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In motorsport, Nico Rosberg wins the Monaco Grand Prix.
Måns Zelmerlöw (pictured), representing Sweden with the song "Heroes", wins the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 in Vienna, Austria.
At least 40 people are killed in a shootout in Mexico between Federal police and members of Jalisco New Generation Cartel.
Ireland becomes the first country in the world to legalise same-sex marriage by constitutional referendum.
At least 21 people are killed by a suicide bomb in Qatif, Saudi Arabia.
Five banks charged with manipulating foreign exchange rates plead guilty and agree to fines totaling over US$5.7 billion.
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant captures the strategic city of Ramadi, Iraq, and the historic city of Palmyra, Syria.

Ongoing events:
- Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen
Recent deaths:
- John Forbes Nash, Jr.
- Marques Haynes

May 24, 2015 (Sunday)

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War in Afghanistan (2015–present)
- At least ten Afghan police officers are killed in a Taliban attack on checkpoints in Helmand Province. (AP via Fox News)
The Burundi opposition suspends talks with the Government of President Pierre Nkurunziza following the assassination of opposition leader Zedi Feruzi of the Union for Peace and Development party yesterday. (CNN)
Syrian Civil War
- A Syrian military helicopter crashes near the town of Kweiras killing all on board. (AP)

Arts and culture

Dheepan, a French film directed by Jacques Audiard, wins the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. (The Guardian)

Disasters and accidents

The flash floods in the American states of Texas and Oklahoma claim their first victim with a firefighter dying in floodwaters in the town of Claremore, Oklahoma. (News on 6), (CNN)

International relations

Feminist activists including Gloria Steinem cross the Korean Demilitarized Zone by bus after being denied permission to walk across. (AP via US News and World Report)

Law and crime

Authorities in Malaysia find mass graves in more than a dozen camps near the border with Thailand where Rohingya migrants are held. (AP)

Politics and elections

Polish presidential election, 2015
- Voters in Poland go to the polls for the second round of a Presidential election between President Bronisław Komorowski and challenger Andrzej Duda with exit polls showing Duda ahead. (BBC), (AP), (AP via WTOP)
Ethiopian general election, 2015
- Voters in Ethiopia go to the polls for a general election with the ruling Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front facing no viable opposition. (The Guardian)

Science

Nobel Prize winner John Forbes Nash, Jr. and his wife Alicia die in a taxi accident. (The New York Times)

Sports

2015 Monaco Grand Prix
- Nico Rosberg of Mercedes wins the 2015 Monaco Grand Prix ahead of third placed team mate Lewis Hamilton who started in pole position. (BBC)
2015 Indianapolis 500
- 2000 winner Juan Pablo Montoya holds off teammate Will Power by 0.105 seconds to win the 2015 Indianapolis 500. 2008 winner Scott Dixon started on the pole position and finished fourth. Concerns about safety had been raised after several practice crashes before the race, including one that hospitalized James Hinchcliffe. (ESPN)
- A pit-road collision between the vehicles of James Davison and Pippa Mann results in the injury of two pit crew members on the team of Tristan Vautier. Greg Senerius was treated and released on-track for a foot injury, and Daniel Jang was transported to a hospital for evaluation. (ESPN)
2015 Coca-Cola 600
- The 2015 Coca-Cola 600 occurs today with 2000 winner Matt Kenseth on the pole position. (ESPN)
2015 French Open
- The French Open gets underway at Stade Roland Garros with Rafael Nadal and Maria Sharapova the defending champions in men's and women's singles. (Tennis.com)

May 23, 2015 (Saturday)

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War in Afghanistan (2015–present)
- A roadside bomb kills two, including the district chief, in the Charcheno District of Afghanistan. (AP via ABC News America)
War in Somalia (2009–present)
- Islamic extremists kill at least 18 people in an attack on two rural towns Awdhegie and Mubarak, (AP)
War in Donbass
- Pro-Russian separatist military leader colonel Alexei Mozgovoi is confirmed killed in an ambush on his car. (BBC News)

