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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 monkeypox outbreak
• 2022 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
• 2022 Pacific typhoon season
• 2022 Pacific hurricane season
• 2021–22 South Pacific 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
• 2021–2022 inflation surge
• 2022 food crises
• 2022 United States infant formula shortage
• 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
• Malaysian political crisis
• Myanmar protests
• Nicaraguan protests
• Nigerian protests
• Peruvian crisis
• Sri Lankan protests
• Tigrayan peace process
• Thai protests
• Tunisian political crisis
• Ukrainian refugee crisis
• Venezuelan presidential crisis

Elections and referendums

Recent

• May
  • 21: Australia, Senate, House of Representatives
  • 23: Albania, President (indirect, 2nd)
  • 29: Colombia, President (1st)
  • 30: Albania, President (indirect, 3rd)

Upcoming

• June
  • 1: Denmark, Referendum
  • 5: Kazakhstan, Constitutional referendum
  • 11–24: Papua New Guinea, National Assembly
  • 12: France, National Assembly (1st)
  • 12: Italy, Referendum

Trials

Recently concluded

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

Ongoing

• Armenia: Serzh Sargsyan
• Bolivia: Jeanine Áñez
• 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: Sunny Balwani
• Vatican City: Giovanni Angelo Becciu
• ICC: Ali Kushayb

Upcoming

• Canada: Peter Nygård
• Nigeria: Nnamdi Kanu
• United States: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Steve Bannon

Sport

• Association football
  • 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification
  • 2022 MLS season
  • 2022 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
• Women's association football
  • 2022 NWSL season
• Baseball
  • 2022 MLB season
• Basketball
  • 2022 NBA Playoffs
  • 2022 WNBA 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
  • 2022 PGA Tour Champions
  • 2021–22 PGA Tour
  • 2022 Ladies European Tour
  • 2022 European Tour
  • 2022 LPGA Tour
• Ice hockey
  • 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs
• Motorsport
  • 2022 Formula One World Championship
  • 2021–22 Formula E World Championship
• Rugby league
  • 2022 NRL season
• Rugby union
  • 2021–22 Premiership Rugby
  • 2021–22 United Rugby Championship
  • 2022 Super Rugby Pacific season
• Tennis
  • 2022 ATP Tour
  • 2022 WTA Tour
• Other sports seasons
  • 2022 International cricket season

More details – current sports events

Recent deaths

May

• 29: Ronnie Hawkins
• 29: Lester Piggott
• 29: Sidhu Moose Wala
• 28: Evaristo Carvalho
• 28: Bo Hopkins
• 28: Bujar Nishani
• 27: Angelo Sodano
• 26: Ciriaco De Mita
• 26: Andy Fletcher
• 26: George Shapiro
• 26: Ray Liotta
• 26: Alan White
• 25: Morton L. Janklow
• 25: Thomas Murphy
• 23: Joe Pignatano
• 22: Hazel Henderson
• 22: Dervla Murphy
• 21: Colin Cantwell
• 20: Roger Angell
• 20: Susan Roces
• 19: Abdul Gaffar Chowdhury
• 18: Bob Neuwirth
• 17: Marnie Schulenburg
• 17: Maurice Lindsay
• 17: Vangelis
• 17: Kristine Gebbie
• 15: Maggie Peterson
• 15: Kay Mellor
• 14: Donald Kemp Ross
• 14: Urvashi Vaid
• 13: Julie Beckett
• 13: Lil Keed
• 13: Ben Roy Mottelson
• 13: Richard Wald
• 13: Teresa Berganza
• 13: Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
• 13: Yang Hyong-sop
• 12: Gino Cappelletti
• 12: Robert McFarlane
• 12: Ben Moore
• 11: John L. Canley
• 11: Clarence Dixon
• 11: Trevor Strnad
• 11: Randy Weaver
• 11: Shireen Abu Akleh
• 10: Bob Lanier
• 10: Leonid Kravchuk
• 10: Shivkumar Sharma
• 9: Midge Decter
• 9: John Leo
• 9: Adreian Payne
• 8: John R. Cherry III
• 8: Fred Ward
• 8: Dennis Waterman
• 7: Mickey Gilley
• 7: Kang Soo-yeon
• 6: Jewell Caples
• 6: George Pérez
• 5: Mike Hagerty
• 5: Kevin Samuels
• 5: Kenneth Welsh
• 3: Norman Mineta
• 3: Tony Brooks
• 3: Stanislav Shushkevich
• 1: Kathy Boudin
• 1: Ric Parnell

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Casualties of the Russo-Ukrainian War

Ongoing conflicts

Global

• War on terror

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
  • Ethiopian–Sudanese 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

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 Palestine
• 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

See also – 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