Portal:Current events/August 2020/Sidebar

   Ongoing events

 Business  Disasters  Politics
 * COVID-19 recession
 * COVID-19 pandemic
 * 2018–20 Southern Africa drought
 * 2019–20 European windstorm season
 * 2019–20 locust infestation
 * 2020 Atlantic hurricane season
 * 2020 China floods
 * 2020 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
 * 2020 Pacific hurricane season
 * 2020 Pacific typhoon season
 * 2020 wildfire season
 * 2016–2020 Yemeni famine
 * Afghan peace process
 * Belarusian protests
 * Bulgarian protests
 * George Floyd protests
 * Haitian protests
 * Hong Kong protests
 * Iraqi protests
 * Kashmir lockdown
 * Khabarovsk Krai protests
 * Lebanese protests
 * Libyan peace process
 * Nicaraguan protests
 * Post-Brexit diplomatic talks
 * Serbian protests
 * Thai protests
 * Venezuelan presidential crisis (protests)
 * Yellow vests movement

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   Elections and referendums

 Recent

 Ongoing
 * August
 * 30: Liechtenstein, Referendums
 * 30: Montenegro, Parliament

 Upcoming
 * August
 * 12 – 1 September: Bougainville, President, House of Representatives


 * September
 * 3: Jamaica, House of Representatives
 * 8–9: Egypt, Senate (2nd)
 * 11: Iran, Majlis (2nd)

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   Trials

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 * Congo DR: Vital Kamerhe
 * France: François Fillon
 * Kyrgyzstan: Almazbek Atambayev
 * Malaysia: Najib Razak
 * Philippines: Maria Ressa
 * Russia: Paul Whelan
 * Spain: Catalan police leadership
 * Armenia: Serzh Sargsyan
 * Cambodia: Kem Sokha
 * Colombia: Álvaro Uribe Velez
 * Guatemala: Otto Pérez Molina, Roxana Baldetti, Juan Carlos Monzón and others
 * Greece: Nikolaos Michaloliakos
 * Israel: Benjamin Netanyahu
 * Malta: Yorgen Fenech
 * Russia: Mikhail Yefremov
 * South Africa: Jacob Zuma
 * Spain: Bárcenas affair, Barcelona and Cambrils attacks
 * Sudan: Omar al-Bashir
 * United States: Fat Leonard scandal, Varsity Blues scandal, North Korean Embassy in Madrid raid, 6ix9ine
 * International: The Gambia v. Myanmar
 * Guatemala: Álvaro Colom, Manuel Baldizón, Juan Alberto Fuentes
 * Japan: Carlos Ghosn
 * Kosovo: Hashim Thaçi
 * Lesotho: Maesiah Thabane


 * Philippines: CIDG sedition cases
 * United States: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Elizabeth Holmes, Meng Wanzhou, R. Kelly, Ghislaine Maxwell
 * Zimbabwe: Ignatius Chombo

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<div role="region" aria-labelledby="Sport" class="mw-collapsible" style="margin:1.1em 0; border:1px solid ; padding: 0.4em; font-size: 88%; background-color: ;"> <div style="padding: 0 0.4em; background-color: ;> <h2 style="display: block; margin: 0; border: none; padding: 0; font-size: 125%; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;"> Sport


 * Association football
 * 2020 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
 * 2020 Major League Soccer season
 * UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying
 * 2020–21 UEFA Champions League qualifying round
 * 2020–21 UEFA Europa League qualifying round
 * Women's association football
 * 2019–20 Champions League
 * 2019–20 Division 1 Féminine
 * 2019–20 FA WSL
 * 2020 NWSL Challenge Cup


 * American football
 * 2020 NFL season
 * 2020 NCAA Division I FBS
 * Baseball
 * 2020 MLB season
 * 2020 NPB season
 * Softball
 * Basketball
 * 2020 NBA Playoffs
 * Golf
 * 2020 European Tour


 * 2019–20 PGA Tour
 * Ice hockey
 * 2020 Stanley Cup playoffs
 * 2019–20 KHL season


 * Motorsport
 * 2020 Formula One Championship


 * 2020 NASCAR Cup Series


 * Rugby sevens
 * 2019–20 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series
 * Rugby union


 * 2019–20 European Rugby Champions Cup
 * 2019–20 Premiership Rugby
 * 2019–20 Pro14
 * 2019–20 Top 14


 * Other sports seasons
 * 2020 AFL season


 * 2019–20 international cricket season
 * 2019–20 snooker season

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<div role="region" aria-labelledby="Recent_deaths" class="mw-collapsible" style="margin:1.1em 0; border:1px solid ; padding: 0.4em; font-size: 88%; background-color: ;"> <div style="padding: 0 0.4em; background-color: ;> <h2 style="display: block; margin: 0; border: none; padding: 0; font-size: 125%; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;"> Recent deaths

