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This article covers breaking news and events in October 2005.

Daily events

Saturday 1st October 2005

The age structure is a challenge for pension insurance

• Ajaccio , Marseille / France : The police forcefully ended the blockade of the port of the Corsican capital, which stranded almost 15,000 tourists on the island, as well as the port of the largest French city on the Mediterranean . The blockade was a protest against the planned privatization of the ferry company SNCM .
• Bali / Indonesia : A series of attacks on the Indonesian holiday island claims numerous victims. Diplomatic circles speak of 32 dead and more than 100 injured. It is not yet clear whether German tourists are among the victims. The bombs exploded in quick succession in Jimbaran and in Kuta, about 30 km from Jimbaran.
• Berlin / Germany : The corporations under public law that are entrusted with the tasks of the statutory pension insurance appear from today under the common name " Deutsche Rentenversicherung ". A common logo will also be introduced.

Sunday October 2, 2005

• Dresden / Germany : A by-election is being held in constituency 160 because the NPD direct candidate died shortly before the federal election on September 18 . Because of the ongoing negotiations for a grand coalition, the by-election is met with great interest because it would be possible to postpone mandates between the CDU and the SPD . It was announced early on Monday that the CDU direct candidate Andreas Lämmel was elected, but the SPD was just ahead in the second votes. As a result, the Union now gains an overhang mandate , which increases its lead in the Bundestag from 3 to 4 mandates.
• Graz / Austria : The SPÖ achieves a landslide victory in the Styrian state elections, overtakes the ÖVP , which has ruled for 60 years, and achieves 41.67%. The FPÖ has to leave parliament, but the Greens have obtained the necessary basic mandate for the third time in a row .
• Jerusalem / Israel : During his state visit to Italy , Israel’s President Moshe Katzav will also be Pope Benedict XVI in mid-November . visit in the Vatican . The meeting is mainly about the state of relations between Israel and the Vatican, says a spokesman for the president. He does not give any further details. According to information from the newspaper Haaretz , Katzav wanted to ask the head of the Catholic Church to work in the fight against global anti-Semitism and to give Israeli scientists access to the Vatican archives .
• Yucatán / Mexico : In the early morning hours off the coast of the peninsula, a low pressure area intensifies due to Hurricane Stan .

Monday 3rd October 2005

Harriet Miers

• Africa , Europe : Annular solar eclipse in a strip up to 162 km wide, which extends from Spain through Algeria, Sudan, Kenya and Somalia.
• Hamburg / Germany : The German Federal Minister of Economics Wolfgang Clement (SPD) criticized the abuse of the unemployment benefit II . "The inhibition thresholds for the 'rip-off' with unemployment benefit II and other support benefits have obviously fallen," says Clement of " Bild am Sonntag ". This can be seen in an increase in corruption , illegal work and social abuse. Around 4.6 million Germans now have Hartz IV . Clement, however, had only expected 3.2 million. In the Federal Ministry of Economics there is talk of "large-scale abuse", it continues.
• Melilla / Spain : The Spanish exclave in North Africa, north of Morocco , is again the target of a mass influx of African migrants . Up to 800 people try to get over the six meter high metal fence. Around 300 of them invade Spanish territory. Melilla's mayor, Juan José Imbroda, indirectly blames the Moroccan authorities for the incident. A solution can only come "from the other side of the border, " he says.
• Stockholm / Sweden : The Australians Barry Marshall and John Robin Warren will receive the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine this year for the discovery of the gastric bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its importance in gastritis and gastric ulcers .
• Washington, DC / United States : US President George W. Bush nominates legal advisor Harriet Miers to succeed Sandra Day O'Connor as Justice of the United States Supreme Court . Miers has no experience as a judge, which is why her nomination surprised many observers. Conservative members of the Republican party base in particular accuse the president of nepotism in initial Internet reactions. They were disappointed that Miers never spoke out clearly against a constitutional right to abortion .
• West Bank / Palestinian Territories : During night raids , the Israeli army arrests 40 members of the radical Palestinian movements Hamas and Islamic Jihad . According to an Israeli military spokesman, most of the prisoners come from the regions of Ramallah , Bethlehem and Nablus .

Tuesday 4th October 2005

• Luxembourg / Luxembourg : In the night of October 3rd to 4th, accession negotiations between Turkey and the European Union will officially begin. "Before that, after several hours of tough negotiations, Austria had given up its demand to set goals other than full membership for the talks," said press reports.

