Portal:Current events/August 2021/Sidebar

   Ongoing events

 Business  Disasters  Politics
 * COVID-19 recession
 * Lebanese liquidity crisis
 * COVID-19 pandemic
 * 2020–21 European windstorm season
 * 2020–2021 H5N8 outbreak
 * 2021 Atlantic hurricane season
 * 2021 Pacific typhoon season
 * Madagascar food crisis
 * Water crisis in Iran
 * Yemeni famine
 * Afghan peace process
 * Arab protests
 * Belarusian protests
 * Belarus−European Union border crisis
 * Brazilian protests
 * Colombian tax reform protests
 * Cuban protests
 * Eswatini protests
 * Haitian protests
 * Indian farmers' protests
 * Iranian protests
 * Jersey dispute
 * Libyan peace process
 * Myanmar protests
 * Nicaraguan protests
 * Nigerian protests
 * Peruvian crisis
 * Sudanese protests
 * Tigrayan peace process
 * Thai protests
 * Tunisian political crisis
 * United States racial unrest (Stop Asian Hate)
 * Venezuelan presidential crisis

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   Elections and referendums 

 Upcoming


 * September
 * 5: São Tomé and Príncipe, President (2nd)
 * 8: Morocco, House of Representatives
 * 12: Macau, Legislative Assembly
 * 13: Norway, Storting

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   Trials

 Recently concluded  Ongoing <h3 style="font-size: inherit;"> Upcoming
 * Belarus: Viktar Babaryka
 * China: Sun Dawu, Michael Spavor
 * India: Shashi Tharoor
 * Indonesia: Juliari Batubara, Edhy Prabowo
 * Russia: Lyubov Sobol
 * South Africa: Jacob Zuma
 * Switzerland: Alieu Kosiah
 * Tonga: ʻAkosita Lavulavu
 * United Kingdom: Apsana Begum
 * United States: Stephen Calk, Ed Buck
 * Argentina: Rodolfo Martín Villa
 * Armenia: Serzh Sargsyan
 * Belarus: Sergei Tikhanovsky
 * Colombia: Álvaro Uribe
 * France: Nicolas Sarkozy
 * India: Disha Ravi
 * Indonesia: Nurdin Abdullah
 * Israel: Benjamin Netanyahu
 * Kyrgyzstan: Almazbek Atambayev
 * Malta: Yorgen Fenech
 * Spain: Bárcenas affair
 * Sudan: Omar al-Bashir
 * United States: R. Kelly, Elizabeth Holmes
 * International: Ali Kushayb, The Gambia v. Myanmar
 * Canada: Raj Grewal
 * Kosovo: Hashim Thaçi, Kadri Veseli
 * Lesotho: Maesiah Thabane
 * Rwanda: Paul Rusesabagina
 * United States: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Meng Wanzhou, Ghislaine Maxwell, Allen Weisselberg
 * Vatican City: Giovanni Angelo Becciu
 * 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
 * 2021 Copa Libertadores final stages
 * 2020–21 UEFA Nations League
 * 2021 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
 * 2021 Major League Soccer season
 * Women's association football
 * 2021 NWSL season


 * Baseball
 * 2021 MLB season


 * Cricket
 * ICC Men's Cricket World Cup Super League 2020–2023
 * 2019–2023 ICC Men's Cricket World Cup League 2
 * ICC Men's Cricket World Cup Challenge League 2019–2022
 * Golf
 * 2021 European Tour
 * 2021 LPGA Tour
 * 2020 PGA Tour Champions
 * 2021 Ladies European Tour
 * 2020–21 PGA Tour


 * Motorsport
 * 2021 Formula One Championship
 * 2021 Rally Championship
 * 2021 MotoGP
 * 2021 Supercars Championship
 * Rugby league
 * 2021 NRL season


 * 2021 Super League


 * Rugby union


 * 2021 Bunnings NPC
 * 2021 Super Rugby season


 * Tennis
 * 2021 ATP Tour
 * 2021 WTA Tour
 * 2020–21 Davis Cup (Finals)


