Portal:Current events/December 2017/Sidebar

   Ongoing events



 Business


 * 1MDB scandal
 * Panama Papers
 * Paradise Papers

 Culture


 * Weinstein effect

 Disasters


 * Oklahoma earthquake swarms
 * Pacific typhoon season
 * California wildfire season
 * Southern California wildfires
 * UK and Ireland windstorm season

 Politics


 * Brexit negotiations
 * European migrant crisis (timeline)
 * North Korean crisis
 * Philippine protests
 * Iranian protests
 * Qatar diplomatic crisis
 * Rohingya persecution
 * Saudi purge
 * South China Sea disputes
 * Spanish constitutional crisis
 * Turkish purges
 * U.S. political sex scandals
 * U.S. Special Counsel investigation (timeline)
 * Venezuelan protests (timeline)

 Sports More details – ongoing conflicts
 * FIFA corruption scandal
 * NCAA Division I men's basketball corruption scandal
 * USA Gymnastics sex abuse scandal

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  Elections and referendums

  Recent


 * December
 * 17: Chile, President (2nd round)
 * 26: Liberia, President (2nd round)

 Upcoming
 * January
 * 12–13: Czech Republic, President (1st round)

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  Trials

<div style="background-color: ;"> <h3 style="font-size: inherit;"> Recently concluded


 * Ecuador: Jorge Glas
 * France: Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue
 * Russia: Alexey Ulyukaev
 * Thailand: Yingluck Shinawatra
 * United States: Ahmed Abu Khattala, Cliven Bundy, Glenn Chin, Bob Menendez, Jose Ines Garcia Zarate
 * International


 * ICTY: Ratko Mladić

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


 * Cambodia: Kem Sokha, Mu Sochua
 * Estonia: Edgar Savisaar
 * Germany: Beate Zschäpe
 * Guatemala: Otto Pérez Molina, Roxana Baldetti and others
 * Israel: Faina Kirschenbaum
 * Malaysia: Siti Aisyah and Đoàn Thị Hương
 * Philippines: Leila de Lima
 * South Korea: Park Geun-hye
 * Spain: Bárcenas affair, Gürtel case, Carles Puigdemont
 * Turkey: 2016 Atatürk Airport attack suspects
 * United States: Mehmet Hasan Atilla, Fat Leonard scandal
 * International
 * ICC: Laurent Gbagbo

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


 * Australia: George Pell
 * Egypt: Mohamed Morsi
 * Iran: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
 * Philippines: Andal Ampatuan Jr., Jovito Palparan, Maria Lourdes Sereno
 * Romania: Liviu Dragnea
 * Spain: Jordi Pujol
 * Ukraine: Roman Nasirov
 * United Kingdom: Football sex abuse scandal
 * United States: Bill Cosby, Rick Gates, Paul Manafort, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Sayfullo Saipov
 * Zimbabwe: Ignatius Chombo

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<div role="region" aria-labelledby="Sport" style="margin:1.1em 0; border:1px solid ; padding: 0.4em; font-size: 88%;"> <h2 style="display: block; margin: 0; border: none; padding: 0 0.4em; background-color: ; font-size: 125%; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;"> Sport

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 * Association football
 * 2017–18 UEFA Champions League
 * 2017–18 UEFA Europa League
 * 2017–18 Premier League
 * 2017–18 Bundesliga
 * 2017–18 La Liga
 * 2017–18 Serie A
 * 2017–18 Ligue 1
 * Women's association football
 * 2017–18 Champions League
 * 2017–18 Division 1 Féminine
 * 2017–18 FA WSL
 * 2017–18 Frauen-Bundesliga
 * 2017–18 W-League
 * 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qual.


 * Basketball
 * 2017–18 Champions League
 * 2017–18 EuroLeague
 * 2017–18 NBA season
 * 2017–18 NCAA Division I men
 * 2017–18 NCAA Division I women
 * Ice hockey
 * 2017–18 Champions League
 * 2017–18 IIHF Continental Cup
 * 2017–18 KHL season
 * 2017–18 NHL season
 * 2017–18 NWHL season


 * Rugby union
 * 2017–18 English Premiership
 * 2017–18 Pro14
 * 2017–18 Top 14


 * Other sports seasons
 * 2017 NFL season
 * 2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season
 * 2017–18 curling season
 * 2017–18 figure skating season
 * 2017–18 snooker season

More details – current sports events

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<div role="region" aria-labelledby="Recent_deaths" style="margin:1.1em 0; border:1px solid ; padding: 0.4em; font-size: 88%;"> <h2 style="display: block; margin: 0; border: none; padding: 0 0.4em; background-color: ; font-size: 125%; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;"> Recent deaths

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 * 30: Erica Garner
 * 29: Carmen Franco
 * 28: Sue Grafton
 * 28: Rose Marie
 * 28: Melton Mustafa
 * 28: Recy Taylor
 * 27: Amanda Davis
 * 27: Jack Van Berg
 * 26: Dick Allen
 * 26: Johnny Bower
 * 24: Heather Menzies
 * 24: Marcus Raskin
 * 23: Maurice Hayes
 * 22: Gerald B. Greenberg
 * 21: Ken Catchpole
 * 21: Dick Enberg
 * 21: Bruce McCandless II
 * 21: June Rowlands
 * 21: Roswell Rudd
 * 20: Florence Bjelke-Petersen
 * 20: Bernard Francis Law
 * 19: Mamie Johnson
 * 18: Janet Benshoof
 * 18: Kim Jong-hyun
 * 16: Keely Smith
 * 15: Heinz Wolff
 * 14: Bob Givens
 * 13: Dan Johnson
 * 13: Martin Ransohoff

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<div style="background-color: ;"> <h3 style="font-size: inherit;"> Africa


 * Algeria and Tunisia
 * Maghreb insurgency
 * 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

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


 * Mexico
 * Mexican War on Drugs
 * Peru
 * Internal conflict in Peru

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

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

<h3 style="font-size: inherit;"> 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
 * Yemen
 * Yemeni Civil War
 * Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen
 * Al-Qaeda insurgency

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