Portal:Current events/October 2012/Sidebar

Ongoing conflicts
	Global[edit] War on Terror Terrorist incidents; Operation Active Endeavour; Operation Enduring Freedom; ; War on Drugs; Africa[edit] Lord's Resistance Army insurgency; Maghreb insurgency; OEF - Horn of Africa; OEF - Trans Sahara; DR Congo: East DR Congo conflict; ; Libya: Libyan factional fighting; ; Mali: Azawad conflict; ; Nigeria: Nigerian Sharia conflict; Niger Delta conflict; ; Somalia: Civil War; Piracy; ; Sudan and South Sudan: Sudan internal conflict; South Sudan internal conflict; ; Americas[edit] Global War on Drugs; Colombian conflict; Mexican Anti-Imposition Protests; 2011–2012 Chilean student protests; Asia[edit] Afghanistan War Military operations; Taliban insurgency; ; Pakistan: North-West War; Sectarian violence; ; India: Nagaland ethnic conflict; Naxalite–Maoist insurgency; Northeast India insurgency; ; Islamic insurgency in the Philippines Operation Enduring Freedom – Philippines; ; Senkaku Islands dispute; Korean maritime border conflict; Southeast Asia: Cambodian–Thai border dispute; Papua conflict; South Thailand insurgency; Territorial disputes in the South China Sea; ; Europe[edit] North Caucasus insurgency; Dissident Irish Republican campaign; Middle East[edit] Arab–Israeli conflict Israeli–Palestinian conflict; Israeli–Lebanese conflict; Operation Sinai; ; Iraqi insurgency; Kurdistan: Kurdish–Turkish conflict; Kurdish–Iranian conflict; ; Syrian civil war; Yemen: al-Qaeda crackdown; South Yemen insurgency; Shia insurgency; ; edit this archived sidebar

Recent deaths
	October[edit] 29: J. Bernlef; 27: Hans Werner Henze; 26: Joža Horvat; 25: Jacques Barzun; 25: Jaspal Bhatti; 25: Emanuel Steward; 24: Anita Björk; 24: Margaret Osborne duPont; 23: Wilhelm Brasse; 23: Sunil Gangopadhyay; 22: Russell Means; 21: Yash Chopra; 21: George McGovern; 20: Oli Ahad; 20: Przemysław Gintrowski; 19: Wiyogo Atmodarminto; 19: Fiorenzo Magni; 17: László Komár; 17: Sylvia Kristel; 15: Erol Günaydın; 15: Norodom Sihanouk; 14: John Clive; 14: Arlen Specter; 13: Stuart Bell; 13: Tomonubu Imamichi; 13: Saiichi Maruya; 12: Jean-Pierre Hautier; 12: Břetislav Pojar; 11: Helmut Haller; 11: Erik Moseholm; 11: Édgar Negret; 10: Kevin Curran; 10: Piotr Lenartowicz; 10: Basil L. Plumley; 10: Alex Karras; 9: Paddy Roy Bates; 7: Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano; 7: Ivo Michiels; 6: Antonio Cisneros; 6: Chadli Bendjedid; 5: Keith Campbell; 1: Dirk Bach; 1: Eric Hobsbawm; edit this archived sidebar

Ongoing events
	Economic[edit] Libor scandal; Global financial crisis European sovereign-debt crisis; Greek economic crisis; ; Environmental[edit] 2012 North American drought; Political[edit] Mexican Anti-Imposition Protests; 2011–2012 Chilean student protests; Arab Spring Syrian civil war; ; Senkaku Islands dispute; Scandals[edit] Catholic sex abuse cases; Jimmy Savile sexual abuse scandal;

Elections
Recent: October [edit] 1: Georgia, Parliament 7: Venezuela, President 12-20: Czech Republic, Senate (one third of the seats) 14: Lithuania, Parliament and Nuclear power referendum 14: Montenegro, Parliament 20: Iceland, Constitutional referendum 28: Ukraine, Parliament 30: Vanuatu, General Upcoming: November [edit] 6: Palau, President, General 6: United States, President, House of Representatives, Senate (one third: "Class I" Senators) 10: Republic of Ireland, constitutional referendum 11: Slovenia, President 11: San Marino, General 17: Sierra Leone, General 22: Nepal, Constituent Assembly edit this archived sidebar

Trials
Recently concluded [edit] Canada: Michael Rafferty Egypt: Hosni Mubarak, Alaa Mubarak, Gamal Mubarak Germany: Breno Borges Indonesia: Abu Bakar Bashir Norway: Anders Behring Breivik Russia: 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 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 [edit] 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: Leonid Khabarov, Vladimir Kvachkov, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev Singapore: Tak Boleh Tahan Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra Turkey: Ergenekon network, Kenan Evren United Kingdom: Kweku Adoboli, Kevin Hutchinson-Foster, Koo Stark United States: Ahmed Ghailani, David Headley, Charles P. White, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Viktor Bout, John Edwards, Lauryn Hill Vatican: Vatileaks scandal Upcoming [edit] Libya: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi Ivory Coast: Laurent Gbagbo United Kingdom: Chris Huhne, Vicky Pryce, Tony McCluskie, Dane Bowers United States: Nidal Malik Hasan, Javaris Crittenton, Bradley Manning, Robert Bales, George Zimmerman, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Peter Madoff, Christian Gerhartsreiter, Crystal Mangum edit this archived sidebar

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