Portal:Current events/October 2010/Sidebar

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Economic

 * Automotive industry crisis
 * Global Financial Crisis
 * European sovereign debt crisis
 * French strikes and demonstrations
 * Greek economic crisis
 * Worldwide recession
 * Labour unrest in China

Medical

 * HIV/AIDS in Africa
 * 2010 cholera outbreak in Haiti

Political

 * 2007–2010 Belgian political crisis

Scientific

 * Expedition 25

Environmental
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 * 2010 Hungarian plant disaster
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October

 * 31: Ted Sorensen
 * 30: Harry Mulisch
 * 29: George Hickenlooper
 * 28: James MacArthur
 * 27: Néstor Kirchner
 * 26: Paul the Octopus
 * 25: Gregory Isaacs
 * 24: Andy Holmes
 * 23: Fran Crippen
 * 23: David Thompson
 * 22: Alex Anderson
 * 20: Bob Guccione
 * 20: Eva Ibbotson
 * 19: Tom Bosley
 * 18: Ken Wriedt
 * 16: Giannis Dalianidis
 * 16: Barbara Billingsley
 * 15: Malcolm Allison
 * 14: Simon MacCorkindale
 * 14: Benoît Mandelbrot
 * 12: Claire Rayner
 * 11: Joan Sutherland
 * 10: Hwang Jang-yop
 * 10: Solomon Burke
 * 10: Adán Martín Menis

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Africa

 * Chadian Civil War
 * Darfur conflict
 * Maghreb insurgency
 * Somali Civil War

Middle East

 * Iraq War
 * Arab–Israeli conflict
 * South Yemen insurgency
 * Turkey–PKK conflict

Asia

 * Afghanistan war
 * Jammu and Kashmir insurgency
 * Nagaland ethnic conflict
 * Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
 * North-West Pakistan war
 * Philippines insurgency
 * South Thailand insurgency

Americas

 * Colombian conflict
 * Mexican drug war
 * Peru internal conflict

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Recent: October

 * 10: Kyrgyzstan, Parliament
 * 15–16, 22–23: Czech Republic, Senate (a third)
 * 23: Bahrain, Parliament

Ongoing: October

 * 31: Brazil, President (2nd Round)
 * 31: Côte d'Ivoire, President
 * 31: Niger, Constitutional referendum
 * 31: Tanzania, General

Upcoming: November

 * 2: American Samoa, General and Constitutional referendum
 * 2: United States, House of Representatives and Senate (one third: "Class III" Senators)
 * 7: Azerbaijan, Parliament
 * 7: Comoros, President (1st Round)
 * 7: Myanmar, General
 * 9: Jordan, Parliament

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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
 * 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: Alan Shadrake, Tak Boleh Tahan
 * Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra
 * United States: Buju Banton, David Headley, Rod Blagojevich, Ahmed Ghailani

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

 * 31: Halloween

Upcoming

 * 1: All Saints' Day, Day of the Dead
 * 11: Veterans Day
 * 14: Father's Day (Nordic countries)
 * 15: Shichi-Go-San (Japan)
 * 25: Thanksgiving (United States) and Thanksgiving (Netherlands)
 * 30: St. Andrew's Day (Scotland)

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