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This article covers breaking news and events in November 2007.
Daily events
Thursday November 1, 2007
- Berlin / Germany : The office of President of the Federal Council goes to Ole von Beust ( CDU ), the First Mayor of Hamburg .
- Berlin / Germany : With the second stage of the introduction of biometric passports , the fingerprints of the two index fingers are also stored in the chips . Everyone who applies for a passport from today will get this new version. For those over the age of 24, the exhibition costs 59 euros and their passport will be valid for ten years, for under 24s it costs 37.50 euros and their passport will be valid for six years. From now on, children also need their own passport.
- Hispaniola , Cuba : Tropical Storm Noel hits the main islands of the Greater Antilles .
- Washington, DC / United States : President George W. Bush again defends tough methods of obtaining evidence in the discussion about international terrorism and homeland security . His critics demand that the protection of human rights be valued higher than all other interests.
- Washington, DC / United States : The Frenchman Dominique Strauss-Kahn becomes Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund .
Friday November 2, 2007
- Berlin / Germany : The construction of a museum about the time of National Socialism begins.
- Chemnitz / Germany : The regional labor court decides that the German Locomotive Drivers' Union (GDL) is also allowed to strike in long-distance and freight traffic. The Deutsche Bahn AG comments that the GDL, which is comparatively poor in members, “could paralyze the republic”.
- Moscow / Russia : After a five-day break, the cargo airline Lufthansa Cargo is temporarily allowed to use the Russian airspace again, and general negotiations on the use are to take place later.
- New York / United States : 72 member states of the United Nations (UN), including all member states of the European Union , submit a new draft resolution to the UN for the worldwide abolition of the death penalty .
- Turkey : President Abdullah Gul receives the Foreign Minister of the United States Condoleezza Rice to discuss the crackdown on the terrorist organization PKK to advise the v. a. operates in the east and south of Turkey as well as in neighboring countries. There are protests against Rice in the streets.
- United States : Hurricane Noel reaches hurricane strength.
Saturday 3rd November 2007
- Afghanistan : German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits the Afghan President. The Bundeswehr will remain stationed in northern Afghanistan, said Merkel, and Germany will also provide police aid to the country. Then the Chancellor visits the Bundeswehr troops in the country.
- Islamabad / Pakistan : President Pervez Musharraf imposes a state of emergency on the country. The Supreme Court judge is given house arrest for 30 days.
- Istanbul / Turkey : At the international Iraq conference, Iraq's foreign minister promises to take action against the PKK terrorist organization in the north of his country.
- Mexico : Hurricane Noel causes flooding in Mexico .
- Munich / Germany : There is a demonstration against the construction of a section of the Transrapid maglev train . State and local politicians have been promoting a Transrapid connection to the city center for several years.
- Orbit : During an outboard operation, the crew repairs the solar sail of the International Space Station , which was damaged when it was deployed.
- United States : The largest nuclear power plant in the United States is shut down because a bomb is found near the power plant. The owner of the car in which the bomb was found claims nothing of its existence.
Sunday November 4, 2007
- Germany : According to media reports, there was a breach of antitrust law on the German energy market after internal agreements between the energy giants RWE , E.ON , Vattenfall and EnBW . The “energy cartel” has artificially increased electricity prices in recent years.
- Guatemala City / Guatemala : In the second round of the presidential election , Álvaro Colom from the National Union of Hope received almost 53% of the vote. He will be the first Social Democratic President of Guatemala.
- Colombia : In Colombia there are severe storms with hailstorms.
- Mexico : A governor asks for help in dealing with the flood disaster , including a. there is looting.
- Pakistan : After President Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency for the entire country, security forces arrested over 500 people, private TV channels were switched off and the date of the parliamentary elections planned for January 2008 was called into question.
- Chad : Seven of the 16 Europeans arrested in Chad on suspicion of child trafficking and fraud will have their freedom back.
