Portal:Current events/March 2012/Sidebar

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Political

 * Occupy movement
 * Arab Spring
 * Post-Tunisian Revolution
 * Post-Egyptian revolution
 * Libyan factional fighting
 * Bahraini uprising - ongoing
 * Syrian uprising - ongoing
 * Malian coup d'état
 * News International phone hacking scandal

Economic

 * Global financial crisis
 * European sovereign debt crisis
 * Greek economic crisis
 * Icelandic financial crisis
 * Irish financial crisis
 * Spanish financial crisis
 * Smartphone patent wars

Scientific

 * Expedition 30

Medical
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 * AIDS pandemic
 * HIV/AIDS in Africa
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March

 * 31: Judith Adams
 * 30: Leonid Shebarshin
 * 29: Albert Hadley
 * 29: Montjeu
 * 29: Michael Peterson
 * 28: Harry Crews
 * 28: Earl Scruggs
 * 27: Hilton Kramer
 * 27: Adrienne Rich
 * 25: Priscilla Buckley
 * 25: Tony Newton
 * 25: Larry Stevenson
 * 25: Bert Sugar
 * 25: Antonio Tabucchi
 * 24: Paul Callaghan
 * 24: Vince Lovegrove
 * 24: Jocky Wilson
 * 23: Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed
 * 22: Mohammed Merah
 * 21: Ron Erhardt
 * 21: Tonino Guerra
 * 21: Lincoln Hall
 * 20: Mel Parnell
 * 20: Jim Stynes
 * 18: George Tupou V
 * 18: Furman Bisher
 * 17: Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria
 * 17: John Demjanjuk
 * 17: Margaret Whitlam
 * 17: Chaleo Yoovidhya
 * 16: Estanislau Basora
 * 16: Mervyn Davies
 * 14: Pierre Schoendoerffer
 * 14: Ċensu Tabone
 * 13: Jock Hobbs
 * 12: Michael Hossack
 * 12: Friedhelm Konietzka
 * 11: John Souza
 * 11: Ian Turpie
 * 10: Frank Sherwood Rowland
 * 10: Jean Giraud
 * 9: Peter Bergman
 * 8: Minoru Mori
 * 8: Simin Daneshvar
 * 7: Włodzimierz Smolarek
 * 6: Marcos Alonso Imaz
 * 6: Donald M. Payne
 * 5: Francisco Xavier do Amaral
 * 5: Philip Madoc
 * 5: Robert B. Sherman
 * 5: William Heirens
 * 4: Paul McBride
 * 4: Don Mincher
 * 4: Runako Morton
 * 4: John C. Reiss
 * 3: Ralph McQuarrie
 * 3: Ronnie Montrose
 * 3: Alex Webster
 * 2: Norman St John-Stevas
 * 2: Van T. Barfoot
 * 2: James Q. Wilson
 * 1: Blagoje Adžić
 * 1: Andrew Breitbart
 * 1: Lucio Dalla

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Global

 * War on terror
 * Terrorist incidents
 * Operation Active Endeavour
 * Operation Enduring Freedom
 * War on drugs

Africa

 * Maghreb insurgency
 * OEF - Trans Sahara
 * Casamance conflict
 * Niger Delta conflict
 * Nigerian Sharia conflict
 * South Kordofan conflict
 * South Sudan tribal clashes
 * Lord's Resistance Army insurgency
 * Somalia:
 * Civil war
 * Somali Civil War (2009–present)
 * Piracy
 * OEF - Horn of Africa
 * Tuareg Rebellion

Europe

 * North Caucasus insurgency
 * Ingushetia civil war
 * Dissident Irish Republican campaign

Middle East

 * Iraqi insurgency
 * Iran–Jundallah conflict
 * Arab–Israeli conflict
 * Israeli–Palestinian conflict
 * Israeli–Lebanese conflict
 * Palestinian political violence and rocket attacks
 * Yemen:
 * Terrorism
 * al-Qaeda crackdown
 * South Yemen insurgency
 * Shia insurgency
 * Kurdistan:
 * Turkey–PKK conflict

