Ongoing events
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- Climate crisis
- COVID-19 pandemic
- Opioid epidemic
- 2021–22 European windstorm season
- 2020–21 H5N8 outbreak
- 2021 Pacific typhoon season
- Madagascar famine
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Economic
- 2020–2022 global chip shortage
- 2021 global supply chain crisis
- COVID-19 recession
- Lebanese liquidity crisis
- Pandora Papers leak
- Sri Lankan economic and food crisis
- Turkish currency and debt crisis
- United Kingdom natural gas supplier crisis
Politics
- Belarus−European Union border crisis
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- Jersey dispute
- Libyan peace process
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- Thai protests
- Tunisian political crisis
- United States racial unrest
- Venezuelan presidential crisis
Recent
- December
- 18: Taiwan, Referendum
- 19: Hong Kong, Legislative Council
- 19: Chile, President (2nd)
Recently concluded
- Belarus: Sergei Tikhanovsky
- Denmark: Inger Støjberg
- Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi
- United States: Ghislaine Maxwell, Charles Lieber, Jussie Smollett, Josh Duggar, Murder of Ahmaud Arbery, Kyle Rittenhouse, Yanjun Xu, Lev Parnas
Ongoing
- Armenia: Serzh Sargsyan
- Canada: Raj Grewal
- France: Brussels ISIL
- Indonesia: Nurdin Abdullah, Azis Syamsuddin
- Israel: Benjamin Netanyahu
- Italy: Matteo Salvini
- Kyrgyzstan: Almazbek Atambayev
- Malta: Yorgen Fenech
- Philippines: Leila de Lima
- Sudan: Omar al-Bashir
- United States: Elizabeth Holmes
Upcoming
- Canada: Peter Nygård
- Indonesia: Alex Noerdin
- Kosovo: Hashim Thaçi, Kadri Veseli
- Nigeria: Nnamdi Kanu
- Sweden: Hamid Nouri
- United States: Allen Weisselberg, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
- Vatican City: Giovanni Angelo Becciu
- ICC: Ali Kushayb
- Association football
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- Basketball
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- Ice hockey
- Motorsport
- Rugby union
- Other sports seasons
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- 31: Betty White
- 28: James Cayne
- 28: Luis Guastavino
- 28: John Madden
- 28: Hugo Maradona
- 27: Chaim Walder
- 26: Sarah Weddington
- 26: Karolos Papoulias
- 25: Candy Palmater
- 25: Janice Long
- 23: Joan Didion
- 22: Franklin A. Thomas
- 21: Carlyle Glean
- 19: Drakeo the Ruler
- 19: Sally Ann Howes
- 19: Carlos Marín
- 18: Richard Rogers
- 17: Eve Babitz
- 17: Mladen Naletilić Tuta
- 15: Flow La Movie
- 15: bell hooks
- 15: Fayez Tarawneh
- 14: Riccardo Ehrman
- 13: Blackberri
- 13: Verónica Forqué
- 12: Jimmy Rave
- 11: Anne Rice
- 10: Michael Nesmith
- 9: Larry Sellers
- 9: Al Unser
- 9: Lina Wertmüller
- 9: Shamim Alam Khan
- 8: Blackjack Lanza
- 8: Bipin Rawat
- 7: Greg Tate
- 7: Suresh Jadhav
- 6: Medina Spirit
- 6: Lindiwe Mabuza
- 5: Bob Dole
- 5: Peter Cundall
- 4: Stonewall Jackson
- 3: Claude Humphrey
- 3: Horst Eckel
- 30: Karel Loprais
- 28: Michael R. Clifford
- 28: Harry Reid
- 28: Grichka Bogdanoff
- 27: April Ashley
- 26: Jean-Marc Vallée
- 26: E. O. Wilson
- 26: Desmond Tutu
- 25: Wayne Thiebaud
- 24: J. D. Crowe
- 23: Grace Mirabella
- 22: Thomas Kinsella
- 20: Kimera Bartee
- 19: Robert H. Grubbs
- 19: Johnny Isakson
- 18: Kangol Kid
- 18: Sayaka Kanda
- 17: Doug Ericksen
- 16: Lucía Hiriart
- 15: Bridget Hanley
- 15: Wanda Young
- 15: Kim Yong-ju
- 14: Ken Kragen
- 13: Joe Simon
- 12: Vicente Fernández
- 12: Paulias Matane
- 11: Manuel Santana
- 9: Carmen Salinas
- 9: Demaryius Thomas
- 9: Cara Williams
- 9: Otar Patsatsia
- 8: Barry Harris
- 8: Robbie Shakespeare
- 7: Carol Jenkins Barnett
- 7: Mustafa Ben Halim
- 6: Fred Hiatt
- 6: Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim
- 6: Kåre Willoch
- 5: John Miles
- 4: Martha De Laurentiis
- 4: Konijeti Rosaiah
- 3: Eileen Ash
- 3: Ann Fortune Fitzroy
Africa
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- Tunisia
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