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Ongoing events

Disasters and humanitarian

• Gaza Strip famine
• Sudan famine
• Venezuelan crisis

Economics

• United Kingdom cost-of-living crisis

• Jaguar Land Rover cyberattack

• United States tariff policy

• United States–Canada–Mexico trade war
• United States–China trade war

Politics and diplomacy

• French political crisis
• Gaza peace plan
• Gaza war hostage crisis
• Russia–Ukraine peace negotiations
• United States deportation efforts
• United States federal forces deployments
• United States federal government shutdown

Protests and strikes

• Alberta teachers' strike
• British anti-immigration protests
• Gaza war protests
• Gen Z protests
• Georgian protests and political crisis
• Irish anti-immigration protests
• Moroccan Gen Z protests
• Peruvian anti-government protests
• Philippine anti-corruption protests
• Serbian anti-corruption protests

Weather

• Atlantic hurricane season
  • Hurricane Melissa

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Elections and referendums

Recent

• October

• 11: Nauru, Parliament, Constitutional referendum
• 9–11: Seychelles, President (2nd round)
• 11: Gabon, National Assembly (2nd round)
• 12: Cameroon, President
• 14: Nauru, President (indirect)
• 19: Northern Cyprus, President
• 19: Bolivia, President (2nd round)
• 24: Ireland, President

Upcoming

• 25: Ivory Coast, President
• 26: Argentina, Senate, Chamber of Deputies
• 28: Tanzania, President, National Assembly
• 29: Netherlands, House of Representatives

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Sports

• American football

• 2025 NFL season
• 2025 NCAA Division I FBS season

• Association football

• 2025–26 UEFA Champions League
• 2025–26 UEFA Europa League
• 2025–26 UEFA Conference League
• 2025 Copa Libertadores
• 2025–26 UEFA Women's Champions League
• 2025–26 UEFA Women's Europa Cup
• 2025–26 Premier League
• 2025–26 La Liga
• 2025–26 Bundesliga
• 2025–26 Serie A
• 2025–26 Ligue 1
• 2025 Major League Soccer season
• 2025 National Women's Soccer League season
• 2025–26 Women's Super League

• Australian rules football

• 2025 AFL Women's season

• Baseball

• 2025 World Series
• 2025 Japan Series

• Basketball

• 2025–26 EuroLeague
• 2025–26 NBA season
• 2025–26 EuroLeague Women

• Canadian football

• 2025 CFL season

• International cricket

• 2025–27 ICC World Test Championship

• Golf

• 2025 PGA Tour
• 2025 LPGA Tour

• Ice hockey

• 2025–26 NHL season

• Motorsport

• 2025 Formula One World Championship
• 2025 MotoGP World Championship
• 2025 World Rally Championship
• 2025 NASCAR Cup Series

• Rugby union

• 2025–26 Premiership Rugby
• 2025–26 United Rugby Championship

• Tennis

• 2025 ATP Tour
• 2025 WTA Tour

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Recent deaths

October0/0September

• 24: Sirikit
• 23: June Lockhart
• 22: Emman Atienza
• 22: David Ball
• 21: Warlito Cajandig
• 21: Francisco Pinto Balsemão
• 19: Bobby "Mo" Horne
• 19: Jesús Montero
• 19: Daniel Naroditsky
• 18: Eduardo Ermita
• 18: Lady Annabel Goldsmith
• 18: Doug Martin
• 18: Sam Rivers
• 18: Yang Chen-Ning
• 17: Duke Roufus
• 17: Tomiichi Murayama
• 16: Ace Frehley
• 16: Susan Stamberg
• 16: Baek Se-hee
• 16: Tomonobu Itagaki
• 15: Samantha Eggar
• 15: Raila Odinga
• 15: Jim Bolger
• 14: D'Angelo
• 14: Penelope Milford
• 13: Sandy Alomar Sr.
• 13: Drew Struzan
• 11: Diane Keaton
• 11: Ian Watkins
• 11: Tony Fitzpatrick
• 10: John Lodge
• 09: Mike Greenwell
• 09: Sister Jean
• 08: Joan Bennett Kennedy
• 08: Miguel Ángel Russo
• 07: John Gurdon
• 06: Ben Lewis
• 05: Jilly Cooper
• 04: Ivan Klíma
• 04: Milan Mandarić
• 03: Kimberly Hébert Gregory
• 03: Patricia Routledge
• 03: Arthur Jones
• 02: Pangalian Balindong
• 01: Jane Goodall
• 30: Joshua Allen
• 30: Soo Catwoman
• 30: Nigel Latta
• 30: Nathi Mthethwa
• 29: Lally Weymouth
• 28: Mika Immonen
• 27: Russell M. Nelson
• 27: Chang Chun-hsiung
• 26: Menzies Campbell
• 26: Tony Harrison
• 25: Robert Barnett
• 25: Voddie Baucham
• 25: Chris Dreja
• 25: Billy Vigar
• 25: Assata Shakur

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Ongoing conflicts

Global

• War against the Islamic State

Africa

• Democratic Republic of the Congo

• M23 campaign

• Cameroon

• Anglophone Crisis

• Central African Republic

• Civil war

• Ethiopia

• Fano insurgency

• Sahel

• Mali War
• Chad Basin

• Burkina Faso
• Niger

• Somalia

• Civil war

• Sudan

• Civil war

Americas

• Colombia

• Colombian conflict

• Haiti

• Gang war

• Mexico

• Mexican drug war

Asia−Pacific

• Afghanistan

• Afghanistan–Pakistan conflict

• Cambodia and Thailand
  • Cambodia–Thailand border conflict
• India

• Naxalite–Maoist insurgency

• Myanmar

• Civil war

• Pakistan

• Insurgency in Balochistan
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Europe

• Russia and Ukraine

• Russo-Ukrainian war

Middle East

• Middle Eastern crisis

• Gaza war
• Red Sea crisis

• Syrian conflict
• Israeli invasion of Syria

• Yemen

• Civil war

See also – List of ongoing proxy wars

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