Portal:Current events/October 2011/Sidebar

Ongoing events

2011 Southern US drought 2011 Tuvalu drought Horn of Africa famine Economic Global financial crisis European sovereign debt crisis Greek economic crisis Smartphone patent wars Medical HIV/AIDS in Africa American listeriosis outbreak Political Occupy movement Occupy Wall Street Occupy Ashland Occupy Atlanta Occupy Austin Occupy Boston Occupy Buffalo Occupy Chicago Occupy Eugene Occupy London Occupy Los Angeles Occupy Portland Occupy San Jose Other protest locations 2011 United States public employee protests 2011 Wisconsin protests Anti-austerity protests Greek protests 2011 Spanish protests Chilean student protests Israeli social protests Arab Spring Bahraini uprising Post-Mubarak transition (following the revolution) Jordanian protests Aftermath of Libyan civil war Moroccan protests Syrian uprising Tunisian Revolution Yemeni uprising News International phone hacking scandal Scientific Expedition 29 Sports 2011 Pan American Games

Recent deaths

October 29: Jimmy Savile 29: Axel Axgil 25: Liviu Ciulei 24: John McCarthy 23: Nusrat Bhutto 23: Bronislovas Lubys 23: Marco Simoncelli 22: Cathal O'Shannon 22: Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud 22: Robert Pierpoint 21: Edmundo Ros 20: Muammar Gaddafi 20: Sue Lloyd 20: Tone Pavček 18: Norman Corwin 18: Kent Hull 18: Elaine Nile 18: Andrea Zanzotto 17: Manfred Gerlach 17: Carl Lindner Jr. 17: Barney Danson 16: Pete Rugolo 16: Dan Wheldon 15: Betty Driver 15: Donald Dunstan 15: Pierre Mamboundou 14: Reg Alcock 14: Michael Fitzpatrick 13: Sheila Allen 13: Barbara Kent 13: Tufele Liamatua 12: Patricia Breslin 12: Dennis Ritchie 12: Dick Thornett 11: Bob Galvin 11: Keith Holman 11: Frank Kameny 10: Milton Castellanos Everardo 10: Jagjit Singh 10: Albert Rosellini 9: Rob Buckman 8: Al Davis 8: Mikey Welsh 8: Roger Williams 7: Ramiz Alia 7: George Baker 6: Diane Cilento 5: Graham Dilley 5: Bert Jansch 5: Steve Jobs 5: Charles Napier 5: Fred Shuttlesworth

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 South Kordofan conflict Lord's Resistance Army insurgency Somalia: Civil war Somali Civil War (2009–present) Piracy OEF - Horn of Africa Europe Real IRA North Caucasus insurgency Ingushetia civil war Middle East Iraqi insurgency Iran-Jundallah conflict Fatah–Hamas conflict Arab–Israeli conflict Israeli–Palestinian conflict Israeli–Lebanese conflict Palestinian political violence and rocket attacks Yemen: Terrorism and 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 Burma internal conflict Burma border clashes South Thailand insurgency Cambodian–Thai border dispute Philippines insurgency OEF - Philippines Papua conflict Americas Colombian conflict Plan Colombia FARC Mexican drug war Mérida Initiative Peru internal conflict

Elections

Recent: October 21/28: Kiribati, parliament 23: Argentina, general 23: Bulgaria, president 23: Switzerland, federal 23: Tunisia, Constituent Assembly 27: Ireland, president and constitutional referendums 30: Kyrgyzstan, president Upcoming: November 6: Guatemala, president (2nd round) 6: Nicaragua, general 8: Gibraltar, general 13: South Ossetia, president and referendum 18: Moldova, president (indirect) 20: Spain, general 21: Marshall Islands, general

Trials

Recently concluded Cambodia: Kang Kek Iew France: John Galliano Germany: John Demjanjuk Italy: Amanda Knox, Raffaele Sollecito Indonesia: Abu Bakar Bashir Netherlands: Geert Wilders Ukraine: Yulia Tymoshenko United Kingdom: Levi Bellfield, Robert Black, Vincent Tabak United States: Faisal Shahzad, Noshir Gowadia, Buju Banton, Barry Bonds, Raj Rajaratnam, Rod Blagojevich, Casey Anthony, Dominique Strauss-Kahn Ongoing Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal Canada: Russell Williams China: Organized crime in Chongqing France: Church of Scientology, Jacques Chirac Germany: Heinrich Boere Iraq: Supreme Criminal Tribunal Iran: Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani Malaysia: Anwar Ibrahim Netherlands: Thomas Lubanga (ICC), Radovan Karadžić (ICTY) Palau: Tommy Remengesau Peru: Joran van der Sloot Philippines: Andal Ampatuan Jr. Russia: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev Sierra Leone: Charles Taylor (SCFSL) Singapore: Tak Boleh Tahan South Africa: Chris Mahlangu Thailand]]: Thaksin Shinawatra Turkey: Ergenekon network United States: Roger Clemens, Ahmed Ghailani, David Headley, Jared Lee Loughner, Conrad Murray, Charles P. White Upcoming Egypt: Hosni Mubarak, Alaa Mubarak, Gamal Mubarak Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein Tunisia: Zine El Abidine Ben Ali United States: Viktor Bout, Allen Stanford, Nidal Malik Hasan, John Edwards, Javaris Crittenton, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab

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