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Disasters

• Gaza Strip famine

Economics

• German economic crisis
• United Kingdom cost-of-living crisis
• United States tariff policy

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

Politics and diplomacy

• Gaza war hostage crisis
• Russia–Ukraine peace negotiations
• United States deportation efforts

Protests and strikes

• Gaza war protests
• Georgian protests and political crisis
• Serbian anti-corruption protests

Weather

• Canadian wildfires
• European heatwaves and wildfires
• Atlantic hurricane season

• Hurricane Erin

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Elections and referendums

Recent

• August

• 4–5: Egypt, Senate
• • 17: Bolivia, President (1st round), Senate, Chamber of Deputies

Upcoming

• 23: Taiwan, Referendum
• 29: Samoa, Legislative Assembly

• September

• 01: Guyana, President, National Assembly

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Sports

• Association football

• 2025–26 UEFA Champions League
• 2025–26 UEFA Europa League
• 2025–26 UEFA Conference League
• 2025–26 Premier League
• 2025–26 La Liga
• 2025–26 Ligue 1
• 2025–26 UEFA Women's Champions League
• 2025 Copa Libertadores
• 2025 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
• 2025 Major League Soccer season
• 2025 National Women's Soccer League season

• Australian rules football

• 2025 AFL season

• Baseball

• 2025 MLB season
• 2025 NPB season
• 2025 Little League World Series

• Basketball

• 2025 WNBA season

• Canadian football

• 2025 CFL season

• International cricket

• 2025–27 ICC World Test Championship

• Cycling

• 2025 UCI World Tour

• Golf

• 2025 PGA Tour
• 2025 LIV Golf League
• 2025 LPGA Tour

• Motorsport

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

• Rugby league

• 2025 NRL season
• 2025 Super League season

• Tennis

• 2025 ATP Tour
• 2025 WTA Tour

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Recent deaths

August0/0July

• 17: Terence Stamp
• 16: Bob Simpson
• 15: Tristan Rogers
• 14: David Stratton
• 13: Gerry Spence
• 12: George Reid
• 11: Danielle Spencer
• 11: Miguel Uribe Turbay
• 10: Bobby Whitlock
• 10: Kunishige Kamamoto
• 09: Ray Brooks
• 08: William H. Webster
• 07: Jim Lovell
• 07: Myint Swe
• 06: Eddie Palmieri
• 05: Jorge Costa
• 05: Ion Iliescu
• 05: Terry Reid
• 05: Col Joye
• 04: Jane Morgan
• 04: James Whale
• 03: Loni Anderson
• 03: Stella Rimington
• 03: Sam Backo
• 02: Hilary Weston
• 01: Jeannie Seely
• 31: Flaco Jiménez
• 31: Robert Wilson
• 29: Alon Abutbul
• 29: Allan Ahlberg
• 29: Michael Hill
• 28: Wallis Annenberg
• 28: Laura Dahlmeier
• 28: Ryne Sandberg
• 27: Horst Mahler
• 26: Tom Lehrer
• 26: Ziad Rahbani
• 25: Dwight Muhammad Qawi
• 24: Hulk Hogan
• 24: Cleo Laine
• 23: Arnold Palacios
• 23: George Veikoso
• 22: Joey Jones
• 22: George Kooymans
• 22: Chuck Mangione
• 22: Ozzy Osbourne
• 21: V. S. Achuthanandan
• 21: Roy Black
• 21: Kenneth Calman
• 20: Malcolm-Jamal Warner

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Ongoing conflicts

Global

• War against the Islamic State

Africa

• Cameroon

• Anglophone Crisis

• Central African Republic

• Civil war

• Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Kivu conflict

• Sahel

• Mali War
• Chad Basin

• Burkina Faso
• Niger

• Somalia

• Civil war

• Sudan

• Civil war

Americas

• Haiti

• Gang war

• Mexico

• Mexican drug war

Asia−Pacific

• 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

• Russian invasion of Ukraine

Middle East

• Israel

• Gaza war

• Syria

• Israeli invasion of Syria

• Yemen

• Red Sea crisis

See also – List of ongoing proxy wars

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• Literature (Poetry)
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• 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 and environmental sciences

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

Transportation

• Aviation
• Rail transport
• Transportation technology

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See also

• Wikipedia:How the Current events page works