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Hunga Tonga eruption

• Belgian-British pilot Zara Rutherford becomes the youngest woman to fly solo around the world.
• Microsoft announces its forthcoming acquisition, pending regulatory approvals, of video game company Activision Blizzard.
• A 5.3 magnitude earthquake in Badghis Province, Afghanistan, kills at least 28 people.
• The Hunga Tonga volcano erupts (satellite animation shown), causing damage in Tonga and tsunamis across the Pacific Ocean.

Ongoing:

• COVID-19 pandemic

Recent deaths:

• M. K. Prasad
• Clark Gillies
• Bob Goalby
• David Cox
• Richard J. Ferris
• Hardy Krüger

January 23, 2022 (2022-01-23) (Sunday)

January 22, 2022 (2022-01-22) (Saturday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis, Russia–NATO relations
    • The British Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office states that, according to the available information, the Russian government is planning to "install a pro-Russian leader in Kyiv as it considers whether to invade and occupy Ukraine." (CNN)
    • Vice Admiral Kay-Achim Schönbach resigns as Inspector of the German Navy following comments at a think tank in New Delhi, in which he called Russia's intention to attack Ukraine "nonsense", saying that Russian president Vladimir Putin "deserves respect", and dismissing the prospects of Ukraine's regaining Crimea and joining NATO. (The Guardian)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia
      • Indonesia reports its first confirmed deaths related to the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in an unvaccinated 64-year-old man and a vaccinated 54-year-old woman who both had underlying health conditions. (CNN Indonesia)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Japan
      • Japan reports a record for the fifth consecutive day of 54,576 new COVID-19 cases, including a record 11,227 new cases in Tokyo and a record 7,675 new cases in Osaka Prefecture. (Kyodo News)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore
      • Singapore reports its first confirmed death related to the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in an unvaccinated 92-year-old woman. (The Straits Times)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Europe
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Poland
      • Poland reports a record for the second consecutive day of 40,876 new COVID-19 cases, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 4,484,095. (Polskie Radio)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Romania
      • Romania surpasses two million cases of COVID-19. (Digi24)

January 21, 2022 (2022-01-21) (Friday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Yemeni Civil War
  • Saudi Arabian–led intervention in Yemen, Saada prison airstrike
    • A Royal Saudi Air Force airstrike on a prison in Saada, Yemen, kills at least 100 people and injures more than 200 others. Médecins Sans Frontières reports over 200 casualties. The United Nations condemns the attack. (Dawn) (CNN) (BBC News)
    • Three children are killed when a missile strikes the port city of Al Hudaydah. (Sky News)
• Syrian Civil War
  • Battle of al-Hasakah
    • ISIL militants attack Al-Sina'a prison in the city of Al-Hasakah, freeing prisoners and leading to clashes that kill 67 people. (SOHR)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh
      • Bangladesh closes schools, universities, and other educational institutions until February 6 and bans social, political, religious, and state events of more than 100 people amid the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant. (The Daily Star)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Japan
      • Japan reports a record for the fourth consecutive day of 49,854 new COVID-19 cases. (Jiji Press)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan
      • Pakistan reports a record 7,678 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 1.35 million. (Anadolu Agency)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore, COVID-19 vaccination in Singapore
      • The Singaporean Ministry of Health announces the extension of COVID-19 vaccine booster doses to people between the ages of 12 and 17 beginning on March 14. (CNA)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Europe
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Poland
      • Poland reports a record 36,665 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 4,443,217. (Polskie Radio)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Romania
      • Romania reports a record 19,649 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. (ABC News)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Russia
      • Russia reports a record 49,513 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 10,987,774. (Barron's)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, Variants of SARS-CoV-2
      • The UK Health Security Agency designates the recently discovered Omicron sub-lineage known as BA.2 as a "variant of investigation". (Sky News)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Australia
    • Australia reports a record 88 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, including a record 46 deaths in New South Wales, thereby bringing the nationwide death toll to 2,976. (SBS News)
  • COVID-19 vaccine
    • The World Health Organization recommends the usage of the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children between the ages of 5 and 11 years. (Reuters)

