Portal:Current events/November 2020/Sidebar

Ongoing events

Business

• COVID-19 recession
• FinCEN Files leak

Disasters

• COVID-19 pandemic
• 2020 Atlantic hurricane season
• 2020 Central Vietnam floods
• 2020 H5N8 outbreak
• 2019–20 locust infestation
• 2020 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
• 2020 Pacific hurricane season
• 2020 Pacific typhoon season
• 2018–20 Southern Africa drought
• 2020 wildfire season
• Yemeni famine

Politics

• Afghan peace process
• Armenian protests
• Belarusian protests
• Bulgarian protests
• Chilean protests
• George Floyd protests (racial unrest)
• Guatemalan protests
• Hong Kong protests
• Indonesia omnibus law protests
• Iraqi protests
• Kashmir lock-down
• Lebanese protests
• Libyan peace process
• Nicaraguan protests
• Nigerian protests
• Peruvian protests
• Philippine protests (timeline)
• Polish protests
• Post-Brexit diplomatic talks
• Sudanese protests
• Thai protests
• United States election protests
• Venezuelan presidential crisis (protests)
• Yellow vests movement

Elections and referendums

Recent

• November
  • 15: Moldova, President (2nd)
  • 21: Georgia, Parliament (2nd)
  • 22: Burkina Faso, President, National Assembly
  • 23–24: Egypt, Parliament (2nd−1)
  • 29: Switzerland, referendums

Upcoming

• December
  • 5: Kuwait, National Assembly
  • 6: Romania, Senate, Chamber of Deputies
  • 6: Venezuela, National Assembly
  • 7: Ghana, President (1st), Parliament
  • 7–8: Egypt, Parliament (2nd−2)

Trials

Recently concluded

• Greece: Nikolaos Michaloliakos
• Hong Kong: Jimmy Lai
• Slovakia: Marián Kočner
• Spain: Montano Morales
• Russia: Mikhail Yefremov
• Turkey: Remziye Tosun

Ongoing

• Argentina: Rodolfo Martín Villa
• Armenia: Serzh Sargsyan
• Colombia: Álvaro Uribe
• France: Nicolas Sarkozy
• Israel: Benjamin Netanyahu
• Kyrgyzstan: Almazbek Atambayev
• Malta: Yorgen Fenech
• South Africa: Jacob Zuma
• Spain: Bárcenas affair, 2017 Catalonia attacks
• Sudan: Omar al-Bashir
• United States: Fat Leonard scandal, Varsity Blues scandal
• International: The Gambia v. Myanmar

Upcoming

• Indonesia: Rachmat Yasin, Edhy Prabowo
• Kosovo: Hashim Thaçi, Kadri Veseli
• Lesotho: Maesiah Thabane
• Rwanda: Paul Rusesabagina
• Spain: Jordi Pujol
• United States: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Elizabeth Holmes, Meng Wanzhou, R. Kelly, Ghislaine Maxwell, Steve Bannon
• Vanuatu: Charlot Salwai
• Zimbabwe: Ignatius Chombo

Sport

• Association football
  • 2020–21 Premier League
  • 2020 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
  • 2020 Major League Soccer season
  • 2020–21 UEFA Nations League
  • 2020 Copa Libertadores
  • 2020–21 UEFA Champions League group stage
  • 2020–21 UEFA Europa League group stage
• Women's association football
  • 2020–21 Champions League
  • 2020–21 Division 1 Féminine
  • 2020–21 FA WSL
  • 2020 NWSL Challenge Cup
• American football
  • 2020 NFL season
  • 2020 NCAA Division I FBS
• Baseball
  • 2021 MLB season
  • 2020 NPB season
• Basketball
  • 2020–21 NBA season
  • 2020–21 NCAA Division I men's basketball season
  • 2020–21 NCAA Division I women's basketball season
• Golf
  • 2020 European Tour
  • 2020–21 PGA Tour
• Ice hockey
  • 2020–21 KHL season
  • 2020–21 NHL season
• Motorsport
  • 2020 Formula One Championship
  • 2020 Rally Championship
• Rugby sevens
  • 2019–20 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series
• Rugby union
  • 2020–21 Premiership Rugby
  • 2020–21 Pro14
  • 2019–20 Top 14
• Tennis
• Other sports seasons
  • 2020–21 international cricket season
  • 2020–21 snooker season
  • 2020–21 curling season

