Portal:Current events/April 2018/Sidebar
Ongoing events
Business
Culture
Disasters
- Australian bushfire season
- Australian region cyclone season
- Cape Town water crisis
- Oklahoma earthquake swarms
- Pacific typhoon season
- European windstorm season
Politics
- Armenian protests
- Brexit negotiations
- Cyprus gas dispute
- European migrant crisis (timeline)
- Iranian protests
- Nicaraguan protests
- North Korean crisis
- Philippine protests (timeline)
- Qatar diplomatic crisis
- Rohingya persecution in Myanmar
- Spanish constitutional crisis
- Turkish purges
- U.S. political sex scandals
- U.S. Special Counsel investigation (timeline)
Sports
More details – ongoing conflicts
Elections and referendums
Recent
- April
- 20: Bhutan, National Council
- 22: Paraguay, President and Congress
- 22: French Polynesia, Assembly (1st round)
- 24: Greenland, Parliament
- 25: Faroe Islands, Referendum
Upcoming
- May
- 6: Lebanon, Parliament
- 6: French Polynesia, Assembly (2nd round)
- 9: Malaysia, Parliament
- 12: East Timor, Parliament
- 12: Iraq, Council of Representatives
Trials
Recently concluded
- Denmark: Peter Madsen
- Germany: Hussein Khavari
- Indonesia: Setya Novanto
- South Korea: Park Geun-hye
- Spain: La Manada
- United Kingdom: Paul Golding, Jayda Fransen, Ahmed Hassan
- United States: Larry Nassar, Ed Pawlowski, Bill Cosby
Ongoing
- Cambodia: Kem Sokha, Mu Sochua
- Estonia: Edgar Savisaar
- Germany: Beate Zschäpe
- Guatemala: Otto Pérez Molina, Roxana Baldetti, Juan Carlos Monzón and others
- Israel: Faina Kirschenbaum
- Malaysia: Siti Aisyah and Đoàn Thị Hương
- Philippines: Leila de Lima
- Spain: Bárcenas affair, Gürtel case, EREs
- United States: Fat Leonard scandal
- International
Upcoming
- Australia: George Pell
- Canada: Alek Minassian
- Egypt: Mohamed Morsi
- Guatemala: Alvaro Colom, Manuel Baldizón, Juan Alberto Fuentes
- Iran: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
- Philippines: Andal Ampatuan Jr., Jovito Palparan, Maria Lourdes Sereno
- Romania: Liviu Dragnea
- South Africa: Jacob Zuma
- Spain: Jordi Pujol
- Ukraine: Roman Nasirov
- United Kingdom: Football sex abuse scandal
- United States: Patrick Ho, Paul Manafort, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Sayfullo Saipov, Turpin case
- Zimbabwe: Ignatius Chombo
Sport
- Association football
- Women's association football
- Baseball
- Basketball
- Golf
- Ice hockey
- Motorsport
- Rugby league
- Rugby union
- Tennis
- Other sports seasons
More details – current sports events
Recent deaths
April 2018
- 29: Richard L. Collins
- 29: Luis García Meza Tejada
- 29: Michael Martin
- 28: Alfie Evans
- 27: Álvaro Arzú
- 27: Paul Junger Witt
- 25: Michael Anderson
- 25: Inuka
- 24: Rick Dickinson
- 23: Bob Dorough
- 21: Nabi Tajima
- 21: Verne Troyer
- 20: Avicii
- 19: Gil Santos
- 19: Agnès-Marie Valois
- 18: Dale Winton
- 18: Bruno Sammartino
- 17: Barbara Bush
- 17: Carl Kasell
- 16: Harry Anderson
- 16: Matthew Mellon
- 15: Philip D'Antoni
- 15: R. Lee Ermey
- 15: Vittorio Taviani
- 14: Hal Greer
- 14: Michael D. Healy
- 13: Art Bell
- 13: Miloš Forman
Ongoing conflicts
Africa
- Algeria, Libya and Tunisia
- Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Libya
- Mali
- Somalia
- South Sudan
- Sudan
Americas
- Mexico
- Peru
Asia
- Afghanistan
- China
- India
- India and Pakistan
- Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines
- Indonesia and Papua New Guinea
- Myanmar
- Pakistan
- Philippines
- Thailand
Europe
- Armenia and Azerbaijan
- Georgia
- Russia
- Ukraine