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This article covers breaking news and events in October 2006.

Daily events

Sunday October 1, 2006

Majorities of the population in Bosnia and Herzegovina

National Council election: strongest parties according to regional constituencies

• Brasília / Brazil : In the presidential election , President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of the Workers' Party missed the absolute majority by around 1.4% and will have to prevail in a run-off election against the second-placed candidate Geraldo Alckmin from the Social Democratic Party to take office to keep.
• Budapest / Hungary : The ruling Social Democrats are losing significantly in the local elections , but Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány will not resign despite this and the demonstrations against his government that began two weeks ago.
• Lebanon : The Israeli forces complete their withdrawal from southern Lebanon in the early hours of the morning . This fulfills one of the main points of the ceasefire agreement brokered by the United Nations (UN) in accordance with Resolution 1701 of the UN Security Council . According to the agreement, the UN interim force in Lebanon and the armed forces of Lebanon should take control of the southern part of the country, but the currently dominant Shiite terrorist organization Hezbollah refuses to hand over their weapons.
• Sarajevo / Bosnia and Herzegovina : In Bosnia and Herzegovina, three regional parliaments are elected in the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Republika Srpska , four presidents and ten regional representatives in the ten cantons of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
• Vienna / Austria : 74% of the electorate took part in the National Council election passed by parliament in June . The Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) with Federal Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel achieved 34.3% with significant losses, while the Social Democratic Party (SPÖ) with Alfred Gusenbauer received 35.3%. The Greens are the third strongest party with 11.04%, followed by the Freedom Party with 11.03% of the vote. The AAF (4.1%) skips the at its first participation in a national elections barrier clause . Although the discrepancies between the SPÖ and the ÖVP, which has been the head of government since 2000, are significant, the formation of a grand coalition is plausible because the red-green variant sought by the political left lacks a majority in mandate.

Monday October 2, 2006

Coat of arms of the GRU

• Lancaster County / United States : At a school of the religious community of the Amish in Pennsylvania , it has come to a hostage situation in a deadly shootout with police. The perpetrator, a 32-year-old milk truck driver, shot five schoolgirls.
• Moscow / Russia : One week after Georgia arrested four Russian officers from the GRU military intelligence service on September 27 , 2006 on suspicion of espionage and terrorist attacks, Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the neighboring country of state terrorism in a TV interview and threatened to break the economic relations. Thereupon the Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili hands over the 4 officers to the mediator of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Belgium's Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht . You will be flown to Moscow immediately. Nevertheless, Russia is cutting off all traffic connections for cars, planes, ships and railways to the Caucasus Republic of Georgia. The relationship between the two countries has steadily deteriorated for 3 years when the pro-western Mikheil Saakashvili overthrew the Russian leadership under President Eduard Shevardnadze during the Rose Revolution in November 2003 . The central conflict between the two governments is the dispute over the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia , which are supported by Russia.
• New York / United States : In another test election by the UN , South Korea's Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon is again chosen as the most promising candidate to succeed Kofi Annan as UN Secretary General .
• Stockholm / Sweden : The Americans Andrew Z. Fire and Craig Mello will receive the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine this year for their discovery of RNA interference .

Tuesday 3rd October 2006

• Kiel / Germany : The German national holiday , the day of German unity , is celebrated in Kiel. The unity celebrations are accompanied by a community festival, which the Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein Peter Harry Carstensen ( CDU ) opens in the afternoon. The supporting program includes sailing competitions , sports demonstrations and a parade with marching bands from all German federal states .
• Pyongyang / North Korea : The self-proclaimed nuclear power North Korea has announced nuclear weapons tests , as sanctions and pressure from the USA have forced them to take this step. No date was mentioned by the official news agency KCNA . Experts in China expect the first detonation soon, as the first launch vehicle capable of nuclear weapons was tested in July 2006 .
• Stockholm / Sweden : The Nobel Prize in Physics will be awarded this year to the Americans John Cromwell Mather and George Smoot for their research in the field of astrophysics .

Wednesday 4th October 2006

• Guatemala City / Guatemala : In the capital of the Central American state, which has long been shaken by internal political conflicts, prosecutors are examining whether the former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt can be tried for genocide .
• Stockholm / Sweden : The American Roger D. Kornberg will receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry this year . The Foundation honors his studies on eukaryotic constructed creatures .

