Portal:Current events/October 2020/Sidebar

   Ongoing events

 Business  Disasters  Politics
 * COVID-19 recession
 * FinCEN Files leak
 * COVID-19 pandemic
 * 2018–20 Southern Africa drought
 * 2019–20 locust infestation
 * 2020 Atlantic hurricane season
 * 2020 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
 * 2020 Pacific hurricane season
 * 2020 Pacific typhoon season
 * 2020 wildfire season
 * 2020 Central Vietnam floods
 * Yemeni famine
 * Afghan peace process
 * Belarusian protests
 * Bulgarian protests
 * Chilean protests
 * Colombian protests
 * George Floyd protests (racial unrest)
 * Hong Kong protests
 * Indonesia omnibus bill protests
 * Iraqi protests
 * Kashmir lockdown
 * Khabarovsk Krai protests
 * Lebanese protests
 * Libyan peace process
 * Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
 * Nicaraguan protests
 * Nigerian protests
 * Philippine protests
 * Polish protests
 * Post-Brexit diplomatic talks
 * Sudanese protests
 * Thai protests
 * Venezuelan presidential crisis (protests)
 * Yellow vests movement

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   Elections and referendums

 Recent


 * October
 * 17: New Zealand, House of Representatives, cannabis and euthanasia referendums
 * 18: Bolivia, President, Senate, Chamber of Deputies
 * 18: Guinea, President
 * 18: Northern Cyprus, President (2nd)
 * 22–24: Seychelles, President, National Assembly
 * 24–25: Egypt, Parliament (1st−1)
 * 25: Chile, Referendum
 * 25: Lithuania, Seimas (2nd)
 * 28: Tanzania, President, National Assembly
 * 31: Georgia, Parliament
 * 31: Ivory Coast, President

 Upcoming


 * November
 * 1: Algeria, constitutional referendum
 * 1: Moldova, President (1st)
 * 3: Palau, President, Senate, House of Delegates
 * 3: United States, President, Senate (class 2), House of Representatives
 * American Samoa, Governor
 * Guam, Legislature
 * Puerto Rico, Governor, Legislative Assembly, referendum
 * 5: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, House of Assembly
 * 7–8: Egypt, Parliament (1st−2)
 * 8: Myanmar, Assembly of the Union
 * 10: Jordan, House of Representatives
 * 11: Belize, House of Representatives

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   Trials

 Recently concluded  Ongoing <h3 style="font-size: inherit;"> Upcoming
 * Greece: Nikolaos Michaloliakos
 * Hong Kong: Jimmy Lai
 * Slovakia: Marián Kočner
 * Spain: Montano Morales
 * Turkey: Remziye Tosun
 * Argentina: Rodolfo Martín Villa
 * Armenia: Serzh Sargsyan
 * Colombia: Álvaro Uribe
 * Israel: Benjamin Netanyahu
 * Kyrgyzstan: Almazbek Atambayev
 * Malta: Yorgen Fenech
 * Russia: Mikhail Yefremov
 * South Africa: Jacob Zuma
 * Spain: Bárcenas affair
 * Sudan: Omar al-Bashir
 * United States: Fat Leonard scandal, Varsity Blues scandal
 * International: The Gambia v. Myanmar
 * Kosovo: Hashim Thaçi
 * Lesotho: Maesiah Thabane
 * Rwanda: Paul Rusesabagina
 * Spain: Jordi Pujol, 2017 Catalonia attacks
 * United States: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Elizabeth Holmes, Meng Wanzhou, R. Kelly, Ghislaine Maxwell, Steve Bannon
 * Vanuatu: Charlot Salwai
 * Zimbabwe: Ignatius Chombo

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<div role="region" aria-labelledby="Sport" class="mw-collapsible" style="margin:1.1em 0; border:1px solid ; padding: 0.4em; font-size: 88%; background-color: ;"> <div style="padding: 0 0.4em; background-color: ;> <h2 style="display: block; margin: 0; border: none; padding: 0; font-size: 125%; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;"> Sport


 * Association football
 * 2020–21 Premier League
 * 2020 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
 * 2020 Major League Soccer season
 * UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying
 * 2020–21 UEFA Nations League
 * 2020 Copa Libertadores
 * 2020–21 UEFA Champions League group stage
 * 2020–21 UEFA Europa League group stage
 * Women's association football
 * 2020–21 Champions League
 * 2020–21 Division 1 Féminine
 * 2020–21 FA WSL
 * 2020 NWSL Challenge Cup


 * American football
 * 2020 NFL season
 * 2020 NCAA Division I FBS
 * Baseball
 * 2020 MLB season
 * 2020 NPB season
 * Basketball
 * 2020 NBA Finals
 * Golf
 * 2020 European Tour


 * 2020–21 PGA Tour
 * Ice hockey
 * 2020–21 KHL season


 * Motorsport
 * 2020 Formula One Championship


 * 2020 NASCAR Cup Series


 * Rugby sevens
 * 2019–20 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series
 * Rugby union
 * 2020 Six Nations Championship
 * 2019–20 European Rugby Champions Cup
 * 2019–20 Premiership Rugby
 * 2019–20 Pro14
 * 2019–20 Top 14