More details – current sports events

Recent deaths

November 2020

• 28: David Prowse
• 27: Mohsen Fakhrizadeh
• 27: Tony Hsieh
• 26: F. C. Kohli
• 26: Sadiq al-Mahdi
• 26: Daria Nicolodi
• 25: Diego Maradona
• 25: Ahmed Patel
• 25: Flor Silvestre
• 25: James Wolfensohn
• 24: Fasih Bokhari
• 24: Fred Sasakamoose
• 24: Mamadou Tandja
• 23: David Dinkins
• 23: Hal Ketchum
• 22: Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi
• 22: Patrick Quinn
• 20: Irinej
• 20: Jan Morris
• 19: Sebouh Chouldjian
• 19: Khadim Hussain Rizvi
• 19: Jake Scott
• 18: Umar Ghalib
• 18: Juan Roldán
• 18: Mridula Sinha
• 17: Eddie Borysewicz
• 17: Sheldon Solow
• 16: Shawkat Ali
• 16: Henryk Gulbinowicz
• 16: Walid Muallem
• 14: Hasan Muratović
• 14: Des O'Connor
• 13: Paul Hornung
• 13: Peter Sutcliffe
• 13: John Meurig Thomas
• 12: Jerry Rawlings
• 12: Waqar Ahmed Seth
• 11: Margaret Guilfoyle
• 11: Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa
• 10: Saeb Erekat
• 10: Tom Heinsohn
• 10: Amadou Toumani Touré
• 8: Howie Meeker
• 8: Alex Trebek
• 7: Bones Hillman
• 7: Jonathan Sacks
• 6: Jim Marurai
• 6: Fernando Solanas
• 6: Ken Spears
• 5: Len Barry
• 5: Geoffrey Palmer
• 5: Joy Westmore
• 4: Ken Hensley
• 3: Elsa Raven
• 3: Don Talbot
• 2: John Sessions
• 2: Gigi Proietti
• 1: Nikki McKibbin
• 1: Enuga Sreenivasulu Reddy

Ongoing conflicts

Africa

• Algeria, Libya and Tunisia
  • Maghreb insurgency
• Cameroon
  • Anglophone Crisis
• Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria
  • Boko Haram insurgency
• Central African Republic
  • Civil War
• Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Kivu conflict
  • Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
  • Ituri conflict
  • Lord's Resistance Army insurgency
• Ethiopia
  • Tigray conflict
• Mali
  • Mali War
• Mozambique
  • Insurgency in Cabo Delgado
• Nigeria
  • Communal conflicts in Nigeria
• Somalia
  • Civil war
• South Sudan
  • Ethnic violence (South Sudanese Civil War)
• Sudan
  • War in Darfur
  • South Kordofan conflict
  • Sudanese nomadic conflicts
• Western Sahara
  • Western Sahara conflict
    • 2020 Western Saharan clashes

Americas

• Colombia
  • Colombian conflict
• Mexico
  • Mexican War on Drugs
• Peru
  • Internal conflict in Peru

Asia-Pacific

• Afghanistan
  • Afghanistan War
• China
  • Xinjiang conflict
• India
  • Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
  • Insurgency in Northeast India
• India and Pakistan
  • Kashmir conflict
    • Border skirmishes
• Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines
  • Moro conflict
    • Cross border attacks in Sabah
• Indonesia
  • Papua conflict
• Myanmar
  • Internal conflict in Myanmar
    • Kachin conflict
    • Karen conflict
    • Rohingya conflict
• Pakistan
  • Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Insurgency in Balochistan
• Philippines
  • Communist rebellion in the Philippines
  • Philippine Drug War
• Thailand
  • South Thailand insurgency

Europe

• Armenia and Azerbaijan
  • Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
• Russia
  • Chechen–Russian conflict
• Ukraine
  • War in Donbass
    • Russo-Ukrainian War

Middle East

• Egypt
  • Sinai terror attacks
• Iran and the Persian Gulf
  • Iran–Israel proxy conflict
  • Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict
• Iraq
  • American-led intervention in Iraq
  • Iranian intervention in Iraq
• Iraq and Syria (map)
  • International military intervention against ISIL
• Israel and Gaza
• Israel and Syria
  • Israeli-Syrian border conflict
• Syria
  • American-led intervention in Syria
  • Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War
• Turkey
  • Kurdish–Turkish conflict
• Yemen and Saudi Arabia
  • Yemeni Civil War
  • Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen
  • Second Saudi–Yemeni War

Further information: List of ongoing armed conflicts

2020 events and developments by topic

Arts

• Animation (Anime)
• Architecture
• Comics
• Film (Horror, Science fiction)
• Literature (Poetry)
• Music (Classical, Country, Hip hop, Jazz, Latin, Metal, Rock, UK, US, Korea)
• Radio
• Television (Australia, Canada, Ireland, UK, Scotland, US)
• Video games

Politics and government

• Elections
• International leaders
• Sovereign states
• Sovereign state leaders
• Territorial governors

Science and technology

• Archaeology
• Biotechnology
• Computing
• Palaeontology
• Quantum computing and communication
• Senescence research
• Space/Astronomy
• Spaceflight
• Sustainable energy research

Environment and environmental sciences

• Climate change
• Weather (Heat waves
• Tornadoes
• Wildfires)

Transportation

• Aviation
• Rail transport
• Transportation technology

Establishments and disestablishments categories

• Establishments
• Disestablishments

Works and introductions categories

• Works
• Introductions
• Works entering the public domain