International relations

• Argentina–Iran relations, AMIA bombing
  • Argentina formally requests that Russia arrest Iranian minister Mohsen Rezai, who is on a trip to Russia, based on the accusation by Argentina of Rezai's involvement in the 1994 AMIA bombing. Russia did not immediately respond to the request. (Infobae)

Law and crime

• COVID-19 pandemic in France, Vaccine passports during the COVID-19 pandemic
  • The French Constitutional Council conditionally approves a new COVID-19 vaccine pass law that would require people over the age of 16 years to be fully vaccinated in order to enter public venues and use intra-regional public transport but rejects the mandatory use of the vaccine pass for political rallies. The new vaccine pass will take effect on January 24. (France 24)
• Colleyville synagogue hostage crisis
  • The Federal Bureau of Investigation announces it is officially investigating the standoff at a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, U.S., on Saturday as a "federal hate crime" and an "act of terrorism". (WFAA-TV)

January 20, 2022 (2022-01-20) (Thursday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis, Russia–NATO relations
    • The U.S. State Department approves the delivery of U.S.-made weapons systems from the Baltic states to Ukraine, including FGM-148 Javelin anti-tank guided missiles and FIM-92 Stinger anti-aircraft missiles. (Euractiv)
• Terrorism in Pakistan
  • 2022 Lahore bombing
    • Two people are killed and 26 others injured by a bombing in Anarkali, Lahore, Punjab. (Al Jazeera)
• 2021–2022 social unrest in the French West Indies
  • Rioters injure a police officer with live ammunition on the sidelines of unauthorized demonstrations. The administrative building of the Basse-Terre hospital is invaded by about forty people. (Le Figaro)

Disasters and accidents

• 2022 Bogoso explosion
  • A truck carrying explosives to a gold mine explodes after crashing into a motorcycle in Apiate, Western Region, Ghana; the explosion destroyed nearby buildings and vehicles, killing 17 people and injuring 59 others. (Reuters)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Europe
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Austria
      • The Austrian National Council votes 137–13 to approve a bill requiring people over 18 years to receive the COVID-19 vaccine beginning February 1, thereby becoming the first country in the European Union to do so. (Reuters)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in France, Vaccine passports during the COVID-19 pandemic
      • French Prime Minister Jean Castex announces that a new COVID-19 vaccine pass will go into effect on January 24 pending approval from the Constitutional Council. The new pass will ban unvaccinated people from entering most public venues and travelling on domestic flights and inter-regional trains. Additionally, the mandate to work from home for more than 3 days per week will be lifted on February 2 and children between the ages of 12 and 17 years will be eligible to receive a booster dose beginning on Monday. (ABC News)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Germany
      • Germany reports a record for the second consecutive day of 133,536 new COVID-19 cases. (Anadolu Agency)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Romania
      • Romania reports a record 19,105 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 1,964,021. (Agerpres)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Japan
      • Japan reports a record for the third consecutive day of 46,199 new COVID-19 cases and surpasses two million cases of COVID-19. (Nippon.com)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Thailand, Travel during the COVID-19 pandemic
      • Thailand decides to resume its quarantine-free travel for all vaccinated travellers beginning on February 1 due to low hospitalization and death rates despite the surging COVID-19 cases driven by the Omicron variant. (Nikkei Asia)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Australia
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Western Australia
      • Western Australia indefinitely suspends the reopening of its borders to fully vaccinated international and inter-state travellers in order to allow people to receive a booster dose due to the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant. (The Guardian)
    • COVID-19 drug development
      • The Therapeutic Goods Administration grants provisional approval for Pfizer's Paxlovid COVID-19 drug and Merck & Co.'s Molnupiravir COVID-19 drug. (News.com.au)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil, COVID-19 vaccination in Brazil
    • Brazilian drug regulator Anvisa approves the use of the Sinovac CoronaVac vaccine for children between the ages of 6 and 11 years. (Agência Brasil)
  • COVID-19 drug development
    • The Medicines Patent Pool signs an agreement with 27 pharmaceutical companies in 11 countries to produce both raw ingredients and finished products of Merck & Co.'s Molnupiravir COVID-19 drug, which will be used in 105 low- and middle-income developing countries. (France 24)

