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Disasters

 * Great Britain and Ireland floods
 * Saudi Arabia floods

Economic

 * Automotive industry crisis
 * Financial crisis
 * Worldwide recession

Medical

 * H1N1/09 flu pandemic
 * West African meningitis outbreak
 * HIV/AIDS in Africa

Political

 * Health care reform debate
 * Honduran constitutional crisis
 * Maguindanao massacre
 * Nigerien constitutional crisis

Scientific

 * Expedition 21

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November

 * 29: Prince Alexander of Belgium
 * 29: Robert Holdstock
 * 24: Samak Sundaravej
 * 22: Billy Joe Daugherty
 * 22: Ali Kordan
 * 22: Juan Carlos Muñoz
 * 21: Konstantin Feoktistov
 * 20: Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi
 * 20: Lino Lacedelli
 * 20: Celso Pitta
 * 19: Daul Kim
 * 18: Jeanne-Claude
 * 16: Robert J. Frankel
 * 16: Edward Woodward
 * 15: Antonio de Nigris
 * 15: Pierre Harmel
 * 15: Patriarch Pavle of Serbia

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Africa / Middle East

 * Chadian Civil War
 * Iraq War
 * Israeli–Palestinian conflict
 * Maghreb insurgency
 * Niger Delta conflict
 * Shia insurgency in Yemen
 * South Yemen insurgency
 * Somali Civil War
 * Turkey–PKK conflict

Asia

 * War in Afghanistan
 * Balochistan conflict
 * Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
 * Insurgency in the Philippines
 * Ethnic conflict in Nagaland
 * Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
 * War in North-West Pakistan
 * South Thailand insurgency

Americas

 * Colombian conflict
 * Mexican drug war

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November

 * 7: Northern Mariana Islands, Governor and Legislative
 * 10: Moldova, President (indirect)
 * 22: Romania, President ( round) and constitutional referendum
 * 23: Northern Mariana Islands, Governor ( round)
 * 25: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, constitutional referendum
 * 27–28: Namibia, General

Upcoming: November

 * 29: Equatorial Guinea, President
 * 29: Honduras, General
 * 29: Switzerland, Referendum
 * 29: Uruguay, President ( round)

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Recently concluded

 * Burma: Aung San Suu Kyi
 * Canada: Larry O'Brien
 * New Zealand: Clayton Weatherston
 * Peru: Alberto Fujimori
 * Sweden: The Pirate Bay
 * Republic of China: Chen Shui-bian
 * United States: James Charles Kopp, Aníbal Acevedo Vilá, Phil Spector, Bernard Madoff, William J. Jefferson

Ongoing

 * Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal
 * China: Organized crime in Chongqing
 * France: Church of Scientology
 * Germany: Heinrich Boere
 * Iraq: Supreme Criminal Tribunal
 * Italy: Raffaele Sollecito, Amanda Knox
 * Netherlands: Thomas Lubanga (ICC), Radovan Karadžić (ICTY)
 * Palau: Thomas Remengesau Jr.
 * Russia: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev
 * Sierra Leone]]: Charles Taylor (SCFSL)
 * Singapore: Tak Boleh Tahan
 * Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra
 * United States: Jena Six

Upcoming
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 * Germany: John Demjanjuk
 * Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein
 * United Kingdom: Allen Stanford
 * United States: Viktor Bout, Noshir Gowadia, Ehren Watada, Sheila Dixon, Joseph Bruno
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Ongoing

 * 15 – December 24: Nativity Fast (Eastern Christianity)
 * 25–30: Hajj (Islam)
 * 27–30: Eid al-Adha (Islam)
 * 27–28: Buy Nothing Day (Anti-consumerism)

Current

 * 28: Ascension of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá (Baháʼí Faith)
 * 28: Feast of the Holy Sovereigns (Episcopal Diocese of Hawaii)
 * 28: Independence Day (Albania)
 * 28: Proclamation of the Republic Day (Chad)
 * 28: Declaration of Independence Day (East Timor)
 * 28: Independence Day (Mauritania)
 * 28: Independence Day (Panama)

Upcoming

 * 29: Advent Sunday (Western Christianity)
 * 29 – December 24: Advent (Western Christianity)
 * 29: Liberation Day (Albania)
 * 29: Kaf-Tet November (Israel)
 * 29: William Tubman's Birthday (Liberia)
 * 30: Cities for Life Day
 * 30: Independence Day (Barbados)
 * 30: Bonifacio Day (Philippines)
 * 30: St. Andrew's Day (Scotland)
 * 30: Independence Day (Yemen)

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