Thursday October 5, 2006

• Iraq : The US military denies reports that the leader of the Iraqi branch of the extremist organization Al-Qaeda , Abu Ajjub al-Masri, has been killed.

Friday October 6, 2006

• New York / United States : The North Korean atomic bomb test , announced on October 3rd, is viewed by numerous states as a provocation and is also a topic of discussion for the UN Security Council. In order to bypass the resistance of China and Russia to a sharp declaration with reference to possible sanctions ( Chapter VII of the UN Charter ), the Council only wants to ask North Korea to cancel the test first, says Japan's UN Ambassador Kenzo Oshima in the New York UN Center. The communist leadership in Pyongyang should ultimately - as agreed in September 2005 - suspend its nuclear weapons program against concessions in the areas of energy and security.

Saturday 7th October 2006

• Munich , Nuremberg / Germany : In the collective bargaining dispute over job guarantees at the railways after the planned IPO , the Transnet union paralyzes train traffic in Munich and Nuremberg. Transnet chairman Norbert Hansen threatens unlimited strikes from October 24th if the board does not submit a new offer. Initially, the Transnet and GDBA want to continue with warning strikes next week. During the third warning strike within a week, 320 workers in Nuremberg and Munich stopped work on Friday; Commuters and travelers had to accept around 180 train delays in regional and long-distance traffic in the two Bavarian metropolitan areas . Earlier short-term outstanding payments also affected North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland and Berlin. The collective bargaining dispute is about maintaining protection against redundancies in the state-owned railway company until 2010.
• Riga / Latvia : The 9th Saeima of the Republic of Latvia is elected.

Sunday 8th October 2006

• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The German sociologist Wolf Lepenies receives the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade .

Monday October 9, 2006

• Huehuetenango / Guatemala : In the town of Santa Cruz Barillas in the north of the Central American country, over 40 people are killed in a serious bus accident. The bus crashes into a gorge more than 100 meters deep when the driver loses control of the vehicle. Seven people were rescued alive, but some of them were seriously injured.
• Pyongyang / North Korea : North Korea claims to be testing a nuclear weapon for the first time . At 3:36 a.m. CEST, South Korean seismographs measured shocks of magnitude 4.2 and in Japan 3.6. The test was announced by the North Korean Communist Party government last week and is strongly condemned by the international community. Confirmation that it was actually a nuclear explosion is still pending.
• Stockholm / Sweden : The American Edmund S. Phelps will receive the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics this year "for his analysis of intertemporal conflicting goals in macroeconomic politics" .
• Vienna / Austria : The counting of the voting cards for the Austrian National Council election in 2006 has been completed and due to the large number (260,067 instead of the expected 240,000) there are still small shifts: The gap between SPÖ and ÖVP drops to 1.0% (October 1, 1, 5%, but the mandates remain at 68:66), the Greens win a 21st mandate at the expense of the BZÖ (now 7, but still 4.1%) and become almost the third strongest party . As in 2002 , the “green” share of the votes for voting cards is relatively high, so that compared to the - they put provisional result from October 1, they increase by 0.6% to 11.1% and the FPÖ (11.0 instead of 11.1 %) overtake by 538 votes. The FPÖ (in 1999 still ex equo second place with the ÖVP) falls back to fourth place, which should mean the loss of the 3rd parliamentary president. The 21st mandate will also bring the Greens the 3rd Ombudsman in the coming legislative period and 400,000 euros more annually  in party funding .

Tuesday October 10, 2006

YouTube logo

• Mainz / Germany : The Federal Criminal Police Office is testing the biometric face recognition (photo search ) in Mainz main station .
• Menlo Park / United States : Google Inc. , known for its search engine , is acquiring YouTube , operator of a video portal , for 1.65 billion US dollars .
• Washington, DC / United States : The presumed rise of North Korea to the ninth nuclear power increases the criticism of US President George W. Bush in the beginning of the election campaign for the November elections . By joining the “ axis of evil ”, he indirectly induced the militant dictatorship in 2001 to make even greater efforts in rearmament . The misjudgment of the Iraqi weapons program in the run-up to the second Iraq war is also discussed .

