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 Ongoing events

Disasters Economic Politics
 * Climate crisis
 * COVID-19 pandemic
 * Opioid epidemic
 * 2021–22 European windstorm season
 * 2020–2022 H5N8 outbreak
 * Madagascar famine
 * Yemeni famine
 * 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
 * Belarus−European Union border crisis
 * Brazilian protests
 * Colombian tax reform protests
 * Eswatini protests
 * Haitian protests
 * Freedom Convoy 2022
 * Insulate Britain protests
 * Jersey dispute
 * Libyan peace process
 * Malaysian political crisis
 * Myanmar protests
 * Nicaraguan protests
 * Nigerian protests
 * 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

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 Elections and referendums Recent
 * January
 * 19: Barbados, House of Assembly
 * 23: Northern Cyprus, Assembly of the Republic
 * 26: Nepal, National Assembly (indirect)
 * 24−29: Italy, President (indirect)
 * 30: Portugal, Assembly of the Republic

Upcoming


 * February
 * 6: Costa Rica, President (1st), Legislative Assembly
 * 13: Germany, President (indirect)

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Trials

Recently concluded Ongoing Upcoming
 * Belarus: Sergei Tikhanovsky
 * Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi
 * United States: Elizabeth Holmes, Ghislaine Maxwell, Charles Lieber, Jussie Smollett, Josh Duggar
 * 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


 * 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

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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
 * 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


 * Other sports seasons
 * 2021–22 International cricket season
 * 2021–22 snooker season
 * 2021–22 curling season

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 Recent deaths

January


 * 30: Cheslie Kryst
 * 29: Howard Hesseman
 * 27: Gene Clines
 * 25: Ozzie
 * 25: Wyn Calvin
 * 24: Olavo de Carvalho
 * 23: Beegie Adair
 * 23: Thierry Mugler
 * 22: Thích Nhất Hạnh
 * 21: Clark Gillies
 * 20: Meat Loaf
 * 19: Bob Goalby
 * 19: Hardy Krüger
 * 18: Lusia Harris
 * 18: Francisco Gento
 * 16: Charles McGee
 * 16: Paul Myners
 * 15: Michael Jackson
 * 15: Steve Schapiro
 * 14: Dallas Frazier
 * 14: Jim Fahy
 * 13: Terry Teachout
 * 12: Ronnie Spector
 * 11: Jana Bennett
 * 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
 * 29: Leonard Fenton
 * 29: John K. Singlaub
 * 27: Matthew Reeves
 * 25: Peter Robbins
 * 25: Barry Cryer
 * 24: Sheldon Silver
 * 23: Jean-Claude Mézières
 * 22: Colm Keane
 * 21: Louie Anderson
 * 21: Mace Neufeld
 * 20: Elza Soares
 * 19: Frank Dutton
 * 19: Gaspard Ulliel
 * 18: André Leon Talley
 * 17: Yvette Mimieux
 * 16: Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta
 * 15: Marlon Bundo
 * 15: Jean-Claude Lord
 * 15: Nino Cerruti
 * 14: Carol Speed
 * 13: Junior Siavii
 * 13: Jean-Jacques Beineix
 * 11: Clyde Bellecourt
 * 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

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 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

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