Law and crime

• Colleyville synagogue hostage crisis
  • Two men are arrested in Manchester and Birmingham, England, as part of an investigation into the standoff that occurred at a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, United States, on Saturday. (The Guardian)
• Red Cross cyberattack
  • The International Committee of the Red Cross appeals to hackers who stole personal data from the organisation to come forward. (TheJournal.ie)

Politics and elections

• 2022 Barbadian general election
  • Mia Mottley and her Barbados Labour Party government are re-elected for a second term in a landslide, winning all 30 seats. (The Guardian)

Science and technology

• Nineteen-year-old Belgian-British pilot Zara Rutherford returns to Kortrijk, Belgium, to complete her five-month circumnavigation, becoming the youngest female pilot to fly solo around the world. (CNN)

January 19, 2022 (2022-01-19) (Wednesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis, Russia–NATO relations
    • US President Joe Biden says a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine will result in a more severe penalty than a "minor incursion" as he predicts that Russian President Vladimir Putin "will move in [on Ukraine]; he has to do something". (Reuters)
    • US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives in Kyiv, Ukraine, in a show of support for Ukraine. During a one-day visit, Blinken will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said yesterday that "Russia could at any point launch an attack on Ukraine" and that "No option is off the table". (France 24)
    • Lithuanian Defence Minister Arvydas Anušauskas warns that the presence of Russian troops in Belarus poses a "direct threat" to Lithuania. (Politico.eu)
    • The United Kingdom's Royal Air Force continues flights to Ukraine delivering "thousands" of MBT LAW anti-tank missiles to the Ukrainian military. Russia accuses Britain of "fuelling the crisis" by sending lethal weapons to Ukraine. (UK Defence Journal) (The Times)

Business and economy

• Employees of the STB, Bucharest's largest public transport company, go on strike demanding the resignation of its chairman, Adrian Criț. The city authorities, led by the Save Romania Union-backed mayor Nicușor Dan, condemn the strike, blaming it on the Social Democratic Party-backed trade unionist Vasile Petrariu as an attempt to undermine his authority. (Digi24)

Disasters and accidents

• Six people are killed in a fire at a nursing home in Moncada, Valencia, Spain. (The Washington Post)
• Twenty-nine people are killed during a stampede at an open-air Pentecostal church in Monrovia, Liberia. The stampede was triggered by panic after gangsters entered the prayer ground after a collection. (BBC News)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Japan
      • The Japanese government announces that it will place Tokyo and 12 other prefectures under a quasi-state of emergency from January 21 to February 13 amid an increase in the number of COVID-19 cases due to the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, with the country reporting a record for the second consecutive day of 41,487 new cases of COVID-19. (Kyodo News)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines
      • The Philippines reports its first confirmed deaths related to the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in two unvaccinated people in their 60s who had underlying health conditions. (ABS-CBN News)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Vietnam
      • Vietnam reports its first three locally transmitted cases of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in Ho Chi Minh City. (Hanoi Times)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Europe
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Bulgaria
      • Bulgaria reports a record for the second consecutive day of 11,181 new COVID-19 cases, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 841,785. (Bulgarian Press Agency)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in the Czech Republic
      • The Czech government suspends plans to make COVID-19 vaccination mandatory for key workers and people over the age of 60, which was expected to come into effect in March. (ABC News)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Germany
      • Germany reports a record 112,323 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. (Deutsche Welle)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Oceania
    • COVID-19 pandemic in American Samoa
      • A seventh passenger from a Hawaiian Airlines flight from Honolulu, Hawaii, tests positive for COVID-19. The plane landed in American Samoa on January 6, 2022. (Samoa News)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Kiribati
      • Kiribati announces a curfew and mandatory face masks after 36 passengers on a charter flight from Fiji test positive for COVID-19 upon arrival. The plane was the first international commercial flight to land in the country since March 2020. Kiribati reopened its borders on January 10th. (Stuff.co.nz)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Algeria, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on education
    • The Algerian government announces that all elementary and high schools will be closed for 10 days due to an increase in the number of Omicron variant cases in the country. (Arab News)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico
    • Mexico reports a record for the second consecutive day of 60,552 new cases of COVID-19, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 4,495,310. (Bloomberg)

