Portal:Current events/October 2018/Sidebar
Ongoing events
Business
Culture
Disasters
- 2018 Atlantic hurricane season
- 2018 California wildfires
- 2018–19 European windstorm season
- 2018 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
- 2018 Pacific hurricane season
- 2018 Pacific typhoon season
- Yemeni famine
Politics
- Brexit negotiations
- European migrant crisis (timeline)
- Iranian protests
- Iraqi protests
- Nicaraguan protests
- Romanian protests
- Qatar diplomatic crisis
- Rohingya persecution in Myanmar
- Spanish constitutional crisis
- Trump administration family separation policy
- Turkish purges
- U.S. political sex scandals
- U.S. Special Counsel investigation (timeline)
Religion
Sports
More details – ongoing conflicts
Elections and referendums
Recent
- October
- 18: Bhutan, National Assembly (2nd)
- 20: Afghanistan, House of the People
- 26: Ireland, President and Constitutional referendum
- 27: Gabon, National Assembly (2nd)
- 28: Brazil, President (2nd)
- 28: Georgia, President
Upcoming
Trials
Recently concluded
- Argentina: Amado Boudou
- Cambodia: James Ricketson
- Guatemala: Roxana Baldetti
- Myanmar: Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo
- Philippines: Jovito Palparan
- United States: Paul Manafort
Ongoing
- Cambodia: Kem Sokha, Mu Sochua
- 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
- Spain: Bárcenas affair
- United States: Fat Leonard scandal
- International
Upcoming
- Australia: George Pell
- Canada: Alek Minassian
- Egypt: Mohamed Morsi
- Guatemala: Alvaro Colom, Manuel Baldizón, Juan Alberto Fuentes
- Iran: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
- Philippines: Andal Ampatuan Jr.
- South Africa: Jacob Zuma
- Spain: Jordi Pujol
- Ukraine: Roman Nasirov
- United Kingdom: Football sex abuse scandal
- United States: Patrick Ho, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Sayfullo Saipov, NXIVM, Elizabeth Holmes, Chris Collins, Duncan D. Hunter
- Zimbabwe: Ignatius Chombo
Sport
- Association football
- Women's association football
- American football
- Baseball
- Basketball
- Golf
- Ice hockey
- Motorsport
- Rugby sevens
- Rugby union
- Tennis
- Other sports seasons
More details – current sports events
Recent deaths
October 2018
- 30: Whitey Bulger
- 30: Jin Yong
- 28: Richard Gill
- 27: Freddie Hart
- 27: Ntozake Shange
- 27: Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha
- 24: Carmen Alborch
- 24: Tony Joe White
- 23: James Karen
- 22: Gilberto Benetton
- 21: Earl Bakken
- 21: Robert Faurisson
- 21: Joachim Rønneberg
- 21: Charles Wang
- 20: Wim Kok
- 20: Aubrey Manning
- 18: Abdul Raziq Achakzai
- 18: Lisbeth Palme
- 18: Dick Slater
- 17: Ian Kiernan
- 16: Ismail Amat
- 16: Dennis Hof
- 15: Paul Allen
- 14: Donald Stovel Macdonald
- 13: William Coors
- 13: Jim Taylor
- 12: Pik Botha
- 11: Paul Andreu
Ongoing conflicts
Africa
- Algeria, Libya and Tunisia
- Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria
- Central African Republic
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Ethiopia
- Libya
- Mali
- Nigeria
- Somalia
- South Sudan
- Sudan
Americas
- Colombia
- 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
