Portal:Current events/July 2010

Economic

• Automotive industry crisis
• Global Financial Crisis
  • European sovereign debt crisis
  • Greek economic crisis
• Worldwide recession
• Labour unrest in China

Medical

• West African meningitis outbreak
• HIV/AIDS in Africa

Political

• Political killings in the Philippines

Scientific

• Expedition 24

Environmental

• Haiti earthquake response
• Gulf of Mexico oil spill
• Heatwave in India
• Flooding in southern China
• Heatwave in the Northern Hemisphere
• North-east China oil spill

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July

• 31: Suso Cecchi d'Amico
• 29: Ignacio Coronel Villarreal
• 27: Ravi Baswani
• 27: Maury Chaykin
• 27: Jack Tatum
• 26: Al Goodman
• 25: Vasco de Almeida e Costa
• 25: Redford White
• 24: Theo Albrecht
• 24: Alex Higgins
• 23: Daniel Schorr
• 22: Kenny Guinn
• 21: Luis Corvalán
• 19: Cécile Aubry
• 19: Stephen Schneider
• 19: David Warren
• 17: Bernard Giraudeau
• 16: James Gammon
• 15: Peter Fernandez
• 14: Charles Mackerras
• 14: Mădălina Manole

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Africa

• Chadian Civil War
• Darfur conflict
• Maghreb insurgency
• Niger Delta conflict
• Somali Civil War

Middle East

• Iraq War
• Israeli–Arab conflict
• South Yemen insurgency
• Turkey–PKK conflict

Asia

• Afghanistan war
• Balochistan conflict
• Jammu and Kashmir insurgency
• Nagaland ethnic conflict
• Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
• North-West Pakistan war
• Philippines insurgency
• South Thailand insurgency

Americas

• Colombian conflict
• Mexican drug war
• Peru internal conflict

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Recent: July

• 4: Poland, President (2^nd Round)
• 11: Japan, House of Councillors
• 19: Suriname, President (indirect)
• 23: Burundi, National Assembly
• 28: Burundi, Senate (indirect)

Upcoming: August

• 1: São Tomé and Príncipe, Parliament
• 4: Kenya, Constitutional referendum
• 4: Solomon Islands, General
• 9: Rwanda, President
• 14: Guinea, President (2^nd Round)
• 21: Australia, Federal

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Recently concluded

• Australia: Jayant Patel
• Cambodia: Kang Kek Iew
• France: Manuel Noriega
• India: Ajmal Kasab
• Japan: Peter James Bethune

Ongoing

• Argentina: Jorge Rafael Videla
• Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal
• China: Organized crime in Chongqing
• France: Church of Scientology, Air France Flight 4590, Jérôme Kerviel
• Germany: Heinrich Boere, John Demjanjuk
• Iraq: Supreme Criminal Tribunal
• Malaysia: Anwar Ibrahim
• Netherlands: Thomas Lubanga (ICC), Radovan Karadžić (ICTY), Geert Wilders
• Palau: Thomas Remengesau Jr.
• Peru: Joran van der Sloot
• Philippines: Andal Ampatuan Jr.
• Russia: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev
• Sierra Leone: Charles Taylor (SCFSL)
• Singapore: Tak Boleh Tahan
• Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra
• United States: David Headley, Rod Blagojevich

Upcoming

• Singapore: Alan Shadrake
• Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein
• United States: Viktor Bout, Noshir Gowadia, Allen Stanford

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July 2010

Current

• 31: Ka Hae Hawai'i Day (Flag Day) (Hawai'i)

Upcoming

August 2010

• 1: Imbolc (Southern Hemisphere)
• 1: Emancipation Day (Trinidad and Tobago)
• 1: Swiss National Day (Switzerland)
• 1: Lammas (England and Scotland)

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