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This article covers breaking news and events in May 2007.

Daily events

Tuesday May 1, 2007

Wednesday May 2, 2007

Thursday May 3, 2007

Emptied bottles of high-proof alcohol
  • Berlin / Germany : According to the report of the Drugs Commissioner of the Bundestag Sabine Bätzing ( SPD ), around 1,300 people died last year from the consumption of drugs as last year in 1989, but according to Bätzing's statements, 1.7 million people consumed more alcoholic beverages than that Are health beneficial and 1.6 million people are believed to be seriously dependent.

Friday May 4th 2007

Saturday 5th May 2007

Sunday May 6, 2007

Nicolas Sarkozy

Monday May 7, 2007

Demonstration by cycling fans during the 2006 Tour de France

Tuesday May 8, 2007

The Herodium. Aerial view from the southwest

Wednesday May 9, 2007

Barrier fence around the conference venue
  • Erbil / Iraq : A suicide attack in northern Iraq kills 20 people and injures another 80. The explosion of the truck, which was prepared with explosives, occurs near a government building in the Kurdish regional capital at an intersection.
  • Hamburg / Germany : The Federal Prosecutor's Office and the police are carrying out raids across Germany against extreme left-wing forces , which may be in the context of a disability or sabotage of the future G8 summit . “The background is a terrorist one,” is the version of the Federal Prosecutor's Office, one does not want to comment there on a connection with the economic summit. In the evening hours there are demonstrations in Berlin and the Hanseatic city of around 6000 opponents of the G8 summit, who like Attac protest against the raids. Only in Berlin are the actions going peacefully.
  • Vatican City : Benedict XVI. went on an apostolic trip to Brazil on the occasion of the V General Conference of the Episcopate of Latin America and the Caribbean (May 9-14, 2007).

Thursday May 10, 2007

Friday May 11, 2007

José Ramos Horta

Saturday May 12, 2007

Sunday May 13, 2007

Brazilian national shrine

Monday May 14, 2007

The DaimlerChrysler concern is dissolved

Tuesday May 15, 2007

Wednesday May 16, 2007

Thursday May 17, 2007

Saturday 19th May 2007

The Left Party and WASG become Die Linke

Sunday May 20, 2007

Monday May 21, 2007

Cutty Sark
  • Bonn / Germany : Bert Dietz admits in the Beckmann TV show that the Telekom team was doped in the 1990s : “The doctors, when they were there themselves, injected themselves. When they weren't there, the nurses did it, Jef D'hont ”. In doing so, he burdens the team doctors of the successor team T-Mobile, Andreas Schmid and Lothar Heinrich, who until recently had been in office until recently, because, according to him, they themselves also adjust the dosages, such as B. from EPO administered.
  • Greenwich / United Kingdom : The historic sailing ship Cutty Sark burns out early in the morning while lying in dry dock. Arson cannot be ruled out. The London Metropolitan Police begin the investigation. All in all, it is possible to rebuild the clipper because a large part of the ship's equipment and rigging had been outsourced for restoration work.

Tuesday May 22, 2007

Development of the number of passenger cars in Germany since 1975
  • Ankara / Turkey : In the Turkish capital, the suicide bomber Güven Akkuş with connections to the PKK detonates a bomb set in a busy market in front of an office building. Six people are killed and around 100 injured. According to Ankara Governor Kemal Onal, the assassin has been convicted through a thumbprint and DNA analysis because he was arrested years ago for membership and posting of illegal posters of the Turkish communist organization - the TİKB.
  • Beirut / Lebanon : In Lebanon, the fighting escalated for the third day in a row . An interim ceasefire is violated several times by Islamists and the Lebanese army , which is once again authorized by the government to attack the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian camp in order to drive out the extremist militia Fatah al-Islam. In this context, EU Foreign Commissioner Javier Solana calls for an immediate end to the violence "in all arenas."
  • Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The automobile manufacturers in Germany are recording sales declines of 27 percent in the private customer market due to higher sales tax .

