Portal:Current events/August 2013/Sidebar

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Economic

 * Great Recession
 * Cypriot financial crisis
 * Eurozone crisis
 * Greek government-debt crisis

Environmental

 * 2012–13 North American drought
 * 2013 Atlantic hurricane season
 * 2013 China–Russia floods
 * 2013 extreme weather events
 * 2013 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
 * 2013 Pacific hurricane season
 * 2013 Pacific typhoon season
 * 2013 Southwest China floods
 * 2013 Sudan floods

Political

 * 2013 mass surveillance disclosures
 * More details on ongoing conflicts below

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August

 * 31: David Frost
 * 30: William C. Campbell
 * 30: Seamus Heaney
 * 30: Lotfi Mansouri
 * 29: Cliff Morgan
 * 29: Bruce C. Murray
 * 29: Steven Tari
 * 28: Murray Gershenz
 * 28: Frank Pulli
 * 27: Anatoly Onoprienko
 * 27: Bill Peach
 * 26: John J. Gilligan
 * 24: Julie Harris
 * 23: Charles Lisanby
 * 23: Dean Meminger
 * 23: Gilbert Taylor
 * 22: Ronald Motley
 * 22: Paul Poberezny
 * 21: Sid Bernstein
 * 21: C. Gordon Fullerton
 * 20: Narendra Dabholkar
 * 20: Elmore Leonard
 * 20: Marian McPartland
 * 20: Ted Post
 * 19: Russell S. Doughten
 * 19: José Sarria
 * 19: Cedar Walton
 * 19: Lee Thompson Young
 * 18: Dezső Gyarmati
 * 18: Eyob Mekonnen
 * 15: Bert Lance
 * 15: Rosalía Mera
 * 15: Marich Man Singh Shrestha
 * 15: Jacques Vergès
 * 14: Gia Allemand
 * 14: Jack Germond
 * 14: Lisa Robin Kelly
 * 14: Allen Lanier
 * 12: Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau
 * 10: William P. Clark, Jr.
 * 10: László Csatáry
 * 10: Eydie Gormé
 * 10: David C. Jones
 * 9: Eduardo Falú
 * 9: William Lynch, Jr.
 * 8: Karen Black
 * 8: Jack Clement
 * 8: Barbara Mertz
 * 8: Regina Resnik
 * 7: Margaret Pellegrini
 * 6: Stan Lynde
 * 5: Ruth Asawa
 * 5: Shawn Burr
 * 5: George Duke
 * 5: Roy Rubin
 * 4: Art Donovan
 * 4: Sandy Woodward
 * 3: John Palmer
 * 2: Julius L. Chambers
 * 2: V. Dakshinamoorthy
 * 1: Chua Boon Huat
 * 1: Dick Kazmaier

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Global

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

Africa

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


 * DR Congo
 * M23 rebellion


 * Egypt
 * Political violence
 * Sinai insurgency


 * Libya
 * Libyan factional fighting


 * Nigeria
 * Niger Delta conflict
 * Nigerian Sharia conflict


 * Somalia
 * Civil war


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

Americas

 * Colombian conflict
 * Mexican Drug War

Asia

 * Afghanistan War
 * Military operations
 * Taliban insurgency


 * India
 * Naxalite–Maoist insurgency


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


 * Korea
 * Korean maritime border conflict


 * Pakistan
 * Balochistan conflict
 * North-West War
 * Sectarian violence


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

Europe

 * Dissident Irish Republican campaign
 * North Caucasus insurgency
 * War in Ingushetia

Middle East

 * Arab–Israeli conflict
 * Gaza–Israel conflict
 * Israeli–Lebanese conflict
 * Israeli–Palestinian conflict
 * Israel–Iran proxy conflict


 * Iraqi insurgency


 * Kurdistan
 * Kurdish–Iranian conflict


 * Syrian civil war

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

 * 11: Mali, President and Parliament (2nd round)

Upcoming: September

 * 7: Australia, Federal
 * 7: Maldives, President
 * 9: Norway, Parliament
 * 15: Macau, Legislative
 * 16-18: Rwanda, Parliament
 * 20: Swaziland, General
 * 22: Germany, Federal
 * 24: Guinea, Legislative
 * 27: Aruba, General
 * 29: Austria, Legislative
 * 30: Cameroon, Parliament

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Recently concluded

 * Canada: Michael Rafferty
 * China: Bo Xilai
 * Croatia: Ivo Sanader
 * Germany: Breno Borges
 * Indonesia: Abu Bakar Bashir
 * Italy: Silvio Berlusconi
 * Netherlands: Ante Gotovina (ICTY), Mladen Markač (ICTY), Momčilo Perišić (ICTY)
 * Norway: Anders Behring Breivik
 * Russia: Leonid Khabarov, Vladimir Kvachkov, Pussy Riot
 * Sierra Leone: Charles Taylor (SCFSL)
 * South Africa: Chris Mahlangu
 * 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, Justin Lee Collins, Kweku Adoboli, Tony McCluskie, Kevin Hutchinson-Foster, Chris Huhne, Nicola Edgington, Vicky Pryce, Derek Rose, Mick Philpott, Mairead Philpott, Paul Mosley, Kevin Liverpool, Junior Bradshaw, Aggro Santos, Stuart Hall, Stuart Hazell, Mark Bridger, Andrew Lancel, Dale Cregan, Ray Wilkins
 * 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, Lauryn Hill, Kermit Gosnell, George Zimmerman, Chelsea Manning, Ariel Castro, Whitey Bulger, Robert Bales, Nidal Malik Hasan

Ongoing

 * Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal
 * Canada: Luka Magnotta
 * China: Organized crime in Chongqing
 * Egypt: Hosni Mubarak
 * France: Church of Scientology
 * Germany: Beate Zschape
 * Iraq: Supreme Criminal Tribunal
 * Malaysia: Anwar Ibrahim
 * Netherlands: Thomas Lubanga (ICC), Radovan Karadžić (ICTY), Ratko Mladic (ICTY)
 * Palau: Tommy Remengesau
 * Philippines: Andal Ampatuan Jr., Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
 * Russia: Platon Lebedev
 * Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein
 * Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra
 * Turkey: Ergenekon network, Kenan Evren
 * United Kingdom: Koo Stark, Liam Adams, Eddy Shah
 * United States: Jodi Arias

Upcoming
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 * Czech Republic: Václav Klaus
 * France: Éric Raoult
 * Ivory Coast: Laurent Gbagbo
 * Jordan: Abu Qatada
 * Libya: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi
 * South Africa: Oscar Pistorius
 * United Kingdom: Dane Bowers, Max Clifford, Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson, Ian Watkins, Neville Neville, Michael Adebolajo, Michael Adebowale, Nicholas Jacobs
 * United States: Javaris Crittenton, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Peter Madoff, Christian Gerhartsreiter, Crystal Mangum, Dylan Quick, Richie Farmer, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, James Eagan Holmes, Aaron Hernandez, Graham Spanier, Tim Curley, Gary Schultz
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