 * Other sports seasons
 * 2021 International cricket season
 * 2021-22 snooker season
 * 2021–22 curling 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
 * 31: Geronimo
 * 29: Ed Asner
 * 29: Ron Bushy
 * 29: Lee "Scratch" Perry
 * 29: Jacques Rogge
 * 28: Jiang Chunyun
 * 28: Teresa Żylis-Gara
 * 27: Edmond H. Fischer
 * 27: Akis Tsochatzopoulos
 * 25: Mohsin Ahmad al-Aini
 * 25: Gunilla Bergström
 * 25: Robin Miller
 * 24: Hissène Habré
 * 24: Charlie Watts
 * 23: Elizabeth Blackadder
 * 23: Tom Flynn
 * 23: Jean-Luc Nancy
 * 23: Rosita Quintana
 * 23: Victoria Aguiyi-Ironsi
 * 22: Andrzej Schinzel
 * 21: Nickolas Davatzes
 * 21: Don Everly
 * 21: Marie, Princess of Liechtenstein
 * 21: Anthony Scotto
 * 20: Tom T. Hall
 * 19: Bill Freehan
 * 19: Chuck Close
 * 19: Peter Harding
 * 19: Sonny Chiba
 * 19: Michael Cullen
 * 18: Joseph L. Galloway
 * 18: Jill Murphy
 * 16: Sean Lock
 * 16: Lucille Times
 * 15: Paul Mitchell
 * 15: Joe Walton
 * 15: Abdelhamid Brahimi
 * 15: Gerd Müller
 * 14: Carlos Correia
 * 14: Fez Whatley
 * 13: Nanci Griffith
 * 13: James Hormel
 * 13: Leon Kopelman
 * 13: Carolyn S. Shoemaker
 * 12: Gino Strada
 * 12: Dominic DeNucci
 * 12: Una Stubbs
 * 10: Neal Conan
 * 10: Tony Esposito
 * 10: Maki Kaji
 * 10: Eduardo Martínez Somalo
 * 9: Lester Bird
 * 9: Cameron Burrell
 * 9: Alex Cord
 * 9: Pat Hitchcock
 * 9: Bob Jenkins
 * 9: Sergei Kovalev
 * 9: Chucky Thompson
 * 8: Bobby Bowden
 * 8: Jaan Kaplinski
 * 8: Walter Yetnikoff
 * 7: Brad Allan
 * 7: Trevor Moore
 * 7: Markie Post
 * 7: Jane Withers
 * 6: Herbert Schlosser
 * 5: Brian Henderson
 * 5: Yevhen Marchuk
 * 5: Richard Trumka
 * 4: Razzy Bailey
 * 4: Bobby Eaton
 * 4: Graham McRae
 * 4: J. R. Richard
 * 3: Jody Hamilton
 * 3: Arthur Dion Hanna
 * 3: Kelli Hand
 * 3: Antonio Pennacchi
 * 3: Vitaly Shishov
 * 2: Elias John Kwandikwa
 * 2: Dave Severance

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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, Burkina Faso, Chad, Libya, Mali, Niger, and Tunisia
 * Maghreb insurgency
 * Angola
 * Cabinda War
 * Cameroon
 * Anglophone Crisis
 * Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria
 * Boko Haram insurgency
 * Central African Republic
 * Civil War
 * Chad
 * Insurgency in Northern Chad
 * Democratic Republic of the Congo
 * Kivu conflict
 * Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
 * Ituri conflict
 * Lord's Resistance Army insurgency
 * Kamwina Nsapu rebellion
 * Ethiopia
 * Tigray War (spillover)
 * Oromo conflict
 * Ethiopia and Sudan
 * Sudanese–Ethiopian clashes
 * Ghana
 * Western Togoland Rebellion
 * Mali
 * Mali War
 * Mozambique
 * Insurgency in Cabo Delgado
 * Nigeria
 * Communal conflicts in Nigeria
 * Senegal
 * Casamance conflict
 * Somalia
 * Civil war
 * South Sudan
 * Ethnic violence in South Sudan
 * Sudan
 * War in Darfur
 * South Kordofan conflict
 * Sudanese nomadic conflicts (incl. South Sudan)
 * Tunisia
 * ISIL insurgency in Tunisia
 * Western Sahara
 * Western Sahara conflict
 * 2020–2021 Western Saharan clashes

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


 * Colombia
 * Colombian conflict
 * Mexico
 * Mexican drug war
 * Peru
 * Internal conflict in Peru
 * Paraguay
 * Insurgency in Paraguay

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


 * Afghanistan
 * Panjshir conflict
 * India
 * Insurgency in Northeast India
 * Assam separatist movements
 * Insurgency in Manipur
 * Ethnic conflict in Nagaland
 * Khalistan movement
 * Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
 * India and Pakistan
 * Kashmir conflict
 * 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
 * Philippine drug war
 * Thailand
 * South Thailand insurgency

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


 * Armenia and Azerbaijan
 * Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
 * Ukraine
 * War in Donbas
 * Russo-Ukrainian War
 * Ireland and the UK
 * Dissident Irish republican campaign
 * Turkey
 * Kurdish–Turkish conflict

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


 * War on terror

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


 * Egypt
 * Sinai insurgency
 * Iran and the Persian Gulf
 * Iran–Israel proxy conflict
 * Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict
 * Sistan and Baluchestan insurgency
 * Arab separatism in Khuzestan
 * Kurdish separatism in Iran
 * 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
 * Turkish occupation of northern Syria
 * Yemen and Saudi Arabia
 * Yemeni Civil War
 * Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen
 * Houthi–Saudi Arabian conflict

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