Portal:Current events/May 2012/Sidebar

Ongoing conflicts
	Global[edit] War on terror Terrorist incidents; Operation Active Endeavour; Operation Enduring Freedom; ; War on drugs; Africa[edit] Maghreb insurgency; OEF - Trans Sahara; Casamance conflict; Niger Delta conflict; Nigerian Sharia conflict; Sudan internal conflict; South Sudan internal conflict; South Sudan–Sudan border conflict; 2012 East DR Congo conflict; Lord's Resistance Army insurgency; Somalia: Civil war; Somali Civil War (2009–present); Piracy; ; OEF - Horn of Africa; Tuareg rebellion; Europe[edit] North Caucasus insurgency; Ingushetia civil war; Dissident Irish Republican campaign; Middle East[edit] Iraqi insurgency; Arab–Israeli conflict Israeli–Palestinian conflict; Israeli–Lebanese conflict; Palestinian political violence and rocket attacks; ; Yemen: Terrorism; al-Qaeda crackdown; South Yemen insurgency; Shia insurgency; ; Kurdistan: Turkey–PKK conflict; ; Asia[edit] Afghanistan War Military operations; Taliban insurgency; ; Pakistan: Terrorism; North-West War; Balochistan conflict; Drone attacks; Sectarian violence; ; India: Terrorism; Jammu and Kashmir insurgency; Naxalite–Maoist insurgency; Northeast India insurgency; Nagaland ethnic conflict; Kashmir conflict Siachen conflict; ; ; Korean maritime border incidents; Southeast Asia: Laos insurgency; South Thailand insurgency; Cambodian–Thai border dispute; Territorial disputes in the South China Sea; ; Islamic insurgency in the Philippines Operation Enduring Freedom – Philippines; ; Papua conflict; Americas[edit] Colombian conflict; Mexican drug war; edit this archived sidebar

Recent deaths
	May[edit] 31: Orlando Woolridge; 30: Andrew Huxley; 30: Jack Twyman; 29: Kaneto Shindo; 29: Doc Watson; 27: Simeon Daniel; 27: Friedrich Hirzebruch; 27: Johnny Tapia; 25: Edoardo Mangiarotti; 24: Jacqueline Harpman; 23: Paul Fussell; 20: Robin Gibb; 20: Abdelbaset al-Megrahi; 20: Eugene Polley; 19: Bob Boozer; 18: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau; 17: Herbert Breslin; 17: Warda Al-Jazairia; 17: Donna Summer; 16: Chuck Brown; 15: Carlos Fuentes; 13: Donald "Duck" Dunn; 13: Arsalan Rahmani; 12: Harold Arthur Poling; 12: Ken Selby; 11: Tony DeZuniga; 10: Horst Faas; 10: Joyce Redman; 10: Carroll Shelby; 9: Geoffrey Henry; 9: Vidal Sassoon; 8: Roman Totenberg; 8: Maurice Sendak; 7: Ferenc Bartha; 6: Iraj Ghaderi; 6: George Lindsey; 6: Fahd Mohammed Ahmed al-Quso; 4: Adam Yauch; 4: Rashidi Yekini; 3: Lloyd Brevett; 3: Digby Wolfe; 2: Junior Seau; 1: Charles Pitts; edit this archived sidebar

Ongoing events
	Political[edit] Arab Spring Post-Tunisian Revolution; Libyan factional fighting; Egyptian revolution Egyptian presidential election; ; Bahraini uprising; Syrian uprising; Yemeni revolution; ; Economic[edit] Global financial crisis European sovereign-debt crisis; Greek economic crisis; ; Scientific[edit] Expedition 31; Medical[edit] AIDS pandemic HIV/AIDS in Africa; ; Celebrations[edit] Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II; edit this archived sidebar

Elections
Recent: May[edit] 20: Dominican Republic, President 20: Serbia, President (2nd round) 23–24: Egypt, President (1st round) 26: Lesotho, General 30: Albania, President (indirect) Upcoming: May[edit] 31: Ireland, Constitutional referendum Upcoming: June[edit] 10: France, Parliament (1st round) 13: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Senate (indirect) 16–17: Egypt, President (2nd round) 17: France, Parliament (2nd round) 17: Greece, Parliament 19: Libya, Public National Conference 23: Papua New Guinea, Parliament edit this archived sidebar

Trials
Recently concluded[edit] Cambodia: Kang Kek Iew Canada: Michael Rafferty France: Jacques Chirac, John Galliano Germany: John Demjanjuk, Heinrich Boere Iceland: Geir Haarde Indonesia: Abu Bakar Bashir Italy: Amanda Knox, Raffaele Sollecito Netherlands: Geert Wilders, Charles Taylor Peru: Joran van der Sloot Russia: Bhagavad Gita 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 United States: Faisal Shahzad, Noshir Gowadia, Buju Banton, Barry Bonds, Raj Rajaratnam, Rod Blagojevich, Casey Anthony, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Conrad Murray, George Huguely, Allen Stanford Ongoing trials[edit] Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal China: Organized crime in Chongqing Egypt: Hosni Mubarak, Alaa Mubarak, Gamal Mubarak France: Church of Scientology, Carlos the Jackal Iraq: Supreme Criminal Tribunal Malaysia: Anwar Ibrahim Netherlands: Thomas Lubanga (ICC), Radovan Karadžić (ICTY), Ratko Mladic (ICTY) Norway: Anders Behring Breivik Palau: Tommy Remengesau Philippines: Andal Ampatuan Jr. Russia: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev Singapore: Tak Boleh Tahan Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra Tunisia: Zine El Abidine Ben Ali Turkey: Ergenekon network, Kenan Evren United Kingdom: Iftikhar and Farzana Ahmed United States: Roger Clemens, Ahmed Ghailani, David Headley, Jared Lee Loughner, Charles P. White, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Viktor Bout, John Edwards Upcoming Trials[edit] Ivory Coast: Laurent Gbagbo United Kingdom: Justin Lee Collins United States: Nidal Malik Hasan, Javaris Crittenton, Bradley Manning, Jerry Sandusky, Robert Bales, George Zimmerman, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed edit this archived sidebar

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