Portal:Current events/May 2012/Sidebar

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Political

 * Arab Spring
 * Post-Tunisian Revolution
 * Libyan factional fighting
 * Egyptian revolution
 * Egyptian presidential election
 * Bahraini uprising
 * Syrian uprising
 * Yemeni revolution

Economic

 * Global financial crisis
 * European sovereign-debt crisis
 * Greek economic crisis

Scientific

 * Expedition 31

Medical

 * AIDS pandemic
 * HIV/AIDS in Africa

Celebrations
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 * Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II

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May

 * 31: Orlando Woolridge


 * 30: Andrew Huxley
 * 30: Jack Twyman
 * 29: Kaneto Shindo
 * 29: Doc Watson
 * 27: Simeon Daniel
 * 27: Friedrich Hirzebruch
 * 27: Johnny Tapia
 * 25: Edoardo Mangiarotti
 * 24: Jacqueline Harpman
 * 23: Paul Fussell
 * 20: Robin Gibb
 * 20: Abdelbaset al-Megrahi
 * 20: Eugene Polley
 * 19: Bob Boozer
 * 18: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
 * 17: Herbert Breslin
 * 17: Warda Al-Jazairia
 * 17: Donna Summer
 * 16: Chuck Brown
 * 15: Carlos Fuentes
 * 13: Donald "Duck" Dunn
 * 13: Arsalan Rahmani
 * 12: Harold Arthur Poling
 * 12: Ken Selby
 * 11: Tony DeZuniga
 * 10: Horst Faas
 * 10: Joyce Redman
 * 10: Carroll Shelby
 * 9: Geoffrey Henry
 * 9: Vidal Sassoon
 * 8: Roman Totenberg
 * 8: Maurice Sendak
 * 7: Ferenc Bartha
 * 6: Iraj Ghaderi
 * 6: George Lindsey
 * 6: Fahd Mohammed Ahmed al-Quso
 * 4: Adam Yauch
 * 4: Rashidi Yekini
 * 3: Lloyd Brevett
 * 3: Digby Wolfe
 * 2: Junior Seau
 * 1: Charles Pitts

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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
 * Sudan internal conflict
 * South Sudan internal conflict
 * South Sudan–Sudan border conflict
 * 2012 East DR Congo conflict
 * 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
 * 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
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 * Colombian conflict
 * Mexican drug war

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Recent: May

 * 20: Dominican Republic, President
 * 20: Serbia, President (2nd round)
 * 23–24: Egypt, President (1st round)
 * 26: Lesotho, General
 * 30: Albania, President (indirect)

Upcoming: May

 * 31: Ireland, Constitutional referendum

Upcoming: June

 * 10: France, Parliament (1st round)
 * 13: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Senate (indirect)
 * 16–17: Egypt, President (2nd round)
 * 17: France, Parliament (2nd round)
 * 17: Greece, Parliament
 * 19: Libya, Public National Conference
 * 23: Papua New Guinea, Parliament

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Recently concluded

 * Cambodia: Kang Kek Iew
 * Canada: Michael Rafferty
 * France: Jacques Chirac, John Galliano
 * Germany: John Demjanjuk, Heinrich Boere
 * Iceland: Geir Haarde
 * Indonesia: Abu Bakar Bashir
 * Italy: Amanda Knox, Raffaele Sollecito
 * Netherlands: Geert Wilders, Charles Taylor
 * Peru: Joran van der Sloot
 * Russia: Bhagavad Gita
 * Sierra Leone: Charles Taylor (SCFSL)
 * South Africa: Chris Mahlangu
 * Ukraine: Yulia Tymoshenko
 * United Kingdom: Levi Bellfield, Robert Black, Vincent Tabak, Ali Dizaei, Antoni Imiela, Brian Regan, Donna Air, Ched Evans, Clayton McDonald, Titus Bramble
 * 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 trials

 * Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal
 * China: Organized crime in Chongqing
 * Egypt: Hosni Mubarak, Alaa Mubarak, Gamal Mubarak
 * France: Church of Scientology, Carlos the Jackal
 * Iraq: Supreme Criminal Tribunal
 * Malaysia: Anwar Ibrahim
 * Netherlands: Thomas Lubanga (ICC), Radovan Karadžić (ICTY), Ratko Mladic (ICTY)
 * Norway: Anders Behring Breivik
 * Palau: Tommy Remengesau
 * Philippines: Andal Ampatuan Jr.
 * Russia: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev
 * Singapore: Tak Boleh Tahan
 * Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein
 * Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra
 * Tunisia: Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
 * Turkey: Ergenekon network, Kenan Evren
 * United Kingdom: Iftikhar and Farzana Ahmed
 * United States: Roger Clemens, Ahmed Ghailani, David Headley, Jared Lee Loughner, Charles P. White, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Viktor Bout, John Edwards

Upcoming Trials
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 * Ivory Coast: Laurent Gbagbo
 * United Kingdom: Justin Lee Collins
 * United States: Nidal Malik Hasan, Javaris Crittenton, Bradley Manning, Jerry Sandusky, Robert Bales, George Zimmerman, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
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