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Jack Dongarra

• Jack Dongarra (pictured) wins the Turing Award for his contributions to high-performance computing.
• Scientists announce the discovery of Earendel, the farthest known individual star at 12.9 billion light-years away from Earth.
• CODA wins Best Picture and Dune wins in six categories at the Academy Awards.

Ongoing:

• COVID-19 pandemic
• Russian invasion of Ukraine

Recent deaths:

• Ernie Carroll
• Serhiy Kot
• Tom Parker
• Eugene Melnyk
• Sara Suleri Goodyear
• Johnny Fripp

April 1, 2022 (2022-04-01) (Friday)

March 31, 2022 (2022-03-31) (Thursday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Battle of Chernobyl
      • Energoatom confirms that the Russian forces who occupied the former nuclear power plant in Chernobyl have left the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. (Ukrinform)
      • The International Atomic Energy Agency confirms that Russian forces have handed over control of the former nuclear power plant back to Ukraine. Russian troops also withdraw from the city of Slavutych, returning to Belarus. (CNBC)
    • Siege of Mariupol
      • Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk says that Ukraine has sent buses to Mariupol in an effort to evacuate citizens from the city. (BBC News)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Two people are killed and 14 more injured as the Israeli Defense Forces raid the city of Jenin in the West Bank in order to capture a suspect linked to Tuesday's shooting in Bnei Brak. (Times of Israel) (Haaretz)
  • A Palestinian militant uses a screwdriver to stab and seriously injure an Israeli civilian on a bus in Neve Daniel, before being killed by another passenger. (Haaretz)
  • Rock throwing causes a bus to crash into a car in Halhul, West Bank, injuring two people. (Times of Israel)

Arts and culture

• Expo 2020
  • The world expo in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, which was delayed to October 1, 2021, closes after six months. (AP)

Business and economy

• Economic impact of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • 2022 boycott of Russia and Belarus
    • Australia revokes the most favoured nation status for Russia and Belarus, and will impose 35% tariffs on produce coming from these countries beginning on April 25. (The Guardian)
• 2021–2022 global energy crisis
  • U.S. President Joe Biden orders the release of up to one million barrels of crude oil per day from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve for the next six months in an attempt to contain inflation. (The Guardian)

Disasters and accidents

• Wildfires in 2022
  • Evacuations and school closures are issued in Sevier County, Tennessee, United States, after a wildfire, known as the Hatcher Mountain Road/Indigo Lane Fire, breaks out near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and grows to 1,000 acres. (CNN)
  • Sevier County Mayor Larry Waters announces that two firefighters are injured, and that five fire trucks were damaged by the wildfire that broke out near the Wears Valley community. (WATE-TV)
• A chartered helicopter travelling to Ulupna Island, Victoria, Australia, crashes into Mount Disappointment, killing all five people onboard. (ABC News Australia)

International relations

• Georgia–Russia relations
  • Georgia says plans by the breakaway state of South Ossetia, which is internationally recognized as occupied Georgian territory, to hold a referendum on becoming a part of Russia are "unacceptable". (Reuters)
• Micronesian president David Panuelo urges Solomon Islands to not sign a security pact with China, citing "grave security concerns" and arguing that the Pacific islands would be "the epicenter of major confrontation" between major powers. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Russia investigation origins counter-narrative
  • The U.S. Federal Election Commission fines the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign for violating rules by funding the Steele dossier, a dossier which made accusations of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Both the DNC and Clinton's campaign have agreed not to contest the fines and to pay civil penalties of US$105,000 and US$8,000 respectively. (The Washington Post) (Business Insider)
• Sri Lankan economic crisis
  • Sri Lanka Police impose an indefinite curfew in the city of Colombo after protesters attempted to storm the Gotabaya Rajapaksa's private residence amid anger over worsening economic conditions and power outages in the country. (Al Jazeera)

Politics and elections

• The acting Australian Information Commissioner orders the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) to comply with a request by The Guardian under the Freedom of Information Act 1982, which the PMO had previously rejected, and search the mobile phone of Prime Minister Scott Morrison for correspondence with Morrison's friend and QAnon conspiracy theorist Tim Stewart. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has alleged that Stewart influenced Morrison's use of the term "ritual abuse" in a speech to survivors of child sexual abuse in 2019. (The Guardian)

