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Elizabeth II

Queen Elizabeth II (pictured) becomes the longest-reigning British head of state, surpassing the reign of her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria.
Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina is arrested after resigning amid charges of customs fraud.
The ancient temples of Bel and Baalshamin in Palmyra are destroyed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
Mount McKinley, the tallest mountain in North America, is renamed to its traditional name of Denali by the United States.
Flash floods and mudslides caused by Tropical Storm Erika kill at least 31 people across Dominica in the Lesser Antilles.
India is declared free from maternal and neonatal tetanus.

Ongoing events:
- European migrant crisis
Recent deaths

September 9, 2015 (Wednesday)

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Syrian Civil War
- Islamist rebels seize Abu al-Duhur military airport while taking control of Syria's northwestern Idlib province. (BBC), (Reuters via Sydney Morning Herald)

Arts and culture

Queen Elizabeth II becomes Britain's longest-reigning monarch (63 years and seven months), surpassing the record set by Queen Victoria, her great-great-grandmother. (BBC), (The Huffington Post UK), (Al Jazeera English Online)

Business and economy

A German court issues an injunction ordering a halt to a Lufthansa airline pilots strike. Earlier, Germany's biggest airline announced it had canceled 1,000 flights while about 500 would still operate. (CNBC) (AP via US News & World Report)

International relations

Refugees of the Syrian Civil War
- Australia announces that it will accept an additional 12,000 Syrian migrants, mostly from persecuted minorities. (ABC News) (Al Jazeera English Online)

September 8, 2015 (Tuesday)

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Turkey–PKK conflict
- Turkey bombs PKK sites in northern Iraq after a bombing yesterday in Hakkâri Province that killed at least 16 soldiers. (BBC)
- A PKK bombing attack on a minibus in the eastern Iğdır Province near the Armenian border kills 14 Turkish police officers. (Reuters)
Syrian Civil War, Military intervention against ISIL
- U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron confirms that two ISIS militants, UK citizens, Reyaad Khan and Ruhul Amin, were killed in Syria when a British drone attack hit their car on August 21, 2015. Both Khan and Amin had appeared in an ISIS recruitment video last year. They are alleged to have been plotting a terrorist attack on the UK. (BBC) (The Guardian)
- The Syrian government calls off airstrikes against rebel fighters in a central province due to a sandstorm affecting large parts of the Middle East. (AP)
Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen
- The UN announces that it has grave concerns for around 96,000 children in Al Hudaydah, Yemen, who are starving due to the nearby fighting. (Al Jazeera English Online)
- A Saudi-led air raid on Yemen's Al Hudaydah port reportedly kills 20 Indian nationals involved in oil smuggling. (Times of India)

Arts and culture

Pope Francis announces reforms making it easier for people to annul their marriages. (BBC)
New Zealand temporarily bans the sale or lending of the book Into the River by Ted Dawe, pending a review which could see the book restricted long-term. This is the first time in 22 years that a book has been restricted to this extent in New Zealand. (The Guardian) (Radio New Zealand Online)

Business and economy

German airline Lufthansa cancels 84 long-haul flights as pilots go on strike over a proposed restructure plan. (Bloomberg)
Jeff Smisek resigns as CEO of United Airlines due to allegations that he tried to improperly influence officials at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. (Wall Street Journal)

Disasters and accidents

A massive sandstorm hits Lebanon and Syria as well as Jordan, Israel and Egypt. The Lebanese Health Ministry said the storm caused the deaths of two women, and sent hundreds to hospitals with breathing difficulties. Particularly hard hit were the 1.1 million Syrian refugees in Lebanon, many in flimsy tents in informal campsites. (Middle East Eye) (AP via CTV News) (Al Jazeera English Online)
The VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam is fully evacuated after parts of the hospital were flooded because of a burst in a major water-pipeline. (DutchNews)
British Airways Flight 2276, a Boeing 777 aircraft, suffers an uncontained engine failure and fire on take-off from McCarran International Airport, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. Fourteen of the 172 on board are injured and taken to a nearby hospital. (BBC), (NBC News)

International relations

North and South Korea are to hold reunions for families divided by the Korean War from October 20 to October 26. (AP via Washington Times)
European migrant crisis
- Sigmar Gabriel, the Vice Chancellor of Germany, says that Germany "can take 500,000 asylum seekers a year" while calling on other nations to take their fair share. " (BBC)

