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Sergio Mattarella

• Sergio Mattarella (pictured) is re-elected as president of Italy.
• In Burkina Faso, a coup d'état led by military officer Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba deposes President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré.
• Vietnamese Thiền Buddhist monk and peace activist Thích Nhất Hạnh dies at the age of 95.
• Belgian-British pilot Zara Rutherford becomes the youngest woman to fly solo around the world.

Ongoing:

• COVID-19 pandemic

Recent deaths:

• Ralph Mellanby
• Barry Cryer
• Edgar S. Cahn
• Johan Hultin
• Gene Clines
• R. Nagaswamy

January 30, 2022 (2022-01-30) (Sunday)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines
    • The Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases announces the downgrading to the Alert Level 2 of the National Capital Region and with seven other provinces including the resumption of in-person classes and contact sports venues. (Rappler)

Politics and elections

• 2022 Portuguese legislative election
  • Voters in Portugal head to the polls for a snap parliamentary election. (Reuters)

January 29, 2022 (2022-01-29) (Saturday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis
  • Russia–NATO relations, France–Romania relations
    • France announces that it will deploy "several hundred" troops to Romania in order to support NATO's eastern flank amid tensions with Russia. (Times of India)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea
    • South Korea reports a record for the fourth consecutive day of 17,542 new COVID-19 cases, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 811,122. (The Korea Herald)

International relations

• 2022 Russian military exercise controversy
  • Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney announces that the Russian Minister of Defence has agreed to his request that the exercises would be moved outside the Irish Exclusive Economic Zone. (RTÉ)

Law and crime

• Freedom Convoy 2022
  • Participants in the convoy arrive at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada to protest vaccine mandates and other public health restrictions imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic. (CTV News Ottawa)

Politics and elections

• 2022 Italian presidential election
  • After seven inconclusive ballots, Sergio Mattarella is elected for a second term as President on the eighth ballot. (ANSA)

Sports

• 2022 Australian Open
  • Australian tennis player Ashleigh Barty defeats American Danielle Collins in two sets, 6–3, 7–6,^(7–2) to win the women's singles title at the Australian Open. Barty is the first home player to win the title since Chris O'Neil in 1978. (AFP via France24)

January 28, 2022 (2022-01-28) (Friday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis
  • Russia–NATO relations
    • Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says that Russia is not interested in starting a war after U.S. President Joe Biden warned Ukraine that Russia may invade Ukraine in February. (NBC News)
    • At a special Pentagon press briefing, United States Army General Mark Milley and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin warn that a Russian invasion of Ukraine would be "horrific" and could result in "significant casualties". (Reuters)
  • Belarus–NATO relations
    • Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko says that Belarus might go to war if they or Russia are attacked. Lukashenko also insists that his country does not want to go to war with Ukraine. (Politico EU)
• Insurgency in Balochistan
  • 2022 Kech District attack
    • Ten Pakistan Army soldiers are killed in an insurgent attack in Kech District, Balochistan, Pakistan. The separatist Baluch Liberation Front claims responsibility for the attack. The army says that it has killed one of the attackers and arrested three others in a clearance operation. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• Chinese espionage in the United States
  • The Federal Communications Commission votes unanimously to revoke the authorisation of China Unicom to operate in the United States, citing national security and espionage concerns. The Chinese telecommunications operator must stop providing telecoms services in the U.S. within 60 days. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• The Fern Hollow Bridge in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, collapses, causing a gas leak. Ten people are injured, none of them seriously. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
    • COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines
      • The Philippine Department of Tourism announces the lifting of quarantine requirements for fully vaccinated tourists from countries under its visa waiver program, effective February 10. (AFP via NDTV)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea
      • South Korea reports a record for the third consecutive day of 16,096 new COVID-19 cases, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 793,582. (Yonhap News Agency)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in South America
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil
      • Brazil reports a record for the third consecutive day of 228,954 new COVID-19 cases, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 24.7 million. (Business Standard)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Chile
      • Chile reports a record 26,727 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 2,075 million. (Xinhua News Agency)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Australia
    • COVID-19 pandemic in New South Wales
      • New South Wales reports its first case of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant BA.2 sublineage. (The Guardian)
    • Australia reports a record 98 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, including a record 35 deaths in New South Wales. (SBS News)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Russia
    • Russia reports a record for the eighth consecutive day of 98,040 new COVID-19 cases, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 11.5 million. (ABC News)

