Portal:Current events/April 2013/Sidebar

Ongoing events
Economic Great Recession European sovereign-debt crisis Greek economic crisis Cypriot financial crisis Environmental North American drought 2013 extreme weather events Food safety Meat adulteration scandal Political 2013 Korean crisis More details on ongoing conflicts below

Recent deaths

April 30: Emil Frei 30: Mike Gray 29: Alex Elisala 28: János Starker 28: Jack Shea 26: George Jones 25: Virginia Gibson 25: Rick Camp 25: Johnny Lockwood 25: Sam Williams 24: Pedro Romualdo 23: Shamshad Begum 23: Bob Brozman 23: Kathryn Wasserman Davis 23: Robert W. Edgar 22: Richie Havens 22: Lalgudi Jayaraman 22: Jagdish Sharan Verma 21: Chrissy Amphlett 21: Shakuntala Devi 20: Huang Wenyong 20: François Jacob 20: Howard Phillips 19: Sivanthi Adithan 19: Mike Denness 19: Patrick Garland 19: Robert Holding 19: E. L. Konigsburg 19: Al Neuharth 18: Cordell Mosson 18: Storm Thorgerson 17: Bi Kidude 17: Paul Ware 17: Deanna Durbin 16: Pentti Lund 16: Rita MacNeil 16: George Beverly Shea 16: Pat Summerall 15: Richard LeParmentier 15: Dave McArtney 15: Scott Miller 14: Colin Davis 14: R. P. Goenka 14: George Jackson 14: P. B. Sreenivas 14: Charlie Wilson 13: Frank Bank 13: Chi Cheng 13: Dean Drummond 13: Bob J. Perry 12: Robert Byrne 12: Marv Harshman 12: Frosty Westering 12: Ya'akov Yosef 11: Grady Hatton 11: Hilary Koprowski 11: Bernard McGlinchey 11: Maria Tallchief 11: Jonathan Winters 10: Jimmy Dawkins 10: Robert G. Edwards 9: Paolo Soleri 9: Zao Wou-Ki 8: Mikhail Beketov 8: Annette Funicello 8: Sara Montiel 8: Margaret Thatcher 7: Marty Blake 7: Les Blank 7: Andy Johns 7: Lilly Pulitzer 6: Bigas Luna 6: Michael Norgrove 5: Amnon Dankner 5: David Kuo 4: Víctor Carranza 4: Roger Ebert 4: Carmine Infantino 4: Ian Walsh 3: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala 2: Maysara Abu Hamdiya 2: Chuck Fairbanks 2: Jesús Franco 2: Jane Henson 2: Milo O'Shea 1: Moses Blah 1: William H. Ginsburg 1: Barbara Piasecka Johnson 1: Jack Pardee

Ongoing conflicts

Global War on Terror Terrorist incidents Operation Active Endeavour Operation Enduring Freedom War on Drugs Africa Lord's Resistance Army insurgency Maghreb insurgency OEF - Horn of Africa OEF - Trans Sahara DR Congo: M23 rebellion Egypt Egyptian protests Libya: Libyan factional fighting Mali: Northern Mali conflict Nigeria: Nigerian Sharia conflict Niger Delta conflict Somalia: Civil War Piracy Sudan and South Sudan: Sudan internal conflict South Sudan internal conflict Americas Colombian conflict Mexican Drug War Asia Afghanistan War: Military operations Taliban insurgency Pakistan: North-West War Sectarian violence India: Naxalite–Maoist insurgency Islamic insurgency in the Philippines: Operation Enduring Freedom – Philippines Korea: Korean crisis Korean maritime border conflict Southeast Asia: Cambodian–Thai border dispute Kachin conflict Papua conflict South Thailand insurgency Territorial disputes in the South China Sea Europe North Caucasus insurgency War in Ingushetia Dissident Irish Republican campaign Middle East Arab–Israeli conflict Gaza–Israel conflict Israeli–Palestinian conflict Israeli–Lebanese conflict Iraqi insurgency Kurdistan: Kurdish–Turkish conflict Kurdish–Iranian conflict Syrian civil war Yemen: al-Qaeda crackdown South Yemen insurgency Shia insurgency

Elections

Recent: April 7: Montenegro, President 14: Venezuela, President 18: Italy, President 20: Iraq, Governorate 21: Paraguay, General 22–23: Egypt, Parliament (1st Round) 23: Bhutan, National Council 27: Iceland, Parliament 29–30: Egypt, Parliament (1st Round Run-off) Upcoming: May 5: Malaysia, General 11: Pakistan, General 11–12: Egypt, Parliament (2nd Round) 12: Bulgaria, Parliament 12: Guinea, Parliament 13: Philippines, House of Representatives, Senate (one half) 19–20: Egypt, Parliament (2nd Round Run-off) 26: Equatorial Guinea, Parliament 28–29: Egypt, Parliament (3rd Round)

Trials

Recently concluded Canada: Michael Rafferty Croatia: Ivo Sanader Egypt: Hosni Mubarak, Alaa Mubarak, Gamal Mubarak Germany: Breno Borges Indonesia: Abu Bakar Bashir Netherlands: Ante Gotovina (ICTY), Mladen Markač (ICTY), Momčilo Perišić (ICTY) Norway: Anders Behring Breivik Russia: Leonid Khabarov, Vladimir Kvachkov, Pussy Riot Sierra Leone: Charles Taylor (SCFSL) South Africa: Chris Mahlangu 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, Justin Lee Collins, Kweku Adoboli, Tony McCluskie, Kevin Hutchinson-Foster, Chris Huhne, Nicola Edgington, Vicky Pryce, Derek Rose, Mick Philpott, Mairead Philpott, Paul Mosley, Kevin Liverpool, Junior Bradshaw 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 Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal Canada: Luka Magnotta China: Organized crime in Chongqing France: Church of Scientology Germany: Beate Zschape Iraq: Supreme Criminal Tribunal Malaysia: Anwar Ibrahim Netherlands: Thomas Lubanga (ICC), Radovan Karadžić (ICTY), Ratko Mladic (ICTY) Palau: Tommy Remengesau Philippines: Andal Ampatuan Jr., Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Russia: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev Singapore: Tak Boleh Tahan South Africa: Oscar Pistorius Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra Turkey: Ergenekon network, Kenan Evren United Kingdom: Koo Stark, Dale Cregan, Liam Adams United States: Ahmed Ghailani, David Headley, Charles P. White, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Viktor Bout, Lauryn Hill, Jodi Arias Vatican: Vatileaks scandal Upcoming Czech Republic: Václav Klaus France: Éric Raoult Italy: Silvio Berlusconi Libya: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi Ivory Coast: Laurent Gbagbo United Kingdom: Dane Bowers, Mark Bridger, Stuart Hall, Stuart Hazell United States: Nidal Malik Hasan, Javaris Crittenton, Bradley Manning, Robert Bales, George Zimmerman, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Peter Madoff, Christian Gerhartsreiter, Crystal Mangum, Dylan Quick, Richie Farmer, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev