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This article covers breaking news and events in October 2015.

Daily events

Thursday October 1, 2015

• Kunduz / Afghanistan : The Afghan army recaptures the northern Afghan provincial capital of Kunduz, which was occupied a few days earlier by the radical Islamic Taliban . Hundreds of people are killed.
• Manama / Bahrain : After the discovery of a large weapons and explosives stash by the Bahraini security authorities and the arrest of several suspects with ties to Iran, Bahrain withdraws its ambassador from Tehran and declares the Iranian ambassador in Manama an undesirable person.
• Roseburg / United States : Ten people, including the perpetrator, are killed in a rampage at a college in Oregon .
• Stockholm / Sweden : the this year's "Alternative Nobel Prize" received Tony de Brum and the people of the Marshall Islands for their efforts against the nuclear powers that do not comply with the disarmament obligations under the NPT, Sheila Watt-Cloutier for their dedication to the rights of the Inuit, Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera for their commitment to sexual minorities, and Gino Strada and Emergency for creating emergency medical aid for victims of conflict and injustice.

Friday October 2, 2015

• Kiev / Ukraine : It is known that independent observers from the OSCE , the ceasefire in the war zone to monitor eastern Ukraine, on a practice field of the pro-Russian separatists a Russian Buratino - flamethrower system have discovered that only in the Russian Federation is being built, not in Ukraine was exported and is not part of the arsenal of Ukrainian troops. The Moscow Defense Ministry does not comment on the find.

Saturday 3rd October 2015

• Frankfurt am Main / Germany: Federal President Joachim Gauck gives his speech at the ceremony to mark the 25th day of German unity. With regard to managing the influx of refugees, managing other forms of immigration and integrating newcomers into society, he explains: “As in 1990, we are facing a challenge that will occupy generations. But unlike back then, what did not previously belong together should now grow together. "
• Kunduz / Afghanistan : In the early hours of the morning, an air raid hit a clinic run by the aid organization Doctors Without Borders in the city of Kunduz . At least 30 people die.
• Mörsdorf / Germany : The Geierlay Bridge, Germany's longest suspension bridge at 360 meters , is opened. It spans a side valley of the Moselle in the Rhein-Hunsrück district up to 100 m above the valley floor .
• Vatican City : The Pole Krzysztof Charamsa is the first theologian from the Vatican to come out as a homosexual. He lives with a partner. Charamsa deliberately dares to step in public one day before the beginning of the Synod of Bishops on the subject of marriage and the family.
• Vienna / Austria : The solidarity concert Voices for Refugees , which includes Die Toten Hosen , Konstantin Wecker , Conchita Wurst and Zucchero , is attended by more than 100,000 people.

Sunday 4th October 2015

• Bishkek / Kyrgyzstan : The pro-Russian Social Democrats emerge victorious from the parliamentary elections. For the first time, there are voter lists and voters are registered when they cast their votes to prevent multiple votes. There are a total of 14 parties.
• Lisbon / Portugal : In the parliamentary elections in Portugal , the previous bourgeois-conservative government coalition under Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho wins the most votes, but loses the majority and is dependent on the support or tolerance of other partners. Alternatively, a grand coalition or a left government alliance can be formed.
• Minsk / Belarus : Around 1000 Belarusians are protesting against plans to build a Russian military base on Belarusian territory.

Monday 5th October 2015

• Stockholm / Sweden : The 2015 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine goes to William C. Campbell from Ireland , the Japanese Satoshi Ōmura and the Chinese Tu Youyou .
• Yaren / Nauru : The Nauru government has announced that it will accelerate the process of recognizing asylum seekers. For years, Nauru has been accepting refugees who originally wanted to immigrate to Australia, following an agreement with Australia .