International relations

• 2022 Burkinabé coup d'état
  • The leaders of the Economic Community of West African States agree to suspend Burkina Faso's membership in the bloc in response to the coup d'état. (AFP via RFI)
• Foreign relations of Rwanda, Foreign relations of Uganda
  • The Rwandan foreign ministry announces the reopening of the country's border crossing with Uganda following political tensions between the two countries that led to the closure of the border crossing for three years. (AFP via Seychelles News Agency)

January 27, 2022 (2022-01-27) (Thursday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis
  • The United States rejects Russia's demand that Ukraine be barred from joining NATO. (BBC News)
  • U.S. President Joe Biden, during a telephone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, says "the Russians could invade Ukraine in February". (BBC News)
• Spillover of the Syrian civil war
  • Jordanian troops kill 27 "armed smugglers" after they tried to cross the border from Syria with a large quantity of amphetamines. Several other smugglers, who were "supported by other armed groups", were wounded, according to a statement from the military. (Reuters)
• 2022 Dnipro shooting
  • Five people are killed and five more are injured in a mass shooting at a Yuzhmash production facility in Dnipro, Ukraine, after a member of the Ukrainian National Guard opens fire. (The Straits Times)
• Aftermath of the 2021 Kyrgyzstan–Tajikistan clashes
  • Two civilians are killed while 21 more people are wounded near the border between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan after troops from both countries engage in a battle. (Al Jazeera)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Europe
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Finland
      • Finland reports its first ten cases of the Omicron sub-lineage named BA.2 sublineage in Southwest Finland. (Yle News)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Germany
      • Germany reports a record for the second consecutive day of 203,136 new COVID-19 cases, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 9.2 million. (Anadolu Agency)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Russia
      • Russia reports a record for the seventh consecutive day of 88,816 new COVID-19 cases, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 11,404,617. (Azeri Press Agency)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Spain
      • Spain reports its first two cases of the Omicron sub-lineage named BA.2 sublineage in Catalonia. (The Olive Press)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey
      • Turkey reports a record 82,180 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. (Asharq Al-Awsat)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom
      • The government's Plan B restrictions, including mandatory usage of face masks on public transport and in shops, and usage of NHS COVID passports for large events are lifted in England. (Sky News)
    • European Union response to the COVID-19 pandemic, COVID-19 drug development
      • The European Medicines Agency conditionally approves the use of the Pfizer anti-COVID-19 oral drug Paxlovid for high-risk adult patients. (France 24)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil
    • Brazil reports a record for the second consecutive day of 228,954 new COVID-19 cases, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 24.7 million. (Business Standard)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea
    • South Korea reports a record for the third consecutive day of 14,518 new COVID-19 cases, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 777,497. (Asian News International)

Politics and elections

• 2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis
  • Anti-war activists gather at the White House in Washington, D.C. to call for diplomacy and for the Biden administration to not antagonize Moscow. Protesters also call for NATO to be disbanded. (Press TV)
• Xiomara Castro is officially sworn in as the 56th President of Honduras, making her the country's first female president. (AFP via NDTV)

January 26, 2022 (2022-01-26) (Wednesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Syrian civil war
  • Battle of al-Hasakah
    • The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces recapture a prison in al-Hasakah from Islamic State. (Al Jazeera)
• 2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis
  • U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announces that the United States has given a written response to Russia, aimed at the de-escalation of tensions between Ukraine and Russia. The response, coordinated with European allies and Ukraine, addresses Russia's demands and actions. (CNN)
• Mali War
  • The Malian junta demands that Denmark withdraw its forces from the country, saying they were never given authorization to participate in the ongoing European-led peacekeeping operations. (AP)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Europe
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Germany
      • Germany reports a record 164,000 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. (Al-Arabiya)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Hungary
      • Hungary reports a record 20,174 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 1,471,276. (Daily News Hungary)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Poland
      • Poland reports a record 53,420 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 4,637,776. (Polskie Radio)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Russia
      • Russia reports a record for the sixth consecutive day of 74,692 new COVID-19 cases, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 11.3 million. (The Moscow Times)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Israel, COVID-19 vaccination in Israel
      • Israeli Health ministry approves the second round of booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine for people aged above 18 years who have underlying medical conditions. (The Times of Israel)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea
      • South Korea reports a record for the second consecutive day of 13,102 new COVID-19 cases, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 762,983. (The Korea Herald)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil
    • Brazil reports a record 224,567 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 24.5 million. (Reuters)

