Portal:Current events/January 2011/Sidebar

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Economic

 * Automotive industry crisis
 * Global financial crisis
 * European sovereign debt crisis
 * Greek economic crisis

Medical

 * HIV/AIDS in Africa
 * Haiti cholera outbreak

Political

 * Political instability in Belgium
 * Political crisis in Côte d'Ivoire
 * Anti-government protests in Egypt
 * Popular uprising in Tunisia

Sports

 * 2011 Australian Open
 * Strikeforce: Diaz vs. Cyborg

Scientific

 * Expedition 26

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January

 * 30: John Barry
 * 30: Ajahn Maha Bua
 * 29: Dariush Homayoon
 * 29: Milton Babbitt
 * 28: Margaret Price
 * 27: Charlie Callas
 * 26: Gladys Horton
 * 26: David Kato
 * 26: Charlie Louvin
 * 25: Daniel Bell
 * 23: Bernd Eichinger
 * 23: Jack LaLanne
 * 22: Park Wan-suh
 * 20: Sexy Cora
 * 20: John Jacob Rhodes III
 * 19: Ernest McCulloch
 * 18: Sargent Shriver
 * 18: Milton Rogovin
 * 17: Don Kirshner
 * 17: Keith Davey
 * 16: Steve Prestwich
 * 15: Nat Lofthouse
 * 15: Susannah York
 * 15: Harvey James
 * 11: David Nelson
 * 10: John Dye
 * 10: María Elena Walsh
 * 10: Margaret Whiting
 * 9: Peter Yates

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Global

 * War on terror
 * Terrorist incidents
 * Operation Active Endeavour
 * Operation Enduring Freedom
 * War on drugs

Africa

 * Tunisian protests
 * Maghreb insurgency
 * OEF - Trans Sahara
 * Casamance conflict
 * Niger Delta conflict
 * Ivorian crisis
 * Chadian Civil War
 * Darfur conflict
 * Sudanese nomadic conflicts
 * LRA insurgency
 * Ogaden insurgency
 * Somali Civil War
 * Somali Civil War (2009–present)
 * OEF - Horn of Africa
 * Piracy in Somalia

Europe

 * Republican Dissidents Conflict
 * Basque conflict
 * Insurgency in the North Caucasus
 * Civil war in Ingushetia

Middle East

 * Iraqi insurgency
 * Balochistan conflict
 * Palestinian political violence
 * Rocket attacks
 * Israeli–Lebanese conflict
 * Fatah–Hamas conflict
 * Arab–Israeli conflict
 * Israeli–Palestinian conflict
 * Conflicts in Yemen
 * Terrorism
 * South Yemen insurgency
 * Yemeni al-Qaeda crackdown
 * Shia insurgency in Yemen
 * Conflicts in Kurdistan
 * Turkey–PKK conflict
 * Iran–PJAK conflict

Asia

 * Afghan War
 * Military operations
 * Taliban insurgency
 * Conflicts in Pakistan
 * War on Terror
 * North-West Pakistan war
 * Balochistan conflict
 * Drone attacks
 * Sectarian violence
 * Conflicts in India
 * Terrorism in India
 * Jammu and Kashmir insurgency
 * Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
 * Insurgency in Northeast India
 * Nagaland ethnic conflict
 * Kashmir conflict
 * Siachen conflict
 * Korean maritime border incidents
 * Laos insurgency
 * Burma internal conflict
 * Burma border clashes
 * South Thailand insurgency
 * Cambodian–Thai border stand-off
 * Philippines insurgency
 * OEF - Philippines
 * Papua conflict

Americas

 * Colombian conflict
 * Plan Colombia
 * FARC
 * Mexican drug war
 * Mérida Initiative
 * Peru internal conflict

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Recent: January

 * 9-15: Sudan, Southern Sudan independence referendum
 * 23: Central African Republic, General
 * 23: Portugal, President

Upcoming: January

 * 31: Niger, President (1st round) and Parliament
 * 6: Cape Verde, Parliament

Upcoming: February

 * 13: Switzerland, Referendum
 * 18: Uganda, President (1st round) and General
 * 20: Chad, Parliament
 * 27: Benin, President (1st round)

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Recently concluded

 * Argentina: Jorge Rafael Videla
 * Cambodia: Kang Kek Iew
 * Egypt: Hisham Talaat Moustafa
 * France: Jérôme Kerviel, Air France Flight 4590
 * Iran: Hossein Derakhshan
 * Singapore: Alan Shadrake
 * United States: Faisal Shahzad

Ongoing

 * Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal
 * Canada: David Russell Williams
 * China: Organized crime in Chongqing
 * France: Church of Scientology
 * Germany: Heinrich Boere, John Demjanjuk
 * Iraq: Supreme Criminal Tribunal
 * Iran: Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani
 * Malaysia: Anwar Ibrahim
 * Netherlands: Thomas Lubanga (ICC), Radovan Karadžić (ICTY), Geert Wilders
 * Palau: Tommy Remengesau
 * Peru: Joran van der Sloot
 * Philippines]]: Andal Ampatuan Jr.
 * Russia: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev
 * Sierra Leone: Charles Taylor (SCFSL)
 * Singapore: Tak Boleh Tahan
 * Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra
 * Turkey: Ergenekon network
 * United States: Buju Banton, David Headley, Rod Blagojevich, Ahmed Ghailani

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 * Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein
 * United States: Viktor Bout, Noshir Gowadia, Allen Stanford, Nidal Malik Hasan
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Upcoming

 * 3 February: Chinese New Year (Chinese world); Korean New Year (Korea); Tết (Vietnam)

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