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This article covers breaking news and events in March 2007.

Daily events

Thursday March 1, 2007

John S. McCain III.

• Berlin / Germany : In BND - committee of inquiry it comes to scandal , because important files on the case of kidnapped Bremer Turk Murat Kurnaz have disappeared. These are precisely those documents from the Bremen Office for the Protection of the Constitution , which, in the opinion of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the Federal Government at the time , proved that Kurnaz nevertheless represented a security risk - and this in contrast to the assessment of the BND employees who had interrogated him in Guantánamo . The further interrogations are postponed.
• Berlin / Germany : The Federal Labor Minister Franz Müntefering ( SPD ) 's campaign for the introduction of minimum wages for garbage collectors and other professional groups is answered by the employers' association for medium-sized personnel service providers. V. , the working group of self-employed entrepreneurs e. V. , the Federal Association of Self-Employed Persons e. V. as well as economic politicians from the Union parties with a joint declaration in which they describe minimum wages as "anti-social", since they promote job cuts and illegal work .
• Bern / Switzerland : In the area of ​​education, the Federal Council is in favor of expanding the bilateral agreements with the European Union from 2004 and advocating participation in the “ Youth in Action ” program and the action program for lifelong learning.
• Copenhagen / Denmark : The self-governing youth center Ungdomshuset is evacuated by a massive police operation with the support of anti-terror units, whereby a German occupier was injured in the head, according to TV reports. The police fear further riots.
• Tokyo / Japan : The Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe denies the forced prostitution during the Second World War by the Japanese occupation forces in Korea , China and Indochina : "There is no evidence that coercion was exercised on women, as it was initially said" . Abe thus snubbed u. a. a US Congress resolution calling on Japan to take historical responsibility for the documented events.
• Rotterdam / Netherlands : The commissioning of the new Betuwelijn freight railway in the area around the port of Rotterdam is delayed until June 2007, as test operations with various types of locomotives will continue.
• Washington, DC / United States : The Republican Senator for the US state of Arizona and Vietnam - Veteran John McCain announces his candidacy for the election of the US president .

Friday March 2, 2007

• Enterprise / United States : Devastating cyclones in the southern United States cause a total of 11 deaths in the US states of Alabama , Missouri , Georgia and North Dakota . Five people alone die in a school in Enterprise. The governor of Alabama declares a state of emergency .
• Quetta / Pakistan : According to CNN , Pakistani security forces arrested high-ranking Taliban leader Mullah Obaidullah Achund in a raid in the south-west of the country .

Saturday March 3, 2007

• Berlin / Germany : Speaker of the DGB and the IG Metall throw the managers of the companies EADS / Airbus , German Telekom and Bayer AG "lack of sense of social responsibility and conscience" before, as they fired tens of thousands of workers, or nearly social security outsource free subsidiaries to cut costs would.
• Braunschweig / Germany : The public prosecutor bringing charges against former VW - works council chairman Klaus Volkert for incitement to infidelity. The VW corruption affair , in which the former VW HR manager Klaus-Joachim Gebauer is accused of infidelity along with 12 other people , is about bribes , so-called pleasure trips , brothel visits , luxury gifts and air travel for lovers and "sex parties" with company money were funded.
• Sapporo / Japan : Ronny Ackermann defends his title in the individual classification at the Nordic Combined World Championships . After two jumps from the normal hill and the 15-kilometer cross-country skiing, Ackermann referred the American Bill Demong and Anssi Koivuranta from Finland to the other medal ranks.
• Sapporo / Japan : Polish ski jumper Adam Małysz becomes world champion for the fourth time. The Pole jumps away from all other jumpers on the normal hill in Sapporo and ultimately wins gold with a 22-point lead. The Swiss Simon Ammann takes silver, the Austrian Thomas Morgenstern gets bronze.

Sunday March 4th 2007

• Riyadh / Saudi Arabia : Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is visiting Saudi Arabia to accommodate its royal family, which is concerned about the growing influence of the Shiites in the Middle East , and to prepare for the next week's Iraq conference through bilateral talks.
• Tallinn / Estonia : Andrus Ansip's ruling party wins 27 percent of the vote in parliamentary elections and increases the number of its seats in parliament from 19 to 31.

