Portal:Current events/December 2018/Sidebar

Business

• 1MDB scandal
• Turkish currency and debt crisis

Disasters

• 2018–19 European windstorm season
• 2018 Kivu Ebola outbreak
• Yemeni famine

Politics

• Brexit negotiations
• European migrant crisis (timeline)
• Gilets jaunes protests
• Iranian protests
• Iraqi protests
• Nicaraguan protests
• Qatar diplomatic crisis
• Rohingya persecution in Myanmar
• Spanish constitutional crisis
• Trump administration family separation policy
• Turkish purges
• U.S. Special Counsel investigation (timeline)

Religion

• Moscow–Constantinople schism

Sports

• NCAA Division I men's basketball corruption scandal

Recently concluded

• Australia: George Pell
• Bahrain: Ali Salman
• Guatemala: Roxana Baldetti
• India: Sajjan Kumar
• Philippines: Imelda Marcos
• United States: Patrick Ho

Ongoing

• Guatemala: Otto Pérez Molina, Roxana Baldetti, Juan Carlos Monzón and others
• Israel: Faina Kirschenbaum
• Malaysia: Siti Aisyah and Đoàn Thị Hương
• Philippines: Leila de Lima
• Spain: Bárcenas affair
• United States: Fat Leonard scandal, Joaquín Guzmán
• International
  • ICC: Laurent Gbagbo, Bosco Ntaganda

Upcoming

• Egypt: Mohamed Morsi
• Guatemala: Alvaro Colom, Manuel Baldizón, Juan Alberto Fuentes
• Iran: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
• Philippines: Andal Ampatuan Jr.
• South Africa: Jacob Zuma
• Spain: Jordi Pujol
• Ukraine: Roman Nasirov
• United Kingdom: Football sex abuse scandal
• United States: 6ix9ine, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, NXIVM, Elizabeth Holmes, Chris Collins, Duncan D. Hunter
• Zimbabwe: Ignatius Chombo

• Association football
  • 2018–19 Liga MX season
  • 2018–19 UEFA Champions League
  • 2018–19 UEFA Nations League
  • 2018–19 UEFA Europa League
  • 2018–19 La Liga
  • 2018–19 Serie A
  • 2018–19 Bundesliga
  • 2018–19 Premier League
  • 2018–19 Ligue 1
  • 2018–19 Scottish Premiership
• Women's association football
  • 2018–19 Champions League
  • 2018–19 FA WSL
  • 2018–19 Frauen-Bundesliga
  • 2018–19 Liga MX Feminil
• American football
  • 2018–19 NFL playoffs
  • 2018 NCAA Division I FBS
• Basketball
  • 2018–19 EuroLeague
  • 2018–19 NBA season
  • 2018–19 NCAA Division I men
  • 2018–19 NCAA Division I women
• Golf
  • 2019 European Tour
  • 2019 PGA Tour
• Ice hockey
  • 2018–19 Champions League
  • 2018–19 IIHF Continental Cup
  • 2018–19 KHL season
  • 2018–19 NHL season
  • 2018–19 NWHL season
• Rugby sevens
  • 2018–19 World Rugby Sevens Series
  • 2018–19 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series
• Rugby union
  • 2018–19 European Rugby Champions Cup
  • 2018–19 Premiership Rugby
  • 2018–19 Pro14
  • 2018–19 Top 14
• Other sports seasons
  • 2018–19 international cricket season
  • 2018–19 curling season
  • 2018–19 figure skating season
  • 2018–19 snooker season

December 2018

• 31: Ray Sawyer
• 30: Mrinal Sen
• 29: Ringo Lam
• 28: Amos Oz
• 28: Shehu Shagari
• 28: June Whitfield
• 27: Richard Arvin Overton
• 26: Nancy G. Roman
• 26: Wendy Beckett
• 26: Roy J. Glauber
• 26: Sono Osato
• 24: Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
• 22: Simcha Rotem
• 22: Paddy Ashdown
• 22: Talal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
• 20: Donald Moffat
• 19: Peter Masterson
• 17: Penny Marshall
• 15: Girma Wolde-Giorgis
• 14: Bill Fralic
• 14: Jean-Pierre Van Rossem
• 13: Noah Klieger
• 13: Nancy Wilson
• 12: Pavle Strugar
• 9: Robert Bergland
• 9: William Blum
• 9: Riccardo Giacconi
• 8: Lyudmila Alexeyeva
• 8: Evelyn Berezin
• 7: Belisario Betancur
• 6: Larry Hennig
• 6: Isiah Robertson
• 6: Pete Shelley
• 5: Dynamite Kid
• 3: Philip Bosco
• 3: Josep Lluís Núñez
• 3: Albert Frère
• 3: Geoff Murphy
• 1: Ken Berry
• 1: Scott Stearney
• 1: Jody Williams

Africa

• Algeria, Libya and Tunisia
  • Maghreb insurgency
• Cameroon
  • Anglophone Crisis
• Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria
  • Boko Haram insurgency
• Central African Republic
  • Civil War
• Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Kivu conflict
  • ADF insurgency
  • Ituri conflict
  • Lord's Resistance Army insurgency
• Ethiopia
  • Oromo Conflict
• Libya
  • Civil war
• Mali
  • Northern Mali conflict
• Nigeria
  • Communal conflicts in Nigeria
• Somalia
  • Civil war
• South Sudan
  • Ethnic violence (South Sudanese Civil War)
• Sudan
  • War in Darfur
  • South Kordofan conflict
  • Sudanese nomadic conflicts

Americas

• Colombia
  • Colombian conflict
• Mexico
  • Mexican War on Drugs
• Peru
  • Internal conflict in Peru

Asia

• Afghanistan
  • Afghanistan War
• China
  • Xinjiang conflict
• India
  • Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
  • Insurgency in Northeast India
• India and Pakistan
  • Kashmir conflict
• Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines
  • Moro conflict
    • Cross border attacks in Sabah
• Indonesia and Papua New Guinea
  • Papua conflict
• Myanmar
  • Internal conflict in Myanmar
    • Kachin conflict
    • Karen conflict
    • Rohingya conflict
• Pakistan
  • War in North-West Pakistan
  • Balochistan conflict
• Philippines
  • Communist rebellion in the Philippines
• Thailand
  • South Thailand insurgency

Europe

• Armenia and Azerbaijan
  • Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
• Georgia
  • Abkhaz–Georgian conflict
  • Georgian–Ossetian conflict
• Russia
  • Chechen–Russian conflict
  • North Caucasus insurgency
• Ukraine
  • War in Donbass
    • Russian military intervention in Ukraine

Middle East

• Egypt
  • Sinai insurgency
• Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria
  • Arab–Israeli conflict
• Iran
  • Iran–PJAK conflict
• Iraq
  • American-led intervention in Iraq
  • Iranian intervention in Iraq
• Iraq and Syria (map)
  • Military intervention against ISIL
• Israel and Lebanon
  • Israeli–Lebanese conflict
• Israel and Palestine
  • Gaza–Israel conflict
  • Israeli–Palestinian conflict
• Syria
  • American-led intervention in Syria
  • Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War
  • Turkish occupation of northern Syria
• Turkey
  • Turkey–PKK conflict
• Yemen
  • Yemeni Civil War
  • Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen
  • Al-Qaeda insurgency