• 2011 Tuvalu drought
• 2012 Fiji floods

Economic

• Global financial crisis
  • European sovereign debt crisis
  • Greek economic crisis
• Smartphone patent wars

Medical

• HIV/AIDS in Africa

Political

• Occupy movement
• Anti-austerity protests
  • Greek protests
• Protests following the 2011 Russian elections
• Arab Spring
  • Post- Tunisian Revolution
  • Post- Egyptian revolution
  • Post- Libyan Civil War
  • Bahraini uprising - ongoing
  • Syrian uprising - ongoing
  • Yemeni uprising - ongoing
  • Jordanian protests - reforms
  • Moroccan protests - reforms
• News International phone hacking scandal

Scientific

• Expedition 30

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February

• 29: Davy Jones
• 27: Tina Strobos
• 25: Lynn Compton
• 25: Erland Josephson
• 24: Jan Berenstain
• 24: Kenneth Price
• 23: Bruce Surtees
• 22: Dmitri Nabokov
• 22: Frank Carson
• 22: Marie Colvin
• 22: Rémi Ochlik
• 21: Pierre Juneau
• 21: Colin Ireland
• 20: Katie Hall
• 20: Sullivan Walker
• 19: Renato Dulbecco
• 19: Robin Corbett
• 18: María Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat
• 18: Cal Murphy
• 18: George Brizan
• 18: Rose Cliver
• 17: Robert Carr
• 17: Michael Davis
• 16: Gary Carter
• 16: Baddeley Devesi
• 16: Anthony Shadid
• 15: Charles Anthony
• 15: James Whitaker
• 14: Tonmi Lillman
• 14: Dory Previn
• 13: Lillian Bassman
• 13: Freddie Solomon
• 12: David Kelly
• 11: Whitney Houston
• 9: Jill Kinmont Boothe
• 9: Fred Dickson
• 9: Josh Gifford
• 8: Luis Alberto Spinetta
• 7: Harry Keough
• 6: Janice E. Voss
• 6: Antoni Tàpies
• 4: Florence Green
• 3: Steve Appleton
• 3: Ben Gazzara
• 3: Zalman King
• 1: Don Cornelius
• 1: Angelo Dundee
• 1: Wisława Szymborska

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Global

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

Africa

• Maghreb insurgency
• OEF - Trans Sahara
• Casamance conflict
• Niger Delta conflict
• Nigerian Sharia conflict
• South Kordofan conflict
• South Sudan tribal clashes
• Lord's Resistance Army insurgency
• Somalia:
  • Civil war
  • Somali Civil War (2009–present)
  • Piracy
• OEF - Horn of Africa
• Tuareg rebellion

Europe

• North Caucasus insurgency
• Ingushetia civil war
• Dissident Irish Republican campaign

Middle East

• Iraqi insurgency
• Iran–Jundallah conflict
• Arab–Israeli conflict
  • Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Israeli–Lebanese conflict
  • Palestinian political violence and rocket attacks
• Yemen:
  • Terrorism
  • al-Qaeda crackdown
  • South Yemen insurgency
  • Shia insurgency
• Kurdistan:
  • Turkey–PKK 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
  • South Thailand insurgency
  • Cambodian–Thai border dispute
  • Territorial disputes in the South China Sea
• Islamic insurgency in the Philippines
  • Operation Enduring Freedom – Philippines
• Papua conflict

Americas

• Colombian conflict
• Mexican drug war

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Recent: February

• 2: Kuwait, Parliament
• 5: Finland, President (2nd round)
• 12: Turkmenistan, President
• 14– 15 February/ 21– 22 February: Egypt, Shura Council (2nd phase)
• 18: Latvia, Constitutional referendum
• 21: Yemen, President

Upcoming: February

• 26: Senegal, President
• 26: Syria, Constitutional referendum

Upcoming: March

• 2: Iran, Parliament
• 2: Pakistan, Senate (indirect)
• 4: Russia, President
• 7: Belize, Parliament
• 10: Slovakia, Parliament
• 10: Abkhazia, Parliament
• 11: El Salvador, Parliament
• 12: Switzerland, Referendum
• 17: East Timor, President
• 18: Germany, President (indirect)
• 18: Guinea-Bissau, President
• 25: Hong Kong, Chief Executive (indirect)
• 25: Slovenia, Same-sex union referendum
• 25: South Ossetia, President
• 29: Gambia, Parliament
• 31: Mauritania, Parliament

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Recently concluded

• Cambodia: Kang Kek Iew
• France: Jacques Chirac, John Galliano
• Germany: John Demjanjuk
• Italy: Amanda Knox, Raffaele Sollecito
• Indonesia: Abu Bakar Bashir
• Netherlands: Geert Wilders
• Peru: Joran van der Sloot
• Russia: Bhagavad Gita
• Ukraine: Yulia Tymoshenko
• United Kingdom: Levi Bellfield, Robert Black, Vincent Tabak, Ali Dizaei
• United States: Faisal Shahzad, Noshir Gowadia, Buju Banton, Barry Bonds, Raj Rajaratnam, Rod Blagojevich, Casey Anthony, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Conrad Murray, George Huguely

Ongoing

• Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal
• Canada: Russell Williams
• China: Organized crime in Chongqing
• France: Church of Scientology, Carlos the Jackal
• Germany: Heinrich Boere
• Iraq: Supreme Criminal Tribunal
• Iran: Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani
• Malaysia: Anwar Ibrahim
• Netherlands: Thomas Lubanga ( ICC), Radovan Karadžić ( ICTY)
• Palau: Tommy Remengesau
• Philippines: Andal Ampatuan Jr.
• Russia: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev
• Sierra Leone]]: Charles Taylor ( SCFSL)
• Singapore: Tak Boleh Tahan
• South Africa: Chris Mahlangu
• Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein
• Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra
• Tunisia: Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
• Turkey: Ergenekon network
• United States: Roger Clemens, Ahmed Ghailani, David Headley, Jared Lee Loughner, Charles P. White, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Viktor Bout

Upcoming

• Egypt: Hosni Mubarak, Alaa Mubarak, Gamal Mubarak
• Norway: Anders Behring Breivik
• United States: Allen Stanford, Nidal Malik Hasan, John Edwards, Javaris Crittenton, Bradley Manning

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