Wednesday October 5, 2005

• Baghdad / Iraq : The US Army is expanding its operations against insurgents in western Iraq. Supported by the Iraqi army, it is launching a new offensive against positions of the Al-Qaeda terrorist network in three villages in the Euphrates valley, as reported by the US forces in Baghdad. Around 2,500 US soldiers are involved.
• Luxembourg / Luxembourg : The European Court of Justice overturns the law on genetic engineering in Upper Austria .
• Stockholm / Sweden : The German scientist Theodor W. Hänsch will receive this year's Nobel Prize in Physics together with the US researchers Roy J. Glauber and John L. Hall . Hänsch holds the chair for experimental physics and laser spectroscopy at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and director at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching. The physicist was awarded the Otto Hahn Prize for his research in laser spectroscopy in the summer . The Nobel Prize in Chemistry this year will be the Frenchman Yves Chauvin and Americans Robert H. Grubbs and Richard R. Schrock received. The foundation honors her research in the field of organic chemistry .

Thursday October 6, 2005

• Washington, DC / United States : After the scandal of Abu Ghraib decided by the US Senate an express prohibition of abuse of prisoners by US soldiers. The new regulation, which is contained in a law on the defense budget, is adopted with 90 votes to 9. Supporters include Republican Senator John McCain and former Secretary of State Colin Powell . In the White House and the US Department of Defense , there is resistance to the new regulations, so that the other parliamentary could deliberations lead to changes.

Friday October 7, 2005

• Oslo / Norway : The Egyptian Mohammed el-Baradei will receive this year's Nobel Peace Prize . The committee wants him and the International Atomic Energy Agency of the United Nations etc. a. "For their work against the military misuse of nuclear energy ".
• Rome / Italy : According to a press report, inmates are harassed and mistreated in the reception camp on the Italian island of Lampedusa , which is headed for by thousands of African migrants . The hygiene conditions in the warehouse are inadequate. Also, none of the inmates were brought before a judge , as prescribed by Italian law.
• Warsaw / Poland : An interview given by the mother of the "Kaczyński brothers" to the AFP news agency is politically explosive. While Lech Kaczyński (56) is applying for the presidency, Jadwiga Kaczyńska (78) says that the twins often get advice from her in the political business. When Jarosław is on television as the party leader , he always says, “Mom, you have to watch this. You are my best critic . ”Kaczyńska was an activist of the Polish resistance as early as World War II .

Saturday 8th October 2005

• Berlin / Germany : In the affair surrounding the raid on the political monthly magazine " Cicero ", Federal Interior Minister Otto Schily ( SPD ) sharply attacked his critics and rejects their allegations: " Treason is not just any administrative offense . The state has a right to protect its sphere , ”Schily told Der Spiegel magazine . In addition, journalists are not exempt from respecting the law: “If they think that freedom of the press is, so to speak, an exemption clause that frees them from being bound by criminal law , then they are on the wrong track”. Meanwhile criticizes the German Police Union (BDK) the leadership of the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) in the affair of the passing of a terrorist - dossier to the magazine.
• Hamburg / Germany : The newly elected deputies in the Bundestag of the Left Party Lutz Heilmann was for information of the magazine Der Spiegel in 1989 as a bodyguard full-time employees of the German Democratic Republic - Ministry of State Security . The Left Party federal spokesman tells the magazine that he sees the fact as "not a big problem". Heilmann is the first self-confessed full-time Stasi employee with a Bundestag mandate.
• Iraq : The US Army has ended its "Iron Fist" military operation in western Iraq. She announced that new checkpoints had been set up in Sadah, near the border with Syria , to "maintain presence in the area." Then it would be better than before the penetration of Al Qaeda - terrorists from Syria on the Euphrates -Tal be prevented in Iraq. The deployment with around a thousand US soldiers lasted 7 days; over 50 insurgents and one US soldier were killed. Since the end of September, the US armed forces have already carried out three more missions in the Euphrates Valley. The Sunni province of Al Anbar is one of the strongholds of the rebels.
• Pakistan : A 7.6 magnitude earthquake (Richter scale) in the border region between Pakistan and India near Islamabad kills more than 30,000 people; The Pakistani part of Kashmir , where hundreds of villages are cut off from the outside world, is particularly hard hit . The international help requested is running quickly, including a. with 20 transport helicopters . A week later there are already more than 120 helicopters, but the estimated number of victims increases to 40–50,000 dead, almost 100,000 injured and 2 to 2.5 million homeless .

Sunday October 9, 2005

• Eisenstadt / Austria : In the state elections , the SPÖ wins an absolute majority with 19 seats, two more than before. As before, other parties in the Burgenland Landtag are the ÖVP , the FPÖ , which halved their results in the last election, and the Greens .
• Leipzig / Germany : The party leader of the Greens , Reinhard Bütikofer , criticizes Federal Interior Minister Otto Schily ( SPD ) violently for the search operation against the magazine "Cicero". The “ Leipziger Volkszeitung ” (Monday edition) says Bütikofer: “In recent years Otto Schily has always been tempted to confuse himself with the state. He runs the risk of misunderstanding the nature of democratically bestowed power . "

