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December 2008
Ongoing events
Automotive industry crisis
Canadian political crisis
Diplomatic response to Abkhazian and South Ossetian independence
Diplomatic response to Kosovar independence
Gaza Strip airstrikes
Global financial crisis
Greek riots
Guinean coup d'état
Icelandic financial crisis
Nord-Kivu campaign
Presidential transition of Barack Obama
Piracy in Somalia
Russian financial crisis
Slovakian transition to the Euro
Treaty of Lisbon ratification
World food price crisis
Zimbabwean cholera outbreak
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Recent deaths
December
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29
:
Freddie Hubbard
27
:
Robert Graham
27
:
Jaafar of Malaysia
26
:
Justin Eilers
26
:
Gösta Krantz
25
:
Eartha Kitt
24
:
Samuel P. Huntington
24
:
Harold Pinter
22
:
Lansana Conté
21
:
Dale Wasserman
20
:
Olga Lepeshinskaya
20
:
Adrian Mitchell
20
:
Robert Mulligan
19
:
James Bevel
19
:
Bernard Crick
19
:
Dock Ellis
18
:
Majel Barrett
18
:
Jack Douglas
18
:
W. Mark Felt
18
:
Robert Jonquet
18
:
Conor Cruise O'Brien
18
:
Paul Weyrich
17
:
Sammy Baugh
16
:
Sam Bottoms
15
:
Leon Febres Cordero
15
:
Davey Graham
13
:
Horst Tappert
13
:
Kathy Staff
12
:
Avery Cardinal Dulles
12
:
Van Johnson
11
:
Ron Carey
11
:
Bettie Page
10
:
Didith Reyes
8
:
Oliver Postgate
7
:
Marky Cielo
6
:
Sunny von Bülow
5
:
Patriarch Alexy II of Russia
4
:
Forrest J Ackerman
2
:
Odetta
2
:
Carlos Abascal
2
:
Edward Samuel Rogers
2
:
Frank Crean
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Ongoing conflicts
War in Afghanistan
Balochistan conflict
Casamance Conflict
Chadian Civil War (2005–2010)
Second Chechen War
Colombian Civil War
War in Darfur
Fatah–Hamas conflict
Iran-PJAK conflict
Iraq War
Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
Kayin State Conflict
Kivu conflict
Insurgency in the Maghreb
Mexican Drug War
Ethnic conflict in Nagaland
Naxalite-Maoist insurgency
Conflict in the Niger Delta
Insurgency in Ogaden
War in North-West Pakistan
Communist
and
Islamic
Insurgency in the Philippines
The Secret War
Somali Civil War
Sri Lankan Civil War
War on Terrorism
South Thailand insurgency
Second Tuareg Rebellion
Turkey-PKK conflict
Second Ugandan Civil War
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Elections
7
:
Ghana
,
President (1st Round)
and
Parliament
10
:
Switzerland
,
Federal Council
14
:
Turkmenistan
,
Parliament (1st Round)
28
:
Ghana
,
President (2nd Round)
28
:
Turkmenistan
,
Parliament (2nd Round)
29
:
Bangladesh
,
General
January
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18
:
El Salvador
,
Parliament
25
:
Bolivia
,
Constitutional referendum
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Trials
Upcoming
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Austria:
Josef Fritzl
Canada:
Larry O'Brien
Estonia:
Herman Simm
Italy:
Raffaele Sollecito, Amanda Knox
Malaysia:
Anwar Ibrahim
Netherlands:
ICTY
Radovan Karadžić
Singapore:
Chee Soon Juan
and
others
Singapore:
Peter Lloyd
U.S.:
Aníbal Acevedo Vilá
U.S.:
Rod Blagojevich
U.S.:
Viktor Bout
U.S.:
Noshir Gowadia
U.S.:
William J. Jefferson
U.S.:
James Charles Kopp
U.S.:
Bernard L. Madoff
U.S.:
Ehren Watada
Ongoing
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Cambodia:
Khmer Rouge Tribunal
Iraq:
Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal
Netherlands:
ICC
Thomas Lubanga
Netherlands:
ICTY
Peru:
Alberto Fujimori
Republic of China (Taiwan):
Chen Shui-bian
Sierra Leone:
SCfSL
Charles Taylor
Thailand:
Thaksin Shinawatra
US:
Jena Six
US:
Brian Nichols
US:
José Padilla
US:
Phil Spector
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Upcoming holidays
and observances
8
:
Immaculate Conception
8
:
Eid al-Adha
21
:
Hanukkah
begins at sundown
21
: December
Solstice
, also known as
Yule
25
:
Christmas
in
Western Christianity
25
-
January 6
:
Twelve Days of Christmas
(
Christianity
)
26
-
January 1
:
Kwanzaa
(
African Americans
)
31
:
New Year's Eve
31
:
Solidarity Day
(
Azerbaijan
)
31
:
Restoration of the Republic
(
Geneva
)
31
-
January 1
:
Hogmanay
(
Scotland
)
January
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1
:
New Year's Day
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