Monday March 5, 2007

Li Zhaoxing

• Taipei / Taiwan : The President of Taiwan, Chen Shui-bian, wants to achieve independence from China in a clear departure from his previous policy : "Taiwan has to strive for independence, has to change its name, has to get a new constitution and strive for development." China is this new turn in Taiwanese politics relatively unexpected. Only the Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing has adopted a harder tone than the “local provincial leader” , whose plans are doomed to failure, and threateningly refers to the secession law, which authorizes a military strike.
• Zell am See / Austria : In a collision, an Austrian light aircraft and a Swiss transport helicopter type Super Puma AS 332 C1 eight people die.

Tuesday March 6, 2007

• Dhaka / Bangladesh : A fire in the slums of the port city of Chittagong kills 21 during the night. Only after five hours can the firefighters bring the conflagration that had started in a warehouse with highly flammable materials under their control.
• Geneva / Switzerland : This year's Geneva Motor Show is all about climate protection .
• Karlsruhe / Germany : A civil servant is defeated in a legal dispute before the Federal Constitutional Court . According to his judgment, officials in metropolitan areas do not have to pay a special conurbation surcharge due to the higher cost of living . The 51-year-old police officer wanted to assert that he could afford a significantly lower standard of living in Munich than in Bayreuth .
• Karbala / Iraq : Two suicide bombers kill around 100 Shiite pilgrims on the way to the holy sites of Karbala near Hilla .
• Padang / Indonesia : 85 people are killed in two earthquakes with a magnitude of 6.3 and 6.4 M _w on the island of Java . 430 people are being treated in hospitals for their injuries.

Wednesday March 7, 2007

Northern Ireland Parliament Buildings

• Belfast / United Kingdom : In the third election to the Northern Ireland Assembly , the unionist Democratic Unionist Party again won the most seats, followed by the Republican party Sinn Féin . The moderate parties, Social Democratic and Labor Party and Ulster Unionist Party , lost a total of almost 10% of the vote. The UK and Ireland are threatening to dissolve the assembly if a government does not come into existence.
• Yogyakarta / Indonesia : A Boeing 737-400 of the airline Garuda Indonesia catches fire when approaching the airport of Yogyakarta and during the subsequent emergency landing shoots over the runway to burn out completely in a rice field. So far, 22 deaths are to be mourned, 118 people are said to have survived the accident, some with very serious burns. According to Australian information, up to ten Australian diplomats and journalists who accompanied Foreign Minister Alexander Downer on a trip to Indonesia were in the passenger plane.

Thursday March 8, 2007

François Bayrou

• Antwerp / Belgium : The 216 m long ConRo ship Repubblica di Genova of Grimaldi Lines capsizes in the port of Antwerp during the loading process. Some of the cargo from 300 containers and cars of the Fiat brand goes overboard.
• Hanoi / Vietnam : Japan and North Korea prematurely end talks about improving their bilateral relations because of the Koreans' resentment over the denial of comfort women by Japanese Prime Minister Abe .
• Kabul / Afghanistan : According to the version of the governor of the Sar-e-Pul province , Sayed Mohammad Iqbal Munib, thieves shoot a German Welthungerhilfe employee after robbing his three Afghan companions and him. A spokeswoman for Welthungerhilfe gives a different version, according to which it was not necessarily about robbers.
• Lahnstein / Germany : In the first collective agreement for 2007, employer and employee representatives ( IG BCE ) in the chemical industry agree on 3.6% more wages for the 550,000 employees within the next 13 months.
• Paris / France : The duel for the French presidency between the socialist candidate Ségolène Royal and the conservative interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy ( Union for a People's Movement ) turns into a three-way battle with the accession of François Bayrou from the liberal union for French democracy . According to new surveys on the upcoming election in May of the CSA institute, all three candidates are head to head with approval ratings of around 25% each.

Friday March 9, 2007

Nicosia, Cyprus

• Berlin / Germany : The Bundestag , contrary to the protests of the unions , passes the pension at the age of 67 Parliament approved the joint draft of the CDU / CSU Union and the SPD in an open vote . 408 MPs are in favor of the new regulation, 169 are voting against, and four MPs abstain. The Federal Council must now approve the gradual increase in the retirement age from 65 to 67 years by 2029.
• Berlin / Germany : The Bundestag resolves with 157 votes against from all parliamentary groups to send tornado jets to Afghanistan ; the Union MPs Willy Wimmer and Peter Gauweiler submit a lawsuit against the use at the Federal Constitutional Court immediately after the vote .
• Brussels / Belgium : The European Union has made a binding commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by a fifth by 2020 compared to 1990 levels.
• Nicosia / Cyprus : Greek Cypriots use bulldozers to tear down parts of the wall in the city of Nicosia that separate the Greek from the Turkish part of Cyprus. The Cypriot Foreign Minister Giorgos Lillikas calls for the withdrawal of the Turkish troops. President Tassos Papadopoulos had already announced this step at the summit meeting of EU heads of state and government in Brussels in order to create a new border crossing at this point .
• Washington, DC / United States : Democrats agree on deadline for Iraq withdrawal by 2008 , i. H. until the next presidential election. The President of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi , stressed that the Democrats are very serious about this deadline.

