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Portal:Current events
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May 2015
Ongoing events
Political
[
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]
Syrian
and
Iraqi
civil wars
Military intervention against ISIL
Boko Haram
insurgency
in Nigeria, Cameroon and Niger
Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen
2014–15 Russian military intervention in Ukraine
More details on
ongoing conflicts
below
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Recent deaths
May
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]
30
:
Beau Biden
30
:
Joël Champetier
30
:
Julie Harris
30
:
Tony McNamara
30
:
Lennie Merullo
30
:
Cornell Moss
30
:
L. Tom Perry
29
:
Doris Hart
29
:
Chris Kohlhase
28
:
John Buckner
28
:
Reynaldo Rey
27
:
Erik Carlsson
27
:
Bill Foster
27
:
Hassan Abdullah Hersi al-Turki
27
:
Andy King
27
:
John Siegal
26
:
Vicente Aranda
26
:
Walter Byers
26
:
Bob Hornery
26
:
Art Thieme
25
:
Mary Ellen Mark
25
:
John M. Murphy
25
:
Bill O'Herlihy
24
:
Marcus Belgrave
24
:
Michael W. Ryan
23
:
Anne Meara
23
:
John Forbes Nash, Jr.
22
:
Marques Haynes
22
:
Vladimir Katriuk
22
:
John Mosley
22
:
Terry Sue-Patt
21
:
Louis Johnson
20
:
Bob Belden
19
:
Bruce Lundvall
19
:
Happy Rockefeller
19
:
Robert S. Wistrich
18
:
Aruna Shanbaug
17
:
Chinx
16
:
Prashant Bhargava
16
:
Moshe Levinger
16
:
Dean Potter
16
:
Adrian Robinson
16
:
Abu Sayyaf
16
:
Peter Tallberg
16
:
John Templeton, Jr.
16
:
Yeung Kwong
15
:
Elisabeth Bing
15
:
Alfred DelBello
15
:
Corey Hill
15
:
Jacob Jensen
15
:
John Lo Schiavo
15
:
Garo Yepremian
14
:
B.B. King
14
:
Franz Wright
13
:
Derek Davis
13
:
David Sackett
12
:
Peter Gay
12
:
Bill Guthridge
12
:
William Zinsser
11
:
Tony Ayala, Jr.
11
:
Maggie Black
11
:
Jef Geeraerts
11
:
John Watts
10
:
Chris Burden
10
:
William T. Cooper
10
:
Kim Kyok-sik
10
:
Rachel Rosenthal
10
:
Victor Salvi
9
:
Kenan Evren
9
:
Johnny Gimble
9
:
Alexandre Lamfalussy
9
:
Michael Mackellar
9
:
Elizabeth Wilson
8
:
Rutger Gunnarsson
8
:
Mwepu Ilunga
8
:
Leif Holger Larsen
8
:
Domingo Lucenario, Jr.
