October 2016

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This article covers breaking news and events in October 2016.

Daily events

Saturday 1st October 2016

• Aleppo / Syria : Syrian and Russian fighter planes bomb a field hospital in the rebel district of Sachur in the eastern part of Aleppo. One person is killed in the process. The French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault calls at a meeting of the UN Security Council , "the guilty to be held accountable".
• Dresden / Germany : Start of the three-day celebrations for the 26th anniversary of German unity .
• Mainz / Germany : The fee- financed media service funk goes online. The joint project by ARD and ZDF runs under its own name Content Network and is primarily aimed at 14 to 29 year olds.
• Madrid / Spain : The party leader of the socialists resigns. Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón is reacting to criticism in his party, according to which his blockade during the formation of the government is doing the country more harm than good.
• Washington / United States : Following a resolution by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on November 30, 2015, the Chinese currency renminbi (yuan) will officially become the fifth global reserve currency alongside the US dollar , euro , British pound and yen . With this status, it can be used more widely in the global trade and financial system.
• Wolfsburg / Germany : In the emissions scandal involving VW diesel vehicles , Volkswagen agrees with 652 dealers in the USA on compensation of 1.2 billion US dollars .
• Vélez-Málaga / Spain : At least 90 people are injured in a gas explosion in Café La Bohemia during the Feria de San Miguel festival .

Sunday 2nd October 2016

Government poster for the referendum ( German  Don't take any chances! Vote for "No"! )

• Bogotá / Colombia : In the referendum on the adoption of the peace agreement between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia ( FARC ), a majority of 50.23% of the electorate voted against the agreement, which was intended to resolve the armed conflict that has been going on since 1964 .
• Budapest / Hungary : The Hungarian referendum on EU refugee quotas fails, as only 43.3% of those eligible to vote cast a valid vote instead of the required 50%. The content of the referendum is the question of whether the European Union may impose on its member state Hungary to accept asylum seekers without a vote in the local parliament.
• Debre Zeyit / Ethiopia : Police crush protests against President Teschome at a religious festival of the Oromo ethnic group . Dozens of people die as they flee from police gunshots and tear gas.
• Praia / Cape Verde : The presidential elections confirm incumbent Jorge Carlos Fonseca , who leaves his most promising challengers Joaquim Monteiro and Albertino Graça behind.
• Wittenberg / Germany : After a four-year complete renovation of the Wittenberg Castle Church at a cost of around 8.2 million euros, it will officially reopen in the presence of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark , Federal President Joachim Gauck and EKD Council Chairman Heinrich Bedford-Strohm . The Protestant castle church is said to have been the place where the reformer Martin Luther posted his theses.

Monday 3rd October 2016

• Adjelhoc / Mali : In mortar attacks on a base of the Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission of the United Nations in Mali (MINUSMA), one blue helmet soldier is killed and five others are seriously injured.
• Ankara / Turkey : The cabinet chaired by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan extends the state of emergency until January 15, 2017 on the recommendation of the National Security Council (MGK). The state of emergency has been in effect since the attempted coup in July 2016 and should end on October 18, 2016 .
• Al-Hasakah / Syria : At least 20 Kurdish Syrians are killed in a suicide attack during a wedding celebration in a village in the governorate of al-Hasakah .
• Lancaster / United Kingdom : Boxer Tyson Fury , reigning world heavyweight champion of the WBA , WBO and IBO , tweeted the end of his career. He tested positive for cocaine the week before . The denial follows three hours later.
• Moscow / Russia : President Vladimir Putin set by decree that ratified in July 2011 bilateral agreement Plutonium Management and Disposition Agreement (PMDA) with the United States for the destruction of each 34 tons of weapons-grade plutonium ( ²³⁹ Pu) for a total of approximately 17,000 nuclear warheads from. This step is justified with the "unfriendly actions of the USA" against Russia, which sees its strategic stability threatened.
• Stockholm / Sweden : This year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to the Japanese Yoshinori Ōsumi .

Kersti Kaljulaid becomes President of Estonia

• Tallinn / Estonia : Parliament elects Kersti Kaljulaid as Estonian President at a special session .

