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Ongoing events

Disasters

• Climate crisis
• COVID-19 pandemic
• Opioid epidemic
• 2021–22 European windstorm season
• 2020–2022 H5N8 outbreak
• Madagascar famine
• Yemeni famine

Economic

• 2020–present global chip shortage
• 2021–2022 global supply chain crisis
• COVID-19 recession
• Lebanese liquidity crisis
• Pandora Papers leak
• Sri Lankan economic and food crisis
• Turkish currency and debt crisis
• United Kingdom natural gas supplier crisis

Politics

• Belarus−European Union border crisis
• Brazilian protests
• Canada convoy protest
• Haitian protests
• Insulate Britain protests
• Libyan peace process
• Malaysian political crisis
• Myanmar protests
• Nicaraguan protests
• Nigerian protests
• Partygate
• Persian Gulf crisis
• Peruvian crisis
• Russo−Ukrainian crisis
• Solomon Islands unrest
• Somali political crisis
• Tigrayan peace process
• Thai protests
• Tunisian political crisis
• United States racial unrest
• Venezuelan presidential crisis

Elections and referendums

Recent

• February
  • 5: Algeria, Council of the Nation (indirect)
  • 6: Costa Rica, President (1st), Legislative Assembly
  • 13: Germany, President (indirect)
  • 13: Switzerland, Referendums

Upcoming

• 25: Somalia, President (indirect)
• 27: Belarus, Constitutional referendum

Trials

Recently concluded

• United States: Michael Avenatti, Elizabeth Holmes, Ghislaine Maxwell, Charles Lieber

Ongoing

• Armenia: Serzh Sargsyan
• France: Brussels Islamic State
• Israel: Benjamin Netanyahu
• Italy: Matteo Salvini
• Kosovo: Specialist Chambers
• Kyrgyzstan: Almazbek Atambayev
• Malta: Yorgen Fenech
• Philippines: Leila de Lima
• Sudan: Omar al-Bashir
• United States: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

Upcoming

• Canada: Peter Nygård
• Nigeria: Nnamdi Kanu
• Sweden: Hamid Nouri
• United States: Steve Bannon, Allen Weisselberg
• Vatican City: Giovanni Angelo Becciu
• ICC: Ali Kushayb

Sport

• Multi-sport events
  • 2022 Winter Olympics
• Association football
  • 2021–22 UEFA Europa League
  • 2021–22 UEFA Champions League
  • 2021–22 Premier League
  • 2021–22 Bundesliga
  • 2021–22 Serie A
  • 2021–22 La Liga
  • 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification
  • 2020–21 UEFA Nations League
• Basketball
  • 2021–22 NBA season
  • 2021–22 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Season
  • 2021–22 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball 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
• Golf
  • 2021–22 PGA Tour
• Ice hockey
  • 2021–22 NHL season
  • 2021–22 IIHF Continental Cup
• Motorsport
  • 2021 Intercontinental GT Challenge
  • 2021–22 Formula E World Championship
• Rugby union
  • 2021–22 Premiership Rugby
  • 2021–22 United Rugby Championship
  • 2021–22 Top 14
  • 2021 Super Rugby season
• Tennis
  • 2022 ATP Tour
  • 2022 WTA Tour
  • 2021–22 King Cup
• Other sports seasons
  • 2021–22 International cricket season
  • 2021–22 snooker season
  • 2021–22 curling season

More details – current sports events

Recent deaths

February

• 17: Martin Tolchin
• 16: Walter Dellinger
• 16: Gail Halvorsen
• 16: Amos Sawyer
• 15: P. J. O'Rourke
• 15: Bappi Lahiri
• 12: Valerie Boyd
• 12: Carmen Herrera
• 12: Ivan Reitman
• 12: Hugo Torres Jiménez
• 12: Beryl Vertue
• 12: Rahul Bajaj
• 10: Manuel Esquivel
• 9: Jim Angle
• 9: Betty Davis
• 9: Jeremy Giambi
• 9: Ian McDonald
• 9: Johnny Raper
• 8: Ricky Hunter
• 8: Bamber Gascoigne
• 8: Luc Montagnier
• 7: Douglas Trumbull
• 6: George Crumb
• 6: Syl Johnson
• 6: Ronnie Hellström
• 6: Hans Neuenfels
• 6: John Vinocur
• 6: Lata Mangeshkar
• 5: Todd Gitlin
• 5: John Honderich
• 5: Don Johnston
• 5: Rayan Oram
• 4: Ashley Bryan
• 4: Jason Epstein
• 3: Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi
• 3: Christos Sartzetakis
• 2: Bill Fitch
• 2: Robert Blalack
• 2: Monica Vitti
• 1: Robin Herman
• 1: Safi Golpaygani
• 1: Shintaro Ishihara
• 1: Glenn Wheatley

