Portal:Current events/August 2016/Sidebar

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Business

 * Bangladesh Bank heist
 * Brexit
 * Panama Papers
 * Venezuelan protests
 * State of emergency in Venezuela

Culture

 * Pokémon Go phenomenon

Disasters

 * Atlantic hurricane season
 * California wildfires
 * Pacific hurricane season
 * Pacific typhoon season
 * Portugal wildfires
 * Southeast Asian haze

Health

 * Flint water crisis
 * Zika virus outbreak

Law

 * Philippines v. China

Political

 * War in Afghanistan
 * Boko Haram insurgency
 * Brazil protests
 * Impeachment process
 * Burundian unrest
 * Ethiopian protests
 * European migrant crisis (timeline)
 * Iraqi and Syrian Civil War (map)
 * Military intervention against ISIL
 * Mosul offensive
 * Israeli–Palestinian conflict
 * Lebanese political deadlock
 * Libyan Civil War
 * Moldova protests
 * Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
 * Armenian–Azeri border conflict
 * Philippine Drug War
 * PKK rebellion
 * Polish Constitutional Court crisis
 * Sinai insurgency
 * South China Sea disputes
 * Turkish coup d'état attempt
 * Turkish purges
 * War in Donbass
 * Yemeni Civil War
 * Zimbabwe protests
 * More details on ongoing conflicts below

Sports

 * 2016–17 Premier League
 * 2016 Formula One season
 * 2016 ATP World Tour
 * 2016 Major League Baseball season
 * 2016 WTA Tour

Technology

 * Democratic National Committee email leak

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August

 * 30: Abu Mohammad al-Adnani
 * 30: Věra Čáslavská
 * 30: Joe Sutter
 * 29: Gene Wilder
 * 28: Binyamin Ben-Eliezer
 * 28: Mr. Fuji
 * 28: Juan Gabriel
 * 26: Peter Barry
 * 25: Margaret Anstee
 * 25: James Cronin
 * 25: Marvin Kaplan
 * 25: Davoud Rashidi
 * 25: Sonia Rykiel
 * 25: Rudy Van Gelder
 * 24: Walter Scheel
 * 24: Roger Y. Tsien
 * 23: Esther Jungreis
 * 23: Evita Muñoz
 * 23: Steven Hill
 * 22: S. R. Nathan
 * 22: Toots Thielemans
 * 21: Antony Jay
 * 20: Harry Gilmer
 * 20: Nina Ponomaryova
 * 20: Brian Rix
 * 19: Donald Henderson
 * 19: Lou Pearlman
 * 19: Jack Riley
 * 19: Horacio Salgán
 * 19: Mohammad Ali Samatar
 * 18: Machali
 * 18: John William Vessey Jr.
 * 17: Arthur Hiller
 * 16: Mauril Bélanger
 * 16: João Havelange
 * 16: John McLaughlin
 * 16: Gurdial Singh
 * 15: Dalian Atkinson
 * 15: Bobby Hutcherson
 * 14: Fyvush Finkel
 * 14: Robert Goff
 * 13: Kenny Baker
 * 13: Pramukh Swami Maharaj
 * 12: Ruby Wilson
 * 11: Hanif Mohammad
 * 11: Glenn Yarbrough
 * 10: Neill Armstrong
 * 10: John Saunders
 * 9: Gerald Grosvenor
 * 9: Aftab Ghulam Nabi Kazi
 * 9: Ernst Neizvestny
 * 9: Kalikho Pul
 * 8: Edward Daly
 * 7: John Boreland
 * 7: Bryan Clauson
 * 6: Helen Delich Bentley
 * 6: Philip Bialowitz
 * 6: Pete Fountain
 * 5: Shamim Ara
 * 4: Jean Antone
 * 4: Patrice Munsel
 * 3: Shahram Amiri
 * 3: Chris Amon
 * 3: Mel Hurtig
 * 2: Forbes Carlile
 * 2: David Huddleston
 * 2: Franciszek Macharski
 * 2: Ahmed Zewail

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Africa

 * Algeria and Tunisia
 * Maghreb insurgency
 * ISIL insurgency in Tunisia


 * Central African Republic
 * Civil war


 * Democratic Republic of the Congo
 * Kivu conflict
 * ADF insurgency
 * Ituri conflict
 * Lord's Resistance Army insurgency


 * Libya
 * Civil war


 * Mali
 * Northern Mali conflict


 * Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, and Niger
 * Boko Haram insurgency


 * Somalia
 * Civil war


 * South Sudan
 * Ethnic violence (South Sudanese Civil War)


 * Sudan
 * War in Darfur
 * South Kordofan conflict
 * Sudanese nomadic conflicts

Americas

 * Colombian conflict
 * Internal conflict in Peru
 * Mexican War on Drugs

Asia

 * Afghanistan
 * Afghanistan War


 * China
 * Xinjiang conflict


 * India
 * Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
 * Insurgency in Northeast India


 * India and Pakistan
 * Kashmir conflict


 * Pakistan
 * War in North-West Pakistan
 * Balochistan conflict


 * Philippines
 * CPP-NPA-NDF rebellion
 * Moro conflict
 * Cross border attacks in Sabah