Tuesday 4th October 2016

Hurricane Matthew on October 4, 2016 before passing through Haiti and Cuba

• Brussels / Belgium : Start of the 11th International Donors Conference for Afghanistan with up to 70 participating states and 30 international organizations and agencies. Germany has pledged up to 1.7 billion euros in aid for the next four years, but has linked it to reforms to fight corruption , protect human rights , promote democratic and economic development and cooperate on migration issues.
• Greater Antilles : At 7:00 a.m. local time , the center of Hurricane Matthew hits the southwestern tip of Haiti . That day, Matthew, whose speed is 230 km / h when crossing the Tiburon Peninsula , kills hundreds in Haiti. In other Caribbean states, at least seven people died from the hurricane. The tropical storm hits Cuba at 8:00 p.m. local time. Its center only extends over the eastern tip of Cuba, the Baracoa region , but the heavy rains in the entire Caribbean lead to siltation and health emergencies.
• Istanbul / Turkey : The broadcast of the program of the television company İMC TV is canceled without the broadcaster informing the audience. The Turkish police shut down the station for "spreading propaganda".
• London / United Kingdom : The British pound has fallen to the lowest exchange rate against the US dollar since 1985. On the day of the Brexit referendum (23 June 2016), a pound was worth 1.49 dollars; today the rate is 1.28 dollars . A decrease of 14%.
• Mainz / Germany : The criminal case against the satirist and moderator Jan Böhmermann on suspicion of insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is set.
• Paris / France : The French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian and the German counterpart Ursula von der Leyen sign an agreement to procure four to six US tactical transport aircraft of the type Lockheed C-130J Super Hercules for the German armed forces , which are carried on a French Air base for special operations should be stationed.
• Paris / France : The French luxury goods group Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton (LVHM) takes over 80 percent of the German suitcase manufacturer Rimowa from Cologne .
• Stockholm / Sweden : The three Britons David J. Thouless , F. Duncan M. Haldane and John M. Kosterlitz will be awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics this year for their research on phase transformation .

Wednesday 5th October 2016

• Brussels / Belgium : The public prosecutor's office starts an investigation into suspected terrorism after a knife attack on two police officers. Later that day, the Bruxelles-Nord train station was evacuated because of a bomb threat. However, no explosives are found.
• Sderot / Israel : A Hamas rocket hits a street in the southern Israeli city. Israel is responding with air strikes on positions in the Gaza Strip , and a tank is advancing into the Palestinian Territory .
• Stockholm / Sweden : Jean-Pierre Sauvage , Fraser Stoddart and Ben Feringa will receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry this year .

Thursday October 6, 2016

• Atmeh / Syria : At least 29 people die in a suicide attack by the Islamic State (IS) at the border crossing to Turkey, most of them rebels of Jaish al-Fatah .
• Istanbul / Turkey : A bomb attack in the Bahçelievler -Yenibosna district near a police station kills ten people. So far, no one has claimed responsibility for the attack.
• Mandera / Kenya : Fighters from the Islamist militia al-Shabaab kill at least six people in a shooting in a building and in an explosion.
• New Providence / Bahamas : Hurricane Matthew crosses the Bahamas between the islands of Andros and New Providence and later hits the island of Grand Bahama head-on .
• Tassara / Niger : In an attack by 40 jihadists in the west of the country on the Tassalit camp for refugees from Mali , at least 22 soldiers are killed in defense.

Friday 7th October 2016

• Florida / United States : The center of Hurricane Matthew moves 20 km east of the rocket launch site Cape Canaveral in the morning hours and then - without touching North America - continues towards Georgia . In doing so, it weakens to a Category 2 hurricane (up to 177 km / h , according to the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale ). The hurricane kills four in Florida.
• Gedser / Denmark : The bulk carrier Maestro Diamond runs aground on Gedser Reef. With a load of 180 t of fertilizer on board, the freighter did not need the help of pilots during the critical passage.
• Langenhagen / Germany : Due to frequent sickness reports from the aviation staff , the economically troubled airline TUIfly canceled all 108 flights scheduled for today on October 6th. Air Berlin flights that are flown by TUIfly on wet lease are also affected .
• Manila / Philippines : The Philippine Defense Minister Major General Delfin Lorenzana announced the suspension of joint military patrols with the United States in the South China Sea and criticized the lack of US military aid to date.
• Melbourne / Australia : Ford Motor Company stops production in Australia after 91 years.
• Oslo / Norway : Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
• Port-au-Prince / Haiti : According to the United Nations , 350,000 residents of the island who were particularly hard hit by Hurricane Matthew need immediate emergency aid. The death toll is now estimated at 800.
• Rabat / Morocco : The Justice and Development Party (PJD) led by Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane receives the most votes in the parliamentary elections and holds 125 of the 395 seats in parliament. The monarchist-liberal Party of Authenticity and Modernity (PAM) comes in second with 102 seats.
• Washington, DC / United States : The Washington Post publishes a previously unknown video of vulgar and macho statements by Donald Trump , the Republican candidate for the election of the 45th US president . The statements, which are around eleven years old, trigger severe criticism of their candidate, not least among Republicans.
• Washington, DC / United States : The US Department of Homeland Security accuses Russia of being behind the current hacker attacks on political institutions in the United States. According to the ministry, the outcome of the presidential election on November 8th is "extremely difficult" to manipulate through cybercrime .

