Portal:Current events/July 2012/Sidebar

Ongoing events
Political Arab Spring Libyan factional fighting Syrian civil war Bahraini uprising Mexican Anti-Imposition Protests Economic Barclays LIBOR manipulation Global financial crisis European sovereign-debt crisis Greek economic crisis Environmental 2012 North American drought Musical The Stone Roses Reunion Tour Sports 2012 Summer Olympics

Recent deaths

July 31: Gore Vidal 30: Maeve Binchy 30: Chris Marker 27: Tony Martin 27: R. G. Armstrong 27: Geoffrey Hughes 27: Jack Taylor 27: Darryl Cotton 26: Pat Porter 26: Mary Tamm 25: Franz West 24: Chad Everett 24: Sherman Hemsley 24: John Atta Mills 23: John Treloar 23: Frank Pierson 23: Sally Ride 22: Oswaldo Payá 21: Alexander Cockburn 21: Angharad Rees 20: Alastair Burnet 20: Simon Ward 19: Humayun Ahmed 19: Omar Suleiman 18: Yosef Shalom Elyashiv 18: Dawoud Rajiha 18: Rajesh Khanna 17: Marsha Singh 16: William Asher 16: Kitty Wells 16: Stephen Covey 16: Jon Lord 15: Celeste Holm 14: Don Brinkley 13: Sage Stallone 13: Richard D. Zanuck 12: Dara Singh 11: Joe McBride 10: Dolphy 10: Eva Rausing 9: Miinnehoma 9: Terepai Maoate 8: Gyang Dalyop Datong 8: Ernest Borgnine 7: Leon Schlumpf 6: Angelo Paternoster 5: Gerrit Komrij 4: Eric Sykes 3: Sergio Pininfarina 3: Andy Griffith 2: Tsutomu Koyama 1: Alan G. Poindexter

Ongoing conflicts

Global War on terror Terrorist incidents Operation Active Endeavour Operation Enduring Freedom War on drugs Africa Maghreb insurgency OEF - Trans Sahara Casamance conflict Niger Delta conflict Nigerian Sharia conflict Sudan internal conflict South Sudan internal conflict South Sudan–Sudan border conflict 2012 East DR Congo conflict Lord's Resistance Army insurgency Somalia: Civil war Somali Civil War (2009–present) Piracy OEF - Horn of Africa Tuareg rebellion Americas Colombian conflict Mexican drug war War on drugs Asia Afghanistan War Military operations Taliban insurgency Pakistan: Terrorism North-West War Drone attacks Sectarian violence India: Terrorism Jammu and Kashmir insurgency Naxalite–Maoist insurgency Northeast India insurgency Nagaland ethnic conflict Kashmir conflict Siachen conflict Korean maritime border incidents Southeast Asia: Laos insurgency South Thailand insurgency Cambodian–Thai border dispute Territorial disputes in the South China Sea Islamic insurgency in the Philippines Operation Enduring Freedom – Philippines Papua conflict Europe North Caucasus insurgency Dissident Irish Republican campaign Middle East Iraqi insurgency Arab–Israeli conflict Israeli–Palestinian conflict Israeli–Lebanese conflict Palestinian political violence and rocket attacks Yemen: Terrorism al-Qaeda crackdown South Yemen insurgency Shia insurgency Kurdistan: Turkey–PKK conflict Syrian civil war

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 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 United States: Noshir Gowadia, Buju Banton, Barry Bonds, Raj Rajaratnam, Casey Anthony, Conrad Murray, George Huguely, Allen Stanford, Roger Clemens, Jerry Sandusky 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 Mladić (ICTY) Norway: Anders Behring Breivik Palau: Tommy Remengesau Philippines: Andal Ampatuan Jr. 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 Kingdom: Iftikhar and Farzana Ahmed United States: Ahmed Ghailani, David Headley, Jared Lee Loughner, 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