Arts and culture

The at the start of the Salvadoran Civil War assassinated Salvadoran Archbishop Óscar Romero, is beatified in Pope Francis's name, by Cardinal Angelo Amato, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in San Salvador. (White House) (CNN) (Vatican)
The final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 is held in Vienna, Austria with Måns Zelmerlöw of Sweden winning for the song Heroes. (Sydney Morning Herald), (BBC)
A memorial service is held in the Scottish capital Edinburgh for the Quintinshill rail disaster which occurred 100 years ago and claimed over 200 lives. (BBC)

Disasters

The death toll from China's latest round of flooding rises to at least 48. (AP via Washington Post)
An Indian heat wave claims over 200 lives with the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana worst affected. (The Hindu)
Record breaking rain causes flooding in the American states of Oklahoma and Texas with Oklahoma City recording record rainfall levels for the month of May. (CNN)

International relations

Rohingya refugee crisis
- Julie Bishop, the Foreign Minister of Australia, says that Indonesia has advised that most of the people who have traveled to South East Asia by boat are from Bangladesh, not Rohingya from Myanmar. (Straits Times)
- Myanmar announces plans to deport recently rescued migrants to Bangladesh. (Sky News Asia)

Law and crime

Cleveland Police Department officer Michael Brelo is acquitted of manslaughter in relation to the 2012 deaths of Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams following a a police chase. There are multiple arrests in protests afterwards (Los Angeles Times via WA Today), (Newsnet)
- The U.S. Justice Department announced it will review the decision to determine if further action is required. (The Guardian)
Nigerian drug agents arrest senator-elect Buruji Kashamu for extradition to the United States for his alleged involvement in a drug deal 20 years ago that is claimed to be the basis for the television show Orange is the New Black. (AP)
The President of Myanmar, Thein Sein, signs the Population Control Health Care Bill requiring some parents to space each child three years apart. (AP via Daily Mail)

Politics and elections

Peru declares a 60 day state of emergency in the Tambo Valley following violent protests against a mine project which has seen four deaths. (AP via ABC News)
The United States Senate adjourns without agreeing either to reform the National Security Agency or extend the Patriot Act which is due to expire at the end of this month. (The Hill)
Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Marriage Equality) Bill 2015
- The counting of votes for yesterday's referendum occurs with the Republic of Ireland becoming the first country to adopt same sex marriage by referendum. (AP), (Independent Ireland), (The Guardian)

May 22, 2015 (Friday)

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Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant captures the border crossing at Al Waleed (al-Tanf in Syria), the last remaining border crossing between Syria and Iraq controlled by the Government of Syria. ISIL reportedly advances to within 40 km of Baghdad after their victory in Ramadi. (BBC)
A suicide bomber targeting Shiites at a mosque in Qatif, Saudi Arabia, has killed 19 and injured 28, per Red Crescent authorities. (Irish Independent)
Mexican Drug War
- At least 42 members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and two Federal Police officers are killed in a shootout in the state of Michoacán. The death toll is preliminary and is expected to rise. (Reuters)

Business

Li Hejun, formerly China's richest man, loses an estimated US$14 billion when his energy shares plunge nearly 50%. (Forbes)

Disasters and accidents

Surrounding areas of Wembley Stadium, London, UK have been evacuated following the discovery by construction crews of a still-live World War II-era 50-kg (110-llb) conventional-explosive bomb, a remnant of the Blitz. (MSN)
The Myanmar Navy rescues two boats carrying 208 migrants as it faces growing international pressure to tackle the Rohingya migration crisis. (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Over 3,000 cases of cholera resulting in at least 31 deaths breaks out in a refugee camp for Burundians fleeing the recent political unrest in their country. (Al Jazeera)