Saturday 8th October 2016

Daniela Ryf

• Chemnitz / Germany : After the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) reported an explosives attack, the Fritz Heckert residential area was cordoned off in search of the 22-year-old Syrian Jaber al-Bakr . Three people are arrested who did not include the suspect. Investigators secure large amounts of acetone peroxide (TATP) in an apartment . The following day, the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office in Karlsruhe takes on the further investigations.
• Dhaka / Bangladesh : According to the government, security forces kill eleven militant jihadists in an offensive against the banned JMB .
• Hawaii / United States : Three German triathletes left the competition behind at the men's Ironman Hawaii . The fastest is Jan Frodeno . Sebastian Kienle and debutant Patrick Lange follow . The Swiss Daniela Ryf won the competition of women as last year.
• Kigali / Rwanda : Start of the 28th UN Conference on the Montreal Protocol
• Prague / Czech Republic : The regional and partial senate elections were won by the liberal-populist movement ANO 2011 with 21.3% of the votes, ahead of the ruling social-democratic Česká strana sociálně Demokratieická (ČSSD) of Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka with 15.3%.
• Sanaa / Yemen : Air strikes by the Saudi Arabia- led military alliance in the ongoing intervention in Yemen target a mourning hall. At least 140 people are killed and around 530 are injured. It was not until October 15, 2016 that the military alliance confirmed the "erroneous" air strike.
• Tbilisi / Georgia : In the parliamentary elections , the ruling party, the Georgian Dream , which has ruled since 2012, lands with 49.9% of the vote, ahead of the United National Movement with 26.7%.

Sunday 9th October 2016

• Addis Ababa / Ethiopia : A state of emergency has been imposed for the entire country, as the protests, some of which are violent, continue in the Oromia region . Members of the Oromo and Amhara ethnic groups stand up against government discrimination.
• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : In an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , the CEO of Techniker Krankenkasse (TK), Jens Baas , explains that the health insurance companies record manipulated diagnoses for the insured in order to receive more money from the risk structure compensation (RSA). “There has been competition between the health insurers as to who can get the doctors to document as many diagnoses as possible for the patient.” There are even contracts with doctors' associations that aim at more and more serious diagnoses. The health insurance companies also use the help of management consultants for this , says Baas.
• Jerusalem / Israel : A Palestinian attacker from the Islamist Hamas fires from a car at a crowd at a tram stop near the ammunition hill (Giv'at HaTahmoshet), killing two Israelis. Four more are injured. The assassin is shot dead by a special unit on the same day.
• Munich / Germany : The Alliance for Progress and Awakening (ALFA), a split from the AfD , is no longer allowed to use the acronym "Alfa". The Higher Regional Court of Munich grants this abbreviation to the association Aktion Lebensrecht für Alle (ALfA) based in Augsburg.
• Şemdinli / Turkey : A car bomb attack in the border triangle Turkey- Iraq - Iran kills ten soldiers and eight civilians as well as the attacker. The PKK is committed to the attack.
• Vatican State : Pope Francis announces the names of 17 clergymen whom he will elevate to the rank of Cardinal on November 20th .
• Vilnius / Lithuania : The first round of the parliamentary elections in Lithuania takes place. The second round, with the decisive runoff elections, is scheduled for October 23rd.

Monday 10th October 2016

• Istanbul / Turkey : On the sidelines of the World Energy Congress , Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan agree to build the Turkish Stream natural gas pipeline . The route should mainly run along the bottom of the Black Sea in order to keep third countries out of the project.
• Leipzig / Germany : The police arrest Jaber al-Bakr , who wanted to stay with Syrian compatriots in Leipzig- Paunsdorf , but they tied him up and handed him over to the police. The federal prosecutor accuses the arrested person of being a member of the Islamic State terrorist organization and of having prepared an explosives attack. For this he had already prepared an explosives vest. Two days later, he committed suicide in his cell.
• Lomé / Togo : Extraordinary summit of the African Union (AU), at which the main focus is on economic development and the protection of the sea area, which has been affected by piracy and overfishing.

Rohingya internally displaced persons in eastern Myanmar

• Rakhine State / Myanmar : After attacks on police facilities killing at least nine officers, the region marked by conflicts between Buddhist Burmese and stateless Muslim Rohingya is experiencing an outbreak of violence. An unknown number of Muslims are killed in the search for those responsible for the attacks.
• Stockholm / Sweden : The Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics is awarded to Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmström .
• Suwon / South Korea : Samsung Electronics stops production of the Galaxy Note7 smartphone . Consumers previously reported that exchanged devices had also gone up in flames.