Saturday March 10, 2007

• Baghdad / Iraq : Iraq is holding a conference with the governments of its neighboring countries, representatives of the United Nations (UN) and other actors in order to consolidate the country. All those present, including the representative from Iran , promise their support in the task of making Iraq a safer country. The UN points out the danger that the current tensions in Iraq could lead to a regional war.
• Jenin / Palestinian Autonomous Territories : Angry Palestinians from the militant Al-Aqsa Brigades, which are close to President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah , bombard the headquarters of the Palestinian security forces in the West Bank due to anger over outstanding wages .
• Hanover / Germany : The company Rossmann objects to the decision of the Federal Cartel Office due to dumping prices, which the company therefore sentenced in February 2007 to a fine of € 300,000. According to the authority, Rossmann had undercut the cost price of 55 articles. Otherwise, company boss Dirk Roßmann announces the "biggest price increase of the post-war period" .
• Rome / Italy : In Rome, thousands of people take to the streets against discrimination against homosexuals and for the rights of unmarried couples.
• Washington, DC / United States : According to the report of the inspector general of the United States Department of Justice, the FBI has obtained them approximately 20 percent of the cases in which documents were requested (via phone calls, emails, and financial transactions) from US citizens not listed in mandatory reports to the US Congress.

Sunday March 11, 2007

Jacques Chirac (left)

• Berlin / Germany , Vienna / Austria : The governments of the Federal Republic of Germany and Austria are warned against continuing to keep soldiers stationed in Afghanistan in a video message from the Internet television station “Voice of the Caliphate”, which is close to al-Qaida . If this continues to be the case, terrorist attacks can be expected in both countries . The Federal Foreign Office does not issue an opinion on this.
• Paris / France : After twelve years, the French President Jacques Chirac will no longer run for a third term.
• Stuttgart / Germany : The Bundesvereinigung Lebenshilfe for people with intellectual disabilities honors the social pedagogue , music therapist and well-known singer Guildo Horn and the production company Format.E TV Productions with their media prize “ Bobby ”. In the SWR - talk show "Guildo and his guests" speak Horn empathetic in "his typical loose way, but always with the necessary respect," with disabled guests.

Monday March 12, 2007

• Karlsruhe / Germany : The Federal Constitutional Court rejects an urgent application by MPs Willy Wimmer and Peter Gauweiler against the dispatch of six tornado jets to Afghanistan for formal reasons. According to the reasoning, the applicants are in contrast z. B. a parliamentary group is not authorized to assert the rights of the Bundestag . The applicants saw the posting as a constitutional violation that would only be permissible by amending the NATO treaty .
• Bonn / Germany: As predicted since the beginning of the year, Wolfgang Klein will be the new head of the German Postbank on July 1, 2007 .
• Moscow / Russia : The Merovingian exhibition opens in Moscow , where looted art from the Berlin Museum of Prehistory and Protohistory is shown to the public again for the first time .

Tuesday March 13, 2007

• Berlin / Germany : The grand coalition reaches an agreement in a long-standing dispute over the right to stay for around 180,000 illegally immigrated foreigners or asylum seekers who have already been rejected . Accordingly, “tolerated” foreigners who have been living in Germany for more than six years should now be granted a permanent right of residence if they can prove a job by 2009 . The compromise will not result in any higher social benefits . Before Easter , the draft law is to be passed by the cabinet.
• New York / United States : The media group Viacom wants to sue Google and its video portal YouTube for more than one billion US dollars in damages for copyright infringement. There you are unimpressed.
• Rome / Italy : The Vatican publishes the Apostolic Letter Sacramentum Caritatis (Sacrament of Love), in which, among other things, a common Lord's Supper is clearly rejected by Catholics and Protestants, Latin is to be promoted again in Mass , and communion is allowed for remarried people is rejected and the duty of celibacy for priests is reconfirmed .

