Portal:Current events/January 2015/Sidebar

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Economic

 * Eurozone crisis
 * Financial crisis in Russia

Health

 * Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa

Political

 * Military intervention against ISIL
 * American-led intervention in Syria
 * American-led intervention in Iraq
 * Iranian intervention in Iraq
 * Russian military intervention in Ukraine
 * South Sudanese Civil War
 * More details on ongoing conflicts below

Sports

 * January 9 – 31: AFC Asian Cup in Australia
 * January 17 – February 8: CAN Africa Cup of Nations in Equatorial Guinea

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January

 * 31: Richard von Weizsäcker
 * 30: Carl Djerassi
 * 30: Zhelyu Zhelev
 * 29: Colleen McCullough
 * 29: Rod McKuen
 * 29: Kel Nagle
 * 29: Israel Yinon
 * 28: Mala Aravindan
 * 28: Yves Chauvin
 * 28: Jaswant Singh Rajput
 * 27: Wilfred Agbonavbare
 * 27: Warren Hill
 * 27: David Landau
 * 27: Joseph Rotman
 * 27: Charles Hard Townes
 * 26: R. K. Laxman
 * 26: Lee Spick
 * 26: Marwan
 * 26: Tom Uren
 * 25: Richard McBrien
 * 25: Bill Monbouquette
 * 25: Demis Roussos
 * 24: Toller Cranston
 * 24: Joe Franklin
 * 24: Arafat Rahman
 * 23: Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
 * 23: Ernie Banks
 * 23: Pedro Lemebel
 * 22: Wendell Ford
 * 21: Marcus Borg
 * 21: Leon Brittan
 * 20: Edgar Froese
 * 20: Anatol Hrytskievich
 * 20: Waldemar Kmentt
 * 20: Hitoshi Saito
 * 19: Justin Capra
 * 19: Anne Kirkbride
 * 19: Reies Tijerina
 * 19: Peter Wallenberg
 * 18: Paul O'Grady
 * 18: Dallas Taylor
 * 18: Tony Verna
 * 17: Joseph Brannigan
 * 17: Faten Hamama
 * 17: Don Harron
 * 17: Rebecca D. Lockhart
 * 17: Greg Plitt
 * 16: Yao Beina
 * 16: Stuart Loory
 * 16: Ray Lumpp
 * 15: Ervin Drake
 * 15: Kim Fowley
 * 15: Ethel Lang
 * 15: Ray Nagel
 * 15: Chikao Ōtsuka
 * 15: Bob Wilson
 * 14: Bob Boyd
 * 14: Lotte Hass
 * 14: Darren Shahlavi
 * 13: Jack Hayward
 * 13: Robert White
 * 13: Keith Wright
 * 12: Paul Morgan
 * 11: Doriemus
 * 11: Tim Drummond
 * 11: Anita Ekberg
 * 11: Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle
 * 10: Walter Berns
 * 10: Yoko Nagae Ceschina
 * 10: Brian Clemens
 * 10: George Dickerson
 * 10: Junior Malanda
 * 10: Taylor Negron
 * 10: Francesco Rosi
 * 10: Robert Stone
 * 9: Samuel Goldwyn Jr.
 * 9: Robert Kinoshita
 * 9: Frans Molenaar
 * 9: Bud Paxson
 * 9: Roy Tarpley
 * 9: Abdul Rahman Ya'kub
 * 8: Andraé Crouch
 * 8: Kep Enderby
 * 8: Patsy Garrett
 * 8: Richard Meade
 * 7: Cabu
 * 7: Charb
 * 7: Rod Taylor
 * 7: Tignous
 * 7: Georges Wolinski
 * 7: Julio Scherer García
 * 7: Bernard Maris
 * 7: Arch A. Moore Jr.
 * 7: J. P. Parisé
 * 7: Jethro Pugh
 * 6: Vlastimil Bubník
 * 6: Joan Peters
 * 5: Jean-Pierre Beltoise
 * 5: Khan Bonfils
 * 5: Milton Hebald
 * 4: Pino Daniele
 * 4: Chitresh Das
 * 4: Gasan Magomedov
 * 4: Stu Miller
 * 4: Hank Peters
 * 4: Stuart Scott
 * 4: He Zhenliang
 * 3: Martin Anderson
 * 3: Edward Brooke
 * 3: Allie Sherman
 * 2: Abu Anas al-Libi
 * 1: Mario Cuomo
 * 1: Donna Douglas
 * 1: Omar Karami

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Global

 * War on Drugs
 * War on Terror
 * Operation Active Endeavour
 * Operation Enduring Freedom
 * Terrorist incidents in 2015

Africa

 * Lord's Resistance Army insurgency
 * Maghreb insurgency
 * OEF – Horn of Africa
 * OEF – Trans Sahara