Tuesday October 11, 2016

• Bonn / Germany : Of 7.4 billion people worldwide , around 800 million people are hungry . This is reported by the Deutsche Welthungerhilfe association , which in its Welthungerhilfe index has found a 29% decrease in malnutrition compared to the year 2000.
• Geneva / Switzerland : The imprisoned Chinese economist Ilham Tohti , who belongs to the Muslim Uyghur minority , has been awarded the Martin Ennals Prize for human rights defenders .
• Moscow / Russia : Russia cancels a planned state visit by President Vladimir Putin to France . Relations with France have recently clouded over in connection with the civil war in Syria .

Wednesday October 12, 2016

• Berlin / Germany : The Federal Cabinet wants to introduce a law according to which immigrants who enjoy EU law on the free movement of persons may only claim social benefits (including Hartz IV ) in the sixth year of their settlement in Germany. Similar considerations exist in Great Britain , Switzerland and Austria .
• Bujumbura / Burundi : The National Assembly votes with a large majority for a law that allows withdrawal from the International Criminal Court (ICC). 94 of 110 MPs are in favor of ending cooperation with the ICC. Two MEPs vote against, 14 abstain.
• Mosul / Iraq : The United States , the Peshmerga and Iraq plan to conquer the Islamic State - controlled city ​​in the north of the country. The governments of Turkey and Iraq are arguing over the role of the Kurdish fighters . Haider al-Abadi finally demands the withdrawal of the Turkish army from his country. The Turks reject this.
• Port-au-Prince / Haiti : A cholera epidemic as a result of Hurricane Matthew causes the WHO to deliver one million vaccine doses to the Caribbean state. The number of fatalities from the tropical storm is specified and is now given as 473.
• Suwon / South Korea : Samsung Electronics gives up the Galaxy Note7 smartphone . After the production stop, sales are also stopped. So that the company makes a total cost of 17 billion US dollars for the phablet from.

Thursday October 13, 2016

• New York / United States : António Guterres from Portugal has been elected by the General Assembly of the United Nations as the next Secretary General of the United Nations . He is scheduled to take up office on January 1, 2017.
• Stockholm / Sweden : This year's Nobel Prize for Literature goes to the American poet and singer-songwriter Bob Dylan .

Friday October 14, 2016

Prem Tinsulanonda becomes interim head of state of Thailand

• Bangkok / Thailand : At the age of 96, the previous president of the Privy Council, Prem Tinsulanonda , becomes the new head of state of Thailand. In 2017, Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn would like to replace him. Vajiralongkorn's father, King Bhumibol Adulyadej , died on October 13th.
• Dresden / Germany : Two days after the suicide of the terror suspect Dschaber al-Bakr in the JVA Leipzig, Prime Minister Stanislaw Tillich rejects blanket criticism of the Saxon judiciary, but admits: "The suicide should have been prevented."

Saturday 15th October 2016

• Baghdad / Iraq : A suicide bomber from the Islamic State (IS) terrorist militia kills at least 28 people and injures 36 others at a Shiite memorial service in the northern district of al-Shaab.

Heads of State of the BRICS countries

• Benaulim / India : beginning of the two-day summit of the BRICS - and BIMSTEC -Staaten in the Indian state of Goa . On the sidelines of the summit, India and Russia reached an armaments agreement for the delivery of four long-range surface-to-air missile systems of the type S-400 at a total price of the equivalent of 5.3 billion euros. India is also planning to purchase around 200 multi-purpose Kamov 226T helicopters and four other Talwar-class frigates , each of which will be produced in India.
• Kabul / Afghanistan : The overdue parliamentary elections in Afghanistan planned for today will not take place. Since 2010 there has not been a new democratic parliament.
• Kaga-Bandoro / Central African Republic : According to the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA), blue helmet soldiers kill eleven members of the Muslim rebel group Séléka , which looted United Nations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
• Kigali / Rwanda : At the 28th UN conference on the Montreal Protocol , almost 200 countries agree on an international agreement for the gradual abolition of fluorocarbons (HFCs), which are used, for example, in refrigerators or air conditioning systems.
• Varanasi / India : During a procession of followers of Guru Jai Gurudev, who died in 2012, a mass panic breaks out on the Malviya railway bridge, which is used by numerous pilgrims to the Ganges River . At least 24 people die and more than 20 are injured.

