Portal:Current events/March 2013/Sidebar

Ongoing events
Economic Great Recession European sovereign-debt crisis Greek economic crisis Cypriot financial crisis Environmental North American drought Food safety Meat adulteration scandal Political More details on ongoing conflicts below

Recent deaths

March 31: Ernie Bridge 31: Dmitri Uchaykin 30: Daniel Hoffman 30: Mal Moore 30: Phil Ramone 30: Edith Schaeffer 29: Reid Flair 29: Reginald Gray 29: Ralph Klein 28: Richard Griffiths 28: Soraya Jiménez 28: Robert V. Remini 27: Yvonne Brill 26: Wayne Fleming 26: Don Payne 25: Anthony Lewis 24: Deke Richards 24: Jessica Upshaw 23: Boris Berezovsky 23: Virgil Trucks 23: Joe Weider 22: Bebo Valdés 22: Ray Williams 21: Chinua Achebe 21: Harlon Hill 21: Pietro Mennea 20: James Herbert 20: George Lowe 20: Nicholas C. Petris 20: Zillur Rahman 20: Risë Stevens 19: Bud Palmer 19: Harry Reems 18: Henry Bromell 17: Steve Davis 17: Olivier Metzner 17: Umm Nidal 16: José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz 16: Jason Molina 16: Yadier Pedroso 16: Bobby Smith 16: Frank Thornton 15: Booth Gardner 15: Terry Lightfoot 15: Kallam Anji Reddy 14: Jim Barrett 14: Norman Collier 14: Jack Curran 14: Jack Greene 14: Ieng Sary 13: Richard Davey 13: Cartha DeLoach 13: Veer Bhadra Mishra 12: Clive Burr 11: Tony Gubba 11: Sripada Pinakapani 10: Brian Archer 10: Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland 10: Ian Munro Ross 10: Masao Yamaguchi 9: Viren J. Shah 9: Merton Simpson 8: Haseeb Ahsan 8: Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin 8: George Saimes 7: Kenny Ball 7: Peter Banks 7: John J. Byrne 7: Dirk Coetzee 7: Claude King 6: Chorão 6: Stompin' Tom Connors 6: Alvin Lee 5: Paul Bearer 5: Hugo Chávez 4: Menachem Froman 4: Harry Greene 4: Fran Warren 3: Luis Cubilla 3: Müslüm Gürses 3: Bobby Rogers 3: James Strong 2: Mokhtar Belmokhtar 2: Peter Harvey 2: Giorgos Kolokithas 1: Jewel Akens 1: Bonnie Franklin 1: Sammy Guillen 1: Rafael Puyana

Ongoing conflicts

Global War on Terror Terrorist incidents Operation Active Endeavour Operation Enduring Freedom War on Drugs Africa Lord's Resistance Army insurgency Maghreb insurgency OEF - Horn of Africa OEF - Trans Sahara DR Congo: M23 rebellion Egypt Egyptian protests Libya: Libyan factional fighting Mali: Northern Mali conflict Nigeria: Nigerian Sharia conflict Niger Delta conflict Somalia: Civil War Piracy Sudan and South Sudan: Sudan internal conflict South Sudan internal conflict Americas Colombian conflict Mexican Drug War Asia Afghanistan War Military operations Taliban insurgency Pakistan: North-West War Sectarian violence India: Naxalite–Maoist insurgency Islamic insurgency in the Philippines Operation Enduring Freedom – Philippines Korean maritime border conflict Southeast Asia: Cambodian–Thai border dispute Kachin conflict Papua conflict South Thailand insurgency Territorial disputes in the South China Sea Europe North Caucasus insurgency War in Ingushetia Dissident Irish Republican campaign Middle East Arab–Israeli conflict Gaza–Israel conflict Israeli–Palestinian conflict Israeli–Lebanese conflict Iraqi insurgency Kurdistan: Kurdish–Turkish conflict Kurdish–Iranian conflict Syrian civil war Yemen: al-Qaeda crackdown South Yemen insurgency Shia insurgency

Elections

Recent: March 3: Switzerland, Referendum 4: Kenya, General 5: Micronesia, Parliament 9: Malta, General 10–11: Falkland Islands, Sovereignty referendum 12: Greenland, Parliament 12–13: Holy See, Conclave 16: Zimbabwe, Constitutional referendum Upcoming: April 7: Montenegro, President 14: Venezuela, President 21: Paraguay, General 22–23: Egypt, Parliament (1st round) 23: Bhutan, National Council 27: Iceland, Parliament 29–30: Egypt, Parliament (1st round; run-off)

Trials

Recently concluded Canada: Michael Rafferty Croatia: Ivo Sanader Egypt: Hosni Mubarak, Alaa Mubarak, Gamal Mubarak Germany: Breno Borges Indonesia: Abu Bakar Bashir Netherlands: Ante Gotovina (ICTY), Mladen Markač (ICTY), Momčilo Perišić (ICTY) Norway: Anders Behring Breivik Russia: Leonid Khabarov, Vladimir Kvachkov, Pussy Riot Sierra Leone: Charles Taylor (SCFSL) South Africa: Chris Mahlangu 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, Iftikhar and Farzana Ahmed, Asil Nadir, Justin Lee Collins, Kweku Adoboli, Tony McCluskie, Kevin Hutchinson-Foster, Chris Huhne, Nicola Edgington, Vicky Pryce, Derek Rose, Mick Philpott, Mairead Philpott, Paul Mosley, Kevin Liverpool, Junior Bradshaw United States: Noshir Gowadia, Buju Banton, Barry Bonds, Raj Rajaratnam, Casey Anthony, Conrad Murray, George Huguely, Allen Stanford, Roger Clemens, Jerry Sandusky, Jared Lee Loughner 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 Mladic (ICTY) Palau: Tommy Remengesau Philippines: Andal Ampatuan Jr., Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Russia: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev Singapore: Tak Boleh Tahan South Africa: Oscar Pistorius Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra Turkey: Ergenekon network, Kenan Evren United Kingdom: Koo Stark, Dale Cregan United States: Ahmed Ghailani, David Headley, Charles P. White, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Viktor Bout, Lauryn Hill Vatican: Vatileaks scandal Upcoming Czech Republic: Václav Klaus France: Éric Raoult Italy: Silvio Berlusconi Libya: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi Ivory Coast: Laurent Gbagbo United Kingdom: Dane Bowers, Mark Bridger, Stuart Hall, Stuart Hazell United States: Nidal Malik Hasan, Javaris Crittenton, Bradley Manning, Robert Bales, George Zimmerman, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Peter Madoff, Christian Gerhartsreiter, Crystal Mangum