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This article covers breaking news and events in June 2006.

Daily events

Thursday June 1, 2006

• Central Europe : This year's meteorological start of summer is exceptionally cold. In many regions of Europe, the temperature has been 10 ° C below the long-term average for days, which is two to three times greater than the usual statistical fluctuation range.
• United States : The United States freezes financial aid to Serbia and Montenegro . Aid was temporarily suspended or reduced in April 2004 and January 2005 because the state in south-eastern Europe refused to cooperate with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague .
• Vienna / Austria : A high-level meeting of foreign ministers at the British embassy in Vienna deals with Iran's nuclear policy . The United States indicated yesterday for the first time the possibility of direct talks with Iran on when the Government showed kindness. The three largest countries in the European Union are offering Iran economic incentives to give in.

Friday June 2, 2006

• Moscow / Russia : At the preliminary talks for the G8 summit in Saint Petersburg , the delegations speak out in favor of increasing global aid against AIDS . For this purpose, 9 billion US dollars are available in the current year , in 2010 it should be 23 billion US dollars. In Russia alone, 1.5 million AIDS patients are assumed, and in the rest of Eastern Europe, too, the number of diseases is increasing comparatively strongly.

Saturday 3rd June 2006

Flag of montenegro

• Kiel / Germany : THW Kiel becomes German handball champions for the 12th time. As a result, the THW as record champions draws level with VfL Gummersbach , which this year took 3rd place after Kiel and SG Flensburg-Handewitt .
• Podgorica / Montenegro : Two weeks after the referendum, the parliament decides on independence , thus ending the previous "state union" with the larger Serbia . Montenegro was last independent before the occupation by Austria-Hungary in 1916. The first transitional regulations ( e.g. for Montenegrin students and for Serbian second home owners) have already been initiated.
• Prague / Czech Republic : A head-to-head race between the ruling Social Democrats and the Democratic Citizens' Party (ODS) is expected in the parliamentary elections .

Sunday 4th June 2006

• Upper Bavaria / Germany : The brown bear JJ1 ("Bruno"), known as the "problem bear ", reappears in Upper Bavaria after sightings in the North Tyrolean Upper Inn Valley and kills more sheep.

Monday 5th June 2006

Serbia - “Kosovo” corresponds to “Kosovo and Metohija” in official usage

Ollanta Humala

• Belgrade / Serbia : The parliamentary republic of Serbia is founded. In contrast to its predecessor state , it only consists of central Serbia , the province of Vojvodina and the province of Kosovo and Metohija , while Montenegro is sovereign .
• Chile : In many places there are again student demonstrations with tens of thousands of participants against a planned educational reform . In the previous week, some violent demonstrations were broken up by the police and around 200 people were arrested.
• Lima / Peru : Social Democrat Alan García wins the runoff election for the presidency with 55% of the vote against left-wing nationalist Ollanta Humala . According to initial analyzes, many voters saw him as a lesser evil compared to the populist Humala, whose party, however, was by far the strongest force in parliament.
• Mogadishu / Somalia : After weeks of fighting with well over 300 dead, the “militia of the Islamic courts” conquered the capital Mogadishu. It was only this year that some warlords who had been fighting for rule since 1991 had allied themselves in the “anti-terror alliance” ARPCT , but the population tended to trust the Islamists, who are supported by the Muslim clergy. The US is now concerned that Somalia - like Afghanistan at the time - could become a "safe haven" for terrorist groups.

Tuesday June 6, 2006

Javier Solana

• Berlin / Germany : The " Readers Edition " modeled on the South Korean website OhmyNews is made accessible online. The platform belongs to the Netzeitung and presents texts written by private individuals on the Internet after they have been proofread by a paid editorial office.
• Brasília / Brazil : Participants in a large rally by the landless movement in the Brazilian capital break into the parliament building where the members of parliament are currently meeting. Around 400 demonstrators were arrested and 27 police officers injured. In Brazil, an estimated 4.6 million farming families are without land ownership and 26,000 owners have around 50% of the agricultural area.
• Brussels / Belgium : The Council Secretary of the European Union Javier Solana describes the reaction of Iran as positive after his negotiations in Tehran , where he handed over the “Vienna offer” of the United Nations (UN) veto powers, which was decided on June 1st . The land shall uranium conversion be admitted initially it threatened because of the attitude of the UN veto powers with the stop its oil exports.
• Palestinian Autonomous Territories : On the issue of recognizing Israel , the Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas extends his ultimatum to the terrorist organization Hamas by two days. In the event that Hamas does not give in, Abbas plans to call a referendum on the two-state solution . Such a vote should lead to overcoming the political blockade between Fatah and Hamas.