Sunday October 16, 2016

Number of Wikipedia authors with more than five edits per month (2002 to 2016)

• Berlin / Germany : According to a graphic by Bernd Gross, the activity in the German-language Wikipedia has been gradually declining since 2008.
• Dabiq / Syria: The Free Syrian Army (FSA) recaptured the border town from the terrorist militia Islamic State (IS) in conjunction with the Turkish armed forces as part of Operation Euphrates Shield .
• Gaziantep / Turkey : In a suicide attack by the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group , three police officers are killed and at least eight other people are injured.
• Kuwait City / Kuwait : After an emergency meeting of the Kuwaiti Parliament and on the recommendation of Parliament President Marzouq Al-Ghanim, the Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jabir as-Sabah , issued a decree to dissolve the parliament. In view of the "explosive regional developments" and the "security challenges", the emir is calling for new elections.
• Lemongan / Indonesia : When the yellow bridge between the Lesser Sunda Islands Nusa Lembongan and Nusa Ceningan, southeast of Bali , collapses, which is accessible for pedestrians and scooters , nine people die and 30 others are injured.
• Podgorica / Montenegro : Most voters in the parliamentary elections vote for Prime Minister Milo Đukanović's party of socialists . To form a government, however, he has to find a coalition partner.
• Vatican State : Pope Francis canonized six men and one woman . These are Salomone Leclercq, José Sánchez del Río , Manuel González García , Lodovico Pavoni , Alfonso Maria Fusco, Giuseppe Gabriele del Rosario Brochero and Elisabeth of the Trinity .

Monday 17th October 2016

• Boa Vista / Brazil : At least 25 inmates are killed in fights between rival gangs in the Agricola de Monte Cristo correctional facility. In addition, 100 relatives of prisoners who were in the institution during visiting hours are being taken hostage.
• Jiuquan Cosmodrome / China : A Long March 2F launcher puts the Shenzhou 11 spacecraft with the two Taikonauts Jing Haipeng and Chen Dong on board into orbit. A docking with the Chinese space laboratory Tiangong 2 is planned . It is the sixth manned space flight in China.

Fire at BASF

• Ludwigshafen / Germany : In the northern state port operated by the BASF chemical group, work on a pipeline route causes an explosion that causes several fires. At least four people die in the accident and at least six others are seriously injured.

Logo of Kaiser's Tengelmann GmbH

• Mülheim an der Ruhr / Germany : The owners of the Kaiser's Tengelmann retail chain start selling 105 branches in North Rhine-Westphalia. The Edeka group should be given preferential treatment when buying. Several branches are to be converted into Netto branded discounter , in which the Haub family also holds a stake. Branches in Bavaria and Berlin are to follow. The company is then likely to be deleted.
• Quang Binh / Vietnam : Floods caused by Typhoon Sarika killed 18 people in the central Vietnamese province, and 24 people nationwide. The Philippines also report that at least two people were killed by Sarika.
• Quito / Ecuador : Start of the four-day 3rd World Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (UN-HABITAT).
• Vienna / Austria : Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka (ÖVP) announces the demolition of the Adolf Hitler birth house in Braunau am Inn .

Tuesday October 18, 2016

• Katanga / Democratic Republic of the Congo : In the east of the country, violence breaks out in the ethnic conflict between Bantu and pygmies . At least 16 people die. The situation escalated when a tax was imposed on butterfly larvae - they are considered a delicacy in the city of Kinshasa .
• Namur / Belgium : The Belgian member state of Wallonia continues to refuse the Belgian government to approve the Ceta free trade agreement . Wallonia's Prime Minister Paul Magnette ( Parti Socialiste ) calls for “a new text” of the treaty “within a few hours”. The agreement between the European Union and Canada is due to be signed at the end of the month.

Wednesday 19th October 2016

• Berlin / Germany : German Chancellor Angela Merkel receives at a meeting in Normandy format to French President Francois Hollande , the Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko . The most important issues are the war in Ukraine since 2014 and the war in Syria since 2011 .
• Darmstadt / Germany : Around 50 seconds before the planned landing on Mars, the Schiaparelli module sends a signal to the European Space Flight Control Center for the last time . The landing module entered the planet's orbit on board the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter and probably also reached its surface.
• Luxembourg / Luxembourg : The European Court of Justice (ECJ) declares in the proceedings of the German Parkinson's Association against the Central Office for Combating Unfair Competition that the fixed prices for prescription drugs set out in the German Drug Price Ordinance are incompatible with the free movement of goods under Union law .

Thursday 20th October 2016

Before and after photos of the surface of Mars with the crash site of the parachute (top right) and lander (center)

• Caracas / Venezuela : The state electoral authority informs the organizers of the recall referendum against President Nicolás Maduro that the referendum will not be held. This exhausts the opposition's legal, democratic means. The next presidential election is planned for 2019.
• Darmstadt / Germany : The module Schiaparelli the ESA is in uncertain Constitution on Mars .
• Beijing / China : On a state visit to the People's Republic, the Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte declares that his country no longer sees the United States as an ally and that he himself is “only insulted there”. The Philippines' new ally is China.
• Tall Rifaat / Syria : In northern Syria, the Turkish air forces are flying attacks on positions of the Syrian Democratic Forces under the command of the Kurdish YPG militia . At least eleven people are killed. However, the Turkish side speaks of 200 Syrian Kurds killed.

