Portal:Current events/October 2017/Sidebar

   Ongoing events



 Business


 * Equifax data breach
 * 1MDB scandal
 * Panama Papers

 Disasters


 * Atlantic hurricane season
 * Oklahoma earthquake swarms
 * Pacific typhoon season
 * UK and Ireland windstorm season

 Politics


 * Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey
 * Brexit negotiations
 * European migrant crisis (timeline)
 * North Korean crisis
 * Philippine Drug War
 * Purges in Turkey
 * Qatar diplomatic crisis
 * Rohingya persecution
 * South China Sea disputes
 * Spanish constitutional crisis
 * U.S. Special Counsel investigation (timeline)
 * Venezuelan protests (timeline)

More details – ongoing conflicts

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  Sport


 * Association football
 * 2017–18 UEFA Champions League
 * 2017–18 UEFA Europa League
 * 2017–18 Premier League
 * 2017–18 Bundesliga
 * 2017–18 La Liga
 * 2017–18 Serie A
 * 2017–18 Ligue 1
 * 2017 MLS season
 * 2018 FIFA World Cup qual.
 * Women's association football
 * 2017–18 Champions League
 * 2017 Damallsvenskan
 * 2017–18 Division 1 Féminine
 * 2017–18 FA WSL
 * 2017–18 Frauen-Bundesliga
 * 2017–18 Liga MX Feminil
 * 2017–18 W-League
 * 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qual.
 * Baseball
 * 2017 World Series
 * Basketball
 * 2017–18 Champions League
 * 2017–18 EuroLeague
 * 2017–18 NBA season
 * Ice hockey
 * 2017–18 Champions League
 * 2017–18 IIHF Continental Cup
 * 2017–18 KHL season
 * 2017–18 NHL season
 * 2017–18 NWHL season
 * Tennis
 * 2017 ATP World Tour
 * 2017 WTA Tour
 * Cycling
 * 2017 UCI World Tour
 * 2017 UCI Europe Tour
 * Motorsport
 * 2017 Formula One season
 * 2017 MotoGP season
 * 2017 World Rally Championship
 * 2017 NASCAR Cup Series
 * 2017 IndyCar Series


 * Rugby union
 * 2017 Currie Cup Premier Division
 * 2017 Mitre 10 Cup
 * 2017 NRC
 * 2017–18 English Premiership
 * 2017–18 Pro14
 * 2017–18 Top 14
 * Golf
 * 2017 LPGA Tour
 * 2018 PGA Tour
 * Other sports seasons
 * 2017 NFL season
 * 2017–18 curling season
 * 2017–18 figure skating season
 * 2017–18 snooker season

More details – current sports events

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  Elections and referendums

  Recent


 * October
 * 1: Catalonia, Independence referendum
 * 10: Liberia, President (1st round), House of Representatives
 * 15: Austria, National Council
 * 15: Kyrgyzstan, President
 * 20–21: Czech Republic, Chamber of Deputies
 * 22: Argentina, National Congress
 * 22: Italy
 * Lombardy, Regional autonomy referendum
 * Veneto, Regional autonomy referendum
 * 22: Japan, House of Representatives
 * 22: Slovenia, President
 * 28: Iceland, Althing

 Upcoming


 * November
 * 8: Liberia, President (2nd round)
 * 9: Falkland Islands, Legislative Assembly
 * 12: Equatorial Guinea, Senate and Chamber of Deputies
 * 13: Somaliland, President and House of Representatives
 * 16: Tonga, Legislative Assembly
 * 19: Chile, President, Senate and Chamber of Deputies
 * 26: Honduras, President and National Congress
 * 26: Nepal, House of Representatives (1st phase)

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 <h2 style="display: block; margin: 0; border: none; padding: 0 0.4em; background-color: ; font-size: 125%; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;"> Recent deaths

