Economic

• Eurozone crisis
• Greek government-debt crisis

Environmental

• 2014 Atlantic hurricane season
• 2014 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
• 2014 Pacific typhoon season

Health

• Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa
• Legionella outbreak in Portugal

Political

• Global surveillance disclosures
• Hong Kong protests
• Irish demonstrations against water tax
• Military intervention against ISIS
  • US-led intervention in Syria
• Russian military intervention in Ukraine
• South Sudanese Civil War

More details on ongoing conflicts below

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November

• 29: Mark Strand
• 28: Dale Armstrong
• 28: Bob Baker
• 28: Chespirito
• 28: Jack Kyle
• 27: Phillip Hughes
• 27: P. D. James
• 27: Frank Yablans
• 26: Frankie Fraser
• 26: Mary Hinkson
• 26: Sabah
• 25: Sitara Devi
• 25: Petr Hapka
• 25: Denham Harman
• 25: Anne Cowdrey, 14th Lady Herries of Terregles
• 24: Murli Deora
• 24: John Neal
• 24: Viktor Tikhonov
• 23: Marion Barry
• 23: Dorothy Cheney
• 23: Murray Oliver
• 23: Pat Quinn
• 22: Fiorenzo Angelini
• 21: Göran Graffman (death announced on this date)
• 21: Wang Kun
• 20: Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba
• 19: Maria Jose Alvarado (body found on this date)
• 19: Otieno Kajwang
• 19: Gholam Hossein Mazloumi
• 19: Mike Nichols
• 18: Dave Appell
• 18: Pepe Eliaschev
• 18: Shahzada Alam Monnoo
• 18: C. Rudhraiya
• 17: Willy Burgdorfer
• 17: Omar Chabán
• 17: John T. Downey
• 17: Bill Frenzel
• 17: Jimmy Ruffin
• 17: Ray Sadecki
• 16: Ian Craig
• 16: Peter Kassig (death announced on this date)
• 16: Sik Kok Kwong
• 16: Carl Sanders
• 15: Bunny Briggs
• 15: Leslie Feinberg
• 15: Valéry Mézague (body found on this date)
• 15: Reg Withers
• 14: Diem Brown
• 14: Jane Byrne
• 14: Glen A. Larson
• 14: Morteza Pashaei
• 13: Kakha Bendukidze
• 13: Alvin Dark
• 13: Alexander Grothendieck
• 13: Irving Peress
• 12: Ravi Chopra
• 12: Warren Clarke
• 11: John Doar
• 11: Mark Dyer
• 11: Big Bank Hank
• 11: Donald F. Steiner
• 11: Carol Ann Susi
• 10: Brian Farrell
• 10: Wayne Goss
• 10: Ken Takakura
• 10: Tomas Young
• 9: Saud bin Muhammed Al Thani
• 9: Myles Munroe
• 9: R. A. Montgomery
• 9: Orlando Thomas
• 9: Joe Walsh
• 9: Annette Polly Williams
• 8: Phil Crane
• 8: Ernie Vandeweghe
• 7: Zoltán Gera
• 7: Kajetan Kovič
• 7: Dwivedula Visalakshi
• 6: Rick Rosas
• 5: Manitas de Plata
• 4: Admire Rakti
• 4: Araldo
• 4: Enrique Olivera
• 4: Ivor Seemley
• 4: S. Donald Stookey
• 3: Sadashiv Amrapurkar
• 3: Tom Magliozzi
• 3: Gordon Tullock
• 2: Acker Bilk
• 1: Joel Barnett, Baron Barnett
• 1: Brittany Maynard
• 1: Donald Saddler
• 1: Wayne Static

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Global

• War on Drugs
• War on Terror
  • Operation Active Endeavour
  • Operation Enduring Freedom
  • Terrorist incidents in 2014

Africa

• Lord's Resistance Army insurgency
• Maghreb insurgency
• OEF – Horn of Africa
• OEF – Trans Sahara

• Central African Republic
  • Civil conflict

• Egypt
  • Sinai insurgency

• Libya
  • 2014 Libyan Civil War

• Nigeria
  • Boko Haram

• Somalia
  • Civil war

• Sudan and South Sudan
  • Sudan internal conflict
  • South Sudan internal conflict

Americas

• Colombian conflict
• Mexican Drug War

Asia

• Afghanistan War
  • Military operations
  • Taliban insurgency

• India
  • Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
  • Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
  • Insurgency in Northeast India

• Korea
  • Korean maritime border conflict

• Pakistan
  • Balochistan conflict
  • North-West War
  • Sectarian violence

• Philippines
  • Communist insurgency
  • Moro insurgency

• Southeast Asia
  • Cambodian–Thai border dispute
  • Kachin conflict
  • Papua conflict
  • South Thailand insurgency
  • Territorial disputes in the South China Sea

Europe

• North Caucasus insurgency
• War in Donbass

Middle East

• Arab–Israeli conflict
  • Gaza–Israel conflict
  • Israeli–Lebanese conflict
  • Israeli–Palestinian conflict
• Israel–Iran proxy conflict

• Iraqi insurgency

• Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant

• Kurdistan
  • Kurdish–Iranian conflict

• Syrian Civil War

• Yemen
  • al-Qaeda crackdown
  • Shia insurgency
  • South Yemen insurgency

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Recent: November

• 2: Romania, President (1st round)
• 4: United States, House of Representatives and Senate (one third: Class II Senators)
• 16: Romania, President (2nd round)
• 19: Lebanon, President (15th round, indirect; aborted)
• 19: Solomon Islands, General
• 22: Bahrain, General
• 23: Tunisia, President (1st round)
• 25: Tonga, General
• 29: Namibia, General
• 30: Moldova, Parliament

Upcoming: December

• 10: Mauritius, Parliament
• 14: Japan, Parliament
• 21: Uzbekistan, Parliament (1st round)
• 28: Tunisia, President (2nd round)

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Recently concluded

• Australia: Brett Peter Cowan, Craig Thomson, Robert Hughes
• Canada: Michael Thomas Rafferty
• China: Bo Xilai
• Croatia: Ivo Sanader
• Germany: Breno Borges
• Iran: Mohammad Reza Rahimi
• Italy: Silvio Berlusconi
• Jordan: Abu Qatada
• 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, Oscar Pistorius
• 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, Stuart Hall, Dappy, Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson, Rolf Harris, Tulisa Contostavlos
• 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

• 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: Shrien Dewani
• South Korea: MV Sewol crew members
• Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein
• Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra
• Turkey: Kenan Evren
• United Kingdom: Eddy Shah, Koo Stark
• United States: Jodi Arias

Upcoming

• France: Éric Raoult
• Ivory Coast: Laurent Gbagbo
• Libya: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi
• Spain: Lionel Messi
• United Kingdom: Dane Bowers, Gary Glitter, Andy Coulson, Chris Denning
• 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, Justin Bieber, Chris Brown, Rick Perry

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