Politics

Voters in Ireland go to the polls to vote on constitutional referendums, including one that would allow same-sex marriage. (BBC)
The United States Senate passes legislation to allow President Barack Obama to fast track trade negotiations with other countries. (AP via ABC News America)

Science

Science publishes a series of papers on biodiversity in the deep sea, including tens of thousands of single-celled organisms most of which had not been previously identified. (BBC)

Sports

In cricket, Pakistan plays a Twenty20 match against Zimbabwe at Lahore. This is the first time a test playing nation toured Pakistan for a cricket match since the 2009 attack on the Sri Lanka national cricket team. (IndiaTV)

May 21, 2015 (Thursday)

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Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
- Islamic State fighters enter the ancient ruins of Palmyra after capturing the Syrian city of Tadmur yesterday. A hundred pro-government fighters are believed to have died in fighting. (Reuters)
- The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claims that Islamic State now controls more than half of Syria dominating 95,000 square kilometres and controls settlements in nine provinces. (News Limited)
Al-Shabaab militants briefly take over a mosque in Kenya's Garissa County. (BBC)
2014–15 Russian military intervention in Ukraine
- Video interviews show that two Russians captured in Ukraine have publicly admitted to being soldiers in the GRU Russian special forces. The Donetsk People's Republic (separatists) authorities claim these men were official policemen in the self-proclaimed republic, publicized their ID badges, and claimed they retired from the Russian military last year. (AFP via Yahoo! News)

Arts and culture

Robert Gates, the President of the Boy Scouts of America, calls on the movement to end the ban on gay adult leaders and says the movement will no longer revoke the charters of chapters that accept gay male leaders. (Yahoo News)

Health

South Korea confirms its third case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome. (Yonhap)
Two prisoners die and 30 are hospitalised following a cholera outbreak at the Shimo la Tewa facility in Mombasa, Kenya. (The Star via AllAfrica)
Cleanup continues after the Refugio Oil Spill at Refugio State Beach along the coast of Santa Barbara County, California.(ABC7.com)
Health authorities in the United States say that 53 people in nine states have been sickened in a salmonella outbreak. California is the worst affected state with 31 cases with the other states with cases include Arizona, Illinois, Mississippi, New Mexico, South Dakota, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin. (NBC News)

Law and crime

Brazilian anti-corruption blogger Evany José Metzker is found dead after investigating a drug dealing and prostitution case. (Deutsche Weller)
Death of Freddie Gray
- A grand jury in the American city of Baltimore indicts six police officers relating to the death of Freddie Gray in police custody. All six officers will face charges of reckless endangerment. (AP via ABC News America), (ABC2)
Daron Dylon Wint is arrested in the American capital of Washington D.C. in relation to the murder of four people on May 14. (NBC Washington)
Mexican Drug War
- Mexican police find three dismembered bodies in a search for ten missing people in Chilapa, a city occupied by vigilantes with alleged links to drug rings between May 9-14. (AP)

Sports

Amnesty International accuses Qatar of failing to meet commitments on labor market reforms for migrant workers to be introduced before the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Among other charges, Qatar uses North Korean labourers who are not paid personally but instead the money goes to their government. (AFP via Google News)

May 20, 2015 (Wednesday)

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Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant
- Islamic State captures the Syrian city of Tadmur from the Syrian Army with grave concerns held about the Palmyra site. (The Hindu) (BBC)
The Chinese navy issues warnings eight times as a United States Navy surveillance plane flies over manmade islands in the South China Sea. (CNN)

Arts and culture

Tools found near Lake Turkana in Kenya by Sonia Harmand and Jason Lewis of Stony Brook University are dated at 3.3 million years making them the oldest yet discovered. (AP via ABC News America)
The last edition of the Late Show with David Letterman goes to air on CBS Television in the United States. Following his retirement, David Letterman will be succeeded by Stephen Colbert on September 8, 2015. (CNN Money)