International relations

• Canada–Ukraine relations
  • Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces the extension of Operation Unifier for three years. Sixty more troops will also be deployed to Ukraine in the coming days. Trudeau's government also announces a shipment of non-lethal equipment and intelligence sharing. (CTV News)

Law and crime

• LGBT rights in France
  • The National Assembly votes to criminalize conversion therapy, with violators facing three years in prison and up to €45,000 in fines. The bill will now be sent to President Emmanuel Macron to be signed into law. (BBC News)

January 25, 2022 (2022-01-25) (Tuesday)

Arts and culture

• The Australian Government announces that it has purchased the intellectual property rights to the Australian Aboriginal Flag from its designer Harold Thomas for over $20 million (US$14m), allowing for the public use of the flag. (BBC News) (AFP via France24)

Disasters and accidents

• Millions of people are left without electricity after a major power outage affects Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. Uzbekistan's energy ministry reports that the power outage had been triggered by an "energy imbalance" in Kazakhstan's power grid. (Al Jazeera)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Japan
      • The Japanese government announces that the quasi-state of emergency measures will be expanded to 18 more prefectures including Hokkaido, Osaka, and Fukuoka from January 27 to February 20 amid the spread of the Omicron variant. (The Japan News)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea
      • South Korea reports a record 8,571 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 749,979. (Yonhap News Agency)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Europe
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Bulgaria
      • Bulgaria reports a record 12,399 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 903,676. (Bulgarian News Agency)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in the Czech Republic
      • The Czech Republic reports a record 30,350 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. (Reuters)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in France
      • France reports a record 501,635 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. (The Connexion)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Russia
      • Russia reduces the mandatory isolation period for close-contact COVID-19 patients to seven days amid an unprecedented increase in SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant cases with the country reporting a record for the fifth consecutive day of 67,509 new COVID-19 cases. (AP)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Argentina
    • Argentina surpasses 8 million cases of COVID-19. (Perfil)
  • History of COVID-19 vaccine development
    • Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech begin a clinical trial to test the safety and immune response of their Omicron-specific COVID-19 vaccine for adults under the age of 55 years. (NPR)

Law and crime

• Canadian Indian residential school gravesites
  • The Williams Lake First Nation in British Columbia, Canada, discovers 93 potential unmarked graves around the former Saint Joseph's Mission residential school near Williams Lake, British Columbia. (Vancouver Sun)
• A prison riot in the Mexican state of Colima results in the deaths of nine inmates and seven others being injured. (ABC News)
• Four victims of a shooting are found dead inside a home in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada. The shooting is believed to have happened the night before, and the victims are believed to have known each other. (CTV News)

January 24, 2022 (2022-01-24) (Monday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Spillover of the Yemeni Civil War
  • Saudi Arabian–led intervention in Yemen
    • The United Arab Emirates Armed Forces intercepts two ballistic missiles over the Emirati capital Abu Dhabi. The Yemen-based Houthis claim responsibility for the attack. American troops stationed at Al Dhafra Air Base near the capital take shelter in bunkers during the attack. (ABC News)
• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis, Ukraine–United Kingdom relations
    • The United Kingdom begins withdrawing staff and their dependants from its embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, amid fears of a Russian invasion. Around half of all staff are being withdrawn, according to a statement from the Foreign Office. (The Guardian)
• 2022 Burkinabé coup d'état
  • Troops detain President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré amid reports of gunfire overnight in the capital Ouagadougou. Access to the internet has reportedly been disrupted nationwide. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• Tropical Storm Ana
  • Tropical Storm Ana kills 23 people in Madagascar. (Bloomberg)
• Yaoundé stadium disaster
  • Eight people are killed in a crowd crush at Olembe Stadium in Yaoundé, Cameroon. (CNN)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Europe
    • COVID-19 pandemic in France, Vaccine passports during the COVID-19 pandemic
      • A COVID-19 vaccine pass that requires people over the age of 16 years to be fully vaccinated or show proof of recovery in order to enter bars, restaurants, and other public spaces, and to use inter-regional transport takes effect in France. (Euronews)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Russia
      • Russia reports a record for the fourth consecutive day of 65,109 new COVID-19 cases, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 11,173,300. (The Moscow Times)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Spain
      • Former Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy tests positive for COVID-19 for the second time. (El Periódico)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Australia, COVID-19 vaccination in Australia
    • The Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation gives the final approval for use of the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine for people over the age of 18 years. The rollout of the vaccine will begin on February 21. (ABC News Australia)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China
    • China lifts its month-long lockdown for 13 million people in Xi'an as the number of COVID-19 infections decreases in the city. (AP)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Egypt, COVID-19 drug development
    • Egypt's drug regulator issues an emergency use authorization for Merck's Molnupiravir anti-COVID-19 drug. (Ahram Online)

