Portal:Current events/August 2018/Sidebar
Ongoing events
Business
Culture
Disasters
- 2018 Atlantic hurricane season
- 2018 European drought and heat waves
- 2018 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
- 2018 Pacific hurricane season
- 2018 Pacific typhoon season
- 2018 California wildfires
- 2018 United Kingdom wildfires
Politics
- Brexit negotiations
- European migrant crisis (timeline)
- Iranian protests
- Iraqi protests
- Nicaraguan protests
- Romanian protests
- Qatar diplomatic crisis
- Rohingya persecution in Myanmar
- Spanish constitutional crisis
- Trump administration family separation policy
- Turkish purges
- U.S. political sex scandals
- U.S. Special Counsel investigation (timeline)
Sports
More details – ongoing conflicts
Elections and referendums
Recent
Upcoming
- September
- 2–3: Rwanda, Chamber of Deputies
- 9: Sweden, Riksdag
- 21: Swaziland, House of Assembly
- 23: Maldives, President
- 23: Switzerland, Referendums
Trials
Recently concluded
- Argentina: Amado Boudou
- Germany: Beate Zschäpe
- Pakistan: Nawaz Sharif
- United Kingdom: John Leslie
- United States: Frank Salemme, Dean Skelos
Ongoing
- Cambodia: Kem Sokha, Mu Sochua
- Estonia: Edgar Savisaar
- Guatemala: Otto Pérez Molina, Roxana Baldetti, Juan Carlos Monzón and others
- Israel: Faina Kirschenbaum
- Malaysia: Siti Aisyah and Đoàn Thị Hương
- Philippines: Leila de Lima
- Spain: Bárcenas affair
- United States: Fat Leonard scandal, Paul Manafort
- International
Upcoming
- Australia: George Pell
- Canada: Alek Minassian
- Egypt: Mohamed Morsi
- Guatemala: Alvaro Colom, Manuel Baldizón, Juan Alberto Fuentes
- Iran: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
- Philippines: Andal Ampatuan Jr., Jovito Palparan
- Romania: Liviu Dragnea
- South Africa: Jacob Zuma
- Spain: Jordi Pujol
- Ukraine: Roman Nasirov
- United Kingdom: Football sex abuse scandal
- United States: Patrick Ho, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Sayfullo Saipov, Turpin case, NXIVM, James Alex Fields Jr., Chris Collins, Duncan D. Hunter
- Zimbabwe: Ignatius Chombo
Sport
- Association football
- Women's association football
- American football
- Baseball
- Basketball
- Golf
- Motorsport
- Rugby league
- Tennis
- Other sports seasons
More details – current sports events
Recent deaths
August 2018
- 31: Ian Jones
- 30: Joseph Kobzon
- 30: Marie Severin
- 29: Silvano Campeggi
- 29: Ellie Mannette
- 29: James Mirrlees
- 29: Paul Taylor
- 28: Erich Lessing
- 27: Mirka Mora
- 27: Fredd Wayne
- 26: Tony Hiller
- 26: Neil Simon
- 25: Lindsay Kemp
- 25: John McCain
- 25: Noam Sheriff
- 24: Robin Leach
- 23: Russ Heath
- 23: Kuldip Nayar
- 23: George Walker
- 22: Ed King
- 21: Barbara Harris
- 21: Stefán Karl Stefánsson
- 21: Villano III
- 20: Uri Avnery
- 20: Charles Blackman
- 18: Kofi Annan
- 18: Jack Costanzo
- 18: Ronnie Moore
- 17: Ezzatolah Entezami
- 17: David McReynolds
- 16: Aretha Franklin
- 16: Yelena Shushunova
- 16: Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Ongoing conflicts
Africa
- Algeria, Libya and Tunisia
- Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria
- Central African Republic
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Ethiopia
- Libya
- Mali
- Nigeria
- Somalia
- South Sudan
- Sudan
Americas
- Colombia
- Mexico
- Peru
Asia
- Afghanistan
- China
- India
- India and Pakistan
- Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines
- Indonesia and Papua New Guinea
- Myanmar
- Pakistan
- Philippines
- Thailand
Europe
- Armenia and Azerbaijan
- Georgia
- Russia
- Ukraine
Middle East
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