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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> edit this archived sidebar

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; edit this archived 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; ; edit this archived sidebar

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 edit this archived sidebar

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 edit this archived sidebar

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