 * Central African Republic
 * Civil conflict


 * Egypt
 * Sinai insurgency


 * Libya
 * 2014 Libyan Civil War


 * Nigeria
 * Boko Haram


 * Somalia
 * Civil war


 * Sudan and South Sudan
 * War in Darfur
 * Sudanese conflict in South Kordofan and Blue Nile
 * South Sudanese Civil War

Americas

 * Colombian conflict
 * Internal conflict in Peru
 * Mexican War on Drugs
 * Paraguayan People's Army insurgency

Asia

 * Afghanistan War
 * Military operations
 * Taliban insurgency


 * India
 * Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
 * Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
 * Insurgency in Northeast India


 * Korea
 * Korean maritime border conflict


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


 * Philippines
 * Communist insurgency
 * Moro insurgency


 * Southeast Asia
 * Internal conflict in Burma
 * Kachin conflict
 * Papua conflict
 * South Thailand insurgency
 * Territorial disputes in the South China Sea

Europe

 * Abkhaz–Georgian conflict
 * Georgian–Ossetian conflict
 * North Caucasus insurgency
 * War in Donbass
 * Dissident Irish Republican campaign

Middle East

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


 * Iraq War


 * Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant


 * Kurdistan
 * Kurdish–Iranian conflict


 * Syrian Civil War


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

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Recent: January

 * 4: Uzbekistan, Legislative Chamber (2nd round)
 * 7: Lebanon, President (17th round)
 * 8: Sri Lanka, President
 * 11: Croatia, President (2nd round)
 * 20: Zambia, President
 * 25: Comoros, Assembly of the Union (1st round)
 * 25: Greece, Parliament
 * 28: Lebanon, President (18th round)
 * 29–31: Italy, President (1st–4th rounds)

Upcoming: February

 * 7: Slovakia, Referendum
 * 14: Nigeria, General
 * 18: Lebanon, President (19th round)
 * 22: Comoros, Assembly of the Union (2nd round)
 * 28: Lesotho, National Assembly

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Recently concluded

 * Australia: Brett Peter Cowan, Craig Thomson, Robert Hughes
 * Brazil: Mensalão scandal
 * Canada: Michael Thomas Rafferty, Luka Magnotta
 * China: Liu Tienan, Li Daqiu, Bo Xilai
 * Croatia: Ivo Sanader
 * Egypt: Hosni Mubarak, Peter Greste
 * Germany: Bernie Ecclestone, Uli Hoeness, Christian Wulff, Breno Borges
 * Iran: Mohammad Reza Rahimi
 * Israel: Hussam Qawasmeh
 * Italy: Silvio Berlusconi
 * Jordan: Abu Qatada
 * Malaysia: Anwar Ibrahim
 * Russia: Leonid Khabarov, Vladimir Kvachkov, Pussy Riot
 * South Africa: Shrien Dewani, Oscar Pistorius, Chris Mahlangu
 * Turkey: Kenan Evren, Tahsin Şahinkaya
 * United Kingdom: Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, 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 Hazell, Mark Bridger, Andrew Lancel, Dale Cregan, Ray Wilkins, Michael Le Vell, Liam Adams, R v Grillo and Grillo, Ian Watkins, William Roache, Dave Lee Travis, Nicholas Jacobs, Nigel Evans, Max Clifford, Stuart Hall, Dappy, Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson, Rolf Harris, Tulisa Contostavlos, Chris Denning, Ray Teret
 * United States: Abu Hamza al-Masri, Michael Grimm, Bob McDonnell, Vilma Bautista, 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
 * International
 * ECCC: Nuon Chea, Khieu Samphan
 * ICC: Germain Katanga, Thomas Lubanga
 * ICTY: Momčilo Perišić, Mladen Markač, Ante Gotovina
 * SCFSL: Charles Taylor

Ongoing

 * Egypt: Mohamed Morsi
 * Germany: Beate Zschäpe
 * Iran: Babak Zanjani
 * Philippines: Andal Ampatuan Jr., Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Janet Lim-Napoles, Jovito Palparan
 * Russia: Alexei Navalny
 * South Korea: MV Sewol crew members
 * United Kingdom: Eddy Shah, Koo Stark, Gary Glitter, Fred Talbot
 * United States: Jodi Arias
 * International
 * ICTY: Radovan Karadžić, Ratko Mladic

Upcoming
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 * Libya: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi
 * Spain: Lionel Messi
 * United Kingdom: Dane Bowers, Andy Coulson
 * United States: Paul Anthony Ciancia, Javaris Crittenton, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Dylan Quick, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, James Eagan Holmes, Aaron Hernandez, Graham Spanier, Tim Curley, Gary Schultz, Anas al-Libi, Justin Bieber, Chris Brown, Rick Perry
 * International
 * ICC: Laurent Gbagbo
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