Law and crime

During protests over a lack of mining jobs in South Africa's Limpopo province, demonstrators destroy 21 buses, a police station, and a municipal office as well as blocking roads from Lephalale to Marapong. (ENCA)
Death of Freddie Gray
- The U.S. city of Baltimore, Maryland, agrees to a $6.4 million settlement with relatives over the death of Freddie Gray. (AP via Yahoo! News)
Miller v. Davis
- Kim Davis, the county clerk of Rowan County in the U.S. state of Kentucky, is released from jail on contempt of court charges but she may not interfere with her deputy clerks issuing marriage certificates to same sex couples. (Yahoo! politics)

Politics and elections

Shinzo Abe, the Prime Minister of Japan, is reelected (unopposed) President of the Liberal Democratic Party. (AP via The New York Times)

Sport

In football, Wayne Rooney becomes the highest goalscorer for the England national football team with a goal against Switzerland in a UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying match. (ITV)

September 7, 2015 (Monday)

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Turkey–PKK conflict
- Turkish jets strike PKK militant positions across south-east Turkey and northern Iraq and deploy special forces to the Iraqi border following a deadly PKK attack which left at least 16 Turkish soldiers dead. (Reuters)

Business and economy

The patent office in India rejects Pfizer's petition for a patent on an arthritis drug, tofacitinib, re-affirming their rejection of the same drug in 2011. The drug is a chemical reformulation of the active compound in the medicine and thus the Indian Patent Office says that the company would have to establish that the compound for which it is seeking a patent is therapeutically more effective than the active compound. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

Five people are killed as a small plane crashes in western Colorado. (USA Today)

International relations

European refugee crisis
- The President of France François Hollande agrees to take 24,000 refugees out of the estimated 100,000 per month expected to arrive. (AP via ABC News)
- Hundreds of people, tired of waiting for promised transportation, broke out from Hungary's first migrant holding center near the Serbian border, past police overwhelmed by their numbers, to start the march north toward Budapest. The asylum seekers / migrants, now accompanied by groups of police, advanced along the edge of the main highway to the capital. (AP via Global News)
The United Kingdom House of Commons passes a planned referendum on the United Kingdom's continued membership in the European Union. (Reuters via Daily Mail)

Politics and elections

Trinidad and Tobago general election, 2015
- Voters in Trinidad and Tobago go to the polls for a House of Representatives election with the People's National Movement led by Keith Rowley returning to power. (Reuters), (Miami Herald)
During U.S. Labor Day holiday activities in Boston, President Barack Obama announces a new executive order requiring federal government contractors to offer workers seven days of paid sick leave per year. On July 1st, Massachusetts became the third state, Connecticut and California being the others, with similar requirements. (Washington Post) (Huffington Post)
In an education scandal in Egypt, a top student, Mariam Malak, says she's a victim of corruption and fraud with the school or the examination board purposefully swapping her final exam papers with another pupil, while she is thus assigned "Zero"-grade for each of the seven subjects. 40,000 online rally for her via a Facebook support page while another top student reporting the same complaint. (BBC)
Hungary's Defense Minister Csaba Hende resigns amid the refugee crisis. Prime Minister Viktor Orbán immediately replaced Hende with a member of his Fidesz party, István Simicskó. (UPI)

Science and technology

A bolide or meteor fireball explodes over the Thai city of Bangkok. (The Telegraph)

September 6, 2015 (Sunday)

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Disasters and accidents

At least 10 people die and 8 are missing from a South Korean fishing charter that capsized Saturday night off the country's southern coast. Coast Guard officers said three people survived by clinging to the wreckage for 10 hours. (Sydney Morning Herald) (AFP via New Delhi Television)
The death toll from the September 1 chemical factory blast in China rises to 13. (AP)
A Spain car rally race crash leaves six dead after a car veers off a straight section into spectators. (BBC)

International Relations

European migrant crisis
- Pope Francis asks Catholic faithful in Europe to host refugee families fleeing death from war and hunger, and announces the Vatican's two churches will welcome two families of refugees. (CNN) (NBC4 New York)

Law and crime

In Tampa, Florida, former University of South Florida football player Elkino Watson is killed and Desmon Watson, another former player, is injured after an early morning stabbing after an argument broke out outside a nightclub in Ybor City. (WFLA)
In North Carolina, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department announces an unprecedented 11 people have been shot, 5 fatally, over the Labor Day weekend, including a boy shot at a birthday party. (Charlotte Observer)
In the second police officer shooting in the city in three days, a man ambushed a marked police SUV stopped at a traffic light in Las Vegas by walking up and firing multiple rounds, striking one officer in the hand. The shooter was arrested. (Fox News)
Crystal Cortes of Dallas, Texas is charged with capital murder of dentist Kendra Hatcher on September 2. Her borrowed Jeep Cherokee was seen entering a parking garage on video. She told police she conspired with an unidentified man who paid her to drive him to the garage with the intention of robbery. (WFAA)

