Portal:Current events/July 2009/Sidebar

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Economic

 * Automotive industry crisis
 * Financial crisis
 * Worldwide recession

Health / Medicine

 * H1N1 - 2009 flu pandemic
 * H5N1 ("Bird Flu")

Humanitarian

 * Haitian migrant shipwreck
 * Mediterranean wildfires

Political / Military

 * Spanish bombings
 * Bombing of Burgos
 * Bombing of Palma Nova
 * Honduran political crisis
 * Iranian election protests
 * Peruvian political crisis
 * Nigerian battles
 * North Korean nuclear program
 * Obama–Gates controversy
 * Piracy in Somalia
 * Thai political crisis
 * Treaty of Lisbon ratification

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July
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 * 31: Bobby Robson
 * 30: Peter Zadek
 * 27: George Russell
 * 26: Merce Cunningham
 * 25: Stanley Middleton
 * 25: Harry Patch
 * 24: José Carlos da Costa Araújo
 * 24: Harry Towb
 * 23: E. Lynn Harris
 * 19: Frank McCourt
 * 19: Henry Surtees
 * 18: Henry Allingham
 * 17: Meir Amit
 * 17: Walter Cronkite
 * 17: Leszek Kołakowski
 * 15: Natalya Estemirova
 * 11: Reg Fleming
 * 11: Arturo Gatti
 * 11: Ji Xianlin
 * 10: Edward Downes
 * 10: Ebba Haslund
 * 6: Vasily Aksyonov
 * 6: Oscar G. Mayer Jr.
 * 6: Robert McNamara
 * 6: Mathieu Montcourt
 * 5: Takeo Doi
 * 4: Allen Klein
 * 4: Robert Louis-Dreyfus
 * 4: Steve McNair
 * 4: Lasse Strömstedt
 * 4: Jean-Baptiste Tati Loutard
 * 1: Alexis Argüello
 * 1: Karl Malden
 * 1: Marwa El-Sherbini
 * 1: Mollie Sugden
 * 1: Lyudmila Zykina
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Worldwide

 * War on terror

Africa / Middle East

 * Chadian Civil War
 * War in Darfur
 * Kivu conflict
 * Iraq War
 * Israeli–Palestinian conflict
 * Maghreb insurgency
 * Niger Delta conflict
 * Nigerian religious violence
 * Somali Civil War
 * Second Tuareg Rebellion
 * Turkey–PKK conflict

Asia

 * War in Afghanistan
 * Balochistan conflict
 * Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
 * Insurgency in the Philippines
 * Laotian Secret War
 * Ethnic conflict in Nagaland
 * Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
 * War in North-West Pakistan
 * South Thailand insurgency

Americas

 * Colombian conflict
 * Mexican drug war

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July

 * 8: Indonesia, President (1st Round)
 * 12: Republic of the Congo, President
 * 18: Mauritania, President
 * 23: Kyrgyzstan, President
 * 29: Moldova, Parliament

August

 * 2: Comoros, Parliament
 * 4: Niger, Constitutional referendum
 * 20: Afghanistan, President
 * 20: Niger, Parliament
 * 30: Gabon, President
 * 30: Japan, Parliament

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Recently concluded

 * New Zealand: Nai Yin Xue
 * New Zealand: David Bain (retrial)
 * Peru: Alberto Fujimori
 * Sweden: The Pirate Bay
 * United States: James Charles Kopp, Aníbal Acevedo Vilá, Phil Spector, Bernard Madoff

Ongoing

 * Burma: Aung San Suu Kyi
 * Cambodia]]: Khmer Rouge Tribunal
 * Canada: Larry O'Brien
 * France: Church of Scientology
 * Iraq: Supreme Criminal Tribunal
 * Italy: Raffaele Sollecito, Amanda Knox
 * Netherlands: Thomas Lubanga (ICC), Radovan Karadžić (ICTY)
 * Republic of China]]: Chen Shui-bian
 * Russia: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev
 * Sierra Leone: Charles Taylor (SCFSL)
 * Singapore: Tak Boleh Tahan
 * Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra
 * United States: Jena Six

Upcoming
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 * Germany: John Demjanjuk
 * United Kingdom: Allen Stanford
 * United States: Viktor Bout, Noshir Gowadia, William J. Jefferson, Sheila Dixon, Joseph Bruno
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Current

 * 1: Feast of Kamál (Baháʼí Faith)
 * 1: Feast of the Cross (Eastern Christianity)
 * 1–14: Dormition Fast (Eastern Christianity)
 * 1: Lammas/Lughnasadh (Gaels, Neopaganism, Wicca in Northern Hemisphere, England, Scotland))
 * 1: Imbolc (Neopaganism, Wicca in Southern Hemisphere)
 * 1: Emancipation Day (Barbados, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago)
 * 1: Independence Day (Benin)
 * 1: Province Day (Guadalcanal)
 * 1: Army Day (China)
 * 1: Swiss National Day
 * 1: King's Birthday (Tonga)
 * 1: Yorkshire Day (Yorkshire)

Upcoming

 * 2: National Tree Day (Australia)
 * 2: Virgen de los Angeles (Costa Rica)
 * 2: Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising Day (Macedonia)

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