Wednesday October 11, 2006

Alfred Gusenbauer

• Brussels / Belgium : The transport ministers of the member states of the European Union pass an amendment to the Alpine Convention , according to which no further trans-Alpine traffic routes are to be expanded. The reason for this is the growing rejection of the Alpine population against the rapidly growing transit traffic .
• Hamburg / Germany : The electoral law for Hamburg , which was passed by referendum on June 13 , 2004 , is revised in some key elements by the CDU majority in the Hamburg citizenship against the votes of the opposition.
• New York / United States : A plane with two occupants crashes into a 50-story skyscraper on the Upper East Side ; both inmates are killed. Associations with the terrorist attack “ 9/11 ” (September 2001) are not confirmed, it was a navigation error by the inexperienced pilot, a professional baseball player .
• Paris / France : In the wake of the difficulties surrounding Airbus Industries, a Franco-German Council of Ministers is negotiating the necessary measures. The German Chancellor Angela Merkel discussed during their meeting with French President Chirac , as the potential savings can be distributed between the two countries.
• Vienna / Austria : Federal President Heinz Fischer instructs SPÖ chairman Alfred Gusenbauer with government negotiations with the ÖVP , which should begin tomorrow. In Austria's National Council election on October 1, the SPÖ lost 1% of the votes, but the previous ruling party ÖVP lost 7% of the votes, so that the Social Democrats are now the strongest parliamentary party with 68:66 seats . Before the start of the lengthy negotiations, both major parties reaffirm some of their positions. a. on pension reform 2005 and replacement of modern interceptors. Gusenbauer wants a parliamentary committee of inquiry into the purchase contract for the Eurofighters and the compensation deals, which ÖVP club chairman Wilhelm Molterer sees as an unfriendly act that increases the violations of the election campaign and the mutual distrust. The purchase contract, which remained unpublished, was found to be flawless twice by the Court of Auditors . Meanwhile, the ÖVP instructs the still incumbent Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel to lead its negotiating team.

Thursday October 12, 2006

• London / United Kingdom : Senior British officers consider the military operation in Iraq to be counterproductive. Since the fall of Saddam Hussein, he has not (significantly) promoted security in the country. This criticism follows that of the US Democrats who are campaigning for the so-called “mid-term elections” in November.
• New York / United States : Negotiations in the UN Security Council on sanctions for North Korea's nuclear weapons program are flourishing surprisingly quickly. A US draft resolution refers to Section 7 of the UN Charter, which enables strict, including military, interventions. China and Russia are no longer against it in principle, but would like to exclude military measures in the resolution itself. An embargo on armaments should only affect heavy weapons.
• Stockholm / Sweden : The Turk Orhan Pamuk receives the Nobel Prize for Literature this year . One of his most famous works is The Silent House .

Friday October 13, 2006

• Berlin / Germany : As part of the Excellence Initiative , the Technical University of Munich , the LMU Munich and the University of Karlsruhe are recognized as the first German elite universities.
• Mediterranean : The Italian coastguard comes to the aid of a distressed boat carrying migrants from North Africa south of Sicily near the island of Lampedusa . The boat, which was only 18 meters long, had over 200 people on board. A few days ago, a boat carrying over 130 migrants was arrested. A total of around 16,000 migrants from North Africa managed to immigrate to Italy this year. How many people drowned is unknown.
• New York / United States : During the night, Russia withdrew its preliminary approval of the agreement reached yesterday in the UN Security Council on the imposition of UN sanctions against North Korea without giving any reason.
• Oslo / Norway : The Bengali Muhammad Yunus will receive this year's Nobel Peace Prize . The committee wants to award him and the Grameen Bank ( German  village bank ) for granting microcredits .
• East Coast / United States : An unusually early snow storm for the time of year is raging in the northeastern United States. Three people are killed.
• Tirana / Albania : Prime Minister Berisha , who has now been in office for one year, announces that the fight against terrorism will be given priority in the near future .
• United States : The nuclear test in North Korea , which was announced the previous week but was partially doubted , actually took place, according to the United States Air Force investigating the case.

