Portal:Current events/December 2014/Sidebar

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Economic

 * Eurozone crisis
 * Greek government-debt crisis
 * Financial crisis in Russia

Environmental

 * North Indian Ocean cyclone season
 * Southeast Asian floods
 * Pacific typhoon season

Health

 * Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa

Political

 * Irish demonstrations against water tax
 * Military intervention against ISIS
 * American-led intervention in Syria
 * Iranian-led intervention in Iraq
 * Russian military intervention in Ukraine
 * South Sudanese Civil War
 * Unrest in Ferguson, Missouri


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December

 * 30: Luise Rainer
 * 26: James B. Edwards
 * 26: Leo Tindemans
 * 25: Alberta Adams
 * 25: Nand Chaturvedi
 * 25: Kjell Hanssen
 * 25: George Miller
 * 25: Gleb Yakunin
 * 24: Ekhlasuddin Ahmed
 * 24: Rubén Amorín
 * 24: Leonard Beerman
 * 24: Owen H. Johnson
 * 24: Krzysztof Krauze
 * 24: Rosella Towne
 * 23: K. Balachander
 * 23: Jo Jo Benson
 * 23: Mike Elliott
 * 23: John J. Powers
 * 22: Joe Cocker
 * 22: Jeremy Lloyd
 * 21: Morteza Ahmadi
 * 21: Udo Jürgens
 * 21: Billie Whitelaw
 * 18: Virna Lisi
 * 18: Mandy Rice-Davies
 * 16: Man Haron Monis
 * 14: Sy Berger
 * 14: Fuzzy Thurston
 * 13: Ernst Albrecht
 * 13: Bill Bonds
 * 13: Phil Stern
 * 12: John Baxter
 * 12: John Hampton
 * 11: Tom Adams
 * 11: Michel duCille
 * 11: Dawn Sears
 * 10: Ralph Giordano
 * 10: Robert B. Oakley
 * 10: Judy Baar Topinka
 * 9: Jane Freilicher
 * 9: Mary Ann Mobley
 * 9: Lydia Mordkovitch
 * 9: Karl Otto Pöhl
 * 8: Sobho Gianchandani
 * 8: Nedunuri Krishnamurthy
 * 8: Knut Nystedt
 * 7: Mango
 * 7: Ken Weatherwax
 * 7: Stella Young
 * 6: Ralph H. Baer
 * 6: Adnan Gulshair el Shukrijumah
 * 6: Luke Somers
 * 5: Ernest C. Brace
 * 5: Queen Fabiola of Belgium
 * 5: Gil Marks
 * 4: Lynne Kosky
 * 4: Jeremy Thorpe
 * 3: Ian McLagan
 * 3: Ann Marcus
 * 2: Jean Béliveau
 * 2: Bobby Keys
 * 1: Mario Abramovich
 * 1: Sita Murt

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Global

 * War on Drugs
 * War on Terror
 * Operation Active Endeavour
 * Operation Enduring Freedom
 * Terrorist incidents in 2014

Africa

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


 * Central African Republic
 * Civil conflict


 * Egypt
 * Sinai insurgency


 * Libya
 * 2014 Libyan Civil War


 * Nigeria
 * Boko Haram


 * Somalia
 * Civil war


 * Sudan and South Sudan
 * Sudan internal conflict
 * South Sudan internal conflict
 * War in Darfur

Americas

 * Colombian conflict
 * Internal conflict in Peru
 * Mexican War on Drugs
 * Paraguayan People's Army insurgency

Asia

 * Afghanistan War
 * Military operations
 * Taliban insurgency


 * India
 * Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
 * Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
 * Insurgency in Northeast India


 * Korea
 * Korean maritime border conflict


 * Pakistan
 * Balochistan conflict
 * North-West War
 * Sectarian violence


 * Philippines
 * Communist insurgency
 * Moro insurgency


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

Europe

 * Abkhaz–Georgian conflict
 * North Caucasus insurgency
 * War in Donbass
 * Dissident Irish Republican campaign

Middle East

 * Arab–Israeli conflict
 * Gaza–Israel conflict
 * Israeli–Lebanese conflict
 * Israeli–Palestinian conflict
 * Israel–Iran proxy conflict


