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Ongoing events

Disasters

• Climate crisis
• COVID-19 pandemic
• Opioid epidemic
• 2021–22 European windstorm season
• 2020–2022 H5N8 outbreak
• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
• 2022 Atlantic hurricane season
• 2022 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
• 2022 Pacific typhoon season
• 2022 Pacific hurricane season
• Yemeni famine

Economics

• 2020–present global chip shortage
• 2021–2022 global energy crisis
• 2021–2022 global supply chain crisis
• 2021–2022 inflation surge
• 2022 food crises
• 2022 United States infant formula shortage
• Lebanese liquidity crisis
• Russian financial crisis
• Sri Lankan economic crisis
• Turkish currency and debt crisis

Politics

• Belarus−European Union border crisis
• Brazilian protests
• Malaysian political crisis
• Myanmar protests
• Nigerian protests
• Persian Gulf crisis
• Peruvian crisis
• Sri Lankan protests & political crisis
• Sudanese protests
• Tigrayan peace process
• Tunisian political crisis
• Ukrainian refugee crisis
• United Kingdom government crisis
• United States abortion protests
• Venezuelan presidential crisis

Elections and referendums

Recent

• July
  • 10: Japan, House of Councillors
  • 10: Republic of Congo, National Assembly (1st round)

Ongoing

• 4−22: Papua New Guinea, National Parliament

Upcoming

• 18: India, President (indirect)
• 21: Sri Lanka, President (indirect)
• 21: Vanuatu, President (indirect)
• 25: Tunisia, Constitutional referendum

Trials

Recently concluded

• Bolivia: Jeanine Áñez
• France: Salah Abdeslam
• United States: Sunny Balwani, Michael Sussmann

Ongoing

• Armenia: Serzh Sargsyan
• Israel: Benjamin Netanyahu
• Italy: Matteo Salvini
• Kosovo: Specialist Chambers
• Kyrgyzstan: Almazbek Atambayev
• Malta: Yorgen Fenech
• Philippines: Leila de Lima
• Russia: Brittney Griner
• Sudan: Omar al-Bashir
• Sweden: Hamid Nouri
• Vatican City: Giovanni Angelo Becciu
• ICC: Ali Kushayb

Upcoming

• Canada: Peter Nygård
• Nigeria: Nnamdi Kanu
• United States: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Steve Bannon

Sport

• Association football
  • 2022 MLS season
  • 2022 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
  • 2022 NWSL season
• Baseball
  • 2022 MLB season
• Basketball
  • 2022 WNBA season
• Cricket
  • 2021–23 ICC World Test Championship
  • 2020–23 ICC Cricket World Cup Super League
  • 2019–23 ICC Cricket World Cup League 2
  • 2019–22 ICC Cricket World Cup Challenge League
• Canadian football
  • 2022 CFL season
• Golf
  • 2022 PGA Tour Champions
  • 2021–22 PGA Tour
  • 2022 Ladies European Tour
  • 2022 European Tour
  • 2022 LPGA Tour
• Motorsport
  • 2022 Formula One World Championship
  • 2021–22 Formula E World Championship
• Rugby league
  • 2022 NRL season
  • 2022 State of Origin series
• Tennis
  • 2022 ATP Tour
  • 2022 WTA Tour
• Other sports seasons
  • 2022 International cricket season