Law and crime

• Heidelberg University shooting
  • A mass shooting occurs in a lecture hall at the New Campus of the University of Heidelberg in Neuenheimer Feld, Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. A woman is killed and three other people are injured before the gunman commits suicide. (Evening Standard)
• A fire at a nightclub in Sorong, West Papua, Indonesia, following an armed clash between two groups, kills at least 18 people. (AFP via France24)
• Indonesian National Commission on Human Rights suspects former Regent of Langkat, a regency in Sumatra, Indonesia, of practicing modern slavery after KPK, in a sting operation, finds a jail-like facility to house the workers. (Tempo English)

Politics and elections

• 2022 Italian presidential election
  • Voting for the election of the President of the Italian Republic begins, with the process expected to take multiple days. (ANSA)
  • In the first round of voting, two-thirds of electors cast blank ballots. (Euronews)

Science and technology

• The James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration among NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Canadian Space Agency, successfully enters orbit at its target destination, located near the Sun–Earth L₂ Lagrange point about 1.5 million kilometers (930,000 mi) from Earth. (AFP via Manila Standard)
• The second stage of the Falcon 9 v1.1 used to launch the Deep Space Climate Observatory in 2015 is projected to impact the Moon on March 4, 2022. (arsTECHNICA)

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Ongoing events

Disasters

• Climate crisis
• COVID-19 pandemic
• Opioid epidemic
• 2021–22 European windstorm season
• 2020–2022 H5N8 outbreak
• Madagascar famine
• Yemeni famine

Economic

• 2020–present 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
• Freedom Convoy 2022
• Insulate Britain protests
• Jersey dispute
• Libyan peace process
• Malaysian political crisis
• Myanmar protests
• Nicaraguan protests
• Nigerian protests
• Persian Gulf crisis
• Peruvian crisis
• 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
  • 19: Barbados, House of Assembly
  • 23: Northern Cyprus, Assembly of the Republic
  • 26: Nepal, National Assembly (indirect)
  • 24−29: Italy, President (multi-round, indirect)

Upcoming

• January
  • 30: Portugal, Assembly of the Republic
• February
  • 6: Costa Rica, President (1st), Legislative Assembly
  • 13: Germany, President

Trials

Recently concluded

• Belarus: Sergei Tikhanovsky
• Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi
• United States: Elizabeth Holmes, Ghislaine Maxwell, Charles Lieber, Jussie Smollett, Josh Duggar

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
  • 2021–22 Formula E World Championship
• 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

More details – current sports events

Recent deaths

January

• 25: Ozzie
• 25: Wyn Calvin
• 24: Olavo de Carvalho
• 23: Jean-Claude Mézières
• 22: Colm Keane
• 21: Louie Anderson
• 21: Mace Neufeld
• 20: Elza Soares
• 19: Frank Dutton
• 19: Gaspard Ulliel
• 18: André Leon Talley
• 17: Yvette Mimieux
• 16: Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta 
• 15: Marlon Bundo
• 15: Jean-Claude Lord
• 15: Nino Cerruti
• 14: Jim Fahy
• 13: Terry Teachout
• 12: Ronnie Spector
• 11: Jana Bennett
• 11: Ernest Shonekan
• 10: Don Maynard
• 10: Aura Herzog
• 9: Dwayne Hickman
• 9: Bob Saget
• 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
• 25: Peter Robbins
• 25: Barry Cryer
• 24: Sheldon Silver
• 23: Thierry Mugler
• 22: Thích Nhất Hạnh
• 21: Clark Gillies
• 20: Meat Loaf
• 19: Bob Goalby
• 19: Hardy Krüger
• 18: Lusia Harris
• 18: Francisco Gento
• 16: Charles McGee
• 16: Paul Myners
• 15: Michael Jackson
• 15: Steve Schapiro
• 14: Dallas Frazier
• 13: Junior Siavii
• 13: Jean-Jacques Beineix
• 11: Clyde Bellecourt
• 11: David Sassoli
• 10: Robert Durst
• 10: Francis Jackson
• 9: Maria Ewing
• 9: James Mtume
• 9: Toshiki Kaifu
• 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: Sam Jones

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