Portal:Current events/July 2009/Sidebar

Ongoing events

Economic Automotive industry crisis Financial crisis Worldwide recession Health / Medicine H1N1 - 2009 flu pandemic H5N1 ("Bird Flu") Humanitarian Haitian migrant shipwreck Mediterranean wildfires Political / Military Spanish bombings Bombing of Burgos Bombing of Palma Nova Honduran political crisis Iranian election protests Peruvian political crisis Nigerian battles North Korean nuclear program Obama–Gates controversy Piracy in Somalia Thai political crisis Treaty of Lisbon ratification

Recent deaths

July 31: Bobby Robson 30: Peter Zadek 27: George Russell 26: Merce Cunningham 25: Stanley Middleton 25: Harry Patch 24: José Carlos da Costa Araújo 24: Harry Towb 23: E. Lynn Harris 19: Frank McCourt 19: Henry Surtees 18: Henry Allingham 17: Meir Amit 17: Walter Cronkite 17: Leszek Kołakowski 15: Natalya Estemirova 11: Reg Fleming 11: Arturo Gatti 11: Ji Xianlin 10: Edward Downes 10: Ebba Haslund 6: Vasily Aksyonov 6: Oscar G. Mayer Jr. 6: Robert McNamara 6: Mathieu Montcourt 5: Takeo Doi 4: Allen Klein 4: Robert Louis-Dreyfus 4: Steve McNair 4: Lasse Strömstedt 4: Jean-Baptiste Tati Loutard 1: Alexis Argüello 1: Karl Malden 1: Marwa El-Sherbini 1: Mollie Sugden 1: Lyudmila Zykina

Ongoing conflicts

Worldwide War on terror Africa / Middle East Chadian Civil War War in Darfur Kivu conflict Iraq War Israeli–Palestinian conflict Maghreb insurgency Niger Delta conflict Nigerian religious violence Somali Civil War Second Tuareg Rebellion Turkey–PKK conflict Asia War in Afghanistan Balochistan conflict Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir Insurgency in the Philippines Laotian Secret War Ethnic conflict in Nagaland Naxalite–Maoist insurgency War in North-West Pakistan South Thailand insurgency Americas Colombian conflict Mexican drug war

Elections
Recent July 8: Indonesia, President (1st Round) 12: Republic of the Congo, President 18: Mauritania, President 23: Kyrgyzstan, President 29: Moldova, Parliament Upcoming August 2: Comoros, Parliament 4: Niger, Constitutional referendum 20: Afghanistan, President 20: Niger, Parliament 30: Gabon, President 30: Japan, Parliament

Trials

Recently concluded New Zealand: Nai Yin Xue New Zealand: David Bain (retrial) Peru: Alberto Fujimori Sweden: The Pirate Bay United States: James Charles Kopp, Aníbal Acevedo Vilá, Phil Spector, Bernard Madoff Ongoing Burma: Aung San Suu Kyi Cambodia]]: Khmer Rouge Tribunal Canada: Larry O'Brien France: Church of Scientology Iraq: Supreme Criminal Tribunal Italy: Raffaele Sollecito, Amanda Knox Netherlands: Thomas Lubanga (ICC), Radovan Karadžić (ICTY) Republic of China]]: Chen Shui-bian Russia: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev Sierra Leone: Charles Taylor (SCFSL) Singapore: Tak Boleh Tahan Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra United States: Jena Six Upcoming Germany: John Demjanjuk United Kingdom: Allen Stanford United States: Viktor Bout, Noshir Gowadia, William J. Jefferson, Sheila Dixon, Joseph Bruno

Holidays  and observances

August Current 1: Feast of Kamál (Baháʼí Faith) 1: Feast of the Cross (Eastern Christianity) 1–14: Dormition Fast (Eastern Christianity) 1: Lammas/Lughnasadh (Gaels, Neopaganism, Wicca in Northern Hemisphere, England, Scotland)) 1: Imbolc (Neopaganism, Wicca in Southern Hemisphere) 1: Emancipation Day (Barbados, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago) 1: Independence Day (Benin) 1: Province Day (Guadalcanal) 1: Army Day (China) 1: Swiss National Day 1: King's Birthday (Tonga) 1: Yorkshire Day (Yorkshire) Upcoming 2: National Tree Day (Australia) 2: Virgen de los Angeles (Costa Rica) 2: Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising Day (Macedonia)