Disasters and accidents

A Shosholoza Meyl passenger train collides head-on with a goods train in Eastern Cape, South Africa, killing two people and injuring 20. (News24)
A rupture of an underground oil pipeline in California's Santa Barbara County near Refugio State Beach may have released 105,000 gallons of crude oil with tens of thousands gallons released into the Pacific Ocean. Jerry Brown, the Governor of California later declares a state of emergency. (Los Angeles Times), (ABC7 Los Angeles)
2015 Colombian landslide
- The death toll from Monday's landslide in the town of Salgar rises to 80. (CNN)

International relations

Antigua and Barbuda recognizes the independence of Kosovo. (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kosovo)
South East Asian migrant crisis
- The foreign ministers of Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand meet in Kuala Lumpur to discuss people smuggling and the migrant crisis. Malaysia and Indonesia agree to accept asylum seekers providing that they can be resettled or repatriated within a year. (Straits Times), (wires and ABC Online)
- Over 430 migrants are rescued off the coast of Indonesia's eastern Aceh province. (AP via New York Times)
North Korea
- North Korea abruptly cancels an invitation for Ban Ki-moon, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, to visit. (AFP via Sydney Morning Herald)
- The Korean Central News Agency claims that North Korea has the ability to miniaturize nuclear weapons and place them on ballistic missiles. (CNN)

Law and crime

Zambia lifts a ban on hunting big cats imposed over corruption in hunting concessions in the past. (AFP via Yahoo News)
Five big banks Barclays, RBS, Citi, JP Morgan and UBS are fined $5.7 billion after a United States Department of Justice investigation into collusion by forex traders in several countries. The investigations estimated the banks profited over $100 billion from these crimes. (The Guardian)
An arrest warrant is issued for Daron Dylon Wint in the U.S. capital Washington, D.C. in connection to the alleged murder of four people on May 14. (WJLA)
The legislature in the American state of Nebraska votes to abolish the death penalty. (Washington Post)
Julio Suárez, the head of the Guatemalan Central Bank, is arrested together with the head of the Social Security Administration on corruption charges. (AFP via France24)

Sports

British Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton signs a three year contract with the German constructors Mercedes AMG. (CNN)
The 2016 class of the NASCAR Hall of Fame is announced, consisting of champion drivers Bobby Isaac, Terry Labonte, and Jerry Cook; driver and builder of Charlotte Motor Speedway, Curtis Turner; and the head of Speedway Motorsports, Inc., Bruton Smith. (ESPN)

May 19, 2015 (Tuesday)

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Armed conflicts and attacks

Syrian Civil War
- The Russian embassy in Damascus is shelled. (RT)

Business and economy

The inflation rate in the United Kingdom goes to -0.1 in April, marking the first time since 1960 it has been negative. (BBC)
Takata Corporation doubles the size of its recall of faulty airbags in the United States with 34 million vehicles to be recalled. (Wall Street Journal)
The Los Angeles City Council votes to increase the minimum wage in the American city of Los Angeles, California, to $15 an hour by 2020. (New York Times)

Disasters and accidents

More than 20 garment workers are killed after a bus that they were travelling to work in collides with a tourist bus in Cambodia's Svay Rieng Province. (Cambodia Daily)
The death toll from landslides in the Colombian town of Salgar rises to 56 with scores missing. (Agencies via Al-Jazeera)
Germanwings Flight 9525
- French prosecutors say the passengers onboard the Germanwings flight that crashed in southern France have all been identified, and their bodies can be returned home to their families. (Reuters via Daily Mail)
At least 16 people are killed and scores are injured in a residential building fire in Baku, Azerbaijan. (Reuters UK)
Norwegian Cruise Line's Norwegian Dawn ran aground three miles off Bermuda when departing for a return trip to Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.. (Boston Herald) (Irish Independent)

International relations

Prince Charles becomes the first member of the British Royal Family to meet with Gerry Adams, the President of Sinn Féin, during a two-day visit to Ireland. (AFP via ABC News)