Monday October 10, 2005

• Belgrade / Serbia and Montenegro : As agreed, the association negotiations with the EU begin . Prerequisites are further reforms in Belgrade and better cooperation with the war crimes tribunal .
• Berlin / Germany : After weeks of exploratory talks , the grand coalition is now fixed and the distribution of ministerial posts between the parties has been decided. As previously assumed, Angela Merkel will take over the Chancellery; the CDU / CSU parliamentary group provides six other ministers, while the SPD has eight. Chancellor Gerhard Schröder announced that he would now completely withdraw from politics.
• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : After 60 years, the US Air Force symbolically closes its Rhein-Main Air Base at Frankfurt Airport with a ceremony by the airport operator Fraport . For the US Air Force, the airport had been the “gateway to Europe” since 1945 and was once one of the most important bases in the world. The final closure is due at the end of the year.
• Madrid / Spain , Rabat / Morocco : As Madrid reports, Morocco has started the deportation of around 1000 illegal migrants who climbed over the border fences of the Spanish exclaves Ceuta and Melilla in the previous week . Hundreds of people from sub-Saharan countries were put in buses with an unknown destination or were sent on foot from the border town of Oujda to the south, but on 10/11 after international protests. Brought back October. For the first time, a plane with over 100 migrants is taking off from Senegal, bringing them back to their home country.
• Stockholm / Sweden : The Israel - American Robert Aumann, born in Germany in 1930, and the American Thomas Schelling will be born this year. a. received the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics for their contributions to game theory .
• Warsaw / Poland : Yesterday's presidential election resulted in 38% for Donald Tusk and 32% for his challenger Lech Kaczyński . This means that a runoff election is necessary, which is the first time that two candidates from bourgeois parties are held.

Tuesday October 11, 2005

• Basel / Switzerland : The Ciba - Chemical Plant of Grenzach-Wyhlen (Baden-Wuerttemberg) solves a deflagration a major fire out. Nobody is injured and the fire is extinguished in 2-3 hours, but it is recommended to keep all windows closed, even in the Swiss border area.
• Brussels / Belgium : The European Union (EU) instructs its interior and justice ministers to discuss a common approach against the increased migration flows from Africa towards the EU member states. In addition to Spain, they also affect Italy , France and England . In addition to changes in asylum policy , more development aid and reception camps in Central Africa (e.g. Tanzania ) are also being considered, but also in Ukraine . Amnesty International is against such plans : the EU should not develop into a "fortress" against poorer states.
• Novi Sad / Serbia and Montenegro : The Liberty Bridge , which was destroyed in the Kosovo war in 1999, is reopened. The entire length of the Danube is thus freely navigable again.
• Rabat / Morocco : In the Moroccan capital, Spain's Foreign Minister Miguel Ángel Moratinos is holding talks about joint action against migrants who immigrate to the European Union (EU) via Morocco . In the meantime, the EU has accused the Spanish government under José Luis Zapatero of neglecting the consequences of the general amnesty for migrants arriving from Africa . Most of the migrants arriving in Spain leave the country northwards a short time later.

Wednesday October 12, 2005

• Alxa / China : After two years, the People's Republic is again conducting a manned space mission . From the Jiuquan Cosmodrome in Inner Mongolia , a Long March 2 rocket brings the Shenzhou 6 spacecraft with two Taikonauts into space. The start went smoothly despite a nearby cold front with snowfall. Satellite orbit is reached after 30 minutes . The objectives of the mission include the crew's stay outside the command capsule and stress tests e.g. B. the life support systems of the spaceship. Just yesterday the Communist Party decided on a new five-year plan in the field of space travel, thereby confirming the long-term goal of the Chinese to fly to the moon in their own spaceship .
• Wiesbaden / Germany : The sharp rise in prices for gasoline and heating oil have the inflation driven to its highest level in four years: The Consumer Price Index for September rose compared to September 2004 by 2.5%, as the Federal Statistical Office informs. It confirms an estimate made at the end of September. In August the value was still 1.9%. The European Central Bank in Frankfurt is aiming for a maximum price increase of 2%. Compared to the previous month there was an increase of 0.4%.

Thursday October 13, 2005

• Berlin / Germany : The Interior Committee of the Bundestag comes together for a special meeting to discuss the controversial search of the magazine “ Cicero ”. At the closed meeting, Interior Minister Otto Schily (SPD) is said to comment on allegations of the public prosecutor's office that the search initiated for possible betrayal of secrets in connection with reports on the Jordanian extremist leader Abu Mussab el Zarqawi was disproportionate. Schily had given the authority to prosecute .
• San Luis / Argentina : Bulgarian Wesselin Topalow is the new FIDE world champion .
• Stockholm / Sweden : The British playwright Harold Pinter receives the Nobel Prize for Literature . In circles of German literary critics in particular, the choice is no longer felt to be in keeping with the times, as Pinter provided some food for thought in the 1960s , but has not shown any further development since then, in contrast to many others.

