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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
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- Partygate
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- 2020–2022 United States racial unrest
- Venezuelan presidential crisis
Recent
- April
- 19: East Timor, President (2nd)
- 24: France, President (2nd)
- 24: Slovenia, National Assembly
Upcoming
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
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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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