Portal:Current events/August 2012/Sidebar

Ongoing conflicts
	Global[edit] War on Terror Terrorist incidents; Operation Active Endeavour; Operation Enduring Freedom; ; War on Drugs; Africa[edit] Lord's Resistance Army insurgency; Maghreb insurgency; OEF - Horn of Africa; OEF - Trans Sahara; DR Congo: East DR Congo conflict; ; Libya: Libyan factional fighting; ; Mali: Tuareg rebellion; ; Nigeria: Nigerian Sharia conflict; Niger Delta conflict; ; Senegal: Casamance conflict; ; Somalia: Civil War; Piracy; ; Sudan and South Sudan: Sudan internal conflict; South Sudan internal conflict; ; Americas[edit] Colombian conflict; Mexican Drug War; Asia[edit] Afghanistan War Military operations; Taliban insurgency; ; Pakistan: North-West War; Sectarian violence; ; India: Jammu and Kashmir insurgency; 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; Laos insurgency; Papua conflict; South Thailand insurgency; Territorial disputes in the South China Sea; ; Europe[edit] North Caucasus insurgency; Dissident Irish Republican campaign; Middle East[edit] Arab–Israeli conflict Israeli–Palestinian conflict; Israeli–Lebanese conflict; Operation Eagle; ; Iraqi insurgency; Kurdistan: Kurdish–Turkish conflict; Kurdish–Iranian conflict; ; Syrian civil war; Yemen: al-Qaeda crackdown; South Yemen insurgency; Shia insurgency; ; edit this archived sidebar

Recent deaths
	August[edit] 31: Carlo Maria Martini; 30: Chris Lighty; 28: Rhodes Boyson; 25: Neil Armstrong; 24: Maureen Toal; 24: Félix Miélli Venerando; 24: Jean-Luc Delarue; 23: Steve Van Buren; 23: Merv Neagle; 22: Nina Bawden; 22: Tony Nicklinson; 21: Georg Leber; 21: Guy Spitaels; 20: Meles Zenawi; 20: Dom Mintoff; 20: Phyllis Diller; 19: Tony Scott; 18: Jesse Robredo; 18: Scott McKenzie; 17: Victor Poor; 16: William Windom; 15: Harry Harrison; 14: Vilasrao Deshmukh; 13: Ray Jordon; 13: Helen Gurley Brown; 13: Johnny Pesky; 12: Sid Waddell; 11: Michael Dokes; 10: Suresh Dalal; 9: Carl Davis; 8: Hans R. Camenzind; 8: Sancho Gracia; 8: Jairo Varela; 7: Anna Piaggi; 7: Judith Crist; 6: Sir Bernard Lovell; 6: Marvin Hamlisch; 6: Robert Hughes; 5: Chavela Vargas; 4: Con Houlihan; 4: Metin Erksan; 3: Paul McCracken; 2: Marguerite Piazza; 2: John Keegan; 1: Keiko Tsushima; 1: Abel Salinas; edit this archived sidebar

Ongoing events
	Political[edit] Arab Spring; Mexican Anti-Imposition Protests; Economic[edit] Barclays LIBOR manipulation; Global financial crisis European sovereign-debt crisis; Greek economic crisis; ; Environmental[edit] 2012 North American drought; Sports[edit] 2012 Summer Paralympics; Musical[edit] Reunion Tour (The Stone Roses);

Elections
Recent: July [edit] 1: Liechtenstein, Constitutional referendum 1: Mexico, General 1: Senegal, Parliament 7: East Timor, Parliament 7: Libya, General National Congress 15: Republic of the Congo, Parliament (1st round) 18: Cayman Islands, Electoral system referendum 19: India, President (indirect) 19: Nagorno-Karabakh, President 20: Samoa, O le Ao o le Malo (indirect) 29: Republic of the Congo, Parliament (2nd round) 29: Romania, Presidential impeachment referendum Upcoming: August [edit] 31: Angola, Parliament edit this archived sidebar

Trials
Recently concluded [edit] Canada: Michael Rafferty Egypt: Hosni Mubarak, Alaa Mubarak, Gamal Mubarak Germany: Breno Borges Indonesia: Abu Bakar Bashir Russia: Pussy Riot Sierra Leone: Charles Taylor (SCFSL) South Africa: Chris Mahlangu Tunisia: Zine El Abidine Ben Ali 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 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 [edit] 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 Mladic (ICTY) Norway: Anders Behring Breivik Palau: Tommy Remengesau Philippines: Andal Ampatuan Jr., Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Russia: Leonid Khabarov, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev, Pussy Riot Singapore: Tak Boleh Tahan Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra Turkey: Ergenekon network, Kenan Evren United States: Ahmed Ghailani, David Headley, Charles P. White, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Viktor Bout, John Edwards, Lauryn Hill Upcoming [edit] Libya: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi Ivory Coast: Laurent Gbagbo United Kingdom: Justin Lee Collins, Chris Huhne, Vicky Pryce United States: Nidal Malik Hasan, Javaris Crittenton, Bradley Manning, Robert Bales, George Zimmerman, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Peter Madoff, Christian Gerhartsreiter, Crystal Mangum edit this archived sidebar

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