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Hunga Tonga eruption

• The Hunga Tonga volcano erupts (satellite animation shown), causing damage in Tonga and tsunamis across the Pacific Ocean.
• An apartment fire in the Bronx, New York City, kills 17 people.
• A rockfall at Furnas Lake in Capitólio, Brazil, kills 10 people.
• Sidney Poitier, the first black actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, dies at the age of 94.

Ongoing:

• COVID-19 pandemic

Recent deaths:

• Jean-Claude Lord
• Ed Cheff
• Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta
• Edward Roberts
• Jean-Jacques Beineix
• Jules Wright

January 18, 2022 (2022-01-18) (Tuesday)

Business and economy

• Argentine debt restructuring
  • Argentine minister of economy Martín Guzmán warns that the International Monetary Fund will "lose legitimacy" if it fails in negotiations with the country, with Guzmán citing his country's growth of nearly 10 percent as argument. (Ámbito)
• Microsoft announces it will acquire gaming company Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion. Activision Blizzard would become part of Xbox Game Studios, which will become the third-largest gaming company in the world behind Tencent and Sony Interactive Entertainment. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2022 Antananarivo floods
  • At least 10 people have been killed by floods in Antananarivo, Madagascar. (Africanews)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Hong Kong
      • Hong Kong orders the cull of 2,000 small animals such as hamsters, chinchillas and rabbits, closing pet shops, and sending 100 visitors into a quarantine camp after nearly a dozen hamsters imported from the Netherlands and sold at Little Boss pet shop were infected by the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant which spread to two humans. (Bloomberg)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Japan
      • Japan reports a record 10,258 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. (The Mainichi)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Nepal
      • Nepal reports a record 10,258 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 972,198. (La Frensa Latina)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Australia
    • Australia experiences its deadliest day of the pandemic to date, with 77 people dying of COVID-19-related complications. (SBS News)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Bulgaria
    • Bulgaria reports a record 9,996 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 830,604. (Bulgarian Press Agency)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Paraguay
    • Paraguayan President Mario Abdo Benítez tests positive for COVID-19. (Yahoo! News)
  • COVID-19 drug development
    • Merck & Co. and its partner Ridgeback Biotherapeutics signs an agreement with UNICEF to distribute up to 3 million courses of their COVID-19 antiviral pill molnupiravir to 100 low and middle-income countries in the first half of 2022. (Reuters)

January 17, 2022 (2022-01-17) (Monday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis, Russia–NATO relations
    • Canada deploys a small contingent of special forces to Ukraine as part of a NATO response to deter Russian aggression. The unit is also being tasked with evacuating diplomatic personnel from the Canadian embassy in Kyiv in the event of a full-scale invasion. (Reuters)
    • The United Kingdom begins supplying anti-tank guided missiles to Ukraine amid tensions with Russia, according to a statement from Secretary of State for Defence Ben Wallace. A small number of British military personnel will also be deployed to help train Ukrainian troops. (Reuters)
    • Royal Air Force C-17 transport aircraft arrive in Ukraine with "light anti-armour weapons" as part of British military support for Ukraine. (UK Defence Journal)
• Spillover of the Yemeni Civil War
  • 2022 Abu Dhabi attack
    • Three people are killed in a suspected drone attack on petrol tanks at a major oil storage facility near Abu Dhabi International Airport, United Arab Emirates. The Yemen-based Houthis claims responsibility for the attack, saying that they launched "five ballistic missiles and a large number of drones". (Hindustan Times) (CNN)

