Portal:Current events/October 2017/Sidebar
Ongoing events
Business
Disasters
- Atlantic hurricane season
- Oklahoma earthquake swarms
- Pacific typhoon season
- UK and Ireland windstorm season
Politics
- Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey
- Brexit negotiations
- European migrant crisis (timeline)
- North Korean crisis
- Philippine Drug War
- Purges in Turkey
- Qatar diplomatic crisis
- Rohingya persecution
- South China Sea disputes
- Spanish constitutional crisis
- U.S. Special Counsel investigation (timeline)
- Venezuelan protests (timeline)
More details – ongoing conflicts
Sport
- Association football
- Women's association football
- Baseball
- Basketball
- Ice hockey
- Tennis
- Cycling
- Motorsport
- Rugby union
- Golf
- Other sports seasons
More details – current sports events
Elections and referendums
Recent
- October
- 1: Catalonia, Independence referendum
- 10: Liberia, President (1st round), House of Representatives
- 15: Austria, National Council
- 15: Kyrgyzstan, President
- 20–21: Czech Republic, Chamber of Deputies
- 22: Argentina, National Congress
- 22: Italy
- 22: Japan, House of Representatives
- 22: Slovenia, President
- 28: Iceland, Althing
Upcoming
- November
- 8: Liberia, President (2nd round)
- 9: Falkland Islands, Legislative Assembly
- 12: Equatorial Guinea, Senate and Chamber of Deputies
- 13: Somaliland, President and House of Representatives
- 16: Tonga, Legislative Assembly
- 19: Chile, President, Senate and Chamber of Deputies
- 26: Honduras, President and National Congress
- 26: Nepal, House of Representatives (1st phase)
Recent deaths
October 2017
- 30: Fred Beckey
- 30: Kim Joo-hyuk
- 30: Judy Martz
- 30: Abbas Zandi
- 29: Dennis Banks
- 29: Ninian Stephen
- 27: Punathil Kunjabdulla
- 26: Thomas Smales
- 25: Jack Bannon
- 25: Lu Guanqiu
- 25: John Mollo
- 24: Ebrahim Ashtiani
- 24: Fats Domino
- 24: Robert Guillaume
- 23: Alinghi
- 23: George Young
- 22: Judith McGrath
- 21: Rosemary Leach
- 20: Federico Luppi
- 19: Miguel Ángel Loayza
- 19: Umberto Lenzi
- 18: Gregory Baum
- 18: Ricardo Vidal
- 17: Danielle Darrieux
- 17: Gord Downie
- 17: Douglas Thayer
- 16: Kevin Cadle
- 16: Roy Dotrice
- 16: John Dunsworth
- 16: Daphne Caruana Galizia
- 16: Isnilon Hapilon
- 16: Sean Hughes
- 15: Choirul Huda
- 14: Richard Wilbur
- 13: William Lombardy
- 13: Albert Zafy
- 12: Muntaka Connmassie
- 11: Clifford Husbands
- 10: Bob Schiller
- 9: Vincent La Selva
- 9: Rafe Mair
- 8: Y. A. Tittle
- 7: Jim Landis
- 6: Connie Hawkins
- 6: Ralphie May
- 6: Bunny Sigler
- 5: Eberhard van der Laan
- 5: Anne Wiazemsky
- 4: Liam Cosgrave
- 3: Michel Jouvet
- 3: Lance Russell
- 3: Jalal Talabani
- 2: Peter Burke
- 2: Paul Otellini
- 2: Tom Petty
- 2: Robert Yates
- 1: Robert D. Hales
- 1: Stephen Paddock
- 1: Dave Strader
Trials
Recently concluded
- Bangladesh: Sohel Rana
- Cambodia: Sam Rainsy
- China: Wu Changshun
- India: Mahmood Farooqui
- Indonesia: Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, Patrialis Akbar
- Kazakhstan: Mukhtar Ablyazov
- Kyrgyzstan: Omurbek Tekebayev
- Romania: Radu Mazăre
- South Korea: Lee Jae-yong
- Spain: Iñaki Urdangarin, Rodrigo Rato
- United Kingdom: Fred Talbot, Rolf Harris
- United States: Barry Cadden, Pedro Hernandez, Graham Spanier, Tim Curley, Gary Schultz, Bill Cosby, Ng Lap Seng, Martin Shkreli, Anthony Weiner
Ongoing
- China: Bai Enpei, Pan Yiyang, Yang Weize
- Germany: Beate Zschäpe
- Guatemala: Otto Pérez Molina, Roxana Baldetti and others, Efraín Ríos Montt, Álvaro Arzú
- Greece: Siemens bribery scandal
- Malaysia: Siti Aisyah, Đoàn Thị Hương
- Pakistan: Waseem Azeem, Mufti Abdul Qawi
- Philippines: Andal Ampatuan Jr., Jovito Palparan, Maria Lourdes Sereno
- Romania: Dan Șova, Elena Udrea, Gheorghe Nichita
- Russia: Alexei Navalny, Alexey Ulyukaev
- South Korea: Park Geun-hye and Choi Soon-sil
- Spain: Gürtel case, Bárcenas affair, Operación Lezo, 2017 Catalonia attacks
- United Kingdom: Barry Bennell
- United States: Fat Leonard scandal, Bob Menendez, Ahmed Abu Khattala
- International
Upcoming
- Australia: George Pell
- Egypt: Mohamed Morsi
- Estonia: Edgar Savisaar
- Israel: Faina Kirschenbaum
- Libya: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi
- Philippines: Leila de Lima, Benigno Aquino III, Alan Purisima, Getulio Napeñas
- Spain: Ángel María Villar, Jordi Pujol
- United States: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Bill Cosby, Reza Zarrab, Paul Manafort, Rick Gates
Ongoing conflicts
Africa
- Algeria and Tunisia
- Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria
- Central African Republic
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Libya
- Mali
- Somalia
- South Sudan
- Sudan
Americas
- 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
