Disasters and accidents

• 2022 Ischia landslide
  • Ten people are killed, five others are injured, and two are missing after a landslide hits Ischia, Naples, Italy. (Il Messaggero)

Law and crime

• Mass shootings in the United States
  • One person is killed and five others are injured during a mass shooting in Atlantic Station in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. (ABC News)

Politics and elections

• 2022 Taiwanese local elections
  • Residents of Taiwan head to the polls to elect mayors, city council members and other local leaders in nine cities and 13 counties. (BBC News)
  • The Kuomintang Party, who has consistently advocated economic engagement and unification with mainland China, wins 13 of the 21 seats contested in the elections. (CNN)
  • Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen resigns as leader of the Democratic Progressive Party after the party suffers a major defeat in the elections. (AP)
• 2022 Taiwanese constitutional referendum
  • Residents of Taiwan head to the polls for a constitutional referendum on the issues of lowering the voting age from 20 to 18 and lowering the age of candidacy from 23 to 18. (BBC News)
  • The propositions on lowering voting and candidacy ages to 18 fail to pass as they do not receive the required approval of half of the eligible voters. (Focus Taiwan)
• 2022 Equatorial Guinean general election
  • President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, the world's longest-serving president, is re-elected to a seven-year term. (AFP via Barron's)
• 2017–present Peruvian political crisis
  • Betssy Chávez is sworn in as the new Prime Minister of Peru after Aníbal Torres' resignation. (MSN)

Sports

• 2022 FIFA World Cup controversies
  • FIFA announces that they will discipline the Serbian national football team for hanging a banner in their locker room that showed the territory of Kosovo as part of Serbia. Kosovar authorities condemned the incident. (ABC News)