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This article covers breaking news and events in September 2005.

Daily events

Thursday September 1, 2005

Flood in New Orleans

Emergency relief after the Louisiana hurricane

• Augsburg / Germany : The former Secretary of State for Armaments, Holger Pfahls , who was convicted of tax evasion among other things , is released after serving half of his prison sentence of two years and three months.
• Baghdad / Iraq : The US Air Force attacks a suspected Al Qaeda position in the Iraqi border area with Syria . According to a report, F-18 fighter planes had fired at a train station in Husaiba , where around 50 suspected al-Qaida fighters were seen bunkering weapons. Initially, nothing was known about the number of those killed. As recently as Tuesday, 56 people were killed in air strikes on Islamist extremists in the same region.
• New Orleans / United States : In an initial inventory of the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina , which hit the Gulf Coast at around 200 km / h three days ago , 80% of the urban area of ​​New Orleans is identified as affected. The water stands up to six feet high, and authorities estimate that there are at least a thousand deaths.

Friday September 2, 2005

Condoleezza Rice

• Ankara / Turkey : Turkey announces that it will withdraw its application to join the EU if the European Union sets new conditions or only offers the alternative privileged partnership . Turkey has done everything that is necessary to start the accession talks, says Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan in Naples . Literally, Abdullah Gül , Turkish Foreign Minister: "We have stuck to our side of the agreement, the EU should stick to theirs."
• Taiwan : The two-day passage of Typhoon Talim over the island of Taiwan ends. Seven people were killed and 59 others were injured. Schools and companies are closed and air traffic has ceased. Around 1.7 million people are without their own electricity.
• Washington, DC / United States : US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has come under fire for her behavior during the ongoing flood disaster in the southern United States. Like US President George W. Bush , Rice stayed on vacation despite the flood. “While the South is drowning, Rice is relaxing in New York,” headlines the tabloid “Daily News”.

Saturday 3rd September 2005

• Bregenz / Austria : A 35-year-old woman from Munich slashes a famous painting by the artist Roy Lichtenstein in the Kunsthaus Bregenz and is overwhelmed by museum visitors. She is considered confused and states that the picture “Nudes in Mirror” is not a real Lichtenstein.
• Munich / Germany : Edmund Stoiber is re-elected as party leader by the CSU party representatives with 93% of the votes, 4% less than in the last vote.
• New Orleans / United States : One hundred hours after the devastating Hurricane Katrina , the first aid convoy of around 50 US National Guard trucks with food, drinking water and medicine arrives in the flooded southern metropolis. According to official estimates, 50,000 people are still holding out under catastrophic conditions in the New Orleans region on the 5th day after the hurricane.

Sunday 4th September 2005

• Berlin / Germany : incumbent Chancellor Schröder ( SPD ) and challenger Angela Merkel ( CDU ) meet on the occasion of the Bundestag election 2005 in a TV duel between the Chancellor candidates. The discussion will be broadcast live by several broadcasters. Schröder sees the immediate opinion polls as a slight advantage.
• Bonn / Germany : Due to a joint brochure by Klaus Zumwinkel (head of Deutsche Post World Net ) and Prof. Klaus F. Zimmermann (President DIW Berlin ) on necessary political reforms in Germany, the ver.di union of Deutsche Post is threatening a strike. Zumwinkel and Zimmermann are calling for the abolition of minimum wages and, indirectly, strong restrictions on the unions.
• New Orleans / United States : For a few hours, music, costumes and confetti are making their way into the US jazz and party metropolis: Some steadfast people celebrate the annual gay parade "Southern Decadence" in the deserted but now dry streets of the French Quarter. . About 20 to 30 people joined them. So far it has been celebrated at the end of August / beginning of September as a lavish festival lasting several days with thousands of participants.

Monday 5th September 2005

• Kandahar / Afghanistan : US-led troops killed 13 suspected insurgents and arrested over 40 others while searching for a candidate for parliament that was kidnapped and presumably killed by the Taliban . As reported by the governor of the southern province of Kandahar, Assadullah Chaled, 13 people were killed in the bombing of the mountain region of Ghorak.
• Medan / Indonesia : Shortly after take-off, an Indonesian passenger plane crashes into a neighboring residential area in the city of Medan on Sumatra . 143 people die.
• Sölden / Austria : Nine skiers are killed in a cable car accident in Tyrol when a transport helicopter loses a concrete bucket weighing around 750 kg , which pulls a gondola down.