Friday October 14, 2005

• The Hague / Netherlands : Due to the threat of terrorism and reports of gunfire, the police cordoned off the government district and carried out several raids. During searches in various cities, seven people are arrested on suspicion of terrorism, which the public prosecutor has confirmed to the Dutch news agency AFP . ANP and the radio station Radio 1 report the cordoning off of a school and the Binnenhof building complex , in which the offices of Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende and Foreign Minister Ben Bot as well as the parliament are located. The anti-terrorist units only indirectly confirm their participation in the operation. According to Radio 1 / NOS, one of the detainees was Samir A. , who was acquitted in April of preparing for attacks.
• The Hague / Netherlands : CEO Uwe Bergheim is leaving E-Plus because he wants to devote himself to another task outside of the KPN Group in the near future . Bergheim was heavily involved in campaigns with dumping tariffs at mobile phone providers .
• Paris / France : The FATF removes Nauru from the list of uncooperative countries in the fight against money laundering . Thus only Myanmar and Nigeria remain on the list.
• Salamanca / Spain : The three-day XV begins in the western Spanish city. Ibero-American summit of the heads of state and government from Ibero-America , Spain and Portugal. Around 20 countries are represented and will be advised on issues such as public debt and migration . Cuba's President Fidel Castro is absent for the fifth time. a. because human rights groups want to report him in a Madrid court.

Saturday 15th October 2005

• Brussels / Belgium : According to EU Health Commissioner Markos Kyprianou , veterinary experts will analyze the latest developments next week and expand their risk catalog. The vaccine stocks are sufficient, but are unevenly distributed within the EU.
• Kailua-Kona / United States : On the Big Island , the German - Iraqi Faris Al-Sultan wins the oldest long-distance triathlon and in the women's Ironman Hawaii competition, Natascha Badmann from Switzerland leaves for the second time in a row and for the sixth time in hers Career the competition behind.
• California / United States : The ashes of the film actor James Doohan (engineer Scotty in the television series Starship Enterprise ) , who died in July, is said to be shot into space on December 6th from a US military base with a Falcon 1 rocket, according to the commissioned company Space Services notifies.
• London / United Kingdom : In an urgent investigation, a British laboratory found that, in addition to Turkey, the H5N1 avian flu in Romania can be traced back to the H5N1 pathogen, which is dangerous for humans. Austria's Minister of Health Rauch-Kallat announced that many European countries already have vaccination plans and that there is only a risk of infection directly in the chicken coop.
• Toledo / United States : In the state of Ohio , it is the entire weekend riots, than a demonstration elevator of the National Socialist Movement , a Nazi group, these collide with counter-demonstrators. The local police use tear gas especially against the latter. The press speaks of an angry mob of 600 people who also joined street gangs who threw baseball-sized stones at the police, damaged cars and set a bar on fire. 114 people were taken into custody.

Sunday October 16, 2005

• Australia : The meeting of the group of the twenty most important industrialized and emerging countries (G20) can agree on a reform of the World Bank and IMF . China calls on the G20 finance ministers to further liberalize world trade.
• Dénia / Spain : The Austrian former concentration camp doctor Aribert Heim (91), who murdered prisoners with injections in the Mauthausen concentration camp , is tracked down according to a report from the Simon Wiesenthal Center .
• Fresno / United States : In a glacier on Mount Mendel in Kings Canyon National Park , two climbers in the Sierra Nevada find the partially mummified corpse of a military pilot who had apparently been there since the Second World War . According to the authorities, the dead belonged to an AT-7 training aircraft that crashed on November 18, 1942 with a five-man crew during navigation training in the region. In 1947 a climber had found the wreck and four of the bodies.

Monday October 17, 2005

• Jerusalem / Israel : The country breaks off contact with the Palestinian Authority . Radical Palestinians attacked a pick-up point for hitchhikers near the Gush Etzion and Eli settlements on Sunday , killing three people and seriously injuring five.
• Caribbean : With the hurricane "Wilma" , the 21st such tropical storm is forming in the current season. The oil industry fears damage to the oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico . The price of crude oil on the New York Stock Exchange rose from 40 to 64 US dollars per barrel.
• Lilongwe / Malawi : According to President Bingu wa Mutharika , the African country is facing a famine that threatens 5 million people. The government provided $ 50 million for 330,000 t of grain from South Africa , but still needed 158,000 t to be able to guarantee supplies to the population until the next harvest in March or April 2006. Because over 14% of the population is infected with AIDS , many farmers and farm workers lack the strength to do the necessary work.
• Oslo / Norway : Jens Stoltenberg replaces his predecessor Kjell Magne Bondevik as Prime Minister of Norway; he heads a coalition made up of the Labor Party, Left Socialists and the Center Party.
• Rome / Italy : Romano Prodi , the former President of the EU Commission, wins the primaries for the top candidate for the center-left opposition in Italy . As has long been expected, Prodi will challenge the incumbent Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi as head of the “Unione” party alliance . First post-election surveys showed a surprisingly high share of the vote of around 75 percent. The parliamentary elections will take place in May 2006 . The joy at "Unione" is clouded by the mafia- like murder of the Vice President of the regional government of Calabria , Francesco Fortugno , by two masked men when he left the polling station in Lucri , southern Italy , on Sunday .
• Ulanqab / China : The crew of the People's Republic's second manned space flight lands with their return capsule in the early morning hours in the Siziwang banner in Inner Mongolia . The taikonauts who circled the earth for five days are in good physical condition.

