthrough, also because of the Kuril conflict that has existed since 1945 . Japan's Prime Minister Shinzō Abe traveled to Moscow to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin .
• Los Angeles / United States : Announcement of the 2019 Oscar nominations .
• Luxembourg / Luxembourg : The European Court of Justice decides that the regulation applicable in Austria, according to which only members of certain Christian denominations are entitled to holiday pay on Good Fridays, violates the principle of non- discrimination on the basis of religious affiliation and is therefore inadmissible.
• Magdeburg / Germany : The former head of state André Poggenburg , who left the AfD, is also leaving the AfD parliamentary group in Saxony-Anhalt.
• Olenegorsk / Russia : An unarmed medium -range bomber of the type Tupolev Tu-22M 3 of the Russian air force gets into a snow gust and crashes during the approach to the military airfield Olenja . Three crew members die and another is injured.
• Panama City / Panama : Start of World Youth Day . It is the 34th international youth meeting of the Roman Catholic Church .
• Strasbourg / France : The Greens / European Free Alliance (Greens / EFA) group in the European Parliament announces a study commissioned by Petr Janský, “Effective Tax Rates of Multinational Enterprises in the EU”, according to which large multinational corporations in the European Union ( EU) do not pay the statutory tax rate. There are clear differences between the statutory corporate tax rate in the EU member states and the tax burden actually paid. Smaller companies would be "in most countries noticeably disadvantaged compared to cross-border corporations: the larger the company, the lower the effective tax rate". The statutory corporate tax rate in the EU is an average of 23 percent, while large corporations pay an average of only 15 percent, according to the study. The substantial gap between the nominal and effective tax rate arises from special agreements between individual EU member states and multinational companies, tax loopholes such as license boxes and the double non-taxation of profits through incomplete double taxation agreements (DTAs).

Wednesday 23rd January 2019

• Caracas / Venezuela : Hundreds of thousands of people demonstrate nationwide on the streets against President Nicolás Maduro ( PSUV ). The opposition leader, who has been President of the National Assembly of Venezuela since January 5, 2019 , Juan Guaidó ( VP ) has meanwhile declared himself interim president of the country. The United States and the Organization of American States (OAS) have recognized Speaker of Parliament Juan Guaidó as the country's interim President. In response, President Nicolás Maduro ordered that US diplomatic personnel must leave the country within 72 hours.
• Edinburgh / United Kingdom : Scottish ex-Prime Minister Alex Salmond briefly arrested for attempted rape. He will be released after a hearing the next day.
• Erfurt / Germany : The Federal Labor Court changes its case law, according to which, even eight years after a previous employment relationship, the same employer cannot limit a new employment contract without reason. According to Section 14, Paragraph 2, Clause 2 of the Part-Time and Temporary Employment Act (TzBfG), an employment contract may not be limited in time without any objective grounds if an employment relationship of around one and a half years had already existed eight years before that related to a comparable task had, so the judgment (Az .: 7 AZR 733/16). Previously, this was permissible after more than three years and was changed by a decision of the Federal Constitutional Court on June 6, 2018 (1 BvL 7/14, 1 BvR 1375/14).
• Munich / Germany : In the Bavarian state parliament there is an event on the Holocaust Remembrance Day, at which the former President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany Charlotte Knobloch gives the commemorative speech. The AfD demonstratively leaves the event.
• Riga / Latvia : Krišjānis Kariņš ( Vienotība ) takes up the post of Prime Minister after he was elected by a majority of 61 in the Latvian Parliament. 39 MPs voted against him.