Friday October 21, 2016

Card with the largest failures as a result of the DDoS attacks on Dyn

• Altin Köprü / Iraq : In an attack by three suicide bombers from the Islamic State on a power plant in ad-Dibis, twelve Iraqi and four Iranian employees of the power plant die.
• Dallas / United States : The telecommunications group AT&T reaches an agreement with the owners of Time Warner on the acquisition of the media company . The purchase price is approximately 85 billion US dollars .
• Éséka / Cameroon : A serious railway accident on the Douala – Ngaoundéré railway line kills at least 70 people and injures around 300 more. Due to road damage after heavy rainfall, the Camrail train, which is approved for 600 people, was manned by around 1,300 people.
• Manchester / United States : Internet company Dyn is the victim of several waves of distributed denial-of-service attacks in which numerous Internet of Things devices are misused. As a result, the websites of various large Internet companies cannot be accessed for hours.
• Namur / Belgium : The Canadian Minister for International Trade Chrystia Freeland ( Liberal Party ) and the Prime Minister of the Belgian member state of Wallonia Paul Magnette ( PS ) leave their talks on the Ceta trade agreement without result . Freeland then no longer believes that the agreement with the EU will come about, as Belgium is not allowed to sign without Wallonia's consent.
• Pretoria / South Africa : In a communication to the United Nations , South Africa becomes the second African country after Burundi to terminate its cooperation with the International Criminal Court in The Hague .
• Tübingen / Germany : At the University Hospital of Tübingen , a multidisciplinary team of doctors, in cooperation with doctors from the University Hospital of Gothenburg, successfully carries out a uterus transplant for the first time in Germany . The 23-year-old patient suffered from Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome .

Saturday 22nd October 2016

• Kirkuk / Iraq : Iraqi security forces repel an attack by the terrorist militia Islamic State (IS). A total of 46 people are killed and 133 injured.
• Mosul / Iraq : Various media reports that members of the Islamic State are committing a massacre among the male population in which they shoot 284 men and boys.
• Novy Urengoy / Russia : 19 people are killed in the crash of a Mil Mi-8 helicopter . Including employees of a subcontractor of the state oil company Rosneft .

Sunday 23 October 2016

Carolin Emcke

• Afyonkarahisar / Turkey : The Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ announces that as a result of the attempted coup in July 2016, investigations are ongoing against 82,000 people and 35,000 suspects are in custody. Another 4,000 people are still wanted. In addition, more than 50,000 civil servants were laid off by decree.
• Arcahaie / Haiti : During a mutiny in a prison, a guard and a prisoner die and 172 prisoners, some of whom are armed, succeed in breaking out. Blue helmet soldiers from the MINUSTAH mission support the security forces in their search for the fugitives.
• Calais / France : Police units pull up in front of the refugee camp in the Calais jungle, which officially has 6,500 residents, as the camp will be evacuated from tomorrow and the migrants are to be taken to reception centers across the country by buses. During the riots, the police officers are attacked with stones, which in turn use tear gas.
• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : German journalist Carolin Emcke receives the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade .
• Odisha / India : In the state in eastern India, the police kill 24 Naxalites in a Maoist paramilitary training camp .
• Sanaa / Yemen : After the end of the ceasefire, the military alliance led by Saudi Arabia is carrying out several air strikes again in its ongoing intervention in Yemen . In the regions of Al-Jawf, Marib , Sa'dah and Taizz several positions of were Huthi -Rebellen attacked. No information is available on the number of victims.
• Vilnius / Lithuania : After the runoff elections for the parliamentary elections in Lithuania in 2016 , the Union of Farmers and Greens has 54 of the 141 seats in parliament and is now the strongest force.

Monday October 24, 2016

• Bangui / Central African Republic : Protests against the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) killed four people and injured 14, including four blue helmet soldiers .
• Calais / France : The Calais jungle refugee camp is cleared. It is the largest of the many wild migrant camps that have existed since 2002 around the entrance to the Eurotunnel .
• Luqa / Malta : One of the French Ministry of Defense chartered reconnaissance aircraft type SA227-AT Merlin IVC Luxembourg CAE Aviation with target Misrata , Libya , crashes shortly after takeoff at Kirkop from. All five French inmates are killed.
• Mainz / Germany : In a broadcast by ZDF , Horst Seehofer announced his resignation from the CSU party leadership in 2017.
• Quetta / Pakistan : Unidentified fighters with a background in organized terror invade a police academy, take hundreds of hostages and kill 48 people, mostly police students. The authorities see links with the Taliban and Al-Qaeda . The Lashkar-e-Jhangvi group claimed the crime for themselves.