Tuesday September 6, 2005

• Kyūshū / Japan : Typhoon Nabi hits the southern Japanese main island Kyūshū and triggers floods and mudslides . More than 100,000 people have been evacuated as a precaution, there are several dead and missing.
• New Orleans / United States : In flooded New Orleans, emergency services begin pumping the water masses back into Lake Pontchartrain .
• Washington, DC / United States : President Bush nominates John Roberts , who is known as the "Mainstream Conservative", to succeed the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist . He also responds belatedly to the ongoing massive criticism of disaster management in Louisiana and announces an official investigation.

Wednesday September 7, 2005

• Bern / Switzerland : The Federal Pension Fund Publica sells a large part of the 74,050 Swissfirst shares it has held since 2002 shortly before the merger of Swissfirst and Bellevue Bank . As a result, she misses out on a profit of CHF 1 million, as it will later become known . The processes are examined for possible irregularities, as they appeared in 2002.
• Cairo / Egypt : A new president is elected in Egypt . For the first time, several candidates are admitted to such an election, but they are given little chance against Husni Mubarak .
• Los Angeles / United States : The California Congress is the first US state assembly to pass a law that allows marriage between homosexual partners. The Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger spoke out repeatedly against this project.

Thursday September 8, 2005

A stamp from the Ukrainian Post honors the Orange Revolution

• Canberra / Australia : The Australian government is introducing a new anti- terrorism law that will allow arrests without going to court.
• Dresden / Germany : Due to the death of an NPD direct candidate in Dresden constituency 160 , the final result of the 2005 Bundestag elections will probably be delayed by 2 weeks. This means that around 220,000 eligible voters will only be able to vote on October 2nd.
• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The Federal Administrative Court approves the construction of a maintenance hangar for the new Airbus A380 wide-body aircraft at Frankfurt Airport , thereby rejecting a lawsuit from the Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz (BUND).
• Kiev / Ukraine : President Viktor Yushchenko from the Our Ukraine - National Self-Defense bloc dissolves the government of Yulia Tymoshenko ( All-Ukrainian Association "Fatherland" ), which has been in office since February, after a series of ministerial resignations . Thus the coalition falls apart, which after the presidential election in 2004 succeeded in uniting large parts of the people in the Orange Revolution movement .

Friday September 9, 2005

Jaap de Hoop Scheffer visits George W. Bush in June 2005

• Brussels / Belgium : NATO is providing ships and aircraft for the USA to support the aid to the hurricane victims. This is what Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said after a meeting of the NATO Council in Brussels. In New Orleans , the THW helpers have now also started work.
• Dresden / Germany : After the death of an NPD direct candidate for the 2005 Bundestag election in Dresden, the by-election in the Dresden I constituency is scheduled for around October 2nd.
• Cairo / Egypt : The Egyptian President Husni Mubarak was named the winner of the presidential election with 88.6% of the vote. Although nine opposing candidates were admitted for the first time, independent election observers expressed serious doubts about the correctness of the count. Ballot boxes have disappeared and polling stations have not been opened at all.
• Los Angeles , New York / United States : In both cities, pop and rock stars such as Dixie Chicks , Sheryl Crow , Alicia Keys and Paul Simon are calling for donations for the victims of the hurricane disaster in Louisiana .
• Manchester / United Kingdom : According to reports from the meeting of finance ministers, the EU Commission wants to resume the currently suspended deficit procedure against Germany. This could lead to sanctions, as the new household debt, with a value of 4.0% of the gross domestic product (previously calculated: 3.7%) again exceeded the limit of the EU Stability Pact .
• New York / United States : Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell told ABC that his 2003 allegation about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and the resulting threat to the Saddam regime was false and an "eyesore" on his career that he is now feel as "painful".
• Tal Afar / Iraq : US planes drop bombs over it at night to dig insurgents in the city in northwest Iraq. After the majority of the residents leave the city, all men over the age of 20 who are still present are said to be arrested.