Asia

 * Afghanistan War
 * Military operations
 * Taliban insurgency
 * Pakistan:
 * Terrorism
 * North-West War
 * Balochistan conflict
 * Drone attacks
 * Sectarian violence
 * India:
 * Terrorism
 * Jammu and Kashmir insurgency
 * Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
 * Northeast India insurgency
 * Nagaland ethnic conflict
 * Kashmir conflict
 * Siachen conflict
 * Korean maritime border incidents
 * Southeast Asia:
 * Laos insurgency
 * South Thailand insurgency
 * Cambodian–Thai border dispute
 * Territorial disputes in the South China Sea
 * Islamic insurgency in the Philippines
 * Operation Enduring Freedom – Philippines
 * Papua conflict

Americas

 * Colombian conflict

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Recent: March

 * 11: El Salvador, Parliament
 * 11: Switzerland, Referendum
 * 16: Moldova, President (indirect)
 * 17: East Timor, President
 * 18: Germany, President (indirect)
 * 18: Guinea-Bissau, President (1st round)
 * 24: Abkhazia, Parliament (2nd round)
 * 25: Hong Kong, Chief Executive (indirect)
 * 25: Senegal, President (2nd round)
 * 25: Slovenia, Family Code referendum
 * 25: South Ossetia, President (1st round)
 * 29: Gambia, Parliament

Upcoming: March

 * 31: Mauritania, Parliament

Upcoming: April

 * 8: South Ossetia, President (2nd round)
 * 11: South Korea, Parliament
 * 16: East Timor, President (2nd round)
 * 22: France, President (1st round)
 * 22: Guinea-Bissau, President (2nd round)
 * 27: Papua New Guinea, General

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Recently concluded

 * Cambodia: Kang Kek Iew
 * France: Jacques Chirac, John Galliano
 * Germany: John Demjanjuk
 * Italy: Amanda Knox, Raffaele Sollecito
 * Indonesia: Abu Bakar Bashir
 * Netherlands: Geert Wilders
 * Peru: Joran van der Sloot
 * Russia: Bhagavad Gita
 * Ukraine: Yulia Tymoshenko
 * United Kingdom: Levi Bellfield, Robert Black, Vincent Tabak, Ali Dizaei, Antoni Imiela, Brian Regan, Donna Air
 * United States: Faisal Shahzad, Noshir Gowadia, Buju Banton, Barry Bonds, Raj Rajaratnam, Rod Blagojevich, Casey Anthony, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Conrad Murray, George Huguely, Allen Stanford

Ongoing

 * Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal
 * Canada: Russell Williams, Michael Rafferty
 * China: Organized crime in Chongqing
 * France: Church of Scientology, Carlos the Jackal
 * Germany: Heinrich Boere
 * Iraq: Supreme Criminal Tribunal
 * Iran: Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani
 * Malaysia: Anwar Ibrahim
 * Netherlands: Thomas Lubanga (ICC), Radovan Karadžić (ICTY)
 * Palau: Tommy Remengesau
 * Philippines: Andal Ampatuan Jr.
 * Russia: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev
 * Sierra Leone: Charles Taylor (SCFSL)
 * Singapore: Tak Boleh Tahan
 * South Africa: Chris Mahlangu
 * Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein
 * Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra
 * Tunisia: Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
 * Turkey: Ergenekon network
 * United States: Roger Clemens, Ahmed Ghailani, David Headley, Jared Lee Loughner, Charles P. White, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Viktor Bout

Upcoming
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 * Egypt: Hosni Mubarak, Alaa Mubarak, Gamal Mubarak
 * Ivory Coast: Laurent Gbagbo
 * Norway: Anders Behring Breivik
 * United States: Nidal Malik Hasan, John Edwards, Javaris Crittenton, Bradley Manning, Jerry Sandusky, Robert Bales
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