Portal:Current events/May 2013/Sidebar

Ongoing events
Economic Great Recession European sovereign-debt crisis Greek economic crisis Cypriot financial crisis Environmental North American drought 2013 extreme weather events Food safety Meat adulteration scandal Political More details on ongoing conflicts below

Recent deaths

May 31: Richie Phillips 31: Jean Stapleton 30: Rituparno Ghosh 29: Andrew Greeley 29: Helen Hanft 29: Cliff Meely 29: Henry Morgentaler 29: Margaret Shields 28: Viktor Kulikov 27: Bill Pertwee 26: Roberto Civita 26: Otto Muehl 26: Jack Vance 25: Marshall Lytle 25: Jimmy Wray 25: Lewis Yocum 24: Ed Shaughnessy 23: Hazel Hawke 22: Henri Dutilleux 22: Brian Greenhoff 22: Mick McManus 22: Richard Thorp 21: Trevor Bolder 21: Eddie Braben 21: Dominique Venner 20: Ray Manzarek 19: Bella Flores 18: Aleksei Balabanov 18: Steve Forrest 18: Penne Hackforth-Jones 17: Alan O'Day 17: Jorge Rafael Videla 17: Ken Venturi 16: Paul Shane 16: Dick Trickle 16: Heinrich Rohrer 15: Jens Elmegård Rasmussen 14: Billie Sol Estes 14: Chuck Muncie 13: Joyce Brothers 12: Kenneth Waltz 12: Kenneth 12: Toni Linhart 12: Bill Miles 11: Jack Butler 11: Doug Finley 10: Barbara Callcott 9: Vincent Dowling 9: Sanaullah Haq 9: Alfredo Landa 9: George M. Leader 9: Ottavio Missoni 9: Malcolm Shabazz 9: Andrew Simpson 8: Asaph Schwapp 8: Bryan Forbes 8: Jeanne Cooper 8: Alan Abelson 7: George Sauer, Jr 7: Ray Harryhausen 6: Giulio Andreotti 6: Steve Martland 5: Dean Jeffries 5: Helmin Wiels 4: Christian de Duve 4: Otis R. Bowen 4: Mario Machado 4: Frederic Franklin 3: Herbert Blau 3: Cedric Brooks 3: Brad Drewett 2: Jeff Hanneman 2: Sarabjit Singh

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: M23 rebellion Egypt Egyptian protests Libya: Libyan factional fighting Mali: Northern Mali 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 Drug War Asia Afghanistan War: Military operations Taliban insurgency Pakistan: North-West War Sectarian violence India: Naxalite–Maoist insurgency Islamic insurgency in the Philippines: Operation Enduring Freedom – Philippines Korea: Korean crisis Korean maritime border conflict Southeast Asia: Cambodian–Thai border dispute Kachin conflict Papua conflict South Thailand insurgency Territorial disputes in the South China Sea Europe North Caucasus insurgency War in Ingushetia Dissident Irish Republican campaign Middle East Arab–Israeli conflict Gaza–Israel conflict Israeli–Palestinian conflict Israeli–Lebanese conflict Israel–Iran proxy conflict Iraqi insurgency Kurdistan: Kurdish–Iranian conflict Syrian civil war Yemen: al-Qaeda crackdown South Yemen insurgency Shia insurgency

Elections
Recent: May 5: Malaysia, General 11: Pakistan, General 12: Bulgaria, Parliament 13: Philippines, House of Representatives, Senate (one half) 26: Equatorial Guinea, Parliament Upcoming: June 14: Iran, President 23: Albania, Parliament 26: Mongolia, President

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), Momčilo Perišić (ICTY) Norway: Anders Behring Breivik Russia: Leonid Khabarov, Vladimir Kvachkov, 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, 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 Hall, Stuart Hazell, Mark Bridger 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, Lauryn Hill, Kermit Gosnell Ongoing Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal Canada: Luka Magnotta China: Organized crime in Chongqing France: Church of Scientology Germany: Beate Zschape 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 Russia: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev Singapore: Tak Boleh Tahan South Africa: Oscar Pistorius Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra Turkey: Ergenekon network, Kenan Evren United Kingdom: Koo Stark, Dale Cregan, Liam Adams United States: Ahmed Ghailani, David Headley, Charles P. White, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Viktor Bout, Jodi Arias Vatican: Vatileaks scandal Upcoming Czech Republic: Václav Klaus France: Éric Raoult Italy: Silvio Berlusconi Libya: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi Ivory Coast: Laurent Gbagbo South Africa: Oscar Pistorius United Kingdom: Dane Bowers, Max Clifford United States: Nidal Malik Hasan, Javaris Crittenton, Bradley Manning, Robert Bales, George Zimmerman, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Peter Madoff, Christian Gerhartsreiter, Crystal Mangum, Dylan Quick, Richie Farmer, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, James Eagan Holmes, Ariel Castro