Economic

• Great Recession
  • European sovereign-debt crisis
  • Greek economic crisis

Environmental

• North American drought

Political

• Arab Spring
  • Syrian civil war
  • Egyptian protests
  • Bahraini uprising
• East D.R. Congo conflict
• Terrorist attacks in Kenya
• Kachin conflict in Burma
• Northern Mali conflict

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January

• 31: Hassan Habibi
• 31: Caleb Moore
• 31: Ingo Swann
• 30: Gamal al-Banna
• 30: Patty Andrews
• 27: Phạm Duy
• 27: Stanley Karnow
• 26: Patricia Lovell
• 25: Kevin Heffernan
• 23: Józef Glemp
• 23: Dolours Price
• 21: Riccardo Garrone
• 21: Chumpol Silpa-archa
• 21: Michael Winner
• 19: Taihō Kōki
• 19: Stan Musial
• 19: Earl Weaver
• 16: Noé Hernández
• 16: Gussie Moran
• 16: Pauline Phillips
• 16: Aslan Usoyan
• 15: Nagisa Oshima
• 14: Conrad Bain
• 12: Koto Okubo
• 11: Robert Kee
• 11: Nguyễn Khánh
• 11: Aaron Swartz
• 10: Evan S. Connell
• 9: James M. Buchanan
• 9: Sakine Cansız
• 8: Jeanne Manford
• 8: Alasdair Milne
• 7: Richard Ben Cramer
• 7: David R. Ellis
• 7: Huell Howser
• 6: Gerard Helders
• 5: Sol Yurick
• 4: Tony Lip
• 4: Vittorio Missoni
• 4: Nikos Samaras
• 4: Şenay Yüzbaşıoğlu
• 4: Zoran Žižić
• 3: Sergiu Nicolaescu
• 3: Burry Stander
• 2: Ladislao Mazurkiewicz
• 2: Mamie Rearden
• 2: Ian McKeever
• 2: Maulvi Nazir
• 2: Teresa Torańska
• 1: Lloyd Hartman Elliott
• 1: Christopher Martin-Jenkins
• 1: Patti Page

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Global

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

Africa

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

• DR Congo:
  • East DR Congo conflict

• Egypt
  • Egyptian protests

• Kenya:
  • Terrorist attacks in Kenya

• Libya:
  • Libyan factional fighting

• Mali:
  • Azawad conflict

• Nigeria:
  • Nigerian Sharia conflict
  • Niger Delta conflict

• Somalia:
  • Civil War
  • Piracy

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

Americas

• Colombian conflict

Asia

• Afghanistan War
  • Military operations
  • Taliban insurgency

• Pakistan:
  • North-West War
  • Sectarian violence

• India:
  • Naxalite–Maoist insurgency

• Islamic insurgency in the Philippines
  • Operation Enduring Freedom – Philippines

• Korea:
  • Korean crisis
  • Korean maritime border conflict

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

Europe

• North Caucasus insurgency
• Dissident Irish Republican campaign

Middle East

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

• Iraqi insurgency

• Kurdistan:
  • Kurdish–Turkish conflict
  • Kurdish–Iranian conflict

• Syrian civil war

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

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Recent: January

• 11– 12: Czech Republic, President (1st round)
• 20: Austria, Conscription referendum
• 22: Israel, Parliament
• 23: Jordan, Parliament
• 25– 26: Czech Republic, President (2nd round)
• 27: Bulgaria, Nuclear power referendum

Upcoming: February

• 1 and 3: Liechtenstein, Parliament
• 3: Cuba, Parliament
• 10: Monaco, Parliament
• 15: Trinidad and Tobago, President (indirect)
• 17: Cyprus, President
• 17: Ecuador, General
• 18: Armenia, President
• 19: Grenada, General
• 22: Djibouti, Parliament
• 24– 25: Italy, General

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Recently concluded

• Canada: Michael Rafferty
• Croatia: Ivo Sanader
• Egypt: Hosni Mubarak, Alaa Mubarak, Gamal Mubarak
• Germany: Breno Borges
• Indonesia: Abu Bakar Bashir
• Netherlands: Ante Gotovina ( ICTY), Mladen Markač ( ICTY)
• Norway: Anders Behring Breivik
• Russia: Pussy Riot
• Sierra Leone: Charles Taylor ( SCFSL)
• South Africa: Chris Mahlangu
• Ukraine: Yulia Tymoshenko
• United Kingdom: 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
• United States: Noshir Gowadia, Buju Banton, Barry Bonds, Raj Rajaratnam, Casey Anthony, Conrad Murray, George Huguely, Allen Stanford, Roger Clemens, Jerry Sandusky, Jared Lee Loughner

Ongoing

• Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal
• China: Organized crime in Chongqing
• France: Church of Scientology
• 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
• Russia: Leonid Khabarov, Vladimir Kvachkov, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev
• Singapore: Tak Boleh Tahan
• Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein
• Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra
• Turkey: Ergenekon network, Kenan Evren
• United Kingdom: Koo Stark
• United States: Ahmed Ghailani, David Headley, Charles P. White, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Viktor Bout, Lauryn Hill
• Vatican: Vatileaks scandal

Upcoming

• Canada: Luka Magnotta
• France: Éric Raoult
• Libya: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi
• Ivory Coast: Laurent Gbagbo
• United Kingdom: Chris Huhne, Vicky Pryce, Dane Bowers
• United States: Nidal Malik Hasan, Javaris Crittenton, Bradley Manning, Robert Bales, George Zimmerman, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Peter Madoff, Christian Gerhartsreiter, Crystal Mangum

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