Portal:Current events/May 2011/Sidebar

Disasters

• Japan earthquake and tsunami
• Mississippi River floods
• Joplin, Missouri tornado

Economic

• Global financial crisis
  • European sovereign debt crisis
  • Greek economic crisis

Medical

• HIV/AIDS in Africa
• Haiti cholera outbreak
• E. coli outbreak

Political

• Belgian political crisis
• Spanish protests
• Arab Spring
  • Bahrain protests
  • Egyptian revolution
  • Libyan civil war
  • Saudi Arabian protests
  • Syrian protests
  • Tunisian Revolution
  • Yemen protests
• Wikileaks diplomatic cable releases

Scientific

• Expedition 28

May

• 31: Ezzatollah Sahabi
• 30: Ali Mirza Qajar
• 30: Bill Roycroft
• 29: Sergei Bagapsh
• 29: Bill Clements
• 29: Ferenc Mádl
• 27: Janet Brown
• 27: Jeff Conaway
• 27: Margo Dydek
• 27: Gil Scott-Heron
• 26: Flick Colby
• 25: Leonora Carrington
• 25: Terry Jenner
• 23: Nasser Hejazi
• 23: Xavier Tondó
• 22: Joseph Brooks
• 22: Suzanne Mizzi
• 21: Bill Hunter
• 20: Randy Savage
• 19: Garret FitzGerald
• 19: Kathy Kirby
• 17: Harmon Killebrew
• 17: Frank Upton
• 16: Bob Davis
• 16: Edward Hardwicke
• 15: Samuel Wanjiru
• 13: Derek Boogaard
• 13: Bernard Greenhouse
• 11: Robert Traylor
• 10: Burt Reinhardt

Global

• War on terror
  • Terrorist incidents
  • Operation Active Endeavour
  • Operation Enduring Freedom
• War on drugs

Africa

• Libyan civil war
• Tunisian Revolution
• Maghreb insurgency
• OEF - Trans Sahara
• Casamance conflict
• Niger Delta conflict
• Chad civil war
• Sudan:
  • War in Darfur
  • Sudanese nomadic conflicts
• Lord's Resistance Army insurgency
• Somalia:
  • Civil war
  • Somali Civil War (2009–present)
  • Piracy
• OEF - Horn of Africa

Europe

• Basque conflict
• Real IRA
• North Caucasus insurgency
• Ingushetia civil war

Middle East

• Iraqi insurgency
• Balochistan 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
  • Iran–PJAK 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

Recent: May

• 19–21: Seychelles, President
• 20: Vietnam, Parliament
• 22: Cyprus, Parliament
• 22: Spain, Local and regional
• 23: Netherlands, Senate (indirect)
• 28: Malta, Divorce referendum

Upcoming: June

• 5: Macedonia, Parliament
• 5: Peru, President (2^nd round)
• 5: Portugal, Parliament
• 7: Latvia, President (indirect)
• 12: Turkey, General

Recently concluded

• Cambodia: Kang Kek Iew
• Germany: John Demjanjuk
• United States: Faisal Shahzad, Noshir Gowadia, Buju Banton, Barry Bonds, Raj Rajaratnam

Ongoing

• Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal
• Canada: David Russell Williams
• China: Organized crime in Chongqing
• France: Church of Scientology
• Germany: Heinrich Boere
• Indonesia]]: Abu Bakar Bashir
• Iraq: Supreme Criminal Tribunal
• Iran: Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani
• Malaysia: Anwar Ibrahim
• Netherlands: Thomas Lubanga (ICC), Radovan Karadžić (ICTY), Geert Wilders
• 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
• Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra
• Turkey: Ergenekon network
• United Kingdom: Levi Bellfield
• United States: David Headley, Rod Blagojevich, Ahmed Ghailani, Jared Lee Loughner, Charles P. White

Upcoming

• Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein
• United States: Viktor Bout, Allen Stanford, Nidal Malik Hasan, Conrad Murray

Recent