Portal:Current events/January 2016/Sidebar

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Health

 * Zika virus outbreak in the Americas
 * Flint water crisis

Political

 * War in Afghanistan
 * Boko Haram insurgency
 * Burundian unrest
 * Iraqi Civil War
 * Military intervention against ISIL
 * American-led
 * Iranian
 * Israeli–Palestinian conflict
 * Moldova protests
 * Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
 * Armenian–Azeri border conflict
 * Nepal blockade
 * PKK rebellion
 * Yemeni Civil War
 * Saudi Arabian-led intervention
 * Second Libyan Civil War
 * Sinai insurgency
 * South China Sea disputes
 * Syrian Civil War
 * American-led intervention
 * Russian military intervention
 * War in Donbass
 * Russian military intervention in Ukraine

Sports

 * 2015-16 UEFA Champions League
 * 2015–16 La Liga season
 * 2015–16 NFL playoffs
 * 2015–16 NBA season
 * 2015–16 NHL season
 * 2015–16 Premier League season
 * 2016 Australian Open


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January

 * 31: Terry Wogan
 * 30: Feyrouz
 * 30: Frank Finlay
 * 30: Cayetano Paderanga Jr.
 * 30: Francisco Flores Pérez
 * 30: Georgia Davis Powers
 * 29: Jacques Rivette
 * 29: Ken Sailors
 * 28: Signe Toly Anderson
 * 28: Buddy Cianci
 * 28: Paul Kantner
 * 28: Bob Tizard
 * 27: Carlos Loyzaga
 * 26: Black
 * 26: Gil Kahele
 * 26: Abe Vigoda
 * 25: Thornton Dial
 * 25: Kalpana
 * 25: Mike Minor
 * 24: Jimmy Bain
 * 24: Yvonne Chouteau
 * 24: John Jay Hooker
 * 24: Marvin Minsky
 * 24: Henry Worsley
 * 23: Jack Bannister
 * 23: Barry Brickell
 * 23: Archie Gouldie
 * 23: Jennifer Guinness
 * 23: Žuži Jelinek
 * 23: Bobby Wanzer
 * 22: Homayoun Behzadi
 * 22: Cecil Parkinson
 * 21: Mustafa Vehbi Koç
 * 21: Derrick Todd Lee
 * 21: Bill Johnson
 * 21: Mrinalini Sarabhai
 * 20: Bud Beardmore
 * 20: Edmonde Charles-Roux
 * 20: Chang Yung-fa
 * 20: Kingmambo
 * 20: George Weidenfeld
 * 19: Robert M. Carter
 * 19: Yasutaro Koide
 * 19: Samuel Odulana Odungade I
 * 19: Ettore Scola
 * 19: Sheila Sim
 * 18: Johnny Bach
 * 18: Glenn Frey
 * 18: Pablo Manavello
 * 18: Michel Tournier
 * 17: Blowfly
 * 17: Geethapriya
 * 17: Mic Gillette
 * 17: Dale Griffin
 * 17: Gulch
 * 16: Ted Marchibroda
 * 15: James Birren
 * 15: Noreen Corcoran
 * 15: Anil Ganguly
 * 15: Dan Haggerty
 * 14: René Angélil
 * 14: Alan Rickman
 * 14: Shaolin
 * 14: Leonid Zhabotinsky
 * 13: Luis Arroyo
 * 13: Brian Bedford
 * 13: Giorgio Gomelsky
 * 13: J. F. R. Jacob
 * 13: Lawrence Phillips
 * 13: Jim Simpson
 * 12: Robert Black
 * 12: Andrew Smith
 * 12: Carolyn D. Wright
 * 11: Alexander Hickman
 * 11: Monte Irvin
 * 11: Brian Johnson
 * 10: Abbas Bahri
 * 10: David Bowie
 * 10: Jeanne Cordova
 * 10: Michael Galeota
 * 10: Ralph Hauenstein
 * 9: Maria Teresa de Filippis
 * 9: Hamada Emam
 * 9: John Harvard
 * 9: Ed Stewart
 * 8: Ida Gaskin
 * 8: German Moreno
 * 8: Paddy Reid
 * 7: André Courrèges
 * 7: Kitty Kallen
 * 7: Judith Kaye
 * 7: Ashraf Pahlavi
 * 7: Jit Samaroo
 * 7: Mufti Mohammed Sayeed
 * 6: Alfredo "Chocolate" Armenteros
 * 6: Pat Harrington Jr.
 * 6: Florence King
 * 6: Christy O'Connor Jnr
 * 6: Nivaria Tejera
 * 6: Labhshankar Thakar
 * 5: Mamdouh Abdel-Alim
 * 5: Pierre Boulez
 * 5: Jean-Paul L'Allier
 * 5: Elizabeth Swados
 * 4: Stephen W. Bosworth
 * 4: Andres Rodriguez
 * 4: Robert Stigwood
 * 3: Paul Bley
 * 3: C. B. Forgotston
 * 3: Raymond W. Lessard
 * 3: Peter Naur
 * 3: Igor Sergun
 * 2: Ardhendu Bhushan Bardhan
 * 2: Michel Delpech
 * 2: Leonard Evans
 * 2: Nimr al-Nimr
 * 2: Gisela Mota Ocampo
 * 2: Frances Cress Welsing
 * 1: Dale Bumpers
 * 1: Brian Johns
 * 1: Mike Oxley
 * 1: Vilmos Zsigmond

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Africa

 * Algeria, Tunisia and Niger
 * Maghreb insurgency


 * Central African Republic
 * Civil war


 * Democratic Republic of the Congo
 * Kivu conflict
 * ADF insurgency
 * Katanga insurgency
 * Ituri conflict
 * Lord's Resistance Army insurgency