Tuesday October 18, 2005

• Berlin / Germany : In the constituent session of the 16th German Bundestag , the Westphalian CDU politician Norbert Lammert is elected as the new Bundestag President. In his inaugural address, Lammert emphasized the rights of parliament, especially in times of a grand coalition . In the election of the vice-presidents, the previous president Wolfgang Thierse only receives around two thirds of the votes, and there is a scandal with the candidate Lothar Bisky . The former PDS party leader and top candidate of the Left Party.PDS also missed a simple majority in the third (last) ballot. Since traditionally each parliamentary party has a vice-president (and their proposals have so far been approved by the other parliamentary groups), Bisky announced that he would also run for election in later rounds.
• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The 57th Frankfurt Book Fair , which begins in the Main metropolis and will last until October 23, has a record size of 7,200 exhibitors. The mood of the publishers is usually optimistic, so that they are presenting 105,000 titles at the world's largest book fair. 1,000 authors will present themselves, 40 of them from the nominal host country Korea , although communist North Korea has canceled its participation.
• Haiti : Just a few weeks after the devastating cyclones Katrina and Rita , Hurricane Wilma charged itself to the highest level in the Caribbean . Go over large parts of Haiti torrential -like rains down; the subsequent landslides and mudslides kill nine people. "Wilma" is now threatening Cuba . New Orleans , United States , is preparing for a second evacuation following the August 28 disaster.
• Ottawa / Canada : According to a study by Simon Fraser University , which was carried out at the instigation of the Suzuki Foundation , Canada surprisingly belongs to the industrialized countries with the worst record in environmental protection . The country's second largest country in terms of area is in economic cooperation and development in 28th place out of 30 countries examined. Canada ranks 30th in terms of nuclear waste production and carbon monoxide emissions and 29th place in water consumption . European countries such as Sweden , Switzerland , Denmark and Germany are at the top of this environmental balance , while Canada, Belgium and the USA are at the bottom Stand at the end.
• Beijing / China : The People's Republic cancels the planned visit to Beijing by Japan's Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura . The reason given is the recent visit to the controversial Yasukuni shrine by Japan's Prime Minister Jun'ichirō Koizumi .

Wednesday October 19, 2005

• Baghdad / Iraq : Two and a half years after his fall, the former dictator Saddam Hussein has to answer to a special tribunal for alleged crimes against humanity . Seven leading members of the Ba'ath Party are charged with him. The first charge is a massacre in the city of Dedscheel . In 1982, 143 men and boys were executed there after an unsuccessful assassination attempt on Saddam. A further twelve charges range from the poison gas attack in the Kurdish city of Halabja (1988) to the mass murder of tens of thousands of Shiites after their uprising in 1991. The Iraqi public pays relatively little attention to the trial, which was held in the strictest of secrecy , as it is interpreted as a show trial in the USA. In contrast, there is greater interest in neighboring countries.
• Berlin / Germany : The German Environment Minister Jürgen Trittin ( Greens ) issues an urgent ordinance, according to which poultry may only be kept in stables from Saturday, so that the H5N1 avian flu pathogen does not jump from wild birds to farm animals.
• Brussels / Belgium : According to the decision of the EU Commission , the major Italian bank Unicredit is allowed to take over HypoVereinsbank in Munich . Concerns about the larger activities of both companies in Poland and Croatia appear to have been dispelled according to the Commission's report. It would be the largest international bank merger in Europe.
• Juneau / United States : In Alaska , a weapons law comes into force that liberalizes both the possession of handguns and their carrying in motor vehicles . The law aims to make more restrictive local regulations in counties and municipalities obsolete. The National Rifle Association hopes that the new legal situation in Alaska will send a signal to other states in the USA.
• Spain : More than two years after the killing of two journalists in an attack by the United States' armed forces on the "Hotel Palestine" in Baghdad , a Spanish judge issues an international arrest warrant for three soldiers. According to judicial circles in Madrid, they were in the tank that shot at the hotel, which was mainly inhabited by foreigners, in April 2003. The then 37-year-old Spanish cameraman José Couso and the Ukrainian Reuters cameraman Taras Protsyuk were killed when the bullet hit the 15th floor of the building .