<h3 style="font-size: inherit;"> August 2020
 * 31: Pranab Mukherjee
 * 30: John Thompson
 * 28: Chadwick Boseman
 * 28: Antoinette Spaak
 * 27: Bob Armstrong
 * 27: Ebru Timtik
 * 26: Gerald Carr
 * 26: Dirk Mudge
 * 26: Joe Ruby
 * 25: Arnold Spielberg
 * 24: Chitta Ranjan Dutta
 * 24: Pascal Lissouba
 * 24: Jorge Sanjinez Lenz
 * 24: Gail Sheehy
 * 23: Giannis Poulopoulos
 * 23: Justin Townes Earle
 * 22: Ulla Pia
 * 20: Frank Cullotta
 * 20: Chi Chi DeVayne
 * 20: Branko Kostić
 * 19: Borys Paton
 * 18: Ben Cross
 * 17: Mário de Araújo Cabral
 * 16: Xavier
 * 15: Angela Buxton
 * 15: Robert Trump
 * 14: Francesc Badia Batalla
 * 14: Julian Bream
 * 14: James R. Thompson
 * 13: Darío Vivas
 * 12: Mónica Miguel
 * 11: Trini Lopez
 * 11: Sumner Redstone
 * 10: Tetsuya Watari
 * 9: Kamala
 * 9: Kurt Luedtke
 * 8: Pedro Casaldáliga
 * 8: Alfredo Lim
 * 7: Rahat Indori
 * 7: Lê Khả Phiêu
 * 7: Lorenzo Soria
 * 6: Brent Scowcroft
 * 5: Hawa Abdi
 * 5: Agathonas Iakovidis
 * 4: Nazar Najarian
 * 3: John Hume
 * 2: Gregory Areshian
 * 2: Leon Fleisher
 * 1: Khosrow Sinai
 * 1: Wilford Brimley
 * 1: Tom Pollock
 * 1: Reni Santoni

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<div role="region" aria-labelledby="Ongoing_conflicts" class="mw-collapsible" style="margin:1.1em 0; border:1px solid ; padding: 0.4em; font-size: 88%; background-color: ;"> <div style="padding: 0 0.4em; background-color: ;> <h2 style="display: block; margin: 0; border: none; padding: 0; font-size: 125%; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;"> Ongoing conflicts

<h3 style="font-size: inherit;"> Africa


 * Algeria, Libya and Tunisia
 * Maghreb insurgency
 * Cameroon
 * Anglophone Crisis
 * Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria
 * Boko Haram insurgency
 * Central African Republic
 * Civil War
 * Democratic Republic of the Congo
 * Kivu conflict
 * Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
 * Ituri conflict
 * Lord's Resistance Army insurgency
 * Libya
 * Second Civil War
 * American intervention in Libya
 * Turkish intervention in Libya
 * Mali
 * Mali War
 * Mozambique
 * Insurgency in Cabo Delgado
 * Nigeria
 * Communal conflicts in Nigeria
 * Somalia
 * Civil war
 * South Sudan
 * Ethnic violence (South Sudanese Civil War)
 * Sudan
 * War in Darfur
 * South Kordofan conflict
 * Sudanese nomadic conflicts

<h3 style="font-size: inherit;"> Americas


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

<h3 style="font-size: inherit;"> Asia-Pacific


 * Afghanistan
 * Afghanistan War
 * China
 * Xinjiang conflict
 * India
 * Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
 * Insurgency in Northeast India
 * India and Pakistan
 * Kashmir conflict
 * Border skirmishes
 * Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines
 * Moro conflict
 * Cross border attacks in Sabah
 * Indonesia
 * Papua conflict
 * Myanmar
 * Internal conflict in Myanmar
 * Kachin conflict
 * Karen conflict
 * Rohingya conflict
 * Pakistan
 * Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
 * Insurgency in Balochistan
 * Philippines
 * Communist rebellion in the Philippines
 * Philippine Drug War
 * Thailand
 * South Thailand insurgency

<h3 style="font-size: inherit;"> Europe


 * Armenia and Azerbaijan
 * Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
 * Georgia
 * Abkhaz–Georgian conflict
 * Georgian–Ossetian conflict
 * Russia
 * Chechen–Russian conflict
 * Ukraine
 * War in Donbass
 * Russo-Ukrainian War

<h3 style="font-size: inherit;"> Middle East


 * Egypt
 * Sinai terror attacks
 * Iran and the Persian Gulf
 * Iran–Israel proxy conflict
 * Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict
 * Iraq
 * American-led intervention in Iraq
 * Iranian intervention in Iraq
 * Iraq and Syria (map)
 * International military intervention against ISIL
 * Israel and Gaza
 * Israel and Syria
 * Israeli-Syrian border conflict
 * Syria
 * American-led intervention in Syria
 * Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War
 * Turkey
 * Kurdish–Turkish conflict
 * Yemen and Saudi Arabia
 * Yemeni Civil War
 * Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen
 * Saudi Arabian–Yemeni border conflict

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