International relations

• Somalia–United Kingdom relations
  • Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Somalia
    • Charles Nicholas King, the newly appointed ambassador of the United Kingdom to Somalia, arrives in Mogadishu to replace Michael Nithavrianakis, who had held the post since May 2023. (Hiiraan Online) (HornDiplomat)

Politics and elections

• Aftermath of the 2025 Australian federal election
  • The federal wing of the National Party leaves the Liberal-National Coalition for the first time since 1987, citing poor performance in the recent federal election and growing policy differences. (The Guardian Australia)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
    • At least 84 Palestinians are killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza. (Al Jazeera)
• Somali Civil War
  • Over 70 Al-Shabaab militants are killed along the Hiran–Middle Shabelle border in Somalia in an overnight military operation by the Somali National Army and local defense fighters from Hiran. (Hiiraan Online)

Arts and culture

• National broadcasters VRT of Belgium and RTVE of Spain call for a debate on Israel's participation in the Eurovision Song Contest. (Semana)

International relations

• Iran–United Kingdom relations
  • The Iranian foreign ministry summons the British chargé d'affaires to protest the arrest of seven Iranian nationals in London earlier this month. (DW)
• United Kingdom–European Union relations
  • The United Kingdom and European Union conclude a deal on travel, food and steels exports, fishing access, and border security. (The Guardian)
• Mbanie Island territorial dispute
  • The International Court of Justice rules 13–2 that Equatorial Guinea wins sovereignty of the islands of Conga, Mbanié, and Cocoteros in a territorial dispute with Gabon. (BBC News) (DW) (Bloomberg via WorldOil)

Law and crime

• 2025 New Orleans jailbreak
  • A fourth escaped inmate, of a total 10 escapees, is captured following the mass escape of prisoners in New Orleans, United States. Six escaped prisoners remain at large. (ABC News)
• Lithuania files a lawsuit against Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko at the International Court of Justice, accusing his regime of orchestrating the migrant crisis and violating international law. (Baltic Times)
• Russia bans Amnesty International as an undesirable organisation, accusing the group of openly supporting Ukraine in its war with Russia. (Reuters)
• The trial against former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and 80 other officials begins in Brasília. Bolsonaro, who is accused of plotting the 8 January Brasília attacks, faces up to 40 years in prison if convicted. (France 24)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Philippine general election
  • The nominees of the winning party-lists of the election held on May 12 are proclaimed. However, the proclamation of party-lists Duterte Youth and Bagong Henerasyon are suspended due to pending disqualification cases, leaving four seats unresolved. (GMA News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip, Operation Gideon's Chariots
    • At least 100 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza in the last day. (Sky News) (Reuters)
• Somali Civil War
  • 2025 Mogadishu military base bombing
    • At least 21 people are killed, including the perpetrator, and 15 others are injured in a suicide bombing at the entrance of a military base in Mogadishu, Somalia. (Reuters) (Hiiraan Online)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Russia launches 273 drones at Ukraine, the largest such attack since the beginning of the war. The attack comes a day after a round of direct peace talks between the two countries, and a day before Donald Trump's scheduled call with Vladimir Putin. (The Guardian)
• Insurgency in Balochistan
  • Four people are killed and twenty others are injured in a bombing near a market in Killa Abdullah District, Balochistan, Pakistan. Several shops collapsed, fires were started and buildings were damaged. (The Hindu)
• Syrian civil war
  • Three police personnel are killed and two others are injured in a car bombing targeting a police station in Mayadin, Deir ez-Zor Governorate, Syria. (SANA) (Al Jazeera English)

Arts and culture

• Papal inauguration of Pope Leo XIV
  • The papal inauguration Mass of Pope Leo XIV is held at St. Peter's Square in Vatican City. (Sky News)

Disasters and accidents

• Seventeen people are killed and several others are injured in a building fire in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. (DW)
• Six people are killed and eleven others are injured in a mining accident at a gold mine in Mwakitolyo Village, Shinyanga Urban District, Tanzania. (The Citizen Tanzania)
• Three people are killed, including a 5-year-old, and two others are injured, including an infant, when a train strikes five civilians near a bridge in Fremont, Ohio, United States. (Sandusky Register)

