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Political

 * Arab Spring
 * Mexican Anti-Imposition Protests

Economic

 * Barclays LIBOR manipulation
 * Global financial crisis
 * European sovereign-debt crisis
 * Greek economic crisis

Environmental

 * 2012 North American drought

Sports

 * 2012 Summer Paralympics

Musical

 * Reunion Tour (The Stone Roses)

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August

 * 31: Carlo Maria Martini
 * 30: Chris Lighty
 * 28: Rhodes Boyson
 * 25: Neil Armstrong
 * 24: Maureen Toal
 * 24: Félix Miélli Venerando
 * 24: Jean-Luc Delarue
 * 23: Steve Van Buren
 * 23: Merv Neagle
 * 22: Nina Bawden
 * 22: Tony Nicklinson
 * 21: Georg Leber
 * 21: Guy Spitaels
 * 20: Meles Zenawi
 * 20: Dom Mintoff
 * 20: Phyllis Diller
 * 19: Tony Scott
 * 18: Jesse Robredo
 * 18: Scott McKenzie
 * 17: Victor Poor
 * 16: William Windom
 * 15: Harry Harrison
 * 14: Vilasrao Deshmukh
 * 13: Ray Jordon
 * 13: Helen Gurley Brown
 * 13: Johnny Pesky
 * 12: Sid Waddell
 * 11: Michael Dokes
 * 10: Suresh Dalal
 * 9: Carl Davis
 * 8: Hans R. Camenzind
 * 8: Sancho Gracia
 * 8: Jairo Varela
 * 7: Anna Piaggi
 * 7: Judith Crist
 * 6: Sir Bernard Lovell
 * 6: Marvin Hamlisch
 * 6: Robert Hughes
 * 5: Chavela Vargas
 * 4: Con Houlihan
 * 4: Metin Erksan
 * 3: Paul McCracken
 * 2: Marguerite Piazza
 * 2: John Keegan
 * 1: Keiko Tsushima
 * 1: Abel Salinas

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Global

 * War on Terror
 * Terrorist incidents
 * Operation Active Endeavour
 * Operation Enduring Freedom
 * War on Drugs

Africa

 * Lord's Resistance Army insurgency
 * Maghreb insurgency
 * OEF - Horn of Africa
 * OEF - Trans Sahara


 * DR Congo:
 * East DR Congo conflict


 * Libya:
 * Libyan factional fighting


 * Mali:
 * Tuareg rebellion


 * Nigeria:
 * Nigerian Sharia conflict
 * Niger Delta conflict


 * Senegal:
 * Casamance conflict


 * Somalia:
 * Civil War
 * Piracy


 * Sudan and South Sudan:
 * Sudan internal conflict
 * South Sudan internal conflict

Americas

 * Colombian conflict
 * Mexican Drug War

Asia

 * Afghanistan War
 * Military operations
 * Taliban insurgency


 * Pakistan:
 * North-West War
 * Sectarian violence


 * India:
 * Jammu and Kashmir insurgency
 * Nagaland ethnic conflict
 * Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
 * Northeast India insurgency


 * Islamic insurgency in the Philippines
 * Operation Enduring Freedom – Philippines


 * Korean maritime border conflict


 * Southeast Asia:
 * Cambodian–Thai border dispute
 * Laos insurgency
 * Papua conflict
 * South Thailand insurgency
 * Territorial disputes in the South China Sea

Europe

 * North Caucasus insurgency
 * Dissident Irish Republican campaign

Middle East

 * Arab–Israeli conflict
 * Israeli–Palestinian conflict
 * Israeli–Lebanese conflict
 * Operation Eagle


 * Iraqi insurgency


 * Kurdistan:
 * Kurdish–Turkish conflict
 * Kurdish–Iranian conflict


 * Syrian civil war


 * Yemen:
 * al-Qaeda crackdown
 * South Yemen insurgency
 * Shia insurgency

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Recent: July

 * 1: Liechtenstein, Constitutional referendum
 * 1: Mexico, General
 * 1: Senegal, Parliament
 * 7: East Timor, Parliament
 * 7: Libya, General National Congress
 * 15: Republic of the Congo, Parliament (1st round)
 * 18: Cayman Islands, Electoral system referendum
 * 19: India, President (indirect)
 * 19: Nagorno-Karabakh, President
 * 20: Samoa, O le Ao o le Malo (indirect)
 * 29: Republic of the Congo, Parliament (2nd round)
 * 29: Romania, Presidential impeachment referendum

Upcoming: August

 * 31: Angola, Parliament

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Recently concluded

 * Canada: Michael Rafferty
 * Egypt: Hosni Mubarak, Alaa Mubarak, Gamal Mubarak
 * Germany: Breno Borges
 * Indonesia: Abu Bakar Bashir
 * Russia: Pussy Riot
 * Sierra Leone: Charles Taylor (SCFSL)
 * South Africa: Chris Mahlangu
 * Tunisia: Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
 * Ukraine: Yulia Tymoshenko
 * United Kingdom: Levi Bellfield, Robert Black, Vincent Tabak, Ali Dizaei, Antoni Imiela, Brian Regan, Donna Air, Ched Evans, Clayton McDonald, Titus Bramble, Dan Penteado, John Terry, Iftikhar and Farzana Ahmed, Asil Nadir
 * United States: Noshir Gowadia, Buju Banton, Barry Bonds, Raj Rajaratnam, Casey Anthony, Conrad Murray, George Huguely, Allen Stanford, Roger Clemens, Jerry Sandusky, Jared Lee Loughner

Ongoing

 * Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal
 * Canada: Luka Magnotta
 * China: Organized crime in Chongqing
 * France: Church of Scientology
 * Iraq: Supreme Criminal Tribunal
 * Malaysia: Anwar Ibrahim
 * Netherlands: Thomas Lubanga (ICC), Radovan Karadžić (ICTY), Ratko Mladic (ICTY)
 * Norway: Anders Behring Breivik
 * Palau: Tommy Remengesau
 * Philippines: Andal Ampatuan Jr., Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
 * Russia: Leonid Khabarov, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev, Pussy Riot
 * Singapore: Tak Boleh Tahan
 * Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein
 * Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra
 * Turkey: Ergenekon network, Kenan Evren
 * United States: Ahmed Ghailani, David Headley, Charles P. White, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Viktor Bout, John Edwards, Lauryn Hill

Upcoming
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 * Libya: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi
 * Ivory Coast: Laurent Gbagbo
 * United Kingdom: Justin Lee Collins, Chris Huhne, Vicky Pryce
 * United States: Nidal Malik Hasan, Javaris Crittenton, Bradley Manning, Robert Bales, George Zimmerman, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Peter Madoff, Christian Gerhartsreiter, Crystal Mangum
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