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January 2015
Ongoing events
Economic
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Eurozone crisis
Financial crisis in Russia
Health
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Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa
Political
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Military intervention against ISIL
American-led intervention in Syria
American-led intervention in Iraq
Iranian intervention in Iraq
Russian military intervention in Ukraine
South Sudanese Civil War
More details on
ongoing conflicts
below
Sports
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January 9
–
31
:
AFC Asian Cup
in Australia
January 17
–
February 8
:
CAN Africa Cup of Nations
in Equatorial Guinea
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Recent deaths
January
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31
:
Richard von Weizsäcker
30
:
Carl Djerassi
30
:
Zhelyu Zhelev
29
:
Colleen McCullough
29
:
Rod McKuen
29
:
Kel Nagle
29
:
Israel Yinon
28
:
Mala Aravindan
28
:
Yves Chauvin
28
:
Jaswant Singh Rajput
27
:
Wilfred Agbonavbare
27
:
Warren Hill
27
:
David Landau
27
:
Joseph Rotman
27
:
Charles Hard Townes
26
:
R. K. Laxman
26
:
Lee Spick
26
:
Marwan
26
:
Tom Uren
25
:
Richard McBrien
25
:
Bill Monbouquette
25
:
Demis Roussos
24
:
Toller Cranston
24
:
Joe Franklin
24
:
Arafat Rahman
23
:
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
23
:
Ernie Banks
23
:
Pedro Lemebel
22
:
Wendell Ford
21
:
Marcus Borg
21
:
Leon Brittan
20
:
Edgar Froese
20
:
Anatol Hrytskievich
20
:
Waldemar Kmentt
20
:
Hitoshi Saito
19
:
Justin Capra
19
:
Anne Kirkbride
19
:
Reies Tijerina
19
:
Peter Wallenberg
18
:
Paul O'Grady
18
:
Dallas Taylor
18
:
Tony Verna
17
:
Joseph Brannigan
17
:
Faten Hamama
17
:
Don Harron
17
:
Rebecca D. Lockhart
17
:
Greg Plitt
16
:
Yao Beina
16
:
Stuart Loory
16
:
Ray Lumpp
15
:
Ervin Drake
15
:
Kim Fowley
15
:
Ethel Lang
15
:
Ray Nagel
15
:
Chikao Ōtsuka
15
:
Bob Wilson
14
:
Bob Boyd
14
:
Lotte Hass
14
:
Darren Shahlavi
13
:
Jack Hayward
13
:
Robert White
13
:
Keith Wright
12
:
Paul Morgan
11
:
Doriemus
11
:
Tim Drummond
11
:
Anita Ekberg
11
:
Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle
10
:
Walter Berns
10
:
Yoko Nagae Ceschina
10
:
Brian Clemens
10
:
George Dickerson
10
:
Junior Malanda
10
:
Taylor Negron
10
:
Francesco Rosi
10
:
Robert Stone
9
:
Samuel Goldwyn Jr.
9
:
Robert Kinoshita
9
:
Frans Molenaar
9
:
Bud Paxson
9
:
Roy Tarpley
9
:
Abdul Rahman Ya'kub
8
:
Andraé Crouch
8
:
Kep Enderby
8
:
Patsy Garrett
8
:
Richard Meade
7
:
Cabu
7
:
Charb
7
:
Rod Taylor
7
:
Tignous
7
:
Georges Wolinski
7
:
Julio Scherer García
7
:
Bernard Maris
7
:
Arch A. Moore Jr.
7
:
J. P. Parisé
7
:
Jethro Pugh
6
:
Vlastimil Bubník
6
:
Joan Peters
5
:
Jean-Pierre Beltoise
5
:
Khan Bonfils
5
:
Milton Hebald
4
:
Pino Daniele
4
:
Chitresh Das
4
: Gasan Magomedov
4
:
Stu Miller
4
:
Hank Peters
4
:
Stuart Scott
4
:
He Zhenliang
3
:
Martin Anderson
3
:
Edward Brooke
3
:
Allie Sherman
2
:
Abu Anas al-Libi
1
:
Mario Cuomo
1
:
Donna Douglas
1
:
Omar Karami
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Ongoing conflicts
Global
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]
War on Drugs
War on Terror
Operation Active Endeavour
Operation Enduring Freedom
Terrorist incidents in 2015
Africa
[
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]
Lord's Resistance Army insurgency
Maghreb insurgency
OEF – Horn of Africa
OEF – Trans Sahara
Central African Republic
Civil conflict
Egypt
Sinai insurgency
Libya
2014 Libyan Civil War
Nigeria
Boko Haram
Somalia
Civil war
Sudan
and
South Sudan
War in Darfur
Sudanese conflict in South Kordofan and Blue Nile
South Sudanese Civil War
Americas
[
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]
Colombian conflict
Internal conflict in Peru
Mexican War on Drugs
Paraguayan People's Army insurgency
Asia
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Afghanistan War
Military operations
Taliban insurgency
India
Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
Insurgency in Northeast India
Korea
Korean maritime border conflict
Pakistan
Balochistan conflict
North-West War
Sectarian violence
Philippines
Communist insurgency
Moro insurgency
Southeast Asia
Internal conflict in Burma
Kachin conflict