 * Iraqi insurgency


 * Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant


 * Kurdistan
 * Kurdish–Iranian conflict


 * Syrian Civil War


 * Yemen
 * al-Qaeda crackdown
 * Shia insurgency
 * South Yemen insurgency

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Recent: December

 * 8: Dominica, Parliament
 * 10: Mauritius, Parliament
 * 14: Japan, Parliament
 * 17: Greece, President (1st round)
 * 20: Liberia, Senate
 * 21: Tunisia, President (2nd round)
 * 21: Uzbekistan, Parliament (1st round)
 * 23: Greece, President (2nd round)
 * 28: Croatia, President (1st round)
 * 29: Greece, President (3rd round)

Upcoming: January

 * 8: Sri Lanka, President
 * 11: Croatia, President (2nd round)
 * 20: Zambia, President
 * 25: Greece, Parliament

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Recently concluded

 * Australia: Brett Peter Cowan, Craig Thomson, Robert Hughes
 * Canada: Michael Thomas Rafferty, Luka Magnotta
 * China: Li Daqiu, Liu Tienan
 * Croatia: Ivo Sanader
 * Egypt: Peter Greste
 * Germany: Breno Borges
 * Iran: Mohammad Reza Rahimi
 * Italy: Silvio Berlusconi
 * Jordan: Abu Qatada
 * Netherlands: Ante Gotovina (ICTY), Mladen Markač (ICTY), Momčilo Perišić (ICTY), Germain Katanga (ICC)
 * Russia: Leonid Khabarov, Vladimir Kvachkov, Pussy Riot
 * Sierra Leone: Charles Taylor (SCFSL)
 * South Africa: Chris Mahlangu, Oscar Pistorius
 * Ukraine: Yulia Tymoshenko
 * United Kingdom: Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, 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, Tony McCluskie, Kevin Hutchinson-Foster, Chris Huhne, Nicola Edgington, Vicky Pryce, Derek Rose, Mick Philpott, Mairead Philpott, Paul Mosley, Kevin Liverpool, Junior Bradshaw, Aggro Santos, Stuart Hazell, Mark Bridger, Andrew Lancel, Dale Cregan, Ray Wilkins, Michael Le Vell, Liam Adams, R v Grillo and Grillo, Ian Watkins, William Roache, Dave Lee Travis, Nicholas Jacobs, Nigel Evans, Max Clifford, Stuart Hall, Dappy, Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson, Rolf Harris, Tulisa Contostavlos, Chris Denning, Ray Teret
 * United States: Noshir Gowadia, Barry Bonds, Raj Rajaratnam, Casey Anthony, Conrad Murray, George Huguely, Allen Stanford, Roger Clemens, Jerry Sandusky, Jared Lee Loughner, Lauryn Hill, Kermit Gosnell, George Zimmerman, Chelsea Manning, Ariel Castro, Whitey Bulger, Robert Bales, Nidal Malik Hasan, Crystal Mangum, Abu Hamza al-Masri

Ongoing

 * Brazil: Mensalão scandal
 * Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal
 * China: Organized crime in Chongqing
 * Egypt: Mohamed Morsi, Hosni Mubarak
 * France: Church of Scientology
 * Germany: Christian Wulff, Beate Zschäpe, Uli Hoeness, Bernie Ecclestone
 * Hong Kong: Alfredo Lim
 * Iran: Babak Zanjani
 * 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, Janet Lim-Napoles, Bongbong Marcos, Imelda Marcos, Jovito Palparan
 * Russia: Alexei Navalny
 * South Africa: Shrien Dewani
 * South Korea: MV Sewol crew members
 * Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein
 * Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra
 * Turkey: Kenan Evren
 * United Kingdom: Eddy Shah, Koo Stark
 * United States: Jodi Arias

Upcoming
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 * France: Éric Raoult
 * Ivory Coast: Laurent Gbagbo
 * Libya: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi
 * Spain: Lionel Messi
 * United Kingdom: Dane Bowers, Gary Glitter, Andy Coulson
 * United States: Paul Anthony Ciancia, Javaris Crittenton, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Dylan Quick, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, James Eagan Holmes, Aaron Hernandez, Graham Spanier, Tim Curley, Gary Schultz, Anas al-Libi, Bob McDonnell, Justin Bieber, Chris Brown, Rick Perry
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