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Phil Mickelson

• In golf, Phil Mickelson (pictured) wins the PGA Championship.
• In Belarus, journalist Roman Protasevich is arrested after his Ryanair flight is forced to land at Minsk National Airport.
• In China, 21 trail runners die due to extreme weather in an ultramarathon in Jingtai.
• In Italy, a cable car accident near Lake Maggiore kills 14 people.
• In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mount Nyiragongo volcano erupts, destroying residential areas north of Goma and forcing people to evacuate.

Ongoing:

• COVID-19 pandemic

Recent deaths:

• Sunderlal Bahuguna
• Ki. Rajanarayanan
• Joe Beckwith
• Klemen Tinal
• Nizamuddin Asir Adrawi
• Len Badger

Current events of May 24, 2021 (2021-05-24) (Monday)

Disasters and accidents

• 2021 Mount Nyiragongo eruption
  • Twenty people are confirmed dead following the eruption of Mount Nyiragongo, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, two days ago. (France24)
• An underground train collision on the Kelana Jaya Line results in 213 injuries, with 47 seriously injured between the KLCC LRT Station and Kampung Baru LRT Station in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (New Straits Times)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
    • COVID-19 pandemic in India
      • The number of deaths linked to COVID-19 in India surpasses 300,000, becoming the third country to do so after the United States and Brazil. It had taken less than a month to record its last 100,000 deaths. Experts warn that the real number of fatalities could be much higher as many deaths are not officially recorded; some models speculate that about a million people may have actually died. (BBC)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia
      • Malaysia reports a record 61 new deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide death toll to 2,309. (CNA)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan
      • Taipei bans all on-site dining and drinking in response to the continued rise in domestically transmitted COVID-19 cases. All food and beverage vendors are only allowed to serve takeout/takeaway or deliveries. (Focus Taiwan)

Law and crime

• Aftermath of the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état
  • Deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi appears in person in court for the first time since the February coup to face various charges, including "incitement to sedition". During the 30-minute hearing, she refused to respond on the protests due to alleged lack of information from the outside, wished her people good health and expressed support for her party, which faces dissolution under the junta. (DW) (Reuters)
• International Criminal Court investigation in Darfur
  • The International Criminal Court begins its trial against Janjaweed senior commander Ali Kushayb, who is charged with 31 war crime counts. He is the first person to be prosecuted by the Court for personal involvement in the violence committed during the Darfur conflict. (Al Jazeera)
• Police raid the Delhi and Gurgaon offices of Twitter's Indian branch to search for an alleged toolkit used by the oppositional Indian National Congress to allegedly spread misinformation about the government's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Indian Express)

Politics and elections

• 2021 Samoan constitutional crisis
  • Incumbent Prime Minister Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi refuses to concede power to recently elected Prime Minister Naomi Mataʻafa and a disputed government ensues with a FAST spokesman calling Malielegaoi's move as a "coup". New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Adern calls for upholding of democracy and law but rejects any interventionist role whereas the Federated States of Micronesia has been the first country to recognize the legitimacy of Mataʻafa's government. Mataʻafa and FAST MPs remain locked out of parliament on the opening day of the new legislative session. (RNZ) (Reuters)
• 2021 Ecuadorian general election
  • Guillermo Lasso is sworn in as the 47th President of Ecuador, succeeding Lenín Moreno. (The Washington Post)
• Dame Cindy Kiro is announced as the next Governor-General of New Zealand. (Newshub)

Current events of May 23, 2021 (2021-05-23) (Sunday)

Disasters and accidents

• Stresa-Mottarone cable car disaster
  • Fourteen people are killed and another is wounded when the Stresa–Mottarone cable car in Piedmont, Italy, collapses and falls to the ground. (La Stampa)
• Gansu ultramarathon disaster
  • Twenty-one runners die and eight more are injured when high winds and freezing rain strike a long-distance race in Jingtai, Gansu, China. (BBC)
• A North Korean 5,500-ton freighter named Chongbong, which was believed to be on the U.N. Security Council blacklist, sinks off the coast of Shimane Prefecture in western Japan. The freighter was said to have been carrying about 6,500 tons of iron when it sunk. All 21 crew members on board are rescued by a North Korean oil ship passing nearby. (Yonhap News)

Business and economy

• Tribune Publishing shareholders approve a deal for the sale of nine newspapers including the Chicago Tribune, The Baltimore Sun and the New York Daily News to Alden Global Capital. Alden owns the Boston Herald, The Denver Post and The San Jose Mercury News through its Digital First Media chain. With Tribune, Alden will be the second-largest newspaper company in the United States, after Gannett. (Fox Business)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
    • COVID-19 pandemic in India
      • India reports more than 8,800 cases of the deadly "black fungus" in a growing epidemic of the disease. The normally rare infection has a mortality rate of 50% and is believed to occur 12 to 18 days after recovery from COVID-19. Following the increase in the number of cases, India's states and territories are told to declare the disease as an epidemic. (BBC)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia
      • Malaysia reports a record 6,976 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 512,091. (Malay Mail)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan
      • Pakistan surpasses 900,000 cases of COVID-19. (Hindustan Times)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Europe
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Germany, Travel restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic
      • Germany begins to implement a two-week quarantine for German citizens and residents who have travelled from the United Kingdom, regardless of whether they have been vaccinated. Additionally, all non-essential travel to the UK is banned amid an outbreak of the Indian Lineage B.1.617 variant. (Euronews)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Russia
      • Russia surpasses five million cases of COVID-19. (ANI News)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, COVID-19 vaccination in the United Kingdom
      • The cumulative number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in the United Kingdom reaches 60 million. (Sky News)
• Thailand orders strict controls on the movements of cattle and buffalo following an outbreak of a rarely-fatal disease that causes lumps to form on the animals’ skin and which can also reduce milk production. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Corruption in Iraq
  • Iraqi President Barham Salih says that $150 billion in oil has been stolen from the country since the 2003 invasion due to corruption. (The National News) (WRAL-TV)
• Ryanair Flight 4978
  • The opposition to Alexander Lukashenko accuses the Belarusian government of diverting Ryanair Flight 4978 from Athens, Greece, to Vilnius, Lithuania, and forcing it to land in Minsk in order to arrest opposition journalist and activist Raman Pratasevich who was on board. Although the motive for the forced landing was an alleged bomb threat, no explosives were found. However, the plane has not been allowed to depart again. (DW)
  • NATO demands an international investigation into Belarus' diversion of the Ryanair flight. (The Daily Telegraph)
• 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis
  • Israeli police announce they have arrested over 1,550 demonstrators, most of them Palestinians, since May 9 for allegedly disrupting the peace, and that they will arrest hundreds more in the upcoming days. (Al Jazeera)