Arts and culture

• Capital of Indonesia
  • The Minister of National Development Planning Suharso Monoarfa reveals that the name of the new Indonesian capital will be Nusantara. Nusantara is a term that has been used to describe the Indonesian Archipelago. (VOI)
• An independent investigation team identifies Arnold van den Bergh, a member of Amsterdam's Jewish Council, as the most likely person responsible for reporting The Diary of a Young Girl author Anne Frank and her family to the Nazis in 1944, leading to their deaths in a concentration camp. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• 2022 Afghanistan earthquake
  • At least 26 people are killed by a magnitude 5.3 earthquake in Qadis, Badghis Province, Afghanistan. (France 24)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Europe
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Denmark
      • Denmark reports a record 28,780 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours as the country eases many of its pandemic restrictions. (Reuters)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Greece, COVID-19 vaccination in Greece
      • Greece begins to introduce monthly fines for people over the age of 60 who are unvaccinated against COVID-19 amid an increase in the number of new cases in the country. The monthly fine will initially be €50 this month and will be €100 per month thereafter. (NPR)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in the Netherlands
      • The Netherlands reports a record 42,472 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. (NL Times)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, COVID-19 drug development
    • Health Canada approves the use of Pfizer's anti-COVID-19 viral drug Paxlovid for people over the age of 18 years who are at risk of severe disease and death. (CBC)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines, COVID-19 vaccination in the Philippines
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Metro Manila
      • The Philippines begins to ban people who are unvaccinated against COVID-19 from riding public transport and entering commercial planes despite protests from labour and human rights groups. (Al Jazeera)

International relations

• Canada–China relations, COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China
  • The South China Morning Post reports that Pang Xinghuo, deputy director of the Beijing Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, stated that the first patient infected with the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in Beijing received a letter mailed from Canada on January 7 and does not rule out the possibility that the patient was infected via contact with the letter. (South China Morning Post) (CBC)
  • Leader of the Official Opposition of Canada Erin O'Toole responds to the report, calling it "comical". (National Post)

Law and crime

• A Parisian court fines far-right French television pundit and presidential candidate Éric Zemmour €10,000 for calling unaccompanied migrant children "rapists" and "murderers" during a September 2020 television broadcast. (BBC News)

January 16, 2022 (2022-01-16) (Sunday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Somali Civil War
  • Somali government spokesperson Mohamed Ibrahim Moalimuu is injured in a suicide bombing in Mogadishu. (Al Jazeera)
• Nigerian bandit conflict
  • Authorities say that gunmen have killed more than 50 people, including two soldiers and a police officer, in a raid on a village in Kebbi State, northwestern Nigeria. Security forces were forced to flee the area, leaving the militants to burn down shops and kidnap women and children. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• Television licensing in the United Kingdom
  • Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries announces that the United Kingdom's state broadcaster BBC will be reformed, with the television licence fee being abolished in 2027. Funding of the BBC will also be frozen for the next two years. (The Guardian)

Disasters and accidents

• 2022 Hunga Tonga eruption and tsunami
  • Satellite imagery of Hunga Tonga shows that most of the volcanic island was destroyed by the eruption. (BBC News)
  • The Australian Defence Force and New Zealand Defence Force send aircraft to assess the damage in Tonga as communications continue to be disrupted in the Pacific islands. (ABC News Australia)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Denmark
    • Denmark reopens cinemas, zoos, museums and theatres as well as allowing limited number of spectators in indoor and outdoor sports despite the rising number of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant cases in the country. (AP)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Thailand
    • Thailand reports its first confirmed death related to the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in a 86-year-old woman who died last month in Songkhla Province. (Bangkok Post)

International relations

• Philippines–Poland relations
  • The Philippines says that it has agreed to buy 32 S-70i Black Hawk helicopters from Polish aerospace manufacturer PZL Mielec for 32 billion pesos ($624 million) in order to replace its aging fleet of Huey helicopters. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• COVID-19 pandemic in France, Vaccine passports during the COVID-19 pandemic
  • The French National Assembly votes 215–58 to give a final approval of mandatory vaccine pass that will require people aged above 16 years to be fully vaccinated in order to enter public places and long-distance public transport. The new law regarding vaccine pass will take effect in coming days once the law gets approved from the Constitutional Council. (Voice of America)

Sports

• Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sports
  • 2022 Australian Open
    • The Federal Court of Australia confirms the lawfulness and legality of the visa cancellation and deportation order against Novak Djokovic issued by the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship Alex Hawke. Djokovic's lawyers are considering legal recourse while Djokovic himself has said that he is disappointed with the decision but will cooperate with Australian authorities. (ABC News Australia)
    • Djokovic is deported from Australia, and disqualified from the Australian Open. He is replaced with Salvatore Caruso from Italy. (ABC News Australia)