Tuesday October 6, 2015

• Dubrovnik / Croatia : The South Korean economist Hoesung Lee is elected as the new chairman of the IPCC .
• Zeebrugge / Belgium : In the nightly collision of the Dutch cargo ship Flinterstar of the shipping company Flinter with the liquid gas tanker Al Oraiq of the shipping company “K” Line sailing under the flag of the Marshall Islands in the North Sea off the Belgian port of Bruges- Zeebrugge , the Flinterstar sinks partially, her twelve Crew members can be brought to safety.
• Stockholm / Sweden : The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Takaaki Kajita from Japan and the Australian Arthur McDonald . They demonstrated the neutrino oscillation .

Wednesday October 7, 2015

• Brussels / Belgium : Tens of thousands respond to a call from the trade unions and protest in the Belgian capital against the government's austerity policies.
• Stockholm / Sweden : This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to Swedes Tomas Lindahl , Paul Modrich from the USA and Aziz Sancar from Turkey .

Thursday 8th October 2015

Svetlana Alexievich

• Stockholm / Sweden : The Belarusian Swetlana Alexandrowna Alexijewitsch is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature 2015.
• Zurich / Switzerland : In the course of the corruption affair in the world football association FIFA , its ethics committee has suspended association chief Sepp Blatter and the head of the European football association UEFA , Michel Platini , for 90 days each. Issa Hayatou becomes the provisional FIFA association president, the chairman of the African football association CAF .

Friday 9th October 2015

• Oslo / Norway : The Tunisian Dialogue Quartet receives this year's Nobel Peace Prize .

Saturday 10th October 2015

• Ankara / Turkey : During a demonstration critical of the government shortly before a peace rally , a terrorist attack occurs at a train station in which two explosive devices detonate within a short time. The death toll is 128. There are also more than 500 injured.
• Hawaii / United States : On the Big Island , Jan Frodeno wins the Ironman Hawaii triathlon competition as the fifth German ahead of his compatriot Andreas Raelert . The Swiss Daniela Ryf is at the top of the women's ranking for the first time.
• Pyongyang / North Korea : At a major military parade to mark the 70th birthday of the Labor Party of Korea , ruler Kim Jong-un declares that his country is ready to wage any war that the United States may instigate. The military parade is also attended by high-ranking visitors from China .
• Tehran / Iran : By shooting down a medium-range missile capable of transporting nuclear weapons, Iran may violate a resolution passed against it by the UN Security Council in 2010 .

Sunday 11th October 2015

• Conakry / Guinea : The presidential election in Guinea wins incumbent Alpha Condé .
• Minsk / Belarus : The presidential election in Belarus wins the incumbent Aljaksandr Lukashenka .
• Vienna / Austria : The state and municipal council elections in Vienna are won by the SPÖ. The FPÖ, traded as a favorite, missed the win, but could gain a lot.

Monday October 12, 2015

• Round Rock / United States : The US company Dell announces that it is taking over storage specialist EMC for 67 billion US dollars .
• Stockholm / Sweden : The winner of this year's Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics is Angus Deaton from Scotland , who wrote groundbreaking works on consumption, poverty, inequality and health.

Tuesday October 13, 2015

• Brussels / Belgium : The takeover of SABMiller by Anheuser-Busch InBev for 96 billion euros is announced.
• The Hague / Netherlands : The final report on the plane crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 is published: The crashed machine was shot down by a Buk missile that hit near the cockpit. The Ukraine is criticized because she had not locked the airspace over the eastern part of their territory.

Wednesday October 14, 2015

• Aleppo / Syria : According to reports by the Reuters news agency , the Syrian army is preparing a large-scale offensive against rebels north of Aleppo with the support of Iranian ground forces and the Russian air force.

Thursday October 15, 2015

• Washington, DC / United States : Due to the increasing strength of the Taliban in Afghanistan , US President Barack Obama has announced that he will stop the withdrawal of troops from the Asian landlocked country and leave 5,000 army personnel in the crisis-ridden country until 2016.