Saturday October 14, 2006

• New York / United States : After days of deliberations, the UN Security Council decides to recommend UN sanctions against North Korea because of its nuclear policy.

Sunday October 15, 2006

• Hawaii / United States : A series of earthquakes shook the main island and neighboring islands. The first quake had a magnitude of 6.6 and a second strong earthquake 5.8. Nothing is known about the fatalities, but serious property damage was caused and landslides were triggered.
• Beijing / China : According to political circles in the People's Republic, China will not participate in the agreed surveillance of shipping to and from North Korea . This thwarted the UN sanctions approved yesterday with the approval of China .
• Quito / Ecuador : In the elections in Ecuador the 100 members of the National Congress , the five representatives of Ecuador in the Andean Parliament and members of the provincial and city councils were elected. Since none of the candidates in the presidential elections received the necessary number of votes, a runoff election was held on November 26th, in which Rafael Correa emerged as the winner.

Monday October 16, 2006

• Canberra / Australia : Prime Minister Howard comments positively on the previously rejected nuclear energy . Although the country has not joined the Kyoto Protocol , it must tackle the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions . 90% of the power generation is based on coal-fired power plants ; on the other hand, the southern continent has large deposits of uranium ore in its area .
• Indonesia : Two people are reported to have died after the recurrence of H5N1 avian flu .
• Quito / Ecuador : In the presidential election, neither of the two candidates achieved an absolute majority according to a preliminary count. On November 26th there will be a runoff election between the left-wing candidate Rafael Correa and the conservative, economically liberal Álvaro Noboa .
• South Korea : The National Security Service has determined that the weapons test carried out by North Korea on October 9 was in fact a nuclear explosion. Traces of radioactivity are also found in air samples from US aircraft .

Tuesday October 17, 2006

• Reykjavík / Iceland : After a long break in commercial whaling , the Ministry of Fisheries released 30 minke whales and 9 fin whales for hunting, which can be hunted until the end of August 2007. According to the International Whaling Convention , there is a moratorium on commercial hunting, but Iceland, like Norway, is not bound by it.
• Rome / Italy : A rear-end collision between two metro trains injures over 200 people and kills one woman; the rescue team must set up mobile supply tents. A red light was run over by a moving train; Whether there is technical or human error is still being investigated.
• Vienna / Austria : The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA , Mohammed el-Baradei , speaks of indications that in about 30 countries work is being done on advance developments for nuclear weapons . However, he does not name any names. The non-disclosure treaty seems not to be respected by some countries.

Wednesday October 18, 2006

• Baikonur / Kazakhstan : Due to strong winds at high altitude above the “ spaceport ”, the launch of the new European weather satellite MetOp with a Soyuz launcher has to be postponed again and is now to take place on Thursday. In July , freak weather prevented the start three times.
• Brussels / Belgium : The EU -Commission Decides to extend the post - monopoly to phase out across the EU by 2009. As a result, private postal services will in future be able to transport letters as well as parcel post . The Netherlands , Sweden and the United Kingdom have already opened their markets, but Italy is against such liberalization.
• Carinthia / Austria : The Tauern motorway across the Alps has to be closed for a few days because a bridge near Gmünd - probably due to an Italian heavy transport - was damaged. Cars can use the alternative route in Liesertal , trucks have to avoid large areas. The 800 m long slope bridge is just one of many similar bridges on which the motorway runs through the narrow valleys.
• New York / United States : After 22 votes, no Latin American candidate for the Security Council has yet received a 2/3 majority (120 votes). Most recently, Guatemala had 102 votes, ahead of Venezuela with 77; Argentina will leave the Security Council at the end of 2006. Guatemala's Foreign Minister Gert Rosenthal recommends Venezuela to withdraw its application in line with customary practice, which Head of State Hugo Chávez rejects in Caracas. His left-wing government wants to fight the "US Empire!" In the UN. Before tomorrow's 23rd vote, the UN General Assembly calls on the states of Latin America to find a way out of the impasse. The last protracted case of conflict was 27 years ago: in 1979, after 154 votes, the outcome between Cuba and Colombia remained open. As a compromise, Mexico was finally chosen in the 155th ballot .
• San Vicente / Argentina : Thousands of people take part in the reburial of the former President Juan Domingo Perón . Before that, rival supporters who were not invited had a street battle with 40 injured, which is why the incumbent President Nestor Kirchner and his predecessors Carlos Menem and Eduardo Duhalde (like Kirchner also Peronists ) cancel their participation. Perón was elected President of Argentina three times and died in office in 1974 at the age of 78. His coffin has now been buried in a new mausoleum on his former country estate in San Vicente, 45 kilometers southwest of Buenos Aires .
• Wellington / New Zealand : New Zealand condemns commercial whale hunting . In the International Whaling Commission , however, the application by Environment Minister Chris Carter to declare the South Pacific a permanent protection zone fails . In the 71-country commission, which only allows so-called scientific whaling in a moratorium, a 3/4 majority is required for fundamental decisions. The proponents of whaling around Japan have been blocking such decisions for years and have recently been supported by developing countries , which Japan is tying up with aid funds. Even Norway intensified whaling again, so that the stock of fin whales is again at risk.