Politics and elections

• 2021 Samoan constitutional crisis, April 2021 Samoan general election
  • The Supreme Court of Samoa overturns a proclamation by head of state Tuimalealiifano Va'aletoa Sualauvi II which had suspended the opening of parliament on Monday. The ruling, which declared that Sualauvi had acted unlawfully, allows for the opening of parliament, as previously scheduled. (RNZ)
  • Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Samoa Leaupepe Toleafoa Faafisi announces that he will not convene the new session of parliament on Monday, defying the new ruling by the Supreme Court. (RNZ)
• Aftermath of the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état
  • A total of 125,900 school teachers have been suspended for joining the civil disobedience movement and opposing the military junta. A teachers' union federation spokesman said that this move comes just before the start of the new school year in the country. (Reuters)

Sports

• 103rd PGA Championship
  • In golf, Phil Mickelson wins his 6th major by winning the 2021 PGA Championship. At age 50, Mickelson becomes the oldest player to win a major championship. (CBC)
• 2020–21 Ligue 1
  • Lille OSC win Ligue 1, the top tier of the French football league system, after defeating Angers SCO 2–1 on the final matchday. It is Lille's first title since 2011 as they end Paris Saint-Germain's run of three consecutive titles. (CNA)

Current events of May 22, 2021 (2021-05-22) (Saturday)

Arts and culture

• Eurovision Song Contest 2021
  • Måneskin, representing Italy, wins in the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 which took place in Rotterdam, Netherlands, with the song "Zitti e buoni". It is the first time that the country has won since 1990. (Eurovision.tv)
  • The United Kingdom becomes the first country to achieve "Nul points" from both the televote and jury since the current voting system was implemented in 2016. (News.com.au)

Disasters and accidents

• 2021 Mount Nyiragongo eruption
  • Mount Nyiragongo, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, erupts. Thousands evacuate from the city of Goma. (BBC)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
    • COVID-19 pandemic in India
      • India releases information on a second, deadlier form of "white fungus" infection that has begun spreading among patients initially placed at risk because of COVID-19. The newly identified white fungus is known as candidiasis. Steroid treatment can cause white fungal infection in COVID patients while unsterile use of oxygen cylinders can also be a cause. White fungus infection is more dangerous because it rapidly affects vital organs and genitals along with the mouth, stomach and skin. The antifungal drugs fluconazole, itraconazole, caspofungin, and micafungin are being prescribed to treat patients. (New Indian Express)
      • India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology writes to all social media companies asking them to remove content referring to an "Indian variant" of COVID-19. (Reuters)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia
      • The government announces additional restrictions for the third movement control order, including mandating 80% of public sector workers and 40% of private sector workers to work from home, restricting the operating hours of businesses from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. and reducing the capacity of public transport and other mass transportation vehicles to 50%. These new restrictions will take effect on May 25. (Malay Mail)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Sri Lanka
      • Sri Lanka reports a record 46 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide death toll to 1,178. (Colombo Page)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Thailand
      • Thailand reports its first locally transmitted cases of the South African Lineage B.1.351 variant in three test samples from a cluster of infections that could be linked to illegal immigration in the south of the country. (The Star)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Argentina
    • A nationwide lockdown begins as President Alberto Fernández says that the country is experiencing its worst moment of the pandemic. As the number of cases increases, only essential personnel are allowed to travel freely for the next nine days. (BBC)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Italy, COVID-19 vaccination in Italy
    • Italy reaches a milestone of 30 million COVID-19 vaccine doses administered, with 9.85 million people fully vaccinated. (Al-Arabiya English)
• Australia reports that it is suffering a plague of mice across New South Wales, from the Queensland border all the way to Victoria. Mice are chewing through walls and ceilings, and are estimated to have caused $100 million in damage to crops and grain stores. Homeowners setting traps are reporting catching 500 to 600 mice per night. (9News)

International relations

• Bangladesh–Israel relations
  • Bangladesh removes a passage from its passport stating that it cannot be used for travel to and from Israel, formally lifting the travel ban. (Jerusalem Post)
• Belgium–Democratic Republic of the Congo relations
  • Belgian officials announce that they will return the remains of Congolese independence leader Patrice Lumumba to his family, which is just a single tooth as his body was dissolved in acid following his assassination in 1961. The handover ceremony is expected to take place on either June 21 or 22 in Brussels. (Yahoo! News)

Law and crime

• 2020–2021 United States racial unrest
  • New footage revealed that William Jennette, a truck driver, died in the Marshall County jail gasping for breath minutes after police officers held him face down, with one taunting, "You shouldn't be able to breathe." Jennette's official post-mortem examination was ruled a homicide. (BBC)

