Portal:Current events/April 2012/Sidebar

Ongoing events

Political Arab Spring Post-Tunisian Revolution Libyan factional fighting Egyptian revolution - ongoing Bahraini uprising - ongoing Syrian uprising - ongoing Yemeni revolution - ongoing Bissau-Guinean coup d'état Economic Global financial crisis European sovereign-debt crisis Greek economic crisis Irish financial crisis 2010–2012 Southern United States drought Smartphone patent wars Scientific Expedition 31 Medical AIDS pandemic HIV/AIDS in Africa

Recent deaths

April 30: Alexander Dale Oen 30: Tomás Borge 30: Benzion Netanyahu 29: Amarillo Slim 29: Shukri Ghanem 27: Fred Allen 26: Bill Skowron 26: Pete Fornatale 25: Louis le Brocquy 24: Miguel Portas 23: Chris Ethridge 23: LeRoy T. Walker 22: Aristarkh Stankevich 21: Charles Colson 20: Lord Ashley 20: Bert Weedon 20: George Cowan 19: Greg Ham 19: Levon Helm 19: Valeri Vasiliev 18: Dick Clark 17: Dimitris Mitropanos 15: Murray Rose 14: Piermario Morosini 12: Amy Tryon 11: Julio Alemán 11: Ahmed Ben Bella 11: Roger Caron 10: Raymond Aubrac 9: Mark Lenzi 8: Jack Tramiel 7: Mike Wallace 6: Fang Lizhi 6: Thomas Kinkade 5: Bingu wa Mutharika 5: Gil Noble 5: Ferdinand Alexander Porsche 5: Jim Marshall 5: Angelo Castro Jr. 5: Barney McKenna 4: Claude Miller 3: Richard Descoings 2: Fatma Neslişah 2: Jimmy Little 1: Giorgio Chinaglia 1: Miguel de la Madrid 1: Lionel Bowen

Ongoing conflicts

Global War on terror Terrorist incidents Operation Active Endeavour Operation Enduring Freedom War on drugs Africa 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 Lord's Resistance Army insurgency Somalia: Civil war Somali Civil War (2009–present) Piracy OEF - Horn of Africa Tuareg rebellion Europe North Caucasus insurgency Ingushetia civil war Dissident Irish Republican campaign Middle East Iraqi insurgency Iran–Jundallah conflict 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 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 Colombian conflict

Elections

Recent: April 8: South Ossetia, President (2nd round) 11: South Korea, Parliament 16: East Timor, President (2nd round) 22: France, President (1st round) Upcoming: May 2: Hungary, President (indirect) 3: United Kingdom, Mayor of London 4: Iran, Parliament (2nd round) 6: Armenia, Parliament 6: France, President (2nd round) 6: Serbia, President and Parliament 6: Greece, Parliament 7: Bahamas, General 7: Syria, Parliament 10: Algeria, Parliament 20: Dominican Republic, President 23–24: Egypt, President (1st round) 26: Lesotho, General 31: Ireland, Constitutional referendum

Trials

Recently concluded Cambodia: Kang Kek Iew 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 Ukraine: Yulia Tymoshenko United Kingdom: Levi Bellfield, Robert Black, Vincent Tabak, Ali Dizaei, Antoni Imiela, Brian Regan, Donna Air, Ched Evans, Clayton McDonald 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 Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal Canada: Russell Williams, Michael Rafferty 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) Norway: Anders Behring Breivik Palau: Tommy Remengesau Philippines]]: Andal Ampatuan Jr. Russia: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev Sierra Leone]]: Charles Taylor (SCFSL) Singapore: Tak Boleh Tahan South Africa: Chris Mahlangu Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra Tunisia: Zine El Abidine Ben Ali Turkey: Ergenekon network, Kenan Evren United States: Roger Clemens, Ahmed Ghailani, David Headley, Jared Lee Loughner, Charles P. White, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Viktor Bout, John Edwards Upcoming Ivory Coast: Laurent Gbagbo United Kingdom: Justin Lee Collins United States: Nidal Malik Hasan, Javaris Crittenton, Bradley Manning, Jerry Sandusky, Robert Bales, George Zimmerman