Thursday October 19, 2006

• Baikonur / Kazakhstan , Darmstadt / Germany : The last shifted start of the new ESA - weather satellite Metop-A with a Russian Soyuz carrier rocket is successful. According to the European Space Control Center in Darmstadt, the 17 × 7 meter satellite will be in its orbit from 7:39 p.m. CET and will activate its solar sail and circuit at 8:15 p.m. Metop-A orbits the earth in 100 minutes on an 800 km high, sun-synchronous polar orbit - 43 times closer than geostationary satellites such as Meteosat - and has the new infrared scanner IASI on board. From 2011, two more Metop satellites are to provide the most precise data on the environment , atmosphere and climate , complement the existing systems in Europe and the USA and further improve the weather forecast in Europe. The joint project of ESA and the European organization for the use of meteorological satellites, EUMETSAT, is planned to run for 14 years and costs 2.4 billion euros.
• Lahti / Finland : In the southern Finnish city is an informal EU - Summit instead. Topics dealt with are increasing immigration from North Africa and the search for a common energy policy . At the initiative of the Finnish President, Russian President Putin also meets the group of EU politicians in the evening . In addition to an oil and gas guarantee, the human rights situation in Russia, the murder of the journalist Anna Politkowskaja and the conflict between Russia and Georgia are addressed. Luxembourg's Jean-Claude Juncker describes the delicate situation as a “partnership of organized consideration”.
• Beijing / China : US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visits the Chinese leadership to coordinate sanctions against North Korea's nuclear policy.

Friday October 20, 2006

• Amara / Iraq : The Shiite Mahdi militia conquers the southern Iraqi city of Amara, which was handed over to the Iraqi army by the British in August. The trigger for the fighting, which kills at least 25 people, is the assassination on Wednesday of a police chief in Maisan province , whose Badr brigade is at odds with Al Sadr's supporters. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki sends a delegation; Iraqi soldiers and police encircle Amara to recapture the city of 750,000 people.
• Hong Kong / China : For the initial placement of the shares of the largest bank in China, the ICBC , the emission declaration is made ( english Offering Memorandum ). The flotation on the stock exchanges in Hong Kong and Shanghai , is after heavy oversubscription , a volume of about 20 billion US dollars include so is October 27, held in the history of the world's largest IPO.
• Qatar : The OPEC countries are reducing their oil production for the first time in two years in order to stop the oil price from falling . The reduction should be 1.2 million barrels per day or 4 percent. The price of oil was below $ 60 last week - 25% below the record high in mid-July when the barrel cost $ 78.40 a barrel as a result of the Lebanon crisis.

Saturday October 21, 2006

• Berlin / Germany : Former Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder ( SPD ) criticized the role of leading union officials during his own term of office and the leadership style of his successor Angela Merkel ( CDU ) before the publication of his memoirs in Spiegel .
• Germany : Nationwide, around 200,000 people are demonstrating against what they consider to be the anti-worker policies of the federal government under the motto “That can be done better” .
• Kailua-Kona / United States : Normann Stadler wins the Ironman Hawaii triathlon competition on the Big Island . He is now the first two-time winner among the three German winners in the history of the event. In the women's category, the Australian Michellie Jones was the first to cross the finish line.

