Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sports The Canada men's national water polo team withdraws from the remainder of the 2022 World Aquatics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, due to COVID-19 cases within the team.
UK parliamentary by-elections The Conservative Party is defeated in both the Tiverton and Honiton by-election and the Wakefield by-election by the Liberal Democrats and the Labour Party, respectively. Conservative chairman Oliver Dowden resigns in the aftermath of the defeats.
2022 Grenadian general election The oppositional National Democratic Congress wins the majority of seats in Grenada's latest general election. NDC's party leader Dickon Mitchell is expected to become Grenada's next Prime Minister.
Cuba A court in Cuba sentences two protesters to between five and nine years in prison for desecrating the Cuban flag and resisting authority during last year's protests.
Kongsberg attack A court in Norway finds the attacker not criminally responsible due to paranoid schizophrenia and sentences him to compulsory mental treatment.
Abortion in the United States The United States Supreme Court overturns "Roe v. Wade" and "Planned Parenthood v. Casey", ending protection of the right to abortion on the federal level and returning regulation to the states. Twenty-two states enact trigger laws or reinstitute existing laws banning abortion.
Accession of North Macedonia to the European Union Bulgaria lifts its veto against North Macedonia's bid to join the European Union.
COVID-19 pandemic The Sanofi–GSK COVID-19 vaccine is found to be effective against the Omicron variant.
Ilyushin Il-76 An Ilyushin Il-76 military cargo plane carrying nine people crashes near Ryazan, Russia, killing five passengers.
Gayan District Five people are killed and eleven others are injured in Gayan District, Paktika Province, Afghanistan, by an aftershock from the recent earthquake that killed at least 1,100 people in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
2022 Melilla incident Eighteen migrants are killed and hundreds of people injured, mostly Spanish and Moroccan security forces, as around 2,000 migrants attempt to illegally enter Melilla, Spain, from Morocco.
Tunisia Two Tunisian police officers are injured in a stabbing and suspected terrorist attack in the Grand Synagogue of Tunis.
Russo-Ukrainian War Ukrainian authorities say that Russian forces have captured the city of Hirske, south of Lysychansk, in Luhansk Oblast. Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov says that his forces also captured the town of Zolote.
A Russian-appointed senior official for the Kherson youth department is killed by a car bombing in Kherson in an apparent assassination.
Governor of Luhansk Oblast Serhiy Haidai announces that Ukrainian forces will withdraw from Sievierodonetsk amid the advance of Russian and pro-Russian forces.