Law and crime

• Capital punishment in Iran, 2022 Shah Cheragh attack
  • A court in Shiraz, Iran, sentences three people to death over two attacks on a Shiite shrine in 2022 and 2023 in Shiraz and several to others to different prison terms. (The Times of Israel)
• Kenyan politician Martha Karua, who legally represents incarcerated Tanzanian opposition figure Tundu Lissu, is arrested at Julius Nyerere International Airport in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and set for deportation. (France 24)
• Six people are injured, including the perpetrator and one critically, in a mass stabbing attack when a Syrian national stabs a group of football fans with a swordstick and knives outside of a bar in Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. (Euronews) (BNO News)
• Three people are injured, including an 11-year-old, in a mass stabbing attack outside of a house after an altercation in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. (Der Spiegel)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Polish presidential election
  • Incumbent mayor of Warsaw Rafał Trzaskowski leads the first round of the Polish presidential elections with 31.4% of the vote, followed by Karol Nawrocki with 29.5%. As no candidates received more than 50% of the vote, a runoff between the two is scheduled for June 1. (Euronews) (Elections of Poland) (The Times of India)
• 2025 Portuguese legislative election
  • Citizens in Portugal vote to elect 230 seats of the Assembly of the Republic. (AP)
• 2025 Romanian presidential election
  • Romanians vote in the second round to choose their president between far-right George Simion and independent-declared centrist and incumbent Bucharest mayor Nicușor Dan. (DW)
  • Nicușor Dan is elected President of Romania after winning 53.6% of the vote. (CNBC) (DW)
• 2025 South Korean presidential election
  • Liberal Unification Party presidential candidate Koo Joo-wa resigns from his candidacy for the upcoming presidential election on June 3. (Yonhap (in Korean))
  • Former People Power Party lawmaker Kim Sang-wook joins the Democratic Party of Korea, three days after he declared support for Lee Jae-myung as the party's presidential candidate and ten days after leaving the conservative party. (The Korea Herald)
• The party of Argentina's president, Javier Milei, La Libertad Avanza, wins the Buenos Aires legislative election, with presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni securing the victory. (Reuters)

Sports

• 2024–25 CEV Champions League
  • In men's volleyball, Umbria Volley Perugia beats Warta Zawiercie 3–2 to win the CEV Champions League. (Volley Times) (World of Volley)
• 2024–25 Eredivisie
  • In association football, PSV Eindhoven wins their 26th total and second consecutive Eredivisie title in the last round after defeating Sparta Rotterdam 3–1. (The Guardian)
• 2024–25 Ligue 1 Mauritania
  • In association football, FC Nouadhibou win a record 13th Super D1 title. (Meczyki (in Polish))
• 2024–25 Süper Lig
  • In association football, Galatasaray win a record 25th Süper Lig title after defeating Kayserispor 3–0. (BBC Sport)
• 2024–25 Premier League
  • Everton F.C. play their final game at Goodison Park in Walton, Liverpool, England, the club's home ground for the last 133 years. They will transition to Everton Stadium in Vauxhall starting the 2025–26 season. (BBC Sport)
• 2024–25 Women's FA Cup
  • In women's association football, Chelsea complete a domestic treble after beating Man United 3–0 in the Women's FA Cup final. (BBC Sport)
• 2025 Indianapolis 500
  • In motorsports, Robert Shwartzman of Prema Racing wins pole position for the Indianapolis 500, the first rookie to do so since 1983. (AP via Toronto Star)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
    • More than 150 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes in the last 24 hours. (AP) (Reuters)
• Afghan conflict
  • Thirteen Taliban fighters are killed and four others are injured in a bombing at a military base in Darah District, Panjshir Province, Afghanistan. (Afghanistan International)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • A bus evacuating civilians is attacked by a Russian drone near Bilopillia, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine, killing nine people and injuring five others. (Ukrainska Pravda)
• Terrorism in the United States
  • 2025 Palm Springs fertility clinic bombing
    • One person is killed, four others are injured, and significant damage is reported in a car bombing at a fertility clinic near the Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs, California, United States. The Federal Bureau of Investigation confirms the explosion was an act of terrorism. (The Desert Sun) (BNO News)
• Guyana–Venezuela territorial dispute
  • The chief of the Guyana Defence Force, Omar Khan, says that military reinforcement have been sent to the Cuyuní River area after Venezuelan civilians shot at Guyanese soldiers on Thursday, as tensions between both nations increase over a referendum by Venezuela on the Essequibo. (Infobae)
• War against the Islamic State
  • The Ministry of Interior of Syria announces that its armed forces carried out a military operation in a southern neighborhood of Aleppo, where it killed a member of Islamic State, arrested another, and seized weapons, explosives and uniforms with official insignia. A security forces member is also killed in the confrontation. (The Media Line)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Eura mid-air collision
  • Five people, including Estonian businessmen Oleg Sõnajalg and Priit Jaagant, are killed when two Robinson R44 civilian helicopters en route to Piikajärvi Airfield collide mid-air and crash into the ground in a forested area near Eura, Satakunta, Finland. (Eesti Rahvusringhääling)
• Cuauhtémoc Brooklyn Bridge collision
  • Two crew members are killed and twenty-five others are injured, including two critically, when Mexican Navy training ship ARM Cuauhtémoc with a crew of 277 people on a festive visit collides with the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City, New York, United States. A search and rescue operation is currently underway. The bridge suffered no damage, and has since reopened. (NBC New York) (The New York Post)
• Tornado outbreak sequence of May 15–16, 2025
  • The death toll from severe weather yesterday, including likely tornadoes, in St. Louis, Missouri, and Somerset, Kentucky, United States, rises to 31. More severe weather is expected today near the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex in Texas. (NPR) (AP)