- Turkey : The eight soldiers of the Turkish Armed Forces , who were taken hostage by the terrorist organization PKK on October 21 , will be released. A PKK spokesman says this is a sign of the desire for peaceful solutions.
Monday 5th November 2007
- Berlin / Germany : The federal government agrees to introduce the inheritance tax reform into the Bundestag .
- Europe : Oil and gold prices rise to record levels. The external value of the euro has reached a new record against other currencies . The US dollar is in the low. Some observers predict that the world's leading currency will be the euro in the future.
- Pakistan : Protests against the state of emergency are violently suppressed.
- Port of Spain / Trinidad and Tobago : The parliamentary elections are taking place.
- United States : The Writers Guild of America, with more than 11,000 members, calls an indefinite strike due to failed salary negotiations.
- Turkey : Prime Minister Recep Erdoğan receives the President of the United States George W. Bush to discuss how to deal with the terrorist organization PKK .
Tuesday November 6, 2007
- Baglan / Afghanistan : At a sugar factory north of Kabul an attack was carried out on a group of Afghan parliamentarians who wanted to visit the reconstruction. More than 30 people were killed.
- Brunsbüttel , Geesthacht / Germany : After the operator's test report on the series of breakdowns in the Krümmel and Brunsbüttel nuclear power plants on June 28th, the nuclear power plants can continue to operate safely, the information about the breakdowns is criticized. However , the nuclear regulatory authority will not let the nuclear power plants go back into operation this year. Federal Environment Minister Gabriel criticizes this report, saying that it is of no relevance to the government because the report was financed by the operator.
- Ceuta , Melilla / Spain , Rabat / Morocco : King Mohammed VI. , Head of State of Morocco, criticizes the visit of the Spanish King Juan Carlos I to the two African cities of Ceuta and Melilla, which belong to Spain, as "counterproductive". On site, angry Moroccans accompany the visit of the Spanish head of state with loud protests, while the residents of Ceuta and Melilla express their gratitude to the king for his visit.
- Germany : According to a study by the German Institute for Economic Research , the richest 10% of the country's inhabitants own almost two thirds of the national wealth. However, in relation to total wealth , half of the population has almost no property that falls under the definition of wealth in the study .
- Frankfort , Jackson / United States : In the gubernatorial elections in the United States in the state of Kentucky, Governor Ernie Fletcher of the Republican Party will lose his position to Steve Beshear . In the state of Mississippi , incumbent Republican Governor Haley Barbour is defending his office.
- Multan / Pakistan : Hundreds of lawyers demonstrate against the state of emergency in Pakistan, especially the disempowerment of the Supreme Court, which today would have decided whether the re-election of Musharraf was constitutional. The protests are violently ended. The federal government plans to cut development aid.
- Turkey : The police arrest a 22-year-old terror suspect who could be related to the terrorist attacks that were foiled in Germany in September.
- The EU Commissioner for Justice and Security Franco Frattini presents a draft law on counter-terrorism with which the EU can store the data of air passengers for up to 13 years. He also plans that posting calls or instructions regarding terrorist attacks should be punished. The draft law also envisages that the EU will set up a central register of purchased and stolen quantities of explosives. This should apply from 2011. Germany's Interior Minister Schäuble supports this draft law, criticism comes from the faction Die Grünen / European Free Alliance in the EU Parliament .
Wednesday November 7, 2007
- Cape Canaveral / United States : The space shuttle Discovery lands as planned at 6:02 p.m. Coordinated Universal Time to conclude the STS-120 mission .
- Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The union of German locomotive drivers announces strikes from Thursday 12:00 p.m. to Saturday 6:00 a.m. and also that all rail traffic will be on strike if a new tariff is not available by Monday.
- Georgia : Anti-government protests crushed. A television station critical of the government was switched off. 300 people need medical treatment.
- Jokela / Finland : An 18-year-old kills a total of eight people in a school rampage .
- Moscow / Russia : The lower house of the Federation Assembly decides that in mid-December Russia will withdraw from the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe , which was signed in 1990 to restrict conventional weapons.
