2023 (MMXXIII) is the current year, and is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2023rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 23rd year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 4th year of the 2020s decade.
The Russian invasion and occupation of Ukraine that started in 2022 and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic continued in the new year. In January, an Islamist suicide bomber killed 100 people in a mosque in Pakistan. In February, a series of powerful earthquakes killed at least 52,000 people in Turkey and Syria; this event was the fifth-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century.