Politics and elections

• International protests over the 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis
  • Protests against Benjamin Netanyahu
    • Protests form outside the residence of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, accusing him of intentionally escalating the conflict between Israel and the Gaza Strip in order to maintain his power. (Jerusalem Post)
  • Over 180,000 protesters gather in Hyde Park in London to show solidarity with Palestine, making it the largest pro-Palestinian protest in British history. Protests also occur in Bristol, Peterborough, and Nottingham. (The Guardian)
  • Over 1,000 people gather at the Place de la République in Paris to protest in solidarity with Palestine. Unlike protests that occurred earlier this month, this one was approved by authorities. (UrduPoint)
• 2021 Myanmar coup d'état
  • In his first interview since the coup, junta leader Min Aung Hlaing says that deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi is in good health and that she will appear in court soon. (Reuters)
• April 2021 Samoan general election, 2021 Samoan constitutional crisis
  • The Samoan head of state, Tuimalealiifano Va'aletoa Sualauvi II, issues a proclamation preventing the Legislative Assembly of Samoa from meeting on May 24 without explanation, triggering a constitutional crisis. Opposition leader Naomi Mataʻafa of FAST was expected to be elected prime minister at the upcoming session following a Supreme Court ruling upholding the results of the general election. (Samoa Observer) (RNZ)
• Nepali President Bidya Devi Bhandari dissolves parliament and calls for new elections in November. Her office says that the decision was made on the recommendation of Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli. This is the second time in six months that the parliament has been dissolved amidst a political crisis. (DW)

Sports

• 2020–21 La Liga
  • Atlético Madrid win La Liga for the first time since the 2013–14 season, after defeating Real Valladolid 2–1 on the final matchday. (The Independent)
• 2020–21 Bundesliga
  • FC Bayern Munich striker Robert Lewandowski scores his 41st goal of the season in a 5–2 win against FC Augsburg during the final matchday, setting the Bundesliga record for the highest number of goals scored by a player in a single season, which was previously held by Gerd Müller for scoring 40 goals during the 1971–72 season. (The Irish Times)

Current events of May 21, 2021 (2021-05-21) (Friday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Insurgency in Balochistan, International protests over the 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis
  • 2021 Chaman bombing
    • Seven people are killed and 14 others are wounded in a bombing at a Palestine solidarity rally in Chaman, Balochistan, Pakistan. (Dawn)
• 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis
  • Ten more bodies are found under the rubble of bombed buildings in Gaza, bringing the death toll to 243 Palestinians killed. Despite this, the ceasefire agreed by Israel and Hamas begins. (Al Jazeera)
  • Israeli security forces fire stun grenades and rubber bullets at Palestinians attending Friday prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque, and also hit journalists at the scene with batons, injuring at least 20 people. (CNN)

Arts and culture

• A symbolic re-trial for medieval Italian writer Dante Alighieri, who was sentenced to exile in absentia in 1302, is held virtually in Florence. (DW)
• New York art collector Stuart Pivar says that he has rediscovered a long-lost Vincent van Gogh masterpiece titled "Auvers, 1890" at an auction. The painting is being sent to the van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam because they have requested to see it and authenticate it. The painting, which is signed on the back "Vincent", and dated 1890, is a 36" by 36" square panorama of the valley of Auvers-sur-Oise, showing its mosaic of wheat fields bisected by a railway line. The painting also bears the label of art collector Jonas Netter. If authenticated, the work would be van Gogh's largest painting and his only painting in a square format. (Page Six)
• British Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden says that the government is considering penalizing the BBC for its 1995 interview with Diana, Princess of Wales, in which an independent inquiry conducted by former Justice of the Supreme Court John Dyson, Lord Dyson found interviewer Martin Bashir guilty of deceit and breaching the network's editorial conduct to obtain the interview. (The Economic Times)

Business and economy

• The Group of Seven agreed on Friday to stop international financing of coal projects that emit carbon by the end of this year, and to phase out such support for all fossil fuels. (Reuters)
• An outage in the Sabre passenger service system used by multiple airlines causes flight issues in multiple countries. The system is used for check-ins, selling tickets and dispatching flights. Issues were reported with Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, JetBlue, Rex Airlines, and Virgin Australia. The vendor's redundancy systems were not activated during the outage. (9News) (MSN)

Disasters and accidents

• A Nigerian Air Force plane crashes near Kaduna International Airport, killing Chief of Army Staff Ibrahim Attahiru and several of his aides. (Reuters)
• An accident, believed to have been caused by an emission of methane, kills ten people, injures four others, and causes several more people to remain missing inside a water treatment plant outside the city of Taganrog, in Russia's Rostov Region. (TASS) (Pravda.ru)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Japan
      • The Japanese government officially approves the use of the Moderna and Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines for people aged 18 and older. It comes after the Health Ministry panel recommended the approval of both vaccines. (The New York Times) (Kyodo News)
      • Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announces the extension of the state of emergency to Okinawa from May 23 until June 20 due to a record 207 new cases of COVID-19 reported in the prefecture in the past 24 hours. (The Japan Times)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Lebanon
      • Lebanon eases some COVID-19 restrictions, allowing cinemas and theatres to reopen as well as allowing organized weddings, conferences and trade shows at reduced capacity as the number of cases and deaths both continue to decline. (The National Herald)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan
      • Pakistan surpasses 20,000 deaths from COVID-19. (Business Recorder)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea, COVID-19 vaccination in South Korea
      • South Korea approves the use of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. (The Straits Times)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Europe
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Germany, Travel restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic
      • Germany declares the United Kingdom a "virus variant area" due to the spread of the Indian Lineage B.1.617 variant. It means that anyone from the UK will be required quarantine for two weeks on arrival, even if they are tested negative. (DW)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Norway
      • The Norwegian government announces that phase two of easing COVID-19 restrictions will begin on May 27, allowing bars to serve alcohol until midnight and raise the maximum number of guests in one's home to 10 people as the number of cases declined. (MedicalXpress)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Spain, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tourism
      • Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announces that Spain will allow all vaccinated travellers to visit the country from June 7 regardless of country of origin and allows British holidaymakers to visit as well from May 24 as it aims to revive its pandemic-hit tourism industry. (The Local Spain)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in North America
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Cuba, COVID-19 vaccine
      • Over 1 million people in Cuba have received a dose of the Abdala and Soberana 02 vaccines. (UrduPoint)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
      • COVID-19 pandemic in Louisiana
        • Louisiana reports its first two cases of the Lineage B.1.617 variant first discovered in India. (AP)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Egypt
    • Egypt receives its first shipment of raw materials used to manufacture the Sinovac Coronavac vaccine as well as a shipment of 500,000 doses of the Sinopharm vaccine. (Ahram Online)
  • Director of the Pan American Health Organization Carissa F. Etienne announces that Latin America and the Caribbean have surpassed one milion deaths by COVID-19. (EFE)