Wednesday May 23, 2007

AC Milan coat of arms
  • Athens / Greece : AC Milan win the 2006/07 UEFA Champions League 2-1 against Liverpool FC . Two goals by striker Filippo Inzaghi lead the Italian team to a lackluster victory in front of 63,000 spectators.
  • Belgrade / Serbia : The two main defendants in the trial of the fatal attack on March 12, 2003 on the pro-western Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic , the former commander of a special unit of the Serbian secret police, Milorad "Legija" Ulemek , and his deputy Zvezdan Jovanovic Sentenced to a maximum of 40 years in prison.
  • Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The DAX , the most important German stock market barometer, exceeds the 7700 point mark for the first time in seven years and closes at 7735 points.
  • Hamburg / Germany : In its 2007 annual report published by S. Fischer Verlag , Amnesty International lamented a systematic “politics of fear” by governments that would create a polarized world. By specifically fueling fears, they try to undermine human rights standards. According to the Secretary General of Amnesty Germany, Barbara Lochbihler , "fear (..) has become a driving force in world politics" . Even if the fear of terrorism is partly justified, the “politics of fear” threatens to create an irreconcilable split between religions and social groups. Other security risks such as poverty or epidemics would be largely neglected.
  • Hessen , North Rhine-Westphalia , Saxony / Germany : Devastating storms with storms, hail and thunderstorms lead to floods , devastation and injuries in some large cities on the night of May 23 . In Bonn , the fire brigade is deployed on 335 missions, there is 30 cm of water in the cellar of the city ​​archive , the historic town hall, a swimming pool and the Telekom headquarters are badly damaged. A woman driver is seriously injured when a tree falls on her car. In Hesse and East Saxony , some roads are being washed away, some of which are making rubble impassable.
  • London / United Kingdom : The British Court of Appeal grants the Îlois the right to return to the Chagos Islands , from which they were forcibly relocated in the early 1970s.
  • Washington, DC / United States : In the month-long dispute over the financing of the Iraq war, US President George W. Bush wins a stage victory against the democratic majority in Congress by reluctantly foregoing the demand for a specific date for the troop withdrawal. Although they will agree to requested by Bush an additional 100 billion dollars for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan , but demand in return, the first increase in the minimum wage in a decade and another 20 billion for the elimination of hurricane damage, the agricultural system and an improvement of health care for veterans and children from poor families.
  • Vienna / Austria : According to a report by the IAEA, Iran is expanding its uranium enrichment project, in contrast to its multilateral insurances, and is deliberately ignoring the UN Security Council's ultimatum . According to this, Iran has almost doubled the number of gas centrifuges for uranium enrichment.

Thursday May 24, 2007

Fidel Castro
  • Baghdad / Iraq : The body of one of the three US soldiers who have been missing for two weeks is found in the Euphrates near the town of Mussajab. The body shows gunshot wounds and traces of torture . A DNA test proves the man's identity. The soldiers have been missing since a convoy was ambushed on May 12 . Four soldiers and their interpreter had already been killed.
  • Berlin / Germany : With the votes of the grand coalition , the Bundestag passes a new passport law that paves the way for passports to store not only the photo of the holder but also his / her fingerprints in a microchip.
  • Bonn / Germany : Erik Zabel confesses in a press conference that he doped with EPO for at least one week at the 1996 Tour de France . The funds were obtained from Jef D'hont , a masseur of the Telekom team at the time. Zabel describes the use of the hormone during the tour as a kind of test phase, which he ended again after his health values ​​deteriorated rapidly. After that, he never doped again. Even Rolf Aldag admits taking EPO - but over a longer period.
  • Bremen / Germany : In the state of Bremen , the special party conferences of the SPD and Bündnis 90 / Greens voted for a coalition of the two parties.
  • Dublin / Ireland : In the parliamentary elections in Ireland, the ruling, conservative party Fianna Fáil loses its share of the vote, but remains by far the strongest political force in parliament with 78 seats. The previous co-governing coalition partner Progressive Democrats is collapsing, so that the previous coalition does not have a sufficient majority.
  • Havana / Cuba : Cuban President Fidel Castro admits for the first time that he had to be fed intravenously for months : "There was not just one operation, there were several" . In the meantime his condition has stabilized.
  • Quito / Ecuador : The Ecuadorian government plans to forego the exploitation of an oil field in the Yasuní National Park in favor of the environment and the indigenous population and to have the international community compensate for the lost income.
  • Zurich / Switzerland : Defending champion FC Zurich becomes Swiss football champion 2007 .