Saturday September 10, 2005

• Richmond , United States : The Virginia Court of Appeals ruled in the case of a US citizen arrested in 2002, granting federal authorities the right to indefinitely detain a terrorist suspect without charge. A judgment in the first instance had rejected this procedure as arbitrary. According to the authorities, the man is said to have prepared an attack with a radioactive bomb and, after his arrest, was detained as an "enemy fighter" for almost two years without access to a lawyer.
• Venice / Italy : The 62nd Venice Film Festival closes with the award ceremony. The Golden Lion goes to the film Brokeback Mountain by the Taiwanese director Ang Lee . The Silver Lion for best director goes to the French director Philippe Garrel for his work Troublemaker and the film Mary by the American director Abel Ferrara receives the special prize of the jury.
• Washington, DC / United States : A document from the US Department of Defense suggests that a new nuclear strategy would allow the armed forces to carry out a "first strike" against a threat from weapons of mass destruction , including under terrorist control .

Sunday September 11, 2005

• Tokyo / Japan : Early elections for the lower house are held throughout the state . The vote counts as a vote on the postal reform planned by the Koizumi government .

Monday September 12, 2005

• Gaza / Palestinian Autonomous Territories : A Palestinian is shot dead by Egyptian border guards near the border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip near Rafah . For the first time since 1967, Egyptians have been monitoring the border since the weekend . The Tzahal (Israel's army) withdrew completely from the Gaza Strip on Monday night.
• Netzarim / Palestinian Autonomous Territories : After the last Israeli soldiers have withdrawn from the Gaza Strip , the Palestinians begin demolishing houses and synagogues in what were once Jewish settlements . According to AFP reports, a bulldozer is advancing into the Netzarim settlement in the south of the Gaza Strip to tear down the synagogue that Palestinian youths had previously set on fire .
• Oslo / Norway : In the elections to the Norwegian parliament , a defeat of the ruling center-right coalition of Prime Minister Bondevik is looming .
• Tokyo / Japan : The ruling LDP of Prime Minister Koizumi achieved a clear election victory. In the new lower house she holds the absolute majority with 296 of 480 seats, in coalition with the Kōmeitō party (31 seats) she has a two-thirds majority.

Tuesday September 13, 2005

• Paris / France : The Front National (FN) party is nominating its leader Jean-Marie Le Pen for the fifth time as a candidate for the French presidential election in 2007 . The 77-year-old received "unanimous support" from the FN Politburo on Monday , the party announced after a meeting in Saint-Cloud near Paris.

Wednesday September 14, 2005

• Karlsruhe / Germany : Despite the by-election in Dresden , which is necessary after the death of an NPD candidate, the Federal Returning Officer is allowed to announce the provisional final result of the 2005 Bundestag election (excluding the constituency of Dresden I) on Sunday . With this decision, the Federal Constitutional Court rejects the urgent application of a non-party direct candidate from the Saarland against the announcement before the by-election as inadmissible.
• Paris / France : In the trial of the wiretapping affair under the late President François Mitterrand , the verdict will be reached on November 9 , as announced by the 16th Chamber of the Criminal Court in Paris. In the trial, twelve accused had to answer for the fact that from 1983 to 1986 thousands of phone calls by lawyers, journalists, business people and artists had been tapped on Mitterrand's instructions. The official purpose was the fight against terrorism . Apparently Mitterrand, who had been hiding an illegitimate daughter for a long time, tried to protect his privacy.

Thursday September 15, 2005

• Berlin / Germany : The Bavarian Interior Minister Günther Beckstein ( CSU ), who could take over the interior department of the future federal government if the Union parties win , wants to bring foreigners living in Germany to greater integration. Those who refuse to attend a reasonable integration course must expect fines, Beckstein told the Berliner Zeitung . "We want unemployment benefits and social assistance to be cut by up to ten percent."
• Gorleben / Germany : Five transport containers from the Krümmel nuclear power plant , which are stored in the Gorleben interim storage facility , show increased radioactivity on the outer skin.
• New York / United States : US President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair do not want to be diverted from their political course by the escalating violence in Iraq . At a meeting on the sidelines of the UN summit in New York, she formulated the goal of "finishing the job in Iraq," said a Blair spokesman. The Iraqis should be helped in the "transition to democracy and security" in their country. More than 130 people were killed and over 230 injured in a coordinated series of bloody attacks in Baghdad on Wednesday .

