Portal:Current events/July 2009/Sidebar

Ongoing conflicts
	Worldwide War on terror; Africa / Middle East Chadian Civil War; War in Darfur; Kivu conflict; Iraq War; Israeli–Palestinian conflict; Maghreb insurgency; Niger Delta conflict; Nigerian religious violence; Somali Civil War; Second Tuareg Rebellion; Turkey–PKK conflict; Asia War in Afghanistan; Balochistan conflict; Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir; Insurgency in the Philippines; Laotian Secret War; Ethnic conflict in Nagaland; Naxalite–Maoist insurgency; War in North-West Pakistan; South Thailand insurgency; Americas Colombian conflict; Mexican drug war;

Recent deaths
	July 31: Bobby Robson; 30: Peter Zadek; 27: George Russell; 26: Merce Cunningham; 25: Stanley Middleton; 25: Harry Patch; 24: José Carlos da Costa Araújo; 24: Harry Towb; 23: E. Lynn Harris; 19: Frank McCourt; 19: Henry Surtees; 18: Henry Allingham; 17: Meir Amit; 17: Walter Cronkite; 17: Leszek Kołakowski; 15: Natalya Estemirova; 11: Reg Fleming; 11: Arturo Gatti; 11: Ji Xianlin; 10: Edward Downes; 10: Ebba Haslund; 6: Vasily Aksyonov; 6: Oscar G. Mayer Jr.; 6: Robert McNamara; 6: Mathieu Montcourt; 5: Takeo Doi; 4: Allen Klein; 4: Robert Louis-Dreyfus; 4: Steve McNair; 4: Lasse Strömstedt; 4: Jean-Baptiste Tati Loutard; 1: Alexis Argüello; 1: Karl Malden; 1: Marwa El-Sherbini; 1: Mollie Sugden; 1: Lyudmila Zykina;

Ongoing events
	Economic Automotive industry crisis; Financial crisis; Worldwide recession; Health / Medicine H1N1 - 2009 flu pandemic; H5N1 ("Bird Flu"); Humanitarian Haitian migrant shipwreck; Mediterranean wildfires; Political / Military Spanish bombings Bombing of Burgos; Bombing of Palma Nova; ; Honduran political crisis; Iranian election protests; Peruvian political crisis; Nigerian battles; North Korean nuclear program; Obama–Gates controversy; Piracy in Somalia; Thai political crisis; Treaty of Lisbon ratification;

Elections
July 8: Indonesia, President (1st Round) 12: Republic of the Congo, President 18: Mauritania, President 23: Kyrgyzstan, President 29: Moldova, Parliament August 2: Comoros, Parliament 4: Niger, Constitutional referendum 20: Afghanistan, President 20: Niger, Parliament 30: Gabon, President 30: Japan, Parliament

Trials
Recently concluded New Zealand: Nai Yin Xue New Zealand: David Bain (retrial) Peru: Alberto Fujimori Sweden: The Pirate Bay United States: James Charles Kopp, Aníbal Acevedo Vilá, Phil Spector, Bernard Madoff Ongoing Burma: Aung San Suu Kyi Cambodia]]: Khmer Rouge Tribunal Canada: Larry O'Brien France: Church of Scientology Iraq: Supreme Criminal Tribunal Italy: Raffaele Sollecito, Amanda Knox Netherlands: Thomas Lubanga (ICC), Radovan Karadžić (ICTY) Republic of China]]: Chen Shui-bian Russia: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev Sierra Leone: Charles Taylor (SCFSL) Singapore: Tak Boleh Tahan Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra United States: Jena Six Upcoming Germany: John Demjanjuk United Kingdom: Allen Stanford United States: Viktor Bout, Noshir Gowadia, William J. Jefferson, Sheila Dixon, Joseph Bruno

Holidays and observances
August Current 1: Feast of Kamál (Baháʼí Faith) 1: Feast of the Cross (Eastern Christianity) 1–14: Dormition Fast (Eastern Christianity) 1: Lammas/Lughnasadh (Gaels, Neopaganism, Wicca in Northern Hemisphere, England, Scotland)) 1: Imbolc (Neopaganism, Wicca in Southern Hemisphere) 1: Emancipation Day (Barbados, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago) 1: Independence Day (Benin) 1: Province Day (Guadalcanal) 1: Army Day (China) 1: Swiss National Day 1: King's Birthday (Tonga) 1: Yorkshire Day (Yorkshire) Upcoming 2: National Tree Day (Australia) 2: Virgen de los Angeles (Costa Rica) 2: Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising Day (Macedonia)