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Ongoing conflicts
	Global[edit] War on Drugs; War on Terror Operation Active Endeavour; Operation Enduring Freedom; Terrorist incidents in 2014; ; Africa[edit] Lord's Resistance Army insurgency; Maghreb insurgency; OEF – Horn of Africa; OEF – Trans Sahara; Central African Republic Civil conflict; ; Egypt Post-coup unrest; Sinai insurgency; ; Libya Post-civil war interfactional fighting; 2014 Libyan uprising; ; Nigeria Niger Delta conflict; Islamist insurgency in Nigeria; ; Somalia Civil war; ; Sudan and South Sudan Sudan internal conflict; South Sudan internal conflict; ; Americas[edit] Colombian conflict; Mexican Drug War; Asia[edit] Afghanistan War Military operations; Taliban insurgency; ; India Naxalite–Maoist insurgency; ; Korea Korean maritime border conflict; ; Pakistan Balochistan conflict; North-West War; Sectarian violence; ; Philippines Communist insurgency; Moro insurgency; ; Russia North Caucasus insurgency; ; Southeast Asia Cambodian–Thai border dispute; Kachin conflict; Papua conflict; South Thailand insurgency; Territorial disputes in the South China Sea; ; Europe[edit] Dissident Irish Republican campaign; Pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine; Middle East[edit] Arab–Israeli conflict Gaza–Israel conflict; Israeli–Lebanese conflict; Israeli–Palestinian conflict; ; Israel–Iran proxy conflict; Iraqi insurgency; Kurdistan Kurdish–Iranian conflict; ; Syrian Civil War; Yemen al-Qaeda crackdown; Shia insurgency; South Yemen insurgency; ; edit sidebar

Recent deaths
	May[edit] 29: Karlheinz Böhm; 28: Azlan Shah of Perak; 28: Maya Angelou; 28: Malcolm Glazer; 27: Massimo Vignelli; 26: Manuel Uribe; 25: Wojciech Jaruzelski; 25: Herb Jeffries; 25: Matthew Saad Muhammad; 24: Knowlton Nash; 23: Madhav Mantri; 22: Matthew Cowles; 21: Imre Gedővári; 21: Mack Herewini; 21: Jaime Lusinchi; 21: Alireza Soleimani; 21: R. Umanath; 20: Arthur Gelb; 20: Sante Kimes; 19: Simon Andrews; 19: Jack Brabham; 19: Vincent Harding; 18: Dobrica Ćosić; 18: Gerald Edelman; 18: Don Meyer; 18: Wubbo Ockels; 18: Jerry Vale; 18: Gordon Willis; 17: Miss Beazley; 17: Douangchay Phichit; 17: Louise Wilson; 16: Chris Duckworth; 16: Russi Mody; 16: Clyde Snow; 15: Jean-Luc Dehaene; 14: Stephen Sutton; 13: Malik Bendjelloul; 12: Isabel Carrasco; 12: Jacinto Convit; 12: H. R. Giger; 12: Tom Hafey; 12: Lorenzo Zambrano; 11: Reg Gasnier; 11: Jeb Stuart Magruder; 10: Patrick Lucey; 9: Bob Hoysted; 9: Harlan Matthews; 9: Nedurumalli Janardhana Reddy; 8: Homero Leite Meira; 8: Joseph P. Teasdale; 7: George Christie; 7: Colin Pillinger; 6: Bill Dana; 6: Farley Mowat; 6: Aziz Sattar; 6: Leslie Thomas; 5: Butler Derrick; 4: Elena Baltacha; 4: Ross Lonsberry; 4: Tatiana Samoilova; 3: Gary Becker; 3: Jim Oberstar; 2: Nigel Stepney; 2: Efrem Zimbalist Jr.; 1: Adamu Atta; 1: Juan Formell; 1: Paul Ramsay; edit sidebar

Ongoing events
	Disasters[edit] Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 search efforts; Economic[edit] Eurozone crisis; Greek government-debt crisis; Environmental[edit] 2014 North Indian Ocean cyclone season; 2014 Pacific typhoon season; 2014 Southeast Europe floods; Health[edit] 2014 Guinea ebola outbreak; Political[edit] Crimea crisis Russian military intervention in Ukraine; Annexation of Crimea by Russia; Pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine; ; Garda Síochána phone-tapping scandal; Global surveillance disclosures; South Sudan conflict; Thailand political crisis 2014 coup d'état; ; Venezuela protests; More details on ongoing conflicts below edit sidebar