Wednesday June 7, 2006

• Baghdad / Iraq : The leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al- Zarqawi , is killed in a targeted air strike on a house in Baghdad.

Thursday June 8, 2006

• China : Persistent rainfall over the past few days is causing the worst floods in three decades in the southern Chinese provinces of Fujian , Guangdong and Guangxi . The official Xinhua news agency reports a total of 75 deaths. The economic damage in the affected regions is estimated at 3.15 billion yuan (300 million euros).
• Vienna / Austria : The International Atomic Energy Agency presents its report on Iran's nuclear program and states that “no further progress” has been made.

Friday June 9, 2006

Germany - Costa Rica

• Gaza Strip / Palestinian Territories : The militant wing of Hamas terminates the ceasefire with Israel in response to Israeli attacks . The day before, Hamas’s security chief Jamal Abu Samhadana was killed in an air strike by the Israeli army. Further artillery and air strikes injured 30 people and killed ten Palestinians . Israel describes the attacks as a reaction to repeated fire on its south by Qassam rockets .
• Munich / Germany : The match between Germany and Costa Rica marks the beginning of the 18th men's soccer world championship . In twelve German cities, 32 nations will play for the title until July 9th. Germany won 4-2 in the first game.

Saturday June 10, 2006

Map of the Gaza Strip

• Gaza Strip / Palestinian Territory : Hamas terminates the ceasefire and fires Qassam rockets at Israel after a possible Israeli attack on a beach in the Gaza Strip .
• Milan / Italy : Doctors give birth by caesarean section to a baby whose mother has been brain dead for 78 days. At the insistence of the father, she was kept alive artificially in order to save the life of the daughter. Heavily falling blood pressure made the caesarean section necessary. A Vatican spokesman welcomed the doctors' actions.
• Moscow / Russia : The finance ministers of the G8 countries are meeting for deliberations for the upcoming G8 summit in St. Petersburg in July . The focus is on issues of energy policy and the rising price of crude oil. Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin had previously announced that it would cancel debt of 700 million US dollars (553 million euros ) in developing countries in Africa .

Sunday June 11, 2006

• Baleswar / India : India successfully tests a medium-range missile . The surface-to-surface missile supposedly has an effective range of around 350 kilometers and can transport nuclear warheads .
• Guantanamo Bay , Cuba : Two Saudi Arabians and one Yemen were found hanged in their cells on Saturday morning in the prison camp at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base of the United States Armed Forces . These are the first cases of suicide since the camp was used as a prison in January 2002.

Monday June 12, 2006

• Ankara / Turkey , Brussels / Belgium : In the accession negotiations with Turkey, the first - still unproblematic - negotiation chapter “Research and Science” is concluded. Before that, Cyprus had issued a threat to blockade and made a more stringent EU demand on Turkey to apply the customs union to Cyprus and to recognize its government. So far, Ankara has denied the Greek part of Cyprus access to shipping ports and airspace.
• Beit Yehoshua / Israel : On the way from Tel Aviv to Haifa , a passenger train collides with a truck that is standing on a level crossing. Five occupants of the train are killed and 81 others are injured.
• Luxembourg / Luxembourg : The foreign ministers of the member states of the European Union (EU) open the accession negotiations with the country Croatia , which the EU Council President Ursula Plassnik certifies that it is ready for membership. Talks were postponed in late 2005 due to UK opposition .

Tuesday June 13, 2006

Romano Prodi

• Atlantic : The tropical storm "Alberto" could develop into the earliest hurricane in the last 40 years. Since the storm swept across Cuba at 110 km / h , it has been increasing in strength, so that Florida Governor Jeb Bush called on the population on the coast to get to safety. The hurricanes in the Caribbean have been increasing since 1995 , which experts attribute partly to natural cycles and partly to anthropogenic climate change.
• Gaza , Ramallah / Palestinian Autonomous Areas : The clashes between Hamas militias and the Fatah-dominated security service in Gaza threaten to lead to civil war. The political leader Mahmoud Abbas puts the troops on high alert. In Ramallah, Fatah supporters are protesting against the robust approach of government-loyal security forces and setting fire to the parliament building, in which the referendum planned by Abbas was debated without result.
• Strasbourg / France : The Parliament of the European Union calls for the closure of the US prison camp on the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba . The fight against terrorism should not come at the expense of human rights and the rule of law.
• Vienna / Austria : Italy's new Prime Minister Romano Prodi starts his inaugural visits to the governments of the member states of the European Union in the current Presidency of the Council of Austria and emphasizes the good understanding between the two states. The fact that Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel wished his predecessor Berlusconi an electoral victory in April does not affect friendship. According to the press conference, Prodi's priority is European policy (which he also wants to discuss in Paris and Berlin), but observers doubt the stability of his government, which only has a narrow majority in parliament. Schüssel and Prodi highlight the common transport and environmental policy. On June 30th, the groundbreaking ceremony for the exploratory gallery of the Brenner Base Tunnel will take place, the most ambitious transport project in the EU, which also serves to protect the Alps. The project is estimated at 7–8 billion euros and has been rejected by some parties and business representatives. EU coordinator Karel Van Miert recently promised a 20% contribution to the costs.