January 15, 2022 (2022-01-15) (Saturday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2022 Kazakh protests
  • The death toll from the civil unrest in Kazakhstan increases to 225, including 19 members of the security forces, according to a statement from the Prosecutor General's Office. (Reuters)

• Colleyville synagogue hostage crisis
  • An armed man claiming to be the brother of Pakistani Al-Qaeda suspect Aafia Siddiqui holds congregants hostage at Congregation Beth Israel Synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, United States. He is later shot and killed by police. (Fort Worth Star-Telegram) (Jerusalem Post)

Disasters and accidents

• 2022 Hunga Tonga eruption and tsunami
  • Tonga is hit by ashfall and a tsunami after the eruption of Hunga Tonga, destroying homes as locals struggle to find higher ground. Major flooding is reported in the capital Nukuʻalofa. Shock waves from the eruption are detected as far away as Alaska, United States. Other Pacific countries have also advised their citizens to seek higher ground. Internet access has reportedly been disrupted in Tonga. (The Sydney Morning Herald) (The Guardian) (VOA)
  • King Tupou VI is evacuated from the Royal Palace by His Majesty's Armed Forces. (CNN)
  • Two people are killed by a small tsunami in Lambayeque, Peru. (Bio-Bio Chile)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Iran
      • Iran reports its first three confirmed deaths related to the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in people from the cities of Tabriz, Yazd and Shahrekord. (CNA)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines
      • The Philippines reports a record for the third consecutive day of 39,004 new cases of COVID-19, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 3,168,379. (Rappler)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in France, COVID-19 vaccination in France
    • France restricts the validity of health pass for fully vaccinated people to seven months after received their second dose and require them to receive booster dose. (Deutsche Welle)

International relations

• 2022 Serbian constitutional referendum, Kosovo–Serbia relations
  • In an extraordinary session, the Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo votes to ban Kosovo Serbs from voting in Serbia's upcoming constitutional referendum on Kosovan territory. (Reuters)

Sports

• 2021 NFL season
  • 2021–22 NFL playoffs
    • In American football, the Cincinnati Bengals defeat the Las Vegas Raiders, 26-19, ending their 31-year playoff drought and winning a playoff game for the first time since 1991. (BBC Sport)

January 14, 2022 (2022-01-14) (Friday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Mali War
  • Operation Barkhane
    • Sweden announces that it will withdraw its troops from a French-led special forces mission in Mali later this year, in response to Mali's ruling military junta inviting private Russian military contractors to fight Islamist rebels. The deployment was originally expected to end in 2024. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2022 Hunga Tonga eruption and tsunami
  • The Hunga Tonga, an undersea volcano, erupts, sending ash and steam 20 kilometers into the air. The government of Tonga issues a tsunami warning and advises people in all islands of Tonga to avoid the coasts. (RNZ)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
    • COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines
      • Travel during the COVID-19 pandemic
        • The Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases issues a resolution stating that all foreign nationals entering the Philippines must present proof of full vaccination. (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
      • The Philippines reports a record for the second consecutive day of 37,207 new cases of COVID-19, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 3,129,512. (Rappler)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Bhutan
      • Bhutan reports its first 14 cases of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in people who travelled abroad. (The Economic Times)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Cambodia, COVID-19 vaccination in Cambodia
      • Cambodia begins administering fourth doses of the COVID-19 vaccine for high-risk groups, including healthcare workers, government ministers, and members of the armed forces. (AP)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Europe
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Germany
      • Germany reports a record for the third consecutive day of 92,223 new cases of COVID-19. (Anadolu Agency)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden
      • Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson tests positive for COVID-19. (The New York Times)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in South America
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil, COVID-19 vaccination in Brazil
      • Brazil begins a COVID-19 vaccination program for children aged 5 to 11 years old with the Pfizer–BioNTech vaccine despite objections from President Jair Bolsonaro. (France24)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Uruguay
      • Uruguay opens its borders to citizens and residents who have been infected with COVID-19. People will need to travel in private vehicles across the border and be in a family "bubble". (Reuters)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico, COVID-19 drug development
    • Mexican health regulator COFEPRIS approves the emergency use of Pfizer's anti-COVID-19 oral drug Paxlovid. (The Hindu)
• Earthquakes in Indonesia
  • A magnitude 6.6 earthquake is felt in Java and neighbouring islands in Indonesia. (Antara News) (CNA)