International relations

• Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda relations
  • Hundreds of Rwandan refugees from the 1994 genocide return to Rwanda under the auspices of a United Nations program. The refugees, mostly Hutu civilians, were residing in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. (AP)

Law and crime

• Capital punishment in Iran, Blasphemy law in Iran
  • The Supreme Court of Iran overturns a 5-year prison sentence imposed by a Tehran court against singer Amir Tataloo and confirms his death sentence for blasphemy. Tataloo had been extradited from Turkey in 2023. (News Central Africa) (IranWire)
• Mass shootings in the United States
  • Three people are killed and another person is critically injured in a mass shooting outside of a nightclub in Seattle, Washington, United States. No arrests have been made. (KOMO-TV)
• Eight people are killed in a mass shooting by unidentified gunmen inside a tavern in Umlazi, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. A manhunt for the suspects has been launched. (CBS News)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Philippine general election
  • The twelve winning candidates of the Senate election held on May 12 are officially proclaimed as senators-elect. The Alyansa para sa Bagong Pilipinas coalition of President Bongbong Marcos wins the most seats with six. However, one of its members, Senator-elect Camille Villar, is also a candidate of the opposition coalition DuterTen, supported by Vice President Sara Duterte, which won a total of five seats. (Inquirer.net) (ABS-CBN News)
• Former South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol leaves the People Power Party a month after the Constitutional Court of Korea removed him from office due to his short-lived declaration of martial law. (Reuters)

Sports

• 2024–25 Bundesliga
  • In association football, Bayern Munich are the defending champions of the Bundesliga after defeating TSG Hoffenheim 4–0 on the final matchday. (NBC Sports)
• 2024–25 FA Cup
  • In English football, Crystal Palace wins the FA Cup after defeating Manchester City 1–0 in the final played at Wembley Stadium in London. It is Crystal Palace's first major trophy in the club's 119-year history. (Fox Sports)
• 2024–25 Ligue 1
  • In association football, Paris Saint-Germain defeat AJ Auxerre 3–1 to become Ligue 1 champions. (BBC Sports)
• 2025 Preakness Stakes
  • At the Pimlico Race Course, the horse Journalism, jockeyed by Umberto Rispoli, wins the Preakness Stakes. (NBC News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
    • More than 74 people have been killed in Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip since midnight. (RTÉ News)
• Red Sea crisis
  • The Israeli Air Force launches airstrikes on the ports of Hudaydah and Salif in Houthi-controlled Yemen, as prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and defense minister Israel Katz warn that if the Houthis persist in attacking Israel, their leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi will be directly targeted. (Al Arabiya)
• Persecution of Ahmadis in Pakistan
  • A locally renowned doctor in Sargodha, Pakistan, belonging to the Ahmadiyya community, is killed after an unknown assailant shoots him twice in the back. (Dawn)

Business and economy

• United States federal government credit-rating downgrades
  • Moody's Ratings lowers the United States' credit rating from Aaa to Aa1, citing the government's rising debt, widening deficits, and increased interest payments. (USA Today)

Disasters and accidents

• Tornado outbreak sequence of May 15–16, 2025
  • A tornado strikes St. Louis, Missouri. At least 5 people are killed, 35-45 others are injured and more than 100,000 are without power in the St. Louis metropolitan area following severe weather in the city and surrounding areas. (Associated Press) (KSDK)
• Five people are killed and three others are injured by a landslide at a hydropower plant construction site in Phong Thổ, Lai Châu province, Vietnam. (News.az)

