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Ongoing events

Disasters

• Gaza humanitarian crisis
• H5N1 outbreak
• Haitian crisis
• Iceland volcanic eruptions
• Sudanese refugee crisis
• United States opioid epidemic

Economics

• Argentine monetary crisis
• Chinese property sector crisis
• South African energy crisis
• United Kingdom cost-of-living crisis
• Video game industry layoffs

Politics

• Nigerien crisis
• South China Sea territorial disputes
• Texas border and immigration enforcement efforts

Protests and strikes

• Israel–Hamas war protests
  • United States campus protests
• United Kingdom industrial disputes and strikes

Elections and referendums

Recent

• April

• 17: Croatia, Parliament
• 17: Solomon Islands, National Parliament
• 19: India, Lok Sabha (1st phase)
• 21: Ecuador, Constitutional referendum
• 21: Maldives, People's Majlis
• 24: North Macedonia, President (1st round)
• 26: India, Lok Sabha (2nd phase)

Upcoming

• 29: DR Congo, Senate (indirect)
• 29: Togo, National Assembly

• May

• 05: Panama, President, National Assembly
• 06: Chad, President
• 07: India, Lok Sabha (3rd phase)
• 08: North Macedonia, President (2nd round), Assembly
• 10: Iran, Majlis (2nd round)

Trials

Recently concluded

• United States:0Juan Orlando Hernández
• Vietnam:0Trương Mỹ Lan

Ongoing

• Hong Kong:0Jimmy Lai
• Israel:0Benjamin Netanyahu
• Kosovo:0Specialist Chambers
• Sudan:0Omar al-Bashir
• Sweden:0Mohammed Hamo
• United States:0Donald Trump (NY)
• ICC:0Ali Kushayb

Upcoming

• United States:0Bob Menendez

Sports

• Athletics

• 2024 Diamond League

• Association football

• 2023–24 UEFA Champions League
• 2023–24 UEFA Europa League
• 2023–24 UEFA Europa Conference League
• 2024 Copa Libertadores
• 2024 Copa Sudamericana
• 2024 CONCACAF Champions Cup
• 2023–24 Premier League
• 2023–24 La Liga
• 2023–24 Serie A
• 2023–24 Bundesliga
• 2023–24 Ligue 1
• 2024 Major League Soccer season
• 2023–24 Women's Super League
• 2024 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A

• Baseball

• 2024 MLB season

• Basketball

• 2023–24 NBA season

• International cricket

• 2023–25 ICC World Test Championship
• 2024 IPL season

• Golf

• 2024 PGA Tour
• 2024 LPGA Tour

• Ice hockey

• 2023–24 NHL season
• 2023–24 PWHL season

• Motorsport

• 2024 Formula One World Championship
• 2024 MotoGP World Championship
• 2024 NASCAR Cup Series
• 2024 IndyCar Series

• Rugby union

• 2023–24 Premiership Rugby
• 2023–24 United Rugby Championship

• Tennis

• 2024 ATP Tour
• 2024 WTA Tour

• Other sports seasons

• 2023–24 curling season
• 2023–24 snooker season

More details – current sports events

Recent deaths

April

• 25: Marla Adams
• 25: Laurent Cantet
• 24: Bob Cole
• 24: Terry Hill
• 24: Donald Payne Jr.
• 24: Mike Pinder
• 23: Frank Field
• 23: Helen Vendler
• 21: Terry A. Anderson
• 20: Andrew Davis
• 20: Roman Gabriel
• 20: Lourdes Portillo
• 19: Daniel Dennett
• 18: Mandisa
• 18: Dickey Betts
• 16: Carl Erskine
• 16: Bob Graham
• 15: Whitey Herzog
• 15: Josip Manolić
• 15: Derek Underwood
• 14: Ken Holtzman
• 14: Beverly LaHaye
• 13: Faith Ringgold
• 12: Roberto Cavalli
• 12: Eleanor Coppola
• 12: Robert MacNeil
• 11: Fritz Peterson
• 11: Akebono Tarō
• 11: Park Bo-ram
• 10: Mister Cee
• 10: Trina Robbins
• 10: O. J. Simpson
• 08: Peter Higgs
• 08: Ralph Puckett
• 07: Walid Daqqa
• 07: Jerry Grote
• 07: Joe Kinnear
• 05: C. J. Snare
• 04: Lynne Reid Banks
• 04: Thomas Gumbleton
• 04: Pat Zachry
• 03: Albert Heath
• 03: Gaetano Pesce
• 02: Christopher Durang
• 02: John Barth
• 02: Juan Vicente Pérez
• 02: Maryse Condé
• 02: John Sinclair
• 02: Larry Lucchino
• 01: Lou Conter
• 01: Anne Innis Dagg
• 01: Vontae Davis
• 01: Joe Flaherty
• 01: Sami Michael
• 01: Ed Piskor
• 01: Mohammad Reza Zahedi

March

• 31: Barbara Rush
• 30: Chance Perdomo
• 30: Mark Spiro
• 30: Les Twentyman
• 29: Gerry Conway
• 29: Louis Gossett Jr.

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

• Ecuador

• Ecuadorian conflict

• 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

• Iraqi conflict

• Islamic State insurgency

• Israel–Hamas war

• Regional spillover

• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
• Red Sea crisis

• Syrian civil war

• Iran–Israel conflict
• Turkish intervention
• U.S.−led intervention

• Turkey

• PKK insurgency

• Yemeni civil war

• Saudi−led intervention

See also – List of ongoing proxy wars

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Arts

• Animation (Anime)
• Architecture
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• Film (Horror, Science fiction)
• Literature (Poetry)
• Music (Classical, Country, Hip hop, Jazz, Latin, Metal, Rock, UK, US, Korea)
• Radio
• Television (Australia, Canada, Ireland, UK, Scotland, US)
• 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
• Space/Astronomy
• Spaceflight
• Sustainable energy research

Environment

• Climate change
• Weather (Heat waves
• Tornadoes
• Wildfires)

Transportation

• Aviation
• Rail transport
• Transportation technology

Establishments and disestablishments categories

• Establishments
• Disestablishments

Works and introductions categories

• Works
• Introductions
• Works entering the public domain

Documentation

See also

• Wikipedia:How the Current events page works