January

• 31: Carleton Carpenter
• 30: Jon Appleton
• 30: Cheslie Kryst
• 30: Hargus "Pig" Robbins
• 30: Robert Wall
• 30: Norma Waterson
• 29: Leonard Fenton
• 29: Howard Hesseman
• 29: Sam Lay
• 29: John K. Singlaub
• 27: Gene Clines
• 27: Matthew Reeves
• 26: Janet Mead
• 25: Ozzie
• 25: Wyn Calvin
• 25: Barry Cryer
• 24: Olavo de Carvalho
• 24: Sheldon Silver
• 23: Beegie Adair
• 23: Trude Feldman
• 23: Jean-Claude Mézières
• 23: Thierry Mugler
• 22: Don Wilson
• 22: Colm Keane
• 22: Thích Nhất Hạnh
• 21: Louie Anderson
• 21: Clark Gillies
• 21: Mace Neufeld
• 21: Terry Tolkin
• 20: Frank Dutton
• 20: Meat Loaf
• 20: Elza Soares
• 19: Bob Goalby
• 19: Hardy Krüger
• 19: Gaspard Ulliel

Ongoing conflicts

Africa

• Angola
  • Cabinda War
• Burkina Faso
  • Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso
• Cameroon
  • Anglophone Crisis
• Central African Republic
  • Civil War
• Chad
  • Insurgency in Northern Chad
• Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Kivu conflict
  • Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
  • Ituri conflict
  • Lord's Resistance Army insurgency
  • Kamwina Nsapu rebellion
• Ethiopia
  • Tigray War (spillover)
  • Oromo conflict
• Ethiopia and Sudan
  • Sudanese–Ethiopian clashes
• Ghana
  • Western Togoland Rebellion
• Maghreb and Sahel regions
  • Maghreb insurgency
• Mali
  • Mali War
• Mozambique
  • Insurgency in Cabo Delgado
• Nigeria
  • Boko Haram insurgency (incl. Lake Chad region)
  • Communal conflicts in Nigeria
• Senegal
  • Casamance conflict
• Somalia
  • Civil war
• South Sudan
  • Ethnic violence in South Sudan
• Sudan
  • War in Darfur
  • South Kordofan conflict
  • Sudanese nomadic conflicts (incl. South Sudan)
• Tunisia
  • ISIL insurgency in Tunisia
• Western Sahara
  • Western Sahara conflict
    • Western Saharan clashes (2020–present)

Americas

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

Asia-Pacific

• Afghanistan
  • Panjshir conflict
  • Islamic State–Taliban conflict
• India
  • Insurgency in Northeast India
    • Assam separatist movements
    • Insurgency in Manipur
    • Ethnic conflict in Nagaland
  • Khalistan movement
  • Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
• India and Pakistan
  • Kashmir conflict
• Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines
  • Moro conflict
    • Cross border attacks in Sabah
• Indonesia
  • Papua conflict
• Myanmar
  • Internal conflict in Myanmar
    • Kachin conflict
    • Karen conflict
    • Rohingya conflict
• Pakistan
  • Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Insurgency in Balochistan
• Philippines
  • Communist rebellion
  • Philippine drug war
• Thailand
  • South Thailand insurgency

Europe

• Armenia and Azerbaijan
  • Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
• Ukraine
  • War in Donbas
    • Russo-Ukrainian War
• Ireland and the UK
  • Dissident Irish republican campaign
• Turkey
  • Kurdish–Turkish conflict

Global

• War on terror

Middle East

• Egypt
  • Sinai insurgency
• Iran and the Persian Gulf
  • Iran–Israel proxy conflict
  • Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict
  • Sistan and Baluchestan insurgency
  • Kurdish separatism in Iran
• Iraq
  • Iraqi conflict
  • American-led intervention in Iraq
  • Iranian intervention in Iraq
• Iraq and Syria (map)
  • International military intervention against ISIL
• Israel and Gaza
• Israel and Syria
  • Israeli-Syrian border conflict
    • Israeli-Syrian ceasefire line incidents
• Syria
  • American-led intervention in Syria
  • Russian military intervention in the Syrian civil war
  • Turkish occupation of northern Syria
• Yemen and Saudi Arabia
  • Yemeni Civil War
  • Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen
  • Houthi–Saudi Arabian conflict

Further information: List of ongoing armed conflicts

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• Radio
• Television (Australia, Canada, Ireland, UK, Scotland, US)
• Video games

Politics and government

• Elections
• International leaders
• Sovereign states
• Sovereign state leaders
• Territorial governors

Science and technology

• Archaeology
• Biotechnology
• Computing
• Palaeontology
• Quantum computing and communication
• Senescence research
• Space/Astronomy
• Spaceflight
• Sustainable energy research

Environment and environmental sciences

• Climate change
• Weather (Heat waves
• Tornadoes
• Wildfires)

Transportation

• Aviation
• Rail transport
• Transportation technology

Establishments and disestablishments categories

• Establishments
• Disestablishments

Works and introductions categories

• Works
• Introductions
• Works entering the public domain

Documentation

See also

• Wikipedia:How the Current events page works