Ongoing events
Business
- 2021 global supply chain crisis
- COVID-19 recession
- Lebanese liquidity crisis
- Pandora Papers leak
- United Kingdom fuel supply crisis
- United Kingdom natural gas supplier crisis
Disasters
- Climate crisis
- COVID-19 pandemic
- 2020–21 H5N8 outbreak
- 2021 Atlantic hurricane season
- 2021 Pacific typhoon season
- Madagascar food crisis
- Water crisis in Iran
- Yemeni famine
- 2021 La Palma eruption
Politics
- Belarus−European Union border crisis
- Brazilian protests
- Colombian tax reform protests
- Eswatini protests
- Haitian protests
- Indian farmers' protests
- Insulate Britain protests
- Jersey dispute
- Libyan peace process
- Malaysian political crisis
- Myanmar protests
- Nicaraguan protests
- Nigerian protests
- Peruvian crisis
- Romanian political crisis
- Russian election protests
- Striketober
- Tigrayan peace process
- Thai protests
- Tunisian political crisis
- United States racial unrest
- Venezuelan presidential crisis
Recent
- October
- 17: Cape Verde, President
- 24: Uzbekistan, President
- 31: Japan, House of Representatives
Upcoming
Recently concluded
- Belarus: Maria Kalesnikava
- France: Nicolas Sarkozy
- India: Shashi Tharoor
- Indonesia: Juliari Batubara
- Russia: Lyubov Sobol
- Rwanda: Paul Rusesabagina
- United States: Lev Parnas, R. Kelly, Robert Durst
Ongoing
- Armenia: Serzh Sargsyan
- Belarus: Sergei Tikhanovsky
- Canada: Raj Grewal
- France: Brussels ISIL
- Indonesia: Nurdin Abdullah
- Israel: Benjamin Netanyahu
- Kyrgyzstan: Almazbek Atambayev
- Malta: Yorgen Fenech
- Philippines: Leila de Lima
- Sudan: Omar al-Bashir
- United States: Elizabeth Holmes
Upcoming
- Indonesia: Azis Syamsuddin, Alex Noerdin
- Kosovo: Hashim Thaçi, Kadri Veseli
- Lesotho: Maesiah Thabane
- United States: Allen Weisselberg, Ghislaine Maxwell, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Jussie Smollett
- Vatican City: Giovanni Angelo Becciu
- Zimbabwe: Ignatius Chombo
- ICC: Ali Kushayb
- Association football
- Women's association football
- American football
- Baseball
- Basketball
- Cricket
- Canadian football
- Golf
- Ice hockey
- Motorsport
- Rugby union
- Tennis
- Other sports seasons
More details – current sports events
October
- 31: Catherine Tizard
- 30: Alan Davidson
- 30: Bert Newton
- 29: Clément Mouamba
- 29: Iran Darroudi
- 29: Ashley Mallett
- 26: Mort Sahl
- 26: Walter Smith
- 26: Roh Tae-woo
- 25: Alfredo Diez Nieto
- 25: Fofi Gennimata
- 24: Arnold Hano
- 24: James Michael Tyler
- 24: John Traynor
- 24: Erna de Vries
- 22: Jay Black
- 22: Peter Scolari
- 22: George Butler
- 22: Udo Zimmermann
- 21: Yasin Abu Bakr
- 21: Martha Henry
- 21: Bernard Haitink
- 21: Halyna Hutchins
- 20: Jerry Pinkney
- 19: Leslie Bricusse
- 18: Colin Powell
- 18: Edita Gruberová
- 18: Bandula Warnapura
- 18: Sean Wainui
- 17: Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai
- 16: Leo Boivin
- 16: Betty Lynn
- 16: Alan Hawkshaw
- 15: Joanna Cameron
- 15: David Amess
- 15: Gerd Ruge
- 14: Diane Weyermann
- 14: Lee Wan-koo
- 13: Ray Fosse
- 13: Gary Paulsen
- 13: Patrick Walker
- 13: Viktor Bryukhanov
- 13: Agnes Tirop
- 12: Raúl Baduel
- 12: Brian Goldner
- 12: Paddy Moloney
- 11: Emiliano Aguirre
- 11: Deon Estus
- 11: Stewart Murray Wilson
- 10: Granville Adams
- 10: David Kennedy
- 10: Megan Rice
- 10: Ruthie Tompson
- 10: Luis de Pablo
- 10: Abdul Qadeer Khan
- 9: Abolhassan Banisadr
- 9: Farooq Feroze Khan
- 8: Raymond T. Odierno
- 7: James Brokenshire
- 4: Alan Kalter
- 4: Eddie Robinson
- 3: Todd Akin
- 3: Jorge Medina
- 3: Bernard Tapie
- 3: Lars Vilks
- 2: Matt Holmes
- 2: John Wes Townley
Africa
- Angola
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Ethiopia
- Ethiopia and Sudan
- Ghana
- Maghreb and Sahel regions
- Mali
- Mozambique
- Nigeria
- Boko Haram insurgency (incl. Lake Chad region)
- Communal conflicts in Nigeria
- Senegal
- Somalia
- South Sudan
- Sudan
- War in Darfur
- South Kordofan conflict
- Sudanese nomadic conflicts (incl. South Sudan)
- Tunisia
- Western Sahara
Americas
- Colombia
- Mexico
- Peru
- Paraguay
Asia-Pacific
- Afghanistan
- India
- India and Pakistan
- Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines
- Indonesia
- Myanmar
- Pakistan
- Philippines
- Thailand
Europe
- Armenia and Azerbaijan
- Ukraine
- Ireland and the UK
- Turkey
Global
Middle East
- Egypt
- Iran and the Persian Gulf
- Iraq
- Iraq and Syria (map)
- Israel and Gaza
- Israel and Syria
- Syria
- Yemen and Saudi Arabia
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