Portal:Current events/December 2016/Sidebar

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Business

 * Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena bankruptcy

Disasters

 * Flint water crisis
 * UK and Ireland windstorm season

Law

 * Philippine Drug War
 * Timor Gap PCA hearings

Political

 * Brexit aftermath
 * European migrant crisis (timeline)
 * Presidential transition of Donald Trump
 * South China Sea disputes
 * More details on ongoing conflicts below

Sport

 * 2016 NFL season
 * 2016–17 Bundesliga
 * 2016–17 La Liga
 * 2016–17 NBA season
 * 2016–17 NHL season
 * 2016–17 Premier League
 * 2016–17 Serie A

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December
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 * 30: Allan Williams
 * 30: Tyrus Wong
 * 28: Gregorio Conrado Álvarez
 * 28: Anthony Cronin
 * 28: Michel Déon
 * 28: Debbie Reynolds
 * 27: Carrie Fisher
 * 27: Ratnasiri Wickremanayake
 * 26: George S. Irving
 * 26: Seth J. McKee
 * 26: Barbara Tarbuck
 * 25: George Michael
 * 25: Vera Rubin
 * 24: Richard Adams
 * 24: Rick Parfitt
 * 24: Liz Smith
 * 22: Franca Sozzani
 * 20: Michèle Morgan
 * 19: Lionel Blue
 * 19: Dick Latessa
 * 18: Zsa Zsa Gabor
 * 18: China Machado
 * 17: Lawrence Colburn
 * 17: Henry Heimlich
 * 15: Craig Sager
 * 13: Thomas Schelling
 * 13: Alan Thicke
 * 12: E. R. Braithwaite
 * 12: Anne Deveson
 * 12: Shirley Hazzard
 * 12: Javier Echevarría Rodríguez
 * 12: Walter Swinburn
 * 10: Ken Hechler
 * 10: Bill Dineen
 * 10: A. A. Gill
 * 8: John Glenn
 * 8: Joseph Mascolo
 * 8: Peter van Straaten
 * 7: Warren Allmand
 * 7: Cho Ramaswamy
 * 7: Paul Elvstrøm
 * 7: Junaid Jamshed
 * 7: Greg Lake
 * 6: Rashaan Salaam
 * 6: Peter Vaughan
 * 5: Jayalalithaa
 * 3: Rémy Pflimlin
 * 2: Sammy Lee
 * 1: Don Calfa
 * 1: Joe McKnight
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Africa

 * Algeria and Tunisia
 * Maghreb insurgency
 * ISIL insurgency in Tunisia


 * Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria
 * Boko Haram insurgency


 * Central African Republic
 * Civil war


 * Democratic Republic of the Congo
 * Kivu conflict
 * ADF insurgency
 * Ituri conflict
 * Lord's Resistance Army insurgency


 * Libya
 * Civil war


 * Mali
 * Northern Mali conflict


 * Somalia
 * Civil war


 * South Sudan
 * Ethnic violence (South Sudanese Civil War)


 * Sudan
 * War in Darfur
 * South Kordofan conflict
 * Sudanese nomadic conflicts

Americas

 * Mexico
 * Mexican War on Drugs


 * Peru
 * Internal conflict in Peru

Asia

 * Afghanistan
 * Afghanistan War


 * China
 * Xinjiang conflict


 * India
 * Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
 * Insurgency in Northeast India


 * India and Pakistan
 * Kashmir conflict


 * Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines
 * Moro conflict
 * Cross border attacks in Sabah


 * Indonesia and Papua New Guinea
 * Papua conflict


 * Myanmar
 * Internal conflict in Myanmar


 * Pakistan
 * War in North-West Pakistan
 * Balochistan conflict


 * Philippines
 * CPP-NPA-NDF rebellion


 * Thailand
 * South Thailand insurgency

Europe

 * Armenia and Azerbaijan
 * Nagorno-Karabakh conflict


 * Georgia
 * Abkhaz–Georgian conflict
 * Georgian–Ossetian conflict


 * Russia
 * Chechen–Russian conflict
 * North Caucasus insurgency


 * Ukraine
 * War in Donbass
 * Russian military intervention in Ukraine

Middle East

 * Egypt
 * Sinai insurgency


 * Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria
 * Arab–Israeli conflict


 * Iran
 * Iran–PJAK conflict


 * Iraq
 * American-led intervention in Iraq
 * Iranian intervention in Iraq


 * Iraq and Syria (map)
 * Military intervention against ISIL


 * Israel and Lebanon
 * Israeli–Lebanese conflict


 * Israel and Palestine
 * Gaza–Israel conflict
 * Israeli–Palestinian conflict


 * Syria
 * American-led intervention in Syria
 * Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War
 * Turkish military intervention in Syria
 * Syrian Civil War spillover in Lebanon


 * Turkey
 * Turkey–PKK conflict
 * Turkey–ISIL conflict


 * Yemen
 * Yemeni Civil War
 * Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen
 * Al-Qaeda insurgency

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Recent
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 * December
 * 1: Gambia, President
 * 4: Austria, President (2nd round)
 * 4: Italy, Constitutional referendum
 * 4: Uzbekistan, President
 * 7: Ghana, President, Parliament
 * 11: Kyrgyzstan, Referendum
 * 11: Macedonia, Assembly of the Republic
 * 11: Romania, Chamber of Deputies, Senate
 * 15: Turks and Caicos, House of Assembly
 * 18: Côte d'Ivoire, National Assembly
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Recently concluded

 * Australia: Roger Rogerson and Glen McNamara
 * Cambodia: Sam Rainsy
 * China: Wan Qingliang, Ling Jihua, Zhoi Bin, Guo Boxiong
 * Iran: Babak Zanjani
 * Netherlands: Geert Wilders
 * Philippines: Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Nur Misuari, Joel Villanueva
 * Romania: Liviu Dragnea, Gheorghe Ștefan, Gabriel Sandu, Dorin Cocoş, Dumitru Nicolae
 * Spain: Lionel Messi
 * United Kingdom: Chris Denning, Adam Johnson, Ched Evans
 * United States: Bob McDonnell, Paul Anthony Ciancia
 * International


 * ICTY: Radovan Karadžić

Ongoing

 * China: Bai Enpei, Pan Yiyang, Yang Weize
 * Germany: Beate Zschäpe
 * Indonesia: Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, Mary Jane Veloso
 * Pakistan: Waseem Azeem, Mufti Abdul Qawi
 * Philippines: Andal Ampatuan Jr., Leila de Lima, Rodrigo Duterte, Jovito Palparan
 * Romania: Darius Vâlcov, Dan Șova, Elena Udrea, Radu Mazăre, Gheorghe Nichita, Marian Vanghelie, Cătălin Voicu
 * Russia: Alexei Navalny
 * South Korea: Park Geun-hye and Choi Soon-sil
 * Spain: Gürtel case, Spanish Royal House, Bárcenas affair
 * United States: Etan Patz
 * United Kingdom: Rolf Harris
 * International
 * ICC: Laurent Gbagbo
 * ICTY: Ratko Mladić

Upcoming
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 * China: Wu Changshun
 * Egypt: Mohamed Morsi
 * Estonia: Edgar Savisaar
 * Libya: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi
 * United States: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Graham Spanier, Tim Curley, Gary Schultz, Rick Perry, Bill Cosby
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