Law and crime

• Health Service Executive cyberattack
  • It is revealed that documents and patient records have already been leaked online from the Irish Health Service Executive ransomware cyberattack. These files were offered by the "ContiLocker Team", believed to be related to be the "Wizard Spider" group from Eastern Europe, as samples to prove that they had confidential information. The 27 files include personal records of 12 individuals, including admissions records and laboratory results. The group claims to have stolen 700GB of unencrypted files from the Irish health service, including patient and employee information, contracts, financial statements and payroll records. (News Talk)
  • A decryption key for the hospital records has been provided to the Irish Health Service Executive. The government said that it had not paid and would not pay any ransom in exchange for the purported key. The group responsible for the cyberattack continues to threaten to sell patient data. (US News and World Report)
• Animal welfare and rights in Germany
  • The Bundestag votes to ban the culling of male chicks from January 1, 2022. The ban makes Germany the first country to ban male chick culling by law. Agriculture Minister Julia Klöckner, who sponsored the bill, says that she did not consider chick culling "to be ethically acceptable". (DW)
• CNA Financial, the seventh largest commercial insurer in the United States, reveals that in March of 2021 it was the target of a ransomware attack and paid $40 million to a group named Phoenix two weeks after a trove of company data was stolen, and CNA officials were locked out of their network. The CNA hackers used malware called Phoenix Locker, a variant of ransomware dubbed Hades. Hades was created by a Russian cybercrime syndicate known as Evil Corp., according to cybersecurity experts. In December 2019, the Treasury Department announced sanctions on 17 individuals and six entities linked to Evil Corp. The designation by the Treasury Department made it illegal for a U.S. company to knowingly pay a ransom to Evil Corp. (Bloomberg)(FOX Business)

Politics and elections

• International protests over the 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis
  • Indonesian Islamists protest American support for Israel at the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta. Protesters also demand an end to Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip despite the ceasefire going into force yesterday. (AP)
  • In Toronto, activists paint the Israeli consulate with a "river of blood" to symbolize the 200 Palestinians who were killed during the conflict. (CTV News)
• 2021 Catalan regional election
  • The Catalan government is formed after months of negotiations, with Pere Aragonès becoming the 132nd President, the first from the Republican Left of Catalonia in forty years and the youngest in the institution's seven-hundred-year history. Aragonès pledges to immediately restart independence talks with the Spanish government. (DW)

Current events of May 20, 2021 (2021-05-20) (Thursday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• War in Afghanistan
  • 2021 Afghanistan attacks
    • Two separate roadside bombings kill 13 civilians in Helmand and Ghor Provinces. Meanwhile, militants stop a bus in western Afghanistan, targeting Hazara passengers, and killing three of them. (ABC News)
• Boko Haram insurgency
  • Nigerian intelligence officials say that Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau has either been killed or critically injured after detonating explosives in his house to avoid capture from the rival IS–West African Province faction. Several other Boko Haram members are also killed in the attack. However, no secondary sources have confirmed Shekau's death. (The Guardian)
• Yemeni Civil War
  • The United States sanctions two Houthi leaders for their roles in the Marib campaign. (Al Jazeera English)
• 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis
  • Israel and Hamas agree to a ceasefire in order to stop airstrikes in Gaza and the launching of rockets in Israel. The 11 days of conflict have killed 232 people in Gaza and 11 in Israel. Egypt agrees to observe the implementation of the ceasefire. (BBC News)

Business and economy

• ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming, whose company owns TikTok, announces that he will step down as CEO and that human resources chief Rubo Liang will succeed him. (Reuters)
• Following recommendations from the Council on Ethics, the Government Pension Fund of Norway drops two firms from its portfolio for doing business with illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. The Norges Bank Investment Management also blacklists a company for owning factories in Myanmar. (Al Jazeera English)
• Argentine cattle farmers commence a nine-day protest against the government's implementation of a month-long restriction on meat exports to deter inflation. Farmers have agreed to suspend their sales of cattles to slaughterhouses during the protest. (Radio France Internationale)

Disasters and accidents

• 2021 wildfire season
  • Wildfires in Attica, Greece, prompt the evacuation of several villages and monasteries, as the fires spread throughout the Geraneia mountain range. (Reuters)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in North America
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Canada
      • COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario
        • Ontario Premier Doug Ford unveils three-step reopening plan as the number of COVID-19 cases declined. Golf, tennis, basketball and other outdoor sports will be allowed to reopen on May 22, but the stay-at-home order will remain in place until June 2. (CBC News)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
      • COVID-19 pandemic in Iowa
        • Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signs a law prohibiting schools and businesses from imposing mask mandates. She also signs a law that limits vaccine passports in the state. (Quad-City Times) (The Des Moines Register)
      • COVID-19 vaccination in the United States
        • The FDA announces its approval for measures allowing the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to be stored at regular refrigerator temperatures for up to 30 days before administration. Previously, the agency had only allowed such storage for five days. (Time)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Nicaragua
      • Nicaragua approves the emergency use of the single-dose Sputnik Light vaccine. (PharmiWeb)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Panama
      • Panama closes its border with Colombia due to COVID-19 concerns. The Colombian government had recently reopened the border, which had been closed since March 2020. Panama has so far recorded more than 370,000 COVID-19 cases and 6,300 deaths. (Reuters)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Brunei
      • Brunei suspends a reciprocal green lane arrangement with Singapore until further notice following the worsening situation of the pandemic in the latter country. (CNA)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Laos
      • Laos extends its nationwide lockdown for another 15 days until June 4 as the number of COVID-19 cases continues to increase. (Big News Network)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia
      • Malaysia reports a record for the second consecutive day of 6,806 new cases of COVID-19, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 492,302. The country also reports a record 59 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide death toll to 2,099. (Malay Mail)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in South America
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Argentina
      • President Alberto Fernández announces a nine-day nationwide lockdown to reduce the spread of COVID-19. (Reuters)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil
      • Brazil reports its first cases of the Lineage B.1.617 variant, which was first discovered in India. The variant had been detected among a group of six crew members of a ship travelling from South Africa to deliver iron ore in São Luís, Maranhão. (Geo News) (Al Arabiya English)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, COVID-19 vaccination in the United Kingdom
    • Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, receives his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. (CBS News) (BBC News)
  • COVID-19 vaccine
    • The European Commission signs a third contract with Pfizer and BioNTech to secure 1.8 billion doses of its vaccine. (Deutsche Welle)