Science and technology

• Censorship of Wikipedia, Media freedom in Russia
  • Russian media censorship agency Roskomnadzor threatens to fine Wikipedia up to 4 million rubles (about US$49,000) if it does not delete information that goes against the Kremlin's official narrative on the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Forbes)
• Scientists sequence the complete human genome for the first time, more than three decades after the Human Genome Project was first commenced. (CNN)

March 30, 2022 (2022-03-30) (Wednesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Eastern Ukraine offensive
      • Siege of Mariupol
        • Ukraine says that Russian artillery and aircraft have targeted a Red Cross hospital in the city of Mariupol. (Times of Israel)
    • Battle of Chernobyl
      • Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk calls for Russia to withdraw from the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone area and for Russian troops occupying the former nuclear plant to pull out. (Reuters)
      • A U.S. official says that Russian forces have begun withdrawing from the Chernobyl area and have moved into Belarus. (France 24)
    • 2022 Ukrainian refugee crisis
      • The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees says more than four million Ukrainians have fled the country since the invasion began on February 24. (France 24)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan attack a military base in Tank, Pakistan, killing six soldiers. (Arab News)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
    • COVID-19 vaccination in the United States
      • U.S. President Joe Biden receives his second booster shot of the COVID-19 vaccine. (CBS News)
  • COVID-19 pandemic on cruise ships
    • The U.S. CDC removes their travel warnings for cruise ships, which were imposed during the beginning of the pandemic. However, passengers will still be required to be vaccinated and to test negative for COVID-19. (The Washington Post)
  • Treatment and management of COVID-19
    • According to a new study, the antiparasitic drug ivermectin does not prevent hospitalizations from COVID-19. (New England Journal of Medicine)

International relations

• Reactions to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • 2022 Russia–Ukraine peace negotiations
    • Ukrainian negotiator Davyd Arakhamia says that the Russian and Ukrainian delegations will resume their peace talks online on April 1 after the latest round of negotiations in Turkey has ended. (Reuters)
• 2021–2022 North Korean missile tests
  • North Korea–South Korea relations
    • The South Korean military says that last week, North Korea tested Hwasong-15 from November 2017, instead of a Hwasong-17. This comes a day after the defense ministry and lawmakers also confirmed this. (DW) (CBS News)
• Iran–United States relations
  • Iranian missile tests
    • The United States sanctions the Iranian ballistic missile program. (CNN)
• Russia–South Ossetia relations
  • The President of South Ossetia, Anatoly Bibilov, declares that the partially recognised state will undertake "legal steps" in the near future for accession to become part of Russia. (Meduza)

Politics and elections

• 2021–2022 Tunisian political crisis
  • Tunisian President Kais Saied orders the Assembly of the Representatives of the People to be dissolved, after 116 of the 124 MPs who convened online voted earlier in the day to strip Saied of the "exceptional measures" he had taken on since last July. (Reuters)

Science and technology

• Cyberwarfare by Russia
  • Russia announces that it will ban all usage of software from other countries in government agencies beginning in 2025. Additionally, beginning on March 31, all foreign software purchases for government agencies must be pre-approved by the government. (Reuters) (TASS)
  • It is reported that Russian government hackers have attacked and compromised the servers of Hungary's Ministry of Foreign Affairs since late 2021. (Direkt36)
• South Korea launches a solid-fuel indigenous space rocket at the Agency for Defense Development site in Taean County, South Chungcheong Province. (Korea Herald)
• The Hubble Space Telescope observes the most distant single star ever. The star, named Earendel by astronomers, is 28 billion light-years away. It is the farthest detection of a star, dating back 900 million years after the Big Bang. This discovery surpasses Hubble's record from 2018, when it discovered a star that existed when the universe was roughly four billion years old. (CNN)