Thursday October 20, 2005

• Beirut / Lebanon : United Nations chief investigator Detlev Mehlis reported that Syrian intelligence officials were clearly complicit in the assassination of the vehicle convoy of Lebanon's ex-prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri with 21 deaths on February 14 in Beirut . Syria continues to deny this.
• Berlin / Germany : The organization Reporters Without Borders publishes a study on the worldwide situation of press freedom . While North Korea occupies 166th and last place, Germany falls from 11th to 18th place.
• Leipzig / Germany : The Junge Union are CSU boss Edmund Stoiber , the main blame for the unexpectedly poor election result for the CDU / CSU in the general election. The JU chairman Philipp Missfelder told the Leipziger Volkszeitung that Stoiber had made the election campaign unnecessarily difficult with marginal remarks about the mood of the East Germans .
• Paris / France : Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez warns US President George W. Bush of a possible invasion of his country during a meeting with French business people . Against the background of a shortage of US oil reserves due to several hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico , the television preacher Pat Robertson , who is considered to be the spiritual advisor to Bush, had considered the assassination of Chavez and the appropriation of the oil and gas stocks there. Robertson had apologized, but that didn't reassure Chavez. Venezuela sends 1.5 million barrels of crude oil to the US every day , which can be stopped at any time. A price of 160 US dollars per barrel would then be quite conceivable. The spokesman for the US department, Sean McCormack , tried to smooth things over, but it fits in with Colombia's sentiment that Israel , under pressure from the US, canceled the delivery of F-16 license fighter jets .
• New York / United States : UN Secretary General Kofi Annan called for more support for the victims of the earthquake in Pakistan . In the north of the state in particular, the deaths of numerous weak people and children are feared.
• Vienna / Austria : In Austria, as a precautionary measure against the spread of the avian flu H5N1, the free-range keeping of poultry is prohibited until further notice. The measure, which will take effect from Saturday, is intended to prevent the introduction of the virus by migratory birds .

Friday October 21, 2005

• Australia : For the first time, the H5N1 bird flu is also detected on the Australian continent. The National Quarantine and Control Service detects avian flu antibodies in pigeons imported from Canada to Melbourne.
• Islamabad / Pakistan : Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf feels that the international aid for the earthquake region is "totally inadequate"; Billions more dollars would be needed.
• Izmir / Turkey : A severe earthquake near the city of Izmir caused a lot of destruction on Friday night, injuring 37 and two lives. The epicenter was around 45 km southwest of Izmir. The 6.0 magnitude earthquake was also felt on offshore Greek islands such as Chios and Samos .
• New Delhi : India and the US expand their nuclear energy cooperation ; Talks on this are taking place in New Delhi.
• Washington, DC / United States : A research team reports in the journal Science that the destruction of the jungle in Brazil is twice as great as previously known. Every year the tropical rainforest is continuously losing around half of Germany's area through clearing . The biodiversity is decreasing strongly. Calculated over a year, around 50,000 animal and plant species are becoming extinct in the area.

Saturday October 22, 2005

• Lagos : All 117 passengers are killed in a plane crash in Nigeria ; the Boeing 737-200 was on its way from Lagos to the capital Abuja . Due to misinformation, the wreck was initially looked for in the wrong place and suspected a number of survivors. Numerous foreign business people and diplomats also sat in the machine.
• London / United Kingdom : An imported parrot , kept in quarantine as a precaution , dies of the H5N1 avian flu . As a precautionary measure against their spread, Austria , Germany and Switzerland have banned the free range of poultry until further notice.
• Mexico : Since the "eye" of Hurricane Wilma moves much more slowly, more concentrated and severe devastation is feared. The center moves north to the island of Cozumel to the 600,000-inhabitant metropolis of Cancún , where the immense rain quickly fills the streets. The beaches of the tourist center are badly damaged and partially washed away. The airport has to be closed until further notice. In the US state of Florida, the authorities are asking tourists to leave the exposed chain of islands in the Key West . (AP, WZ)

Sunday October 23, 2005

• Brasília / Brazil : In a referendum, a gun ban is surprisingly rejected. In the largest country in South America, more people die each year from armed violence than from cancer or traffic accidents.
• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk receives the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade .
• Warsaw / Poland : Lech Kaczyński wins the runoff election for the office of president in Poland, although on October 9 he was 32: 38% behind Donald Tusk . Only half of all eligible voters took part in the vote.
• Vienna / Austria : After Styria and Burgenland , the Austrian capital will be the last federal state to elect a new state parliament this year . The SPÖ, led by top candidate Michael Häupl , achieved an absolute majority in the municipal council with 49% of the votes, followed by the ÖVP with 18.8 % and the Strache -FPÖ with 14.9%.

Monday October 24, 2005

• West Bengal / India : In the event of flooding , 250,000 people in the Indian state become homeless ; 19 people are killed.
• Baghdad / Iraq : At least 17 people died when three car bombs exploded near the Palestine Hotel used by journalists and international organizations .
• Beijing / China : In the fight against AIDS , the “Middle Kingdom”, where the problem was hushed up, is now considering “drastic measures”. Ten million infections are feared over the next five years.
• Washington, DC / United States : US President Bush nominates financial expert Ben Bernanke to succeed the outgoing Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board , Alan Greenspan .