Wednesday March 14, 2007

• London / United Kingdom : The British Parliament unswervingly resolves to modernize British nuclear weapons with 409 to 161 votes due to a rebellion by some Labor MPs against Tony Blair's own government . Because of the 90 renegade party members, the prime minister was dependent on the votes of the opposition.
• New York / United States : The WWF Foundation announces the discovery of a new animal species, a " cloud leopard " that occurs in two varieties and lives on Borneo and Sumatra . The French zoologist Georges Cuvier described the species as early as 1823.

Thursday March 15, 2007

Anti-Nazi symbol

• Karlsruhe / Germany : The 3rd criminal senate of the BGH overturns the conviction of a Swabian mail order company for using symbols of unconstitutional organizations by acquittal; Among other things, he had driven out crossed-out swastikas . The distancing from National Socialism can be seen through the identification by crossing out or breaking the symbol .

Friday March 16, 2007

• Hamburg / Germany : In the Hanseatic city and in other European branches, up to 10,000 Airbus employees demonstrate against the dismissal policy of the EADS parent company.
• New York / United States : The World Jewish Congress (WJC) dismisses its previous General Secretary, Israel Singer , from all offices. The background seems to be a power struggle between chairman Edgar M. Bronfman and the Israel Jewish Congress ( IJC ).
• New York / United States : After a lesbian-gay national organization addressed the UN Human Rights Council for the first time, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbor subsequently pointed out the need for UN intervention to improve the human rights situation of homosexuals and the States urged to take active action against human rights violations against homosexuals.
• Beijing / China : The Chinese National People's Congress passes the first property law and protects private property. In addition, China is increasing its military budget by 17.8% to the equivalent of around 34 billion euros .

Saturday 17th March 2007

• Berlin / Germany : The President of the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) warns of imbalances in so-called “ hedge funds ”, which could lead to a financial crisis due to a lack of transparency. The Amaranth hedge fund alone recorded a drop in value of 5 billion US dollars in the fall of 2006 within a few days .

Sunday March 18, 2007

Ruapehu

• Helsinki / Finland : In the parliamentary elections in Finland, the previous center-left coalition of the liberal Finnish Center Party and the Social Democrats retains the government majority and Matti Vanhanen can continue to govern.
• Ruapehu District / New Zealand : At Ruapehu , a 2797  m high stratovolcano on the northern island of New Zealand, a point breaks in the wall of the 17 hectare crater lake 250 m below the summit. A mudslide pours through the valley of the Whangaehu River past the village of Tangiwai into the sea. As the mudslide had been expected by experts for years, a warning system had been installed that alerted the authorities at an early stage. Road and rail connections could be blocked and nobody is harmed. Only a memorial for the 151 dead from a similar avalanche 54 years ago is damaged.

Monday March 19, 2007

• Agarak / Armenia : The Iran-Armenia natural gas pipeline is opened by Presidents Robert Kocharyan and Mahmud Ahmadinejad .
• Hanover / Germany : The company TUI announces that it will take over the English tourism company First Choice (51 percent majority) and will relocate the company headquarters to London in autumn 2007 .
• Münster / Germany: The district court of Münster is hearing the case of the so-called Bundeswehr scandal against 18 former or still active officers of the Bundeswehr who, in their capacity as trainers, grossly disregard the duty of service and violate human dignity, numerous recruits of Freiherr-vom-Stein -Barracks in Coesfeld are said to have injured or mistreated in the summer of 2004. If convicted, prison sentences of up to ten years can be expected.
• Novokuznetsk / Russia : In a Siberian coal mine , 188 miners are buried underground after an explosion of coal dust or methane gas . The death toll rises to 110. 55 people have been brought to safety to date.

Tuesday March 20, 2007

• Berlin / Germany : The Defense Commissioner of the Bundestag , Reinhold Robbe ( SPD ), describes the conditions in German barracks in a press conference before the reading of his current report as scandalous due to the financial shortage in the maintenance of the accommodation especially in the west of the republic and the pay of the Soldiers: "Two thirds of them belong to the lower income groups." He also recommends that the requirements not simply be expanded through foreign missions. "In each individual case, it is important to check whether the Bundeswehr is overburdened or even overtaxed."
• Jeisk / Russia : 63 people are killed in a fire in a Russian old people's home in the Kuban region of the Black Sea . According to the authorities, 37 other people are said to have been injured. The fire brigade is true due to the large distance of 50 km to the fire after an hour on the scene one. It is the second case of an old people's home fire in Russia since the beginning of the year.
• London / United Kingdom : The Labor government in England passes a law allowing schools in the country to ban veils or niqabs on girls in schools.
• Vienna / Austria : The low pressure area "Paul" ensures a return of winter in southern Germany and above all in the Alpine republic. Due to the massive and wet snowfall, several overhead lines failed, so that 40,000 households in the south of Austria lost power for hours.