Thursday January 24, 2019

• Alderney / Channel Islands : The search for a single-engine Piper PA-46 small aircraft registered in the USA that has been lost over the English Channel since January 21 is suspended. In addition to the pilot Dave Ibbotson, only the Argentinian professional footballer Emiliano Sala was on board . The aircraft took off from Nantes, France, with the destination Cardiff in Wales.
• Berlin / Germany : In the Berlin House of Representatives, 87 of the 147 MPs present are voting for the law to introduce another public holiday in the city-state of Berlin. Every year on March 8, the holiday is dedicated to International Women's Day . The federal state of Thuringia is also planning another annual holiday with Children's Day on September 20.
• Berlin / Germany : " Chaos in the network ," the 57th film from the "Masterworks" series of Walt Disney has in Germany Premiere.
• Canberra / Australia : The Foreign Ministry confirms that Sino-Australian writer, blogger and democracy activist Yang Hengjun has been arrested in China.
• Caracas / Venezuela : Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López said in the presence of several high-ranking generals in reaction to the self-proclaimed interim president Juan Guaidó that the armed forces will never accept a president "who is appointed by dark powers or who acts outside the law". "We recognize our chief commander Nicolás Maduro as the legitimate president."
• Edinburgh / United Kingdom : The trial of the former Prime Minister of Scotland , Alex Salmond, begins in front of the Sheriff Court . He is charged with 13 sexual offenses , including two attempts at rape .
• Goslar / Germany : Start of the 57th German Traffic Court Conference (VGT). The topics of the conference are an assessment of the diesel driving bans , the criminal aspects of autonomous driving and the points system in the fitness to drive register (FAER) , which was reformed in April 2014 .

Félix Tshisekedi (2018)

• Jakarta / Indonesia : The former governor of the Jakarta district, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama , who has been sentenced to two years in prison for blasphemy , is released early from prison.
• Kinshasa / DR Congo : Félix Tshisekedi , who was declared the winner after a controversial election, has been sworn in as the country's president.
• Kuala Lumpur / Malaysia : Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah becomes the new king (Yang di-Pertuan Agong) of Malaysia through the Conference of Rulers (Majlis Raja-Raja), represented by the nine rulers of the Malay states and the governors of Yang di- Pertua Negeri elected.
• Park City / United States : Opening of the 35th Sundance Film Festival .

Friday 25th January 2019

• Athens / Greece : In the dispute over the name of Macedonia , the Greek parliament approves the compromise to rename the neighboring country from the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the Republic of North Macedonia and thus finally settles the 28-year name dispute. Out of a total of 300 members of parliament, 153 vote for the agreement and 146 against, with one abstention.
• Bielefeld / Germany : The district court grants the fashion company Gerry Weber's application for bankruptcy under self-administration . Only the parent company Gerry Weber International AG with around 580 employees is affected by the insolvency application. Subsidiaries such as Hallhuber are therefore not affected .

Aerial photo from a video (excerpt), January 26, 2019, red color due to iron ores.

• Brumadinho / Brazil : In the case of a dam breach in the sedimentation basin of an iron ore mine owned by the Vale mining company in Vila Ferteco near Brumadinho, a municipality in the state of Minas Gerais , there has been an unconfirmed number of several dead and missing. The fire brigade reports that at least 200 people are missing due to a mudslide triggered .
• Brussels / Belgium : During the talks between the NATO ambassadors and the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Alexejewitsch Ryabkow in the NATO-Russia Council (NRC) on the Ukraine and Crimean crises and the one threatened by US President Donald Trump on October 20, 2018 The INF Treaty on Intermediate Range Nuclear Systems, signed in 1987, has been terminated ; there has been no progress, said NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg . According to the United States, as a contracting party to the INF Treaty, Russia is violating the INF Treaty by producing the new land-based cruise missile 9K720 ( NATO code name : SS-C-8 Screwdriver ) for the Iskander-K carrier system that can be equipped with nuclear equipment . US President Trump called for Russia to give in to cease production of the weapons system by February 2, 2019.
• Diyarbakir / Turkey : A criminal court confirmed subject to conditions for the release of the since November 7, 2018 hunger strike situated HDP -Abgeordnete Leyla Güven at. Another hearing has been scheduled for May 29, 2019.
• Fort Lauderdale / United States : Political advisor Roger Stone is arrested. The head of the special investigation into the influence of the 2016 election campaign in the United States , Robert Mueller , accused him of obstructing investigations by Congress , false testimony and influencing witnesses.
• Graz / Austria : The Regional Court for Criminal Matters makes the judgments in the trial against 14 members of the “ Austrian Federation ”. It is the first time in the history of the Second Republic that a criminal case has been conducted for attempted high treason .
• Cologne / Germany : After the majority of the department store chains Karstadt and Galeria Kaufhof were taken over by the Austrian Signa Holding , CEO Stephan Fanderl announces a restructuring concept for Galeria Kaufhof after the bad Christmas business, according to which around 2,600 full-time positions (up to 5,000 employees) will be lost and a Withdrawal from the area-wide collective agreement follows with the demand for a company collective agreement .
• Stuttgart / Germany : The first model declaratory proceedings throughout Germany according to the "Law on the Introduction of a Civil Procedure Model Declaration Action", which came into force on November 1, 2018, began before the Stuttgart Higher Regional Court . The Association for the Protection of Bank Customers (SfB) is suing Mercedes-Benz Bank for opaque information on revocation of loan agreements for car financing .
• Sungguminasa / Indonesia : After the severe floods and landslides on the island of Sulawesi , at least 59 people are killed, including 44 dead in the Gowa district alone . Another 25 people are still missing.
• Testa del Rutor / Italy : At least five people are killed when a small plane collides with a helicopter.
• Totalán / Spain After an elaborate rescue operation that lasted almost two weeks, a two-year-old boy who fell into a 107 meter deep well can only be rescued dead.
• Washington, DC / United States : After 35 days, the longest government shutdown to date has been provisionally ended by a transitional budget ; it does not provide any funds for building a wall on the border with Mexico . The agreement with the Democratic Party is valid until February 15, 2019. During this time, a committee will discuss border security with Mexico with members of the Republican Party and the Democratic Party.
• Winterberg / Germany : The 48th Luge World Championships begin in the Veltins-Eisarena . They end on January 27th.

