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Recent deaths
	June 6: Prince Tomohito of Mikasa; 5: Mihai Pătrașcu; 5: Ray Bradbury; 5: Charlie Sutton; 4: Abu Yahya al-Libi; 4: Pedro Borbón; 4: Eduard Khil; 3: Roy Salvadori; 3: Brian Talboys; 2: Richard Dawson; 2: LeRoy Ellis; 2: Kathryn Joosten; 1: Pádraig Faulkner; 1: Brahmeshwar Singh; May 31: Orlando Woolridge; 30: Andrew Huxley; 30: Jack Twyman; 29: Doc Watson; 27: Simeon Daniel; 27: Friedrich Hirzebruch; 27: Johnny Tapia; 24: Jacqueline Harpman; 23: Paul Fussell; 20: Robin Gibb; 20: Abdelbaset al-Megrahi; 20: Eugene Polley; 19: Bob Boozer; 18: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau; 17: Herbert Breslin; 17: Warda Al-Jazairia; 17: Donna Summer; 16: Chuck Brown; 15: Carlos Fuentes; 13: Donald "Duck" Dunn; 13: Arsalan Rahmani; 12: Harold Arthur Poling; 12: Ken Selby; 11: Tony DeZuniga; edit sidebar

Ongoing events
	Political Arab Spring Libyan factional fighting; Egyptian revolution Egyptian presidential election; ; Syrian uprising; ; Economic Global financial crisis European sovereign-debt crisis; Greek economic crisis; ; Scientific Expedition 31; Medical HIV/AIDS in Africa; ;

Ongoing conflicts
Global War on Terror Terrorist incidents Operation Active Endeavour Operation Enduring Freedom War on Drugs Africa Maghreb insurgency OEF - Trans Sahara Casamance conflict Niger Delta conflict Nigerian Sharia conflict Sudan internal conflict South Sudan internal conflict South Sudan–Sudan border conflict 2012 East DR Congo conflict Lord's Resistance Army insurgency Somalia: Civil war War 2009- Piracy OEF - Horn of Africa Tuareg rebellion Europe North Caucasus insurgency Ingushetia civil war Dissident Irish Republican campaign Middle East Iraqi insurgency Arab–Israeli conflict Israeli–Palestinian conflict Israeli–Lebanese conflict Palestinian political violence and rocket attacks Yemen: Terrorism al-Qaeda crackdown South Yemen insurgency Shia insurgency Kurdistan: Turkey–PKK conflict Asia Afghanistan War Military operations Taliban insurgency Pakistan: Terrorism North-West War Balochistan conflict Drone attacks Sectarian violence India: Terrorism Jammu and Kashmir insurgency Naxalite-Maoist insurgency Northeast India insurgency Nagaland ethnic conflict Kashmir conflict Siachen conflict Korean maritime border incidents Southeast Asia: Laos insurgency South Thailand insurgency Cambodian–Thai border dispute Territorial disputes in the South China Sea Islamic insurgency in the Philippines Operation Enduring Freedom – Philippines Papua conflict Americas Colombian armed conflict (1964–present) Mexican Drug War edit sidebar

Elections
Recent: May 20: Dominican Republic, President 20: Serbia, President (2nd round) 23–24: Egypt, President (1st round) 26: Lesotho, General 30: Albania, President (indirect) 31: Ireland, Constitutional referendum Upcoming: June 10: France, Parliament (1st round) 13: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Senate (indirect) 16–17: Egypt, President (2nd round) 17: France, Parliament (2nd round) 17: Greece, Parliament 28: Mongolia, Parliament 30: Iceland, President edit sidebar

Trials
Recently concluded Cambodia: Kang Kek Iew Canada: Michael Rafferty Egypt: Hosni Mubarak, Alaa Mubarak, Gamal Mubarak France: Jacques Chirac, John Galliano, Carlos the Jackal Germany: Heinrich Boere Iceland: Geir Haarde Indonesia: Abu Bakar Bashir Italy: Amanda Knox, Raffaele Sollecito Netherlands: Geert Wilders, Charles Taylor Peru: Joran van der Sloot Russia: Bhagavad Gita Sierra Leone: Charles Taylor (SCFSL) South Africa: Chris Mahlangu Tunisia: Zine El Abidine Ben Ali 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 United States: Faisal Shahzad, Noshir Gowadia, Buju Banton, Barry Bonds, Raj Rajaratnam, Rod Blagojevich, Casey Anthony, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Conrad Murray, George Huguely, Allen Stanford, William Balfour 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) Norway: Anders Behring Breivik Palau: Tommy Remengesau Philippines: Andal Ampatuan, Jr. Russia: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev Singapore: Tak Boleh Tahan Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra Turkey: Ergenekon network, Kenan Evren United Kingdom: Iftikhar and Farzana Ahmed United States: Roger Clemens, Ahmed Ghailani, David Headley, Jared Lee Loughner, Charles P. White, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Viktor Bout, John Edwards Upcoming Ivory Coast: Laurent Gbagbo United Kingdom: Justin Lee Collins United States: Nidal Malik Hasan, Javaris Crittenton, Bradley Manning, Jerry Sandusky, Robert Bales, George Zimmerman, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed edit sidebar

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