Friday September 16, 2005

• Jerusalem / Israel : Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz orders the establishment of a “security zone” in the north of the Gaza Strip to prevent militant Palestinians from entering Israel. The zone should extend 150 meters into the autonomous area and be surrounded by an electric fence or wall , says Mofaz's spokeswoman. A " no man's land " forbidden for Palestinians must be created in order to protect the Israeli towns from the chaos in the Gaza Strip.
• New York / United States : The USA is increasingly clearly granting Iran the right to civilian use of atomic energy . In an interview with the New York Post newspaper , Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the US did not want to create the impression that Iran should not be “a technologically advanced state”. In the past, however, one would have thought that Iran should not only develop a military, but also no civil nuclear program.
• Tehran / Iran : Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced that also other Islamic states, the Iranian nuclear - technology to provide. "The Islamic Republic never strives for weapons of mass destruction , and out of respect for the needs of other Muslim countries, we are ready to pass on nuclear knowledge to these countries," the state news agency Irna quoted the president as saying . He is said to have made the statements during a meeting with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.

Saturday 17th September 2005

• New York / United States : One day before Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad's speech at the UN General Assembly in New York, US President George W. Bush is threatening again with UN sanctions against Tehran in the nuclear dispute . Bush said on Friday after a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin that he was certain that the international community of states would cite Iran to the Security Council should the country fail to keep its promises . However, diplomacy decides when to do so .
• Washington, DC / United States : Deputy US State Department spokesman Adam Ereli blames Syria for the latest series of attacks in Iraq and calls on the Syrian government to prevent Islamist fighters from entering Iraq. Ereli announces possible military countermeasures if they are unwilling to do so.
• Wellington / New Zealand : Parliamentary elections are held in the island state .

Sunday September 18, 2005

The voters enable a Chancellor: Angela Merkel (CDU)

Angela Merkel, Guido Westerwelle

Jon Stewart, Muppet

• Berlin / Germany : After today's federal elections , the final result (excluding the constituency of Dresden I ) is: Union 35.2%, SPD 34.3%, FDP 9.8%, Greens 8.1%, Left Party , PDS 8.7% , others 3.9%. The candidates for chancellor are Angela Merkel (CDU / CSU) and Gerhard Schröder (SPD). Neither the Union / FDP nor the SPD / Greens have a majority, but all parliamentary parties are ruling out a coalition with the PDS. Merkel as well as Schröder declare that they are election winners and future Federal Chancellor , and Guido Westerwelle (FDP) rejects a coalition made up of the SPD / Greens / FDP . Gerhard Schröder announces that his party will not accept Merkel as Chancellor in a grand coalition . Observers expect Merkel to become chancellor because the SPD as a party is not as resolute as Schröder himself.
• Bogotá / Colombia : The Colombian government wants to relieve the courts of the country with the introduction of the quickie divorce . Couples wishing to separate could in future be divorced at the registry office within 30 minutes without a judge having to be involved, the authorities said on Sunday. However, this only applies if the couples do not have young children and if the partners want to separate by mutual agreement . The procedure costs the equivalent of about twelve euros .
• Kabul / Afghanistan : Parliamentary elections are being held for the first time in over 30 years . For the first time in Afghanistan, women also have the right to vote and stand for election. A quarter of the seats are reserved for women. A result is not expected before the beginning of October, the turnout is around 50%.
• Los Angeles / United States : In the 57th presentation of the Television Award Emmy is the Daily News with Jon Stewart won two prizes.
• Tehran / Iran : According to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the country renounces the possession of nuclear weapons for religious reasons : "Our religion forbids us to have nuclear weapons," he told Newsweek magazine .
• Wellington / New Zealand : The parliamentary elections in New Zealand will see a neck and neck race between the two big parties Labor and National Party. As in Germany, there is no clear government decision.

