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Recent deaths
	[edit] July 6: Mathieu Montcourt; 6: Vasily Aksyonov; 6: Robert McNamara; 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; [edit] June 30: Pina Bausch; 29: Jan Rubes; 28: Billy Mays; 28: Fred Travalena; 27: Willy Kyrklund; 27: Gale Storm; edit sidebar

Ongoing events
	[edit] Economic Automotive industry crisis; Financial crisis; Worldwide recession; [edit] Political / Military Australian "OzCar" Affair; British Parliamentary spending and vote-selling scandals; Constitutional change in the Philippines; Honduran political crisis; Iranian election protests; Peruvian political crisis; Mindanao bombings; North Korean nuclear program; Piracy in Somalia; Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty renewal; Thai political crisis; Treaty of Lisbon ratification; Xinjiang riots; edit sidebar

Ongoing conflicts
[edit] Worldwide War on Terrorism [edit] Africa / Middle East Fourth Chadian Civil War War in Darfur Kivu conflict Iraq War Israeli–Palestinian conflict Maghreb insurgency Conflict in the Niger Delta Somali Civil War Second Tuareg Rebellion Turkey–PKK conflict [edit] 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 Xinjiang riots [edit] Americas Colombian Civil War Mexican Drug War edit sidebar

Elections
[edit] Recent [edit] June 12: Iran, President 21: Haiti, Senate (2^nd Round) 21–22: Italy, Electoral law referendum 28: Albania, Parliament 28: Argentina, Legislative 28: Guinea-Bissau, President [edit] July 5: Bulgaria, Parliament 5: Mexico, Legislative [edit] Upcoming 8: Indonesia, President (1^st Round) 12: Republic of the Congo, President 18: Mauritania, President 23: Kyrgyzstan, President 29: Moldova, Parliament edit sidebar

Trials
[edit] 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 [edit] 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 [edit] Upcoming Germany: John Demjanjuk United Kingdom: Allen Stanford United States: Viktor Bout, Noshir Gowadia, William J. Jefferson, Bernard Madoff, Ehren Watada, Sheila Dixon, Joseph Bruno edit sidebar

Holidays and observances
[edit] July [edit] Ongoing 6 - 14: San Fermín (Pamplona) 9 - 30: The Three Weeks (Judaism) 10 - 12: Navy Days (Netherlands) [edit] Current 10: Silence Day (Meher Baba followers) 10: Independence Day (Bahamas) 10: Armed Forces Day (Mauritania) 10: Statehood Day (Wyoming) [edit] Upcoming 11: World Population Day 11: Day of the Flemish Community (Flemish Community of Belgium) 11 - 13: Naadam (Mongolia) 11: Bonfire Night (Northern Ireland) 11: Yang di-Pertua Negeri's Birthday (Penang) 11: Maritime Day (People's Republic of China) 12: National Day of Commemoration (Ireland) 12: Independence Day (Kiribati) 12: The Twelfth (Northern Ireland, Newfoundland and Labrador) 12: Independence Day (São Tomé and Príncipe) 12: Crown Prince's Birthday (Tonga) 12: Father's Day (Uruguay) 13: Feast of Kalimát (Bahá'í Faith) 13: Martyrs' Day (Jammu and Kashmir) 13 - 15: Bon Festival (Japan) 13: Statehood Day (Montenegro) 14: Bastille Day (France) 14: Republic Day (Iraq) 14: Uniwaine Day (Kiribati) 14: Crown Princess Victoria's Birthday (Sweden) edit sidebar