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Ongoing events

Disasters

• Climate crisis
• COVID-19 pandemic
• Opioid epidemic
• 2022 European heat waves & wildfires
• 2021–22 European windstorm season
• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
• 2022 California wildfires
• 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
• UK cost of living crisis

Politics

• Belarus−European Union border crisis
• Iraqi political crisis
• Israeli political crisis
• Malaysian political crisis
• Myanmar protests
• Nigerian protests
• Peruvian crisis
• Russia−European Union gas dispute
• Sri Lankan protests & political crisis
• Sudanese protests
• Tunisian political crisis
• Ukrainian refugee crisis
• United States abortion protests
• Venezuelan presidential crisis

Elections and referendums

Recent

• July
  • 31: Republic of the Congo, National Assembly (2nd)
  • 31: Senegal, National Assembly
• August
  • 1: Cook Islands, Parliament
  • 5: Saint Kitts and Nevis, National Assembly
  • 9: Kenya, President, Senate, National Assembly

Upcoming

• 24: Angola, President, National Assembly

Trials

Recently concluded

• France: Salah Abdeslam
• Russia: Brittney Griner
• United States: Steve Bannon, Sunny Balwani

Ongoing

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

Upcoming

• Nigeria: Nnamdi Kanu
• United States: R. Kelly

Sport

• Association football
  • 2022–23 Premier League
  • 2022–23 La Liga
  • 2022–23 Serie A
  • 2022–23 Bundesliga
  • 2022–23 Ligue 1
  • 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
• Tennis
  • 2022 ATP Tour
  • 2022 WTA Tour
• Other sports seasons
  • 2022 International cricket season

More details – current sports events

Recent deaths

April / March

• 10: Lydia de Vega
• 9: Gene LeBell
• 9: Raymond Briggs
• 8: Lamont Dozier
• 8: Olivia Newton-John
• 7: Bert Fields
• 7: Leandro Lo
• 7: David McCullough
• 7: Roger E. Mosley
• 6: Archie Battersbee
• 5: Issey Miyake
• 5: Robert Brockman
• 5: Clu Gulager
• 5: Judith Durham
• 5: Cherie Gil
• 5: Abdul Rahim Shapiee
• 4: Albert Woodfox
• 3: Roy Hackett
• 3: Jackie Walorski
• 2: Melissa Bank
• 2: Vin Scully
• 1: Gary Schroen
• 1: Robert E. Simanek
• 31: Mo Ostin
• 31: Bill Russell
• 31: Ayman al-Zawahiri
• 31: Fidel V. Ramos
• 30: Pat Carroll
• 30: Nichelle Nichols
• 30: Archie Roach
• 28: Bernard Cribbins
• 27: Mary Alice
• 27: Tony Dow
• 27: Larry Josephson
• 27: Burt Metcalfe
• 27: Christopher Meyer
• 27: Mick Moloney
• 26: James Lovelock
• 26: Uri Orlev
• 25: Jennifer Bartlett
• 25: Paul Sorvino
• 25: David Trimble
• 24: Tim Giago
• 24: Diana Kennedy
• 24: David Warner
• 23: Bob Rafelson
• 23: Kyaw Min Yu
• 23: Zayar Thaw
• 22: Leon E. Rosenberg
• 21: An An
• 21: Taurean Blacque
• 21: Uwe Seeler
• 20: Alan Grant
• 19: Michael Henderson
• 18: Claes Oldenburg
• 17: Jessie Duarte
• 16: Hobie Billingsley
• 16: Patrick Michaels
• 16: Gerald Shargel
• 16: Ricky Bibey
• 15: Lourdes Grobet
• 14: William Hart
• 14: Jak Knight
• 14: Fco. Morales-Bermúdez
• 14: Ivana Trump
• 14: Carleton Varney
• 14: Eugenio Scalfari
• 13: Bobby East
• 13: Mark Fleischman
• 13: John Froines

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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
• Maghreb
  • Islamic State insurgency in Tunisia
• Mozambique
  • Insurgency in Cabo Delgado
• Nigeria
  • Insurgency in southeastern Nigeria
  • Boko Haram insurgency
• 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
• 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
• Indonesia
  • Papua conflict
• Myanmar
  • Anti-coup insurgency
  • Rakhine 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
  • 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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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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• Works entering the public domain

Documentation

See also

• Wikipedia:How the Current events page works