International relations

• Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on international relations, COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore
  • The International Institute for Strategic Studies cancels the Shangri-La Dialogue intergovernmental forum which would have been held in Singapore on June 4–5 due to the worsening of the COVID-19 pandemic situation in the country. (France 24)
• China–Lithuania relations
  • Three-fifths of the Lithuanian Parliament vote to pass a nonbinding resolution condemning the forced internment of Muslim Uyghurs as genocide, demanding the repeal of the Hong Kong national security law, and calling for international observers to be allowed to enter Tibet and for the Chinese government to begin negotiations with the current Dalai Lama. (Reuters)
• Ethiopia announces that it will proceed with plans to start generating power from the controversial Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in the coming rainy season between June and August. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs also says that it will not tolerate "any move that’s aimed at disrupting the water filling process, its operation and water releasing scheme". (Associated Press)

Law and crime

• Colonial Pipeline cyberattack‎
  • In the aftermath of the attack, it is revealed at a Senate Armed Services cyber subcommittee hearing that the Department of Homeland Security was not alerted to the ransomware attack and that the Justice Department was not alerted to the ransom type or amount, prompting discussion about the numerous information silos in the government and difficulties of sharing between them. (USNI News)
  • Blockchain analytics firm Elliptic publishes a bitcoin wallet report showing that $90 million in bitcoin ransom payments were made to DarkSide or DarkSide affiliates over the last year, originating from 47 distinct wallets. According to a DarkTracer release of 2,226 victim organizations since May 2019, 99 organizations have been infected with the DarkSide malware – suggesting that approximately 47% of victims paid a ransom, and that the average payment was $1.9 million. The DarkSide developer has received bitcoins worth $15.5 million (17%), with the remaining $74.7 million (83%) going to the various affiliates. (Washington Examiner) (Fox Business)
• International protests over the 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis
  • In Midtown Manhattan, pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel protesters clash at Times Square despite a ceasefire being announced between Israel and Hamas militants. One protester suffers a minor burn after fireworks were thrown from a car. (Fox News) (Newsweek)
• Xenophobia and racism related to the COVID-19 pandemic
  • U.S. President Joe Biden signs the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act, a bill that would expedite anti-Asian hate crime reviews to the U.S. Justice Department. (The New York Times)
• A fight between rival gangs erupts in a jail in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, resulting in the deaths of seven people. (BBC News)
• The French Constitutional Council strikes down Article 24 of the so-called global security law, which criminalized the sharing of images that could reveal the identity of police officers. (Euronews)

Politics and elections

• 2021 Ethiopian general election
  • After delaying it twice, the National Election Board of Ethiopia schedules elections for June 21. (Reuters)
• International reactions to the 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis
  • U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont introduces a resolution that would block an arms sale of $735 million in weapons to Israel in response to the conflict between Israel and Gaza. (CBS News)
• The Central Electoral Commission of Kyrgyzstan announces that it has invalidated the results of the Bishkek City Council elections. During a meeting, Chairwoman Nurzhan Shaildabekova called for free elections. (AKIpress News Agency)

Science and technology

• Microsoft announces that it will discontinue support for Internet Explorer on June 15, 2022. (Reuters)

Sports

• 2021 Copa América, 2021 Colombian protests
  • The CONMEBOL, South America's football governing body, announces that Colombia will no longer co-host the 2021 Copa América with Argentina as the country is currently experiencing social unrest. (Associated Press)

Current events of May 19, 2021 (2021-05-19) (Wednesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis
  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian officials say that fighting between Israel and Palestine will continue while working toward a ceasefire. (Reuters)
  • The United States rejects a United Nations Security Council resolution that calls for a ceasefire in the conflict between Israel and Gaza. (The Washington Post) (Yahoo! News)
• Spillover of the Colombian conflict
  • Rebel forces confirm that former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia leader Jesús Santrich has been killed in a cross-border operation in Zulia, Venezuela, by the National Army of Colombia. Five others were also killed in the operation on May 17. Santrich's rebel group says that the troops also cut off his little finger before withdrawing back across the border. Santrich was wanted by the United States on charges of drug trafficking. (The Guardian)
• Spillover of the Somali Civil War
  • Al-Shabaab militants ambush a patrol in Lamu County, Kenya, killing seven soldiers. (The Washington Post)
• A manhunt is ongoing for Jürgen Conings, a far-right extremist, identified as a soldier, in Dilsen-Stokkem, Limburg, Belgium, after threatening virologist Marc Van Ranst. The suspect is heavily armed and considered as a serious threat. Four rocket launchers were found in his car. (BBC News)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
    • COVID-19 pandemic in India
      • It is revealed that the Ganges river in India has had hundreds of human bodies floating in its waters and buried in its banks in recent days, including some thought to have died of COVID-19. (BBC News)
      • An anti-fungal drug, Amphotericin B, used in the treatment of a rare infection called mucormycosis, or "black fungus", is in short supply across states in India. Immunity to this infection can be reduced by the use of steroids in severely ill COVID-19 patients. (BBC News)
      • India reports a new world record of 4,529 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide death toll to 283,248. (The Straits Times)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia
      • Malaysia reports a record 6,075 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 485,496. (Free Malaysia Today)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines, COVID-19 vaccination in the Philippines
      • Vice President Leni Robredo receives her first dose of the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine. (CNN Philippines)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan
      • Taiwan raises its COVID-19 alert level to level 3 nationwide, which is the same level as Taipei and New Taipei City where masks are required to be worn at all times and gatherings of more than five people indoors and ten people outdoors are banned amid an increase in the number of locally transmitted cases. (The Guardian)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Europe
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Cyprus
      • Cyprus reports its first four cases of the Lineage B.1.617 variant, which was first discovered in India. (Cyprus Mail)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in France
      • Restaurants, bars, and cafés are reopened in France for outdoor dining for the first time in six months. Museums, theatres and other cultural venues are also reopened as the curfew is changed to 9:00 p.m. as part of an easing of restrictions. (The Washington Post) (France 24)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Argentina
    • Argentina reports a record for the second consecutive day of 39,652 new cases of COVID-19, thereby bringing the national total to 3.4 million. (Big News Network)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Zimbabwe
    • Zimbabwe reports its first cases of the Lineage B.1.617 variant. The variant had been detected among a group of people in the central town of Kwekwe after a student returned from India on April 29. (Reuters)
• A tabular iceberg slightly larger than the size of Mallorca, dubbed A-76, calves from the Ronne Ice Shelf in Antarctica's Weddell Sea. (CNN)