Tuesday October 25, 2005

• Baghdad / Iraq : The Iraqi constitution was adopted by the population with an approval rate of 78.6%. Only in the provinces of Al-Anbar and Salah ad-Din did more than two-thirds of voters vote against it. (BR, Ö1)
• Styria / Austria : The majority of the Styrian Landtag elects Franz Voves as the new Governor to succeed Waltraud Klasnic . Voves has been the first social democratic governor of Styria for 60 years.
• Munich / Germany : At Infineon , employees continue their labor dispute with a strike to improve social security.
• Neuwied / Germany : In a pond in Rhineland-Palatinate , 22 dead gray geese and swans were found on Monday , which had died of rat poison after an initial examination. The next day, however, the state investigation office in Koblenz denied that the birds had died of the dangerous H5N1 bird flu virus. However, two of the migratory birds were infected with a common flu virus.
• Miami / Florida : After the devastation in Cancun and the Yucatán Peninsula , Hurricane Wilma has now reached Florida as well. So far there have been reports of seven deaths and numerous damage to property: Houses have been covered and many yachts in the bays have been destroyed by the force of the storm. Most tourists and residents on the mainland have complied with the requests to evacuate . But around 80% of the locals in the Florida Keys ignored the prompts. Many demonstratively celebrated "hurricane parties" or used the big waves for surfing . As a result, many were cut off from the mainland. Almost 2.5 million households are still without electricity . The number of hurricane deaths in Florida has increased to 10. (AP)

Wednesday October 26, 2005

• Berlin / Germany : To protect the poultry population and the population, the Ministry of Agriculture has issued various instructions on poultry farming. In particular, watering through surface water such as lakes and ponds is prohibited because of the risk of infection . Only normal drinking water is allowed. The operators of the zoos are allowed to vaccinate their bird population in advance, as some wild species would perish inside the buildings.
• China : Ten children are killed in a mass panic in a primary school in southwest China ; 45 more fourth graders are injured, five of them seriously. The students were on their way to the outside on a crowded staircase when one of the children is said to have shouted "ghosts", whereupon panic broke out.
• Liverpool / United Kingdom : In Liverpool, a fully occupied subway derails , but all 119 occupants get away with the horror. When driving slowly, the last car jumped off the rails. So far, a mechanical fault has been suspected.
• Mogadishu / Somalia : Islamic clergy publish a “ fatwa ” against circumcision and genital mutilation of girls. It condemns the traditional practice that is widespread in Africa as "un-Islamic". Sheikh Nur Barud Gurhan, the vice-chairman of the Somali Clergy Federation , equates circumcision to murder . The fatwa is unlikely to be enforced because the country is ruled by clan chiefs .
• Paris / France : In an interview with the newspaper Le Figaro , the founder and owner of Microsoft , Bill Gates , predicts the long-term decline of the print media due to the growing importance of online newspapers. Due to the growing competitive pressure, the newspapers urgently need to bring their online editions up to date.
• Saint-Denis / Réunion : The authorities on the island confirm that a man is suspected of being infected with the bird flu virus A / H5N1 after a trip to Thailand .
• Tehran / Iran : The Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad calls for a conference entitled “The World Without Zionism ” to “wipe Israel off the map”. Many of the 3,000 conference participants (mostly radical-conservative students ) then chant slogans against Israel and America . The Gaza Strip -deduction Israel called Ahmadinejad a trick. Some states then appoint the Iranian ambassador .
• Vienna / Austria : The Republic of Austria celebrates the 50th anniversary of its independence. On October 26, 1955, after the withdrawal of the four allied occupying powers , the parliament decided on “perpetual neutrality ”. For the open day , 15,000 Austrians visit the recently renovated parliament building on the Ring . 7,000 soldiers take part in the large troop parade on Heldenplatz and in the civil defense demonstrations , 100 helicopters and twelve interceptors are used.
• Zagreb / Croatia : The bird flu virus H5N1 has now also been detected in Croatia. The European Commission confirms that the pathogen was discovered in recently dead geese . A dead swan found on Lake Neusiedl (Austria / Hungary border ) is still being examined.

