Portal:Current events

• 2011 East Africa drought
• 2011 Southern US drought
• 2011 Tuvalu drought

Economic

• Global financial crisis
  • European sovereign debt crisis
  • Greek economic crisis
• Smartphone patent wars

Medical

• HIV/AIDS in Africa
• 2011 United States listeriosis outbreak

Political

• Occupy movement — anti-corruption
• 2011 United States public employee protests
• 2011 Chilean protests
• Anti-austerity protests
  • Greek protests
  • 2011 Spanish protests
  • Israeli social protests
• Arab Spring
  • Post-Tunisian revolution
  • Post-Egyptian revolution
  • Post-Libyan civil war
  • Syrian uprising - ongoing
  • Moroccan protests - reforms
  • Yemeni uprising - transition
  • Bahraini uprising - repressed
  • Jordanian protests - reforms
• News International phone hacking scandal
• Protests of Wukan — anti-corruption

Scientific

• Expedition 30

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January

• 17: Aengus Fanning
• 14: Pearse Hutchinson
• 13: Rauf Denktaş
• 11: Frank Cook
• 11: Edgar Kaiser
• 10: Mary Raftery
• 9 : Bridie Gallagher
• 9: Malam Bacai Sanhá
• 8: John Madin
• 6: Bob Holness
• 6: Bob Weston
• 4: Eve Arnold
• 4: Harry Fowler
• 2: Gordon Hirabayashi
• 1: Gary Ablett
• 1: Bob Anderson
• 1: Kiro Gligorov
• 1: Ed Jenkins

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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
• South Kordofan conflict
• Lord's Resistance Army insurgency
• Somalia:
  • Civil war
  • War 2009-
  • Piracy
• OEF - Horn of Africa

Europe

• Real IRA
• North Caucasus insurgency
• Ingushetia civil war

Middle East

• Iraqi insurgency
• Iran-Jundallah conflict
• 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
  • Balochistan conflict
  • 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 armed conflict (1964–present)
• Mexican Drug War

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Recent: January

• 3–4/10–11: Egypt, Parliament (3rd phase)
• 13: Kiribati, President
• 14: Republic of China (Taiwan), President and Legislative Yuan (Parliament)
• 15: Kazakhstan, Parliament

Upcoming: January

• 22: Finland, President (1st round)
• 22: Croatia, Referendum
• 29–30 January/5–6 February: Egypt, Shura Council (1st phase)

Upcoming: February

• 2: Kuwait, Parliament
• 12: Turkmenistan, President
• 14–15 February/21–22 February: Egypt, Shura Council (2nd phase)
• 21: Yemen, President
• 26: Senegal, President

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Recently concluded

• Cambodia: Kang Kek Iew
• France: Jacques Chirac, John Galliano
• Germany: John Demjanjuk
• Italy: Amanda Knox, Raffaele Sollecito
• Indonesia: Abu Bakar Bashir
• Netherlands: Geert Wilders
• Peru: Joran van der Sloot
• Russia: Bhagavad Gita As It Is
• Ukraine: Yulia Tymoshenko
• United Kingdom: Levi Bellfield, Robert Black, Vincent Tabak
• United States: Faisal Shahzad, Noshir Gowadia, Buju Banton, Barry Bonds, Raj Rajaratnam, Rod Blagojevich, Casey Anthony, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Conrad Murray

Ongoing

• Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal
• Canada: Russell Williams
• China: Organized crime in Chongqing
• France: Church of Scientology, Carlos the Jackal
• Germany: Heinrich Boere
• Iraq: Supreme Criminal Tribunal
• Iran: Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani
• Malaysia: Anwar Ibrahim
• Netherlands: Thomas Lubanga (ICC), Radovan Karadžić (ICTY)
• Palau: Tommy Remengesau
• Philippines: Andal Ampatuan, Jr.
• Russia: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev
• Sierra Leone: Charles Taylor (SCFSL)
• Singapore: Tak Boleh Tahan
• South Africa: Chris Mahlangu
• Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein
• Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra
• Tunisia: Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
• Turkey: Ergenekon network
• United States: Roger Clemens, Ahmed Ghailani, David Headley, Jared Lee Loughner, Charles P. White, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Viktor Bout

Upcoming

• Egypt: Hosni Mubarak, Alaa Mubarak, Gamal Mubarak
• Norway: Anders Behring Breivik
• United States: Allen Stanford, Nidal Malik Hasan, John Edwards, Javaris Crittenton

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