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Ongoing events

Disasters

• Avian flu outbreak
• Haitian crisis
• United States opioid epidemic

Economics

• Chinese property sector crisis
• German economic crisis
• United Kingdom cost-of-living crisis
• Video game industry layoffs

Politics

• Georgian constitutional crisis
• Mexico–United States border crisis
• Somali constitutional crisis
• South Korean presidential impeachment
• United States drone sightings
• Venezuelan political crisis

Protests and strikes

• Georgian post-election protests
• Israel–Hamas war protests
• Mozambican post-election protests
• United Kingdom farmers' protests

Elections and referendums

Recent

• December

• 29: Chad, National Assembly
• 29: Croatia, President (1st)

Upcoming

• January

• 12: Comoros, Assembly of the Union
• 12: Croatia, President (2nd)
• 16: Vanuatu, Parliament

Trials

Recently concluded

• France:0Dominique Pélicot

Ongoing

• Kosovo:0Specialist Chambers
• ICC:0Ali Kushayb  •  Mahamat Said Abdel Kani

Sports

• American football

• 2024 NFL season
• 2024 NCAA Division I FBS season

• Association football

• 2024–25 UEFA Champions League
• 2024–25 UEFA Europa League
• 2024–25 UEFA Conference League
• 2024–25 UEFA Women's Champions League
• 2024–25 Premier League
• 2024–25 Serie A
• 2024–25 La Liga
• 2024–25 Bundesliga
• 2024–25 Ligue 1

• Basketball

• 2024–25 NBA season
• 2024–25 EuroLeague
• 2024–25 NCAA Division I men's season
• 2024–25 NCAA Division I women's season

• International cricket

• 2023–25 ICC World Test Championship

• Ice hockey

• 2024–25 NHL season
• 2024–25 PWHL season

More details – current sports events

Recent deaths

January

• 05: Costas Simitis
• 03: Jeff Baena
• 02: Ágnes Keleti
• 01: David Lodge
• 01: Chad Morgan
• 01: Wayne Osmond

December

• 31: Arnold Rüütel
• 31: Johnnie Walker
• 29: Aaron Brown
• 29: Jimmy Carter
• 29: Linda Lavin
• 28: Charles Dolan
• 27: Greg Gumbel
• 27: Dayle Haddon
• 27: Olivia Hussey
• 27: Charles Shyer
• 26: Richard Parsons
• 26: Manmohan Singh
• 25: Britt Allcroft
• 25: Bill Bergey
• 25: M. T. Vasudevan Nair
• 25: Osamu Suzuki
• 24: Dési Bouterse
• 24: Richard Perry
• 23: Shyam Benegal
• 23: Sophie Hediger
• 21: Michelle Botes
• 21: Art Evans
• 20: Casey Chaos
• 20: George Eastham
• 20: Rickey Henderson
• 19: Michael Leunig
• 18: Slim Dunlap
• 18: John Marsden
• 17: Igor Kirillov
• 17: Marisa Paredes
• 17: Jānis Timma
• 16: Dick Van Arsdale
• 15: Zakir Hussain
• 14: Isak Andic
• 11: David Bonderman
• 11: Khalil Haqqani
• 10: Rocky Colavito
• 10: Michael Cole
• 10: The Amazing Kreskin
• 09: Nikki Giovanni
• 08: Jill Jacobson
• 08: Clarke Reed
• 06: Miho Nakayama
• 06: Maggie Tabberer

Ongoing conflicts

Global

• War against the Islamic State

Africa

• Cameroon

• Anglophone Crisis

• Central African Republic

• Civil war

• Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Kivu conflict

• Ethiopia

• Amhara conflict

• Mozambique

• Insurgency in Cabo Delgado

• Nigeria

• Boko Haram insurgency

• Sahel insurgency

• Mali War

• Burkina Faso
• Niger

• Somalia

• Civil war

• Sudan

• Civil war

Americas

• Mexico

• Mexican drug war

Asia−Pacific

• Afghanistan

• Islamic State–Taliban conflict
• Republican insurgency

• India

• Naxalite–Maoist insurgency

• Indonesia

• Papua conflict

• Myanmar

• Civil war

• Pakistan

• Insurgency in Balochistan
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

• Philippines

• NPA rebellion

Europe

• Russia and Ukraine

• Russian invasion of Ukraine

Middle East

• Israel

• Israel–Hamas war

• Israeli invasion of Lebanon

• Syria

• Israeli invasion of Syria

• Turkey

• PKK insurgency

• Yemen

• Red Sea crisis

See also – List of ongoing proxy wars

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See also

• Wikipedia:How the Current events page works