Portal:Current events/August 2008/Sidebar

Ongoing conflicts
	Africa Acholiland insurgency; War in Somalia; Insurgency in Ogaden; War in Darfur; Civil war in Chad; Americas Colombian armed conflict; Asia Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir; Insurgency in the Philippines; South Thailand insurgency; Sri Lankan Civil War; War in Afghanistan; War in North-West Pakistan; Europe Second Chechen War; Middle East Israeli–Palestinian conflict; Iraq War; Fatah–Hamas conflict; Turkey–PKK conflict; Houthi insurgency in Yemen;

Recent deaths
	August 1: Harkishan Singh Surjeet; 1: Pauline Baynes; 2: Helga Gitmark; 3: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; 3: Skip Caray; 4: Craig Jones; 6: Anthony Russo; 6: Simon Gray; 7: Andrea Pininfarina; 7: Bernie Brillstein; 8: Orville Moody; 9: Bernie Mac; 9: Mahmoud Darwish; 9: Peter Coe; 10: Isaac Hayes; 11: Anatoly Khrapaty; 11: Bill Cotton; 11: Don Helms; 11: Dursun Karataş; 11: Fred Sinowatz; 11: George Furth; 11: Günther Schifter; 11: Terence Rigby; 12: Christie Allen; 12: Jerry Finn; 13: Bill Gwatney; 13: Jack Weil; 13: John MacDougall; 13: Sandy Allen; 14: Lita Roza; 14: Sandy Bruce-Lockhart; 15: Jerry Wexler; 15: Leroy Sievers; 15: Vic Toweel; 16: Dorival Caymmi; 16: Ronnie Drew; 19: Leo Abse; 19: LeRoi Moore; 19: Levy Mwanawasa; 20: Gene Upshaw; 20: Hua Guofeng; 20: Stephanie Tubbs Jones; 21: Fred Crane; 21: Jerry Finn; 23: Thomas Huckle Weller; 25: Kevin Duckworth; 25: Pehr Henrik Nordgren; 27: Abie Nathan; 27: Del Martin; 27: Mark Priestley; 28: Michel Vastel; 28: Phil Hill; 29: Geoffrey Perkins; 29: Wladek "Killer" Kowalski;

Ongoing events
	Diplomatic response to Abkazian and South Ossetian independence; Diplomatic response to Kosovar independence; Economic crisis in the US and Europe; Treaty of Lisbon ratification; Subprime mortgage crisis; World food price crisis;

Elections
Recent August 2: Latvia, Constitutional referendum 5: North Korea, Parliament 10: Bolivia, Recall referendum 23: Latvia, Pensions law referendum Upcoming September

Trials
Upcoming Austria: Josef Fritzl Canada: Larry O'Brien Malaysia: Anwar Ibrahim Netherlands: ICTY Radovan Karadžić Singapore: Peter Lloyd US: Aníbal Acevedo Vilá US: Viktor Bout US: Tom DeLay US: Noshir Gowadia US: William J. Jefferson US: Kwame Kilpatrick US: James Charles Kopp US: O. J. Simpson US: Ehren Watada Ongoing Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal Iraq: Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal Netherlands: ICC Thomas Lubanga Netherlands: ICTY Peru: Alberto Fujimori Sierra Leone: SCfSL Charles Taylor Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra US: Jena Six US: Brian Nichols US: José Padilla US: Phil Spector