Portal:Current events/December 2009/Sidebar

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Economic

 * Automotive industry crisis
 * Financial crisis
 * Worldwide recession

Medical

 * H1N1/09 flu pandemic
 * West African meningitis outbreak
 * HIV/AIDS in Africa

Political

 * Honduran constitutional crisis
 * Nigerien constitutional crisis
 * U.S. health care reform debate

Scientific

 * Expedition 22

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December

 * 30: Abdurrahman Wahid
 * 29: "Dr. Death" Steve Williams
 * 29: Akmal Shaikh
 * 28: The Rev
 * 27: Maryam Babangida
 * 26: Jacques Sylla
 * 26: Dennis Brutus
 * 24: George Michael
 * 24: Rafael Caldera
 * 23: Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme
 * 22: Luis Francisco Cuéllar
 * 22: Albert Scanlon
 * 21: Craigie Aitchison
 * 20: Arnold Stang
 * 20: Brittany Murphy
 * 19: Hussein-Ali Montazeri
 * 19: Kim Peek

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Africa / Middle East

 * Chadian Civil War
 * Iraq War
 * Israeli–Palestinian conflict
 * Maghreb insurgency
 * Niger Delta conflict
 * Shia insurgency in Yemen
 * South Yemen insurgency
 * Somali Civil War
 * Turkey–PKK conflict

Asia

 * War in Afghanistan
 * Balochistan conflict
 * Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
 * Insurgency in the Philippines
 * Ethnic conflict in Nagaland
 * Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
 * War in North-West Pakistan
 * South Thailand insurgency

Americas

 * Colombian conflict
 * Mexican drug war

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December

 * 12: Abkhazia, President
 * 13: Catalonia, Query on Catalonia independence
 * 13: Chile, President and Parliament
 * 18: Dominica, Parliament
 * 20: Comoros, Parliament (2nd round, if necessary)
 * 27: Uzbekistan, Parliament
 * 27: Croatia, President (1st round)

Upcoming: January, 2010

 * 10: Croatia, President (2nd round, if necessary)
 * 26: Sri Lanka, President

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Recently concluded

 * Burma: Aung San Suu Kyi
 * Canada: Larry O'Brien
 * Italy: Raffaele Sollecito, Amanda Knox
 * New Zealand: Clayton Weatherston
 * Peru: Alberto Fujimori
 * Sweden: The Pirate Bay
 * Republic of China: Chen Shui-bian
 * United States: James Charles Kopp, Aníbal Acevedo Vilá, Phil Spector, Bernard Madoff, William J. Jefferson

Ongoing

 * Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal
 * China: Organized crime in Chongqing
 * France: Church of Scientology
 * Germany: Heinrich Boere, John Demjanjuk
 * Iraq]]: Supreme Criminal Tribunal
 * Netherlands: Thomas Lubanga (ICC), Radovan Karadžić (ICTY)
 * Palau: Thomas Remengesau Jr.
 * Russia: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev
 * Sierra Leone: [Charles Taylor (Liberian politician)|Charles Taylor]] (SCFSL)
 * Singapore: Tak Boleh Tahan
 * Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra
 * United States: Jena Six, Joseph Bruno, David Headley

Upcoming
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 * Malaysia: Anwar Ibrahim
 * Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein
 * United Kingdom: Allen Stanford
 * United States: Viktor Bout, Noshir Gowadia, Ehren Watada, Sheila Dixon
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Ongoing

 * 26 – January 1: Kwanzaa (African Americans)
 * 31 – January 1: Hogmanay (Scotland)

Current

 * 31: New Year's Eve
 * 31: Feast of Sharaf (Baháʼí Faith)
 * 31: Solidarity Day (Azerbaijan)
 * 31: Restoration of the Republic (Geneva)
 * 31: Jonkonnu parades (Caribbean)

Upcoming

 * 1: New Year's Day

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