Portal:Current events/April 2012/Sidebar

Ongoing events

Political Arab Spring Post-Tunisian revolution Libyan factional fighting Egyptian revolution - ongoing Bahraini uprising - ongoing Syrian uprising - ongoing Yemeni revolution - ongoing Bissau-Guinean coup d'état Economic Global financial crisis European sovereign-debt crisis Greek economic crisis Irish financial crisis 2010–2012 Southern United States drought Smartphone patent wars Scientific Expedition 31 Medical AIDS pandemic HIV/AIDS in Africa

Recent deaths

April 30: Tomas Borge Martinez 30: Benzion Netanyahu 29: Amarillo Slim 29: Shukri Ghanem 27: Fred Allen 26: Bill Skowron 26: Pete Fornatale 25: Louis le Brocquy 24: Miguel Portas 23: Chris Ethridge 23: LeRoy T. Walker 22: Aristarkh Stankevich 21: Charles Colson 20: Lord Ashley 20: Bert Weedon 20: George Cowan 19: Greg Ham 19: Levon Helm 19: Valeri Vasiliev 18: Dick Clark 17: Dimitris Mitropanos 15: Murray Rose 14: Piermario Morosini 12: Amy Tryon 11: Julio Alemán 11: Ahmed Ben Bella 11: Roger Caron 10: Raymond Aubrac 10: Randy W Williams: RIP 1914-2012 10: Becky Natchez: RIP 1920-2012 10: Danny Samsum: RIP 2000-2012 10: Daniel C Leser: RIP 1989-2012 9: Mark Lenzi 8: Jack Tramiel 7: Mike Wallace 6: Fang Lizhi 6: Thomas Kinkade 5: Bingu wa Mutharika 5: Gil Noble 5: Ferdinand Alexander Porsche 5: Jim Marshall 5: Angelo Castro, Jr. 5: Barney McKenna 4: Claude Miller 3: Richard Descoings 2: Fatma Neslişah 2: Jimmy Little 1: Giorgio Chinaglia 1: Miguel de la Madrid 1: Lionel Bowen

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 Sudan internal conflict South Sudan internal conflict South Sudan–Sudan border conflict Lord's Resistance Army insurgency Somalia: Civil war War 2009- Piracy OEF - Horn of Africa Tuareg rebellion Europe North Caucasus insurgency Ingushetia civil war Dissident Irish Republican campaign Middle East Iraqi insurgency Iran-Jundallah conflict Arab–Israeli conflict Israeli–Palestinian conflict Israeli–Lebanese conflict Palestinian political violence and rocket attacks Yemen: Terrorism 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 South Thailand insurgency Cambodian–Thai border dispute Territorial disputes in the South China Sea Islamic insurgency in the Philippines Operation Enduring Freedom – Philippines Papua conflict Americas Colombian armed conflict (1964–present) Stilicecream File:Stilicecream 1855 <Stilicecream 1855>

Elections

Recent: April 8: South Ossetia, President (2nd round) 11: South Korea, Parliament 16: East Timor, President (2nd round) 22: France, President (1st round) Upcoming: May 2: Hungary, President (indirect) 3: United Kingdom, Mayor of London 4: Iran, Parliament (2nd round) 6: Armenia, Parliament 6: France, President (2nd round) 6: Serbia, President and Parliament 6: Greece, Parliament 7: Bahamas, General 7: Syria, Parliament 10: Algeria, Parliament 20: Dominican Republic, President 23–24: Egypt, President (1st round) 26: Lesotho, General 31: Ireland, Constitutional referendum

Trials

Recently concluded Cambodia: Kang Kek Iew France: Jacques Chirac, John Galliano Germany: John Demjanjuk, Heinrich Boere Iceland: Geir Haarde Indonesia: Abu Bakar Bashir Italy: Amanda Knox, Raffaele Sollecito Netherlands: Geert Wilders, Charles Taylor Peru: Joran van der Sloot Russia: Bhagavad Gita Ukraine: Yulia Tymoshenko United Kingdom: Levi Bellfield, Robert Black, Vincent Tabak, Ali Dizaei, Antoni Imiela, Brian Regan, Donna Air, Ched Evans, Clayton McDonald United States: Faisal Shahzad, Noshir Gowadia, Buju Banton, Barry Bonds, Raj Rajaratnam, Rod Blagojevich, Casey Anthony, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Conrad Murray, George Huguely, Allen Stanford Ongoing Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal Canada: Russell Williams, Michael Rafferty China: Organized crime in Chongqing Egypt: Hosni Mubarak, Alaa Mubarak, Gamal Mubarak France: Church of Scientology, Carlos the Jackal Iraq: Supreme Criminal Tribunal Malaysia: Anwar Ibrahim Netherlands: Thomas Lubanga (ICC), Radovan Karadžić (ICTY) Norway: Anders Behring Breivik Palau: Tommy Remengesau Philippines: Andal Ampatuan, Jr. Russia: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev Sierra Leone: Charles Taylor (SCFSL) Singapore: Tak Boleh Tahan South Africa: Chris Mahlangu Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra Tunisia: Zine El Abidine Ben Ali Turkey: Ergenekon network, Kenan Evren United States: Roger Clemens, Ahmed Ghailani, David Headley, Jared Lee Loughner, Charles P. White, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Viktor Bout, John Edwards Upcoming Ivory Coast: Laurent Gbagbo United Kingdom: Justin Lee Collins United States: Nidal Malik Hasan, Javaris Crittenton, Bradley Manning, Jerry Sandusky, Robert Bales, George Zimmerman