Science and technology

• 2022 Ukraine cyberattack
  • Up to 70 Ukrainian government websites are affected by cyberattacks. (BBC News)

Sports

• Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sports
  • 2022 Australian Open
    • The Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Alex Hawke, invokes his ministerial powers under the Migration Act 1958 to cancel Novak Djokovic's visa on "health and good order grounds". (ABC News Australia)

January 13, 2022 (2022-01-13) (Thursday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis, Russia–United States relations
  • Talks between NATO and Russia over Ukraine hit a breaking point as Poland warns of possible war. (Al Jazeera)
  • Vladimir Putin warns that Russia will cut ties with the United States if sanctions are placed upon him. (Business Insider)
  • The U.S. Senate rejects a bill that would sanction the Nord Stream pipeline amidst fears of a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine. (The New York Times)
• 2019–2022 Persian Gulf crisis
  • Unidentified militants launch several rockets at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, injuring a woman and a child. (CNN)

Disasters and accidents

• Maynaguri train accident
  • At least nine people are killed and about 50 others injured when a train derails in Jalpaiguri district, West Bengal, India. (CNN)
• Six people are missing and three others are hospitalized following an explosion and subsequent fire at a commercial building in Ottawa, Canada. (Reuters)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Europe
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Germany
      • COVID-19 vaccination in Germany
        • The Standing Committee on Vaccination recommends that children between the ages of 12 and 17 years should receive a booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at least three months after having received their second dose, becoming one of the first countries to authorize booster doses for this age group. (Deutsche Welle)
      • Germany reports a record for the second consecutive day of 81,417 new cases of COVID-19. (Anadolu Agency)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom
      • COVID-19 pandemic in England
        • British health secretary Sajid Javid announces that the self-isolation period for positive COVID-19 patients in England will be reduced to five days in order to reduce the impact of absences caused by the Omicron variant on businesses and the health sector. This change will take effect on January 17. (Financial Times)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Finland
      • Finland reduces the quarantine period for positive COVID-19 patients to five days because the duration of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant's virus cycle is shorter than other variants. (Yle News)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden
      • Sweden reports a record 25,215 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. (U.S. News & World Report)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
    • COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines
      • COVID-19 vaccination in the Philippines
        • The Philippine Department of Transportation issues a memorandum banning unvaccinated individuals from using all forms of public transportation in the National Capital Region beginning on January 17. (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
        • The Philippine Department of the Interior and Local Government issues an administrative order to all barangays in the Philippines to submit a list of unvaccinated residents in order to prevent their movement in response to the recent increase in cases of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant. (GMA News)
        • The Philippines reports a record of 34,021 new cases of COVID-19, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 3,092,409. This is the highest reported number of cases in a day since the start of the pandemic. (GMA News)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh
      • Bangladesh bans all public gatherings, restricts the capacity of public transportation to 50%, and mandates that face masks be worn in all public places in an attempt to reduce the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant. (The Business Standard)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea, COVID-19 drug development
      • South Korea receives their first shipment of Pfizer's Paxlovid anti-COVID-19 oral drug. (AP)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Africa
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Senegal
      • Senegal authorizes the use of COVID-19 vaccines for children over the age of 12 years and also authorizes the use of booster doses for adults. (Reuters)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Tunisia
      • Tunisia reimposes a nighttime curfew between 10 pm and 5 am for the next two weeks and also orders the suspension of all public gatherings due to an increase in the number of COVID-19 cases in the country. (France 24)
  • COVID-19 drug development
    • The WHO guideline development group of international experts recommends the use of rheumatoid arthritis drug Baricitinib for severe and critical COVID-19 patients in combination with corticosteroids. (The Times of India)
• Heat waves of 2022
  • Onslow, Western Australia, reports the hottest day in recorded Australian history, reaching a high of 50.7°C (123.3°F). (The Guardian)
• African swine fever
  • Italy imposes a six-month ban of hunting and other activities involving direct or indirect contact with infected boars in 114 rural areas in the north-western regions of Piedmont and Liguria, where the spread African swine fever has infected the animals. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• COVID-19 pandemic in France, Vaccine passports during the COVID-19 pandemic
  • The French Senate votes 249–63, with 26 abstentions, to approve a bill that would ban unvaccinated people from entering bars, restaurants, and other public places and also from using long-distance public transport. However, the modified bill would only apply to people over the age of 18 years and would only be in effect if the number of hospitalized patients exceeds 10,000 nationwide. (The Independent)
• As part of the fallout from his ongoing civil sexual assault trial, Prince Andrew hands back all of his royal patronages and military titles to the Queen and drops the use of the title "His Royal Highness" in an official capacity. (BBC News)