Thursday November 8, 2007
- Islamabad / Pakistan : The government announces parliamentary elections for February 2008. Despite the state of emergency, there are again demonstrations.
- Manila / Philippines : The Southeast Asian confederation ASEAN agrees on the draft of a fundamental charter that obliges the member states to uphold democracy, human rights and the rule of law.
- Tbilisi / Georgia : Prime Minister Mikheil Saakashvili announces early elections after imposing a state of emergency . More than a hundred people were injured by police yesterday.
- Ulaanbaatar / Mongolia : Prime Minister Mijeegombyn Enchbold resigns from his position as head of government.
- Border clearance between the member states that recently joined the European Union (EU) and the other EU member states will be simplified until December 21st.
Friday November 9, 2007
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- Berlin / Germany : The Bundestag passes the law on data retention , which makes it possible to save technical data for telephony and Internet communication for six months . The communication content, e.g. B. conversations or texts may not be kept. Various mandate holders and various social groups are renewing their view that the Federal Constitutional Court must examine the law.
- Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The German Train Drivers Union (GDL) continues to strike. Especially in the east, where the GDL has more members, rail traffic is severely affected by the work stoppage.
- Germany : The European version of the iPhone hits the market. The American version introduced in the USA in June 2007 was a sales success there.
- Germany , the Netherlands , Norway , the United Kingdom : in a storm on the North Sea, wind speeds of up to 130 km / h can occur in northern Germany. In Hamburg houses are flooded and cars swim in the water. The flood is one meter lower than the record high of 1996. In Rotterdam , the Maeslant barrage will be closed for the first time since its completion. The Thames Barrier will be closed in London .
- Orbit : During an outboard operation, the astronauts prepare the Harmony connection module for docking with the Columbus European research module at the International Space Station .
- Pakistan : Despite the state of emergency, there are again demonstrations. The opposition leader was placed under house arrest that morning, but was released again.
Saturday November 10, 2007
- Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The union of German locomotive drivers threatens to strike in the entire German route network if there is no tariff offer next Monday.
- Kuala Lumpur / Malaysia : The police violently break up parts of a demonstration for free elections .
- Prague / Czech Republic : In Prague there are clashes between neo-Nazis and the police, 50 people are arrested.
- United States : President George W. Bush and German Chancellor Angela Merkel to talk about the nuclear program of Iran and climate change . They come to the conclusion that the conflict with Iran can be resolved diplomatically.
- Yaren / Nauru : Three ministers of Ludwig Scotty's government resign after falling out with Foreign Minister David Adeang . They criticize the government's willingness to reform and announce that they will take the side of Kieren Keke in a no-confidence vote against Scotty on November 13th .
Sunday November 11, 2007
- Islamabad / Pakistan : President Musharraf has announced parliamentary elections before January 9, 2008.
- Rome / Italy : After the death of an Italian football fan, serious riots broke out in Italy.
Monday November 12, 2007
- Russia , Ukraine : Several tankers and freighters sink in a severe storm off the coast of Russia in the Black Sea . An environmental catastrophe threatens.
Tuesday November 13, 2007
- Berlin / Germany : The Vice Chancellor and Federal Minister for Labor and Social Affairs Franz Müntefering ( SPD ) resigns from his posts for family reasons. Olaf Scholz (SPD) will be the new labor minister and the foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (SPD) will be the new vice chancellor .
- Copenhagen / Denmark : The parliamentary elections end after a head-to-head race in the polls between incumbent Anders Fogh Rasmussen from the Left Party and challenger Helle Thorning-Schmidt from the Social Democrats with a narrow victory for the Rasmussen party.
Wednesday November 14, 2007
- France : In France, strikes are taking place across the country, with lively participation .
- United States : Researchers report that for the first time the cloning of rhesus monkeys and the extraction of stem cells from the embryos of these primates have succeeded.
Thursday November 15, 2007
- New York / United States : The United Nations Human Rights Committee approved the abolition of the death penalty in a vote of 99 to 52, with 33 abstentions .
