Portal:Current events/March 2014/Sidebar

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Economic

 * Great Recession
 * Eurozone crisis
 * Greek government-debt crisis

Environmental

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

Health

 * 2014 Guinea ebola outbreak

Political

 * Crimea crisis
 * Russian military intervention in Ukraine
 * Crimea's accession to Russia
 * Garda Síochána phone-tapping scandal
 * Global surveillance disclosures
 * Pro-EU protests in Ukraine
 * South Sudan conflict
 * Taiwan protests
 * Thailand political crisis
 * Venezuela protests
 * More details on ongoing conflicts below

Sports

 * 2014 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament
 * 2014 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament

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March

 * 31: Irene Fernandez
 * 30: Kate O'Mara
 * 30: Phuntsok Wangyal
 * 29: Hobart Alter
 * 29: Karl Spillman Forester
 * 28: Jeremiah Denton
 * 28: Lorenzo Semple, Jr.
 * 27: Derek Martinus
 * 27: James R. Schlesinger
 * 25: Jon Lord
 * 25: Nanda
 * 25: Jonathan Schell
 * 25: Ralph Wilson
 * 24: Oleksandr Muzychko
 * 23: Peter Oakley
 * 23: Adolfo Suárez
 * 23: Oderus Urungus
 * 22: Mickey Duff
 * 22: Patrice Wymore
 * 21: Jack Fleck
 * 21: James Rebhorn
 * 21: Ignatius Zakka I Iwas
 * 20: Hilderaldo Bellini
 * 20: Tonie Nathan
 * 20: Khushwant Singh
 * 19: Fred Phelps
 * 19: Robert Schwarz Strauss
 * 19: Lawrence Walsh
 * 18: Joe Lala
 * 18: Lucius Shepard
 * 17: Oswald Morris
 * 17: L'Wren Scott
 * 16: Gary Bettenhausen
 * 15: Scott Asheton
 * 15: David Brenner
 * 15: Howard Callaway
 * 15: Clarissa Dickson Wright
 * 14: Tony Benn
 * 14: Roger Leir
 * 14: Glenn McDuffie
 * 14: Bob Thomas
 * 13: Reubin Askew
 * 13: Edward Haughey, Baron Ballyedmond
 * 13: Ahmad Tejan Kabbah
 * 12: Věra Chytilová
 * 12: Richard Coogan
 * 12: Shawn Kuykendall
 * 11: Dean Bailey
 * 11: Len Buckeridge
 * 11: Christine Buckley
 * 11: Bob Crow
 * 10: Joe McGinniss
 * 9: Mohammed Fahim
 * 9: William Clay Ford, Sr.
 * 9: Nazario Moreno González
 * 8: Leo Bretholz
 * 8: James Ellis
 * 8: William Guarnere
 * 8: Roy Higgins
 * 8: Wendy Hughes
 * 8: Gerard Mortier
 * 8: Larry Scott
 * 7: Hal Douglas
 * 6: Frank Jobe
 * 6: David Koff
 * 6: Sheila MacRae
 * 6: Marion Thorpe
 * 5: Geoff Edwards
 * 4: Mark Freidkin
 * 4: William R. Pogue
 * 4: Wu Tianming
 * 3: Kurt Chew-Een Lee
 * 3: Harold Mowery
 * 3: Sherwin B. Nuland
 * 2: Ryhor Baradulin
 * 2: Molly Bobak
 * 2: Justin Kaplan
 * 1: Bangaru Laxman
 * 1: Alain Resnais

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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
 * Islamist unrest
 * Sinai insurgency


 * Libya
 * Post-civil war interfactional fighting


 * 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
 * War in Ingushetia

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: March

 * 9: Colombia, Parliament
 * 9: El Salvador, President (2nd round)
 * 9: North Korea, Parliament
 * 15: Slovakia, President (1st round)
 * 16: Serbia, Parliament
 * 22: Maldives, Parliament
 * 29: Slovakia, President (2nd round)

Upcoming: April

 * 5: Afghanistan, President (tentative)
 * 6: Costa Rica, President (2nd round)
 * 6: Hungary, Parliament
 * 7: India, Parliament (1st phase)
 * 9: India, Parliament (2nd phase)
 * 9: Indonesia, Legislative
 * 10: India, Parliament (3rd phase)
 * 12: India, Parliament (4th phase)
 * 13: Guinea-Bissau, General
 * 13: Macedonia, President (1st round)
 * 17: Algeria, President
 * 17: India, Parliament (5th phase)
 * 24: India, Parliament (6th phase)
 * 27: Macedonia, President (2nd round) and parliament
 * 30: India, Parliament (7th phase)
 * 30: Iraq, Parliament

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Recently concluded

 * Australia: Brett Peter Cowan, Craig Thomson
 * Canada: Michael Thomas Rafferty
 * China: Bo Xilai
 * Croatia: Ivo Sanader
 * Germany: Breno Borges
 * Italy: Silvio Berlusconi
 * 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 Hall, 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
 * 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

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
 * Hong Kong: Alfredo Lim
 * 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
 * Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein
 * Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra
 * Turkey: Ergenekon network, Kenan Evren
 * United Kingdom: Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson, Eddy Shah, Koo Stark, Max Clifford, Nicholas Jacobs, Nigel Evans
 * United States: Jodi Arias

Upcoming
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 * France: Éric Raoult
 * Germany: Bernie Ecclestone
 * Ivory Coast: Laurent Gbagbo
 * Jordan: Abu Qatada
 * Libya: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi
 * United Kingdom: Dane Bowers, Rolf Harris
 * 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
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