Portal:Current events/July 2014/Sidebar

Ongoing events

Disasters Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 search efforts Economic Eurozone crisis Greek government-debt crisis Environmental 2014 Atlantic hurricane season 2014 North Indian Ocean cyclone season 2014 Pacific typhoon season Health West Africa Ebola outbreak Political Garda Síochána phone-tapping scandal Global surveillance disclosures Israel–Gaza conflict Pro-Russian conflict in Ukraine Russian military intervention in Ukraine South Sudanese Civil War Venezuela protests More details on ongoing conflicts below Sports July 23 – August 3: Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland

Recent deaths

July 30: Robert Drew 30: Julio Grondona 30: Dick Wagner 29: Hashmat Karzai 29: Sheik Umar Khan 29: Péter Kiss 28: Margot Adler 28: Torrin Lawrence 28: Johnny Rebb 28: James Shigeta 28: Theodore Van Kirk 27: Sir Richard Bolt 27: Kyozan Joshu Sasaki 27: Paul Schell 26: Oleh Babayev 25: Carlo Bergonzi 25: Çolpan İlhan 25: Bel Kaufman 25: Richard Larter 24: Ian Rees Davies 24: Dale Schlueter 23: Dora Bryan 22: Johann Breyer 22: Robert Newhouse 21: Dan Borislow 21: Kevin Skinner 20: Victor G. Atiyeh 19: Skye McCole Bartusiak 19: James Garner 19: Norberto Odebrecht 19: John Winkin 18: João Ubaldo Ribeiro 18: Augie Rodriguez 17: Lionel Ferbos 17: Joep Lange 17: Otto Piene 17: Elaine Stritch 17: Willem Witteveen 16: Karl Albrecht 16: Johnny Winter 15: James MacGregor Burns 14: Alice Coachman 14: Vintage Crop 13: Thomas Berger 13: Nadine Gordimer 13: Lorin Maazel 12: Kenneth J. Gray 12: Red Klotz 12: Valeriya Novodvorskaya 11: Charlie Haden 11: Tommy Ramone 11: John Seigenthaler 10: Curt Gentry 10: Zohra Sehgal 9: David Azrieli 9: Eileen Ford 8: Maxine Cochran 8: Ben Pangelinan 8: Howard Siler 7: Alfredo Di Stéfano 7: Dick Jones 7: Lammtarra 7: Eduard Shevardnadze 7: Peter Underwood 6: Alan J. Dixon 6: Dave Legeno 5: Robert Jeangerard 5: Peter Robert Marler 5: Rosemary Murphy 5: Volodymyr Sabodan 4: Richard Mellon Scaife 3: Guy Gaucher 2: Louis Zamperini 1: Jean Garon 1: Anatoly Kornukov 1: Walter Dean Myers

Ongoing conflicts

Global War on Drugs War on Terror Operation Active Endeavour Operation Enduring Freedom Terrorist incidents in 2014 Africa Lord's Resistance Army insurgency Maghreb insurgency OEF – Horn of Africa OEF – Trans Sahara Central African Republic Civil conflict Egypt Post-coup unrest Sinai insurgency Libya Post-civil war interfactional fighting 2014 Libyan conflict Nigeria Niger Delta conflict Islamist insurgency in Nigeria Somalia Civil war Sudan and South Sudan Sudan internal conflict South Sudan internal conflict Americas Colombian conflict Mexican Drug War Asia Afghanistan War Military operations Taliban insurgency India Naxalite–Maoist insurgency Korea Korean maritime border conflict Pakistan Balochistan conflict North-West War Sectarian violence Philippines Communist insurgency Moro insurgency Russia North Caucasus insurgency Southeast Asia Cambodian–Thai border dispute Kachin conflict Papua conflict South Thailand insurgency Territorial disputes in the South China Sea Europe Dissident Irish Republican campaign Pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine 2014 insurgency in Donetsk and Luhansk Middle East Arab–Israeli conflict Gaza–Israel conflict Israeli–Lebanese conflict Israeli–Palestinian conflict Israel–Iran proxy conflict Iraqi insurgency Kurdistan Kurdish–Iranian conflict Syrian Civil War Yemen al-Qaeda crackdown Shia insurgency South Yemen insurgency

Elections
Recent: July 2: Lebanon, President (8th round; indirect [aborted]) 9: Indonesia, President 9: Cook Islands, General 13: Slovenia, Parliament 23: Lebanon, President (9th round; indirect [aborted]) Upcoming: August 10: Turkey, President (1st round) 12: Lebanon, President (10th round; indirect) 24: Abkhazia, President 24: Turkey, President (2nd round)

Trials

Recently concluded Australia: Brett Peter Cowan, Craig Thomson, Robert Hughes Canada: Michael Thomas Rafferty China: Bo Xilai Croatia: Ivo Sanader Germany: Breno Borges Italy: Silvio Berlusconi Jordan: Abu Qatada Netherlands: Ante Gotovina (ICTY), Mladen Markač (ICTY), Momčilo Perišić (ICTY), Germain Katanga (ICC) Russia: Leonid Khabarov, Vladimir Kvachkov, Pussy Riot Sierra Leone: Charles Taylor (SCFSL) South Africa: Chris Mahlangu Ukraine: Yulia Tymoshenko United Kingdom: Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, 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, Tony McCluskie, Kevin Hutchinson-Foster, Chris Huhne, Nicola Edgington, Vicky Pryce, Derek Rose, Mick Philpott, Mairead Philpott, Paul Mosley, Kevin Liverpool, Junior Bradshaw, Aggro Santos, Stuart Hazell, Mark Bridger, Andrew Lancel, Dale Cregan, Ray Wilkins, Michael Le Vell, Liam Adams, R v Grillo and Grillo, Ian Watkins, William Roache, Dave Lee Travis, Nicholas Jacobs, Nigel Evans, Max Clifford, Stuart Hall, Dappy, Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson, Rolf Harris, Tulisa Contostavlos United States: Noshir Gowadia, Barry Bonds, Raj Rajaratnam, Casey Anthony, Conrad Murray, George Huguely, Allen Stanford, Roger Clemens, Jerry Sandusky, Jared Lee Loughner, Lauryn Hill, Kermit Gosnell, George Zimmerman, Chelsea Manning, Ariel Castro, Whitey Bulger, Robert Bales, Nidal Malik Hasan, Crystal Mangum, Abu Hamza al-Masri Ongoing Brazil: Mensalão scandal Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal Canada: Luka Magnotta China: Organized crime in Chongqing Egypt: Mohamed Morsi, Hosni Mubarak France: Church of Scientology Germany: Christian Wulff, Beate Zschäpe, Uli Hoeness, Bernie Ecclestone Hong Kong: Alfredo Lim Iran: Babak Zanjani 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, Janet Lim-Napoles, Bongbong Marcos, Imelda Marcos, Jovito Palparan Russia: Platon Lebedev South Africa: Oscar Pistorius South Korea: MV Sewol crew members Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra Turkey: Kenan Evren United Kingdom: Eddy Shah, Koo Stark United States: Jodi Arias Upcoming France: Éric Raoult Ivory Coast: Laurent Gbagbo Libya: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi United Kingdom: Dane Bowers, Dave Lee Travis, Gary Glitter, Andy Coulson United States: Paul Anthony Ciancia, Javaris Crittenton, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Peter Madoff, Christian Gerhartsreiter, Dylan Quick, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, James Eagan Holmes, Aaron Hernandez, Graham Spanier, Tim Curley, Gary Schultz, Anas al-Libi, Bob McDonnell, Justin Bieber, Chris Brown