Sports

• 2021–22 UEFA Women's Champions League knockout phase
  • A crowd of 91,553 attends the second leg of the quarterfinal between archrivals FC Barcelona and Real Madrid at Camp Nou in Barcelona. This set a new record for documented attendance at a women's sporting event, surpassing the 90,185 attendance at the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup Final. Barça won 5–2 on the day and 8–3 on aggregate. (ESPN)

March 29, 2022 (2022-03-29) (Tuesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Southern Ukraine offensive
      • Battle of Mykolaiv
        • Mykolaiv government building airstrike
          • A missile strike hits the regional administration's headquarters in Mykolaiv, killing twelve people and injuring 22 others. (Reuters)
      • Kyiv offensive, Northeastern Ukraine offensive
        • Russian troops begin retreating from positions in Kyiv Oblast and Chernihiv Oblast, according to Ukrainian and American officials. The United States European Command confirms the Russian withdrawal, observing a "major strategy shift". (U.S. News) (Times of Israel)
      • Attack on Snake Island
        • Roman Hrybov, the border guard who told the Russian warship command over the radio "Russian warship, go fuck yourself" in defiance of its order to surrender Snake Island, is freed in a prisoner swap. Initial reports erroneously suggested that 13 border guards on the island had died. (The Guardian)
    • Reactions to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
      • Russia–NATO relations
        • The U.S. deploys 200 marines from the Marine Air Control Group 28, 10 F/A-18 Hornet fighter jets, and an unspecified number of C-130s to Lithuania as part of NATO's response to Russian military aggression in Eastern Europe. (USNI)
    • 2022 Russia–Ukraine peace negotiations
      • The Ukrainian and Russian delegations hold face-to-face peace talks in Turkey for the first time in two weeks. (AP)
      • Russian officials agree to "fundamentally cut back military activity in the direction of Kyiv and Chernihiv" during the negotiations. (The Guardian)
    • A shell strikes a temporary Russian military camp near the city of Belgorod, 25 km from the Russia–Ukraine border. Russian authorities report at least four injuries, and say that the shell was fired from Ukrainian territory. Ukraine denies firing the missile, instead attributing the strike to an error on Russia's part. (Reuters)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • 2022 Bnei Brak shootings
    • Five people are killed and another is injured during a series of drive-by shootings in Bnei Brak, Tel Aviv District, Israel. The attacker, a Fatah sympathizer, is shot dead. (Jerusalem Post) (Times of Israel)
• Yemeni Civil War
  • The Saudi-led military coalition suspends all military activity in Yemen. (Arab News)
• Nigerian bandit conflict
  • Bandits attack villages in the Bakura and Talata Mafura local government areas of Nigeria. Many people are killed. (Premium Times)
• Kivu conflict
  • 2022 MONUSCO helicopter crash
    • Six Pakistani crew members and a Russian and a Serbian soldier are killed as a MONUSCO helicopter crashes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The rebel March 23 Movement group is accused of being behind the crash. The group has denied their involvement. (Reuters)

Arts and culture

• 2022 boycott of Russia and Belarus
  • It is announced that officials from Russia and Belarus will not be welcomed at the upcoming ceremony to mark the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp due to their role in the invasion of Ukraine. (Forbes)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
    • COVID-19 vaccination in the United States
      • The U.S. FDA and the CDC approve fourth doses of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines for people over the age of 50 years. (CNBC) (NBC News)

International relations

• Reactions to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Belgium–Russia relations, Czech Republic–Russia relations, Ireland–Russia relations, Netherlands–Russia relations
    • Belgium, the Netherlands, Ireland and the Czech Republic expel Russian diplomats. (Reuters)
  • Estonia–Russia relations, Latvia–Russia relations, Lithuania–Russia relations
    • Russia expels diplomats from Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, in retaliation for the earlier expulsions of Russian diplomats from these countries. (Reuters)
• 2021–2022 North Korean missile tests
  • North Korea–South Korea relations
    • South Korean lawmakers and the defense ministry say that last week, North Korea has tested a Hwasong-15, which was successfully tested in November 2017, instead of a Hwasong-17. (ABC News) (AP)
• The Democratic Republic of the Congo joins the East African Community, becoming the largest country in both area and population to do so, and thereby granting the bloc access to the Atlantic Ocean. (Bloomberg)