Friday October 16, 2015

• Brussels / Belgium : In view of the continuing influx of refugees to Europe, the European Union and Turkey want to cooperate and the specific design of the hotspots in Italy and Greece should be accelerated.
• Nablus / Palestine : An arson attack on Joseph's tomb , which is holy for Jews in the Palestinian territories, causes international outrage. Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas calls the act "irresponsible" and convenes an investigative commission.

Saturday 17th October 2015

• Budapest / Hungary : In the course of the refugee crisis , Hungary closes its green border with Croatia . The flow of refugees is thus diverted towards Slovenia .
• Cologne / Germany : One day before the mayoral election in Cologne , the non-party candidate and former social affairs officer Henriette Reker , who is supported by the CDU, FDP and the Greens, is stabbed and seriously injured in a knife attack. The next day she wins the election.

Sunday October 18, 2015

• Bern / Switzerland : The right-wing populist SVP receives the most votes in the Swiss parliamentary elections and will have 65 of the 200 members of the next National Council . In the Council of States , the CVP and the FDP will be most strongly represented, each with 13 mandate holders.
• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The German-born Iranian writer and orientalist Navid Kermani receives the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade .

Monday 19th October 2015

Justin Trudeau

• Moscow / Russian Federation : It becomes known that Transaero, the largest Russian private airline, is bankrupt. In the course of the economic sanctions caused by the Ukraine crisis including the illegal annexation of Crimea , the state airline Aeroflot is also getting into ever greater financial difficulties. In addition, the route network to Russian destinations is being thinned out by foreign airlines due to declining bookings.
• Ottawa / Canada : In the Canadian general election , the Liberal Party wins an absolute majority of the seats. Justin Trudeau becomes the new prime minister .
• Tskhinvali / Georgia : The president of the separatist republic of South Ossetia , which is under Russian influence and which is part of the territory of Georgia under international law, Leonid Tibilow , announces plans for a referendum in which a decision will be made between joining the Russian Federation or independence could.

Tuesday October 20, 2015

• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : Jörg Hofmann is elected as the new chairman of the IG Metall trade union .
• Washington, DC / United States : The United States and the Russian Federation sign a flight agreement to prevent incidents during an air strike in Syria .

Wednesday October 21, 2015

• Ljubljana / Slovenia : In view of the influx of several thousand refugees per day and the Hungarian - Croatian and Hungarian- Serbian borders closed to migrants , Slovenia uses its military to secure the border with Croatia.
• Moscow / Russian Federation : With his first visit abroad since the outbreak of the civil war in Syria , its President Bashar al-Assad thanks Russian President Vladimir Putin for his military support against terrorism.

Thursday October 22, 2015

• Al-Hawija / Iraq : In a commando operation by the Delta Force of the United States Special Operations Command , supported by special forces of the Peshmerga of the autonomous region of Kurdistan , a total of 70 hostages, including 20 members of the Iraqi armed forces , are taken from a prison of the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS) freed. One US soldier and 20 IS fighters are killed.
• Lisbon / Portugal : Two and a half weeks after the parliamentary elections , the previous incumbent, Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho , is confirmed in office by President Aníbal Cavaco Silva . After the failure of a grand coalition, Passos Coelho strives for a conservative minority government. The left-wing parties, which have a parliamentary majority, announce a vote of no confidence in the head of government.
• Luxembourg / Luxembourg : The European Court of Justice ruled in a judgment Az. C-264/14 that the exchange of conventional currencies in units of the virtual currency " Bitcoin " is not subject to VAT and is recognized as a means of payment.
• Santiago de Chile / Chile : Dozens of same-sex couples sign up for registered partnerships as a law passed in April comes into force.
• Trollhättan / Sweden : In a sword attack at a primary school in Trollhättan in western Sweden, a student, a teacher and the perpetrator die. The latter is shot by the police. The motive for the act suggests xenophobia .
• Valletta / Malta : The European Central Bank (ECB) is keeping the key interest rate in the euro area at a record low of 0.05 percent following a decision by the Governing Council in Malta.

