Portal:Current events/November 2012/Sidebar

Ongoing events
Economic Global financial crisis European sovereign-debt crisis Greek economic crisis Environmental 2012 North American drought Political Arab Spring Syrian civil war Operation Pillar of Defense 2012 East D.R. Congo conflict Terrorist attacks in Kenya Scandals Jimmy Savile sexual abuse scandal

Recent deaths

November 30: Inder Kumar Gujral 28: Zig Ziglar 27: Marvin Miller 26: Joseph Murray 26: Martin Richards 25: Earl Carroll 25: Lars Hörmander 25: Dave Sexton 25: Dinah Sheridan 24: Héctor Camacho 23: Larry Hagman 22: Bryce Courtenay 22: Jan Trefulka 21: Mr. Food 21: Ajmal Kasab 20: Kaspars Astašenko 20: Ivan Kušan 19: John Hefin 19: Warren Rudman 19: Boris Strugatskiy 18: Miliki 17: Bal Thackeray 14: Ahmed Jabari 11: Rex Hunt 11: Ilya Oleynikov 9: Sergey Nikolsky 9: Bill Tarmey 6: Clive Dunn 6: Maxim of Bulgaria 5: Elliott Carter 5: Leonardo Favio 5: Sikandar Sanam 3: Kailashpati Mishra 3: Eugenija Pleškytė 3: Ingegerd Troedsson 2: János Rózsás 2: Han Suyin 1: Gae Aulenti 1: Agustín García Calvo

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 DR Congo: East DR Congo conflict 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 Pillar of Defense 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: November 6: Palau, President, General 6: United States, President, House of Representatives, Senate (one third: "Class I" Senators) 10: Republic of Ireland, Children's rights referendum 11: Slovenia, President (1st round) 11: San Marino, General 17: Sierra Leone, General Upcoming: December 1: Kuwait, Parliament 2: Burkina Faso, Parliament 2: Slovenia, President (2nd round) 7: Ghana, President (1st round) 9: Romania, Parliament 16: Japan, Parliament 19: South Korea, President 28: Ghana, President (2nd round) and Parliament

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 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, 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 Canada: Luka Magnotta China: Organized crime in Chongqing France: Church of Scientology Iraq: Supreme Criminal Tribunal Malaysia: Anwar Ibrahim Netherlands: Thomas Lubanga (ICC), Radovan Karadžić (ICTY), Ratko Mladić (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 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 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