Law and crime

• International sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian War
  • The United Kingdom's National Crime Agency seizes the 58.5 metre superyacht PHI on the River Thames in London after its unnamed Russian oligarch owner was sanctioned by the British government. (Reuters)
• Lynching in the United States
  • U.S. President Joe Biden signs the Emmett Till Antilynching Act into law, which makes lynching a federal crime. (CBS News)
• 2021–2022 Belarus–European Union border crisis
  • A regional court in the border town of Hajnówka rules that pushbacks against migrants on the Belarus–Poland border violated Polish law. (Gazeta Wyborcza) (Rzeczpospolita)

March 28, 2022 (2022-03-28) (Monday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Kyiv offensive
      • Battle of Irpin
        • Mayor Oleksandr Markushyn says that Irpin has been recaptured by Ukrainian Ground Forces. (Times of Israel)
    • Northeastern Ukraine offensive
      • Battle of Kharkiv
        • Russian artillery damages a school in Kharkiv. (Yahoo News) (Sky News)
    • Eastern Ukraine offensive
      • Russian troops shell Rubizhne, Luhansk Oblast, killing one person. (Ukrinform)
      • Trostyanets is retaken by Ukrainian Armed Forces. (Jerusalem Post)
    • 2022 Russia–Ukraine peace negotiations
      • Russia cautions against expecting any "significant breakthroughs" ahead of the first round of in-person negotiations with Ukraine. (MSN)
      • Two Ukrainian negotiators as well as sanctioned Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich are reported to have fallen victim to suspected poisoning during peace talks on the Belarus–Ukraine border earlier this month. Their health has since improved. (Reuters) (BBC News)
    • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that some mayors abducted by invading Russian forces have been found dead. (Ukrayinska Pravda) (The Economist)
• Nigerian bandit conflict
  • Bandits bomb and open fire at a train in Kaduna State carrying 970 passengers travelling from Abuja to Kaduna, Nigeria, killing 7 people and wounding 22 more. Some others are kidnapped. (BBC News)
• Kivu conflict
  • Militants belonging to the March 23 Movement attack military bases near Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Congolese authorities say that two Rwandan soldiers were participating in the attack. The movement have regrouped and retaken strategic areas for the first time since their defeat in 2013. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• P&O sacking of 800 staff
  • The United Kingdom's Maritime and Coastguard Agency seizes P&O Ferries-operated ferry MS Pride of Kent at the Port of Dover after the ferry "failed safety checks" by authorities. It is the second P&O Ferries ship to be detained by UK authorities since the firm fired all 800 British crew members and replaced them with cheaper agency workers. (Sky News)
  • The Department for Transport gives P&O Ferries a deadline of March 31 to rehire all the fired staff. (BBC News)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
    • COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China
      • COVID-19 pandemic in Shanghai
        • Shanghai enters two-stage lockdown which close all non-essential businesses after the city reporting 3,500 new COVID-19 cases. (Forbes)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia
      • Indonesia surpasses six million cases of COVID-19. (Medcom.id)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Israel
      • Prime Minister Naftali Bennett tests positive for COVID-19. (Jerusalem Post)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Australia
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Victoria
      • Premier Daniel Andrews tests positive for COVID-19. (Sky News Australia)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Andorra
    • The Andorran government announces the lifting of indoor mask usage, except in sanitary spaces, as well as the need for antigen testing for nightlife. The government also announces the relaxation of the protocol for positive contacts. (Andorra Difusió)

International relations

• Reactions to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Kazakhstan–Russia relations
    • Kazakhstan says that it does not want to be behind a "new iron curtain", and that international companies boycotting Russia are welcome to "move production to Kazakhstan". (Reuters)
• Abraham Accords
  • The foreign ministers of Israel, Egypt, Morocco, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, as well as the United States Secretary of State, meet in Sde Boker, Israel, and agree to hold regular meetings about regional security and commit to further expanding economic and diplomatic cooperation. (Times of Israel) (The Washington Post)