Wednesday March 21, 2007

Forsmark nuclear power plant

• Berlin / Germany : The former Berlin Hyp board member and CDU parliamentary group leader Klaus-Rüdiger Landowsky is sentenced to a suspended sentence of 16 months in the so-called Berlin bank affair for infidelity in the granting of millions of loans to the real estate company Aubis .
• Berlin / Germany : Finance Minister Peer Steinbrück questions the abolition of the letter monopoly , as other EU countries refuse to allow foreign companies to send letters.
• Geneva / Switzerland : Following a ten-day fact- finding trip in February 2007, the inspector of the UN Human Rights Commission for Education Vernor Muñoz recommends the German government once again to adopt the multi-tier school system which "has a negative impact on poor children and migrant children and children with disabilities" to reconsider. In return, German educators and, above all, educational politicians with a strong pedagogical background accuse Muñoz of not having understood the German educational system, since he primarily refers to the different linguistic bases of the four-year and six-year elementary school forms in the various federal states.
• Forsmark / Sweden : The Swedish Forsmark nuclear power plant is evacuated after a bomb threat . Since an incident at the end of July 2006 , in which a reactor had to be shut down for a total of three months, the location had come under increasing public criticism.
• Kabul / Afghanistan : The Afghan government admits to having released several Taliban in exchange for the release of the Italian Daniele Mastrogiacomo from the Taliban hostage .

Thursday March 22, 2007

smoking ban

• Berlin / Germany : In the Federal Republic of Germany there will be no uniform smoking ban for restaurants , bars and restaurants in the foreseeable future . It is true that the prime ministers of the federal states agree on extensive non-smoking protection in restaurants, schools, kindergartens, authorities, theaters, public transport and discos. But ultimately, according to information from Christian Wulff and Klaus Wowereit, an agreement was reached on the formulation that smoking in restaurants should only be allowed in a separate, closed room, possibly marked with an 'R'. A minority of the countries grants the right - as u. a. North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony - accept exceptions. The SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach calls the compromise “useless in every respect”. German doctors consider this form to be intolerable. The German Medical Association openly speaks of a failure of the federal states and the German Cancer Society reacts with open indignation.
• Berlin / Germany : In a resolution all parties represented in the Bundestag condemned the attitude of the government in Nigeria to homosexuality . In Nigeria there is a bill that is supposed to prohibit homosexuals from contacting relevant international self-help groups.
• Geneva / Switzerland : The WHO warns of the spread of multi-resistant bacterial strains , which make the fight against tuberculosis extremely difficult.

Friday March 23, 2007

Commemoration of the signing of the Treaty of Rome

• Abadan / Iran : 15 British soldiers in a rubber dinghy are picked up by the Iranian Navy while on patrol at the mouth of the Shatt al-Arab in the Persian Gulf . Iran accuses the soldiers of violating Iranian territory, even though they are said to have been in Iraqi waters. This incident creates entanglements between Britain and Iran.
• Berlin / Germany : The polar bear Knut is officially presented to the public in the Berlin Zoological Garden by Zoo Director Bernhard Blaszkiewitz and Federal Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel .
• European Union : In the various member states of the EU, the celebrations and memorial hours of the parliaments on the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome begin .
• Sundern / Germany : In the Sauerland, new snowfalls during the night cause traffic to collapse on some motorways and roads, some of which have to be closed. Two men in their car had a fatal accident near Sundern when a truck crashed straight into oncoming traffic. With the return of winter , there are also numerous accidents in the federal states of Hesse , Rhineland-Palatinate and Thuringia . Northern Germany is largely spared; only in Lübeck has one struggled with the flooding of the Trave , which flooded some streets of the old town.