 * Tennis
 * 2020 ATP Tour
 * 2020 WTA Tour


 * Other sports seasons
 * 2019–20 international cricket season
 * 2019–20 snooker season
 * 2020–21 curling season

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<div role="region" aria-labelledby="Recent_deaths" class="mw-collapsible" style="margin:1.1em 0; border:1px solid ; padding: 0.4em; font-size: 88%; background-color: ;"> <div style="padding: 0 0.4em; background-color: ;> <h2 style="display: block; margin: 0; border: none; padding: 0; font-size: 125%; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;"> Recent deaths

<h3 style="font-size: inherit;"> October 2020
 * 31: Sean Connery
 * 30: Madam Auring
 * 30: Nobby Stiles
 * 30: Mesut Yılmaz
 * 29: Keshubhai Patel
 * 28: Bobby Ball
 * 28: Cecilia Chiang
 * 28: Billy Joe Shaver
 * 28: Tracy Smothers
 * 27: Don Mazankowski
 * 26: Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri
 * 26: Diane di Prima
 * 25: Lee Kun-hee
 * 25: Robert E. Murray
 * 25: Thomas Oppermann
 * 24: Azim of Brunei
 * 23: Jerry Jeff Walker
 * 22: William Blinn
 * 22: Shukur Hamidov
 * 22: Richard A. Lupoff
 * 21: Frank Bough
 * 21: Marge Champion
 * 21: J. Michael Lane
 * 21: Viola Smith
 * 20: James Randi
 * 19: Spencer Davis
 * 19: Tony Lewis
 * 19: Enzo Mari
 * 18: Alan S. Boyd
 * 18: James A. Johnson
 * 18: Jose Melo
 * 18: Joseph Mar Thoma
 * 16: Johnny Bush
 * 16: Gordon Haskell
 * 15: Bhanu Athaiya
 * 15: Ed Benguiat
 * 14: Fred Dean
 * 14: Rhonda Fleming
 * 14: Herbert Kretzmer
 * 14: Kuniwo Nakamura
 * 13: Edward C. Meyer
 * 12: Conchata Ferrell
 * 12: Roberta McCain
 * 11: Joe Morgan
 * 8: Jim Dwyer
 * 8: Whitey Ford
 * 8: Ali Khalif Galaydh
 * 8: Mohammad-Reza Shajarian
 * 7: Tom Kennedy
 * 7: Mario Molina
 * 6: Johnny Nash
 * 6: Eddie Van Halen
 * 5: Margaret Nolan
 * 5: Monica Roberts
 * 4: Kenzō Takada
 * 4: Peregrine Worsthorne

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<div role="region" aria-labelledby="Ongoing_conflicts" class="mw-collapsible" style="margin:1.1em 0; border:1px solid ; padding: 0.4em; font-size: 88%; background-color: ;"> <div style="padding: 0 0.4em; background-color: ;> <h2 style="display: block; margin: 0; border: none; padding: 0; font-size: 125%; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;"> Ongoing conflicts

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


 * Algeria, Libya and Tunisia
 * Maghreb insurgency
 * Cameroon
 * Anglophone Crisis
 * Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria
 * Boko Haram insurgency
 * Central African Republic
 * Civil War
 * Democratic Republic of the Congo
 * Kivu conflict
 * Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
 * Ituri conflict
 * Lord's Resistance Army insurgency
 * Libya
 * Second Civil War
 * American intervention in Libya
 * Turkish intervention in Libya
 * Mali
 * Mali War
 * Mozambique
 * Insurgency in Cabo Delgado
 * Nigeria
 * Communal conflicts in Nigeria
 * 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


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

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


 * Afghanistan
 * Afghanistan War
 * China
 * Xinjiang conflict
 * India
 * Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
 * Insurgency in Northeast India
 * India and Pakistan
 * Kashmir conflict
 * Border skirmishes
 * Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines
 * Moro conflict
 * Cross border attacks in Sabah
 * Indonesia
 * Papua conflict
 * Myanmar
 * Internal conflict in Myanmar
 * Kachin conflict
 * Karen conflict
 * Rohingya conflict
 * Pakistan
 * Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
 * Insurgency in Balochistan
 * Philippines
 * Communist rebellion in the Philippines
 * Philippine Drug War
 * 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
 * Ukraine
 * War in Donbass
 * Russo-Ukrainian War

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


 * Egypt
 * Sinai terror attacks
 * Iran and the Persian Gulf
 * Iran–Israel proxy conflict
 * Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict
 * Iraq
 * American-led intervention in Iraq
 * Iranian intervention in Iraq
 * Iraq and Syria (map)
 * International military intervention against ISIL
 * Israel and Gaza
 * Israel and Syria
 * Israeli-Syrian border conflict
 * Syria
 * American-led intervention in Syria
 * Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War
 * Turkey
 * Kurdish–Turkish conflict
 * Yemen and Saudi Arabia
 * Yemeni Civil War
 * Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen
 * Second Saudi–Yemeni War

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