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Ongoing events

Disasters

• Avian flu outbreak
• Haitian crisis
• United States opioid epidemic

Economics

• Canadian economic crisis
• Chinese property sector crisis
• German economic crisis
• Moldovan energy crisis
• United Kingdom cost-of-living crisis
• United States–Canada–Mexico trade war

Politics

• Argentina cryptocurrency scandal
• Georgian political crisis
• Somali constitutional crisis
• Venezuelan political crisis

Protests and strikes

• Georgian post-election protests
• Gaza war protests
• Indonesian student protests
• Serbian anti-corruption protests
• Southeast European retail boycotts

Weather

• Australian region cyclone season

• Cyclone Alfred

Elections and referendums

Recent

• February

• 23: Germany, Bundestag
• 26: Anguilla, House of Assembly

• March

• 01: Abkhazia, President (2nd)
• 02: Tajikistan, Assembly of Representatives

Upcoming

• 09: Algeria, Council of the Nation (indirect)
• 11: Greenland, Inatsisartut
• 12: Switzerland, Federal Council (indirect)
• 12: Belize, House of Representatives
• 21: Curaçao, Parliament

Trials

Ongoing

• Kosovo:0Specialist Chambers
• South Korea:0Yoon Suk Yeol
• ICC:0Ali Kushayb  •  Mahamat Said Abdel Kani

Sports

• Association football

• 2024–25 UEFA Champions League
• 2024–25 UEFA Europa League
• 2024–25 UEFA Conference League
• 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
• 2025 Major League Soccer season

• Basketball

• 2024–25 NBA season
• 2024–25 EuroLeague
• 2024–25 NCAA Division I men's season
• 2024–25 NCAA Division I women's season

• International cricket

• 2023–25 ICC World Test Championship

• Golf

• 2025 PGA Tour
• 2025 LIV Golf League
• 2025 LPGA Tour

• Ice hockey

• 2024–25 NHL season
• 2024–25 PWHL season

• Motorsport

• 2025 MotoGP World Championship
• 2025 NASCAR Cup Series
• 2025 IndyCar Series

• Rugby union

• 2025 Six Nations Championship

• Tennis

• 2025 ATP Tour
• 2025 WTA Tour

More details – current sports events

Recent deaths

March

• 05: Fred Stolle
• 04: Roy Ayers
• 03: Lincoln Díaz-Balart
• 02: George Lowe
• 01: Pat Ingoldsby
• 01: Joey Molland
• 01: Angie Stone
• 01: Jack Vettriano

February

• 28: David Johansen
• 28: Joseph Wambaugh
• 27: Boris Spassky
• 26: Michelle Trachtenberg
• 25: Henry Kelly
• 25: Roberto Orci
• 24: Roberta Flack
• 23: Larry Dolan
• 23: Chris Jasper
• 23: Al Trautwig
• 21: Clint Hill
• 21: Lynne Marie Stewart
• 20: David Boren
• 20: Jerry Butler
• 20: Peter Jason
• 18: Gerald Ridsdale
• 17: Rick Buckler
• c. 17: Gene Hackman
• 17: Paquita la del Barrio
• 17: James Harrison
• 16: Kim Sae-ron
• 15: George Armitage
• 15: Muhsin Hendricks
• 15: Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa
• 13: Jim Guy Tucker
• 11: Margarita Forés
• 11: Moses Lim
• 10: Peter Tuiasosopo
• 09: Tom Robbins
• 08: Dick Jauron
• 08: Sam Nujoma
• 08: Gyalo Thondup
• 07: Dafydd Elis-Thomas
• 07: Tony Roberts
• 06: Virginia Halas McCaskey
• 05: Irv Gotti

Ongoing conflicts

Global

• War against the Islamic State

Africa

• Cameroon

• Anglophone Crisis

• Central African Republic

• Civil war

• Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda

• Kivu conflict

• Ethiopia

• Amhara conflict

• 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

• Myanmar

• Civil war

• Pakistan

• Insurgency in Balochistan
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

• Philippines

• NPA rebellion

Europe

• Russia and Ukraine

• Russian invasion of Ukraine

Middle East

• Israel

• Gaza war

• Israeli invasion of Lebanon

• Syria

• Israeli invasion of Syria

• 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