Portal:Current events/February 2013/Sidebar

Ongoing events
Economic Great Recession European sovereign-debt crisis Greek economic crisis Environmental North American drought Food safety Meat adulteration scandal Political Arab Spring Syrian civil war Egyptian protests Bahraini uprising Iraqi protests 2013 Bangladesh protests M23 rebellion Terrorist attacks in Kenya Kachin conflict in Burma Northern Mali conflict

Recent deaths

February 28: DJ Ajax 28: Donald A. Glaser 28: Bruce Reynolds 28: Armando Trovajoli 27: Van Cliburn 27: Dale Robertson 27: Richard Street 26: Bert Flugelman 26: Stéphane Hessel 25: C. Everett Koop 25: Ray O'Connor 25: Dan Toler 24: Denis Forman 23: Joan Child 23: Mary Ann McMorrow 23: Julien Ries 22: Bob Godfrey 22: Wolfgang Sawallisch 21: Aleksei Yuryevich German 21: Bruce Millan 21: Magic Slim 20: Kenji Eno 19: Joaquín Cordero 19: Lou Myers 19: Robert Coleman Richardson 18: Kevin Ayers 18: Otto Beisheim 18: Jerry Buss 18: Damon Harris 17: Richard Briers 17: Mindy McCready 16: Tony Sheridan 15: Sanan Kachornprasart 14: Ronald Dworkin 14: Reeva Steenkamp 13: Pieter Kooijmans 12: Sattam bin Abdulaziz Al Saud 12: Hennadiy Udovenko 11: Rem Viakhirev 10: David Hartman 10: Zhuang Zedong 9: Keiko Fukuda 9: Afzal Guru 8: Giovanni Cheli 6: Chokri Belaid 5: Stuart Freeborn 5: Egil Hovland 4: Donald Byrd 4: Reg Presley 3: Cardiss Collins 2: Chris Kyle 2: Lino Oviedo 1: Ed Koch 1: Robin Sachs

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 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 Dissident Irish Republican campaign Middle East Arab–Israeli conflict Gaza–Israel conflict Israeli–Palestinian conflict Israeli–Lebanese conflict Iraqi insurgency Kurdistan: Kurdish–Turkish conflict Kurdish–Iranian conflict Syrian civil war Yemen: al-Qaeda crackdown South Yemen insurgency Shia insurgency

Elections

Recent: February 1 and 3: Liechtenstein, Parliament 3: Cuba, Parliament 10: Monaco, Parliament 15: Trinidad and Tobago, President (indirect) 17: Cyprus, President (1st round) 17: Ecuador, General 18: Armenia, President 19: Grenada, General 21: Barbados, General 22: Djibouti, Parliament 24: Cyprus, President (2nd round) 24–25: Italy, General Upcoming: March 3: Switzerland, Referendum 4: Kenya, President and Parliament 5: Micronesia, Parliament 9: Malta, Parliament 12: Greenland, Parliament 15: Holy See, Conclave 16: Zimbabwe, Referendum 24: Togo, 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: 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 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 China: Organized crime in Chongqing France: Church of Scientology 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, Vicky Price, Dale Cregan, Mick Philpott, Mairead Philpott, Paul Mosley, Derek Rose United States: Ahmed Ghailani, David Headley, Charles P. White, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Viktor Bout, Lauryn Hill Vatican: Vatileaks scandal Upcoming Canada: Luka Magnotta France: Éric Raoult Libya: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi Ivory Coast: Laurent Gbagbo United Kingdom: Dane Bowers, Mark Bridger United States: Nidal Malik Hasan, Javaris Crittenton, Bradley Manning, Robert Bales, George Zimmerman, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Peter Madoff, Christian Gerhartsreiter, Crystal Mangum