Portal:Current events/August 2022/Sidebar



 Ongoing events

Disasters
 * Climate crisis
 * COVID-19 pandemic
 * Opioid epidemic
 * 2022 monkeypox outbreak
 * 2022 European heat waves, drought, & wildfires
 * 2020–2022 North American drought
 * 2022 California wildfires
 * 2022 South Asian heat wave
 * 2022 Pakistan floods

Economics Politics
 * 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
 * Belarus−European Union border crisis
 * Dutch farmers protests
 * Iraqi political crisis
 * Israeli political crisis
 * Malaysian political crisis
 * Myanmar protests
 * Peruvian crisis
 * Russia−European Union gas dispute
 * Sri Lankan protests
 * Sudanese protests
 * Tunisian political crisis
 * Ukrainian refugee crisis
 * United States abortion protests

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 Elections and referendums Recent


 * August
 * 23: Samoa, O le Ao o le Malo (indirect)
 * 24: Angola, President, National Assembly

Upcoming

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 * September
 * 4: Chile, Constitutional referendum
 * 11: Sweden, Riksdag

 Trials

Recently concluded Ongoing Upcoming
 * Russia: Brittney Griner
 * Sweden: Hamid Nouri
 * United States: Steve Bannon, Sunny Balwani
 * 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
 * United States: Paul Flores, Nikolas Cruz, R. Kelly
 * Vatican City: Giovanni Angelo Becciu
 * ICC: Ali Kushayb


 * Nigeria: Nnamdi Kanu
 * United States: Tom Barrack

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Sport
 * Association football
 * 2022–23 UEFA Champions League
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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

More details – current sports events

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 Recent deaths

August

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 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
 * Islamic State–Taliban conflict
 * Republican insurgency
 * India
 * Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
 * Insurgency in Northeast India
 * Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
 * Indonesia
 * Papua conflict
 * Myanmar
 * Anti-coup insurgency
 * 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–Israel proxy conflict
 * Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict
 * Iran–PJAK conflict
 * Sistan and Baluchestan insurgency
 * Iraq
 * Iranian intervention
 * 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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