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Ongoing events

Disasters

• Climate crisis
• COVID-19 pandemic
• Opioid epidemic
• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
• 2020–2022 North American drought
• 2022 Nigeria floods
• 2022 Pakistan floods
• 2022 Atlantic hurricane season
• 2022 Pacific typhoon season

Economics

• 2020–present global chip shortage
• 2021–present global energy crisis
• 2021–2022 global supply chain crisis
• 2021–2022 inflation surge
• 2022 food crises
• Lebanese liquidity crisis
• Sri Lankan economic crisis
• Turkish currency and debt crisis
• United Kingdom cost of living crisis

Politics

• Belarus−European Union border crisis
• Haitian crisis
• Iranian protests
• Myanmar protests
• Peruvian political crisis
• Russia−European Union gas dispute
• Sri Lankan protests
• Sudanese protests
• Tunisian political crisis
• Ukrainian refugee crisis
• United States abortion protests

Elections and referendums

Recent

• October
  • 23: Slovenia, President (1st)
  • 30: Brazil, President (2nd)
• November
  • 1: Denmark, Folketing
  • 1: Israel, Knesset

Upcoming

• 8: United States, Senate, House of Representatives
• 12: Bahrain, Council of Representatives
• 13: Slovenia, President (2nd)
• 19: Malaysia, Dewan Rakyat
• 20: Equatorial Guinea, President, Parliament
• 20: Kazakhstan, President
• 20: Nepal, House of Representatives

Trials

Recently concluded

• China: Fu Zhenghua
• United States: Tom Barrack, Igor Danchenko, Nikolas Cruz

Ongoing

• Armenia: Serzh Sargsyan
• Guinea: Moussa Dadis Camara
• Indonesia: Ferdy Sambo
• Israel: Benjamin Netanyahu
• Italy: Matteo Salvini
• Kosovo: Specialist Chambers
• Malta: Yorgen Fenech
• Philippines: Leila de Lima
• Sudan: Omar al-Bashir
• United States: Harvey Weinstein, Paul Flores
• Vatican City: Giovanni Angelo Becciu
• ICC: Ali Kushayb

Upcoming

• Nigeria: Nnamdi Kanu

Sport

• Association football
  • 2022–23 UEFA Champions League
  • 2022–23 UEFA Europa League

• 2022–23 Premier League
• 2022 MLS season
• 2022–23 La Liga
• 2022–23 Serie A

• 2022–23 Bundesliga
• 2022–23 Ligue 1
• 2022 Brasileirão

• American football
  • 2022 NFL Season
  • 2022 NCAA FBS College Football Season
• Baseball
  • 2022 MLB season
• Basketball
  • 2022–23 NBA season
• International 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
  • 2022 Ladies European Tour
  • 2022 European Tour
  • 2022 LPGA Tour
• Ice hockey
  • 2022–23 NHL season
• Motorsport
  • 2022 Formula One World Championship
• Tennis

• 2022 ATP Tour

• 2022 WTA Tour

• Other sports seasons
  • 2022–23 snooker season
  • 2022–23 curling season

More details – current sports events

Recent deaths

May / April

• 5: Aaron Carter
• 5: Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici
• 4: Dave Butz
• 4: Ibrahim Munir
• 3: Ray Guy
• 3: Douglas McGrath
• 2: Ela Bhatt
• 1: George Booth
• 1: Gael Greene
• 1: Takeoff
• 31: John McVay
• 28: Calvin O. Butts
• 28: Vince Dooley
• 28: Jerry Lee Lewis
• 28: D. H. Peligro
• 28: Ian Jack
• 28: Hannah Pick-Goslar
• 27: Gerald Stern
• 26: Lucianne Goldberg
• 26: Julie Powell
• 26: Rosalind Wiener Wyman
• 26: Pierre Soulages
• 25: Jules Bass
• 25: Mike Davis
• 24: Ash Carter
• 24: Leslie Jordan
• 23: Paul Morantz
• 23: Libor Pešek
• 23: Arshad Sharif
• 22: Dietrich Mateschitz
• 21: Robert Gordy
• 21: Rainer Schaller
• 21: Peter Schjeldahl
• 21: May Blood
• 20: Ron Masak
• 20: Lucy Simon
• 19: John Jay Osborn Jr.
• 19: Joanna Simon
• 19: Charley Trippi
• 18: Thomas Cahill
• 18: Charles Duncan Jr.
• 18: Robert Gordon
• 17: Carmen Callil
• 17: Younoussi Touré
• 16: Benjamin Civiletti
• 15: Joyce Sims
• 14: Ted White
• 14: Robbie Coltrane
• 13: James McDivitt
• 13: Mike Schank
• 13: Bruce Sutter
• 11: Angela Lansbury
• 11: Charles Sherrod
• 10: Michael Callan
• 10: Anita Kerr
• 10: Mulayam Singh Yadav
• 9: Nikki Finke
• 9: Eileen Ryan
• 8: Billy Al Bengston
• 8: Peter Tobin

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

• ADF insurgency
• LRA insurgency

• Kivu conflict
• Ituri conflict

• Ethiopia

• Oromo conflict

• Tigray War

• Mozambique
  • Insurgency in Cabo Delgado
• Nigeria
  • Insurgency in Southeastern Nigeria
  • Boko Haram insurgency
• Sahel and Maghreb

• Insurgency in Burkina Faso
• Insurgency in Niger

• Mali War
• Insurgency in Tunisia

• Senegal
  • Casamance conflict
• Somali civil war
  • U.S. intervention
• Sudan

• South Kordofan conflict

• War in Darfur

• Western Sahara
  • Guerguerat crisis

Americas

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

Asia-Pacific

• Afghanistan
  • Islamic State–Taliban conflict
  • Republican insurgency
• India
  • Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
  • Insurgency in Northeast India
  • Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
• Indonesia
  • Papua conflict
• Myanmar

• Civil war
• Rakhine conflict

• Kachin conflict
• Karen conflict

• Pakistan
  • Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Insurgency in Balochistan
• Philippines

• Communist rebellion
• Philippine drug war

• Moro conflict

• Thailand
  • South Thailand insurgency

Europe

• Russia and Ukraine
  • Russian invasion of Ukraine

Middle East

• Egypt
  • Sinai insurgency
• Iran

• Iran–Kurdish conflict

• Iran–Baloch conflict

• Iraqi conflict

• Iranian intervention

• Islamic State insurgency

• Israel and Palestine
  • Gaza–Israel conflict
• Nagorno-Karabakh
  • Armenia–Azerbaijan border crisis
• Syrian civil war
  • Foreign involvement

• U.S.–led
• Turkish

• Israeli
• Iranian

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

See also – List of ongoing proxy wars

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Politics and government

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

Science and technology

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

Environment

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

Transportation

• Aviation
• Rail transport
• Transportation technology

Establishments and disestablishments categories

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• Disestablishments

Works and introductions categories

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• Introductions
• Works entering the public domain

Documentation

See also

• Wikipedia:How the Current events page works