Portal:Current events/June 2006/Sidebar

Armed conflicts
	Acholiland insurgency; Arab-Israeli conflict (al-Aqsa Intifada) Operation Summer Rains; ; East African War Chadian-Sudanese conflict; Darfur conflict in Sudan; ; Iraq War; Ituri conflict in the DR Congo; Ivorian Civil War; Nepal Civil War; Second Chechen War; South Thailand insurgency;

Deaths
	1: Rocío Jurado; 2: Vince Welnick; 6: Billy Preston; 7: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi; 7: John Tenta; 12: György Ligeti; 12: Kenneth Thomson; 13: Charles Haughey; 19: Arthur Yap; 21: Khamis al-Obeidi; 22: Moose; 23: Harriet the tortoise; 23: Aaron Spelling;

Events
	Recent Formation of a new Iraqi government; Montenegrin independence vote; Chilean student protests; Ongoing Atlantic hurricane season; Avian influenza (H5N1) outbreak; Black sites scandal; Cole Inquiry; East Timor military and political crisis; World Cup 2006, Germany; Horn of Africa food crisis; Immigration law debates in the US; May 2006 Java earthquake; Iran's nuclear program; North Indian cyclone season; NSA warrantless surveillance controversy; Pacific hurricane season; Pacific typhoon season; Southern Hemisphere cyclone season; Wimbledon Tennis Championships;

Elections
Results 2 - 3: Czech Republic, Chamber of Deputies 4: Peru, Executive runoff 4: San Marino, Parliament 17: Slovakia, Parliament

Trials
Chile: Alberto Fujimori (extradition) Chile: Augusto Pinochet Ethiopia: 111 defendants, including leaders of the CUD and journalists, on charges related to the 2005 elections. Iraq: Iraqi Special Tribunal Saddam Hussein, among others Netherlands: ICC Thomas Lubanga Netherlands: ICTY Sierra Leone: SCfSL Charles Taylor UK: Leo O'Connor & David Keogh U.S.: Brian Nichols U.S.: Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling (sentencing) U.S.: Tom DeLay