Portal:Current events/January 2018/Sidebar
Ongoing events
Business
Culture
Disasters
- Australian region cyclone season
- California wildfire season
- Cape Town water crisis
- Oklahoma earthquake swarms
- Pacific typhoon season
- UK and Ireland windstorm season
Politics
- Brexit negotiations
- European migrant crisis (timeline)
- Iranian protests
- North Korean crisis
- Philippine protests
- Qatar diplomatic crisis
- Rohingya persecution
- Saudi purge
- Spanish constitutional crisis
- Togolese protests
- Tunisian protests
- Turkish purges
- U.S. political sex scandals
- U.S. Special Counsel investigation (timeline)
- Venezuelan protests (timeline)
Sports
- FIFA corruption scandal
- NCAA Division I men's basketball corruption scandal
- USA Gymnastics sex abuse scandal
More details – ongoing conflicts
Elections and referendums
Recent
- January
- 26–27: Czech Republic, President (2nd round)
- 28: Cyprus, President (1st round)
- 28: Finland, President
Upcoming
Trials
Recently concluded
- Ecuador: Jorge Glas
- Russia: Alexey Ulyukaev
- United States: Ahmed Abu Khattala, Cliven Bundy, Mehmet Hasan Atilla, Bob Menendez, Jose Ines Garcia Zarate
- International
Ongoing
- Cambodia: Kem Sokha, Mu Sochua
- Estonia: Edgar Savisaar
- Germany: Beate Zschäpe
- Guatemala: Otto Pérez Molina, Roxana Baldetti, Juan Carlos Monzón and others
- Israel: Faina Kirschenbaum
- Malaysia: Siti Aisyah and Đoàn Thị Hương
- Philippines: Leila de Lima
- South Korea: Park Geun-hye
- Spain: Bárcenas affair, Gürtel case, Carles Puigdemont
- Turkey: 2016 Atatürk Airport attack suspects
- United States: Fat Leonard scandal
- International
Upcoming
- Australia: George Pell
- Denmark: Peter Madsen
- Egypt: Mohamed Morsi
- Guatemala: Manuel Baldizón
- Iran: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
- Philippines: Andal Ampatuan Jr., Jovito Palparan, Maria Lourdes Sereno
- Romania: Liviu Dragnea
- Spain: Jordi Pujol
- Ukraine: Roman Nasirov
- United Kingdom: Football sex abuse scandal
- United States: Bill Cosby, Rick Gates, Paul Manafort, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Sayfullo Saipov, Turpin case
- Zimbabwe: Ignatius Chombo
Sport
- American football
- Association football
- Women's association football
- Basketball
- Golf
- Ice hockey
- Rugby union
- Other sports seasons
More details – current sports events
Recent deaths
January 2018
- 30: Kevin Towers
- 28: Coco Schumann
- 27: Ingvar Kamprad
- 27: Mort Walker
- 25: Neagu Djuvara
- 25: John Morris
- 24: Jack Ketchum
- 24: Mark E. Smith
- 23: Hugh Masakela
- 23: Wyatt Tee Walker
- 22: Jimmy Armfield
- 22: Ursula K. Le Guin
- 20: Paul Bocuse
- 20: John Coleman
- 20: Graeme Langlands
- 20: Jim Rodford
- 19: Dorothy Malone
- 19: Fredo Santana
- 19: Allison Shearmur
- 18: Ishfaq Ahmad
- 18: John Barton
- 18: Stansfield Turner
- 16: John Spellman
- 16: Jo Jo White
- 15: Dolores O'Riordan
- 15: Óscar Pérez
- 15: Peter Wyngarde
Ongoing conflicts
Africa
- Algeria, Libya and Tunisia
- Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria
- Central African Republic
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Libya
- Mali
- Somalia
- South Sudan
- Sudan
Americas
- Mexico
- Peru
Asia
- Afghanistan
- China
- India
- India and Pakistan
- Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines
- Indonesia and Papua New Guinea
- Myanmar
- Pakistan
- Philippines
- Thailand
Europe
- Armenia and Azerbaijan
- Georgia
- Russia
- Ukraine
