Portal:Current events/August 2009/Sidebar

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Economic

 * Automotive industry crisis
 * Financial crisis
 * Worldwide recession

Medical

 * H1N1/09 flu pandemic
 * West African meningitis outbreak
 * HIV/AIDS in Africa

Scientific

 * Expedition 20
 * STS-128

Political

 * Honduran constitutional crisis
 * Nigerien constitutional crisis
 * Treaty of Lisbon ratification

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August

 * 29: Simon Dee
 * 28: Adam Goldstein
 * 26: Abdul Aziz al-Hakim
 * 26: Dominick Dunne
 * 26: Ellie Greenwich
 * 25: Ted Kennedy
 * 24: Toni Sailer
 * 22: Muriel Duckworth
 * 22: Elmer Kelton
 * 21: Johnny Carter
 * 20: Larry Knechtel
 * 20: Dudu Topaz
 * 19: Don Hewitt
 * 18: Rose Friedman
 * 18: Kim Dae-jung
 * 18: Hugo Loetscher
 * 18: Robert Novak

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Worldwide

 * War on terror

Africa / Middle East

 * Chadian Civil War
 * Iraq War
 * Israeli–Palestinian conflict
 * Maghreb insurgency
 * Niger Delta conflict
 * Somali Civil War
 * Turkey–PKK conflict

Asia

 * War in Afghanistan
 * Balochistan conflict
 * Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
 * Insurgency in the Philippines
 * Ethnic conflict in Nagaland
 * Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
 * War in North-West Pakistan
 * South Thailand insurgency

Americas

 * Colombian conflict
 * Mexican drug war

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August

 * 4: Niger, Constitutional referendum
 * 20: Afghanistan, President
 * 30: Gabon, President
 * 30: Japan, Parliament

September

 * 1: Vanuatu, President
 * 14: Norway, Parliament
 * 16: Switzerland, Federal Council
 * 20: Macau, Legislative
 * 25: Aruba, Parliament

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Recently concluded

 * Burma: Aung San Suu Kyi
 * Canada: Larry O'Brien
 * New Zealand: Nai Yin Xue
 * New Zealand: David Bain (retrial)
 * Peru: Alberto Fujimori
 * Sweden: The Pirate Bay
 * United States: James Charles Kopp, Aníbal Acevedo Vilá, Phil Spector, Bernard Madoff, William J. Jefferson

Ongoing

 * Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal
 * France: Church of Scientology
 * Iraq: Supreme Criminal Tribunal
 * Italy: Raffaele Sollecito, Amanda Knox
 * Netherlands: Thomas Lubanga (ICC), Radovan Karadžić (ICTY)
 * Republic of China: Chen Shui-bian
 * Russia: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev
 * Sierra Leone: Charles Taylor (SCFSL)
 * Singapore: Tak Boleh Tahan
 * Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra
 * United States: Jena Six

Upcoming
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 * Germany: John Demjanjuk
 * Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein
 * United Kingdom: Allen Stanford
 * United States: Viktor Bout, Noshir Gowadia, Ehren Watada, Sheila Dixon, Joseph Bruno
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Ongoing

 * 21 evening – September 20: Ramadan (Islam)
 * 23 – September 3: Ganesh Chaturthi (Hinduism)
 * 28 – 31: Umhlanga (Swaziland)

Current

 * 31: Summer Bank Holiday (England, Northern Ireland, Wales)
 * 31: Independence Day (Kyrgyzstan)
 * 31: Hari Merdeka (Malaysia)
 * 31: National Language Day (Moldova)
 * 31: National Heroes' Day (Philippines)
 * 31: Independence Day (Trinidad and Tobago)

Upcoming

 * 1: Parkash Guru Granth Sahib (Sikhism)
 * 1: Revolution Day (Eritrea)
 * 1: National Day (Libya)
 * 1: Random Acts of Kindness Day (New Zealand)
 * 1: Knowledge Day (Russia)
 * 1: Teachers' Day (Singapore)
 * 1: Constitution Day (Slovakia)
 * 1: Independence Day (Uzbekistan)

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