Portal:Current events/November 2012/Sidebar

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Economic

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

Environmental

 * 2012 North American drought

Political

 * Arab Spring
 * Syrian civil war
 * Operation Pillar of Defense
 * 2012 East D.R. Congo conflict
 * Terrorist attacks in Kenya

Scandals
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November

 * 30: Inder Kumar Gujral
 * 28: Zig Ziglar
 * 27: Marvin Miller
 * 26: Joseph Murray
 * 26: Martin Richards
 * 25: Earl Carroll
 * 25: Lars Hörmander
 * 25: Dave Sexton
 * 25: Dinah Sheridan
 * 24: Héctor Camacho
 * 23: Larry Hagman
 * 22: Bryce Courtenay
 * 22: Jan Trefulka
 * 21: Mr. Food
 * 21: Ajmal Kasab
 * 20: Kaspars Astašenko
 * 20: Ivan Kušan
 * 19: John Hefin
 * 19: Warren Rudman
 * 19: Boris Strugatskiy
 * 18: Miliki
 * 17: Bal Thackeray
 * 14: Ahmed Jabari
 * 11: Rex Hunt
 * 11: Ilya Oleynikov
 * 9: Sergey Nikolsky
 * 9: Bill Tarmey
 * 6: Clive Dunn
 * 6: Maxim of Bulgaria
 * 5: Elliott Carter
 * 5: Leonardo Favio
 * 5: Sikandar Sanam
 * 3: Kailashpati Mishra
 * 3: Eugenija Pleškytė
 * 3: Ingegerd Troedsson
 * 2: János Rózsás
 * 2: Han Suyin
 * 1: Gae Aulenti
 * 1: Agustín García Calvo

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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:
 * East DR Congo conflict


 * Kenya:
 * Terrorist attacks in Kenya


 * Libya:
 * Libyan factional fighting


 * Mali:
 * Azawad 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 Anti-Imposition Protests
 * 2011–2012 Chilean student protests

Asia

 * Afghanistan War
 * Military operations
 * Taliban insurgency


 * Pakistan:
 * North-West War
 * Sectarian violence


 * India:
 * Nagaland ethnic conflict
 * Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
 * Northeast India insurgency


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


 * Korean maritime border conflict


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

Europe

 * North Caucasus insurgency
 * Dissident Irish Republican campaign

Middle East

 * Arab–Israeli conflict
 * Gaza–Israel conflict
 * Israeli–Palestinian conflict
 * Israeli–Lebanese conflict
 * Operation Pillar of Defense
 * Operation Sinai


 * Iraqi insurgency


 * Kurdistan:
 * Kurdish–Turkish conflict
 * Kurdish–Iranian conflict


 * Syrian civil war


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

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Recent: November

 * 6: Palau, President, General
 * 6: United States, President, House of Representatives, Senate (one third: "Class I" Senators)
 * 10: Republic of Ireland, Children's rights referendum
 * 11: Slovenia, President (1st round)
 * 11: San Marino, General
 * 17: Sierra Leone, General

Upcoming: December

 * 1: Kuwait, Parliament
 * 2: Burkina Faso, Parliament
 * 2: Slovenia, President (2nd round)
 * 7: Ghana, President (1st round)
 * 9: Romania, Parliament
 * 16: Japan, Parliament
 * 19: South Korea, President
 * 28: Ghana, President (2nd round) and Parliament

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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)
 * Norway: Anders Behring Breivik
 * Russia: 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
 * 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

Ongoing

 * Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal
 * Canada: Luka Magnotta
 * China: Organized crime in Chongqing
 * France: Church of Scientology
 * Iraq: Supreme Criminal Tribunal
 * Malaysia: Anwar Ibrahim
 * Netherlands: Thomas Lubanga (ICC), Radovan Karadžić (ICTY), Ratko Mladić (ICTY)
 * Palau: Tommy Remengesau
 * Philippines: Andal Ampatuan Jr., Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
 * Russia: Leonid Khabarov, Vladimir Kvachkov, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev
 * Singapore: Tak Boleh Tahan
 * Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein
 * Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra
 * Turkey: Ergenekon network, Kenan Evren
 * United Kingdom: Kevin Hutchinson-Foster, Koo Stark
 * United States: Ahmed Ghailani, David Headley, Charles P. White, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Viktor Bout, Lauryn Hill
 * Vatican]: Vatileaks scandal

Upcoming
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 * France: Éric Raoult
 * Libya: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi
 * Ivory Coast: Laurent Gbagbo
 * United Kingdom: Chris Huhne, Vicky Pryce, Tony McCluskie, Dane Bowers
 * United States: Nidal Malik Hasan, Javaris Crittenton, Bradley Manning, Robert Bales, George Zimmerman, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Peter Madoff, Christian Gerhartsreiter, Crystal Mangum


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