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Ongoing events

Disasters

• 2022–2023 monkeypox outbreak
• COVID-19 pandemic
• Global spread of H5N1
• Opioid epidemic
• Chile wildfires
• São Paulo floods and landslides

Economics

• 2020–present global chip shortage
• 2021–2023 global energy crisis
• 2021–2023 inflation surge
• 2022–2023 food crises
• Lebanese liquidity crisis
• Pakistan economic crisis
• South African energy crisis
• Sri Lankan economic crisis
• Turkish currency and debt crisis
• United Kingdom cost of living crisis
• Zimbabwean hyperinflation

Politics

• Belarus−European Union border crisis
• French pension reform strikes
• Haitian crisis‎
• Iranian protests
• Israeli anti-judicial reform protests
• Libyan crisis
• Moldovan protests
• Myanmar protests
• North Kosovo crisis
• Peruvian political crisis and protests
• Qatargate
• Ukrainian refugee crisis
• United Kingdom railway strikes
• United States abortion protests
• United States Tyre Nichols protests
• Venezuelan crisis

Elections and referendums

Recent

• February

• 24: Djibouti, National Assembly
• 25−26: Nigeria, President, Senate, House of Representatives

• March

• 2: Vietnam, President (indirect)

Upcoming

• 5: Estonia, Riigikogu
• 7: Micronesia, Congress
• 9: Nepal, President (indirect)
• 12: Cameroon, Senate (indirect)

Trials

Recently concluded

• Indonesia: Ferdy Sambo
• United States: Alex Murdaugh

Ongoing

• Armenia: Serzh Sargsyan
• Guinea: Moussa Dadis Camara
• Israel: Benjamin Netanyahu
• Italy: Matteo Salvini
• Kosovo: Specialist Chambers
• Malta: Yorgen Fenech
• Philippines: Leila de Lima
• Sudan: Omar al-Bashir
• Vatican City: Giovanni Angelo Becciu
• ICC: Ali Kushayb

Sport

• Association football

• 2022–23 UEFA Champions League
• 2022–23 UEFA Europa League
• 2022–23 Bundesliga
• 2022–23 La Liga
• 2022–23 Ligue 1
• 2022–23 Premier League
• 2022–23 Serie A
• 2023 MLS season

• Basketball

• 2022–23 NBA season
• 2022–23 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Season
• 2022–23 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Season

• International cricket

• 2021–23 ICC World Test Championship
• 2020–23 ICC Cricket World Cup Super League
• 2019–23 ICC Cricket World Cup League 2

• Golf

• 2023 PGA Tour Champions
• 2023 Ladies European Tour
• 2023 European Tour
• 2023 LPGA Tour

• Ice hockey

• 2022–23 NHL season
• 2022–23 PHF season

• Motorsport

• 2023 NASCAR Cup Series

• Rugby union

• 2023 Six Nations Championship

• Tennis

• 2023 ATP Tour
• 2023 WTA Tour

• Other sports seasons

• 2022–23 curling season
• 2022–23 snooker season

More details – current sports events

Recent deaths

March

• 3: Rafael Viñoly
• 2: Wayne Shorter
• 1: Just Fontaine
• 1: Jerry Richardson

February

• 28: Pirouz
• 27: Burny Mattinson
• 27: Gleb Pavlovsky
• 26: Bob Richards
• 26: Betty Boothroyd
• 26: Ans Westra
• 25: Gordon Pinsent
• 24: Walter Mirisch
• 24: Bernard Ingham
• 24: Juraj Jakubisko
• 23: Thomas H. Lee
• 23: John Motson
• 22: Ahmed Qurei
• 19: Red McCombs
• 19: Jansen Panettiere
• 19: Richard Belzer
• 19: Dickie Davies
• 18: Barbara Bosson
• 18: Thomas R. Donahue
• 18: David G. O'Connell
• 18: Tom Whitlock
• 17: Gerald Fried
• 17: Kyle Jacobs
• 17: George T. Miller
• 17: Stella Stevens
• 16: Chuck Jackson
• 16: Maon Kurosaki
• 16: Tim McCarver
• 15: Paul Berg
• 15: Raquel Welch
• 14: Friedrich Cerha
• 14: Jerry Jarrett
• 14: Shoichiro Toyoda
• 13: Huey "Piano" Smith
• 13: Oliver Wood
• 13: Leiji Matsumoto
• 13: Zia Mohyeddin
• 12: David Jude Jolicoeur
• 12: Ted Lerner
• 12: Eileen Sheridan
• 12: Arne Treholt
• 11: Howard Bragman
• 11: Hans Modrow
• 11: Deniz Baykal
• 10: AKA
• 10: Hugh Hudson
• 10: Carlos Saura
• 10: Sergey Tereshchenko
• 8: Burt Bacharach
• 8: Miroslav Blažević
• 8: Elena Fanchini
• 8: Igor Mangushev
• 8: Ivan Silayev
• 6: David Harris
• 6: Eugene Lee
• 6: Christian Atsu
• 6: Lubomír Štrougal

Ongoing conflicts

Global

• War against the Islamic State

Africa

• Angola

• Cabinda War

• Cameroon

• Anglophone Crisis

• Central African Republic

• Civil war

• Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
• Ituri conflict
• Kivu conflict
• Lord's Resistance Army insurgency

• Ethiopia

• Oromo conflict

• Mozambique

• Insurgency in Cabo Delgado

• Nigeria

• Boko Haram insurgency
• Niger Delta conflict

• Sahel

• Burkina Faso insurgency
• Mali War

• Somali civil war

• U.S. intervention

• Sudan

• South Kordofan conflict
• War in Darfur

• Western Sahara

• Guerguerat crisis

Americas

• Colombia

• Colombian conflict

• Mexico

• Mexican drug war

• Peru

• Internal conflict in Peru

Asia-Pacific

• Afghanistan

• Islamic State–Taliban conflict
• Republican insurgency

• India

• Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
• Insurgency in Northeast India
• Naxalite–Maoist insurgency

• Indonesia

• Papua conflict

• Myanmar

• Civil war
• Karen conflict
• Rohingya conflict

• Pakistan

• Insurgency in Balochistan
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

• Philippines

• Communist rebellion

• Thailand

• South Thailand insurgency

Europe

• Russia and Ukraine

• Russian invasion of Ukraine

Middle East

• Egypt

• Sinai insurgency

• Iraqi conflict

• Islamic State insurgency

• Israel and Palestine

• Gaza–Israel conflict

• Nagorno-Karabakh

• Armenia–Azerbaijan border crisis

• Syrian civil war

• Foreign involvement

• Turkish intervention
• U.S.–led intervention

• Turkey

• Kurdish–Turkish conflict

• Yemeni civil war

• Saudi Arabian–led intervention

• Houthi–Saudi Arabian conflict

See also – List of ongoing proxy wars

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Science and technology

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Works and introductions categories

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Documentation

See also

• Wikipedia:How the Current events page works