Politics and elections

• Westminster lockdown parties controversy
  • Conservative Party MP Christian Wakeford crosses the floor to the opposition Labour Party, stating that Prime Minister Boris Johnson's behaviour has been "disgraceful". There are growing calls within the ruling Conservative Party for Johnson to resign amid public outrage over "Partygate". (Reuters)

January 18, 2022 (2022-01-18) (Tuesday)

Business and economy

• Argentine debt restructuring
  • Argentine minister of economy Martín Guzmán warns that the International Monetary Fund will "lose legitimacy" if it fails in negotiations with the country, with Guzmán citing his country's growth of nearly 10 percent as an argument. (Ámbito)
• Puerto Rican government-debt crisis
  • A federal judge signs a plan to restructure Puerto Rico's economy, allowing it to start repaying debt to creditors and lifting it out of bankruptcy. (AP News)
• Microsoft announces that it will acquire gaming company Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion. If the acquisition is successful, Activision Blizzard will become part of Xbox Game Studios, which will become the world's third-largest gaming company behind Tencent and Sony Interactive Entertainment. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2022 Antananarivo floods
  • At least ten people are killed by floods in Antananarivo, Madagascar. (Africanews)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Hong Kong
      • Hong Kong orders the culling of 2,000 small animals, such as hamsters, chinchillas and rabbits, closes pet shops, and sends 100 people to a quarantine camp after nearly a dozen hamsters imported from the Netherlands and sold at Little Boss pet shop were infected with the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant which also spread to two people. (Bloomberg)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Japan
      • Japan reports a record 32,197 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. (The Mainichi)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Nepal
      • Nepal reports a record 10,258 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 972,198. (La Prensa Latina)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Europe
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Bulgaria
      • Bulgaria reports a record 9,996 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 830,604. (Bulgarian Press Agency)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in France
      • France reports a record 464,769 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. (Anadolu Agency)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Spain
      • Second Deputy Prime Minister of Spain Yolanda Díaz and Minister of Science and Innovation Diana Morant both test positive for COVID-19. (El Periódico)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Vatican City
      • The Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin and his deputy Edgar Peña Parra both test positive for COVID-19. (The New York Times)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in South America
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil
      • Brazil reports a record 137,102 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 23,211,894. (Reuters)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Paraguay
      • Paraguayan President Mario Abdo Benítez tests positive for COVID-19. (Yahoo! News)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Australia
    • Australia reports a record 77 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. (SBS News)
  • COVID-19 drug development
    • Merck & Co. and its partner Ridgeback Biotherapeutics sign an agreement with UNICEF to distribute up to 3 million courses of their COVID-19 antiviral pill molnupiravir to 100 low and middle-income countries in the first half of the year. (Thomson Reuters Foundation)

January 17, 2022 (2022-01-17) (Monday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis, Russia–NATO relations
    • Canada deploys a small contingent of special forces to Ukraine as part of a NATO response to deter Russian aggression. The unit is also being tasked with evacuating diplomatic personnel from the Canadian embassy in Kyiv in the event of a full-scale invasion. (Reuters)
    • The United Kingdom begins supplying anti-tank guided missiles to Ukraine amid tensions with Russia, according to a statement from Secretary of State for Defence Ben Wallace. A small number of British military personnel will also be deployed to help train Ukrainian troops. (Reuters)
    • Royal Air Force C-17 transport aircraft arrive in Ukraine with "light anti-armour weapons" as part of British military support for Ukraine. (UK Defence Journal)
• Spillover of the Yemeni Civil War
  • 2022 Abu Dhabi attack
    • Three people are killed in a drone attack on petrol tanks at a major oil storage facility near Abu Dhabi International Airport, United Arab Emirates. The Yemen-based Houthis claims responsibility, saying that they launched "five ballistic missiles and a large number of drones". (Hindustan Times) (CNN)