Law and crime

• Mexican drug war
  • Las Tinajas massacre
    • Twenty people are killed and four more are injured in a mass shooting at an illegal cockfighting pit in Las Tinajas, Michoacán, Mexico. (BBC News)
• Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández will be extradited to the United States on drug trafficking charges. (France 24)

Politics and elections

• 2021–2022 Tunisian political crisis
  • Speaker of the Assembly Rached Ghannouchi announces that the parliament will hold two full sessions this week, the first time since President Kais Saied seized most executive powers and suspended parliament last July, to try to block attempts by Saied to adopt a new constitution that will solidify his rule. (Reuters)

March 27, 2022 (2022-03-27) (Sunday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • 2022 Hadera shooting
    • Two policemen are killed and 12 more people are injured during a mass shooting by two Islamic State gunmen at a bus stop in Hadera, Haifa District, Israel. The attackers are shot dead. (Reuters) (Times of Israel)

Arts and culture

• 94th Academy Awards
  • CODA wins this year's Best Picture, while Jane Campion wins Best Director for The Power of the Dog. (CNN)
  • Will Smith wins Best Actor for his portrayal of Richard Williams in King Richard, while Jessica Chastain wins Best Actress for her portrayal of Tammy Faye Messner in The Eyes of Tammy Faye. (ABC News) (The Guardian)
  • Dune wins the most awards in six, mostly untelevised categories. (Showbiz Cheat Sheet)
  • CODA star Troy Kotsur wins Best Supporting Actor, becoming the first deaf male actor to win an Academy Award. (Variety)
  • West Side Story star Ariana DeBose wins Best Supporting Actress, becoming the first queer woman of colour to win an Academy Award (The Guardian)
  • Celebrities at the Awards wear blue and gold ribbons to stand in solidarity with Ukraine and pay tribute to the refugees. (USA Today) (The Wrap)

Disasters and accidents

• Wildfires in 2022
  • Ukrainian Human Rights commissioner Lyudmyla Denisova warns that around 10,000 hectares of forest fires are currently burning near the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. (The Independent)
  • A wildfire engulfs the uninhabited Gruinard Island in Gruinard Bay, Scotland. (BBC News)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
    • COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China
      • COVID-19 pandemic in Shanghai
        • Shanghai imposes a lockdown in the Pudong area and other parts of the city. Additionally, areas near the Huangpu River will undergo four days of COVID-19 testing beginning tomorrow. (South China Morning Post)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Hong Kong
      • Chief Executive Carrie Lam announces that Hong Kong will begin offering COVID-19 vaccinations at home for elderly people in the coming weeks in order to increase the vaccination rate. (Bloomberg)

International relations

• Reactions to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Russia–Ukraine relations
    • Ukrainian delegate Davyd Arakhamia announces that in-person ceasefire talks between the Ukrainian and Russian delegations will occur in Turkey. The talks are expected to occur from March 28 to March 30. (Ukrinform)
• Nuclear program of Iran
  • U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says that the U.S. and their Gulf allies will deter Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon, regardless if a deal to revive the 2015 agreement has been reached or not. (CNN)

Law and crime

• Protests against the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • 2022 anti-war protests in Russia
    • Russian artist Yevgenia Isayeva douses herself in fake blood during an anti-war protest in Saint Petersburg. She is later detained by police. (RFE/RL)
• Crime in El Salvador
  • El Salvador declares a state of emergency after 62 people were murdered in the country yesterday, making it the most violent 24-hour period since the end of the civil war in 1992. (BBC News)

Politics and elections

• 2022 Uruguayan Law of Urgent Consideration referendum
  • A referendum is held in Uruguay on whether to repeal the Urgent Consideration Law, which gives the government more power to dismantle protests and increased security measures after record high crime rates in Uruguay in 2017. (MercoPress)