Saturday 26th January 2019

• Berlin / Germany : The Commission for Growth, Structural Change and Employment (“Coal Commission” for short) presents its report.
• New Delhi / India : India is celebrating the 69th birthday of the constitution as a republic with a large military parade with soldiers on camels, armored vehicles and motorcycle acrobats as well as dancers . Around 25,000 police officers and paramilitaries are on duty for security.
• Paris / France : For the eleventh Saturday in a row, the yellow vests movement called for demonstrations against President Emmanuel Macron's reform course . According to the Interior Ministry, around 69,000 demonstrators took part across the country, including 4,000 in the capital. At Place de la Bastille, police used tear gas and a water cannon and arrested 22 people. There were also demonstrations in Avignon , Bordeaux , Dunkirk , Marseille , Montpellier , Strasbourg and Toulouse .
• San Diego / United States : The United States Navy puts into service the USS Michael Monsoor (DDG-1001), the second Zumwalt-class destroyer with stealth properties . Construction costs were over $ 4.4 billion.

Sunday January 27, 2019

• Abancay / Peru : When a wall of a hotel collapses during a wedding celebration, at least 15 people are killed and another 30 injured.
• Berlin / Germany : The FDP is holding its extraordinary party congress and electing the federal list for the 2019 European elections .
• Brussels / Belgium : About 70,000 people take part in the 2nd March for the Climate for Better Climate Protection and demand ambitious and socially just measures to limit carbon dioxide emissions . Another protest was held in Mons .
• Herning / Denmark : Final of the 26th men's handball world championship in Jyske Bank Kasten between Denmark and Norway .
• Jolo / Philippines : At least 27 people are killed and at least 70 others are injured in an attack with two explosives on the Roman Catholic Carmelite Church, Cathedral of Our Lady on Mount Carmel in Jolo.
• Los Angeles / United States : In the Shrine Exposition Center are Screen Actors Guild Awards awarded.
• Melbourne / Australia : Last day of the Australian Open
• Minsk / Belarus : Last day of the European Figure Skating Championships in the Minsk Arena .
• Saint Petersburg / Russia : With a military parade of around 2500 soldiers in modern and historical uniforms, as well as armored vehicles and modern missile systems, Russia commemorates the end of the Leningrad blockade in World War II on January 27, 1944 on the 75th anniversary . Over 800,000 people died of starvation , Illness or shelling during the siege by the German Wehrmacht from 1941 to 1944. In a joint statement by the Russian Foreign Minister Sergej Lavrov and the German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas , it is announced that 75 years after the end of the siege of Leningrad Germany there are still living victims in Russia with a total of 12 million euros.