7
:
Maurice Flanagan
7
:
Frank DiPascali
6
:
Errol Brown
6
:
Jim Wright
5
:
Gerard Davison
5
:
Craig Gruber
5
:
Hans Jansen
4
:
Ellen Albertini Dow
4
:
Marv Hubbard
4
:
Joshua Ozersky
3
:
Thomas A. Constantine
3
:
Danny Jones
3
:
Robert Rietti
3
:
Abdul Basit Usman
2
:
Guy Carawan
2
:
Dave Goldberg
2
:
Maya Plisetskaya
2
:
Ruth Rendell
1
:
María Elena Velasco
1
:
Grace Lee Whitney
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Ongoing conflicts
Africa
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]
Algeria
,
Tunisia
and
Niger
Maghreb insurgency
Central African Republic
Civil war
Democratic Republic of Congo
Kivu conflict
ADF insurgency
Katanga insurgency
Ituri conflict
Lord's Resistance Army insurgency
Libya
Civil war
Mali
Northern Mali conflict
Nigeria
and
Cameroon
Boko Haram
Somalia
Civil war
South Sudan
South Sudanese Civil War
Sudan
War in Darfur
South Kordofan conflict
Americas
[
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]
Colombian conflict
Internal conflict in Peru
Mexican War on Drugs
Asia
[
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]
Afghanistan War
China
Xinjiang conflict
India
Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
Insurgency in Northeast India
India
and
Pakistan
Kashmir conflict
Pakistan
War in North-West Pakistan
Balochistan conflict
Philippines
Communist insurgency
Moro insurgency
Southeast Asia
Internal conflict in Burma
Papua conflict
South Thailand insurgency
Europe
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]
Georgia
Abkhaz–Georgian conflict
Georgian–Ossetian conflict
Dissident Irish Republican campaign
Chechen-Russian conflict
North Caucasus insurgency
War in Ingushetia
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
Ukraine
War in Donbass
Russian military intervention in Ukraine
Middle East
[
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]
Arab–Israeli conflict
Gaza–Israel conflict
Israeli–Lebanese conflict
Israeli–Palestinian conflict
Egypt
Sinai insurgency
Iran
Iran–PJAK conflict
Iraqi civil war
American-led intervention in Iraq
Iranian intervention in Iraq
Syrian Civil War
American-led intervention in Syria
Syrian Civil War spillover in Lebanon
Turkey
Turkey-PKK conflict
Yemeni crisis
Houthi rebellion
Al-Qaeda insurgency
South Yemen insurgency
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Elections
Recent:
April
–
May
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]
30
:
Tanzania
,
Referendum
3
:
Nagorno-Karabakh
,
National Assembly
7
:
United Kingdom
,
House of Commons
10
:
Poland
,
President
(1st round)
11
:
Guyana
,
National Assembly
13
:
Lebanon
,
President
(
23rd round
)
22
:
Ireland
,
Referendum
24
:
Ethiopia
,
House of Peoples' Representatives
24
:
Poland
,
President
(2nd round)
25
:
Suriname
,
National Assembly
26
:
Netherlands
,
Senate
Upcoming:
June
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]
3
:
Lebanon
,
President
(
24th round
)
5
:
Burundi
,
National Assembly
7
:
Luxembourg
,
Referenda
7
:
Mexico
,
Congress
7
:
Turkey
,
National Assembly
14
:
Switzerland
,
Referenda
18
:
Denmark
,
Parliament
26
:
Burundi
,
President
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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
,
Ji Jianye
,
Liao Shaohua
,
Ni Fake
,
Chen Baihuai
Croatia
:
Ivo Sanader
Egypt
:
Hosni Mubarak
,
Peter Greste
,
Mohamed Morsi
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
Romania
:
Liviu Dragnea
,
Dan Diaconescu
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
,
Gary Glitter
,
Fred Talbot
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
,
Jodi Arias
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
International
ECCC
:
Nuon Chea
,
Khieu Samphan
ICC
:
Germain Katanga
,
Thomas Lubanga
ICTY
:
Momčilo Perišić
,
Mladen Markač
,
Ante Gotovina
,
Zdravko Tolimir
SCFSL
:
Charles Taylor
Ongoing
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]
France
:
Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Germany
:
Beate Zschäpe
Iran
:
Babak Zanjani
Philippines
:
Andal Ampatuan Jr.
,
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
,
Janet Lim-Napoles
,
Jovito Palparan
,
Joseph Scott Pemberton
Romania
:
Darius Vâlcov
,
Dan Șova
,
Elena Udrea
,
Radu Mazăre
,
Gheorghe Nichita
,
Marian Vanghelie
,
Cătălin Voicu
,
Relu Fenechiu
,
Gheorghe Ștefan, Gabriel Sandu, Dorin Cocoş, Dumitru Nicolae
Russia
:
Alexei Navalny
South Korea
:
MV
Sewol
crew members
International
ICTY
:
Radovan Karadžić
,
Ratko Mladic
Upcoming
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]
China
:
Zhou Yongkang
,
Wu Changshun
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
,
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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