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- 2022 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
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- 2021–22 South Pacific cyclone season
- 2020–2022 Taal Volcano eruptions
- Madagascar famine
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Economics
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- 2021–2022 global energy crisis
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- 2021–2022 inflation surge
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- 2022 United States infant formula shortage
- Lebanese liquidity crisis
- Russian financial crisis
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- Turkish currency and debt crisis
Politics
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Upcoming
- June
- 1: Denmark, Referendum
- 5: Kazakhstan, Constitutional referendum
- 11–24: Papua New Guinea, National Assembly
- 12: France, National Assembly (1st)
- 12: Italy, Referendum
Trials
Recently concluded
- China: Shadeed Abdulmateen
- Turkey: Osman Kavala
- United Kingdom: Ali Harbi Ali, Imran Ahmad Khan, Boris Becker
- United States: Michael Sussmann, El Shafee Elsheikh, Roger Ng
Ongoing
- Armenia: Serzh Sargsyan
- Bolivia: Jeanine Áñez
- 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: Sunny Balwani
- Vatican City: Giovanni Angelo Becciu
- ICC: Ali Kushayb
Upcoming
- Canada: Peter Nygård
- Nigeria: Nnamdi Kanu
- United States: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Steve Bannon
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May
- 29: Ronnie Hawkins
- 29: Lester Piggott
- 29: Sidhu Moose Wala
- 28: Evaristo Carvalho
- 28: Bo Hopkins
- 28: Bujar Nishani
- 27: Angelo Sodano
- 26: Ciriaco De Mita
- 26: Andy Fletcher
- 26: George Shapiro
- 26: Ray Liotta
- 26: Alan White
- 25: Morton L. Janklow
- 25: Thomas Murphy
- 23: Joe Pignatano
- 22: Hazel Henderson
- 22: Dervla Murphy
- 21: Colin Cantwell
- 20: Roger Angell
- 20: Susan Roces
- 19: Abdul Gaffar Chowdhury
- 18: Bob Neuwirth
- 17: Marnie Schulenburg
- 17: Maurice Lindsay
- 17: Vangelis
- 17: Kristine Gebbie
- 15: Maggie Peterson
- 15: Kay Mellor
- 14: Donald Kemp Ross
- 14: Urvashi Vaid
- 13: Julie Beckett
- 13: Lil Keed
- 13: Ben Roy Mottelson
- 13: Richard Wald
- 13: Teresa Berganza
- 13: Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
- 13: Yang Hyong-sop
- 12: Gino Cappelletti
- 12: Robert McFarlane
- 12: Ben Moore
- 11: John L. Canley
- 11: Clarence Dixon
- 11: Trevor Strnad
- 11: Randy Weaver
- 11: Shireen Abu Akleh
- 10: Bob Lanier
- 10: Leonid Kravchuk
- 10: Shivkumar Sharma
- 9: Midge Decter
- 9: John Leo
- 9: Adreian Payne
- 8: John R. Cherry III
- 8: Fred Ward
- 8: Dennis Waterman
- 7: Mickey Gilley
- 7: Kang Soo-yeon
- 6: Jewell Caples
- 6: George Pérez
- 5: Mike Hagerty
- 5: Kevin Samuels
- 5: Kenneth Welsh
- 3: Norman Mineta
- 3: Tony Brooks
- 3: Stanislav Shushkevich
- 1: Kathy Boudin
- 1: Ric Parnell
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