Sunday October 22, 2006

Fernando Alonso in the Renault R26

• Panama City / Panama : The majority of Panamanian residents (78 percent) are in favor of expanding the Panama Canal in a referendum . Doubling the capacity of the 82-kilometer-long waterway by 2015 is expected to cost 5.25 billion US dollars .
• São Paulo / Brazil : Fernando Alonso becomes Formula 1 world champion for the second time and thus the youngest double world champion in the top motorsport class. In the last race of the season, the Spaniard took 2nd place. Record world champion Michael Schumacher finished his 250th and last race in fourth after a tire damage that had meanwhile thrown him back to last place, and a race to catch up. The Kerpener completes his Formula 1 career as Vice Driver World Champion.

Monday October 23, 2006

• Aschaffenburg / Germany : During renovation work on the A3 federal motorway , a 250 kg aircraft bomb from the Second World War that was overlooked during the construction of the motorway from Frankfurt am Main to Würzburg in the 1950s explodes . The driver of the concrete milling machine, a 46-year-old machine operator from Dresden , dies on the spot. The route has been closed for an indefinite period of time as the explosion leaves a crater eight meters wide and two and a half meters deep.
• Berlin / Germany : Federal President Horst Köhler stops the privatization of the federally owned German air traffic control system due to constitutional concerns . It is the first time that Köhler has stopped a legislative proposal by the grand coalition .
• Budapest / Hungary : The central celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the Hungarian people's uprising against the then Soviet- loyal government take place in Budapest. The uprising came from the Technical University of Budapest and could only be stopped with massive armed force. At the commemoration in front of the parliament , several hundred right-wing extremists clash against the police, leading to numerous injuries. The extremists mingled in a demonstration by the opposition that has been calling for Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány to resign for weeks .

Tuesday October 24, 2006

• Berlin / Germany : Deutsche Telekom would like to outsource 45,000 employees to a new division . There they should only be paid 30 to 50% of their previous wages .
• New York / United States : Madonna defends her adoption of a one-year-old boy from Malawi to talk show host Oprah Winfrey in a TV interview that is due to air tomorrow. The boy's father was, in her opinion, manipulated by the press .

Wednesday October 25, 2006

• Florida / United States : The serial killer Danny Harold Rolling , the 1990 five students slashed true before his execution a self getextetes hymn to. The line in the song causes outrage about being "protected by angels " in heaven .
• Grigny , Nanterre / France : In two suburbs of Paris, around a year after the violent unrest in France, young people set buses again. The inmates can get to safety in good time.
• Pskow / Russia : In the Pskow region near the Baltic States , 440 people poisoned themselves with adulterated vodka , 16 of whom died of toxic hepatitis . All over Russia - from the Ukrainian border area to Siberia - thousands are said to be affected. The first massive alcohol poisoning occurred in early September in the south and west of Moscow . The Tver authorities have ordered a thorough investigation and an emergency to carry out surprise raids . According to official figures, 42,000 Russians die every year from illegally distilled alcohol. The closure of many “black” distilleries has exacerbated the problem, as criminals close the supply gap with booze and mixed industrial alcohol .
• Vienna / Austria : The 4-month art exhibition " Enlightened bourgeois" opens in the Belvedere Palace . With over 100 exhibits and 40 foreign loans, it shows the development of portrait painting and sculpture from the end of the Baroque to the 1840s.

