Portal:Current events/May 2018/Sidebar

   Ongoing events



 Business


 * 1MDB scandal
 * Panama Papers
 * Paradise Papers
 * Turkish currency and debt crisis

 Culture


 * Weinstein effect

 Disasters


 * Australian bushfire season
 * Cape Town water crisis
 * Oklahoma earthquake swarms
 * Pacific typhoon season
 * European windstorm season
 * 2018 East Africa floods
 * 2018 lower Puna eruption

 Politics


 * Brexit negotiations
 * Cyprus gas dispute
 * European migrant crisis (timeline)
 * Nicaraguan protests
 * North Korean crisis
 * Philippine protests (timeline)
 * Qatar diplomatic crisis
 * Rohingya persecution in Myanmar
 * Spanish constitutional crisis
 * Turkish purges
 * U.S. political sex scandals
 * U.S. Special Counsel investigation (timeline)

 Sports More details – ongoing conflicts
 * NCAA Division I men's basketball corruption scandal

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  Elections and referendums

  Recent

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 * May
 * 17: Burundi, Referendum
 * 20: Venezuela, President
 * 24: Barbados, House of Assembly
 * 25: Ireland, Referendum
 * 27: Colombia, President (1st round)
 * June
 * 3: Slovenia, National Assembly
 * 10: Romania, Referendum
 * 10: Switzerland, Referendum

  Trials

<div style="background-color: ;"> <h3 style="font-size: inherit;"> Recently concluded


 * Australia: Philip Wilson
 * Denmark: Peter Madsen
 * Germany: Hussein Khavari
 * Indonesia: Setya Novanto
 * Philippines: Maria Lourdes Sereno
 * South Korea: Park Geun-hye
 * Spain: La Manada
 * United Kingdom: Paul Golding, Jayda Fransen, Ahmed Hassan
 * United States: Ed Pawlowski, Bill Cosby, Sheldon Silver

<h3 style="font-size: inherit;"> Ongoing


 * Cambodia: Kem Sokha, Mu Sochua
 * Estonia: Edgar Savisaar
 * Germany: Beate Zschäpe
 * Guatemala: Otto Pérez Molina, Roxana Baldetti, Juan Carlos Monzón and others
 * Israel: Faina Kirschenbaum
 * Malaysia: Siti Aisyah and Đoàn Thị Hương
 * Philippines: Leila de Lima
 * Spain: Bárcenas affair, Gürtel case
 * United States: Fat Leonard scandal
 * International
 * ICC: Laurent Gbagbo

<h3 style="font-size: inherit;"> Upcoming


 * Australia: George Pell
 * Canada: Alek Minassian
 * Egypt: Mohamed Morsi
 * Guatemala: Alvaro Colom, Manuel Baldizón, Juan Alberto Fuentes
 * Iran: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
 * Philippines: Andal Ampatuan Jr., Jovito Palparan
 * Romania: Liviu Dragnea
 * South Africa: Jacob Zuma
 * Spain: Jordi Pujol
 * Ukraine: Roman Nasirov
 * United Kingdom: Football sex abuse scandal
 * United States: Patrick Ho, Paul Manafort, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Sayfullo Saipov, Turpin case
 * Zimbabwe: Ignatius Chombo

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<div role="region" aria-labelledby="Sport" style="margin:1.1em 0; border:1px solid ; padding: 0.4em; font-size: 88%;"> <h2 style="display: block; margin: 0; border: none; padding: 0 0.4em; background-color: ; font-size: 125%; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;"> Sport

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 * Association football
 * 2018 FIFA World Cup
 * 2018 UEFA Super Cup
 * 2018 MLS season


 * Women's association football
 * 2017–18 Frauen-Bundesliga
 * 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qual.
 * 2018 NWSL season


 * Baseball
 * 2018 MLB season
 * 2018 NPB season
 * 2018 NCAA Division I
 * Basketball
 * 2018 NBA Finals
 * 2018 WNBA season


 * Golf
 * 2018 PGA Tour
 * 2018 European Tour
 * 2018 LPGA Tour
 * 2018 PGA Tour Champions
 * 2018 Ladies European Tour
 * Ice hockey
 * 2018 Stanley Cup Final


 * Motorsport
 * 2018 Formula One Championship
 * 2018 World Rally Championship
 * 2018 MotoGP
 * 2018 IndyCar Series
 * 2018 NASCAR Cup Series
 * 2018 Supercars Championship
 * Rugby league
 * 2018 NRL season