Friday 23rd October 2015

Hurricane Patricia , satellite image, October 23, 2015

• Berlin / Germany : The supervisory boards of Barmer GEK and Deutsche BKK decide to merge to form the largest German health insurance company.
• Bordeaux / France : At least 43 people died in the worst bus accident in France for 33 years. A truck and a bus collide head-on near Puisseguin in the Gironde department .
• Dortmund / Germany: The German Football Museum opens.
• Maiduguri / Nigeria : Several dozen people are killed in a suicide bombing during morning prayers on a mosque in the Jiddari Polo district. The terrorist militia Boko Haram is suspected of the crime .
• Manzanillo / Mexico : Hurricane Patricia , the strongest ever measured in the region , hits land near Manzanillo in the evening and continues to weaken. Patricia only recently developed into a very strong hurricane . The Mexican government has declared a state of emergency for several states.

Saturday October 24, 2015

• Berlin / Germany : Due to the refugee crisis in Europe , a stricter asylum law comes into force in Germany , which among other things provides for more benefits in kind instead of cash benefits for asylum seekers and should enable rejected asylum seekers to be deported more quickly.
• Malé / Maldives : After the attack on Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen four weeks ago, Ahmed Admeed, his deputy, is arrested as a suspect. Interior Minister Umar Naseer said he was being accused of high treason .

Sunday 25th October 2015

John Magufuli

• Austin / United States : With a victory at the United States Grand Prix , the Formula 1 world champion of 2008 and 2014 Lewis Hamilton ( GBR ) becomes driver world champion in 2015 .
• Brazzaville / Republic of the Congo : The constitutional referendum to extend the term of office of the President of the Republic of the Congo is adopted.
• Buenos Aires / Argentina : In the presidential and parliamentary elections , there will be a runoff for the office of the Argentine head of state for the first time, as none of the candidates can achieve a majority. In this, the liberal-conservative mayor of the capital, Mauricio Macri , and the Peronist governor of the capital province, Daniel Scioli , face each other.
• Dodoma / Tanzania : In the presidential and parliamentary elections in Tanzania, John Magufuli is elected as the new head of state. However, the outcome is controversial as the elections in Zanzibar have been declared invalid. The opposition party alliance of the defeated candidate Edward Lowassa is calling for the votes to be recounted.
• Guatemala City / Guatemala : Jimmy Morales wins the runoff election for the office of President .
• Kiev / Ukraine : The Ukrainian government is suspending direct air traffic to Russia due to the annexation of Crimea and the war in eastern Ukraine . Russia reacts to this by suspending air traffic to Ukraine.
• Muscat / Oman : In the elections to the Consultative Assembly , the turnout is almost 56.7 percent.
• Port-au-Prince / Haiti : In the presidential and parliamentary elections none of the candidates win a majority for the office of head of state. Jude Célestin and Jevenel Moise face each other in a runoff election, which is expected to take place in December.
• Warsaw / Poland : The parliamentary elections are won by the national conservative Law and Justice Party (PiS) around top candidate Beata Szydło .
• Yamoussoukro / Ivory Coast : In the presidential elections, incumbent Alassane Ouattara is confirmed in office with over 83 percent.

Monday October 26, 2015

• Kabul / Afghanistan : A strong earthquake with a rating of 7.5 on the Richter scale shakes South and Central Asia. The epicenter is in the eastern Afghan province of Badakhshan . Over 300 people are killed. There is a lot of property damage in both Afghanistan and Pakistan . The roads and landslides under the control of the radical Islamic Taliban make access to the hardest hit mountainous region difficult.

Tuesday October 27, 2015

• Strasbourg / France : The European Parliament adopts the “Regulation on Measures for Access to the Open Internet”. This regulation includes the end of net neutrality and the end of roaming charges by summer 2017.