More details – current sports events

Recent deaths

November / October

• 12: Bramwell Tovey
• 11: José Guirao
• 11: Monty Norman
• 10: Maurice Boucher
• 9: L. Q. Jones
• 9: John Gwynne
• 8: Luis Echeverría
• 8: Gregory Itzin
• 8: Tony Sirico
• 8: Larry Storch
• 8: José Eduardo dos Santos
• 8: Shinzo Abe
• 7: Adam Wade
• 6: James Caan
• 6: Bryan Marchment
• 6: Kazuki Takahashi
• 6: Tricia
• 5: Lenny Von Dohlen
• 5: Mohammed Barkindo
• 4: Mona Hammond
• 4: Cláudio Hummes
• 4: Alan Blaikley
• 3: Clifford Alexander Jr.
• 3: Robert Curl
• 2: Miguel Etchecolatz
• 2: Peter Brook
• 1: Richard Taruskin
• 30: Technoblade
• 29: Bill Allen
• 29: Sonny Barger
• 29: Jim Pappin
• 29: Hershel W. Williams
• 29: Yehuda Meshi Zahav
• 28: Deborah James
• 28: Pallonji Mistry
• 27: Marlin Briscoe
• 27: Michael C. Stenger
• 27: Joe Turkel
• 27: Leonardo Del Vecchio
• 26: Margaret Keane
• 26: Mary Mara
• 26: Frank Williams
• 25: Sam Gilliam
• 24: Harry Gration
• 23: Paula Stafford
• 22: Willie Morrow
• 22: Tony Siragusa
• 22: Bruton Smith
• 21: Harvey Dinnerstein
• 21: Artie Kane
• 21: James Rado
• 20: Paul M. Ellwood Jr.
• 20: Caleb Swanigan
• 19: Clela Rorex
• 19: Brett Tuggle
• 19: Gennady Burbulis
• 19: Carol Raye
• 18: Lennie Rosenbluth
• 18: Mark Shields
• 17: Hugh McElhenny
• 17: Damian Casey
• 17: Jean-Louis Trintignant
• 16: Tim Sale
• 15: Maureen Arthur
• 15: Arnold Skolnick
• 14: Joel Whitburn
• 14: A. B. Yehoshua

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Casualties of the Russo-Ukrainian War

Ongoing conflicts

Global

• War against the Islamic State

Africa

• Angola
  • Cabinda War
• Cameroon
  • Anglophone Crisis
• Central African Republic
  • Civil War
• Chad
  • Insurgency in Northern Chad
• Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
  • Lord's Resistance Army insurgency
  • Kivu conflict
  • Ituri conflict
• Ethiopia
  • Oromo conflict
  • Tigray War
    • Ethiopian–Sudanese clashes
• Ghana
  • Western Togoland rebellion
• Maghreb
  • Islamic State insurgency in Tunisia
• Mozambique
  • Insurgency in Cabo Delgado
• Nigeria
  • Insurgency in southeastern Nigeria
  • Boko Haram insurgency
  • Communal conflicts
• Sahel
  • Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso
  • Jihadist insurgency in Niger
  • Mali War
• Senegal
  • Casamance conflict
• Somalia
  • Civil war
• South Sudan
  • Ethnic violence
• Sudan
  • War in Darfur
  • South Kordofan conflict
  • Nomadic conflicts (incl. South Sudan)
• Western Sahara
  • Guerguerat crisis

Americas

• Colombia
  • Colombian conflict
• Mexico
  • Mexican drug war
• Paraguay
  • Insurgency in Paraguay
• Peru
  • Internal conflict in Peru

Asia-Pacific

• Afghanistan
  • Republican insurgency
  • Islamic State–Taliban conflict
• India
  • Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
  • Insurgency in Northeast India
    • Ethnic conflict in Nagaland
    • Insurgency in Manipur
• India and Pakistan
  • Kashmir conflict
• Indonesia
  • Papua conflict
• Myanmar
  • Rohingya conflict
  • Kachin conflict
  • Karen conflict
• Pakistan
  • Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Insurgency in Balochistan
• Philippines
  • Moro conflict
  • Philippine drug war
  • Communist rebellion
• Thailand
  • South Thailand insurgency

Europe

• Russia and Ukraine
  • Russian invasion of Ukraine

Middle East

• Egypt
  • Sinai insurgency
• Iran and the Persian Gulf
  • Iran–Israel proxy conflict
  • Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict
  • Iran–PJAK conflict
  • Sistan and Baluchestan insurgency
• Iraq
  • Iranian intervention in Iraq
  • Islamic State insurgency
• Israel and Palestine
  • Gaza–Israel conflict
• Nagorno-Karabakh
  • Armenia–Azerbaijan border crisis
• Syrian civil war
  • Foreign involvement

• American-led
• Russian

• Turkish
• Iranian

• Yemeni civil war
  • Saudi Arabian–led intervention
    • Houthi–Saudi Arabian conflict

See also – List of ongoing proxy wars

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See also

• Wikipedia:How the Current events page works