January 12, 2022 (2022-01-12) (Wednesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Somali Civil War
  • A car bombing kills at least eight people in Mogadishu. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• Ban of Twitter in Nigeria
  • The Nigerian government lifts its Twitter ban, which was implemented in June 2021, after Twitter agreed to pay an "applicable tax" and also establish a legal entity within the country sometime in the first quarter of the year. (The Guardian Nigeria)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia, COVID-19 vaccination in Indonesia
      • Indonesia begins administering booster doses of the COVID-19 vaccine for elderly and immunocompromised people amid fears of the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant. (The Jakarta Post)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Saudi Arabia
      • Saudi Arabia reports a record 5,362 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 593,545. (Al Arabiya English)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea, COVID-19 vaccination in South Korea
      • South Korea authorizes the use of the protein-based Novavax COVID-19 vaccine for adults, making it the fifth vaccine to be approved for use in the country. (The Washington Post)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Europe
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Austria
      • Austria reports a record 17,006 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 1,378,747. (Vienna.at)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Bulgaria
      • Bulgaria reports a record 7,062 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 794,240. (BTA)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Germany
      • Germany reports a record 80,430 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 7,661,811. (Euronews)

International relations

• Israel and the Argentine foreign ministry separately issue condemnations against the presence of Iranian minister Mohsen Rezai at the inauguration of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega. Rezai is wanted by Argentina for his alleged connections to the 1994 AMIA bombing. (The Jerusalem Post)

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Ongoing events

Disasters

• Climate crisis
• COVID-19 pandemic
• Opioid epidemic
• 2021–22 European windstorm season
• 2020–2021 H5N8 outbreak
• Madagascar famine
• Yemeni famine

Economic

• 2020–2022 global chip shortage
• 2021–2022 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
• Brazilian protests
• Colombian tax reform protests
• Eswatini protests
• Haitian protests
• Insulate Britain protests
• Jersey dispute
• Libyan peace process
• Malaysian political crisis
• Myanmar protests
• Nicaraguan protests
• Nigerian protests
• Persian Gulf crisis
• Peruvian crisis
• Russian election protests
• Russo−Ukrainian crisis
• Solomon Islands unrest
• Somali political crisis
• Tigrayan peace process
• Thai protests
• Tunisian political crisis
• United States racial unrest
• Venezuelan presidential crisis

Elections and referendums

Recent

• January
  • 16: Serbia, Constitutional referendum
• January
  • 19: Barbados, House of Assembly
  • 23: Northern Cyprus, Assembly of the Republic
  • 30: Portugal, Assembly of the Republic

Trials

Recently concluded

• Belarus: Sergei Tikhanovsky
• Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi
• United States: Elizabeth Holmes, Ghislaine Maxwell, Charles Lieber, Jussie Smollett, Josh Duggar, Murder of Ahmaud Arbery, Kyle Rittenhouse