Monday September 19, 2005

• Atlantic Ocean : Off Florida , cyclone "Rita" continues to gain strength in the warm coastal waters and is upgraded to a level 2 hurricane . In the southern United States , fear of new devastation is growing. In New Orleans , Mayor Ray Nagin is stopping the resident return that began after the August 29th Katrina disaster.
• Washington, DC / United States : The US Federal Reserve is raising the key interest rate by 25 basis points to 3.75%.

Tuesday September 20, 2005

• Berlin / Germany : Angela Merkel ( CDU / CSU ) and Franz Müntefering ( SPD ) are confirmed as chairmen of their parliamentary groups.
• Berlin / Germany : Joschka Fischer ( Greens ) surprisingly resigns from all offices in the party and parliamentary group. If the Greens go into opposition , he is neither available for the office of parliamentary group leader nor for another top office, he says in the first meeting of the old and new MPs. Instead, he would like to “accompany the group from the back row for a few more years ”.
• The Hague / Netherlands : According to a report by the " NRC Handelsblad " on Tuesday, the Dutch Ministry of Justice is preparing a law on euthanasia for babies suffering from an incurable or "unbearable" disease . So follow Justice Minister Piet Hein Donner recommendations of experts , the so-called "Protocol of Groningen " after a conference had adopted in the North-German city. In the case of a corresponding clinical picture, an abortion should still be legal after the 24th week.
• Lampedusa / Italy : When visiting a reception camp for migrants on the Italian island of Lampedusa, 13 MEPs meet only eleven residents. Almost all of the inmates had been removed the day before , reports MEP Martine Rour from France . Because of the Dublin Agreement , Italy is neither allowed to send migrants to other EU countries nor to reject them, resulting in an overcrowding of the camps that is often discussed in the media.
• New York / United States : The US government is sticking to the agreement reached with China , North Korea and Russia , according to which North Korea must give up its own nuclear weapons program and rejoin the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, says Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice .

Wednesday September 21, 2005

• Berlin / Germany : After the federal election, the parties begin looking for partners for a government. Kurt Beck , the deputy chairman of the SPD , asked the FDP to enter into exploratory talks with the Social Democrats. The Union is reaffirming its willingness to hold serious talks about a possible alliance with the FDP and the Greens .
• Munich / Germany : The Süddeutsche Zeitung reports that the SPD is aiming to change the rules of procedure of the Bundestag to split the CDU / CSU parliamentary group so that the SPD would be the strongest parliamentary group or party.
• Stuttgart / Germany : Construction workers found human skeletons in a mass grave at Stuttgart Airport . It could be around 30 starving Jewish Nazi forced laborers , as the public prosecutor said. According to " Stuttgarter Nachrichten ", the National Socialists had set up a branch of the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in Alsace in Leinfelden-Echterdingen .
• United States : Hurricane Rita threatens the United States. After the state of Florida got off lightly, "Rita" gains strength and now threatens Texas. The hurricane now reaches top speeds of over 250 km / h and is upgraded to the highest category "five". In New Orleans , preparations are being made for “Rita” to turn north and cause serious damage again a few weeks after the devastating Hurricane Katrina . New Orleans has to be evacuated again. President George W. Bush calls on the people threatened by the storm to flee on Wednesday afternoon (local time). “We have to be prepared for the worst,” he says.

