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Ongoing events

Disasters

• Climate crisis
• COVID-19 pandemic
• Opioid epidemic
• 2021–22 Australian region cyclone season
• 2021–22 European windstorm season
• 2020–2022 H5N8 outbreak
• 2022 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
• 2022 Pacific typhoon season
• 2021–22 South Pacific cyclone season
• 2021–22 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season
• 2020–2022 Taal Volcano eruptions
• Madagascar famine
• Yemeni famine

Economics

• 2020–present global chip shortage
• 2021–2022 global energy crisis
• 2021–2022 global supply chain crisis
• COVID-19 recession
• Lebanese liquidity crisis
• Russian financial crisis
• Sri Lankan economic and food crisis
• Turkish currency and debt crisis

Politics

• Belarus−European Union border crisis
• Brazilian protests
• Haitian protests
• Insulate Britain protests
• Malaysian political crisis
• Myanmar protests
• Nicaraguan protests
• Nigerian protests
• Partygate
• Peruvian crisis
• Somali political crisis
• Sri Lankan protests
• Tigrayan peace process
• Thai protests
• Tunisian political crisis
• Ukrainian refugee crisis
• 2020–2022 United States racial unrest
• Venezuelan presidential crisis

Elections and referendums

Recent

• April
  • 19: East Timor, President (2nd)
  • 24: France, President (2nd)
  • 24: Slovenia, National Assembly

Upcoming

• May
  • 8: Hong Kong, Chief Executive (indirect)
  • 8: South Ossetia, President (2nd)
  • 9: Philippines, President, Senate, House of Representatives
  • 15: Lebanon, Parliament

Trials

Recently concluded

• China: Shadeed Abdulmateen
• Turkey: Osman Kavala
• United Kingdom: Ali Harbi Ali, Imran Ahmad Khan, Boris Becker
• United States: El Shafee Elsheikh, Roger Ng

Ongoing

• Armenia: Serzh Sargsyan
• France: Brussels Islamic State
• 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: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Sunny Balwani
• Vatican City: Giovanni Angelo Becciu
• ICC: Ali Kushayb

Upcoming

• Canada: Peter Nygård
• Nigeria: Nnamdi Kanu
• United States: Michael Sussmann

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
  • 2021–22 Ligue 1
  • 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification
  • 2022 MLS season
• Baseball
  • 2022 MLB season
• Basketball
  • 2022 NBA Playoffs
• Cricket
  • 2022 Indian Premier League
  • 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 PGA Tour Champions
  • 2021–22 PGA Tour
  • 2022 Ladies European Tour
  • 2022 European Tour
  • 2022 LPGA Tour
• Ice hockey
  • 2021–22 NHL season
• Motorsport
  • 2022 Formula One World Championship
  • 2021–22 Formula E World Championship
• Rugby union
  • 2021–22 Premiership Rugby
  • 2021–22 United Rugby Championship
  • 2021–22 Top 14
  • 2022 Super Rugby Pacific season
• Tennis
  • 2022 ATP Tour
  • 2022 WTA Tour
• Other sports seasons
  • 2021–22 International cricket season
  • 2021–22 snooker season
  • 2021–22 curling season

More details – current sports events

Recent deaths

April

• 30: Naomi Judd
• 30: Mino Raiola
• 28: Neal Adams
• 27: Nagaenthran Dharmalingam
• 27: Kenneth Tsang
• 26: Klaus Schulze
• 25: Shane Yellowbird
• 23: Orrin Hatch
• 23: Johnnie Jones
• 22: Guy Lafleur
• 21: Carl Wayne Buntion
• 21: Daryle Lamonica
• 21: Cynthia Plaster Caster
• 21: Eric Chappell
• 21: Mwai Kibaki
• 21: Jacques Perrin
• 20: Robert Morse
• 20: Guitar Shorty
• 19: Rolando Hinojosa-Smith
• 19: Kane Tanaka
• 18: Nicholas Angelich
• 18: Harrison Birtwistle
• 18: Hermann Nitsch
• 18: Bridget Tan
• 17: Jim Hartz
• 17: DJ Kay Slay
• 17: Radu Lupu
• 16: Rosario Ibarra
• 15: Earl Devaney
• 15: Art Rupe
• 15: Liz Sheridan
• 15: Michael O'Kennedy
• 15: Bilquis Edhi
• 14: Mike Bossy
• 14: Rio Hackford
• 13: Letizia Battaglia
• 13: Michel Bouquet
• 12: Gilbert Gottfried
• 12: Cedric McMillan
• 12: Shirley Spork
• 11: Charnett Moffett
• 9: Jack Higgins
• 9: Dwayne Haskins
• 9: Chris Bailey
• 8: Aravindan Balakrishnan
• 8: Mimi Reinhardt
• 8: Peng Ming-min
• 7: Rayfield Wright
• 6: Rae Allen
• 6: Jill Knight
• 6: Tom Smith
• 6: Vladimir Zhirinovsky
• 5: Sidney Altman
• 5: David Kilgour
• 5: Nehemiah Persoff
• 5: Bobby Rydell
• 5: Jimmy Wang Yu
• 4: Eric Boehlert
• 4: Jerry Uelsmann
• 3: Tommy Davis
• 3: Lygia Fagundes Telles
• 3: Gerda Weissmann Klein
• 3: Gene Shue
• 3: June Brown
• 3: Pamela Rooke
• 2: Vance Amory
• 2: Estelle Harris
• 1: C. W. McCall

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Casualties of the Russo-Ukrainian War

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
• Ethiopia
  • Tigray War (spillover)
  • Oromo conflict
  • Benishangul-Gumuz 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
  • 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
• Ireland and the UK
  • Dissident Irish republican campaign
• Turkey
  • Kurdish–Turkish conflict
• Ukraine
  • Russo-Ukrainian War
    • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • War in Donbas

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
  • 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 proxy wars

2022 events and developments by topic

Arts

• Animation (Anime)
• Architecture
• Comics
• Film (Horror, Science fiction)
• Literature (Poetry)
• Music (Classical, Country, Hip hop, Jazz, Latin, Metal, Rock, UK, US, Korea)
• Radio
• Television (Australia, Canada, Ireland, UK, Scotland, US)
• 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
• Space/Astronomy
• Spaceflight
• Sustainable energy research

Environment and environmental sciences

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

Transportation

• Aviation
• Rail transport
• Transportation technology

Establishments and disestablishments categories

• Establishments
• Disestablishments

Works and introductions categories

• Works
• Introductions
• Works entering the public domain