Arts and culture

• Capital of Indonesia
  • The Minister of National Development Planning Suharso Monoarfa reveals that the name of the new Indonesian capital will be Nusantara. Nusantara is a term that has been used to describe the Indonesian Archipelago. (VOI)
• An independent investigation team identifies Arnold van den Bergh, a member of Amsterdam's Jewish Council, as the most likely person responsible for reporting The Diary of a Young Girl author Anne Frank and her family to the Nazis in 1944, leading to their deaths in a concentration camp. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• 2022 Afghanistan earthquake
  • At least 26 people are killed by a magnitude 5.3 earthquake in Qadis, Badghis Province. (France 24)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Europe
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Denmark
      • Denmark reports a record 28,780 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours as the country eases many of its pandemic restrictions. (Reuters)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Greece, COVID-19 vaccination in Greece
      • Greece begins to introduce monthly fines for people over the age of 60 who are unvaccinated against COVID-19 amid an increase in the number of new cases in the country. The monthly fine will initially be €50 this month and will be €100 per month thereafter. (NPR)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in the Netherlands
      • The Netherlands reports a record 42,472 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. (NL Times)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Canada
    • COVID-19 drug development
      • Health Canada approves the use of Pfizer's anti-COVID-19 viral drug Paxlovid for people over the age of 18 years who are at risk of severe disease and death. (CBC News)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Alberta
      • Alberta Minister of Health Jason Copping tests positive for COVID-19 as the province reports 1,007 total hospitalizations. CBC News
  • COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines, COVID-19 vaccination in the Philippines
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Metro Manila
      • The Philippines begins to ban people who are unvaccinated against COVID-19 from riding public transport and entering commercial planes despite protests from labour and human rights groups. (Al Jazeera)

International relations

• Canada–China relations, COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China
  • The South China Morning Post reports that Pang Xinghuo, deputy director of the Beijing Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, stated that the first patient infected with the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in Beijing received a letter mailed from Canada on January 7 and does not rule out the possibility that the patient was infected via contact with the letter. (South China Morning Post) (CBC News)
  • Leader of the Official Opposition of Canada Erin O'Toole responds to the report, calling it "comical". (National Post)

Law and crime

• A Parisian court fines far-right French television pundit and presidential candidate Éric Zemmour €10,000 for calling unaccompanied migrant children "rapists" and "murderers" during a September 2020 television broadcast. (BBC News)

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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

• 2020–2022 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
• Colombian tax reform protests
• Eswatini protests
• Haitian protests
• Insulate Britain protests
• Jersey dispute
• Libyan peace process
• Malaysian political crisis
• Myanmar protests
• Nicaraguan protests
• Nigerian protests
• Persian Gulf crisis
• Peruvian crisis
• Russian election protests
• 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

• January
  • 16: Serbia, Constitutional referendum
  • 19: Barbados, House of Assembly

Upcoming

• January
  • 23: Northern Cyprus, Assembly of the Republic
  • 30: Portugal, Assembly of the Republic

Trials

Recently concluded

• Belarus: Sergei Tikhanovsky
• Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi
• United States: Elizabeth Holmes, Ghislaine Maxwell, Charles Lieber, Jussie Smollett, Josh Duggar, Murder of Ahmaud Arbery

Ongoing

• Armenia: Serzh Sargsyan
• France: Brussels ISIL
• Israel: Benjamin Netanyahu
• Italy: Matteo Salvini
• Kyrgyzstan: Almazbek Atambayev
• Malta: Yorgen Fenech
• Philippines: Leila de Lima
• Sudan: Omar al-Bashir