Sunday March 25, 2007

Damaged river ship Excelsior

• Dortmund / Germany : Die Linkspartei.PDS and WASG decide to merge their parties.
• Karlsruhe / Germany: After 24 years in prison, the former RAF terrorist Brigitte Mohnhaupt is released early.
• Berlin / Germany: 50 years after the Treaty of Rome was signed , the heads of state of all 27 EU member states meet in Berlin for a ceremony to mark the signing of the Berlin Declaration . In it, the European Union committed itself to fundamental reforms and the creation of a new contractual basis by 2009.
• Yerevan / Armenia : Andranik Markarjan , Prime Minister of Armenia, dies of a heart attack.
• Dresden / Germany: In Dresden, 20,000 citizens take part in a rally against the renunciation of the status of World Heritage Site Upper Elbe Valley in connection with the construction of the Waldschlößchenbrücke .
• Cologne / Germany : On the Rhine near Cologne-Zündorf , the Excelsior cargo ship loses 32 containers in a turning maneuver. Inland navigation on the river will be suspended, probably for several days.
• Zimbabwe : In Hwange National Park into the falling mast befindlicher bull elephant to a group of British tourists, killing two of them.

Monday March 26, 2007

• Düsseldorf / Germany : In all of North Rhine-Westphalia , the first six-hour central high school diploma examination is starting for the first time with the German examination subject at 800 grammar schools and comprehensive schools , which, in deviation from the old regulation, presents the students with four centrally selected examination topics for optional processing. This is intended, on the one hand, to achieve equal opportunities when completing the Abitur , a relative comparability of qualifications and, on the other hand, the implementation of a really uniform curriculum . The teachers and around 64,000 students have so far been satisfied with the new test mode.
• European Union : The EU finance ministers agree on the introduction of a uniform European payment area .

Tuesday March 27, 2007

Ehud Olmert, Condoleezza Rice, Mahmud Abbas

Arrest block in the camp for “irregular fighters” at the Guantanamo base

• Tel Aviv / Israel : Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas agree two-week peace talks.
• Cuba : In the prison camp of the breakpoint of the United States Armed Forces , the committed Australian detainee David Hicks after five years in prison guilty of an "irregular combatants" in the service of Islamic terrorism to be. The Australian who converted to Islam was arrested in Afghanistan in 2001 and can serve the remainder of his sentence in Australia after the confession.
• Munich / Germany : The incumbent board member and European head of Siemens AG Johannes Feldmayer is arrested on suspicion of infidelity.
• Brussels / Belgium : According to Belga reports, there is a large-scale raid by the police in Italy, France, Luxembourg and Belgium on the premises of officials of the EU Commission , assistants from various MEPs, as well as in banks and company premises on suspicion of corruption instead of.

Wednesday March 28, 2007

Gare du Nord in Paris

• Moscow / Russia : President Vladimir Putin explains Russian objections to the US missile defense plans in Eastern Europe with his counterpart, US President George W. Bush, in a telephone conversation initiated by him . Bush then declared himself ready for detailed consultations. Putin warns against the independence of Kosovo against Serbia's public opinion .
• London / United Kingdom : Tony Blair freezes diplomatic relations with Tehran as negotiations show no progress over the 15 British marines arrested by Iran . The Iranian foreign minister then announced the imminent release of the only woman arrested. The British Ministry of Defense had already published material the previous day from which it could be seen from the GPS data that the soldiers were 1.7 nautical miles from the Iranian border during their arrest on the Shatt al-Arab .
• Paris / France : Riots at the Paris Nordbahnhof, the Gare du Nord , which are ignited by the arrest of a fare dodger by control officers of the Paris transport company, keep the police in suspense with looting and skirmishes for six hours.
• Munich / Germany : After the arrest of Siemens' top manager Johannes Feldmayer and his leave of absence by the company, IG Metall accuses the company of influencing employee representatives for decades . She is also considering filing a criminal complaint for manipulating the works council .

Thursday March 29, 2007

• New York / USA : The British architect Richard Rogers is awarded this year's Pritzker Prize for Architecture.

Friday March 30, 2007

tornado

• Berlin / Germany : The Federal Council also votes in favor of the “ pension at 67”. From 2012 to 2029, the retirement age will be gradually increased from 65 to 67.
• Denver / United States : At least four people are killed in a series of 65 tornadoes in the US states of Colorado , Oklahoma , Texas , Kansas , Nebraska , Wyoming and Texas.
• Essen / Germany : The KarstadtQuelle Group compensates the Wertheim heirs after years of litigation with 88 million euros .
• Karlsruhe / Germany : The Federal Constitutional Court rejects the urgent application by the left-wing parliamentary group against the use of tornado reconnaissance aircraft by the Bundeswehr in Afghanistan.