Papua conflict
South Thailand insurgency
Territorial disputes in the South China Sea
Europe
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Abkhaz–Georgian conflict
Georgian–Ossetian conflict
North Caucasus insurgency
War in Donbass
Dissident Irish Republican campaign
Middle East
[
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]
Arab–Israeli conflict
Gaza–Israel conflict
Israeli–Lebanese conflict
Israeli–Palestinian conflict
Israel–Iran proxy conflict
Iraq War
Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant
Kurdistan
Kurdish–Iranian conflict
Syrian Civil War
Yemen
al-Qaeda crackdown
Shia insurgency
South Yemen insurgency
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Elections
Recent:
January
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]
4
:
Uzbekistan
,
Legislative Chamber
(2nd round)
7
:
Lebanon
,
President
(17th round)
8
:
Sri Lanka
,
President
11
:
Croatia
,
President
(2nd round)
20
:
Zambia
,
President
25
:
Comoros
,
Assembly of the Union
(1st round)
25
:
Greece
,
Parliament
28
:
Lebanon
,
President
(18th round)
29
–
31
:
Italy
,
President
(1st–4th rounds)
Upcoming:
February
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]
7
:
Slovakia
,
Referendum
14
:
Nigeria
,
General
18
:
Lebanon
,
President
(19th round)
22
:
Comoros
,
Assembly of the Union
(2nd round)
28
:
Lesotho
,
National Assembly
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Trials
Recently concluded
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Australia
:
Brett Peter Cowan
,
Craig Thomson
,
Robert Hughes
Brazil
:
Mensalão scandal
Canada
:
Michael Thomas Rafferty
,
Luka Magnotta
China
:
Liu Tienan
,
Li Daqiu
,
Bo Xilai
Croatia
:
Ivo Sanader
Egypt
:
Hosni Mubarak
,
Peter Greste
Germany
:
Bernie Ecclestone
,
Uli Hoeness
,
Christian Wulff
,
Breno Borges
Iran
:
Mohammad Reza Rahimi
Israel
:
Hussam Qawasmeh
Italy
:
Silvio Berlusconi
Jordan
:
Abu Qatada
Malaysia
:
Anwar Ibrahim
Russia
:
Leonid Khabarov
,
Vladimir Kvachkov
,
Pussy Riot
South Africa
:
Shrien Dewani
,
Oscar Pistorius
,
Chris Mahlangu
Turkey
:
Kenan Evren
,
Tahsin Şahinkaya
United Kingdom
:
Michael Adebolajo
and
Michael Adebowale
,
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
,
Tony McCluskie
,
Kevin Hutchinson-Foster
,
Chris Huhne
,
Nicola Edgington
,
Vicky Pryce
,
Derek Rose
,
Mick Philpott, Mairead Philpott, Paul Mosley
,
Kevin Liverpool, Junior Bradshaw
,
Aggro Santos
,
Stuart Hazell
,
Mark Bridger
,
Andrew Lancel
,
Dale Cregan
,
Ray Wilkins
,
Michael Le Vell
,
Liam Adams
,
R v Grillo and Grillo
,
Ian Watkins
,
William Roache
,
Dave Lee Travis
,
Nicholas Jacobs
,
Nigel Evans
,
Max Clifford
,
Stuart Hall
,
Dappy
,
Rebekah Brooks
,
Andy Coulson
,
Rolf Harris
,
Tulisa Contostavlos
,
Chris Denning
,
Ray Teret
United States
:
Abu Hamza al-Masri
,
Michael Grimm
,
Bob McDonnell
,
Vilma Bautista
,
George Huguely
,
Allen Stanford
,
Roger Clemens
,
Jerry Sandusky
,
Jared Lee Loughner
,
Lauryn Hill
,
Kermit Gosnell
,
George Zimmerman
,
Chelsea Manning
,
Ariel Castro
,
Whitey Bulger
,
Robert Bales
,
Nidal Malik Hasan
,
Crystal Mangum
International
ECCC
:
Nuon Chea
,
Khieu Samphan
ICC
:
Germain Katanga
,
Thomas Lubanga
ICTY
:
Momčilo Perišić
,
Mladen Markač
,
Ante Gotovina
SCFSL
:
Charles Taylor
Ongoing
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]
Egypt
:
Mohamed Morsi
Germany
:
Beate Zschäpe
Iran
:
Babak Zanjani
Philippines
:
Andal Ampatuan Jr.
,
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
,
Janet Lim-Napoles
,
Jovito Palparan
Russia
:
Alexei Navalny
South Korea
:
MV
Sewol
crew members
United Kingdom
:
Eddy Shah
,
Koo Stark
,
Gary Glitter
,
Fred Talbot
United States
:
Jodi Arias
International
ICTY
:
Radovan Karadžić
,
Ratko Mladic
Upcoming
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]
Libya
:
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi
Spain
:
Lionel Messi
United Kingdom
:
Dane Bowers
,
Andy Coulson
United States
:
Paul Anthony Ciancia
,
Javaris Crittenton
,
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
,
Dylan Quick
,
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
,
James Eagan Holmes
,
Aaron Hernandez
,
Graham Spanier
,
Tim Curley
,
Gary Schultz
,
Anas al-Libi
,
Justin Bieber
,
Chris Brown
,
Rick Perry
International
ICC
:
Laurent Gbagbo
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