Portal:Current events/December 2012/Sidebar

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Economic

 * Global financial crisis
 * United States fiscal cliff
 * European sovereign-debt crisis
 * Greek economic crisis

Environmental

 * 2012 North American drought

Political

 * Arab Spring
 * 2012 Egyptian protests
 * Syrian civil war
 * 2012 East D.R. Congo conflict
 * Terrorist attacks in Kenya
 * 2012 Central African Republic rebellion

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 * War in North-West Pakistan
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December

 * 30: Dennis Ferguson
 * 30: Rita Levi-Montalcini
 * 30: Beate Sirota Gordon
 * 29: Tony Greig
 * 29: William Rees-Mogg
 * 28: Václav Drobný
 * 27: Norman Schwarzkopf Jr.
 * 26: Gerry Anderson
 * 26: Fontella Bass
 * 25: Jane Dixon
 * 25: Joe Krivak
 * 24: Richard Rodney Bennett
 * 24: Charles Durning
 * 24: Jack Klugman
 * 24: Dennis O'Driscoll
 * 24: Capital Steez
 * 23: Cristian Tudor
 * 22: Bill Leger
 * 22: Arthur Quinlan
 * 22: Mike Scaccia
 * 22: Arkady Vorobyov
 * 21: Shane McEntee
 * 19: Robert Bork
 * 19: Amnon Lipkin-Shahak
 * 19: Keiji Nakazawa
 * 19: Peter Struck
 * 18: Sir Marcus Worsley
 * 17: Charlie Adam
 * 17: Daniel Inouye
 * 17: Laurier LaPierre
 * 16: Adam Ndlovu
 * 15: Páidí Ó Sé
 * 15: Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa
 * 14: Kenneth Kendall
 * 13: Willie Ackerman
 * 13: Maurice Herzog
 * 13: Abdesslam Yassine
 * 11: Ravi Shankar
 * 11: Walter Francis Sullivan
 * 11: Galina Vishnevskaya
 * 10: Iajuddin Ahmed
 * 10: Lisa Della Casa
 * 9: Patrick Moore
 * 9: Alex Moulton
 * 9: Jenni Rivera
 * 9: Norman Joseph Woodland
 * 8: Jerry Brown
 * 5: Dave Brubeck
 * 5: Elisabeth Murdoch
 * 5: Oscar Niemeyer
 * 4: Vasily Belov
 * 4: Miguel Calero
 * 4: Besse Cooper
 * 3: Fyodor Khitruk
 * 3: M. Mahroof
 * 1: Jovan Belcher
 * 1: Mitchell Cole

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Global

 * War on Terror
 * Terrorist incidents
 * Operation Active Endeavour
 * Operation Enduring Freedom
 * War on Drugs

Africa

 * Lord's Resistance Army insurgency
 * Maghreb insurgency
 * OEF - Horn of Africa
 * OEF - Trans Sahara


 * Central African Republic:
 * 2012 Central African Republic rebellion


 * DR Congo:
 * East DR Congo conflict


 * Egypt
 * 2012 Egyptian protests


 * Kenya:
 * Terrorist attacks in Kenya


 * Libya:
 * Libyan factional fighting


 * Mali:
 * Azawad conflict


 * Nigeria:
 * Nigerian Sharia conflict
 * Niger Delta conflict


 * Somalia:
 * Civil War
 * Piracy


 * Sudan and South Sudan:
 * Sudan internal conflict
 * South Sudan internal conflict

Americas

 * Colombian conflict
 * Mexican Anti-Imposition Protests
 * 2011–2012 Chilean student protests

Asia

 * Afghanistan War
 * Military operations
 * Taliban insurgency


 * Pakistan:
 * North-West War
 * Sectarian violence


 * India:
 * Nagaland ethnic conflict
 * Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
 * Northeast India insurgency


 * Islamic insurgency in the Philippines
 * Operation Enduring Freedom – Philippines


 * Korean maritime border conflict


 * Southeast Asia:
 * Cambodian–Thai border dispute
 * Papua conflict
 * South Thailand insurgency
 * Territorial disputes in the South China Sea

Europe

 * North Caucasus insurgency
 * Dissident Irish Republican campaign

Middle East

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


 * Iraqi insurgency


 * Kurdistan:
 * Kurdish–Turkish conflict
 * Kurdish–Iranian conflict


 * Syrian civil war

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 * Yemen:
 * al-Qaeda crackdown
 * South Yemen insurgency
 * Shia insurgency
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Recent: December

 * 1: Kuwait, Parliament
 * 2: Burkina Faso, Parliament
 * 2: Slovenia, President (2nd round)
 * 7–8: Ghana, President and Parliament
 * 9: Romania, Parliament
 * 15, 22: Egypt, Constitutional referendum
 * 16: Japan, Parliament
 * 19: South Korea, President

Upcoming: January

 * 11–12: Czech Republic, President
 * 20: Austria, Conscription referendum
 * 22: Israel, Parliament
 * 23: Jordan, Parliament
 * 27: Bulgaria, Nuclear power referendum

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Recently concluded

 * Canada: Michael Rafferty
 * Croatia: Ivo Sanader
 * Egypt: Hosni Mubarak, Alaa Mubarak, Gamal Mubarak
 * Germany: Breno Borges
 * Indonesia: Abu Bakar Bashir
 * Netherlands: Ante Gotovina (ICTY), Mladen Markač (ICTY)
 * Norway: Anders Behring Breivik
 * Russia: Pussy Riot
 * Sierra Leone: Charles Taylor (SCFSL)
 * South Africa: Chris Mahlangu
 * United Kingdom: Levi Bellfield, Robert Black, Vincent Tabak, Ali Dizaei, Antoni Imiela, Brian Regan, Donna Air, Ched Evans, Clayton McDonald, Titus Bramble, Dan Penteado, John Terry, Iftikhar and Farzana Ahmed, Asil Nadir, Justin Lee Collins, Kweku Adoboli
 * United States: Noshir Gowadia, Buju Banton, Barry Bonds, Raj Rajaratnam, Casey Anthony, Conrad Murray, George Huguely, Allen Stanford, Roger Clemens, Jerry Sandusky, Jared Lee Loughner

Ongoing

 * Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal
 * China: Organized crime in Chongqing
 * France: Church of Scientology
 * Iraq: Supreme Criminal Tribunal
 * Malaysia: Anwar Ibrahim
 * Netherlands: Thomas Lubanga (ICC), Radovan Karadžić (ICTY), Ratko Mladic (ICTY)
 * Palau: Tommy Remengesau
 * Philippines: Andal Ampatuan Jr., Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
 * Russia: Leonid Khabarov, Vladimir Kvachkov, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev
 * Singapore: Tak Boleh Tahan
 * Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein
 * Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra
 * Turkey: Ergenekon network, Kenan Evren
 * Ukraine: Yulia Tymoshenko
 * United Kingdom: Kevin Hutchinson-Foster, Koo Stark
 * United States: Ahmed Ghailani, David Headley, Charles P. White, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Viktor Bout, Lauryn Hill
 * Vatican: Vatileaks scandal

Upcoming
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 * Canada: Luka Magnotta
 * France: Éric Raoult
 * Libya: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi
 * Ivory Coast: Laurent Gbagbo
 * United Kingdom: Chris Huhne, Vicky Pryce, Tony McCluskie, Dane Bowers
 * United States: Nidal Malik Hasan, Javaris Crittenton, Bradley Manning, Robert Bales, George Zimmerman, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Peter Madoff, Christian Gerhartsreiter, Crystal Mangum
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