March 26, 2022 (2022-03-26) (Saturday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Northeastern Ukraine offensive
      • Battle of Kharkiv
        • The Holocaust memorial at Drobytsky Yar is hit by Russian shelling, damaging the memorial's menorah. (Jerusalem Post)
    • Russian forces airstrike the western city of Lviv, injuring five people. (Reuters)
• Yemeni Civil War
  • Houthi–Saudi Arabian conflict
    • The Saudi coalition in Yemen launches a series of air raids on targets in Yemen in response to attacks on Saudi Arabian energy facilities by the Houthis. (Global News)
• Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
  • 2021–2022 Armenia–Azerbaijan border crisis
    • Azerbaijani troops continue to advance into the Askeran Province of the Republic of Artsakh, clashing with Artsakh Defence Army forces in Farukh and Khramort. (Asbarez)
    • Russia says that Azerbaijani forces have entered the Russian peacekeeping zone in Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijani officials say it was a false flag operation by Armenian soldiers.(Times of Israel) (Radio Free Europe)

Business and economy

• Economic impact of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • 2022 boycott of Russia and Belarus
    • Spotify announces that it expects to suspend all its services in Russia by the end of April, citing recently passed legislation that restricts access to information as a reason for the suspension. (Infobae)
• Saudi Arabia and Kuwait sign off on a 50-year program to explore the Arash gas field, which is located on the maritime border between the two countries and also extends into Iranian waters. Iran says that the deal is illegal. (Tasnim)

Disasters and accidents

• 2020–2022 Taal Volcano eruptions
  • The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology raises the alert status of the Taal Volcano to level 3 after the volcano had a short-lived phreatomagmatic eruption. (CNN Philippines)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Shanghai
      • It is announced that Shanghai will not impose a full-scale lockdown despite an increase in COVID-19 cases. (South China Morning Post)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Bulgaria
    • The government announces that the country will not extend their COVID-19 state of emergency beyond March 31. (The Sofia Globe)

International relations

• Reactions to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Russia–United States relations
    • U.S. President Joe Biden declares in a speech that Russian President Vladimir Putin "cannot remain in power". In response to reports that the statement constitutes a call for regime change, the White House later releases a statement saying that Biden's "point was that Putin cannot be allowed to exercise power over his neighbors or the region. He was not discussing Putin's power in Russia, or regime change". In response to Biden's statement, the Kremlin states that this is a choice of the Russian people. (CNN) (The Hill)

Law and crime

• Protests against the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • 2022 anti-war protests in Russian-occupied Ukraine
    • Slavutych mayor Yurii Fomichev is released by Russian soldiers after protesters opposed Fomichev‘s kidnapping and Russia’s occupation of the town. (EuroWeekly News) (I News)
  • Anti-war protesters gather in London to stand in solidarity with Ukraine. (The Guardian)

Politics and elections

• 2022 Maltese general election
  • Maltese citizens go to the polls to elect members of the Parliament. (Euronews)

Science and technology

• 65 terabytes of data belonging to the Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviation), the Russian airspace regulator, gets lost indefinitely in a hacker attack, which is said to be one of the largest ever. The data lost includes all official documents, files on its servers, the public procurement system of Rosaviation, as well as all emails for the last one and a half years; no backups are available. As a result, the agency is forced to switch to paper-based workflow. (Kommersant) (Aviation24.be)

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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
• 2020–2022 Taal Volcano eruptions
• Yemeni famine

Economics

• 2020–present global chip shortage
• 2021–2022 global energy crisis
• 2021–2022 global supply chain crisis
• COVID-19 recession
• Lebanese liquidity crisis
• Pandora Papers leak
• Russian financial crisis
• Suisse secrets
• Sri Lankan economic and food crisis
• Turkish currency and debt crisis

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• Belarus−European Union border crisis
• Brazilian protests
• Haitian protests
• Insulate Britain protests
• Libyan peace process
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• Myanmar protests
• Nicaraguan protests
• Nigerian protests
• Partygate
• Persian Gulf crisis
• Peruvian crisis
• Somali political crisis
• Tigrayan peace process
• Thai protests
• Tunisian political crisis
• Ukrainian refugee crisis
• Venezuelan presidential crisis
• Xinjiang internment camps

Elections and referendums

Recent

• March
  • 19: East Timor, President (1st)
  • 26: Abkhazia, People's Assembly (2nd)
  • 26: Malta, House of Representatives
  • 27: Uruguay, Referendum

