Portal:Current events/August 2012/Sidebar

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

Recent deaths

August 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

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: 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 Colombian conflict Mexican Drug War Asia 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 North Caucasus insurgency Dissident Irish Republican campaign Middle East 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

Elections

Recent: July 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 31: Angola, Parliament

Trials

Recently concluded 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 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 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