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Ongoing events

Disasters Japan earthquake and tsunami Economic Global financial crisis European sovereign debt crisis Greek economic crisis Medical HIV/AIDS in Africa Haiti cholera outbreak Political Belgian political crisis Middle East and North Africa protests Bahrain protests Egyptian revolution Libyan civil war Saudi Arabian protests Syrian protests Tunisian Revolution Yemen protests Scientific Expedition 27

Recent deaths

May 23: Nasser Hejazi 22: Joseph Brooks 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 9: David Cairns 9: Lidia Gueiler Tejada 9: Shailendra Kumar Upadhyaya 9: Wouter Weylandt 8: Lionel Rose 7: Seve Ballesteros 7: Willard Boyle 7: Gunter Sachs 7: John Walker 7: George Webley 5: Arthur Laurents 5: Claude Choules 4: Sada Thompson 3: Jackie Cooper 3: Thanasis Veggos 2: Osama bin Laden 1: Henry Cooper

Ongoing conflicts

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 War 2009- 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 Shi’ite 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

Elections
Recent: May 7: Ecuador, Referendum and Popular consultation 7: Niue, General 7: Singapore, General 11: Micronesia, President (indirect) 19–21: Seychelles, President 20: Vietnam, Parliament 22: Cyprus, Parliament 22: Spain Local and regional Upcoming: May 23: Netherlands, Senate (indirect) 28: Malta, Divorce referendum

Trials

Recently concluded Cambodia: Kang Kek Iew Egypt: Hisham Talaat Moustafa France: Jérôme Kerviel, Air France Flight 4590 Germany: John Demjanjuk Singapore: Alan Shadrake 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

Holidays  and observances
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