- Strasbourg / France : After the interior ministers of the member states of the European Union (EU), the EU parliament is also voting for the largest expansion of the Schengen zone to date and thus for the lifting of border controls to nine other eastern and south-eastern European EU states.
Friday November 16, 2007
- Bangladesh : Cyclone Sidr causes torrential rain and claims numerous victims.
- Berlin / Germany : The members of the Bundestag vote for an increase in diets by 9.4%.
- Hamburg / Germany : The food company Edeka takes over the food company Plus from Tengelmann .
Saturday 17th November 2007
- Kosovo / Serbia : The Democratic Party of Kosovo wins 34.3% of the vote in the parliamentary elections . The approximately 120,000 members of the Serbian ethnic group in Kosovo, whose status under international law is still being negotiated, will not take part in the election.
- Warsaw / Poland : The newly sworn government under Donald Tusk announces the withdrawal of Polish soldiers from Iraq in 2008 .
Sunday November 18, 2007
- Kosovo / Serbia : Hashim Thaçi wins the parliamentary elections in Kosovo. He campaigns for independence from Kosovo from Serbia. The turnout was 42%.
- Memorial day in Germany
- New York / United States : The United States is supporting Pakistan with a secret program worth 68 million euros in securing Pakistani nuclear weapons.
Monday November 19, 2007
- Brussels / Belgium : The former candidate for chancellor of the Union parties and former Bavarian Prime Minister Edmund Stoiber takes up his office for bureaucracy reduction in the European Union .
- Majuro / Marshall Islands : The parliamentary elections are taking place.
- Seattle / United States : Amazon publishes the first Kindle in the USA .
- Ukraine : At least 60 people die in a methane explosion in a mine in Ukraine. Other people are missing.
Tuesday November 20, 2007
- Amman / Jordan : Parliamentary elections take place.
- France : In France, the strikes are spreading - in addition to subway staff, school and kindergarten staff as well as tax officials are on strike.
- Pakistan : 3,400 opposition activists released. The protests are still violently ended.
- Rome / Italy : Archaeologists discover the Lupercal grotto in Rome .
Wednesday November 21, 2007
- Berlin / Germany : Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel appoints the SPD politician and Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs Frank-Walter Steinmeier as Vice Chancellor of the Federal Republic.
- Munich / Germany : The Fürth district administrator Gabriele Pauli , who in the last few months presented herself with media coverage as an opponent of the leadership of the CSU, v. a. of the former Bavarian Prime Minister Edmund Stoiber , announced in the magazine Vanity Fair that she was leaving the party because her demands would not be heard.
Friday November 23, 2007
- Antarctica : The cruise ship Explorer rams an iceberg in Antarctica .
- Beirut / Lebanon : The 5th election attempt fails.
- Geneva / Switzerland : Manfred Nowak , UN Special Rapporteur on Torture , publishes a statement on torture and the current situation in prisons in Indonesia.
- Kampala / Uganda : The Commonwealth is withdrawing its membership from Pakistan until further notice due to the ongoing state of emergency; For its part, Pakistan wants to rethink its relationship with the confederation.
- Ulm / Germany : The Weishaupt art gallery opens.
- Warsaw / Poland : In his first government declaration, Poland's new Prime Minister Donald Tusk announces the swift ratification of the Lisbon Treaty , the introduction of the euro and better relations with neighbors Germany and Russia.
Saturday November 24, 2007
- Berlin / Germany : Deutsche Bahn boss Mehdorn, according to the union of German locomotive drivers, offers a wage increase of up to 13%, but no separate collective agreement.
- Canberra / Australia : The social democratic Australian Labor Party wins the general election . Your top candidate Kevin Rudd has announced that he will ratify the Kyoto Protocol .
- California / United States : There are forest fires again.
- Russia : The opposition leader is arrested during protests against President Vladimir Putin .
