Portal:Current events/May 2015/Sidebar

Ongoing conflicts
	Africa[edit] 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[edit] Colombian conflict; Internal conflict in Peru; Mexican War on Drugs; Asia[edit] 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[edit] 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[edit] 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; ; edit sidebar

Recent deaths
	May[edit] 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; ; ; edit sidebar

Ongoing events
	Political[edit] 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 edit sidebar

Elections
Recent: April–May[edit] 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[edit] 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 edit sidebar

Trials
Recently concluded[edit] 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[edit] 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[edit] 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 edit sidebar

Political[edit]

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Upcoming: June[edit]

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