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Business

 * 1MDB scandal
 * Fat Leonard scandal
 * Panama Papers

Disasters

 * Atlantic hurricane season
 * Oklahoma earthquake swarms
 * Pacific typhoon season

Politics

 * Brexit
 * Doklam standoff
 * European migrant crisis (timeline)
 * North Korean crisis
 * Philippine Drug War
 * Purges in Turkey
 * Qatar diplomatic crisis
 * South China Sea disputes
 * Venezuelan protests (timeline)


 * More details – ongoing conflicts

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Recent

 * August
 * 4: Rwanda, President
 * 5: Mauritania, Constitutional referendum
 * 8: Kenya, President, Senate, National Assembly
 * 23: Angola, National Assembly

Upcoming
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 * September
 * 11: Norway, Storting
 * 17: Macau, Legislative Assembly
 * 23: New Zealand, House of Representatives
 * 23: Singapore, President
 * 24: Germany, Bundestag
 * 24: Switzerland, Referendum
 * 25: Iraqi Kurdistan, Independence referendum
 * October
 * 1: Catalonia, Independence referendum
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August 2017
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 * 31: Richard Anderson
 * 30: Skip Prokop
 * 30: Rollie Massimino
 * 29: David Tang
 * 28: Mireille Darc
 * 28: Tsutomu Hata
 * 27: Ebrahim Yazdi
 * 26: Tobe Hooper
 * 24: Cecil D. Andrus
 * 24: Jay Thomas
 * 24: Amelyn Veloso
 * 23: Joe Klein
 * 23: Fiona Richardson
 * 21: Thomas Meehan
 * 20: Wilhelm Killmayer
 * 20: Jerry Lewis
 * 20: Colin Meads
 * 19: Dick Gregory
 * 18: Arthur J. Finkelstein
 * 18: Bruce Forsyth
 * 18: Zoe Laskari
 * 18: Liz MacKean
 * 17: Sonny Landham
 * 17: Mohamed Refaat El-Saeed
 * 17: Fadwa Soliman
 * 15: Gunnar Birkerts
 * 15: Kasatka
 * 14: Frank Broyles
 * 14: Franklin Cleckley
 * 13: Joseph Bologna
 * 12: Bryan Murray
 * 11: Segun Bucknor
 * 11: Yisrael Kristal
 * 10: Ruth Pfau
 * 8: Barbara Cook
 * 8: Glen Campbell
 * 8: Ken Kaiser
 * 8: Rius
 * 7: Don Baylor
 * 7: Chantek
 * 7: Haruo Nakajima
 * 6: Betty Cuthbert
 * 6: Darren Daulton
 * 6: Dick Locher
 * 6: Martin Roth
 * 5: Dionigi Tettamanzi
 * 5: Mark White
 * 5: Ernst Zündel
 * 3: Robert Hardy
 * 2: Judith Jones
 * 2: Ara Parseghian
 * 1: Jeffrey Brotman
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Recently concluded

 * Cambodia: Sam Rainsy
 * China: Wan Qingliang, Wu Changshun, Zhao Liping
 * Kazakhstan: Mukhtar Ablyazov
 * Netherlands: Geert Wilders
 * Philippines: Nur Misuari, Joel Villanueva
 * Romania: Gheorghe Ștefan, Gabriel Sandu, Dorin Cocoş, Dumitru Nicolae
 * Spain: Spanish Royal House
 * United Kingdom: Chris Denning, Ched Evans, Thomas Mair, Fred Talbot, Rolf Harris
 * United States: Pedro Hernandez, Paul Anthony Ciancia, Graham Spanier, Tim Curley, Gary Schultz, Bill Cosby, Ng Lap Seng, Martin Shkreli

Ongoing

 * China: Bai Enpei, Pan Yiyang, Yang Weize
 * Germany: Beate Zschäpe
 * Greece: Siemens bribery scandal
 * Indonesia: Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, Mary Jane Veloso
 * Pakistan: Waseem Azeem, Mufti Abdul Qawi
 * Philippines: Andal Ampatuan Jr., Leila de Lima, Jovito Palparan, Maria Lourdes Sereno
 * Romania: Dan Șova, Elena Udrea, Radu Mazăre, Gheorghe Nichita
 * Russia: Alexei Navalny, Alexey Ulyukaev
 * South Korea: Park Geun-hye and Choi Soon-sil
 * Spain: Gürtel case, Bárcenas affair, Operación Lezo, Ángel María Villar, Jordi Pujol, Case ERE, 2017 Catalonia attacks
 * United Kingdom: Barry Bennell
 * International
 * ICC: Laurent Gbagbo
 * ICTY: Ratko Mladić

Upcoming
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 * Australia: George Pell
 * Egypt: Mohamed Morsi
 * Estonia: Edgar Savisaar
 * Israel: Faina Kirschenbaum
 * Libya: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi
 * Philippines: Benigno Aquino III, Alan Purisima, Getulio Napeñas
 * United States: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Bill Cosby
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Africa

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


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


 * 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


 * Somalia
 * Civil war


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


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

Americas

 * Mexico
 * Mexican War on Drugs


 * Peru
 * Internal conflict in Peru

Asia

 * Afghanistan
 * Afghanistan War


 * China
 * Xinjiang conflict


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


 * India and Pakistan
 * Kashmir conflict


 * Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines
 * Moro conflict
 * Cross border attacks in Sabah


 * Indonesia and Papua New Guinea
 * Papua conflict


 * Myanmar
 * Internal conflict in Myanmar


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


 * Philippines
 * CPP-NPA-NDF rebellion


 * Thailand
 * South Thailand insurgency

Europe

 * Armenia and Azerbaijan
 * Nagorno-Karabakh conflict


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


 * Russia
 * Chechen–Russian conflict
 * North Caucasus insurgency


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

Middle East

 * Egypt
 * Sinai insurgency


 * Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria
 * Arab–Israeli conflict


 * Iran
 * Iran–PJAK conflict


 * Iraq
 * American-led intervention in Iraq
 * Iranian intervention in Iraq


 * Iraq and Syria (map)
 * Military intervention against ISIL


 * Israel and Lebanon
 * Israeli–Lebanese conflict


 * Israel and Palestine
 * Gaza–Israel conflict
 * Israeli–Palestinian conflict


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


 * Turkey
 * Turkey–PKK conflict


 * Yemen
 * Yemeni Civil War
 * Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen
 * Al-Qaeda insurgency

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