- Vienna / Austria : At the 8th award of the Nestroy Theater Prize , Sylvie Rohrer was honored as best actress and Bernhard Schir as best actor.
- The financing of the Galileo satellite navigation system has been clarified. Galileo should be completed in 2013.
Sunday November 25, 2007
- Bern / Switzerland : In the second round of the Swiss Council of States elections, unlike in the National Council elections, no seats were won for the SVP. Toni Brunner and Ueli Maurer lost the elections in their cantons.
- Durban / South Africa : The draw for the qualifying groups for the 2010 World Cup will take place.
- Glarus / Switzerland : At the first extraordinary rural community in the canton of Glarus for 155 years, a decision is made to reduce the number of communities from 25 today to three by 2011.
- Zagreb / Croatia : The parliamentary election confirms the ruling Croatian Democratic Union party as the strongest force.
Monday November 26, 2007
- Moscow / Russia : Opposition politicians are prevented from appearing and demonstrating in Russia. The opposition leader and former world chess champion Kasparov is jailed for five days.
- Sudan , Chad : Around 100 people die in clashes between rebels and the Sudanese government.
Tuesday November 27, 2007
- Berlin / Germany : Oswald Metzger leaves the party Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen .
- Bonn / Germany : Deutsche Telekom AG announces its immediate withdrawal from the cycling sponsorship of Team T-Mobile .
- Islamabad / Pakistan : Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif , who has returned to Pakistan from exile, has registered as a candidate for the parliamentary elections on January 8th.
- Paris / France : In the suburbs of Paris there are again riots and riots.
Wednesday November 28, 2007
- Bad Arolsen / Germany : The International Tracing Service with documents on victims of National Socialist rule opens its archives to the public and can be viewed on the Internet .
- Brussels / Belgium : The European Union uncovered an international cartel and EU competition commissioner Neelie Kroes imposed almost half a billion euros on a glass cartel.
Thursday November 29, 2007
- Canberra / Australia : Peter Garrett , former singer of the music band Midnight Oil , becomes Minister for Environmental and Cultural Heritage in Australia.
- Germany : The dispute in the post office - the minimum wage has been decided. The new version of the collective agreement for minimum wages in the postal sector is available.
- Nuremberg / Germany : The number of unemployed has fallen to 3.38 million people in Germany. That is the lowest level in 14 years.
Friday November 30, 2007
- Ankara / Turkey : The Turkish government gives marching permission for the Turkish military in the Kurdish north of Iraq .
- Moscow / Russia : President Vladimir Putin signs the suspension of the CFE Treaty after the relevant votes in both houses of the Federation Assembly .
- Rheinstetten / Germany : The German Regina Halmich , boxing world champion of the WIBF since 1994, is fighting her last fight. After the victory against the Israeli Shmoulefeld Finer, she resigns undefeated.
- Vatican City : Pope Benedict XVI. publishes his second encyclical " Spe Salvi " ( German "We are saved on hope" ). The text turns against world views, science, politics and belief in progress as a substitute for Christian hope for eternal life and takes a particularly critical look at the philosophical works of Karl Marx and Francis Bacon .
See also
- Nekrolog November 2007 for deaths this month
- List of annually recurring memorial and action days in November
- Category for commemorative days, holidays or action days in November
Web links
Commons : November 2007 - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ^ The Presidents of the Federal Council. In: bundesrat.de . Retrieved November 14, 2016 .
- ↑ markenpost.de, Thomas Pfeiffer: Fingerprint goes on a journey ( Memento from February 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Passport with fingerprints. In: mz-web.de . November 1, 2007, accessed June 18, 2017 .
- ↑ Dominique Strauss-Kahn. In: imf.org . Retrieved September 8, 2019 .
- ↑ manager-magazin.de
- ↑ wz.de
- ↑ welt.de
- ↑ bbc.co.uk
- ↑ nasa.gov
- ↑ google.com : Pakistan's head of state suspends constitution ( memento of March 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ n-tv.de
- ↑ faz.net
- ^ Government declares a state of emergency. In: derstandard.at . November 4, 2007, accessed May 30, 2013 .
