Portal:Current events/May 2013/Sidebar

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Economic

 * Great Recession
 * European sovereign-debt crisis
 * Greek economic crisis
 * Cypriot financial crisis

Environmental

 * North American drought
 * 2013 extreme weather events

Food safety

 * Meat adulteration scandal

Political

 * More details on ongoing conflicts below

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May

 * 31: Richie Phillips
 * 31: Jean Stapleton
 * 30: Rituparno Ghosh
 * 29: Andrew Greeley
 * 29: Helen Hanft
 * 29: Cliff Meely
 * 29: Henry Morgentaler
 * 29: Margaret Shields
 * 28: Viktor Kulikov
 * 27: Bill Pertwee
 * 26: Roberto Civita
 * 26: Otto Muehl
 * 26: Jack Vance
 * 25: Marshall Lytle
 * 25: Jimmy Wray
 * 25: Lewis Yocum
 * 24: Ed Shaughnessy
 * 23: Hazel Hawke
 * 22: Henri Dutilleux
 * 22: Brian Greenhoff
 * 22: Mick McManus
 * 22: Richard Thorp
 * 21: Trevor Bolder
 * 21: Eddie Braben
 * 21: Dominique Venner
 * 20: Ray Manzarek
 * 19: Bella Flores
 * 18: Aleksei Balabanov
 * 18: Steve Forrest
 * 18: Penne Hackforth-Jones
 * 17: Alan O'Day
 * 17: Jorge Rafael Videla
 * 17: Ken Venturi
 * 16: Paul Shane
 * 16: Dick Trickle
 * 16: Heinrich Rohrer
 * 15: Jens Elmegård Rasmussen
 * 14: Billie Sol Estes
 * 14: Chuck Muncie
 * 13: Joyce Brothers
 * 12: Kenneth Waltz
 * 12: Kenneth
 * 12: Toni Linhart
 * 12: Bill Miles
 * 11: Jack Butler
 * 11: Doug Finley
 * 10: Barbara Callcott
 * 9: Vincent Dowling
 * 9: Sanaullah Haq
 * 9: Alfredo Landa
 * 9: George M. Leader
 * 9: Ottavio Missoni
 * 9: Malcolm Shabazz
 * 9: Andrew Simpson
 * 8: Asaph Schwapp
 * 8: Bryan Forbes
 * 8: Jeanne Cooper
 * 8: Alan Abelson
 * 7: George Sauer, Jr
 * 7: Ray Harryhausen
 * 6: Giulio Andreotti
 * 6: Steve Martland
 * 5: Dean Jeffries
 * 5: Helmin Wiels
 * 4: Christian de Duve
 * 4: Otis R. Bowen
 * 4: Mario Machado
 * 4: Frederic Franklin
 * 3: Herbert Blau
 * 3: Cedric Brooks
 * 3: Brad Drewett
 * 2: Jeff Hanneman
 * 2: Sarabjit Singh

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Global

 * War on Terror
 * Terrorist incidents
 * Operation Active Endeavour
 * Operation Enduring Freedom
 * War on Drugs

Africa

 * Lord's Resistance Army insurgency
 * Maghreb insurgency
 * OEF - Horn of Africa
 * OEF - Trans Sahara


 * DR Congo:
 * M23 rebellion


 * Egypt
 * Egyptian protests


 * Libya:
 * Libyan factional fighting


 * Mali:
 * Northern Mali conflict


 * Nigeria:
 * Nigerian Sharia conflict
 * Niger Delta conflict


 * Somalia:
 * Civil War
 * Piracy


 * Sudan and South Sudan:
 * Sudan internal conflict
 * South Sudan internal conflict

Americas

 * Colombian conflict
 * Mexican Drug War

Asia

 * Afghanistan War:
 * Military operations
 * Taliban insurgency


 * Pakistan:
 * North-West War
 * Sectarian violence


 * India:
 * Naxalite–Maoist insurgency


 * Islamic insurgency in the Philippines:
 * Operation Enduring Freedom – Philippines


 * Korea:
 * Korean crisis
 * Korean maritime border conflict


 * Southeast Asia:
 * Cambodian–Thai border dispute
 * Kachin conflict
 * Papua conflict
 * South Thailand insurgency
 * Territorial disputes in the South China Sea

Europe

 * North Caucasus insurgency
 * War in Ingushetia
 * Dissident Irish Republican campaign

Middle East

 * Arab–Israeli conflict
 * Gaza–Israel conflict
 * Israeli–Palestinian conflict
 * Israeli–Lebanese conflict
 * Israel–Iran proxy conflict


 * Iraqi insurgency


 * Kurdistan:
 * Kurdish–Iranian conflict


 * Syrian civil war

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 * Yemen:
 * al-Qaeda crackdown
 * South Yemen insurgency
 * Shia insurgency
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Recent: May

 * 5: Malaysia, General
 * 11: Pakistan, General
 * 12: Bulgaria, Parliament
 * 13: Philippines, House of Representatives, Senate (one half)
 * 26: Equatorial Guinea, Parliament

Upcoming: June

 * 14: Iran, President
 * 23: Albania, Parliament
 * 26: Mongolia, President

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Recently concluded

 * Canada: Michael Rafferty
 * Croatia: Ivo Sanader
 * Egypt: Hosni Mubarak, Alaa Mubarak, Gamal Mubarak
 * Germany: Breno Borges
 * Indonesia: Abu Bakar Bashir
 * Netherlands: Ante Gotovina (ICTY), Mladen Markač (ICTY), Momčilo Perišić (ICTY)
 * Norway: Anders Behring Breivik
 * Russia: Leonid Khabarov, Vladimir Kvachkov, Pussy Riot
 * 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, 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
 * United States: Noshir Gowadia, Buju Banton, Barry Bonds, Raj Rajaratnam, Casey Anthony, Conrad Murray, George Huguely, Allen Stanford, Roger Clemens, Jerry Sandusky, Jared Lee Loughner, Lauryn Hill, Kermit Gosnell

Ongoing

 * Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal
 * Canada: Luka Magnotta
 * China: Organized crime in Chongqing
 * France: Church of Scientology
 * Germany: Beate Zschape
 * 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
 * Russia: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev
 * Singapore: Tak Boleh Tahan
 * South Africa: Oscar Pistorius
 * Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein
 * Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra
 * Turkey: Ergenekon network, Kenan Evren
 * United Kingdom: Koo Stark, Dale Cregan, Liam Adams
 * United States: Ahmed Ghailani, David Headley, Charles P. White, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Viktor Bout, Jodi Arias
 * Vatican: Vatileaks scandal

Upcoming
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 * Czech Republic: Václav Klaus
 * France: Éric Raoult
 * Italy: Silvio Berlusconi
 * Libya: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi
 * Ivory Coast: Laurent Gbagbo
 * South Africa: Oscar Pistorius
 * United Kingdom: Dane Bowers, Max Clifford
 * United States: Nidal Malik Hasan, Javaris Crittenton, Bradley Manning, Robert Bales, George Zimmerman, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Peter Madoff, Christian Gerhartsreiter, Crystal Mangum, Dylan Quick, Richie Farmer, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, James Eagan Holmes, Ariel Castro
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