Upcoming

• April
  • 3: Costa Rica, President (2nd)
  • 3: Hungary, National Assembly, Referendum
  • 3: Serbia, President (1st), National Assembly
  • 6: Iraq, President (indirect)
  • 9: The Gambia, National Assembly
  • 10: France, President (1st)
  • 10: Mexico, Referendum
  • 10: South Ossetia, President (1st)

Trials

Ongoing

• Armenia: Serzh Sargsyan
• France: Brussels Islamic State
• Israel: Benjamin Netanyahu
• Italy: Matteo Salvini
• Kosovo: Specialist Chambers
• Kyrgyzstan: Almazbek Atambayev
• Malta: Yorgen Fenech
• Philippines: Leila de Lima
• Sudan: Omar al-Bashir
• Sweden: Hamid Nouri
• United Kingdom: Ali Harbi Ali
• United States: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
• Vatican City: Giovanni Angelo Becciu

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• Canada: Peter Nygård
• Nigeria: Nnamdi Kanu
• ICC: Ali Kushayb

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• Golf
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• Ice hockey
  • 2021–22 NHL season
• Motorsport
  • 2022 Formula One World Championship
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  • 2021–22 Top 14
  • 2022 Super Rugby Pacific season
• Tennis
  • 2022 ATP Tour
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  • 2021–22 King Cup
• Other sports seasons
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  • 2021–22 snooker season
  • 2021–22 curling season

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• 30: Tom Parker
• 29: Paul Herman
• 28: Eugene Melnyk
• 28: Mira Calix
• 27: Ayaz Mutallibov
• 26: Jeff Carson
• 26: Joan Joyce
• 25: Dirck Halstead
• 25: Taylor Hawkins
• 25: John Chapple
• 24: Dagny Carlsson
• 23: Madeleine Albright
• 23: Charles G. Boyd
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• 22: Elspeth Howe
• 21: Kip Hawley
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• 21: Soumeylou Maïga
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• 19: Scoey Mitchell
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• 18: Pepper Martin
• 18: Don Young
• 18: Chaim Kanievsky
• 17: Christopher Alexander
• 17: Peter Bowles
• 16: Vic Fazio
• 16: Kunimitsu Takahashi
• 16: Ralph Terry
• 15: Lauro Cavazos
• 15: Eugene Parker
• 15: Jean Potvin
• 14: Scott Hall
• 14: Steve Wilhite
• 13: Maureen Howard
• 13: William Hurt
• 13: Bernard Nussbaum
• 13: Brent Renaud
• 12: Traci Braxton
• 12: Karl Offmann
• 11: Timmy Thomas
• 11: Rupiah Banda
• 10: Emilio Delgado
• 10: Bruce Duffy
• 10: Bobbie Nelson
• 10: Mario Terán
• 9: John Korty
• 9: Jimmy Lydon
• 9: Inge Deutschkron
• 8: David Bennett Sr.
• 8: Ron Miles
• 8: Yuriko
• 7: Nadungamuwa Raja
• 7: Muhammad Rafiq Tarar
• 6: Frank O'Farrell
• 5: Lynda Baron
• 4: Elsa Klensch
• 4: Mitchell Ryan
• 4: Anne Beaumanoir
• 4: Sunith Francis Rodrigues
• 4: Rod Marsh
• 4: Shane Warne
• 3: Tim Considine
• 3: Walter Mears
• 2: Johnny Brown
• 2: Kenneth Duberstein
• 2: Alan Ladd Jr.
• 2: Autherine Lucy
• 2: Tony Walton
• 2: John Stahl

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Russo−Ukrainian War

• 25: Yakov Rezantsev
• 20: Andrei Paliy
• 18: Borys Romanchenko
• 17: Artem Datsyshyn
• 17: Oksana Shvets
• 16: Andrey Mordvichev

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
• Ethiopia
  • Tigray War (spillover)
  • Oromo conflict
  • Benishangul-Gumuz 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
    • Western Saharan clashes (2020–present)

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
  • 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
• Ireland and the UK
  • Dissident Irish republican campaign
• Turkey
  • Kurdish–Turkish conflict
• Ukraine
  • Russo-Ukrainian War
    • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • War in Donbas

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
  • 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) – 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