Wednesday June 14, 2006

Plague pathogen

• DR Congo : 100 people died in an outbreak of the plague in the east of the country . WHO experts count 100 cases of pneumonic plague and an unknown number of bubonic plague infections .

Thursday June 15, 2006

• Kabul / Afghanistan : More than 11,000 US soldiers and their allies start the largest military offensive in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban in December 2001 . According to estimates by the US armed forces, the major offensive “Mountain Trust” will last the whole summer and target Taliban bases. Bundeswehr troops are not involved in the operation.
• Sri Lanka : At least 58 people were killed in an attack on a fully occupied bus in Sri Lanka. 45 other passengers were injured when the vehicle was destroyed by a mine explosion.

Friday June 16, 2006

Sales tax rates in Germany since the introduction of sales tax

• Berlin / Germany : The largest tax increase in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany has been passed. After the Bundestag resolved to raise VAT from 16% to 19% a month ago, the Federal Council has now also approved this tax increase.
• Brussels / Belgium : The heads of state and government at the EU summit approve the admission of Slovenia to the euro zone . Slovenia will be the first of the ten new EU states to introduce the euro in January 2007 .

Saturday 17th June 2006

• Baghdad / Iraq : At least 31 people have died in attacks in Baghdad. A car bomb killed 11 people. Another explosive device detonated in the center of the city on a busy market square. More than 50,000 Iraqi and 7,000 US soldiers have been looking for insurgents and suspects since Wednesday in a major operation announced by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki .
• Taipei / Taiwan : The approximately 13 kilometers long Hsuehshan road tunnel , consisting of two tunnels , is opened.

Sunday June 18, 2006

Jan Ullrich

• Bern / Switzerland : The German Jan Ullrich wins the Tour de Suisse cycling tour for the second time .
• Catalonia / Spain : The inhabitants of Catalonia have voted on a new statute of autonomy that gives the region more independence. More than five million voters were called to vote on the statute, which gives the economically strong region in northeastern Spain more powers, especially with regard to tax revenue. 74% voted for the adoption of the statute, but with a low turnout of only 49%.

Monday June 19, 2006

• Glindenberg / Germany : In a traffic accident with a fire engine in Saxony-Anhalt, four young members of the Wolmirstedt volunteer fire brigade die , five others are injured, some seriously.
• The ex-ambassador Ronald Lauder acquires the painting Adele Bloch-Bauer by Gustav Klimt for 135 million US dollars . This makes it the most expensive painting in the world.

Tuesday June 20, 2006

Dirk Nowitzki (No. 41)

• Dallas / United States : In the decisive final game of the American Basketball -Profiliga NBA wins Miami Heat 95:92 against the Dallas Mavericks . It is Miami's first NBA season win since the club was founded. After Detlef Schrempf in 1996 , Dirk Nowitzki from the Mavericks played for the first time a German again to win the world's most important basketball title.

Thursday June 22, 2006

• Munich / Germany : Allianz AG announces that it will cut 7,500 jobs (including giving up the Cologne location ).

Friday June 23, 2006

• New York / United States : The New York Times reports that the US government had spied on the international bank remittance node called the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication ( Swift ) to ward off terrorism.

Sunday June 25, 2006

• Luxembourg / Luxembourg : The directors of Arcelor (steel production) approve an offer from rival Mittal Steel to create a new company called ArcelorMittal .

Monday June 26, 2006

A fully grown brown bear

• Bayrischzell / Germany : On the 1,500 m high Kümpflalm near the Rotwand in the Spitzingsee area , two hunters and a police officer killed the brown bear JJ1 , known as "Bruno the Bear", in May from Italy via Tyrol immigrated to Bavaria and earned the classification " problem bear ". A lung shot at a distance of 150 m kills the animal.
• Phoenix / United States : The copper group Phelps Dodge will acquire for 40 billion US dollars two Canadian mining companies Inco and Falconbridge .
• Rome / Italy : In a referendum, the Italians reject a reform of the Italian constitution.

Tuesday June 27, 2006

• Hanoi / Vietnam : Nguyễn Minh Triết is elected President of Vietnam with 494 votes (94.12%) in parliament.

