Portal:Current events/May 2015/Sidebar

Ongoing conflicts
	Africa Algeria, Tunisia and Niger Maghreb insurgency; ; Central African Republic Civil war; ; Democratic Republic of Congo Kivu conflict; ADF insurgency; Katanga insurgency; Ituri conflict; Lord's Resistance Army insurgency; ; Libya Civil war; ; Mali Northern Mali conflict; ; Nigeria and Cameroon Boko Haram; ; Somalia Civil war; ; South Sudan South Sudanese Civil War; ; Sudan War in Darfur; South Kordofan conflict; ; Americas Colombian conflict; Internal conflict in Peru; Mexican War on Drugs; Asia Afghanistan War; China Xinjiang conflict; ; India Naxalite–Maoist insurgency; Insurgency in Northeast India; ; India and Pakistan Kashmir conflict; ; Pakistan War in North-West Pakistan; Balochistan conflict; ; Philippines Communist insurgency; Moro insurgency; ; Southeast Asia Internal conflict in Burma; Papua conflict; South Thailand insurgency; ; Europe Georgia Abkhaz–Georgian conflict; Georgian–Ossetian conflict; ; Dissident Irish Republican campaign; Chechen-Russian conflict North Caucasus insurgency; War in Ingushetia; ; Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Nagorno-Karabakh conflict; ; Ukraine War in Donbass Russian military intervention in Ukraine; ; ; Middle East Arab–Israeli conflict Gaza–Israel conflict; Israeli–Lebanese conflict; Israeli–Palestinian conflict; ; Egypt Sinai insurgency; ; Iran Iran–PJAK conflict; ; Iraqi civil war American-led intervention in Iraq; Iranian intervention in Iraq; ; Syrian Civil War American-led intervention in Syria; Syrian Civil War spillover in Lebanon; ; Turkey Turkey-PKK conflict; ; Yemeni crisis Houthi rebellion; Al-Qaeda insurgency; South Yemen insurgency; ; edit sidebar

Recent deaths
	May 30: Beau Biden; 30: Joël Champetier; 30: Julie Harris; 30: Tony McNamara; 30: Lennie Merullo; 30: Cornell Moss; 30: L. Tom Perry; 29: Doris Hart; 29: Chris Kohlhase; 28: John Buckner; 28: Reynaldo Rey; 27: Erik Carlsson; 27: Bill Foster; 27: Hassan Abdullah Hersi al-Turki; 27: Andy King; 27: John Siegal; 26: Vicente Aranda; 26: Walter Byers; 26: Bob Hornery; 26: Art Thieme; 25: Mary Ellen Mark; 25: John M. Murphy; 25: Bill O'Herlihy; 24: Marcus Belgrave; 24: Michael W. Ryan; 23: Anne Meara; John Forbes Nash, Jr.; 22: Marques Haynes; 22: Vladimir Katriuk; 22: John Mosley; 22: Terry Sue-Patt; 21: Louis Johnson; 20: Bob Belden; 19: Bruce Lundvall; 19: Happy Rockefeller; 19: Robert S. Wistrich; 18: Aruna Shanbaug; 17: Chinx; 16: Prashant Bhargava; 16: Moshe Levinger; 16: Dean Potter; 16: Adrian Robinson; Abu Sayyaf; 16: Peter Tallberg; John Templeton, Jr.; 16: Yeung Kwong; 15: Elisabeth Bing; 15: Alfred DelBello; 15: Corey Hill; 15: Jacob Jensen; 15: John Lo Schiavo; 15: Garo Yepremian; B.B. King; 14: Franz Wright; 13: Derek Davis; 13: David Sackett; 12: Peter Gay; 12: Bill Guthridge; 12: William Zinsser; Tony Ayala, Jr.; 11: Maggie Black; 11: Jef Geeraerts; John Watts; 10: Chris Burden; 10: William T. Cooper; 10: Kim Kyok-sik; 10: Rachel Rosenthal; 10: Victor Salvi; 9: Kenan Evren; 9: Johnny Gimble; 9: Alexandre Lamfalussy; Michael Mackellar; 9: Elizabeth Wilson; 8: Rutger Gunnarsson; 8: Mwepu Ilunga; 8: Leif Holger Larsen; Domingo Lucenario, Jr.; 7: Maurice Flanagan; 7: Frank DiPascali; 6: Errol Brown; 6: Jim Wright; 5: Gerard Davison; 5: Craig Gruber; 5: Hans Jansen; 4: Ellen Albertini Dow; 4: Marv Hubbard; 4: Joshua Ozersky; 3: Thomas A. Constantine; 3: Danny Jones; 3: Robert Rietti; 3: Abdul Basit Usman; 2: Guy Carawan; 2: Dave Goldberg; 2: Maya Plisetskaya; 2: Ruth Rendell; 1: María Elena Velasco; 1: Grace Lee Whitney; ; ; edit sidebar

Ongoing events
	Political Iraqi civil wars Military intervention against ISIL; ; Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria, Cameroon and Niger; Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen; 2014–15 Russian military intervention in Ukraine; More details on ongoing conflicts below edit sidebar

Elections
Recent: May Referendum National Assembly House of Commons President (1st round) National Assembly President (23rd round) Referendum House of Peoples' Representatives President (2nd round) National Assembly Senate Upcoming: June President (24th round) National Assembly Referenda Congress National Assembly Referenda Parliament President edit sidebar

Trials
Recently concluded Robert Hughes Brazil: Mensalão scandal Luka Magnotta China: Liu Tienan, Li Daqiu, Ji Jianye, Liao Shaohua, Ni Fake, Chen Baihuai Croatia: Ivo Sanader Egypt: Hosni Mubarak, Peter Greste, Mohamed Morsi Breno Borges Iran: Mohammad Reza Rahimi Hussam Qawasmeh Italy: Silvio Berlusconi Jordan: Abu Qatada Malaysia: Anwar Ibrahim Romania: Liviu Dragnea, Dan Diaconescu Russia: Leonid Khabarov, Vladimir Kvachkov, Pussy Riot Chris Mahlangu Turkey: Kenan Evren, Tahsin Şahinkaya Tulisa Contostavlos, Chris Denning, Ray Teret, Gary Glitter, Fred Talbot Jodi Arias Dzhokhar Tsarnaev International ECCC: Nuon Chea, Khieu Samphan Thomas Lubanga ICTY: Momčilo Perišić, Mladen Markač, Ante Gotovina, Zdravko Tolimir Charles Taylor Ongoing France: Dominique Strauss-Kahn Germany: Beate Zschäpe Iran: Babak Zanjani Joseph Scott Pemberton Romania: Darius Vâlcov, Dan Șova, Elena Udrea, Radu Mazăre, Gheorghe Nichita, Marian Vanghelie, Cătălin Voicu, Relu Fenechiu, Gheorghe Ștefan, Gabriel Sandu, Dorin Cocoş, Dumitru Nicolae Russia: Alexei Navalny MV Sewol crew members International Ratko Mladic Upcoming China: Zhou Yongkang, Wu Changshun Libya: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi Spain: Lionel Messi United Kingdom: Dane Bowers, Andy Coulson Chris Brown, Rick Perry International ICC: Laurent Gbagbo edit sidebar

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