Friday May 25, 2007

Saturday May 26, 2007

Sunday May 27, 2007

Volker Beck

Monday May 28, 2007


Wednesday May 30, 2007

Uttar Pradesh, India

Thursday May 31, 2007

Harpooned whale

See also

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. FK Austria Vienna - SV Mattersburg 2: 1. In: transfermarkt.de . Retrieved March 16, 2019 .
  2. www.handelsblatt.com - "Broadcasting Financing on the Test Stand"
  3. www.focus.de - "Beck reads TV stations the riot act"
  4. www.tagesschau.de: Livni suggests Prime Minister Olmert's resignation (tagesschau.de archive)
  5. www.20min.ch - "Open power struggle in Israel"
  6. www.n-tv.de - "Bush vetoed"
  7. Voting at the age of 16 from next year , Der Standard , May 3, 2007
  8. www.businessnews.com ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.businessnews.com
  9. Press: German Film Prize 2007. (No longer available online.) In: film-zeit.de, Ines Walk. Archived from the original on August 11, 2017 ; Retrieved October 19, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.film-zeit.de
  10. www.tagesschau.de: Gül withdraws candidacy (tagesschau.de archive)
  11. www.tagesschau.de: No survivors after plane crash in Cameroon (tagesschau.de archive)
  12. www.interieur.gouv.fr
  13. www.spiegel.de
  14. www.tagesschau.de - "German power plants among the most harmful in the EU" , May 9, 2007.
  15. de.today.reuters.com - “Leading socialists distance themselves from Royal”  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / de.today.reuters.com  
  16. www1.sf.tv - "Basso confesses"
  17. www.spiegel.de - “ALL PARTY GOVERNMENT NORTHERN IRELAND. Reconciliation full of distrust "
  18. n-tv - "Herod's tomb found"
  19. - “Taiwan, Kong Kong, China included in first peace survey”
  20. de.today.reuters.com  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / de.today.reuters.com  
  21. tagesschau.sf.tv
  22. - www.20min.ch - "Grossrazzia against the left in Germany"
  23. www.attac.de - "Attac criticizes police action as an attempt to criminalize G8 protest" ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.attac.de
  24. www.focus.de - "Massive police operation against demonstrators"
  25. The Holy See : Apostolic Journey to Brazil on the occasion of the V General Conference of the Episcopate of Latin America and the Caribbean (May 9-14, 2007) May 9, 2007
  26. news.bbc.co.uk
  27. www.focus.de - "Bush bows to the opposition"
  28. www.nzz.ch
  29. NZZ : Pope canonize the first Brazilian - mass before 1.5 million believers May 11, 2007
  30. ^ Montenegro - Member State. In: coe.int . Retrieved January 14, 2018 .
  31. ^ Election result in Iceland
  32. ^ FAZ : Poking in the wounds of society May 13, 2007
  33. ^ State elections: Free Hanseatic City of Bremen . Wahlen-in-deutschland.de. Retrieved October 28, 2016.
  34. www.faz.net - “24. Title for record world champion Canada "
  35. www.leichtathletik.de - "Two deaths overshadow the Karstadt marathon"  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.leichtathletik.de  
  36. www.scc-events.com - "Kenyan winners at the Karstadt marathon"
  37. derstandard.at - "Taliban military chief" killed
  38. www.markenpost.de - “Daimler separates: Cerberus takes over Chrysler for 5.5 billion” ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.markenpost.de
  39. www.handelsblatt.com - "Zypries calls for advantages for key witnesses"
  40. www.welt.de - "Carer in Berlin Zoo killed by musk oxen"
  41. www.faz.net
  42. www.kurier.at - "Bomb explosion in Pakistan"  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kurier.at  
  43. 2006/07: Seville defends the title. In: uefa.com . Retrieved February 21, 2017 .