- ↑ faz.net
- ↑ nytimes.com
- ↑ netzeitung.de : Fight Against Terror ( Memento from March 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Morocco's path toward reform under King Mohammed. In: reuters.com . November 24, 2011, accessed September 6, 2018 .
- ↑ sueddeutsche.de : Every second German has no savings ( Memento from November 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ usatoday.com
- ↑ derstandard.at
- ^ Wikinews: Prime Minister Enchbold resigned
- ↑ Telekom starts selling iPhone on November 9th. In: merkur.de . May 19, 2009. Retrieved August 21, 2016 .
- ^ Wikinews: Opposition event violently dissolved
- ↑ radioaustralia.net.au
- ↑ spiegel.de
- ↑ tagesspiegel.de
- ↑ welt.de
- ↑ nytimes.com
- ↑ zeit.de
- ↑ tsarchive.wordpress.com
- ↑ orf.at
- ↑ welt.de
- ↑ tagesschau.de : MPs receive 9.4 percent more money ( Memento from June 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ tsarchive.wordpress.com
- ↑ welt.de
- ↑ Amazon's Original Wireless Reading Device (1st generation). In: amazon.com . Accessed August 21, 2016 (English).
- ↑ bbc.co.uk
- ↑ tsarchive.wordpress.com
- ↑ faz.net
- ↑ Chapter 6.2 Composition of Federal Cabinets - List of Names. (PDF; 313 kB) 16th electoral term (2005–2009): 1st cabinet Angela Merkel. In: Data Handbook on the History of the German Bundestag 1990 to 2010. German Bundestag, June 28, 2017, p. 9 , accessed on July 24, 2017 .
- ↑ Gabriele Pauli resigns from the CSU. In: morgenpost.de . November 21, 2007, accessed February 1, 2020 .
- ↑ reuters.com : Cruise ship accident in Antarctica - inmates rescued ( Memento from November 24, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Wikinews: "No country is immune to torture"
- ↑ dw-world.de
- ↑ dradio.de
- ↑ tagesschau.de : Tusk wants to improve its neighborhood with Germany ( Memento from July 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b c d Tagesschau
- ^ Reuters: Australia's Rudd promises generational change
- ↑ Handelsblatt: Labor wins elections ( Memento from November 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Thousands on the run. It's burning again in Malibu. In: FAZ.net , November 25, 2007.
- ↑ tagesschau.sf.tv - Toni Brunner beaten in St. Gallen - Swiss television
- ↑ tagesschau.sf.tv - Maurer is subject to Diener - Swiss television
- ↑ tagesschau.sf.tv - Landsgemeinde confirms community merger - Swiss television
- ↑ Time: Parliamentary election: ruling party in Croatia again in front
- ↑ taz.de
- ↑ n-tv: Allegedly hundreds of dead. Bloody fighting in Chad
- ↑ Time: One less
- ↑ Press release from Team T-Mobile on Nov. 27, 2007
- ↑ www.nzz.ch - Nawaz Sharif declares war on Musharraf
- ^ Spiegel: Receipt for Sarkozy's unfulfilled promise
- ↑ Foreign Office: Nazi victims can view documents on the Internet
- ↑ Annual Report 2007. In: its-arolsen.org . 2008, accessed July 16, 2019 .
- ↑ Tagesschau: Half a billion euros fine for glass manufacturers
- ↑ n-tv.de
- ↑ handelsblatt.com
- ↑ tsarchive.wordpress.com
- ↑ n-tv.de
- ↑ tsarchive.wordpress.com
- ↑ history. In: regina-halmich.org. Retrieved October 27, 2016 .
- ^ Encyclical Spe Salvi by Pope Benedict XVI. To the bishops, to the priests and deacons, to the consecrated persons and to all believers in Christ on Christian hope. In: dbk.de . 2008, accessed October 27, 2019 .