Portal:Current events/November 2010/Sidebar

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Economic

 * Automotive industry crisis
 * Global financial crisis
 * European sovereign debt crisis
 * Greek economic crisis

Medical

 * HIV/AIDS in Africa
 * Haiti cholera outbreak

Political

 * 2007–2011 Belgian political crisis

Scientific

 * Expedition 25

Disasters

 * Pike River Mine disaster

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November

 * 29: Mario Monicelli
 * 29: Irvin Kershner
 * 28: Giorgos Fountas
 * 28: Leslie Nielsen
 * 25: Bernard Matthews
 * 25: Alfred Balk
 * 24: Peter Christopherson
 * 22: Frank Fenner
 * 20: Chalmers Johnson
 * 20: David Nolan
 * 19: Pat Burns
 * 19: Atama Zedkaia
 * 18: Freddy Beras-Goico
 * 15: Larry Evans
 * 15: Moira Hoey
 * 13: Luis García Berlanga
 * 13: Allan Sandage
 * 12: Henryk Górecki
 * 10: Dino De Laurentiis
 * 8: Emilio Eduardo Massera
 * 6: Jo Myong-rok
 * 5: Jill Clayburgh
 * 5: Shirley Verrett
 * 4: Sparky Anderson
 * 4: Eugénie Blanchard
 * 4: James Freud
 * 3: Jerry Bock
 * 3: Viktor Chernomyrdin
 * 2: Rudolf Barshai
 * 2: Andy Irons
 * 1: Charlie O'Donnell

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Global

 * War on terror
 * Terrorist incidents
 * Operation Active Endeavour
 * Operation Enduring Freedom
 * War on drugs

Africa

 * OEF – Trans Sahara
 * Chadian Civil War
 * Darfur conflict
 * Maghreb insurgency
 * Somali Civil War
 * Somali Civil War (2009–present)
 * Piracy in Somalia
 * Sudanese nomadic conflicts
 * OEF – Horn of Africa
 * LRA insurgency

Europe

 * Basque conflict
 * Insurgency in the North Caucasus
 * Civil war in Ingushetia

Middle East

 * Iraq War
 * Iraqi insurgency
 * Baluchi insurgency
 * Palestinian political violence
 * Rocket attacks
 * Israeli–Lebanese conflict
 * Fatah–Hamas conflict
 * Arab–Israeli conflict
 * Israeli–Palestinian conflict
 * Conflicts in Yemen
 * Terrorism
 * South Yemen insurgency
 * Yemeni al-Qaeda crackdown
 * Shia insurgency in Yemen
 * Conflicts in Kurdistan
 * Turkey–PKK conflict
 * Iran–PJAK conflict

Asia

 * Afghanistan war
 * Military operations
 * Taliban insurgency
 * Conflicts in Pakistan
 * War on Terror
 * North-West Pakistan war
 * Balochistan conflict
 * Drone attacks
 * Sectarian violence
 * Conflicts in India
 * Terrorism in India
 * Jammu and Kashmir insurgency
 * Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
 * Insurgency in Northeast India
 * Nagaland ethnic conflict
 * Kashmir conflict
 * Siachen conflict
 * Korean conflict
 * Maritime border incidents
 * Burma border clashes
 * South Thailand insurgency
 * Cambodian–Thai border stand-off
 * Philippines insurgency
 * OEF – Philippines

Americas

 * Colombian conflict
 * Plan Colombia
 * FARC
 * Mexican drug war
 * Mérida Initiative
 * Peru internal conflict

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Recent: November

 * 21: Burkina Faso, President
 * 23: Jordan, Parliament
 * 25: Tonga, General
 * 27: Iceland, Constitutional Assembly
 * 28: Catalonia, Parliament
 * 28: Côte d'Ivoire, President (2nd round)
 * 28: Moldova, Parliament
 * 28: Haiti, General
 * 28: Egypt, Parliament

Upcoming: December

 * 12: Kosovo, Parliament
 * 12: Transnistria, Parliament
 * 13: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, General
 * 19: Belarus, President
 * 26: Comoros, President (2nd round)

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Recently concluded

 * Cambodia: Kang Kek Iew
 * Egypt: Hisham Talaat Moustafa
 * France: Jérôme Kerviel
 * Germany: Nadja Benaissa
 * India: Ajmal Kasab
 * Iran: Hossein Derakhshan
 * Portugal: Casa Pia child sexual abuse scandal
 * Singapore: Alan Shadrake
 * United States: Faisal Shahzad

Ongoing

 * Argentina: Jorge Rafael Videla
 * Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal
 * Canada: David Russell Williams
 * China: Organized crime in Chongqing
 * France: Church of Scientology, Air France Flight 4590
 * Germany: Heinrich Boere, John Demjanjuk
 * Iraq: Supreme Criminal Tribunal
 * Iran: Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani
 * Malaysia]]: Anwar Ibrahim
 * Netherlands: Thomas Lubanga (ICC), Radovan Karadžić (ICTY), Geert Wilders
 * Palau: Thomas Remengesau Jr.
 * Peru: Joran van der Sloot
 * Philippines: Andal Ampatuan Jr.
 * Russia: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev
 * Sierra Leone]]: Charles Taylor (SCFSL)
 * Singapore: Tak Boleh Tahan
 * Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra
 * Turkey: Ergenekon network
 * United States: Buju Banton, David Headley, Rod Blagojevich, Ahmed Ghailani

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 * Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein
 * United States: Viktor Bout, Noshir Gowadia, Allen Stanford, Nidal Malik Hasan
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Upcoming

 * 30: St. Andrew's Day (Scotland)

Upcoming

 * 2 (Sundown): Hanukkah (Jewish)
 * 5: Saint Nicholas Day (Netherlands)
 * 6: Saint Nicholas Day (Belgium)
 * 21: Winter solstice
 * 24: Christmas Eve
 * 25: Christmas Day
 * 26: St Stephen's Day (Europe), Boxing Day (Commonwealth countries)
 * 26–1 January: Kwanzaa (United States
 * 31: New Year's Eve

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