Portal:Current events/October 2016/Sidebar

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Business

 * Panama Papers
 * Volkswagen emissions scandal
 * Yahoo! data breach

Culture

 * Nobel Peace Prize

Disasters

 * Atlantic hurricane season
 * California wildfires
 * Oklahoma earthquake swarms
 * Pacific hurricane season
 * Pacific typhoon season
 * Southeast Asian haze

Health

 * Flint water crisis
 * Zika virus pandemic

Law

 * 2016 clown sightings
 * Black Lives Matter protests
 * Philippine Drug War
 * Timor Gap PCA arbitration
 * Dakota Access Pipeline protests

Political

 * Aftermath of Brexit
 * Austria presidential election
 * Ethiopian protests
 * European migrant crisis (timeline)
 * Lebanese political deadlock
 * South Korean political scandal and protests
 * South China Sea disputes
 * United States presidential election
 * Venezuelan protests
 * Zimbabwe protests
 * More details on ongoing conflicts below

Sport

 * 2016 ATP World Tour
 * 2016 Formula One season
 * 2016–17 NBA season
 * 2016–17 NHL season
 * 2016 NFL season
 * 2016–17 Premier League
 * 2016 World Series
 * 2016 WTA Tour

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October
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 * 30: James Galanos
 * 29: Raymond Gilmour
 * 27: Susan Lindquist
 * 25: Bob Hoover
 * 25: Carlos Alberto Torres
 * 24: Jorge Batlle Ibáñez
 * 24: Bobby Vee
 * 23: Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani
 * 23: Pete Burns
 * 23: Tom Hayden
 * 23: Jimmy Perry
 * 22: Steve Dillon
 * 21: Kevin Meaney
 * 21: Raine Spencer, Countess Spencer
 * 20: Simone Schaller
 * 20: Junko Tabei
 * 19: Yvette Chauviré
 * 16: Anthony Foley
 * 16: Kigeli V of Rwanda
 * 16: Arsen Pavlov
 * 14: Klim Churyumov
 * 14: Jean Alexander
 * 14: Pierre Étaix
 * 14: Helen Kelly
 * 13: Bhumibol Adulyadej
 * 13: Delia Davin
 * 13: Dario Fo
 * 13: Jim Prentice
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Africa

 * Algeria and Tunisia
 * Maghreb insurgency
 * ISIL insurgency in Tunisia


 * Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria
 * Boko Haram insurgency


 * Central African Republic
 * Civil war


 * 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

Americas

 * Mexico
 * Mexican War on Drugs


 * Peru
 * Internal conflict in Peru

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 Burma


 * Pakistan
 * War in North-West Pakistan
 * Balochistan conflict


 * Philippines
 * CPP-NPA-NDF rebellion


 * Thailand
 * South Thailand insurgency

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

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
 * Syrian Civil War spillover in Lebanon


 * Turkey
 * Turkey–PKK conflict
 * Turkey–ISIL conflict


 * Yemen
 * Yemeni Civil War
 * Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen
 * Al-Qaeda insurgency

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Recent

 * October
 * 7: Morocco, House of Representatives
 * 8: Georgia, Parliament
 * 9: Lithuania, Seimas
 * 15: Afghanistan, House of the People
 * 16: Montenegro, Parliament
 * 23: Lithuania, Seimas (2nd round)
 * 29: Iceland, Althing
 * 30: Georgia, Parliament (2nd round)
 * 30: Ivory Coast, Referendum
 * 30: Moldova, President

Upcoming
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 * November
 * 1: Palau, President, National Congress
 * 6: Bulgaria, President, Referendum
 * 6: Nicaragua, President, National Assembly
 * 8: United States, President, Senate, House of Representatives
 * 20: Haiti, President
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Recently concluded

 * Australia: Brett Peter Cowan, Craig Thomson, Robert Hughes, Roger Rogerson and Glen McNamara
 * Brazil: Mensalão scandal
 * Canada: Luka Magnotta
 * China: Ji Jianye, Li Chuncheng, Jiang Jiemin, Liao Shaohua, Ni Fake, Ling Jihua, Chen Baihuai, Zhou Yongkang, Gu Junshan, Yao Mugen, Guo Boxiong
 * Egypt: Hosni Mubarak, Peter Greste, Mohamed Morsi
 * Germany: Bernie Ecclestone, Uli Hoeness, Christian Wulff
 * Iran: Mohammad Reza Rahimi
 * Israel: Hussam Qawasmeh
 * Jordan: Abu Qatada
 * Philippines: Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
 * Romania: Liviu Dragnea, Dan Diaconescu, Gheorghe Ștefan, Gabriel Sandu, Dorin Cocoş, Dumitru Nicolae
 * Russia: Eston Kohver
 * South Africa: Shrien Dewani, Oscar Pistorius
 * Spain: Lionel Messi
 * Turkey: Kenan Evren, Tahsin Şahinkaya
 * United Kingdom: Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, Kevin Hutchinson-Foster, Ray Wilkins, Liam Adams, R v Grillo and Grillo, Ian Watkins, William Roache, Dave Lee Travis, Nicholas Jacobs, Nigel Evans, Max Clifford, Stuart Hall, Dappy, Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson, Rolf Harris, Tulisa Contostavlos, Chris Denning, Ray Teret, Gary Glitter, Fred Talbot, Adam Johnson, Ched Evans
 * United States: Abu Hamza al-Masri, Michael Grimm, Jesse Jackson Jr., Bob McDonnell, Vilma Bautista, Kermit Gosnell, Chris Brown, Justin Bieber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, James Eagan Holmes, Sheldon Silver, Javaris Crittenton, Dylan Quick
 * International
 * ECCC: Nuon Chea, Khieu Samphan
 * ICC: Germain Katanga
 * ICTY: Radovan Karadžić

Ongoing

 * China: Bai Enpei, Guo Youming, Pan Yiyang, Wan Qingliang, Yang Weize, Zhu Zuoli
 * Germany: Beate Zschäpe
 * Indonesia: Mary Jane Veloso
 * Iran: Babak Zanjani
 * Netherlands: Geert Wilders
 * Philippines: Andal Ampatuan Jr., Leila de Lima, Jovito Palparan
 * Romania: Darius Vâlcov, Dan Șova, Elena Udrea, Radu Mazăre, Gheorghe Nichita, Marian Vanghelie, Cătălin Voicu
 * Russia: Alexei Navalny
 * South Korea: MV Sewol crew members
 * United States: Paul Anthony Ciancia, Dean Skelos, Etan Patz
 * International
 * ICTY: Ratko Mladić

Upcoming
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 * China: Wu Changshun
 * Estonia: Edgar Savisaar
 * Libya: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi
 * United Kingdom: Rolf Harris
 * United States: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Aaron Hernandez, Graham Spanier, Tim Curley, Gary Schultz, Rick Perry, Bill Cosby
 * International
 * ICC: Laurent Gbagbo
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