Law and crime

Former nurse Victorino Chua has been found guilty of murder and poisoning patients at Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport, Greater Manchester, U.K., and sentenced to 35 years in jail. (BBC)
Police arrest more than 50 people following a probe into match fixing in Italian football. (BBC)
Mohawk Industries and five other companies agree to pay $275.5 million to settle lawsuits related to alleged price fixing of polyurethane foam, (Reuters)

Politics and elections

The President of Burundi Pierre Nkurunziza says that the government will proceed with a presidential election despite protests and a recent failed coup. (BBC)
The United States Congress sends a human trafficking bill to President Barack Obama for signature. (Washington Times)

Sports

Deflategate
- In American football, Robert Kraft, the owner of the New England Patriots, says that team will not appeal the National Football League ruling. (ESPN)

May 18, 2015 (Monday)

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Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen
- The Saudi Arabia-led airstrikes against the Houthi rebels resume after a five-day ceasefire. (BBC)
Simultaneous explosions occur at local offices of the pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party headquarters in the southern Turkish cities of Adana and Mersin. (RT)
Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant
- The Governor of Iraq's Anbar Governorate estimates that 500 people were killed and 8000 fled as ISIS captured the strategically important city of Ramadi. (Al-Arabiya)

Business and economy

The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 end at record levels. (CNBC)

Disasters and accidents

Amtrak resumes train services between New York City and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, following a fatal train derailment on May 12. (AP via Huffington Post)
At least 52 people die in a landslide caused by heavy rains in the Colombian town of Salgar, Antioquia. (AFP via Yahoo News)

International relations

The United States Secretary of State, John Kerry, assures South Korea of "ironclad" American security commitments on a visit to Seoul while accusing North Korea of a litany of crimes. (AP)
The Philippines says that it is willing to accept 3,000 Rohingya refugees after an accusation by a newspaper was made. Last week Indonesia turned away boats carrying over 1,000 Rohingya refugees. (Rappler)

Law and crime

Scott Driscoll, a former member of the Legislative Assembly of the Australian state of Queensland, has been committed to stand trial on fraud charges. (Courier Mail)
President of the United States Barack Obama bans the provision of some military-type equipment to local police departments and restricts access to other types of equipment following recent tensions between police and minority communities. (AP via Yahoo! News)
Former Australian tennis player Bob Hewitt is jailed for six years in South Africa for raping underaged girls. (BBC)
Victorino Chua, a nurse at Stepping Hill Hospital, Stockport, is found guilty for the murder of two patients following the 2011 Stepping Hill Hospital poisoning incident. (BBC News)
The District Attorney for Manhattan says he intends to retry a murder case in the disappearance of Etan Patz which ended in a mistrial. (NBC News)

Politics

2015 Burundian unrest
- After a failed coup d'état the President of Burundi, Pierre Nkurunziza, fires three Ministers, including the Minister of Defence. (The Washington Times)
2015 Macedonian protests
- In the ongoing protests in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, tens of thousands of people rally in support of Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski. (BBC News).

Sports

2015 Indianapolis 500
- In practice runs for the annual auto race, driver James Hinchcliffe crashes, suffering severe blood loss after debris punctures his legs. He is in stable condition, but not expected to return to competition in 2015. (Sporting News)

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Ongoing events
Political Syrian and 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

