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Ongoing events

Disasters

• European floods
• Gaza humanitarian crisis
• Haitian crisis
• India–Pakistan smog
• Sudanese famine
• United States opioid epidemic

Economics

• Chinese property sector crisis
• German economic crisis
• United Kingdom cost-of-living crisis
• Video game industry layoffs

Politics

• Mexico–United States border crisis
• South China Sea territorial disputes
• Venezuelan political crisis

Protests and strikes

• Israel–Hamas war protests
• New Caledonia social unrest
• United Kingdom farmers' protests
• Venezuelan protests

Elections and referendums

Recent

• November

• 10: Mauritius, National Assembly
• 13: Somaliland, President
• 14: Sri Lanka, Parliament
• 16: Gabon, Constitutional referendum
• 17: Senegal, National Assembly

Upcoming

• 24: Romania, President
• 24: Uruguay, President (2nd)
• 27: Namibia, President, National Assembly
• 29: Ireland, Dáil Éireann
• 30: Iceland, Althing

• December

• 01: Romania, Senate, Chamber of Deputies

Trials

Ongoing

• France:0Dominique Pélicot
• Kosovo:0Specialist Chambers
• United States:0YSL Records
• ICC:0Ali Kushayb  •  Mahamat Said Abdel Kani

Sports

• American football

• 2024 NFL season
• 2024 NCAA Division I FBS season

• Association football

• 2024–25 UEFA Champions League
• 2024–25 UEFA Europa League
• 2024–25 UEFA Conference League
• 2024 Copa Libertadores
• 2024–25 UEFA Women's Champions League
• 2024–25 Premier League
• 2024–25 Serie A
• 2024–25 La Liga
• 2024–25 Bundesliga
• 2024–25 Ligue 1
• 2024 Major League Soccer season
• 2024 National Women's Soccer League season

• Basketball

• 2024–25 NBA season
• 2024–25 EuroLeague

• Canadian football

• 2024 U Sports football season

• International cricket

• 2023–25 ICC World Test Championship

• Golf

• 2024 PGA Tour
• 2024 LPGA Tour

• Ice hockey

• 2024–25 NHL season

• Motorsport

• 2024 Formula One World Championship

• Tennis

• 2024 ATP Tour
• 2024 WTA Tour

More details – current sports events

Recent deaths

November

• 20: Ursula Haverbeck
• 20: Andy Paley
• 20: John Prescott
• 19: Tony Campolo
• 18: Arthur Frommer
• 18: Bob Love
• 18: Colin Petersen
• 16: Vladimir Shklyarov
• 15: Celeste Caeiro
• 15: Béla Károlyi
• 15: Jon Kenny
• 15: Yuriko, Princess Mikasa
• 14: Vic Flick
• 14: Peter Sinfield
• 13: Theodore Olson
• 13: Shel Talmy
• 13: Daim Zainuddin
• 12: Roy Haynes
• 12: John Horgan
• 12: Thomas E. Kurtz
• 12: Timothy West
• 12: Song Jae-rim
• 11: Frank Auerbach
• 11: John Robinson
• 10: Tim Sullivan
• 09: Bobby Allison
• 09: Lou Donaldson
• 09: Judith Jamison
• 09: Ella Jenkins
• 08: Elizabeth Nunez
• 08: Trevor Sorbie
• 08: June Spencer
• 07: Bruce Degen
• 06: John Nott
• 06: Madeleine Riffaud
• 06: Tony Todd
• 05: Dorothy Allison
• 05: Ben Baldanza
• 05: Elwood Edwards
• 04: Bernard Marcus
• 04: Murray Sinclair
• 03: Quincy Jones
• 02: Janey Godley
• 02: Alan Rachins
• 02: Paul Stephenson
• 01: Peanut

October

• 30: Matt Peacock
• 29: Teri Garr
• 28: Paul Morrissey
• 28: Jamshid Sharmahd
• 25: Kim Soo-mi
• 25: Phil Lesh
• 24: Abdelaziz Barrada
• 24: Amir Abdur-Rahim
• 24: DJ Clark Kent
• 24: Jeri Taylor
• 23: Hama Amadou
• 23: Geoff Capes
• 23: Gary Indiana
• 23: Jack Jones

Ongoing conflicts

Global

• War against the Islamic State

Africa

• Cameroon

• Anglophone Crisis

• Central African Republic

• Civil war

• Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Kivu conflict

• Ethiopia

• Amhara conflict

• Mozambique

• Insurgency in Cabo Delgado

• Nigeria

• Boko Haram insurgency

• Sahel insurgency

• Mali War

• Burkina Faso
• Niger

• Somalia

• Civil war

• Sudan

• Civil war

Americas

• Mexico

• Mexican drug war

Asia−Pacific

• Afghanistan

• Islamic State–Taliban conflict
• Republican insurgency

• India

• Naxalite–Maoist insurgency

• Indonesia

• Papua conflict

• Myanmar

• Civil war

• Pakistan

• Insurgency in Balochistan
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

• Philippines

• NPA rebellion

Europe

• Russia and Ukraine

• Russian invasion of Ukraine

Middle East

• Iraq

• Islamic State insurgency

• Israel

• Israel–Hezbollah conflict

• Israel–Hamas war

• Syria

• Iran–Israel conflict

• Turkey

• PKK insurgency

• Yemen

• Red Sea crisis

See also – List of ongoing proxy wars

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See also

• Wikipedia:How the Current events page works