International relations

• European migrant crisis, Morocco–Spain relations
  • Morocco closes its border with Spain following the escalation of diplomatic tensions generated by the massive influx of migrants into Ceuta on Tuesday. (Euractiv)
• Russia–United States relations, Foreign policy of the Joe Biden administration
  • The Biden administration lifts sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project between Russia and Germany. Despite Joe Biden's personal opposition to the project, the U.S. State Department says that it concluded that it was in the "U.S. national interest" to waive the sanctions. (BBC News)
• International reactions to the 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis, China–Israel relations
  • Israel condemns an "antisemitic" report by China's state-owned China Global Television Network that claims that "wealthy Jews dominate the finance, media and internet sectors" in the United States. The report also claims that Israel is an American puppet state. The Israeli Foreign Ministry calls on CGTN to take down the video, citing its "racist and dangerous" ideas. (France 24) (The Jerusalem Post)

Law and crime

• Presidency of Jair Bolsonaro, Corruption in Brazil
  • The Federal Police of Brazil reveals an investigation against Environment Minister Ricardo Salles, IBAMA president Eduardo Bim and other high-ranking officials for facilitating illegal logging in the Amazon region. Salles's fiscal and banking secrecies are lifted, and Bim is suspended from his post. (The Independent)
• Aftermath of the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol, January 6, 2021 commission
  • The U.S. House of Representatives votes 252-175 to approve a commission that will investigate the January 6 riot at the United States Capitol. The bill will head to the U.S. Senate. (Voice of America)
• International protests over the 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis
  • Pro-Palestinian protesters gather at a UAV factory in Leicester over its ties to Israel arms manufacture Elbit Systems. (Newsweek)
  • In Kuwait, protesters burn Israeli flags and rally in support of Palestine. Protesters also reject normalization agreements signed by Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. (Reuters)
• The Spanish Audiencia Nacional summons the leader of the Polisario Front, Brahim Ghali, to present himself in court on June 1 on accusations of multiple charges related to human rights violations by human rights groups and Western Sahara individuals. Ghali, who is currently hospitalized in northern Spain, refused to sign the summon, saying that he has to refer to the Algerian embassy first. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2021 Qatari general election
  • The Qatari cabinet approves a draft law scheduling elections to the Shura Council for October, after several years of delays. The law also provides guidelines for voter registration and campaigning, such as allowing government employees to run and limiting expenditures to QAR2 million per candidate. (Al Jazeera English)
• In the United States the Oregon counties of Baker, Grant, Lake, Malheur, and Sherman all approved measures that would require county officials to take steps to promote moving the Idaho border west to incorporate their populations. These counties join Jefferson and Union counties that have already passed similar measures, while Douglas and Harney counties are voting on similar measure in upcoming elections. (The Hill)(NY Times)

Current events of May 18, 2021 (2021-05-18) (Tuesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis
  • A Hamas rocket kills two Thai workers and injures ten others in southern Israel, bringing the death toll in the country to 12. (Times of Israel)
  • The death toll from the Israeli airstrikes in Gaza rise to at least 217 Palestinians killed, including 63 children. About 1,500 others have been wounded. Gaza's main COVID-19 laboratory is destroyed by a strike, stopping all COVID-19 tests as a result. Four more protesters are also killed in the West Bank. (Al Jazeera)
  • The IDF reports the death of 160 Hamas and Islamic Jihad members. However, the deaths are not confirmed by either the groups or Palestinian authorities, who reported a lower number of militants killed. (Jerusalem Post)
  • Israeli police fire stun grenades, rubber bullets, and spray skunk water at protestors gathered at the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City. (Sky News)
  • One Palestinian is killed and dozens more are wounded after Israeli security forces open fire on protesters marching at a military checkpoint in the Beit El settlement in the West Bank. Further clashes are also reported in Hebron, Bethlehem, Nablus, and Budrus. (Al Jazeera)
• Insurgency in the Maghreb
  • Gunmen storm a church during a baptism in a village in Burkina Faso and open fire, killing 15 people. (Reuters)
• Spillover of the Moro conflict
  • Five Abu Sayyaf militants are killed during a shootout with police in Beaufort, Sabah, Malaysia. All of those killed were Filipinos. (Al Jazeera)
• 2021 Kyrgyzstan–Tajikistan conflict
  • Officials in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan announce that they have agreed to joint security controls following clashes between the two countries at the border. (RFERL)

Arts and culture

• The first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 takes place in Rotterdam. (Eurovision.tv)