Ongoing

• Armenia: Serzh Sargsyan
• France: Brussels ISIL
• Israel: Benjamin Netanyahu
• Italy: Matteo Salvini
• Kyrgyzstan: Almazbek Atambayev
• Malta: Yorgen Fenech
• Philippines: Leila de Lima
• Sudan: Omar al-Bashir

Upcoming

• Canada: Peter Nygård
• 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

Sport

• Association football
  • 2021–22 UEFA Europa League
  • 2021–22 UEFA Champions league
  • 2021–22 Premier League
  • 2021–22 Bundesliga
  • 2021–22 Serie A
  • 2021–22 La Liga
  • 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification
  • 2020–21 UEFA Nations League
• American football
  • 2021 NFL season
• Basketball
  • 2021–22 NBA season
  • 2021–22 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Season
  • 2021–22 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Season 
• Cricket
  • 2021–23 ICC World Test Championship
  • 2020–23 ICC Cricket World Cup Super League
  • 2019–23 ICC Cricket World Cup League 2
  • 2019–22 ICC Cricket World Cup Challenge League
• Golf
  • 2021–22 PGA Tour
• Ice hockey
  • 2021–22 NHL season
  • 2021–22 IIHF Continental Cup
• Motorsport
  • 2021 Intercontinental GT Challenge
• Rugby union
  • 2021–22 Premiership Rugby
  • 2021–22 United Rugby Championship
  • 2021–22 Top 14
  • 2021 Super Rugby season
• Other sports seasons
  • 2021–22 International cricket season
  • 2021–22 snooker season
  • 2021–22 curling season

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Recent deaths

January

• 16: Charles McGee
• 16: Paul Myners
• 15: Michael Jackson
• 14: Dallas Frazier
• 13: Terry Teachout
• 12: Ronnie Spector
• 11: David Sassoli
• 10: Robert Durst
• 10: Francis Jackson
• 9: Maria Ewing
• 9: James Mtume
• 8: Marilyn Bergman
• 8: Michael Parks
• 7: Lani Guinier
• 7: Francisco Laína
• 6: Bob Falkenburg
• 6: Yoram Taharlev
• 5: Kim Mi-soo
• 4: William M. Ellinghaus
• 3: Jay Wolpert
• 3: Viktor Saneyev
• 2: Richard Leakey
• 1: Richard Freed
• 16: Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta 
• 15: Marlon Bundo
• 15: Steve Schapiro
• 14: Jim Fahy
• 13: Jean-Jacques Beineix
• 11: Clyde Bellecourt
• 11: Ernest Shonekan
• 10: Don Maynard
• 10: Aura Herzog
• 9: Dwayne Hickman
• 9: Bob Saget
• 8: Michael Lang
• 8: Andrew Jennings
• 7: Jack Dromey
• 6: Peter Bogdanovich
• 6: Sidney Poitier
• 6: F. Sionil José
• 4: Joan Copeland
• 4: Hilton Cheong-Leen
• 3: Bogdanoff twins
• 2: Jody Gibson
• 2: Charles Njonjo
• 1: Dan Reeves

December

• 31: Betty White
• 30: Karel Loprais
• 28: Michael R. Clifford
• 28: John Madden
• 27: April Ashley
• 26: Jean-Marc Vallée
• 26: E. O. Wilson
• 26: Desmond Tutu
• 25: Jonathan Spence
• 25: Janice Long
• 23: Robert J. Birnbaum
• 23: Chris Dickerson
• 23: Grace Mirabella
• 22: Thomas Kinsella
• 20: Kimera Bartee
• 19: Robert H. Grubbs
• 19: Johnny Isakson
• 30: Sam Jones
• 28: James Cayne
• 28: Harry Reid
• 28: Hugo Maradona
• 27: Chaim Walder
• 26: Sarah Weddington
• 26: Karolos Papoulias
• 25: Candy Palmater
• 25: Wayne Thiebaud
• 24: J. D. Crowe
• 23: Ted Byfield
• 23: Joan Didion
• 22: Franklin A. Thomas
• 21: Carlyle Glean
• 19: Drakeo the Ruler
• 19: Sally Ann Howes
• 19: Carlos Marín