 * 2018 Super League
 * Rugby union
 * 2017–18 Top 14
 * 2018 Super Rugby season


 * Tennis
 * 2018 ATP World Tour
 * 2018 WTA Tour
 * 2018 Davis Cup (World Group)
 * 2018 Fed Cup (World Group)
 * Other sports seasons
 * 2018 AFL season


 * 2018 international cricket season


 * 2017–18 figure skating season

More details – current sports events

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<div role="region" aria-labelledby="Recent_deaths" style="margin:1.1em 0; border:1px solid ; padding: 0.4em; font-size: 88%;"> <h2 style="display: block; margin: 0; border: none; padding: 0 0.4em; background-color: ; font-size: 125%; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;"> Recent deaths

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<h3 style="font-size: inherit;"> May 2018 [ edit section]
 * 31: Michael D. Ford
 * 29: Muktha Srinivasan
 * 28: Neale Cooper
 * 28: Serge Dassault
 * 28: Cornelia Frances
 * 27: Gardner Dozois
 * 27: Donald H. Peterson
 * 26: Ted Dabney
 * 26: Alan Bean
 * 25: Bill Mallory
 * 24: Angelo Falcón
 * 24: TotalBiscuit
 * 23: Luis Posada Carriles
 * 23: Richard Peck
 * 23: László Tábori
 * 22: Dave Garcia
 * 22: Philip Roth
 * 21: Allyn Ann McLerie
 * 21: Dovey Johnson Roundtree
 * 21: Clint Walker
 * 21: Faith Whittlesey
 * 20: Bill Gold
 * 20: Richard N. Goodwin
 * 20: Patricia Morison
 * 19: Robert Indiana
 * 19: Bernard Lewis
 * 19: Reggie Lucas
 * 18: John Carrick
 * 17: Richard Pipes

<div role="region" aria-labelledby="Ongoing_conflicts" style="margin:1.1em 0; border:1px solid ; padding: 0.4em; font-size: 88%;"> <h2 style="display: block; margin: 0; border: none; padding: 0 0.4em; background-color: ; font-size: 125%; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;"> Ongoing conflicts

<div style="background-color: ;"> <h3 style="font-size: inherit;"> Africa


 * Algeria, Libya and Tunisia
 * Maghreb insurgency
 * Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria
 * Boko Haram insurgency
 * Democratic Republic of the Congo
 * Kivu conflict
 * ADF insurgency
 * Ituri conflict
 * Lord's Resistance Army insurgency
 * Libya
 * Civil war
 * Mali
 * Northern Mali conflict
 * Somalia
 * Civil war
 * South Sudan
 * Ethnic violence (South Sudanese Civil War)
 * Sudan
 * War in Darfur
 * South Kordofan conflict
 * Sudanese nomadic conflicts

<h3 style="font-size: inherit;"> Americas


 * Mexico
 * Mexican War on Drugs
 * Peru
 * Internal conflict in Peru

<h3 style="font-size: inherit;"> Asia


 * Afghanistan
 * Afghanistan War
 * China
 * Xinjiang conflict
 * India
 * Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
 * Insurgency in Northeast India
 * India and Pakistan
 * Kashmir conflict
 * Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines
 * Moro conflict
 * Cross border attacks in Sabah
 * Indonesia and Papua New Guinea
 * Papua conflict
 * Myanmar
 * Internal conflict in Myanmar
 * Northern Rakhine State clashes
 * Pakistan
 * War in North-West Pakistan
 * Balochistan conflict
 * Philippines
 * CPP-NPA-NDF rebellion
 * Thailand
 * South Thailand insurgency

<h3 style="font-size: inherit;"> Europe


 * Armenia and Azerbaijan
 * Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
 * Georgia
 * Abkhaz–Georgian conflict
 * Georgian–Ossetian conflict
 * Russia
 * Chechen–Russian conflict
 * North Caucasus insurgency
 * Ukraine
 * War in Donbass
 * Russian military intervention in Ukraine

<h3 style="font-size: inherit;"> Middle East


 * Egypt
 * Sinai insurgency
 * Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria
 * Arab–Israeli conflict
 * Iran
 * Iran–PJAK conflict
 * Iraq
 * American-led intervention in Iraq
 * Iranian intervention in Iraq
 * Iraq and Syria (map)
 * Military intervention against ISIL
 * Israel and Lebanon
 * Israeli–Lebanese conflict
 * Israel and Palestine
 * Gaza–Israel conflict
 * Israeli–Palestinian conflict
 * Syria
 * American-led intervention in Syria
 * Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War
 * Turkish military intervention in Syria
 * Afrin offensive
 * Syrian Civil War spillover in Lebanon
 * Turkey
 * Turkey–PKK conflict
 * Yemen
 * Yemeni Civil War
 * Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen
 * Al-Qaeda insurgency

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