Thursday September 22, 2005

• Basra / Iraq : In protest against the controversial deployment of British soldiers in Basra, the local authorities have broken off all cooperation with the British. All regular consultations between the provincial government and the British army have been canceled, said Nadim el Jaabari, spokesman for the governor of Basra, to the AFP news agency on Thursday . In addition, British soldiers are now prohibited from entering any Iraqi administration building in Basra.
• Berlin / Germany : The SPD plans, despite their losses in the general election on the power to stay. She wants to change Section 10 of the Bundestag's rules of procedure, according to which parliamentary groups are associations of members of a Bundestag party or "such parties " "which are not in competition with one another in any country due to similar political goals ". This interpretation would split the CDU / CSU faction , which has been accepted for 50 years, into two factions, so that the SPD would be the largest faction and could derive the right to the Federal Chancellor from this. CDU politician Friedbert Pflüger criticized the dpa : “This approach has coup-like features.” One could not use a trick to break up a faction community that has been in existence for 50 years and has been widely accepted in order to remain in power. According to Wolfgang Schäuble , the deputy chairman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group, the SPD reveals a “lack of democratic culture” with its plan.
• Istanbul / Turkey : An administrative court in the Turkish metropolis of Istanbul prohibits a conference on the allegation of genocide against the Armenians with an injunction . This was announced by an organizer from the AFP news agency in Istanbul. The meeting at the Bosphorus University wanted scientists to participate posed differently than the official Turkey that it in the First World War in what was then the Ottoman Empire a genocide of the Armenians in Anatolia has given.
• Kiev / Ukraine : The parliament elects Yuri Jechanurov as the new prime minister in the second attempt . In the first vote on Tuesday, he missed the required majority by a few votes.
• Louisiana , Texas / United States : Hurricane “Rita” is upgraded to the highest possible category “five”. With wind speeds of 280 km / h on a one-minute average and gusts of over 340 km / h, it is now stronger than hurricane "Katrina", which devastated New Orleans and the surrounding area three weeks ago. Only a cyclone in 1935 and "Gilbert" in 1988 were stronger than "Rita" . The storm is expected in Texas on Saturdays. US President George W. Bush declares a state of emergency for Texas and Louisiana . The authorities are instructing around 1.3 million Gulf Coast residents to move to safety.
• Sarajevo / Bosnia and Herzegovina : The international representative for Bosnia, Paddy Ashdown, threatens the Bosnian Serbs with sanctions because of their resistance to the establishment of a uniform police force across the country . "If you continue on this path, you will face the consequences ," says Ashdown. The parliament in the Republika Srpska had previously again rejected the police reform forced by the EU . Ashdown does not comment on the nature of the sanctions. Bosnian newspapers recently expected that he would fire the President of the Bosnian Serbs, Borislav Paravac .
• Warsaw / Poland : The Jewish MEP Daniel Cohn-Bendit criticizes the political role of the Catholic Church ahead of the Polish parliamentary election on Sunday . The Church of Poland is now part of the problem and no longer part of the solution , he said at a discussion event organized by the Polish Greens in Warsaw. Anyone who wants to protect the rights of sexual minorities or a woman's right to abortion needs strong roots in parliament. If the church, as in Spain , leads the political opposition to so-called same-sex marriage , it must also be fought politically.

Friday 23rd September 2005

Headquarters of the International Atomic Energy Agency

• Brussels / Belgium : The European Commission has the Swiss in front of a No vote in the referendum on the opening of the domestic on Sunday labor market for citizens of the new EU - countries warned. A spokeswoman for EU Foreign Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner said in Brussels on Friday that a rejection of the agreement on the free movement of persons would have "effects" on the relationship between the EU and Switzerland . At the same time, she expressed the hope that the Swiss would join their government's decision and vote in favor. The spokeswoman did not provide any further information on the nature of the possible effects.
• Caribbean : Hurricane "Rita" has weakened in the cooler waters of the Gulf of Mexico . The hurricane still has a "level 4" strength. Instead of Houston , the American ports further east of Port Arthur in Texas and Lake Charles in Louisiana are now most threatened.
• Vienna / Austria : Iran is sticking to its confrontational course in the nuclear dispute. Tehran threatened to resume uranium enrichment on Friday if the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) adopted a resolution against the Iranian nuclear program, as a diplomat at the IAEA headquarters in Vienna said. Then the start of uranium enrichment would be announced and a protocol for further UN - inspections not launched in Iran.
• Windhoek / Namibia : The German-language weekly newspaper "Plus", which is published in Namibia, publishes an advertisement against the deceased Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal . In it, an unknown group "International Action Against Forgetting" accuses Wiesenthal of lying and slander and expresses their joy at his death. This advertisement provoked outrage in Namibia and abroad - the German ambassador Wolfgang Massing describes the advertisement as " hate propaganda " and demanded an unmistakable distance from the newspaper.