 * Libya
 * Civil war


 * Mali
 * Northern Mali conflict


 * Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, and Niger
 * Boko Haram insurgency


 * Somalia
 * Civil war


 * South Sudan
 * South Sudanese Civil War


 * Sudan
 * War in Darfur
 * South Kordofan conflict

Americas

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

Asia

 * Afghanistan War


 * China
 * Xinjiang conflict


 * India
 * Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
 * Insurgency in Northeast India


 * India and Pakistan
 * Kashmir conflict


 * Pakistan
 * War in North-West Pakistan
 * Balochistan conflict


 * Philippines
 * CPP-NPA-NDF rebellion
 * Moro conflict
 * Cross border attacks in Sabah


 * Southeast Asia
 * Internal conflict in Burma
 * Papua conflict
 * South Thailand insurgency

Europe

 * Georgia
 * Abkhaz–Georgian conflict
 * Georgian–Ossetian conflict


 * Chechen–Russian conflict
 * North Caucasus insurgency
 * War in Ingushetia


 * Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
 * Nagorno-Karabakh conflict


 * Ukraine
 * War in Donbass
 * Russian military intervention in Ukraine

Middle East

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


 * Egypt
 * Sinai insurgency


 * Iran
 * Iran–PJAK conflict


 * Iraqi civil war
 * American-led intervention in Iraq
 * Iranian intervention in Iraq


 * Syrian Civil War
 * American-led intervention in Syria
 * Syrian Civil War spillover in Lebanon


 * Turkey
 * Turkey–PKK conflict
 * Turkey–ISIL conflict


 * Yemeni crisis
 * Houthi rebellion
 * Al-Qaeda insurgency
 * South Yemen insurgency

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Recent

 * December
 * 30: Central African Republic, President, National Assembly (1st round)
 * 30: Kiribati, House of Assembly (1st round)
 * January
 * 7: Kiribati, House of Assembly (2nd round)
 * 16: Taiwan, President, Legislative Yuan
 * 22: Vanuatu, Parliament
 * 24: Portugal, President

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 * February
 * 14: Central African Republic, President (2nd round)
 * 18: Uganda, President, Parliament
 * 21: Bolivia, Constitutional referendum
 * 21: Comoros, President
 * 21: Niger, President (1st round), National Assembly
 * 26: Iran, Islamic Consultative Assembly, Assembly of Experts
 * 28: Benin, President
 * 28: Switzerland, Referendums
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Recently concluded

 * Australia: Brett Peter Cowan, Craig Thomson, Robert Hughes
 * Brazil: Mensalão scandal
 * Canada: Luka Magnotta
 * China: Ji Jianye, Li Chuncheng, Jiang Jiemin, Liao Shaohua, Ni Fake, Chen Baihuai, Zhou Yongkang, Gu Junshan
 * Croatia: Ivo Sanader
 * Egypt: Hosni Mubarak, Peter Greste, Mohamed Morsi
 * Germany: Bernie Ecclestone, Uli Hoeness, Christian Wulff
 * Iran: Mohammad Reza Rahimi
 * Israel: Hussam Qawasmeh
 * Jordan: Abu Qatada
 * Philippines: Joseph Scott Pemberton
 * Romania: Liviu Dragnea, Dan Diaconescu
 * Russia: Leonid Khabarov, Eston Kohver, Vladimir Kvachkov
 * South Africa: Shrien Dewani, Oscar Pistorius
 * Turkey: Kenan Evren, Tahsin Şahinkaya
 * United Kingdom: Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, Kweku Adoboli, Tony McCluskie, Kevin Hutchinson-Foster, Chris Huhne, Nicola Edgington, Vicky Pryce, Derek Rose, Mick Philpott, Mairead Philpott, Paul Mosley, Stuart Hazell, Mark Bridger, Andrew Lancel, Dale Cregan, Ray Wilkins, 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, Gary Glitter, Fred Talbot
 * United States: Abu Hamza al-Masri, Michael Grimm, Jesse Jackson Jr., Bob McDonnell, Vilma Bautista, Jared Lee Loughner, Lauryn Hill, Kermit Gosnell, George Zimmerman, Chelsea Manning, Ariel Castro, Whitey Bulger, Robert Bales, Nidal Malik Hasan, Jodi Arias, Anas al-Libi, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, James Eagan Holmes, Sheldon Silver
 * International
 * ECCC: Nuon Chea, Khieu Samphan
 * ICC: Germain Katanga
 * ICTY: Momčilo Perišić, Mladen Markač, Ante Gotovina, Zdravko Tolimir

Ongoing

 * China: Yao Mugen, Guo Youming, Zhu Zuoli
 * Germany: Beate Zschäpe
 * Iran: Babak Zanjani, Jason Rezaian
 * Philippines: Andal Ampatuan Jr., Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Janet Lim-Napoles, Jovito Palparan
 * Romania: Darius Vâlcov, Dan Șova, Elena Udrea, Radu Mazăre, Gheorghe Nichita, Marian Vanghelie, Cătălin Voicu, Relu Fenechiu, Gheorghe Ștefan, Gabriel Sandu, Dorin Cocoş, Dumitru Nicolae
 * Russia: Alexei Navalny
 * South Korea: MV Sewol crew members
 * United States: Dean Skelos
 * International
 * ICTY: Radovan Karadžić, Ratko Mladić
 * PCA: China

Upcoming
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 * China: Wu Changshun, Ling Jihua
 * Estonia: Edgar Savisaar
 * Libya: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi
 * Spain: Lionel Messi
 * United States: Paul Anthony Ciancia, Javaris Crittenton, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Dylan Quick, Aaron Hernandez, Graham Spanier, Tim Curley, Gary Schultz, Justin Bieber, Chris Brown, Rick Perry
 * International
 * ICC: Laurent Gbagbo
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