Portal:Current events/January 2014/Sidebar

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Economic

 * Great Recession
 * Eurozone crisis
 * Greek government-debt crisis

Environmental

 * 2014 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
 * 2014 Pacific typhoon season

Political

 * Global surveillance disclosures
 * Pro-EU protests in Ukraine (2013–present)
 * Thailand political crisis (2013–present)
 * More details on ongoing conflicts below

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January

 * 31: Anna Gordy Gaye
 * 31: Miklós Jancsó
 * 28: Herb Kirsh
 * 28: Tom Sherak
 * 28: Sue Wallis
 * 27: Pete Seeger
 * 26: Tom Gola
 * 26: José Emilio Pacheco
 * 25: Dave Strack
 * 25: Morrie Turner
 * 24: Shulamit Aloni
 * 24: Boyd Oxlade
 * 23: Riz Ortolani
 * 22: Martin S. Bergmann
 * 22: Akkineni Nageswara Rao
 * 20: Claudio Abbado
 * 20: Otis G. Pike
 * 19: Christopher Chataway
 * 19: Steven Fromholz
 * 19: Bert Williams
 * 18: Komla Dumor
 * 18: Dennis Frederiksen
 * 17: Mohammed Burhanuddin
 * 17: Alistair McAlpine, Baron McAlpine of West Green
 * 17: John J. McGinty III
 * 17: Suchitra Sen
 * 16: Ruth Duccini
 * 16: Russell Johnson
 * 16: Dave Madden
 * 16: Hiroo Onoda
 * 16: José Sulaimán
 * 15: Curtis Bray
 * 15: John Dobson
 * 15: Roger Lloyd-Pack
 * 14: Juan Gelman
 * 14: Mae Young
 * 13: Anjali Devi
 * 12: Neal Barrett, Jr.
 * 12: Alexandra Bastedo
 * 12: John Button
 * 12: Halet Çambel
 * 11: Chai Trong-rong
 * 11: Vugar Gashimov
 * 11: Ariel Sharon
 * 10: Zbigniew Messner
 * 10: Donald Morton
 * 10: Ian Redford
 * 10: Larry Speakes
 * 9: Amiri Baraka
 * 9: Roy Campbell, Jr.
 * 9: Josep Maria Castellet
 * 9: Lorella De Luca
 * 9: Luis García
 * 9: Dale T. Mortensen
 * 8: Edward N. Ney
 * 7: Run Run Shaw
 * 6: Aitzaz Hasan
 * 6: Larry D. Mann
 * 6: Mónica Spear
 * 5: Jerry Coleman
 * 5: Eusébio
 * 5: Simon Hoggart
 * 5: Rod Searle
 * 3: Phil Everly
 * 3: Alicia Rhett
 * 3: Saul Zaentz
 * 2: Elizabeth Jane Howard
 * 1: Pete DeCoursey
 * 1: Michael Glennon
 * 1: Patrick Karegeya
 * 1: Juanita Moore

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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
 * Post-coup unrest
 * Sinai insurgency


 * Libya
 * Post-civil war interfactional fighting


 * Nigeria
 * Niger Delta conflict
 * Islamist insurgency in Nigeria


 * Somalia
 * Civil war


 * Sudan and South Sudan
 * Sudan internal conflict
 * South Sudan internal conflict

Americas

 * Colombian conflict
 * Mexican Drug War

Asia

 * Afghanistan War
 * Military operations
 * Taliban insurgency


 * India
 * Naxalite–Maoist insurgency


 * Philippines
 * Communist insurgency
 * Moro insurgency


 * Korea
 * Korean maritime border conflict


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


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

Europe

 * Dissident Irish Republican campaign
 * North Caucasus insurgency
 * War in Ingushetia

Middle East

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


 * Iraqi insurgency


 * Kurdistan
 * Kurdish–Iranian conflict


 * Syrian Civil War


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

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Recent: January

 * 5: Bangladesh, General
 * 14–15: Egypt, Constitutional referendum

Upcoming: February

 * 2: Costa Rica, President and parliament
 * 2: El Salvador, President (1st round)
 * 2: Thailand, General
 * 9: Switzerland, Referendum

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Recently concluded

 * Canada: Michael Thomas Rafferty
 * China: Bo Xilai
 * Croatia: Ivo Sanader
 * Germany: Breno Borges
 * Indonesia: Abu Bakar Bashir
 * Italy: Silvio Berlusconi
 * Netherlands: Ante Gotovina (ICTY), Mladen Markač (ICTY), Momčilo Perišić (ICTY)
 * Norway: Anders Behring Breivik
 * Russia: Leonid Khabarov, Vladimir Kvachkov, Pussy Riot
 * Sierra Leone: Charles Taylor (SCFSL)
 * South Africa: Chris Mahlangu
 * 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 Hall, Stuart Hazell, Mark Bridger, Andrew Lancel, Dale Cregan, Ray Wilkins, Michael Le Vell, Liam Adams, R v Grillo and Grillo, Ian Watkins
 * United States: Noshir Gowadia, Buju Banton, 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

Ongoing

 * Brazil: Mensalão scandal
 * Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal
 * Canada: Luka Magnotta
 * China: Organized crime in Chongqing
 * Egypt: Mohamed Morsi, Hosni Mubarak
 * France: Church of Scientology
 * Germany: Christian Wulff, Beate Zschäpe
 * Hong Kong: Alfredo Lim
 * 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, Jinggoy Estrada, Gregorio Honasan, Janet Lim-Napoles, Bongbong Marcos, Imelda Marcos, Nur Misuari, Manny Pacquiao, Jovito Palparan, Juan Ponce Enrile, Bong Revilla
 * Russia: Platon Lebedev
 * Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein
 * Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra
 * Turkey: Ergenekon network, Kenan Evren
 * United Kingdom: Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson, William Roache, Eddy Shah, Koo Stark, Dave Lee Travis
 * United States: Jodi Arias

Upcoming
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 * France: Éric Raoult
 * Germany: Bernie Ecclestone
 * Ivory Coast: Laurent Gbagbo
 * Jordan: Abu Qatada
 * Libya: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi
 * South Africa: Oscar Pistorius
 * United Kingdom: Dane Bowers, Max Clifford, Rolf Harris, Nicholas Jacobs,
 * United States: Paul Anthony Ciancia, Javaris Crittenton, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Peter Madoff, Christian Gerhartsreiter, Dylan Quick, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, James Eagan Holmes, Aaron Hernandez, Graham Spanier, Tim Curley, Gary Schultz, Anas al-Libi, Bob McDonnell
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