Saturday September 24, 2005

• Gaza / Palestinian Autonomous Territories : At a Hamas rally there is an explosion for an unexplained cause in which 15 Palestinians die. Both the Israeli army and the Palestinian leadership declare that Hamas itself is responsible for the explosion.
• Louisiana , Texas / United States : The damage from Hurricane Rita appears less than feared. In many places, however, there were floods . The cyclone swept the US Gulf Coast with heavy rains and squalls of up to 200 km / h, but has now been downgraded to Category 1.
• Vienna / Austria : The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) decides to Iran - Resolution , which the state because of its nuclear policy before the UN Security Council can bring. Russia and China - the two strongest critics of the resolution - are abstaining.

Sunday September 25, 2005

Spectators at the Brazilian Grand Prix

• Bern / Switzerland : the extension of the free movement of persons agreement to the new EU accession countries is accepted by 55.95% of the electorate.
• Gaza Strip / Palestinian Autonomous Territories , Sderot / Israel : Members of the militant Palestinian organization Hamas fired more than 30 small Qassam rockets from the Gaza Strip at the Israeli city of Sderot on Saturday night . Five people are injured. Hamas had previously announced retaliation for a bomb attack attributed to Israel that killed 15 people on Friday.
• São Paulo / Brazil : The Spaniard Fernando Alonso took third place in the Renault R25 at the Brazilian Grand Prix and was thus the winner of the 2005 Formula 1 World Championship .
• Shanghai / China : The central government issues new regulations on Internet censorship . According to the official Xinhua news agency, only "healthy and civilized news and information that serves to improve the quality of the nation" are allowed. The "dissemination of news and information that is contrary to state security and the public interest " remains explicitly prohibited .
• Tehran / Iran : The government condemns the IAEA resolution on its nuclear program. The resolution is "unacceptable" and lacks any legal basis, said Iranian Foreign Minister Manuschehr Mottaki in the official Irna news agency .
• Warsaw / Poland : According to projections on the evening of the parliamentary elections , the previous conservative opposition parties achieved a governable majority in the Sejm : Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (PiS, "Law and Justice") approx. 28% and Platforma Obywatelska (PO, "Citizens' Platform") approx. 26% . In contrast, Prime Minister Marek Belka's party , the post-communist SLD , has fallen from 41% to 11%. Elections to the Senate were held at the same time .

Monday September 26, 2005

• Bell County / United States : The by the torture scandal of Abu Ghraib became known worldwide US - soldier Lynndie England is from a US military court at the military base Fort Hood the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners convicted. The court ruled on Monday in Fort Hood, Texas , that the 22-year-old had committed six of the seven counts. The sentence is only three years in prison , although the public prosecutor has asked for 4-6 years. A first military court case against the corporal in the reserve had failed in May.
• Berlin / Germany : The Central Council of Jews in Germany wants to file a criminal complaint against Klaus-Jürgen Menzel, a member of the NPD Landtag from Saxony , who described Adolf Hitler as a "great statesman". Paul Spiegel , president of the Central Council, says the newspaper Tagesspiegel , such remarks were "in our opinion sedition ".
• Tehran / Iran : Iran threatens to suspend the additional protocol to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty . If the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) does not change the resolution on the Iranian nuclear program that was passed over the weekend and insists on its application, Iran will be forced to withdraw "all voluntary concessions", the Foreign Ministry said . This applies in particular to the additional protocol.
• Vienna / Austria : At the beginning of the General Assembly of the IAEA, General Director Mohammed el-Baradei is confirmed in office. It is the third term for the 63-year-old Egyptian. High-ranking representatives from the 138 member states attend the week-long IAEA General Assembly.

