Portal:Current events/July 2014/Sidebar

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Disasters

 * Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 search efforts

Economic

 * Eurozone crisis
 * Greek government-debt crisis

Environmental

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

Health

 * West Africa Ebola outbreak

Political

 * Garda Síochána phone-tapping scandal
 * Global surveillance disclosures
 * Israel–Gaza conflict
 * Pro-Russian conflict in Ukraine
 * Russian military intervention in Ukraine
 * South Sudanese Civil War
 * Venezuela protests


 * More details on ongoing conflicts below

Sports

 * July 23 – August 3: Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland

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July

 * 30: Robert Drew
 * 30: Julio Grondona
 * 30: Dick Wagner
 * 29: Hashmat Karzai
 * 29: Sheik Umar Khan
 * 29: Péter Kiss
 * 28: Margot Adler
 * 28: Torrin Lawrence
 * 28: Johnny Rebb
 * 28: James Shigeta
 * 28: Theodore Van Kirk
 * 27: Sir Richard Bolt
 * 27: Kyozan Joshu Sasaki
 * 27: Paul Schell
 * 26: Oleh Babayev
 * 25: Carlo Bergonzi
 * 25: Çolpan İlhan
 * 25: Bel Kaufman
 * 25: Richard Larter
 * 24: Ian Rees Davies
 * 24: Dale Schlueter
 * 23: Dora Bryan
 * 22: Johann Breyer
 * 22: Robert Newhouse
 * 21: Dan Borislow
 * 21: Kevin Skinner
 * 20: Victor G. Atiyeh
 * 19: Skye McCole Bartusiak
 * 19: James Garner
 * 19: Norberto Odebrecht
 * 19: John Winkin
 * 18: João Ubaldo Ribeiro
 * 18: Augie Rodriguez
 * 17: Lionel Ferbos
 * 17: Joep Lange
 * 17: Otto Piene
 * 17: Elaine Stritch
 * 17: Willem Witteveen
 * 16: Karl Albrecht
 * 16: Johnny Winter
 * 15: James MacGregor Burns
 * 14: Alice Coachman
 * 14: Vintage Crop
 * 13: Thomas Berger
 * 13: Nadine Gordimer
 * 13: Lorin Maazel
 * 12: Kenneth J. Gray
 * 12: Red Klotz
 * 12: Valeriya Novodvorskaya
 * 11: Charlie Haden
 * 11: Tommy Ramone
 * 11: John Seigenthaler
 * 10: Curt Gentry
 * 10: Zohra Sehgal
 * 9: David Azrieli
 * 9: Eileen Ford
 * 8: Maxine Cochran
 * 8: Ben Pangelinan
 * 8: Howard Siler
 * 7: Alfredo Di Stéfano
 * 7: Dick Jones
 * 7: Lammtarra
 * 7: Eduard Shevardnadze
 * 7: Peter Underwood
 * 6: Alan J. Dixon
 * 6: Dave Legeno
 * 5: Robert Jeangerard
 * 5: Peter Robert Marler
 * 5: Rosemary Murphy
 * 5: Volodymyr Sabodan
 * 4: Richard Mellon Scaife
 * 3: Guy Gaucher
 * 2: Louis Zamperini
 * 1: Jean Garon
 * 1: Anatoly Kornukov
 * 1: Walter Dean Myers

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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
 * 2014 Libyan conflict


 * 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


 * Korea
 * Korean maritime border conflict


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


 * Philippines
 * Communist insurgency
 * Moro insurgency


 * Russia
 * North Caucasus insurgency


 * 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
 * Pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine
 * 2014 insurgency in Donetsk and Luhansk

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: July

 * 2: Lebanon, President (8th round; indirect [aborted])
 * 9: Indonesia, President
 * 9: Cook Islands, General
 * 13: Slovenia, Parliament
 * 23: Lebanon, President (9th round; indirect [aborted])

Upcoming: August

 * 10: Turkey, President (1st round)
 * 12: Lebanon, President (10th round; indirect)
 * 24: Abkhazia, President
 * 24: Turkey, President (2nd round)

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Recently concluded

 * Australia: Brett Peter Cowan, Craig Thomson, Robert Hughes
 * Canada: Michael Thomas Rafferty
 * China: Bo Xilai
 * Croatia: Ivo Sanader
 * Germany: Breno Borges
 * Italy: Silvio Berlusconi
 * Jordan: Abu Qatada
 * Netherlands: Ante Gotovina (ICTY), Mladen Markač (ICTY), Momčilo Perišić (ICTY), Germain Katanga (ICC)
 * 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 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
 * United States: Noshir Gowadia, 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, Abu Hamza al-Masri

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, Uli Hoeness, Bernie Ecclestone
 * Hong Kong: Alfredo Lim
 * Iran: Babak Zanjani
 * 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, Janet Lim-Napoles, Bongbong Marcos, Imelda Marcos, Jovito Palparan
 * Russia: Platon Lebedev
 * South Africa: Oscar Pistorius
 * South Korea: MV Sewol crew members
 * Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein
 * Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra
 * Turkey: Kenan Evren
 * United Kingdom: Eddy Shah, Koo Stark
 * United States: Jodi Arias

Upcoming
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 * France: Éric Raoult
 * Ivory Coast: Laurent Gbagbo
 * Libya: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi
 * United Kingdom: Dane Bowers, Dave Lee Travis, Gary Glitter, Andy Coulson
 * 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, Justin Bieber, Chris Brown
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