 * Southeast Asia
 * Internal conflict in Burma
 * Papua conflict
 * South Thailand insurgency

Europe

 * Georgia
 * Abkhaz–Georgian conflict
 * Georgian–Ossetian conflict


 * Chechen–Russian conflict
 * North Caucasus insurgency


 * Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
 * Nagorno-Karabakh conflict


 * Ukraine
 * War in Donbass
 * Russian military intervention in Ukraine

Middle East

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


 * Egypt
 * Sinai insurgency


 * Iran
 * Iran–PJAK conflict


 * Iraqi civil war
 * American-led intervention in Iraq
 * Iranian intervention in Iraq


 * Syrian Civil War
 * American-led intervention in Syria
 * Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War
 * Syrian Civil War spillover in Lebanon


 * Turkey
 * Turkey–PKK conflict
 * Turkey–ISIL conflict


 * Yemeni Crisis
 * Yemeni Civil War
 * Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen
 * Houthi rebellion
 * Al-Qaeda insurgency
 * South Yemen insurgency

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Recent

 * August
 * 7: São Tomé and Príncipe, President (2nd round)
 * 7: Thailand, Constitutional referendum
 * 11: Zambia, National Assembly, President, Constitutional referendum
 * 27: Gabon, President

Upcoming
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 * September
 * 4: Hong Kong, Legislative Council
 * 8: Seychelles, National Assembly
 * 11: Belarus, House of Representatives
 * 11: Croatia, Parliament
 * 18: Russia, State Duma
 * 20: Jordan, House of Representatives
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Recently concluded

 * Australia: Brett Peter Cowan, Craig Thomson, Robert Hughes, Roger Rogerson and Glen McNamara
 * Brazil: Mensalão scandal
 * Canada: Luka Magnotta
 * China: Ji Jianye, Li Chuncheng, Jiang Jiemin, Liao Shaohua, Ni Fake, Ling Jihua, Chen Baihuai, Zhou Yongkang, Gu Junshan, Yao Mugen, Guo Boxiong
 * Croatia: Ivo Sanader
 * Egypt: Hosni Mubarak, Peter Greste, Mohamed Morsi
 * Germany: Bernie Ecclestone, Uli Hoeness, Christian Wulff
 * Iran: Mohammad Reza Rahimi
 * Israel: Hussam Qawasmeh
 * Jordan: Abu Qatada
 * Philippines: Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
 * Romania: Liviu Dragnea, Dan Diaconescu, Gheorghe Ștefan, Gabriel Sandu, Dorin Cocoş, Dumitru Nicolae
 * Russia: Leonid Khabarov, Eston Kohver, Vladimir Kvachkov
 * South Africa: Shrien Dewani, Oscar Pistorius
 * Turkey: Kenan Evren, Tahsin Şahinkaya
 * United Kingdom: Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, Kevin Hutchinson-Foster, Andrew Lancel, Dale Cregan, Ray Wilkins, Liam Adams, R v Grillo and Grillo, Ian Watkins, William Roache, Dave Lee Travis, Nicholas Jacobs, Nigel Evans, Max Clifford, Stuart Hall, Dappy, Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson, Rolf Harris, Tulisa Contostavlos, Chris Denning, Ray Teret, Gary Glitter, Fred Talbot, Adam Johnson
 * United States: Abu Hamza al-Masri, Michael Grimm, Jesse Jackson Jr., Bob McDonnell, Vilma Bautista, Kermit Gosnell, Chelsea Manning, Whitey Bulger, Robert Bales, Nidal Malik Hasan, Jodi Arias, Chris Brown, Justin Bieber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, James Eagan Holmes, Sheldon Silver, Dylan Quick
 * International
 * ECCC: Nuon Chea, Khieu Samphan
 * ICC: Germain Katanga
 * ICTY: Radovan Karadžić

Ongoing

 * China: Bai Enpei, Guo Youming, Pan Yiyang, Wan Qingliang, Yang Weize, Zhu Zuoli
 * Germany: Beate Zschäpe
 * Iran: Babak Zanjani
 * Netherlands: Geert Wilders
 * Philippines: Andal Ampatuan Jr., Jovito Palparan
 * Romania: Darius Vâlcov, Dan Șova, Elena Udrea, Radu Mazăre, Gheorghe Nichita, Marian Vanghelie, Cătălin Voicu
 * Russia: Alexei Navalny
 * South Korea: MV Sewol crew members
 * Spain: Lionel Messi
 * United States: Dean Skelos
 * International
 * ICTY: Ratko Mladić

Upcoming
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 * China: Wu Changshun
 * Estonia: Edgar Savisaar
 * Libya: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi
 * United Kingdom: Max Clifford, Rolf Harris, Ched Evans
 * United States: Paul Anthony Ciancia, Javaris Crittenton, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Aaron Hernandez, Graham Spanier, Tim Curley, Gary Schultz, Rick Perry, Bill Cosby
 * International
 * ICC: Laurent Gbagbo
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