Tuesday September 27, 2005

• Berlin / Germany : Krista Sager (still leader of the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen parliamentary group ) withdraws her candidacy for one of the two seats in the parliamentary group. At the constituent meeting of the Greens in the Bundestag, she spoke out in favor of Renate Künast and Fritz Kuhn .
• Tehran / Iran : The government of Iran threatens to resume uranium enrichment . The waiver, which has been in force for two years, could be reversed, said Foreign Office spokesman Hamid Resa Assefi. He specified a statement by the Tehran Foreign Ministry from the previous evening, which had called for an amendment to the latest resolution of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
• Warsaw / Poland : The winner of the parliamentary elections in Poland, the Law and Justice party ( Prawo i Sprawiedliwość ), has proposed the physicist Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz as the new Prime Minister .

Wednesday September 28, 2005

• Berlin / Germany : A new marketing campaign “ Du Bist Germany ” is launched by Axel Springer Verlag , Bertelsmann , RTL , ARD and 20 other media companies and supported by many pop stars. It is the largest social marketing campaign Germany has ever seen. Critics like I Can't Relax in Germany are going on a concert and discussion tour on the subject in October. a. to raise the question of culture as a binding agent for the nation.
• Tehran / Iran : Before the British Embassy gather conservative- Islamic oriented students to a law of their country to formulate its own nuclear program. According to the AFP report, they throw stones, fireworks and tomatoes , and window panes are broken. On banners they demand Iran's withdrawal from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and insulted the mediator trio of the EU: " Great Britain , France and Germany - axis of evil ".

Thursday September 29, 2005

• Algiers / Algeria : In the “ referendum on national reconciliation” 97% of the Algerians agree to the plans of the government of President Abd al-Aziz Bouteflika of the National Liberation Front (FLN), which include an amnesty for many Islamic extremists . The FLN fought against various Islamist groups in the Algerian civil war .
• Ceuta / Spain : When hundreds of African migrants rush to the Spanish North Africa - Ceuta exclave , two people die. Shots are said to have been fired. The Spanish authorities have announced more detailed information about the incident.
• Stockholm / Sweden : The Right Livelihood Foundation announces the winners of the Right Livelihood Award 2005 . The undoped honorary award goes to the Mexican painter Francisco Toledo , the prizes endowed with 220,000 euros go to Irene Fernandez ( Malaysia ), Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke ( Canada ) and Roy Sesana ( Botswana ) with his organization First People of Kalahari . The award ceremony traditionally takes place on December 9th in Stockholm.
• Washington, DC / United States : According to the "East Bay Express" magazine, US soldiers are said to have sent photos of corpses from Iraq to an Internet website in order to get free access to porn . The alleged founder of the website, Chris Wilson, stated that the images created an "unprecedented vision of the war". The US Department of Defense said on Wednesday that there was insufficient evidence for the exchange for the time being . The US armed forces are trying to avoid new eddies such as the photos of abuse in Abu Ghuraib prison . The Corporal dR Lynndie England was sentenced to three years in prison for involvement in the scandal on Tuesday and will be dishonorably from the United States Army fired.

See also

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

Web links

New York in September 2005

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

 Wikinews: Article Published September 2005  - In The News

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ Typhoon Talim. In: typhoon2000.ph, Gary Padgett. 2005, accessed June 5, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Technical defect as the cause. In: orf.at . November 28, 2005, accessed September 23, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Chronology since the Orange Revolution. In: kleinezeitung.at . February 19, 2014, accessed October 4, 2018 . 
5. ↑ "The eyesore of my career". In: faz.net . September 9, 2005, accessed January 22, 2018 . 
6. ↑ imdb.com : Venice Film Festival (2005) ( Memento from March 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
7. ↑ Wikinews: Pentagon is considering new nuclear first strike strategy against terrorist threat
8. ↑ Bundestag election 2005. In: bundeswahlleiter.de . Retrieved June 5, 2019 . 
9. ↑ "Don't fool yourself". In: stern.de . September 19, 2005, accessed June 5, 2019 . 
10. ^ The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. In: emmys.com . Retrieved April 28, 2017 (English). 
11. ↑ US, Russia reject N Korea demand. In: cnn.com . September 21, 2005, accessed August 31, 2019 . 
12. ↑ Ton, Steine, Bertelsmann. In: taz.de . September 29, 2005, accessed September 23, 2016 . 
13. ↑ Algerians want reconciliation. In: n-tv.de . September 30, 2005, accessed May 15, 2019 .