Portal:Current events/January 2007/Sidebar

• Georgia-Russia spying dispute
• Inquiry into death of Alexander Litvinenko
• Ipswich murders investigation
• Iran's nuclear program
• Lebanese anti-government protest
• Litvinenko murder investigation
• Mark Foley scandal
• NSA warrantless surveillance controversy
• Possible NK six-party talks
• Riots in Tonga
• Taiwan political crisis
• Unrest in Oaxaca

[edit] Weather/natural disasters

• North Indian cyclone season
• Pacific typhoon season
  • Typhoon Durian
• Southern Hemisphere cyclone season

• Acholiland insurgency
• Arab-Israeli conflict (al-Aqsa Intifada)
• War in Chad
• Colombian armed conflict
• Iraq War
• Ituri Conflict in the DR Congo
• Ivorian Civil War
• Kurdish conflict in Turkey
• Second Chechen War
• South Thailand insurgency
• Sri Lankan civil war
• Taliban insurgency
• War in Somalia

• Peru: Alberto Fujimori (extradition)
• Chile: Augusto Pinochet
• Ethiopia: 111 defendants, including leaders of the CUD and journalists, on charges related to the 2005 elections.
• Iraq: Iraqi Special Tribunal
  • Saddam Hussein & military chiefs of staff
• Netherlands: Hofstad Network
• Netherlands: ICC
  • Thomas Lubanga
• Netherlands: ICTY
• Sierra Leone: SCfSL
  • Charles Taylor
• UK: Leo O'Connor & David Keogh
• U.S.: Brian Nichols
• U.S.: Tom DeLay

• 1: New Year's Day
• 8: Coming-of-Age Day Japan
• 14: Makar Sankranti India
• 15: Martin Luther King Day (U.S.)
• 20: Islamic New Year (Islam, est.)
• 20: Remembrance of Muharram begins (Shi'a Islam, est.)
• 26: Australia Day (Australia)
• 26: Republic Day (India)
• 27: Holocaust Memorial Day (United Kingdom)
• 29: Day of Ashura (Islam, est.)

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