  44. Netzeitung.de: South and North Korea are testing the first train connection ( Memento from March 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  45. Fusion to the "left" perfect . tsarchiv.wordpress.com. May 19, 2007. Retrieved January 16, 2017.
  46. The Fallen - a sad list. In: fr.de . June 5, 2009, accessed May 11, 2019 .
  47. www.sueddeutsche.de - "Bundesliga commentary. Expectation follows success "
  48. http://www.ad-hoc-news.de/AdHocNews/de/11801918/DGAP-Adhoc-Siemens-AG-Siemens-beruft-Peter-Löescher
  49. www.welt.de - "Ex-professional confirms doping in the Telekom team"
  50. www.sueddeutsche.de - "Cutty Sark was on fire"
  51. www.zeit.de - "Ankara: PKK suicide bomber carried out a bomb attack"
  52. www.milliyet.com.tr - "Portrait of a Bombayer"
  53. www.dw-world.de - "Fighting in Lebanon continues to escalate"
  54. www.manager-magazin.de - "Car sales collapse"
  55. www.zeit.de - "AC Milan succeeds in revenge"
  56. de.today.reuters.com  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / de.today.reuters.com  
  57. www.welt.de - "Dax only closes 400 points below all-time high"
  58. ftd.de: Amnesty laments "politics of fear" ( Memento from August 25, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  59. www.spiegel.de - "Storms cause millions in damage"
  60. news.bbc.co.uk - "Chagos families win legal battle"
  61. Page no longer available , search in web archives: kleinezeitung.at@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kleinezeitung.at
  62. www.focus.de - "Iran expands nuclear enrichment"
  63. www.presse.at - "Missing US soldier found dead"
  64. Tagesschau: Fingerprints in future passports ( Memento from May 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  65. www.spiegel.de - "Zabel and Aldag - doping confession with tears"
  66. www.tagesspiegel.de
  67. ^ N-tv: All right in Bremen
  68. ^ N-tv: Election in Ireland
  69. tagesspiegel.de - "Castro was on the drip for months"
  70. www.woz.ch ; www.regenwald.org ( Memento of the original from October 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.regenwald.org
  71. Tagesschau: Bundestag lowers corporate taxes (tagesschau.de archive)
  72. stern.de : State security controls private mail ( Memento from July 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  73. baz.ch - "Ukraine: Yushchenko takes control of the police" ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  74. Mittelbayerische.de
  75. cf. "Cannes Film Festival: Golden Palm goes to Romania" at zeit.de
  76. Reuters: Green politician Beck temporarily arrested in Moscow  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / de.today.reuters.com  
  77. The USA is talking to Iran again. In: taz.de . May 29, 2007, accessed October 11, 2019 .
  78. Switzerland Cup 2006/07. In: rsssf.com . Retrieved April 30, 2019 .
  79. www.taz.de - "Bonns Bärbel im Unlucky"
  80. www.egovcom.de - "State Secretary Hahlen calls for professional training for civil servants" ( Memento of the original from June 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.egovcom.de
  81. www.spiegel.de - "Huge order from Qatar - 80 Airbus A350s ordered"
  82. news.bbc.co.uk - "India alarm over HIV in new areas"
  83. www.diepresse.com - "Defeat for whaling countries"
  84. oe24.at - "Turkey convicted of torture for the 4th time in one month" ( Memento from August 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  85. Ambush Kills 16 Policemen in Afghanistan. In: nytimes.com . May 31, 2007, accessed March 16, 2019 .
  86. Blatter re-elected as Fifa boss. In: nzz.ch . May 31, 2007, accessed June 27, 2020 .