Thursday October 27, 2005

• Amsterdam / Netherlands : A fire in the deportation prison at Schiphol Airport killed eleven people on Thursday night; 15 more are injured. The cell complex currently holds 350 prisoners, 43 prisoners and their guards were in the affected part of the prison. The fire brigade had the fire under control after three hours. The cause of the fire has not yet been clarified.
• Berlin / Germany : CDU and SPD are evidently considering restricting the protection against dismissal . According to this, an employee should be presented with the option between conventional protection against dismissal and severance pay when hiring a new employee . The responsible coalition working group confirmed their agreement to the Berliner Zeitung . In addition, the extension of working life and the restructuring of the pension insurance are on the same line.
• Jonschwil / Switzerland : The food discounter Aldi Suisse opens its first four branches.
• London / United Kingdom : British Prime Minister Tony Blair condemns the anti-Israel comments made by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as well as many other Western heads of state. If Iran continues to take such positions, "people will believe that they are a real threat to the security and stability of our world," Blair said at the EU summit at Hampton Court Palace .
• Strasbourg / France : Two parties and six politicians file an indictment against the parliamentary elections in Russia in 2003 and against the President of Russia Vladimir Putin at the European Court of Justice , accusing him of unfairly conducting and manipulating the elections. The speaker is the former world chess champion Garry Kasparov , who, as a former candidate, emphasizes the lack of free elections and Putin's patronage of offices.
• Tehran / Iran : One day after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for the destruction of Israel , Tehran again denied legitimacy to Israel. Iran does not recognize "the Zionist occupation regime " because it does not adhere to the resolutions of the UN Security Council , said Iranian Foreign Minister Manuschehr Mottaki according to the state news agency IRNA. Israel flourished and flourished on the basis of "the ruin and exile of the rightful owners of the land." Immediately after the 1979 revolution, Iran had already denied legitimation to Israel and the then apartheid regime of South Africa before the UN.

Friday October 28, 2005

• Berlin / Germany : At the coalition negotiations , the CDU / CSU and SPD agree, according to Bild, to raise the retirement age to 67 and a higher top tax rate. They are also looking at savings among federal officials and pensioners in order to work out a restructuring package of 35 billion euros together with other measures. DGB Vice President Ursula Engelen-Kefer immediately rejects the former as irresponsible. With regard to the economic policy expresses Edmund Stoiber , the presumptive Economic and Technology Minister , concerns on the discussed division of competences and suggests a possible resignation. Chancellor candidate Merkel said on Construction Day that a higher employment rate could not be achieved without economic growth.
• Compostela Valley / Philippines : At least 18 people die in an explosion in a gold mine .
• Mannheim / Germany : The German Spelling Council adopts recommendations for correcting word separation and punctuation . In some cases, improvements are promised that are obsolete. a. for the reference to the apparently new priority of separating speech education from speaker drawing, which was, however, already established in earlier versions of the reformed set of rules.
• Nigeria : Nigerian government arrests separatist leader Ralph Uwazuruike , who is calling for the autonomous state of Biafra .
• Paris / France : In some Parisian suburbs there are street fights and attacks by young people on the police . The trigger was the accidental death of two young people in Clichy-sous-Bois (near Paris), who had climbed over the fence of a transformer, fleeing from police officers . The riots later spread to other parts of the city. Its primary cause is the high level of unemployment among young people, mostly foreigners.
• Tamil Nadu / India : In India at least 76 people die in floods; Tamil Nadu state was particularly hard hit.
• Tehran / Iran : After President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for the destruction of Israel the day before yesterday, Iran called for a mass demonstration against Israel. The local and European governments are again outraged.

Saturday October 29, 2005

• Pyongyang / North Korea : China's President Hu Jintao meets Head of State Kim Jong-il in North Korea . The controversial North Korean nuclear weapons program is the subject of discussion.
• Washington, DC / United States : US Vice President Dick Cheney's Chief of Staff , Lewis Libby , is charged with perjury and betrayal, among other things .

Monday October 31, 2005

• Berlin / Germany : The SPD executive committee votes against General Secretary Kajo Wasserhövel, proposed by party leader Franz Müntefering , and for the "party left" Andrea Nahles . Thereupon Müntefering announced (according to ZDF) his resignation, but left open whether he would join the coalition government as Vice Chancellor . Representatives of the Union express concerns because Müntefering is an important "parenthesis for a grand coalition and has a good basis for cooperation with Edmund Stoiber . The deputy parliamentary group leader Wolfgang Bosbach fears (according to N24 interview) that there are quite a few in the SPD who are anyway Red-Red-Green would rather have it than a grand coalition. In the FDP , renewed contacts with the Greens are being considered.
• Damascus / Syria , New York / USA : The Security Council of the United Nations (UN) demands full Syrian cooperation to investigate the killing of Lebanon's former prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri . According to UN chief investigator Detlev Mehlis , Syria has "kept his fingers crossed for a lot of important information" and prevented him from being questioned. The council demands that Mehlis can also interrogate suspects who belong to the immediate family of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad , unsupervised . On the occasion of the resolution, Syria's Foreign Minister al-Sharaa caused a scandal in New York and demonstrations against the UN were taking place in Damascus.

See also

• Nekrolog October 2005 for deaths this month
• List of annually recurring commemorative and action days in October
• Category for commemorative days, holidays or action days in October

Web links

Croatia in October 2005

Commons : October 2005  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

 Wikinews: Article Published October 2005  - In The News

Individual evidence

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