Recent deaths
May 23: John Forbes Nash, Jr. 22: Marques Haynes 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 16: Abu Sayyaf 16: Peter Tallberg 16: 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 14: B.B. King 14: Franz Wright 13: Derek Davis 13: David Sackett 12: Peter Gay 12: Bill Guthridge 12: William Zinsser 11: Tony Ayala, Jr. 11: Maggie Black 11: Jef Geeraerts 11: 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 9: Michael Mackellar 9: Elizabeth Wilson 8: Rutger Gunnarsson 8: Mwepu Ilunga 8: Leif Holger Larsen 8: 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 April 30: Ben E. King 30: Gregory Mertens 30: Patachou 30: Nigel Terry 29: Andrew Chan 29: Rodrigo Gularte 29: John G. Heyburn II 29: Jean Nidetch 29: Calvin Peete 29: Myuran Sukumaran 29: Ronald Senator 29: Dan Walker 28: Antônio Abujamra 28: Marcia Brown 28: René Féret 28: Ashura Hara 28: Keith Harris 27: Suzanne Crough 27: Jack Ely 27: Gene Fullmer 27: Verne Gagne 27: Andrew Lesnie 27: Harvey R. Miller 27: Marty Napoleon 27: Alexander Rich 26: Marcel Pronovost 26: Jayne Meadows 25: Jim Fanning 25: Edward Coke, 7th Earl of Leicester 25: Don Mankiewicz 25: Mike Phillips 24: Władysław Bartoszewski 24: Sabeen Mahmud 24: Michael Mustill, Baron Mustill 24: Sid Tepper 23: Philip Carter edit 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

Elections
Recent: April–May 19: Finland, Parliament 19: Northern Cyprus, President (1st round) 22: Lebanon, President (22nd round) 25: Togo, President 26: Benin, National Assembly 26: Kazakhstan, President 26: Northern Cyprus, President (2nd round) 30: Tanzania, Referendum 3: Nagorno-Karabakh, National Assembly 7: United Kingdom, House of Commons 10: Poland, President (1st round) 11: Guyana, National Assembly 13: Lebanon, President (23rd round) Upcoming: May–June 22: Ireland, Referendum 24: Ethiopia, House of Peoples' Representatives 24: Poland, President (2nd round) 25: Suriname, National Assembly 26: Burundi, National Assembly 26: Netherlands, Senate 3: Lebanon, President (24th round) 7: Luxembourg, Referenda 7: Mexico, Congress 7: Turkey, National Assembly 14: Switzerland, Referenda edit sidebar

Trials
Recently concluded Australia: Brett Peter Cowan, Craig Thomson, Robert Hughes Brazil: Mensalão scandal Canada: Michael Thomas Rafferty, 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 Germany: Bernie Ecclestone, Uli Hoeness, Christian Wulff, Breno Borges Iran: Mohammad Reza Rahimi Israel: Hussam Qawasmeh Italy: Silvio Berlusconi Jordan: Abu Qatada Malaysia: Anwar Ibrahim Russia: Leonid Khabarov, Vladimir Kvachkov, Pussy Riot South Africa: Shrien Dewani, Oscar Pistorius, Chris Mahlangu Turkey: Kenan Evren, Tahsin Şahinkaya United Kingdom: Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, 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, Chris Denning, Ray Teret, Gary Glitter, Fred Talbot United States: Abu Hamza al-Masri, Michael Grimm, Bob McDonnell, Vilma Bautista, 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, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev International ECCC: Nuon Chea, Khieu Samphan ICC: Germain Katanga, Thomas Lubanga ICTY: Momčilo Perišić, Mladen Markač, Ante Gotovina, Zdravko Tolimir SCFSL: Charles Taylor Ongoing France: Dominique Strauss-Kahn Germany: Beate Zschäpe Iran: Babak Zanjani Philippines: Andal Ampatuan, Jr., Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Janet Lim-Napoles, Jovito Palparan, Joseph Scott Pemberton Russia: Alexei Navalny South Korea: MV Sewol crew members United States: Jodi Arias International ICTY: Radovan Karadžić, Ratko Mladic Upcoming China: Zhou Yongkang, Wu Changshun Libya: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi Spain: Lionel Messi United Kingdom: Dane Bowers, Andy Coulson United States: Paul Anthony Ciancia, Javaris Crittenton, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Dylan Quick, James Eagan Holmes, Aaron Hernandez, Graham Spanier, Tim Curley, Gary Schultz, Anas al-Libi, Justin Bieber, Chris Brown, Rick Perry International ICC: Laurent Gbagbo edit sidebar

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