Saturday March 31, 2007

• Munich / Germany : In his comeback fight, the 43-year-old boxer Henry Maske defeated the American Virgil Hill , who inflicted the only defeat in his career eleven years ago, on points . Mask finally declares his resignation after the fight.
• Sydney / Australia : 2.2 million people take part in the Earth Hour based on an idea from WWF Australia . It should stimulate thought about the consumption of electrical energy .

See also

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

Web links

Canton of St. Gallen in March 2007

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

 Wikinews: Article Published March 2007  - News

Individual evidence

1. ^ Katharina Schuler: Scandal in the committee. In: zeit.de . March 2, 2007, accessed December 16, 2014 . 
2. ↑ "Minimum wages are unsocial". In: presseportal.de , material from the medium-sized and business association of the CDU / CSU . March 1, 2007, accessed September 14, 2019 . 
3. ↑ admin.ch : Agreement between the Swiss Confederation and the European Union laying down the prerequisites and conditions for the participation of the Swiss Confederation in the “Youth in Action” program and in the action program in the field of lifelong learning ( Memento of 10 December 2018 on the Internet Archives )
4. ↑ admin.ch : The most important bilateral agreements between Switzerland and the EU ( Memento of November 4, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ tagesschau.sf.tv - "Ungdomshuset - Riots and one injured person"
6. ^ Riots in Copenhagen - Police clear the youth center
7. ↑ tagesschau.sf.tv
8. ↑ www.verkehrsrundschau.de
9. ↑ Torsten Krauel: McCain is entering the race for president. In: welt.de . March 1, 2007, accessed December 16, 2014 . 
10. ↑ tagesschau.sf.tv - "Four US States Mourn Fatalities"
11. ^ Pakistan - Senior Taliban leader arrested. In: sueddeutsche.de. May 10, 2010, accessed December 16, 2014 . 
12. ↑ Berliner Zeitung - "Greed is rampant"
13. ↑ VW affair: Volkert must reckon with prison. In: stern.de. March 5, 2007, accessed December 16, 2014 . 
14. ↑ www.netzeitung.de - "Ackermann jumps in top form" ( Memento from March 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
15. ↑ "Gold for Adam Malysz"
16. ↑ The Nuclear Wave: Arab World Caught Between Israeli Hammer, Iranian Anvil Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, May-June 2007, pages 40-41
17. ↑ www.euronews.net - "A new parliament has been elected in Estonia today"
18. ↑ www.faz.net - “Exemplary Estonia. The changing governments have one thing in common: the belief in Erhard "
19. ↑ www.zeit.de - "Taiwan: President wants independence after all"
20. ↑ Helicopter crashes into sport plane. In: spiegel.de . March 5, 2007, accessed December 16, 2014 . 
21. ↑ 21 dead in fire in slums. In: tagesspiegel.de. Retrieved December 16, 2014 . 
22. ↑ Henning Peitsmeier: Geneva is "green" to the exhibition cars. In: FAZ.net . March 5, 2007, accessed December 16, 2014 . 
23. ↑ www.manager-magazin.de
24. ↑ www.netzeitung.de ( Memento of March 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
25. ↑ Earthquake in Indonesia , dw.com
26. ↑ tagesschau.sf.tv
27. ↑ Elections 2007. In: eoni.org.uk, The Electoral Office of Northern Ireland. Retrieved March 4, 2017 (English). 
28. ↑ Authorities: Machine completely burned out ( Memento from March 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
29. ↑ Airplane fire in Indonesia , n-tv.de
30. ↑ www.20min.ch - "Antwerp: Container ship capsized"
31. ↑ "Japan and North Korea end normalization talks prematurely"
32. ↑ www.dw-world.de - Deutsche Welle - "German aid workers killed in Afghanistan"
33. ↑ www.manager-magazin.de - "3.6 percent more for chemical workers"
34. ↑ epochtimes.de : Election campaign for three in France ( Memento from October 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
35. ↑ German Bundestag passes retirement age to 67. In: welt.de . March 9, 2007, accessed December 16, 2014 . 
36. ↑ Parliament votes in favor of tornado use. In: spiegel.de . March 9, 2007, accessed December 16, 2014 . 
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