Politics and elections

Guatemalan general election, 2015
- Voters in Guatemala go to the polls for a general election. The presidential election appears headed for a runoff. (AP)
Thailand's National Reform Council (NRC) rejects a controversial new constitution, 135 to 105, with 7 abstentions. This result dissolves the NRC, continues military rule for at least 7 months, and delays the scheduled January 2016 referendum to early 2017 or later. (AsiaOne) (BBC)

September 5, 2015 (Saturday)

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Afghanistan War
- Gunmen kill 13 minority Hazara men but spare the life of one woman among a traveling party in usually tranquil Balkh Province. No group claims responsibility. (AFP via Times of Oman)
Syrian Civil War
- At least 20 Syrian rebels and 27 ISIS fighters are killed in a battle in Mare', Syria, in northern Aleppo Governorate near the Turkish border. (AFP via Lebanon Daily Star) (Reuters)
The death toll in Tajikistan clashes rises to 22 dead. (BBC)
War in Somalia (2009–present)
- al Shabaab militants seize two towns in southern Somalia. (Reuters)
Thai police seek a 10th suspect in deadly Bangkok bombing. (AP)

International Relations

European migrant crisis
- Following Austria's and Germany's decision to waive their asylum system rules, approximately 6,500 migrants – mostly from Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan – arrive in Vienna. They traveled from Hungary by bus, train or on foot. The migrants were given the opportunity to register in Austria or move on to Germany. (The Star - Malaysia) (USA Today) (Washington Post) (Budapest Business Journal)
- The first group, 450 of an expected 10,000 migrants, arrive in Munich, Germany, after traveling through Hungary and Austria. (BBC)

Law and crime

Cross-Strait relations
- Former vice president Annette Lu of Taiwan files charges of treason against former vice president Lien Chan, accusing him of breaching national security when he attended the 2015 China Victory Day Parade. (Taipei Times)

September 4, 2015 (Friday)

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Iraq War (2014–present)
- Iraqi security forces raid the offices of Kata'ib Hezbollah in Baghdad, accusing them of being involved in the abduction of 18 Turkish workers. (Reuters via Economic Times)
Sinai insurgency
- Two roadside bombs detonate in the Sinai Peninsula injuring six international peacekeepers, who were there to support the 1979 Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty. (AP via CBS)
Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen
- An explosion at an arms depot in Yemen kills 45 Emirati soldiers who were part of the Saudi led coalition. (Yahoo)
- Five Bahraini soldiers are killed on the Saudi-Yemeni border while taking part in a military operation against Yemen-based Houthi militants. (Reuters)
Clashes in and around Tajikistan's capital Dushanbe kill at least 17 people. Government representatives blame the attacks against security forces on former Deputy Defense Minister Aduhalim Nazarzoda, who fought against government forces in the Tajikistan Civil War. (BBC)
Russia's role in the Syrian Civil War
- Russian President Vladimir Putin confirms that Russia is providing military aid in Syrian Civil War in support of the Bashar al-Assad regime and is providing heavy weapons, aircraft, tanks, serious training and logistical support to the Syrian Army. (Telegraph)

Arts and Culture

The world's shortest man ever recorded, Chandra Bahadur Dangi, dies from pneumonia in an American Samoan hospital at age 75. Dangi lived with his family in Dang District, Nepal. His height, listed in the Guinness World Records, is 54.6 centimeters / 21.5 inches. (Kathmandu Post) (Daily Pakistan)
U.S. Military Academy officials confirm that during West Point's annual pillow fight on August 20, 2015, some cadets swung pillowcases packed with hard objects leaving 30 cadets injured, including 24 with concussions. (New York Times)

Business and economics

General Mills sells subsidiary Green Giant to B&G Foods Inc. for $765 million. (Star Tribune via The Ledger)
BlackBerry Limited announces it will purchase Good Technology, a provider of mobile software, as part of its broader shift to a services role within the internet of things. (Reuters)
Fiat Chrysler U.S. recalls 7,810 SUVs to prevent hacking. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