Wednesday June 28, 2006

• Gaza Strip / Palestinian Territories : Operation Summer Rain begins on the night of June 28th with the entry of Israeli forces into the Gaza Strip.
• New York / United States : Montenegro becomes 192nd member of the United Nations .

Thursday June 29, 2006

The equal treatment law aims u. a. on racially motivated discrimination

Bilingual place-name sign in Carinthia

• Berlin / Germany : The German Bundestag adopts a consumer information law for food and consumer products, a General Equal Treatment Act and a tax change law that the distance allowance for professional contingent commuting limited and the top tax rate to 45% for an annual income of 250,000 euros fixes.
• Berlin / Germany : The law on the German National Library , which regulates the renaming of the “German Library” to “ German National Library ” and defines its collection mandate in the area of online publications , comes into force.
• Austria : The governing parties ÖVP and BZÖ announce an agreement in the local sign dispute and pave the way for the ordinance of the federal government on the determination of areas in the state of Carinthia in which topographical designations and inscriptions are to be placed in both German and Slovene .

Friday June 30, 2006

• The Hague / Netherlands : Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende ( CDA ) resigns.
• Washington, DC / United States : US President George W. Bush is defeated in the Supreme Court over the legal treatment of Guantanamo prisoners.

See also

• Nekrolog June 2006 for deaths this month
• List of annually recurring commemorative and action days in June
• Category for memorial days, holidays or action days in June

Web links

Rhineland-Palatinate in June 2006

Commons : June 2006  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

 Wikinews: Article Published June 2006  - News

Individual evidence

1. ↑ setimes.com: US aid to Serbia-Montenegro suspended over Mladic ( Memento from June 30, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
2. ↑ Answer of the Federal Government to the minor question from the MPs Cornelia Hirsch, Dr. Petra Sitte, Volker Schneider (Saarbrücken), other MPs and the Die Linke parliamentary group. In: bundestag.de . August 17, 2006, accessed January 30, 2018 . 
3. ↑ 25 years of AIDS. In: Pharmaceutical newspaper . 2006, accessed January 30, 2018 . 
4. ^ A Dictator's Legacy of Economic Growth. In: npr.org . September 14, 2006, accessed on October 14, 2018 (English): "a massive protest rally in the streets of Valparaiso on June 5, 2006" 
5. ↑ tagesschau.de : Triumph for Social Democrat García ( Memento from September 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ Islamic militia controls Mogadishu. In: nzz.ch . June 5, 2006, accessed October 14, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Readers Edition goes online. In: politik-digital.de . June 6, 2006, accessed November 7, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Tehran swings the oil club. In: wienerzeitung.at . June 6, 2006, accessed October 14, 2018 . 
9. ↑ A referendum does not provide a solution. In: dw.com . June 8, 2006, accessed October 14, 2018 . 
10. ↑ Top terrorist Zarqawi killed in Iraq. In: orf.at . Retrieved October 14, 2018 . 
11. ↑ Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran. In: iaea.org . June 8, 2006, accessed January 30, 2018 . 
12. ↑ ibnlive.in.com : Prithvi missile test fired, fine-tuned ( Memento from November 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
13. ↑ Turkey concludes the first part of the EU accession talks. In: orf.at . June 2006, accessed October 14, 2018 . 
14. ^ Israeli Driver Gets Six Years in Prison for Causing Fatal Train Accident. In: Haaretz.com . September 22, 2016, accessed May 12, 2019 . 
15. ^ Croatia on the way to the European Union. In: mvep.hr, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Croatia . 2009, accessed October 14, 2018 . 
16. ↑ Fatah supporters storm Hamas government building. In: spiegel.de . June 12, 2006, accessed June 3, 2013 . 
17. ↑ eu2006.at, Republic of Austria : start of the Brenner Base Tunnel on June 30 ( memento from October 14, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
18. ↑ List of winners as a mirror image. In: nzz.ch . June 14, 2013. Retrieved May 29, 2017 . 
19. ↑ Miami vs. Dallas: Miami Heat. In: nba.com . Retrieved on January 28, 2018 (English): "Heat registered a 95-92 victory over the Mavericks" 
20. ↑ Bank Data Is Sifted by US in Secret to Block Terror. In: The New York Times . June 23, 2006, accessed June 15, 2019 . 
21. ↑ Arcelor recommends improved Mittal Steel offer. In: arcelormittal.com . June 25, 2006, accessed October 14, 2018 . 
22. ↑ life preserve. In: heise.de . September 4, 2006, accessed November 21, 2018 . 
23. ↑ 129. Supplement in 2007 to the meeting reports of the XXVIII. Vorarlberger Landtag. In: vorarlberg.at . Retrieved on July 28, 2019 : "At its meeting on June 29, 2006 [...]"