Portal:Current events/June 2011

Disasters

• Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
• Mississippi River floods
• Flooding in China
• Souris River flood

Economic

• Global financial crisis
  • European sovereign debt crisis
  • Greek economic crisis

Medical

• HIV/AIDS in Africa
• Haiti cholera outbreak
• E. coli outbreak

Political

• Anti-austerity protests
  • Greek protests
  • Spanish protests
  • UK protests
• Arab Spring
  • Bahraini uprising
  • Egyptian revolution
  • Jordanian protests
  • Libyan Civil War
  • Syrian uprising
  • Tunisian revolution
  • Yemeni uprising
• Belgian political crisis
• Freedom Flotilla II
• Kurdish protests
• Wikileaks diplomatic cable releases

Scientific

• Expedition 28

June

• 30: Sean Wight
• 27: Lorenzo Charles
• 27: Mike Doyle
• 27: Elaine Stewart
• 26: Duffy Lyon
• 25: Margaret Tyzack
• 23: Peter Falk
• 20: Ryan Dunn
• 18: Yelena Bonner
• 18: Frederick Chiluba
• 18: Clarence Clemons
• 18: Brian Haw
• 17: David Brockhoff
• 17: Betty Fox
• 17: Rex Mossop
• 12: Laura Ziskin
• 11: Seth Putnam
• 10: Patrick Leigh Fermor
• 10: Brian Lenihan
• 9: M. F. Husain
• 8: John Mackenzie
• 8: Fazul Abdullah Mohammed
• 8: Jim Northrup
• 8: Steve Popovich
• 8: Roy Skelton

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Global

• War on terror
  • Terrorist incidents
  • Operation Active Endeavour
  • Operation Enduring Freedom
• War on drugs

Africa

• Libyan Civil War
• Tunisian Revolution
• Maghreb insurgency
• OEF - Trans Sahara
• Casamance conflict
• Niger Delta conflict
• South Kordofan conflict
• Lord's Resistance Army insurgency
• Somalia:
  • Civil war
  • Somali Civil War (2009–present)
  • Piracy
• OEF - Horn of Africa

Europe

• Basque conflict
• Real IRA
• North Caucasus insurgency
• Ingushetia civil war

Middle East

• Iraqi insurgency
• Iran-Jundallah conflict
• Fatah–Hamas conflict
• Arab–Israeli conflict
  • Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Israeli–Lebanese conflict
  • Palestinian political violence and rocket attacks
• Yemen:
  • Terrorism and al-Qaeda crackdown
  • South Yemen insurgency
  • Shia insurgency
• Kurdistan:
  • Turkey–PKK conflict
  • Iran–PJAK conflict

Asia

• Afghanistan War
  • Military operations
  • Taliban insurgency
• Pakistan:
  • Terrorism
  • North-West War
  • Balochistan conflict
  • Drone attacks
  • Sectarian violence
• India:
  • Terrorism
  • Jammu and Kashmir insurgency
  • Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
  • Northeast India insurgency
  • Nagaland ethnic conflict
• Kashmir conflict
  • Siachen conflict
• Korean maritime border incidents
• Southeast Asia:
  • Laos insurgency
  • Burma internal conflict
  • Burma border clashes
  • South Thailand insurgency
  • Cambodian–Thai border dispute
• Philippines insurgency
  • OEF - Philippines
• Papua conflict

Americas

• Colombian conflict
  • Plan Colombia
  • FARC
• Mexican Drug War
  • Mérida Initiative
• Peru internal conflict

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Recent: June

• 12: Turkey, General
• 12–13: Italy, Referendum
• 15: Laos, President (indirect)
• 17–19: Liechtenstein, Registered partnership referendum
• 22: Palau, Casino referendum

Upcoming: July

• 1: Morocco, Constitutional referendum
• 3: Thailand, General
• 17: São Tomé and Príncipe, President
• 23: Latvia, Parliamentary dissolution referendum
• 25: Vietnam, President (indirect)

Upcoming: August

• 7: Cape Verde, President
• 12: Guyana, Parliament
• 23: Liberia, Constitutional referendum
• 26: Abkhazia, President
• 29–30: Estonia, President (indirect)

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Recently concluded

• Cambodia: Kang Kek Iew
• Germany: John Demjanjuk
• Indonesia: Abu Bakar Bashir
• Netherlands: Geert Wilders
• United Kingdom: Levi Bellfield
• United States: Faisal Shahzad, Noshir Gowadia, Buju Banton, Barry Bonds, Raj Rajaratnam, Rod Blagojevich

Ongoing

• Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal
• Canada: David Russell Williams
• China: Organized crime in Chongqing
• France: Church of Scientology
• Germany: Heinrich Boere
• Iraq: Supreme Criminal Tribunal
• Iran: Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani
• Malaysia: Anwar Ibrahim
• Netherlands: Thomas Lubanga (ICC), Radovan Karadžić (ICTY)
• Palau: Tommy Remengesau
• 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
• Turkey: Ergenekon network
• United States: David Headley, Ahmed Ghailani, Jared Lee Loughner, Charles P. White, Casey Anthony

Upcoming

• Egypt: Hosni Mubarak, Alaa Mubarak, Gamal Mubarak
• Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein
• Tunisia: Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
• United States: Viktor Bout, Allen Stanford, Nidal Malik Hasan, Conrad Murray, John Edwards

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