2015 Atlantic hurricane season
- Tropical Storm Fred's predicted track will turn northeast toward the Azores islands off the coast of Portugal as a Tropical Depression. (Weather.com)
2015 Pacific hurricane season
- Tropical Storm Ignacio, currently headed north-northwest away from Hawaii, is anticipated to turn northeast on Sunday, heading for the Alaskan panhandle and northwestern British Columbia. (AccuWeather), (SurfLine.com)
Forty one people are injured when a British tourist bus and four trucks are involved in a collision between Sempach and Sursee in Switzerland. (Reuters via News24)

Law and crime

Two British VICE News journalists, Jake Hanrahan and Philip Pendlebury, arrested on 28 August in Diyarbakir Province in southeastern Turkey on terror charges, are released while their colleague, translator Mohammed Ismael Rasool, remains in custody. (Turkish Weekly), (Time)
US Open (tennis) drone arrest. (BBC)
A Latvian man charged by U.S. over the Gozi computer virus (a proxy Trojan horse) pleads guilty. (Reuters)

September 3, 2015 (Thursday)

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European migrant crisis/Syrian Civil War
- Death of Aylan Kurdi
  - Bodies of Syrian refugees are found on a beach in Turkey, including a 3-year-old boy, pictures of whose body spread virally and prompt grave international concern. (Al Jazeera)
An overloaded wooden boat with Sumatra-bound migrants sinks off the coast of Malaysia killing at least 15 people, 13 of which are women. Nearby fisherman rescue 19 people with more than 40 missing. The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency states that the boat was taking migrant workers home to Tanjung Balai in Indonesia's Sumatra province for the Hari Raya Haji celebration. (Reuters) (The NY Daily News) (Malaysian Star)
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370:
- French prosecutors state that they believe "with certainty" that a piece of debris that had washed ashore on Reunion Island came from the missing plane. (BBC)

International relations

2015 China's V-Day Parade
- A military parade is held in Beijing featuring 12,000 members of the People's Liberation Army, 500 vehicles and 200 People's Liberation Army Air Force air craft. Women of the Chinese military are allowed to participate in this particular parade for the first time. (RT)

Law and crime

The President of Guatemala, Otto Pérez Molina, resigns after being charged in a corruption scandal; Vice President Alejandro Maldonado is sworn in as interim head of state. (The New York Times) (BBC News)
2015 Bangkok bombing
- Another suspect in the bombing is arrested in Narathiwat Province in southern Thailand and flown to Bangkok. (Bangkok Post)
Miller v. Davis
- Kim Davis, the Rowan County, Kentucky, clerk, is jailed for contempt of court for continuing to refuse, on grounds of religious freedom, to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples per U.S. District Judge David Bunning's August 12, 2015, order. The deputy clerks are ordered to issue these licenses. (Reuters), (New York Times)

Sports

National Football League
- In arbitration, U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman overturns the NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell's four-game suspension of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady. The judge rules that Brady had been given no notice that ball deflation would result in a suspension. The NFL announces that they will appeal the ruling. (AP) (ESPN)

More September 2015 events...

Ongoing events
Economic Chinese stock market crash Greek government-debt crisis Political Anti-corruption campaign in China Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria, Cameroon and Niger Malaysian protests against corruption Operation Martyr Yalçın Russian military intervention in Ukraine Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen Second Libyan Civil War Sinai insurgency South China Sea disputes Syrian and Iraqi civil wars Military intervention against ISIL More details on ongoing conflicts below edit sidebar