Business and economy

• Three Chinese industry associations announce in a joint statement that financial institutions and payment firms are banned from offering services related to cryptocurrency transactions, highlighting their high volatility. China had previously banned or restricted access to cryptocurrency exchanges, and blocked websites that had initial coin offerings. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• Cyclone Tauktae
  • At least 26 people are dead and 53 more are missing after a ONGC barge P305 sailing off the coast of Mumbai, India sank during severe weather. (BBC)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
    • COVID-19 pandemic in India
      • India reports a record 4,329 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide death toll to 278,719. (The Times of India)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia
      • Malaysia reports a record for the second consecutive day of 47 deaths from COVID-19, thereby bringing the nationwide death toll to 1,994. (Free Malaysia Today)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore, COVID-19 vaccination in Singapore
      • The Singaporean Health Sciences Authority approves the use of the Pfizer–BioNTech vaccine for children between the ages of 12 and 15. (CNBC)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on education
      • Taipei and New Taipei City close all elementary, middle and high schools until May 28 amid an increase in the number of COVID-19 cases. (Kyodo News)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Thailand
      • Thailand reports a record 35 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide death toll to 649. (CNA)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Argentina
    • Argentina reports records of 35,543 new cases of COVID-19 and 745 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the total number of cases to 3.37 million and the death toll to 71,771. (Minuto Uno)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Austria
    • Austria announces that they will phase out the Oxford-AstraZeneca from its vaccination programme because of delivery problems and wariness among the population following reports of the vaccine's rare side effects. (The Local Austria)

International relations

• European migrant crisis, Morocco–Spain relations
  • Spain deploys the Army in Ceuta to control the the border with Morocco while immigrants continue to arrive in the face of the permissiveness of the Moroccan police. At least one migrant is reported dead while trying to cross the border in Melilla. (El País in English)
  • The mayor-president of Ceuta Juan Jesús Vivas calls the situation an "invasion" and announces the suspension of the vaccination campaign against COVID-19 for Wednesday as the city is experiencing a "state of emergency atmosphere". (20 minutos)
  • Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs Arancha González Laya summons the Moroccan ambassador, who is later recalled to Rabat for consultations. Ambassador Karima Benyaich advises that "there are actions that have consequences, and they have to be assumed", referring to the fact that the Polisario leader is receiving treatment for COVID-19 in Spain. (Europa Press) (BBC News)
• Territorial disputes in the South China Sea
  • Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte issues a gag order that forbids his cabinet from publicly discussing the South China Sea dispute, which comes after some of his secretaries criticized the government of China over the presence of Chinese vessels in the exclusive economic zone of the Philippines. (Al Jazeera)
• Lebanon–Saudi Arabia relations, Lebanon–United Arab Emirates relations
  • Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates both summon their Lebanese ambassadors after Lebanese Foreign Minister Charbel Wehbe accused the Gulf States of playing a role in the rise of ISIL in a heated exchange with a Saudi guest during an interview yesterday. Wehbe has since apologized for his remarks. (Al Jazeera)
• Libya–Tunisia relations
  • Tunisia's flag carrier Tunisair announces that it has resumed services to Libya in light of the UN-sponsored peace agreement, becoming the first foreign airline to connect to the country since the outbreak of the Second Libyan Civil War seven years ago. Yesterday, the airline flew its first flights to Benghazi and Tripoli, and has scheduled five flights to both cities each week. (Al Jazeera)

Law and crime

• Xenophobia and racism related to the COVID-19 pandemic
  • The U.S. House of Representatives votes 364-62 to pass the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act. The bill, which would expedite anti-Asian hate crime reviews to the U.S. Justice Department, will head to U.S. President Joe Biden for his signature. (ABC News)

Politics and elections

• 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis
  • International protests over the 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis
    • Arab Americans in Dearborn, Michigan, protest across the city during a visit by U.S. President Joe Biden to the Ford River Rouge Complex over the United States's support of Israel's response to attacks from Gaza. (Detroit Free Press)
    • Indonesians gather at the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta to stand in solidarity with Palestine and demand an end to Israeli airstrikes in Gaza. (AP)
  • Palestinians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and communities inside Israel hold a general strike to protest Israel's bombardment of the Gaza Strip and the evictions of Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah. The Central Committee of Fatah calls it a "day of rage". (Middle East Eye)

Sports

• Transgender people in sports
  • The French Rugby Federation allows trans women players to feature in top-level women's rugby union in the country starting next season, overturning World Rugby's advice against this. (CNN)

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Ongoing events

Business

• COVID-19 recession

Disasters

• COVID-19 pandemic
• 2020–21 European windstorm season
• 2020–21 H5N8 outbreak
• 2021 Pacific typhoon season
• Yemeni famine

Politics

• Afghan peace process
• Anti-Netanyahu protests
• Armenian protests
• Belarusian protests
• Colombian tax reform protests
• Greek protests
• Indian farmers' protests
• Israel–Palestine crisis
• Indonesia omnibus law protests
• Jersey dispute
• Libyan peace process
• Myanmar protests
• Nicaraguan protests
• Nigerian protests
• Persian Gulf crisis
• Peruvian crisis
• Russian protests
• Second Arab Spring
• Sudanese protests
• Tigrayan peace process
• Thai protests
• United States racial unrest
• United States Stop Asian Hate protests
• Venezuelan presidential crisis
• Yellow vests movement

Elections and referendums

Recent

• May
  • 15–16: Chile, Constituent Assembly
  • 23: Vietnam, National Assembly

Upcoming

• May
  • 26: Syria, President
  • 30: Cyprus, House of Representatives
  • 31: Somaliland, House of Representatives
• June
  • 5: Gambia, Constitutional referendum
  • 6: Mexico, Chamber of Deputies
  • 6: Peru, President (2nd)

Trials

Recently concluded

• Brazil: Wilson Witzel
• France: Nicolas Sarkozy
• Israel: Faina Kirschenbaum
• United States: Derek Chauvin

Ongoing

• Argentina: Rodolfo Martín Villa
• Armenia: Serzh Sargsyan
• Colombia: Álvaro Uribe
• India: Disha Ravi
• Indonesia: Muhammad Rizieq Shihab, Edhy Prabowo, Juliari Batubara
• Israel: Benjamin Netanyahu
• Kyrgyzstan: Almazbek Atambayev
• Malta: Yorgen Fenech
• South Africa: Jacob Zuma
• Spain: 2017 Barcelona attacks, Bárcenas affair, Barçagate
• Sudan: Omar al-Bashir
• International: The Gambia v. Myanmar