Monday, January 28, 2019

Close to the Danish-German border near Padborg

• Bremen / Germany : Awarding of the Bremen Literature Prize to Arno Geiger for the novel Unter der Drachenwand . The sponsorship award goes to Heinz Helle for Overcoming Gravity .
• Padborg / Denmark : The Danish Nature Management Office (Naturstyrelse) of the Ministry of Environment and Food starts in Padborg in the municipality of Aabenraa with the construction of a wild boar fence along the approximately 67 kilometers long Danish-German border . The wild boar fence is part of the agreement between the minority government of Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen and Dansk Folkeparti from March 2018 to step up action against African swine fever (ASF).
• Washington, DC / United States : The United States Treasury Department has imposed sanctions on the state-owned petroleum company Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) in response to the power struggle in Venezuela . This is to increase the economic pressure on Nicolás Maduro and the Venezuelan armed forces to support the Venezuelan people in the transition to democracy. The PDVSA subsidiary Citgo Petroleum Corporation, which operates in Texas, is only affected to a limited extent as long as the proceeds flow into a blocked account.

Tuesday January 29, 2019

• Ashulia / Bangladesh : After the strikes and protests by workers for higher wages in the textile industry in Bangladesh , around 4,900 employees who took part in the strikes were laid off, according to the police. According to trade unions, almost 7,000 textile workers lost their jobs.
• Berlin / Germany : The Defense Commissioner of the German Bundestag , Hans-Peter Bartels (SPD), presents the 60th annual report. The system of deficiency management in the Bundeswehr continues in all areas. Many soldiers experience the overorganization of everything and everyone as the main obstacle to necessary improvements. They say: “We manage ourselves to death” and speak of the “Bundeswehr bureaucratic monster”, so Bartels. When the Bundeswehr is deployed abroad in Afghanistan ( Resolute Support ), around 80 percent of military transports have to be carried out with civilian helicopters. There is a lack of material in all areas. The Leopard 2 battle tank that is barely ready for use , expensive retrofitting programs for the new Puma infantry fighting vehicle, no tankers in the Navy in the second half of 2018, a large proportion of the submarines defective, less than half of the Eurofighter and Tornado multi-purpose combat aircraft are airworthy and their ammunition stocks are reduced to a minimum Not only does it affect commitment and commitment, it also suffers from training and practice. The number of soldiers newly enrolled in the Bundeswehr dropped to just 20,000 in 2018, the lowest level in the history of the Bundeswehr .
• Berlin / Germany : Germany issues a 2 euro coin to mark the 70th anniversary of the Federal Council . The federal states series will be interrupted for one year and continued on January 28, 2020 with a motif from Brandenburg . The gap in the series of federal states became necessary because the order of the Federal Council presidents has changed compared to 2005/06 due to the shift in population figures .
• Islamabad / Pakistan : The Supreme Court rejects the appeal against the acquittal of the Christian Asia Bibi , who was accused of blasphemy . She can therefore leave the country.
• Leipzig / Germany : The Russian retail company Torgservis , founded in 2009, is opening the first Mere store with around 1000 square meters of retail space in a former Aldi branch in Leipzig in the Portitz district and is planning further branch locations in Germany.
• London / United Kingdom : The British House of Commons votes against an unregulated Brexit and for renegotiations with the EU on the backstop .
• London / United Kingdom : British Labor MP Fiona Onasanya has been sentenced to three months in prison for breaking the law. On May 1, 2019, she will be recalled in the first referendum against a British MP.
• Munich / Germany : The Munich regional court forbids Frauke Petry to use the name “The Blue Party ” as a trademark.
• Ramallah / Palestinian Territories : Rami Hamdallah , Prime Minister of the State of Palestine and the Palestinian Territories announces his resignation, clearing the way for a new government.
• Vienna / Austria : The ORF announces that the musician Pænda will represent the country at the Eurovision Song Contest .
• Karlsruhe / Germany : The Federal Constitutional Court ruled that Section 13  No. 2 of the  Federal Election Act is incompatible with the Basic Law and Section 13  No. 3 of the Federal Election Act is not compatible with the Basic Law and is void . This means that blanket exclusions from voting rights due to care or arranged accommodation are excluded.