Recent deaths
September 8: Joaquín Andújar 8: Andrew Kohut 8: Tyler Sash 7: Sigifredo Nájera-Talamantes 7: Candida Royalle 7: Mitrasen Yadav 6: Ralph Milne 6: Martin Milner 6: John Perreault 5: Yotaro Kobayashi 5: Alan Steel 4: Geoffrey Bolton 4: Jean Darling 4: Chandra Bahadur Dangi 4: Claus Moser 3: Adrian Cadbury 3: Judy Carne 3: Leon Gorman 2: Charles Gyamfi 2: Alan Kurdi 1: Dean Jones 1: Willy Stähle 1: Aleksandar Stipčević August 31: Joy Beverley 31: Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu 30: Brad Anderson 30: Wes Craven 30: Bart Cummings 30: Marvin Mandel 30: Oliver Sacks 30: David Williamson 29: William McCormick Blair, Jr. 29: Wayne Dyer 29: Luo Lan 29: Graham Leggat 28: Al Arbour 28: Kyle Jean-Baptiste 28: Nelson Shanks 28: Józef Wesołowski 27: Kazi Zafar Ahmed 27: George Cleve 27: Darryl Dawkins 27: Teresa Gorman 26: Vester Flanagan 26: Allison Parker 26: Amelia Boynton Robinson 26: Adam Ward 25: James "Red" Duke 25: Frank E. Petersen 25: Francis Sejersted 24: Cees van Kooten 24: Joseph F. Traub 24: Justin Wilson 23: Augusta Chiwy 23: Mark Costello 23: Guy Ligier 23: Paul Royle 22: Mariem Hassan 22: Arthur Morris 22: Merl Reagle 22: William L. Rowe 22: Ieng Thirith 22: Lou Tsioropoulos 21: Wang Dongxing 21: Anna Kashfi 21: Gerry Steinberg 20: Egon Bahr 20: Veronica Brady 20: Melody Patterson 19: George Houser 19: Doudou N'Diaye Rose 19: Suharno 19: Sanat Mehta 18: Khaled al-Asaad 18: Suvra Mukherjee 18: Roger Smalley 18: William Jay Smith 18: Louis Stokes 18: Bud Yorkin 17: Yvonne Craig 17: Eduardo Guerrero 17: László Paskai 16: Jacob Bekenstein 16: Shuja Khanzada 16: Kitty McGeever 16: Mile Mrkšić 15: Julian Bond 15: Hamid Gul 15: Geoff McGivern 14: Agustín Cejas 14: Bob Johnston 14: Lavanam 14: Rogelio Ricardo Livieres Plano 13: Om Prakash Munjal 13: John A. Nerud 12: Jaakko Hintikka 12: Stephen Lewis 12: Chris Marustik 12: Ihor Yeremeyev 11: Nour El-Sherif 11: Harald Nielsen 11: Magomed Suleimanov 10: Buddy Baker 10: Boris Gostev 9: Frank Gifford 9: David Nobbs 9: John Henry Holland 9: Jonathan Ollivier 9: Susan Sheridan edit sidebar

Ongoing conflicts
Africa Algeria, Tunisia and Niger Maghreb insurgency Central African Republic Civil war Democratic Republic of the Congo Kivu conflict ADF insurgency Katanga insurgency Ituri conflict Lord's Resistance Army insurgency Libya Civil war Mali Northern Mali conflict Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, and Niger Boko Haram insurgency 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 CPP-NPA-NDF rebellion Moro conflict Moro conflict in Sabah Southeast Asia Internal conflict in Burma Papua conflict South Thailand insurgency Europe Georgia Abkhaz–Georgian conflict Georgian–Ossetian conflict 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 August 9: Haiti, Senate, Chamber of Deputies 17: Sri Lanka, Parliament 20: Iraqi Kurdistan, President Upcoming September 1: Faroe Islands, Løgting 6: Guatemala, President (1st round), Congress 6: Poland, Referendum 7: Trinidad and Tobago, House of Representatives 11: Singapore, Parliament 20: Greece, Hellenic Parliament 27: Catalonia, Parliament edit sidebar

Trials
Recently concluded Australia: Brett Peter Cowan, Craig Thomson, Robert Hughes Brazil: Mensalão scandal Canada: Michael Thomas Rafferty, Luka Magnotta China: Ji Jianye, Liao Shaohua, Ni Fake, Chen Baihuai, Zhou Yongkang, Gu Junshan 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 Romania: Liviu Dragnea, Dan Diaconescu 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, Jodi Arias, Anas al-Libi Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, James Eagan Holmes International ECCC: Nuon Chea, Khieu Samphan ICC: Germain Katanga, Thomas Lubanga ICTY: Momčilo Perišić, Mladen Markač, Ante Gotovina, Zdravko Tolimir SCFSL: Charles Taylor Ongoing China: Jiang Jiemin, Yao Mugen, Li Chuncheng, Guo Youming, Zhu Zuoli 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 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 South Korea: MV Sewol crew members International ICTY: Radovan Karadžić, Ratko Mladić PCA: China Upcoming China: Wu Changshun Libya: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi Spain: Lionel Messi United States: Paul Anthony Ciancia, Javaris Crittenton, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Dylan Quick, Aaron Hernandez, Graham Spanier, Tim Curley, Gary Schultz, Justin Bieber, Chris Brown, Rick Perry International ICC: Laurent Gbagbo edit sidebar

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