Upcoming

• Canada: Raj Grewal
• Indonesia: Nurdin Abdullah
• Kosovo: Hashim Thaçi, Kadri Veseli
• Lesotho: Maesiah Thabane
• Rwanda: Paul Rusesabagina
• United Kingdom: Apsana Begum
• United States: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Elizabeth Holmes, Meng Wanzhou, R. Kelly, Ghislaine Maxwell
• Zimbabwe: Ignatius Chombo

Sport

• Association football
  • 2020–21 UEFA Champions League knockout phase
  • 2020–21 UEFA Europa League knockout phase
  • 2021 Copa Libertadores group stage
  • 2020–21 UEFA Nations League
  • 2021 Major League Soccer season
• Women's association football
  • 2020–21 Champions League
  • 2020–21 Division 1 Féminine
• American football
  • 2021 Spring NCAA Division I FCS
• Baseball
  • 2021 MLB season
• Basketball
  • 2021 NBA Playoffs
  • 2020–21 NCAA Division I men's basketball season
  • 2020–21 NCAA Division I women's basketball season
• Cricket
  • ICC World Test Championship 2019–21
  • ICC Men's Cricket World Cup Super League 2020–2023
  • 2019–2023 ICC Men's Cricket World Cup League 2
  • ICC Men's Cricket World Cup Challenge League 2019–2022
• Golf
  • 2020–21 PGA Tour
• Ice hockey
  • 2020–21 KHL season
  • 2021 Stanley Cup Playoffs
• Rugby union
  • 2020–21 Premiership Rugby
  • 2020–21 Pro14
  • 2019–20 Top 14
• Other sports seasons
  • 2020–21 international cricket season
  • 2020–21 snooker season
  • 2020–21 curling season

More details – current sports events

Recent deaths

May

• 24: Max Mosley
• 23: Lorrae Desmond
• 23: Bob Fulton
• 23: Ron Hill
• 23: Alex Salaueu
• 22: Joe Beckwith
• 22: Cornelia Oberlander
• 22: Yuan Longping
• 21: Ibrahim Attahiru
• 21: Sunderlal Bahuguna
• 21: Margherita Marchione
• 21: Tahir Salahov
• 21: Klemen Tinal
• 20: Francisco Brines
• 20: Abubakar Shekau
• 19: Paul Mooney
• 18: Franco Battiato
• 18: Charles Grodin
• 17: Buddy Roemer
• 17: Jesús Santrich
• 17: Héctor Silva
• 16: Bruno Covas
• 15: Đorđe Marjanović
• 15: Eva Wilma
• 14: Jay Barbree
• 14: Kenneth Mayhew
• 14: New Jack
• 12: Kira Kreylis-Petrova
• 13: Tai
• 11: Norman Lloyd
• 11: Lester L. Wolff
• 10: Colt Brennan
• 10: Michel Fourniret
• 10: Cristopher Mansilla
• 9: José Manuel Caballero
• 8: Pete du Pont
• 8: Curtis Fuller
• 8: Ronald Inglehart
• 8: Helmut Jahn
• 7: Emmanuel Erskine
• 7: Tawny Kitaen
• 7: Yegor Ligachyov
• 7: Mohan Mishra
• 6: Yitzhak Arad
• 6: Humberto Maturana
• 6: Kentaro Miura
• 6: G. Muniratnam
• 6: Lloyd Price
• 6: Ajit Singh
• 5: Jonathan Bush
• 5: Lucinda Franks
• 5: George Jung
• 5: Philipose Mar Chrysostom
• 5: David F. Swensen
• 4: Simon Achidi Achu
• 4: Nick Kamen
• 3: Donald Cameron
• 3: Frazier Glenn Miller Jr.
• 2: Frank Costa
• 2: Jacques d'Amboise
• 2: Carlos Romero Barceló
• 2: Bobby Unser
• 1: Olympia Dukakis
• 1: Paul Ioannidis

Ongoing conflicts

Africa

• Algeria, Libya and Tunisia
  • Maghreb insurgency
• Cameroon
  • Anglophone Crisis
• Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria
  • Boko Haram insurgency
• Central African Republic
  • Civil War
• Chad
  • Northern Chad offensive
• Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Kivu conflict
  • Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
  • Ituri conflict
  • Lord's Resistance Army insurgency
• Ethiopia
  • Tigray War (spillover)
• Ethiopia and Sudan
  • Sudanese–Ethiopian clashes
• Ghana
  • Western Togoland Rebellion
• Mali
  • Mali War
• Mozambique
  • Insurgency in Cabo Delgado
• Nigeria
  • Communal conflicts in Nigeria
• Somalia
  • Civil war
• Sudan
  • War in Darfur
  • South Kordofan conflict
  • Sudanese nomadic conflicts (incl. South Sudan)
• Western Sahara
  • Western Sahara conflict
    • 2020–2021 Western Saharan clashes

Americas

• Colombia
  • Colombian conflict
• Mexico
  • Mexican drug war
• Peru
  • Internal conflict in Peru

Asia-Pacific

• Afghanistan
  • Afghanistan War
• India
  • Khalistan movement
  • Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
  • Insurgency in Northeast India
• 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
• Ukraine
  • War in Donbass
    • Russo-Ukrainian War

Global

• War on terror

Middle East

• Egypt
  • Sinai insurgency
• Iran and the Persian Gulf
  • Iran–Israel proxy conflict
  • Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict
• Iraq
  • American-led intervention in Iraq
  • Iranian intervention in Iraq
• Iraq and Syria (map)
  • International military intervention against ISIL
• Israel and Gaza
• Israel and Syria
  • Israeli-Syrian border conflict
• Syria
  • American-led intervention in Syria
  • Russian military intervention in the Syrian civil war
  • Turkish occupation of northern Syria
• Turkey
  • Kurdish–Turkish conflict
• Yemen and Saudi Arabia
  • Yemeni Civil War
  • Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen
  • Houthi–Saudi Arabian conflict

Further information: List of ongoing armed conflicts

2021 events and developments by topic

Arts

Architecture – Comics – Film – Home video – Literature – Music (Country, Rock, Metal, UK, US) – Radio – Television (UK, 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 – Space/Astronomy – Spaceflight

Environment and environmental sciences

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