Portal:Current events/December 2012/Sidebar

Ongoing conflicts
	Global[edit] War on Terror Terrorist incidents; Operation Active Endeavour; Operation Enduring Freedom; ; War on Drugs; Africa[edit] Lord's Resistance Army insurgency; Maghreb insurgency; OEF - Horn of Africa; OEF - Trans Sahara; Central African Republic: 2012 Central African Republic rebellion; ; DR Congo: East DR Congo conflict; ; Egypt 2012 Egyptian protests; ; Kenya: Terrorist attacks in Kenya; ; Libya: Libyan factional fighting; ; Mali: Azawad conflict; ; Nigeria: Nigerian Sharia conflict; Niger Delta conflict; ; Somalia: Civil War; Piracy; ; Sudan and South Sudan: Sudan internal conflict; South Sudan internal conflict; ; Americas[edit] Colombian conflict; Mexican Anti-Imposition Protests; 2011–2012 Chilean student protests; Asia[edit] Afghanistan War Military operations; Taliban insurgency; ; Pakistan: North-West War; Sectarian violence; ; India: Nagaland ethnic conflict; Naxalite–Maoist insurgency; Northeast India insurgency; ; Islamic insurgency in the Philippines Operation Enduring Freedom – Philippines; ; Korean maritime border conflict; Southeast Asia: Cambodian–Thai border dispute; Papua conflict; South Thailand insurgency; Territorial disputes in the South China Sea; ; Europe[edit] North Caucasus insurgency; Dissident Irish Republican campaign; Middle East[edit] Arab–Israeli conflict Gaza–Israel conflict; Israeli–Palestinian conflict; Israeli–Lebanese conflict; Operation Sinai; ; Iraqi insurgency; Kurdistan: Kurdish–Turkish conflict; Kurdish–Iranian conflict; ; Syrian civil war; Yemen: al-Qaeda crackdown; South Yemen insurgency; Shia insurgency; ; edit sidebar

Recent deaths
	December[edit] 30: Dennis Ferguson; 30: Rita Levi-Montalcini; 30: Beate Sirota Gordon; 29: Tony Greig; 29: William Rees-Mogg; 28: Václav Drobný; 27: Norman Schwarzkopf Jr.; 26: Gerry Anderson; 26: Fontella Bass; 25: Jane Dixon; 25: Joe Krivak; 24: Richard Rodney Bennett; 24: Charles Durning; 24: Jack Klugman; 24: Dennis O'Driscoll; 24: Capital Steez; 23: Cristian Tudor; 22: Bill Leger; 22: Arthur Quinlan; 22: Mike Scaccia; 22: Arkady Vorobyov; 21: Shane McEntee; 19: Robert Bork; 19: Amnon Lipkin-Shahak; 19: Keiji Nakazawa; 19: Peter Struck; 18: Sir Marcus Worsley; 17: Charlie Adam; 17: Daniel Inouye; 17: Laurier LaPierre; 16: Adam Ndlovu; 15: Páidí Ó Sé; 15: Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa; 14: Kenneth Kendall; 13: Willie Ackerman; 13: Maurice Herzog; 13: Abdesslam Yassine; 11: Ravi Shankar; 11: Walter Francis Sullivan; 11: Galina Vishnevskaya; 10: Iajuddin Ahmed; 10: Lisa Della Casa; 9: Patrick Moore; 9: Alex Moulton; 9: Jenni Rivera; 9: Norman Joseph Woodland; 8: Jerry Brown; 5: Dave Brubeck; 5: Elisabeth Murdoch; 5: Oscar Niemeyer; 4: Vasily Belov; 4: Miguel Calero; 4: Besse Cooper; 3: Fyodor Khitruk; 3: M. Mahroof; 1: Jovan Belcher; 1: Mitchell Cole; edit sidebar

Ongoing events
	Economic[edit] Global financial crisis United States fiscal cliff; European sovereign-debt crisis; Greek economic crisis; ; Environmental[edit] 2012 North American drought; Political[edit] Arab Spring 2012 Egyptian protests; Syrian civil war; ; 2012 East D.R. Congo conflict; Terrorist attacks in Kenya; 2012 Central African Republic rebellion; War in North-West Pakistan; edit sidebar

Elections
Recent: December [edit] 1: Kuwait, Parliament 2: Burkina Faso, Parliament 2: Slovenia, President (2nd round) 7–8: Ghana, President and Parliament 9: Romania, Parliament 15, 22: Egypt, Constitutional referendum 16: Japan, Parliament 19: South Korea, President Upcoming: January [edit] 11–12: Czech Republic, President 20: Austria, Conscription referendum 22: Israel, Parliament 23: Jordan, Parliament 27: Bulgaria, Nuclear power referendum edit sidebar

Trials
Recently concluded [edit] 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: Pussy Riot Sierra Leone: Charles Taylor (SCFSL) South Africa: Chris Mahlangu 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 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 [edit] 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: Leonid Khabarov, Vladimir Kvachkov, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev Singapore: Tak Boleh Tahan Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra Turkey: Ergenekon network, Kenan Evren Ukraine: Yulia Tymoshenko United Kingdom: Kevin Hutchinson-Foster, Koo Stark United States: Ahmed Ghailani, David Headley, Charles P. White, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Viktor Bout, Lauryn Hill Vatican: Vatileaks scandal Upcoming [edit] Canada: Luka Magnotta France: Éric Raoult Libya: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi Ivory Coast: Laurent Gbagbo United Kingdom: Chris Huhne, Vicky Pryce, Tony McCluskie, Dane Bowers United States: Nidal Malik Hasan, Javaris Crittenton, Bradley Manning, Robert Bales, George Zimmerman, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Peter Madoff, Christian Gerhartsreiter, Crystal Mangum edit sidebar

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