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<h3 style="font-size: inherit;"> October 2017 [ edit section]
 * 30: Fred Beckey
 * 30: Kim Joo-hyuk
 * 30: Judy Martz
 * 30: Abbas Zandi
 * 29: Dennis Banks
 * 29: Ninian Stephen
 * 27: Punathil Kunjabdulla
 * 26: Thomas Smales
 * 25: Jack Bannon
 * 25: Lu Guanqiu
 * 25: John Mollo
 * 24: Ebrahim Ashtiani
 * 24: Fats Domino
 * 24: Robert Guillaume
 * 23: Alinghi
 * 23: George Young
 * 22: Judith McGrath
 * 21: Rosemary Leach
 * 20: Federico Luppi
 * 19: Miguel Ángel Loayza
 * 19: Umberto Lenzi
 * 18: Gregory Baum
 * 18: Ricardo Vidal
 * 17: Danielle Darrieux
 * 17: Gord Downie
 * 17: Douglas Thayer
 * 16: Kevin Cadle
 * 16: Roy Dotrice
 * 16: John Dunsworth
 * 16: Daphne Caruana Galizia
 * 16: Isnilon Hapilon
 * 16: Sean Hughes
 * 15: Choirul Huda
 * 14: Richard Wilbur
 * 13: William Lombardy
 * 13: Albert Zafy
 * 12: Muntaka Connmassie
 * 11: Clifford Husbands
 * 10: Bob Schiller
 * 9: Vincent La Selva
 * 9: Rafe Mair
 * 8: Y. A. Tittle
 * 7: Jim Landis
 * 6: Connie Hawkins
 * 6: Ralphie May
 * 6: Bunny Sigler
 * 5: Eberhard van der Laan
 * 5: Anne Wiazemsky
 * 4: Liam Cosgrave
 * 3: Michel Jouvet
 * 3: Lance Russell
 * 3: Jalal Talabani
 * 2: Peter Burke
 * 2: Paul Otellini
 * 2: Tom Petty
 * 2: Robert Yates
 * 1: Robert D. Hales
 * 1: Stephen Paddock
 * 1: Dave Strader

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<div style="background-color: ;"> <h3 style="font-size: inherit;"> Recently concluded


 * Bangladesh: Sohel Rana
 * Cambodia: Sam Rainsy
 * China: Wu Changshun
 * India: Mahmood Farooqui
 * Indonesia: Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, Patrialis Akbar
 * Kazakhstan: Mukhtar Ablyazov
 * Kyrgyzstan: Omurbek Tekebayev
 * Romania: Radu Mazăre
 * South Korea: Lee Jae-yong
 * Spain: Iñaki Urdangarin, Rodrigo Rato
 * United Kingdom: Fred Talbot, Rolf Harris
 * United States: Barry Cadden, Pedro Hernandez, Graham Spanier, Tim Curley, Gary Schultz, Bill Cosby, Ng Lap Seng, Martin Shkreli, Anthony Weiner

<h3 style="font-size: inherit;"> Ongoing


 * China: Bai Enpei, Pan Yiyang, Yang Weize
 * Germany: Beate Zschäpe
 * Guatemala: Otto Pérez Molina, Roxana Baldetti and others, Efraín Ríos Montt, Álvaro Arzú
 * Greece: Siemens bribery scandal
 * Malaysia: Siti Aisyah, Đoàn Thị Hương
 * Pakistan: Waseem Azeem, Mufti Abdul Qawi
 * Philippines: Andal Ampatuan Jr., Jovito Palparan, Maria Lourdes Sereno
 * Romania: Dan Șova, Elena Udrea, Gheorghe Nichita
 * Russia: Alexei Navalny, Alexey Ulyukaev
 * South Korea: Park Geun-hye and Choi Soon-sil
 * Spain: Gürtel case, Bárcenas affair, Operación Lezo, 2017 Catalonia attacks
 * United Kingdom: Barry Bennell
 * United States: Fat Leonard scandal, Bob Menendez, Ahmed Abu Khattala
 * International
 * ICC: Laurent Gbagbo
 * ICTY: Ratko Mladić

<h3 style="font-size: inherit;"> Upcoming


 * Australia: George Pell
 * Egypt: Mohamed Morsi
 * Estonia: Edgar Savisaar
 * Israel: Faina Kirschenbaum
 * Libya: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi
 * Philippines: Leila de Lima, Benigno Aquino III, Alan Purisima, Getulio Napeñas
 * Spain: Ángel María Villar, Jordi Pujol
 * United States: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Bill Cosby, Reza Zarrab, Paul Manafort, Rick Gates

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<div style="background-color: ;"> <h3 style="font-size: inherit;"> 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

<h3 style="font-size: inherit;"> Americas


 * Mexico
 * Mexican War on Drugs
 * Peru
 * Internal conflict in Peru

<h3 style="font-size: inherit;"> 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 Myanmar
 * Pakistan
 * War in North-West Pakistan
 * Balochistan conflict
 * Philippines
 * CPP-NPA-NDF rebellion
 * Thailand
 * South Thailand insurgency

<h3 style="font-size: inherit;"> 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

<h3 style="font-size: inherit;"> 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
 * Yemen
 * Yemeni Civil War
 * Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen
 * Al-Qaeda insurgency

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