Wednesday January 30, 2019

• Berlin / Germany : The Defense Committee of the German Bundestag turns into a committee of inquiry into the Gorch-Fock affair .
• Lügde / Germany : In the case of abuse in Lügde , according to the Detmold public prosecutor's office , at least 31 children were victims of sexual abuse by three alleged perpetrators on a campsite in the Elbrinxen district in around 10 years , of which the 56-year-old single permanent camper Andreas V. had already lived for 30 years the campsite. There is a suspicion of 1000 individual acts and the production of child pornographic material. The main suspect has been in custody since December 2018, two other suspects have been in custody since January 2019. On February 1, 2019, the Bielefeld Police Headquarters will take over the investigation.

Winner of the Austrian Film Prize 2019

• Vienna / Austria : The Vienna City Hall the presentation of the finds Austrian Film Award in 2019 by the Academy of the Austrian film instead. Angelo , Cops and Styx are each awarded in three categories, the best feature film is Murer - Anatomy of a Process , the best documentary is Waldheim's Waltz .

Thursday January 31, 2019

• Beirut / Lebanon : Saad Hariri introduces the future Lebanese government.
• Berlin / Germany : Saul Friedländer gives the commemorative speech for the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day in the Bundestag .
• Bucharest / Romania : In a joint declaration by the E3 Foreign Ministers, Jean-Yves Le Drian (France), Heiko Maas (Germany) and Jeremy Hunt (United Kingdom) in Bucharest, the establishment of INSTEX , the special purpose vehicle based in Paris , is intended to facilitate legitimate trade with that of American US economic sanctions occupied Iran , as part of efforts to maintain the joint Comprehensive action plan (joint Comprehensive plan of action; JCPoA) announced.
• Düsseldorf / Germany : Awarding of the German Television Prize 2019
• Genoa / Italy : The Guardia di Finanza is securing around two tons of cocaine worth 500 million euros in a shipping container from Colombia destined for Barcelona. A Spaniard was arrested. The day before, 650 kilograms of cocaine worth 130 million euros were seized in a shipping container with coffee beans in the port of Livorno . The drugs came from several criminal syndicates who work with the Colombian Gulf clan .
• Kuala Lumpur / Malaysia : Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah is sworn in as the new King (Yang di-Pertuan Agong) of Malaysia.
• London / United Kingdom : Numerous musicians, artists and cultural workers are calling for the BBC to boycott the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in Israel , including Wolf Alice , Julie Christie , Eve Ensler , Peter Gabriel , AL Kennedy , Mike Leigh , Ken Loach , Yann Martel , Maxine Peake , Alexei Sayle , Alia Shawkat , Roger Waters , Vivienne Westwood . The statement reads: “We can not ignore Israel's systematic violations of Palestinian human rights ” and “The BBC is obliged by its statutes to stand up for freedom of expression. It should act on the foundation of its principles and work to ensure that Eurovision is moved to a country where no crimes against freedom are committed. ”On February 8, 2019, Eurovision 2019: You Decide will be the preliminary decision for the British Contribution instead.
• Munich / Germany : Beginning of the popular initiative “Biodiversity and natural beauty in Bavaria” by February 13, 2019.
• Potsdam / Germany : With the Parité Act amending the Brandenburg State Election Act, the Brandenburg State Parliament decided to introduce a women's quota of 50% for electoral lists from 2020. This law does not apply to applicants from a party who stand for a direct mandate in elections.
• Strasbourg / France : The European Parliament recognizes Juan Guaidó as President of Venezuela .
• Strasbourg / France : The Labor -Abgeordnete Catherine Stihler puts her mandate in the European Parliament down. Due to the approaching European elections in 2019 , the mandate will not be filled, which is why the number of legal members of the European Parliament will decrease by one.

See also

• Nekrolog January 2019 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

View from the Zugspitze to the Zugspitzplatt on January 1st

Commons : January 2019  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

 Wikinews: Articles Published January 2019  - News

Individual evidence

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