Ongoing conflicts

Africa

• Angola
  • Cabinda War
• Burkina Faso
  • Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso
• Cameroon
  • Anglophone Crisis
• Central African Republic
  • Civil War
• Chad
  • Insurgency in Northern Chad
• Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Kivu conflict
  • Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
  • Ituri conflict
  • Lord's Resistance Army insurgency
  • Kamwina Nsapu rebellion
• Ethiopia
  • Tigray War (spillover)
  • Oromo conflict
• Ethiopia and Sudan
  • Sudanese–Ethiopian clashes
• Ghana
  • Western Togoland Rebellion
• Maghreb and Sahel regions
  • Maghreb insurgency
• Mali
  • Mali War
• Mozambique
  • Insurgency in Cabo Delgado
• Nigeria
  • Boko Haram insurgency (incl. Lake Chad region)
  • Communal conflicts in Nigeria
• Senegal
  • Casamance conflict
• Somalia
  • Civil war
• South Sudan
  • Ethnic violence in South Sudan
• Sudan
  • War in Darfur
  • South Kordofan conflict
  • Sudanese nomadic conflicts (incl. South Sudan)
• Tunisia
  • ISIL insurgency in Tunisia
• Western Sahara
  • Western Sahara conflict
    • 2020–2021 Western Saharan clashes

Americas

• Colombia
  • Colombian conflict
• Mexico
  • Mexican drug war
• Paraguay
  • Insurgency in Paraguay
• Peru
  • Internal conflict in Peru

Asia-Pacific

• Afghanistan
  • Panjshir conflict
  • Islamic State–Taliban conflict
• India
  • Insurgency in Northeast India
    • Assam separatist movements
    • Insurgency in Manipur
    • Ethnic conflict in Nagaland
  • Khalistan movement
  • Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
• India and Pakistan
  • Kashmir conflict
• Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines
  • Moro conflict
    • Cross border attacks in Sabah
• Indonesia
  • Papua conflict
• Myanmar
  • Internal conflict in Myanmar
    • Kachin conflict
    • Karen conflict
    • Rohingya conflict
• Pakistan
  • Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Insurgency in Balochistan
• Philippines
  • Communist rebellion
  • Philippine drug war
• Thailand
  • South Thailand insurgency

Europe

• Armenia and Azerbaijan
  • Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
• Ukraine
  • War in Donbas
    • Russo-Ukrainian War
• Ireland and the UK
  • Dissident Irish republican campaign
• Turkey
  • Kurdish–Turkish conflict

Global

• War on terror

Middle East

• Egypt
  • Sinai insurgency
• Iran and the Persian Gulf
  • Iran–Israel proxy conflict
  • Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict
  • Sistan and Baluchestan insurgency
  • Kurdish separatism in Iran
• Iraq
  • Iraqi conflict
  • American-led intervention in Iraq
  • Iranian intervention in Iraq
• Iraq and Syria (map)
  • International military intervention against ISIL
• Israel and Gaza
• Israel and Syria
  • Israeli-Syrian border conflict
    • Israeli-Syrian ceasefire line incidents
• Syria
  • American-led intervention in Syria
  • Russian military intervention in the Syrian civil war
  • Turkish occupation of northern Syria
• Yemen and Saudi Arabia
  • Yemeni Civil War
  • Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen
  • Houthi–Saudi Arabian conflict

Further information: List of ongoing armed conflicts

2022 events and developments by topic

Arts

Architecture – Animation – Anime – Comics – Film (Horror, Science fiction) – Home video – Literature – Music (Classical, Country, Hip hop, Latin, Metal, Rock, UK, US) – Radio – Television (UK, US, Italy, Scotland) – Video games

Politics and government

Elections – International leaders – Sovereign states – Sovereign state leaders – Territorial governors

Science and technology

Archaeology – Biotechnology – Computing – Palaeontology – Quantum computing and communication – Senescence research – Sustainable energy research – Space/Astronomy – Spaceflight

Environment

Birding/Ornithology – Climate change

Transportation

Aviation – Rail transport

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Works and introductions categories

Works – Introductions – Works entering the public domain