Tuesday October 25, 2016

All over the world, people are fighting against the increase in hate crime. B. in June in London

• Berlin / Germany : In the final report of the “Citizens' Dialogue” survey, the federal government found a 77% increase in hate crime . The figures depict the situation from 2014 to 2015, but the trend is unbroken.
• Karlsruhe / Germany : The Federal Court decides it for account overdrafts should be no blanket overdraft fee. Only an overdraft facility is permitted .
• London / United Kingdom : Paul Beatty becomes the first American writer to receive the Man Booker Prize for his satirical novel The Sellout .
• Luxembourg (City) / Luxembourg : The Board of Directors of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) releases Greece further aid of 2.8 billion euros. In July 2015, the euro countries rescued Greece from national bankruptcy with a third aid package of up to 86 billion euros; the ESM decision now made the disbursement amount to 31.7 billion euros.
• Mandera / Kenya : 12 people die in an attack by the Islamist Al-Shabab militia on the Bishaaro Hotel Boarding and Lodging .
• San Francisco / United States : There will be no wave of consumer protection lawsuits against the Volkswagen Group for fraudulent promises in terms of diesel emissions . District Court Judge Charles R. Breyer for Northern California approves a settlement between plaintiffs and manufacturers amounting to approximately $ 14.7 billion.
• Döbeln / Germany An arson attack on a Syrian family in an apartment building kills 12 people. The act was probably racially motivated.

Wednesday October 26, 2016

• Banjul / Gambia : The Gambian President Yahya Jammeh , who declared his country an “ Islamic State” in 2015 , wants to end the cooperation with the International Criminal Court in The Hague . Other African countries, including Kenya , also perceive a post-colonial bias of the authority.
• Calais / France : In the early morning hours, a fire breaks out in the wild migrant camp in the jungle of Calais , which has been cleared since Monday. In view of the flames, the residents leave the camp quickly. It should be completely emptied in the evening for the time being. It is speculative whether the authorities will take action against potential returnees.
• Ghor / Afghanistan : Supporters of the Islamic State (IS) terrorist militia kidnap at least 33 civilians, including children, in the western province of Ghor and execute them all. Two of the approximately 100 IS fighters were killed and the son of a commander was injured.
• Mosul / Iraq : The Islamic State militia executes 232 civilians in the city. They refused to act as "human shields" against the invasion of the Iraqi army and its allies.
• Qandala / Somalia : Fighters of the Islamic State march into the city in the autonomous state of Puntland at dawn without resistance . On the same day, the city of Zyeglow in the Bakool region, with a population of 2,000, fell into the hands of the Islamist Al Shabaab militia .
• Perugia / Italy : Two earthquakes measuring 5.4 M _w and 6.2 M _w shake central Italy. Several buildings collapse in the Marche region . At least two people are injured. A man dies.

Thursday October 27, 2016

• Brussels / Belgium : The defense ministers of NATO approve the maritime operation "Sea Guardian" for the beginning of November 2016 in support of the European Union Naval Force - Mediterranean (Operation Sophia) off the coast of Libya . NATO supports the EU in reconnaissance and logistics. Other topics include promoting the Iraqi armed forces in Iraq from January 2017 by using the training of Iraqi officers in Jordan . Ministers also discussed NATO measures to strengthen deterrence and defense, including the deployment of four multinational battalions in the Baltic States and Poland, led by Canada, Germany, Great Britain and the United States.
• Brussels / Belgium : The state and the representatives of the regional governments agree on additional formulations for the European - Canadian free trade agreement CETA . With the agreement, Belgium will be able to act again, but the European Union will have to wait for the other member states to approve the new treaty text. An opinion poll on the same day shows that 70% of Walloons approve of Prime Minister Paul Magnette's blockade of the old draft.
• Cologne / Germany : The flying staff of the airlines Eurowings and Germanwings are on strike. 380 scheduled flights are canceled.

