Ongoing events
Disasters
- Climate crisis
- COVID-19 pandemic
- Opioid epidemic
- 2022 monkeypox outbreak
- 2022 European heat waves, drought, & wildfires
- 2020–2022 North American drought
- 2022 South Asian heat wave
- 2022 Pakistan floods
Economics
- 2020–present global chip shortage
- 2021–present global energy crisis
- 2021–2022 global supply chain crisis
- 2021–2022 inflation surge
- 2022 food crises
- Lebanese liquidity crisis
- Sri Lankan economic crisis
- Turkish currency and debt crisis
- United Kingdom cost of living crisis
Politics
- Belarus−European Union border crisis
- Dutch farmers protests
- Iraqi political crisis
- Israeli political crisis
- Malaysian political crisis
- Myanmar protests
- Peruvian crisis
- Russia−European Union gas dispute
- Sri Lankan protests
- Sudanese protests
- Tunisian political crisis
- Ukrainian refugee crisis
- United States abortion protests
Trials
Recently concluded
- Russia: Brittney Griner
- Sweden: Hamid Nouri
- United States: Steve Bannon, Sunny Balwani
Ongoing
- Armenia: Serzh Sargsyan
- Israel: Benjamin Netanyahu
- Italy: Matteo Salvini
- Kosovo: Specialist Chambers
- Kyrgyzstan: Almazbek Atambayev
- Malta: Yorgen Fenech
- Philippines: Leila de Lima
- Sudan: Omar al-Bashir
- United States: Paul Flores, Nikolas Cruz, R. Kelly
- Vatican City: Giovanni Angelo Becciu
- ICC: Ali Kushayb
Upcoming
- Nigeria: Nnamdi Kanu
- United States: Tom Barrack
August
- 30: Mikhail Gorbachev
- 29: Luke Bell
- 29: Charlbi Dean
- 28: Ralph Eggleston
- 27: Robert LuPone
- 26: Roland Mesnier
- 25: Joey DeFrancesco
- 25: Mable John
- 24: Len Dawson
- 24: Man of the Hole
- 24: Joe E. Tata
- 24: Kazuo Inamori
- 24: Tim Page
- 23: Steven Hoffenberg
- 23: Gerald Potterton
- 23: Julian Robertson
- 23: Creed Taylor
- 22: Jerry Allison
- 22: Gary Gaines
- 22: Rembert Weakland
- 22: Shalom Cohen
- 22: Margaret Urlich
- 20: Helen Grayco
- 20: Tom Weiskopf
- 20: Darya Dugina
- 19: Leon Vitali
- 18: Herbert Mullin
- 18: Virginia Patton
- 18: Josephine Tewson
- 16: Duggie Brown
- 15: Frederick Buechner
- 15: Pete Carril
- 14: Nafis Sadik
- 14: Freya
- 14: Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
- 13: Denise Dowse
- 13: David Kay
- 12: Wolfgang Petersen
- 12: Anshu Jain
- 11: Michael Badnarik
- 11: Darius Campbell Danesh
- 11: Anne Heche
- 11: Cecile Pineda
- 11: Bill Pitman
- 11: Jean-Jacques Sempé
- 11: Paul Green
- 11: Hanae Mori
- 10: Lydia de Vega
- 9: Gene LeBell
- 9: Raymond Briggs
- 9: Nicholas Evans
- 8: Lamont Dozier
- 8: Olivia Newton-John
- 8: Uma Pemmaraju
- 8: Zofia Posmysz
- 7: Carl Croneberg
- 7: Bert Fields
- 7: Leandro Lo
- 7: David McCullough
- 7: Roger E. Mosley
Africa
- Angola
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Ethiopia
- Maghreb
- Mozambique
- Nigeria
- Sahel
- Senegal
- Somalia
- South Sudan
- Sudan
- Western Sahara
Americas
- Colombia
- Mexico
- Paraguay
- Peru
Asia-Pacific
- Afghanistan
- India
- Indonesia
- Myanmar
- Pakistan
- Philippines
- Thailand
Europe
Middle East
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