Thursday October 26, 2006

• Brussels / Belgium : Commission President José Manuel Barroso wants the Bulgarian European Affairs Minister Meglena Kuneva , the Commissioner as the candidate country has been nominated, the department Consumer Protection allocate. It was previously managed by the Cypriot Health Commissioner, Markos Kyprianou . No plans have yet been announced for Romania's Varujan Vosganian . The deputy head of the SP parliamentary group Hannes Swoboda expressed concerns because Vosganian was "the founder of a far-right party".
• Düsseldorf / Germany : The new version of the Mannesmann trial begins in the state capital of North Rhine-Westphalia .
• Irkutsk / Russia : Two days after the vodka deaths near Pskow , a state of emergency is also imposed on the region on Lake Baikal when over 500 poisonings were registered. In the Belgorod region on the border with Ukraine, the number of poisonings rises to 900 and 44 cases are fatal.
• London / United Kingdom : At the meeting of the interior ministers of the six largest member states of the European Union, Wolfgang Schäuble from Germany and Nicolas Sarkozy from France call for a common EU migration policy. They present a concept for a European asylum authority and for temporary EU work permits for migrants from third countries. They suggest that the countries of origin of illegal immigrants set quotas and report them to the EU.
• Vienna / Austria : In his radio address on the national holiday, Federal President Heinz Fischer commented on the ongoing government negotiations, which he said would lead to a grand coalition , while other variants ( minority or tripartite government, new elections ) were unacceptable. According to the election result of October 1, the SPÖ and ÖVP are almost equally strong (68 and 66 respectively out of 183 seats) and only agree on a few points. The “ cash fall ” of the last few days of negotiations had shown what was politically feasible, but two committees of inquiry run by the SPÖ are again burdening the relationship with the previously ruling ÖVP, which has been disturbed since the election campaign.

Friday October 27, 2006

• Berlin / Germany : The Deutsche Oper decides to stage the opera production Idomeneo by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , which was canceled in September 2006 for fear of Islamist terrorists , twice more.
• Hong Kong , Shanghai / China : The world's largest IPO in history, the listing of the shares of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China , brings the former state-owned company, according to today's reports, the targeted 22 billion US dollars . The securities are listed on both the Hong Kong and Shanghai stock exchanges .

Sunday October 29, 2006

Bono Vox, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

• Belgrade / Serbia : In Serbia almost 52% of the eligible voters vote for the adoption of a new constitution . This contains provisions on the protection of minorities and on so-called “European values”. The province of Kosovo and Metohija , which the text of the law counts as part of Serbian territory despite a different view of the United Nations , is promised full autonomy and the province of Vojvodina with its large Hungarian population a partial autonomy. Accordingly, voter turnout varies greatly from region to region.
• Brasília / Brazil : In the runoff election for the presidency between President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from the Workers' Party and his challenger Geraldo Alckmin from the Social Democratic Party , incumbent “Lula” received around 60% of the votes despite some corruption cases in his left-wing government. The most loyal group of voters are the poorer sections of the population whom he wants to promote economically.
• Germany , Guatemala : The investment protection treaty between the two countries comes into force.
• Kinshasa / DR Congo : runoff election of two candidates for president; The favorite is the incumbent Joseph Kabila , who had a lead of around 20% over his deputy Jean-Pierre Bemba in the first ballot . The first democratic elections since independence in 1960 are taking place with the support of the UN and the EU and are intended to finally end the long civil war . According to initial reports, they are largely peaceful. Only two polling stations in the provinces of Bumba and Mbandaka have reported clashes. The Bundeswehr soldiers from the EU mission in Kinshasa are not deployed.
• Sofia / Bulgaria : In the runoff election for the presidency , incumbent Georgi Parvanov is re-elected with around 80% of the vote. In the first ballot he was just below the absolute majority. The fact that his opponent, the nationalist Wolen Siderow , got into the runoff election caused unrest in the EU .

Monday October 30, 2006

• Berlin / Germany : The Bundeswehr Association considers the withdrawal of German soldiers from Bosnia and Herzegovina to be overdue. The remaining tasks would have to be done by police officers, says the chairman of the association, Colonel Bernhard Gertz . Defense Minister Jung expressed a similar view.
• Chingai / Pakistan : The military hits an important blow against terrorism on the border with Afghanistan . According to the army, most of the 70–80 extremists were killed in an air strike on a Taliban training center in the Koran school (madrasa) of Chingai near the city of Char in northwest Pakistan. In Chingai, however, it is said that the victims are innocent civilians. A total of around 80 people are killed. Many tribespeople attend the funeral of the madrasa operator Molvi Liaquat. Liaquat had ties to a banned Islamist group that recruited volunteers to fight US troops in Afghanistan. Before the attack, the government was expected to conclude a peace treaty with the semi-autonomous tribes in the affected Bajaur region . Liaquat had approved the contract.
• Vienna / Austria : The parliament newly elected on October 1st is constituted and elects Barbara Prammer (SPÖ) as president (previously Andreas Khol , ÖVP). Vice-presidents are Michael Spindelegger (ÖVP) and Eva Glawischnig (Greens). Furthermore, the previous opposition parties SPÖ , Greens and FPÖ decided to set up a committee of inquiry into the purchase of the Eurofighter Typhoon , which the ÖVP regards as mistrust and answered with the suspension of the ongoing coalition negotiations .