Friday 28th October 2016

• Aleppo / Syria : The Islamist - Salafist rebel group Jaish al-Fatah , which also includes the Ahrar al-Sham and the Al-Nusra Front , is attacking the western part of the city held by the Syrian armed forces and the Aleppo international airport with the Nayrab air base on. According to SOHR , the rebels fire “hundreds” of projectiles, killing at least 15 civilians and injuring more than a hundred others.
• Belfast / United Kingdom : Judge Paul Maguire of the High Court of Justice of Northern Ireland rejects the challenge of a Northern Irish party alliance against the UK's exit from the EU , which is to be negotiated with the European Union from 2017 .
• Brussels / Belgium : The regional parliament of Wallonia in Namur gives the Belgian government its approval for the signing of the European-Canadian free trade agreement CETA . The Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders then signed the agreement. Should Belgium notice increasing competition for its farmers in the future, it can claim a safeguard clause after the amendments to the treaty. Furthermore, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) can be called upon to examine the regulations governing investment arbitration proceedings between companies and states.
• Hobart / Australia : The Antarctic Marine Living Resource Commission (CCAMLR) agrees on a 35-year ban on commercial fishing in the Ross Sea . The Ross Sea marine reserve covers 1.55 million km² .
• Washington, DC / United States : Sparked by new findings in the proceedings against former Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner , the FBI's central security agency has announced an investigation into the Democratic candidate for 45th US President Hillary Clinton . The investigations could drag on until election day on November 8, 2016 and even longer. This is the scenario that the Democrats have wanted to avoid since the accusations against Clinton began.

Saturday 29th October 2016

• Al-Hudaida / Yemen : A prison is hit in air strikes by the Saudi- led military alliance in the ongoing intervention in Yemen . At least 60 people are killed. The military coalition specifies the detention center will by the Huthi used -Rebellen as a command center.
• Berlin / Germany : Deutsche Bahn is moving a motorail train over the domestic rail network for the last time . The first train of this type ran in 1930 .

Official seat of the Spanish Prime Minister

• Madrid / Spain : In the third vote in parliament to elect a new president , the Socialist Party (PSOE) tolerates a new government being formed by the head of government, who has been in office since December 2015, Mariano Rajoy . Its conservative Partido Popular received only 33% of the votes in the new election in June and subsequently found no coalition partner.
• Obigarm / Tajikistan : Construction work on the Rogun Dam officially begins on the Wachsch River . To do this, President Emomalij Rahmon is personally at the wheel of a bulldozer .
• Reykjavík / Iceland : In the early parliamentary elections , the Progressive Party loses 16% compared to the 2013 election (according to initial projections). The independents become the strongest force with over 30%. The new election was scheduled because tax offenses by high-ranking members of the Progress Party had come to light in the course of the Panama Papers affair .
• Sinai / Egypt : On the peninsula and in other parts of the country, at least 18 people have died from flooding as a result of heavy rain in the past few days.

Sunday 30th October 2016

• Ankara / Turkey , Kuzey Lefkoşa / Northern Cyprus : The changeover from summer to standard time is no longer applicable. The territories change from the Eastern European time zone UTC + 2 to the "Moscow time zone" UTC + 3 . In future, the time difference between Central Europe and them will be two hours in winter and one hour in summer. This means that there are two time zones on the island of Cyprus.
• Arlington / United States : According to a quarterly report by the US Government's Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) for the US Congress, a total of 5,523 Afghan soldiers were killed and 9,665 soldiers were wounded in the war in Afghanistan from January to August 28, 2016 . In addition, the state controls only 258 of 407 districts. 33 districts are under insurgent control or influence and 116 districts are contested.
• Brussels / Belgium : The European Union and Canada sign the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (Ceta).
• Chișinău / Moldova : The first ballot of the direct election of the state president does not bring any of the candidates an absolute majority.

Rashes of the earthquake series

• Riccarton / United Kingdom : 13-year-old soccer player Karamoko Dembele is nominated for the Scottish Football Association's U16 junior to prevent him from pursuing a career for England .
• Umbria / Italy : An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.5 M _w shakes the region. 20 people are injured. The epicenter is about 60 km south of Perugia .
• Yamoussoukro / Ivory Coast : The Ivorian voters vote in a referendum to approve a new constitution for their country drawn up by President Alassane Ouattara . He also wants to strengthen his own position in the state.

Monday October 31, 2016

• Beirut / Lebanon : After 45 failed attempts since 2014, the National Assembly succeeds in electing a new president . The office is given to a Maronite according to religious proportionality and the 83-year-old former general Michel Aoun is now to fill it. At the time of the Lebanese civil war , he was already Prime Minister of the country , although he was not entitled to do so as a maronite.
• Chongqing / China : An explosion in the Jinshangou coal mine traps 33 miners underground and can later only be recovered dead.
• Europe : The wave of attacks on random victims under the guise of horror clown fashion prompts the police to send protective notices to the population. Many people don't want to attend Halloween events to avoid danger.
• Islamabad / Pakistan : The police arrest 1,500 supporters of the opposition politician and former cricketer Imran Khan . For days there have been violent clashes between security forces and demonstrators.
• Zuhai / China : The Chinese Air Force presented the Chengdu J-20 stealth bomber for the first time at an air show . So far, only the United States and Russia have this technology.

See also

• Nekrolog October 2016 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

Canton of Mersch in October 2016

Commons : October 2016  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

 Wikinews: Articles Published October 2016  - News

Individual evidence

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