Elections
Recent: May [edit] 4: Panama, General 7: India, Parliament (8th phase) 7: South Africa, General 11: Lithuania, President (1st round) 12: India, Parliament (9th phase) 18: Guinea-Bissau, President (2nd round) 20: Malawi, General 22–25: European Union, Parliament 25: Belgium, Federal 25: Colombia, President (1st round) 25: Denmark, Unified Patent Court referendum 25: Lithuania, President (2nd round) 25: Ukraine, President (1st round) 26–28: Egypt, President Upcoming: June [edit] 3: Syria, President 8: Kosovo, Parliament 8: South Ossetia, Parliament 9: Lebanon, President (6th round; indirect) 10: Israel, President (indirect) 12: Antigua and Barbuda, General 14: Afghanistan, President (2nd round) 15: Colombia, President (2nd round) 21: Mauritania, President (1st round) 25: Libya, Parliament edit sidebar

Trials
Recently concluded [edit] Australia: Brett Peter Cowan, Craig Thomson, Robert Hughes Canada: Michael Thomas Rafferty China: Bo Xilai Croatia: Ivo Sanader Germany: Breno Borges Italy: Silvio Berlusconi Netherlands: Ante Gotovina (ICTY), Mladen Markač (ICTY), Momčilo Perišić (ICTY), Germain Katanga (ICC) Russia: Leonid Khabarov, Vladimir Kvachkov, Pussy Riot Sierra Leone: Charles Taylor (SCFSL) South Africa: Chris Mahlangu Ukraine: Yulia Tymoshenko United Kingdom: Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, Levi Bellfield, Robert Black, Vincent Tabak, Ali Dizaei, Antoni Imiela, Brian Regan, Donna Air, Ched Evans, Clayton McDonald, Titus Bramble, Dan Penteado, John Terry, Iftikhar and Farzana Ahmed, Asil Nadir, Justin Lee Collins, Kweku Adoboli, Tony McCluskie, Kevin Hutchinson-Foster, Chris Huhne, Nicola Edgington, Vicky Pryce, Derek Rose, Mick Philpott, Mairead Philpott, Paul Mosley, Kevin Liverpool, Junior Bradshaw, Aggro Santos, Stuart Hazell, Mark Bridger, Andrew Lancel, Dale Cregan, Ray Wilkins, Michael Le Vell, Liam Adams, R v Grillo and Grillo, Ian Watkins, William Roache, Dave Lee Travis, Nicholas Jacobs, Nigel Evans, Max Clifford United States: Noshir Gowadia, Barry Bonds, Raj Rajaratnam, Casey Anthony, Conrad Murray, George Huguely, Allen Stanford, Roger Clemens, Jerry Sandusky, Jared Lee Loughner, Lauryn Hill, Kermit Gosnell, George Zimmerman, Chelsea Manning, Ariel Castro, Whitey Bulger, Robert Bales, Nidal Malik Hasan, Crystal Mangum, Abu Hamza al-Masri Ongoing [edit] Brazil: Mensalão scandal Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal Canada: Luka Magnotta China: Organized crime in Chongqing Egypt: Mohamed Morsi, Hosni Mubarak France: Church of Scientology Germany: Christian Wulff, Beate Zschäpe, Uli Hoeness, Bernie Ecclestone Hong Kong: Alfredo Lim Iran: Babak Zanjani Iraq: Supreme Criminal Tribunal Malaysia: Anwar Ibrahim Netherlands: Thomas Lubanga (ICC), Radovan Karadžić (ICTY), Ratko Mladic (ICTY) Palau: Tommy Remengesau Philippines: Andal Ampatuan Jr., Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Janet Lim-Napoles, Bongbong Marcos, Imelda Marcos, Jovito Palparan Russia: Platon Lebedev South Africa: Oscar Pistorius Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra Turkey: Kenan Evren United Kingdom: Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson, Eddy Shah, Koo Stark, Rolf Harris, Stuart Hall United States: Jodi Arias Upcoming [edit] France: Éric Raoult Ivory Coast: Laurent Gbagbo Jordan: Abu Qatada Libya: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi United Kingdom: Dane Bowers, Dave Lee Travis United States: Paul Anthony Ciancia, Javaris Crittenton, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Peter Madoff, Christian Gerhartsreiter, Dylan Quick, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, James Eagan Holmes, Aaron Hernandez, Graham Spanier, Tim Curley, Gary Schultz, Anas al-Libi, Bob McDonnell edit sidebar

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