Upcoming

• Canada: Peter Nygård
• Kosovo: Hashim Thaçi, Kadri Veseli
• Nigeria: Nnamdi Kanu
• Sweden: Hamid Nouri
• United States: Allen Weisselberg, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed 
• Vatican City: Giovanni Angelo Becciu
• ICC: Ali Kushayb

Sport

• 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
• American football
  • 2021 NFL season
• 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
• Rugby union
  • 2021–22 Premiership Rugby
  • 2021–22 United Rugby Championship
  • 2021–22 Top 14
  • 2021 Super Rugby season
• Other sports seasons
  • 2021–22 International cricket season
  • 2021–22 snooker season
  • 2021–22 curling season

More details – current sports events

Recent deaths

January

• 22: Colm Keane
• 21: Louie Anderson
• 21: Mace Neufeld
• 19: Frank Dutton
• 19: Gaspard Ulliel
• 18: André Leon Talley
• 16: Charles McGee
• 16: Paul Myners
• 15: Michael Jackson
• 15: Steve Schapiro
• 14: Dallas Frazier
• 13: Junior Siavii
• 13: Jean-Jacques Beineix
• 11: Clyde Bellecourt
• 11: Ernest Shonekan
• 10: Don Maynard
• 10: Aura Herzog
• 9: Dwayne Hickman
• 9: Bob Saget
• 8: Marilyn Bergman
• 8: Michael Parks
• 7: Lani Guinier
• 7: Francisco Laína
• 6: Bob Falkenburg
• 6: Yoram Taharlev
• 5: Kim Mi-soo
• 4: William M. Ellinghaus
• 3: Jay Wolpert
• 3: Viktor Saneyev
• 2: Richard Leakey
• 1: Richard Freed
• 22: Thích Nhất Hạnh
• 21: Clark Gillies
• 20: Meat Loaf
• 19: Hardy Krüger
• 18: Lusia Harris
• 17: Yvette Mimieux
• 16: Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta 
• 15: Marlon Bundo
• 15: Jean-Claude Lord
• 15: Nino Cerruti
• 14: Jim Fahy
• 13: Terry Teachout
• 12: Ronnie Spector
• 11: David Sassoli
• 10: Robert Durst
• 10: Francis Jackson
• 9: Maria Ewing
• 9: James Mtume
• 9: Toshiki Kaifu
• 8: Michael Lang
• 8: Andrew Jennings
• 7: Jack Dromey
• 6: Peter Bogdanovich
• 6: Sidney Poitier
• 6: F. Sionil José
• 4: Joan Copeland
• 4: Hilton Cheong-Leen
• 3: Bogdanoff twins
• 2: Jody Gibson
• 2: Charles Njonjo
• 1: Dan Reeves

December

• 31: Betty White
• 30: Karel Loprais
• 28: Michael R. Clifford
• 28: John Madden
• 27: April Ashley
• 26: Jean-Marc Vallée
• 26: E. O. Wilson
• 26: Desmond Tutu
• 25: Jonathan Spence
• 25: Janice Long
• 30: Sam Jones
• 28: James Cayne
• 28: Harry Reid
• 28: Hugo Maradona
• 27: Chaim Walder
• 26: Sarah Weddington
• 26: Karolos Papoulias
• 25: Candy Palmater
• 25: Wayne Thiebaud
• 24: J. D. Crowe

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
    • 2020–2021 Western Saharan clashes

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

2022 events and developments by topic

Arts

Architecture – Animation – Anime – Comics – Film (Horror, Science fiction) – Home video – Literature – Music (Classical, Country, Hip hop, Latin, Metal, Rock, UK, US) – Radio – Television (UK, US, Italy, Scotland) – 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 – Sustainable energy research – Space/Astronomy – Spaceflight

Environment

Birding/Ornithology – Climate change

Transportation

Aviation – Rail transport

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Works and introductions categories

Works – Introductions – Works entering the public domain