Wednesday October 28, 2015

• Hama / Syria : It became known that the Russian air strikes in Syria did not lead to any successes worth mentioning for the army of President Bashar al-Assad , as his ground troops were unable to defend the gains made. The Islamic State terrorist militia, on the other hand, has gained ground and controls the supply route of the Assad army to Aleppo , which Assad also failed to recapture. The Free Syrian Army indented under whose direction Latakia before.
• Istanbul / Turkey : A few days before the parliamentary elections, President Erdoğan's government has police forces crack down on media critical of the government. Several journalists are injured when the head office of the media group Koza İpek is violently penetrated and the latter is placed under administrative administration. To this end, newspaper editorial offices are being staffed and the operation of two television stations is prevented.

Thursday October 29, 2015

Raif Badawi (2012)

• Chișinău / Moldova : The pro-European government under Valeriu Streleț , which has been in office since July, is overthrown due to a corruption scandal through a motion of censure . After the cabinet is dissolved, President Nicolae Timofti has three days to appoint a new Prime Minister to form a government. Failure would result in early elections.
• Beijing / China : The People's Republic of China has officially ended its controversial one-child policy . Couples are now allowed two children. With this change, the government wants to counteract an aging society and the surplus of men, as female fetuses were increasingly aborted due to the higher status of the male population (see sex-selective abortion ).
• Strasbourg / France : The imprisoned Saudi internet activist Raif Badawi is awarded this year's Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought by the European Parliament .
• Washington, DC / United States : With 236 votes, Republican Congressman Paul Ryan from Wisconsin is elected 62nd Speaker of the House of Representatives, successor to John Boehner .

Friday October 30, 2015

• Bucharest / Romania : At least 27 guests are killed and another 145 are injured in a major fire during a metal concert by the band Goodbye to Gravity in the Colectiv nightclub . The cause was fireworks that ignited a column and a ceiling section and later soundproofing mats made of polystyrene, so that there was also a significant amount of smoke.
• Chișinău / Moldova : President Nicolae Timofti appoints Gheorghe Brega as the new acting Prime Minister after yesterday's overthrow of the government . He now has three months to form a new government.
• Vienna / Austria : At a conference to solve the Syria conflict , at which the arch rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia and 15 other states involved in the civil war such as Russia and the USA sit at the same table for the first time, a joint declaration is adopted despite serious differences which calls for a ceasefire and the formation of a transitional government. Meanwhile, the United States has announced that it will be supporting moderate opposition Syrian rebels in the fight against the terrorist organization Islamic State with fewer than 50 special forces .

Saturday October 31, 2015

• Al-Arish / Egypt : An Airbus A321-231 passenger aircraft of the Russian airline Kogalymavia crashes on flight 7K 9268 from Sharm el -Sheikh to Saint Petersburg with 224 people east of Bir el Hassana on the Sinai Peninsula .
• Düsseldorf / Germany : The North Rhine-Westphalian Ministry of Finance is buying another CD from an unknown source for around 5 million euros. The tax investigation in Wuppertal is said to have data records for tax evasion and fraudulent business transactions, including with capital gains tax and dividend stripping, with a trading volume of 70 billion euros. The public prosecutor's office in Cologne should also investigate the Banque et Caisse d'Epargne de l'Etat (BCEE) in Luxembourg .
• London / Great Britain : In the final of the Rugby Union World Cup 2015 New Zealand wins 34:17 against Australia and thus takes the world championship title for the third time.
• Munich / Germany: The federal police are coordinating the flow of refugees from Austria to Germany by introducing five border crossing points at Freilassing , Laufen an der Salzach , Neuhaus am Inn , Passau and Simbach am Inn .
• Zamboanga City / Philippines : A suspected defective power cable leads to a fire in a market hall. 15 people are killed and more than 13 people suffer serious injuries.

See also

• Nekrolog October 2015 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

Düsseldorf in October 2015

Commons : October 2015  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

 Wikinews: Articles Published October 2015  - News

Individual evidence

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