Portal:Current events/December 2012/Sidebar

Ongoing events
Economic Global financial crisis United States fiscal cliff European sovereign-debt crisis Greek economic crisis Environmental 2012 North American drought Political Arab Spring 2012 Egyptian protests Syrian civil war 2012 East D.R. Congo conflict Terrorist attacks in Kenya 2012 Central African Republic rebellion War in North-West Pakistan

Recent deaths

December 30: Dennis Ferguson 30: Rita Levi-Montalcini 30: Beate Sirota Gordon 29: Tony Greig 29: William Rees-Mogg 28: Václav Drobný 27: Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. 26: Gerry Anderson 26: Fontella Bass 25: Jane Dixon 25: Joe Krivak 24: Richard Rodney Bennett 24: Charles Durning 24: Jack Klugman 24: Dennis O'Driscoll 24: Capital Steez 23: Cristian Tudor 22: Bill Leger 22: Arthur Quinlan 22: Mike Scaccia 22: Arkady Vorobyov 21: Shane McEntee 19: Robert Bork 19: Amnon Lipkin-Shahak 19: Keiji Nakazawa 19: Peter Struck 18: Sir Marcus Worsley 17: Charlie Adam 17: Daniel Inouye 17: Laurier LaPierre 16: Adam Ndlovu 15: Páidí Ó Sé 15: Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa 14: Kenneth Kendall 13: Willie Ackerman 13: Maurice Herzog 13: Abdesslam Yassine 11: Ravi Shankar 11: Walter Francis Sullivan 11: Galina Vishnevskaya 10: Iajuddin Ahmed 10: Lisa Della Casa 9: Patrick Moore 9: Alex Moulton 9: Jenni Rivera 9: Norman Joseph Woodland 8: Jerry Brown 5: Dave Brubeck 5: Elisabeth Murdoch 5: Oscar Niemeyer 4: Vasily Belov 4: Miguel Calero 4: Besse Cooper 3: Fyodor Khitruk 3: M. Mahroof 1: Jovan Belcher 1: Mitchell Cole

Ongoing conflicts

Global War on Terror Terrorist incidents Operation Active Endeavour Operation Enduring Freedom War on Drugs Africa Lord's Resistance Army insurgency Maghreb insurgency OEF - Horn of Africa OEF - Trans Sahara Central African Republic: 2012 Central African Republic rebellion DR Congo: East DR Congo conflict Egypt 2012 Egyptian protests Kenya: Terrorist attacks in Kenya 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 Colombian conflict Mexican Anti-Imposition Protests 2011–2012 Chilean student protests Asia 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 Korean maritime border conflict Southeast Asia: Cambodian–Thai border dispute Papua conflict South Thailand insurgency Territorial disputes in the South China Sea Europe North Caucasus insurgency Dissident Irish Republican campaign Middle East Arab–Israeli conflict Gaza–Israel 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

Elections

Recent: December 1: Kuwait, Parliament 2: Burkina Faso, Parliament 2: Slovenia, President (2nd round) 7–8: Ghana, President and Parliament 9: Romania, Parliament 15, 22: Egypt, Constitutional referendum 16: Japan, Parliament 19: South Korea, President Upcoming: January 11–12: Czech Republic, President 20: Austria, Conscription referendum 22: Israel, Parliament 23: Jordan, Parliament 27: Bulgaria, Nuclear power referendum

Trials

Recently concluded Canada: Michael Rafferty Croatia: Ivo Sanader Egypt: Hosni Mubarak, Alaa Mubarak, Gamal Mubarak Germany: Breno Borges Indonesia: Abu Bakar Bashir Netherlands: Ante Gotovina (ICTY), Mladen Markač (ICTY) Norway: Anders Behring Breivik Russia: Pussy Riot Sierra Leone: Charles Taylor (SCFSL) South Africa: Chris Mahlangu 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, Kweku Adoboli 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 Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal 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 Ukraine: Yulia Tymoshenko United Kingdom: Kevin Hutchinson-Foster, Koo Stark United States: Ahmed Ghailani, David Headley, Charles P. White, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Viktor Bout, Lauryn Hill Vatican: Vatileaks scandal Upcoming Canada: Luka Magnotta France: Éric Raoult 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