Portal:Current events/December 2018/Sidebar

   Ongoing events



 Business
 * 1MDB scandal
 * Turkish currency and debt crisis

 Disasters
 * 2018–19 European windstorm season
 * 2018 Kivu Ebola outbreak
 * Yemeni famine

 Politics  Religion  Sports More details – ongoing conflicts
 * Brexit negotiations
 * European migrant crisis (timeline)
 * Gilets jaunes protests
 * Iranian protests
 * Iraqi protests
 * Nicaraguan protests
 * Qatar diplomatic crisis
 * Rohingya persecution in Myanmar
 * Spanish constitutional crisis
 * Trump administration family separation policy
 * Turkish purges
 * U.S. Special Counsel investigation (timeline)
 * Moscow–Constantinople schism
 * NCAA Division I men's basketball corruption scandal

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  Elections and referendums

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 * December
 * 9: Armenia, National Assembly
 * 9: Peru, Constitutional referendum
 * 19: Madagascar, President (2nd)
 * 20: Togo, National Assembly
 * 30: Democratic Republic of the Congo, President and National Assembly
 * 30: Bangladesh, Parliament
 * February
 * 3: El Salvador, President
 * 16: Nigeria, President and Parliament
 * 24: Cuba, Constitutional referendum
 * 24: Moldova, Parliament

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


 * Australia: George Pell
 * Bahrain: Ali Salman
 * Guatemala: Roxana Baldetti
 * India: Sajjan Kumar
 * Philippines: Imelda Marcos
 * United States: Patrick Ho

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


 * Guatemala: Otto Pérez Molina, Roxana Baldetti, Juan Carlos Monzón and others
 * Israel: Faina Kirschenbaum
 * Malaysia: Siti Aisyah and Đoàn Thị Hương
 * Philippines: Leila de Lima
 * Spain: Bárcenas affair
 * United States: Fat Leonard scandal, Joaquín Guzmán
 * International
 * ICC: Laurent Gbagbo, Bosco Ntaganda

<h3 style="font-size: inherit;"> Upcoming
 * Egypt: Mohamed Morsi
 * Guatemala: Alvaro Colom, Manuel Baldizón, Juan Alberto Fuentes
 * Iran: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
 * Philippines: Andal Ampatuan Jr.
 * South Africa: Jacob Zuma
 * Spain: Jordi Pujol
 * Ukraine: Roman Nasirov
 * United Kingdom: Football sex abuse scandal
 * United States: 6ix9ine, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, NXIVM, Elizabeth Holmes, Chris Collins, Duncan D. Hunter
 * Zimbabwe: Ignatius Chombo

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 * Association football
 * 2018–19 Liga MX season
 * 2018–19 UEFA Champions League
 * 2018–19 UEFA Nations League
 * 2018–19 UEFA Europa League
 * 2018–19 La Liga
 * 2018–19 Serie A
 * 2018–19 Bundesliga
 * 2018–19 Premier League
 * 2018–19 Ligue 1
 * 2018–19 Scottish Premiership


 * Women's association football
 * 2018–19 Champions League


 * 2018–19 FA WSL
 * 2018–19 Frauen-Bundesliga
 * 2018–19 Liga MX Feminil


 * American football
 * 2018–19 NFL playoffs
 * 2018 NCAA Division I FBS


 * Basketball
 * 2018–19 EuroLeague
 * 2018–19 NBA season
 * 2018–19 NCAA Division I men
 * 2018–19 NCAA Division I women


 * Golf
 * 2019 European Tour
 * 2019 PGA Tour


 * Ice hockey
 * 2018–19 Champions League
 * 2018–19 IIHF Continental Cup
 * 2018–19 KHL season
 * 2018–19 NHL season
 * 2018–19 NWHL season


 * Rugby sevens
 * 2018–19 World Rugby Sevens Series
 * 2018–19 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series
 * Rugby union
 * 2018–19 European Rugby Champions Cup
 * 2018–19 Premiership Rugby
 * 2018–19 Pro14
 * 2018–19 Top 14


 * Other sports seasons


 * 2018–19 international cricket season
 * 2018–19 curling season
 * 2018–19 figure skating season
 * 2018–19 snooker season

More details – current sports events

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<h3 style="font-size: inherit;"> December 2018 [ edit section]
 * 31: Ray Sawyer
 * 30: Mrinal Sen
 * 29: Ringo Lam
 * 28: Amos Oz
 * 28: Shehu Shagari
 * 28: June Whitfield
 * 27: Richard Arvin Overton
 * 26: Nancy G. Roman
 * 26: Wendy Beckett
 * 26: Roy J. Glauber
 * 26: Sono Osato
 * 24: Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
 * 22: Simcha Rotem
 * 22: Paddy Ashdown
 * 22: Talal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
 * 20: Donald Moffat
 * 19: Peter Masterson
 * 17: Penny Marshall
 * 15: Girma Wolde-Giorgis
 * 14: Bill Fralic
 * 14: Jean-Pierre Van Rossem
 * 13: Noah Klieger
 * 13: Nancy Wilson
 * 12: Pavle Strugar
 * 9: Robert Bergland
 * 9: William Blum
 * 9: Riccardo Giacconi
 * 8: Lyudmila Alexeyeva
 * 8: Evelyn Berezin
 * 7: Belisario Betancur
 * 6: Larry Hennig
 * 6: Isiah Robertson
 * 6: Pete Shelley
 * 5: Dynamite Kid
 * 3: Philip Bosco
 * 3: Josep Lluís Núñez
 * 3: Albert Frère
 * 3: Geoff Murphy
 * 1: Ken Berry
 * 1: Scott Stearney
 * 1: Jody Williams

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 * Algeria, Libya and Tunisia
 * Maghreb insurgency
 * Cameroon
 * Anglophone Crisis
 * 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
 * Ethiopia
 * Oromo Conflict
 * Libya
 * Civil war
 * Mali
 * Northern Mali conflict
 * Nigeria
 * Communal conflicts in Nigeria
 * 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


 * Colombia
 * Colombian conflict
 * 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
 * Kachin conflict
 * Karen conflict
 * Rohingya conflict
 * Pakistan
 * War in North-West Pakistan
 * Balochistan conflict
 * Philippines
 * Communist rebellion in the Philippines
 * 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 occupation of northern Syria
 * Turkey
 * Turkey–PKK conflict
 * Yemen
 * Yemeni Civil War
 * Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen
 * Al-Qaeda insurgency

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