Portal:Current events/June 2012/Sidebar

Ongoing events
Political Arab Spring Libyan factional fighting Egyptian revolution Post-Mubarak Egypt Egyptian presidential election Syrian uprising Bahraini uprising Economic Global financial crisis European sovereign-debt crisis Greek economic crisis Scientific Expedition 31 Sports UEFA Euro 2012 Wimbledon

Recent deaths

June 30: Yitzhak Shamir 27: Rosemary Dobson 26: Nora Ephron 23: Alan McDonald 21: Anna Schwartz 20: Judy Agnew 20: LeRoy Neiman 20: Andrew Sarris 19: Richard Lynch 19: Victor Spinetti 18: Brian Hibbard 18: Tom Maynard 17: Rodney King 16: Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud 16: Susan Tyrrell 14: Gitta Sereny 13: Graeme Bell 13: Roger Garaudy 13: William Standish Knowles 12: Henry Hill 12: Elinor Ostrom 12: Frank Walker 11: Ann Rutherford 11: Teófilo Stevenson 10: George Saitoti 10: Eugene Selznick 10: Gordon West 9: Georges Sari 8: Frank Cady 6: Manuel Preciado Rebolledo 6: Prince Tomohito of Mikasa 5: Ray Bradbury 5: Mihai Pătraşcu 5: Athinodoros Prousalis 5: Charlie Sutton 5: Barry Unsworth 4: Abu Yahya al-Libi 4: Pedro Borbón 4: Eduard Khil 3: Roy Salvadori 3: Brian Talboys 2: Richard Dawson 2: LeRoy Ellis 2: Kathryn Joosten 1: Pádraig Faulkner 1: Brahmeshwar Singh

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 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 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 Americas Colombian conflict Mexican drug war

Elections

Recent: June 10: France, Parliament (1st round) 13: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Senate (indirect) 16–17: Egypt, President (2nd round) 17: France, Parliament (2nd round) 17: Greece, Parliament 28: Mongolia, Parliament Upcoming: June 30: Iceland, President Upcoming: July 1: Mexico, General 1: Senegal, Parliament 7: East Timor, Parliament 7: Libya, Public National Conference 15: Republic of the Congo, Parliament 19: India, President (indirect) 19: Nagorno-Karabakh, President 20: Samoa, O le Ao o le Malo (indirect)

Trials

Recently concluded Canada: Michael Rafferty Egypt: Hosni Mubarak, Alaa Mubarak, Gamal Mubarak France: Jacques Chirac, John Galliano, Carlos the Jackal Indonesia: Abu Bakar Bashir Russia: Bhagavad Gita 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 United States: Faisal Shahzad, Noshir Gowadia, Buju Banton, Barry Bonds, Raj Rajaratnam, Casey Anthony, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, 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: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev 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 Upcoming Libya: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi Ivory Coast: Laurent Gbagbo United Kingdom: Justin Lee Collins, John Terry United States: Nidal Malik Hasan, Javaris Crittenton, Bradley Manning, Robert Bales, George Zimmerman, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Peter Madoff