Tuesday October 31, 2006

• Berlin / Germany : When it became known that German naval ships were only allowed to enter the crucial six-mile zone off Lebanon under certain conditions, SPD defense expert Jörn Thießen said: "If the operation does not have any effect, it will be the most expensive sea exercise, that we have done so far. "
• Char , Islamabad / Pakistan : Around 10,000 people, including armed Islamists , demonstrated against yesterday's attack on Chingar in the city in the north-west of the country . It was not terrorists who died in the madrasa , but civilians. The cleric Maulana Roohul Amin calls for holy war on, "We will take revenge for the blood of our martyrs ." Qazi Hussain Ahmed of the Jamaat-e-Islami -party accuses the government the right to kill innocent people to the United States following to prove in the fight against terrorism. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Tasneem Aslam stressed, however, that there was no “foreign influence” on the operation. Afghan and US troops are fighting across the border in Kunar province against Islamist Taliban and al-Qaeda terrorists supported by Pakistanis.
• Naples / Italy : The fourth murder of gang leaders of the Camorra is carried out within three days . Over 20 family clans are fighting for supremacy in the second largest city in Italy.
• Oaxaca de Juárez / Mexico : The month-long unrest of the left-wing APPO groups culminated in the province of Oaxaca when the governor Ulises Ruiz , who was expelled in the summer, returned. He also opposes the Mexican parliament's call for resignation because it contravenes the constitution. Strong police have been controlling the city of Oaxaca de Juárez, where demonstrators have holed up in the university, since Monday. Resistance to Ruiz began five months ago with a teachers strike , which he cracked down on; He is also accused of electoral fraud and corruption.

See also

• Nekrolog October 2006 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

England in October 2006

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

 Wikinews: Article Published October 2006  - News

Individual evidence

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2. ^ Israel withdraws last soldier from southern Lebanon. In: cbc.ca . September 30, 2006, accessed October 16, 2018 . 
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9. ^ The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2006. In: nobelprize.org . October 2, 2006, accessed December 9, 2016 . 
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11. ↑ dw-world.de
12. ^ The Nobel Prize in Physics 2006. In: nobelprize.org . October 3, 2006, accessed November 27, 2016 . 
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14. ^ The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2006. In: nobelprize.org . October 4, 2006, accessed November 20, 2016 . 
15. ↑ blick.ch
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20. ^ Spiegel Online
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42. ^ Stadler Wins Ironman Triathlon. In: washingtonpost.com . October 21, 2006, accessed October 15, 2017 . 
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46. ↑ Time Online
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48. ↑ Federal President stops privatization of air traffic control. In: mz-web.de . October 24, 2006, accessed October 17, 2018 . 
49. ↑ Memorial sites in Budapest to commemorate the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. In: bundesstiftung-aufverarbeitung.de . 2006, accessed October 16, 2018 . 
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51. ^ Tearful Madonna defends adoption. In: independent.co.uk . October 25, 2006, accessed October 16, 2018 . 
52. ↑ nachrichten.ch
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56. ↑ Sabine Grabner, Michael Krapf (Ed.): Enlightened civil. Portraits from Gainsborough to Waldmüller 1750–1840 . Hirmer Verlag , Munich 2006, ISBN 3-7774-3255-5 (exhibition catalog of the Austrian Gallery Belvedere ).
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60. ↑ icbc.com : ICBC Celebrates its Successful Listing both in Shanghai and Hong Kong ( Memento from October 16, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
61. ↑ ftd.de : Serbs approve new constitution ( Memento from February 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
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66. ↑ netzeitung.de : Bosnia retreat "very high railway" ( Memento of September 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
67. ↑ About 80 suspected terrorists killed in Pakistan. In: faz.net . October 30, 2006, accessed June 20, 2019 . 
68. ↑ Pakistan owns up to strike; locals blame US drones. In: dawn.com . October 31, 2006, accessed June 20, 2019 . 
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