International relations

• Foreign relations of Angola, 2023 Gabonese coup d'état
  • The Government of Angola says that former President of Gabon Ali Bongo, along with former First Lady Sylvia Bongo Ondimba and their son Noureddin Bongo Valentin arrived last night in Angola, where they received asylum "for humanitarian reasons", days after their release from prison, where they had been since the 2023 coup. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Stabbing of Salman Rushdie
  • A court in New York, United States sentences 27-year old Hadi Matar to 25 years in prison for the August 2022 stabbing attack on Indian-British-American author Salman Rushdie, which left Rushdie severely injured while he was giving a talk in Chautauqua. (AP)
• 2025 Las Vegas gym shooting
  • At least two people are killed, including the perpetrator and four others are injured, including one critically, in a mass shooting and shootout when a man opens fire inside of a gym in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. (KTNV)
• Ten inmates take part in a mass escape from the Orleans Parish jail in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Three are recaptured; the other seven remain fugitives. (The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate)
• International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Ahmad Khan temporarily steps aside from his role while the United Nations investigates the sexual misconduct allegations against him. (The Washington Post)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Islamist insurgency in Burkina Faso
  • Islamist militant group Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal-Muslimin claims it killed 200 soldiers in an attack on a military base on Sunday in Djibo, Sahel, Burkina Faso. They also claimed responsibility for the Diapaga attack this week at a military post in Loroum Province that killed 60 soldiers. (Al Jazeera)
• Papua conflict
  • The Indonesian military confirms that 18 Papuan separatists and three civilians were killed in yesterday's military operation in Intan Jaya Regency, Central Papua, Indonesia. (Reuters) (detikcom)

Arts and culture

• A long-lost version of the British Magna Carta, dating to 1300 in the reign of King Edward I, is believed to have been found at Harvard University in the United States. (BBC) (The Guardian)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Canadian wildfires
  • Two people are killed and more than 1,000 others evacuate after wildfires spread across central Manitoba, Canada. (Euronews)
• Sinking of the Bayesian
  • British investigators say the cause of the sinking of the Bayesian superyacht that killed seven people, including billionaire tech magnate Mike Lynch in Italy in 2024, is from being knocked over by extreme wind and could not recover. (CTV News)
• Five people are killed and three others are injured after a van drives into the back of a truck on the national road 2 in Konotopa, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland. (TVN24)
• Three people, including two firefighters, are killed and two other firefighters are seriously injured in a fire at a former Royal Air Force base in Oxfordshire, England. (BBC News)

International relations

• Iran–United States relations
  • 2025 US–Iran negotiations
    • U.S. president Donald Trump says that the U.S. and Iran have "sort of" agreed on the terms of a deal on Iran's nuclear program, which reportedly includes Iran agreeing to give up highly enriched uranium while keeping lower-grade uranium needed for civilian nuclear power, in exchange for the lifting of sanctions. (AP)
• Myanmar–Vietnam relations
  • According to the Vietnamese foreign ministry, more than 650 Vietnamese nationals are detained for immigration violations in Myanmar. The Vietnamese public security ministry has repatriated 450 people, most are victims of scam centers, with 200 still in Myanmar. (Vietnam+) (Việt Nam News)
• Visa policy of mainland China
  • At the China-CELAC Forum in Beijing, the Chinese foreign ministry announces it will allow nationals from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru, and Uruguay to enter the country without a travel visa starting June 1. (AP)

Law and crime

• LGBT rights in Russia, Russian anti-LGBTQ law
  • Russian media reports that police raided the publisher office of Eksmo Publishing House yesterday and arrested several of its employees, accusing them of spreading "LGBTQ+ extremism". (The Moscow Times)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Australian Greens leadership election
  • Larissa Waters is elected leader of the Australian Greens, following the resignation of Adam Bandt after the party's poor performance at the 2025 Australian federal election. (ABC News)

Sports

• 2024–25 La Liga
  • In association football, FC Barcelona win their 28th title in the 94th season of La Liga after defeating city rivals RCD Espanyol 2–0 with two matches to spare. (ESPN) (The Independent)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Gaza war
    • Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
      • Israeli airstrikes kill at least 80 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip. (Reuters)
  • Palestinian political violence
    • Two Israelis, including a pregnant woman and her child, are critically wounded in a shooting near Brukhin in the West Bank. (The Jerusalem Post) (YNet)
• Hezbollah–Israel conflict
  • Israeli invasion of Lebanon
    • The Israel Defense Forces claim that a drone strike in Qaaqaait al-Jisr, Nabatieh Governorate, Lebanon, killed a Hezbollah commander. (The Times of Israel)

• Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
  • Operation Black Forest
    • Indian authorities declare a "major success" in a military operation against Naxal insurgents in the border between the states of Chhattisgarh and Telangana, killing 31 militants, including top leaders of the Maoist group. (The Hindustan Times)

Disasters and accidents

• Two hikers are found dead and seven others are rescued after they were swept away by a river while hiking near Didier Waterfall on the island of Martinique. (AP)

International relations

• China–Colombia relations
  • Colombia joins China's Belt and Road Initiative during the China-CELAC Forum in Beijing. (AFP via RFI)
• Syria–United States relations
  • U.S. president Donald Trump meets with Syrian interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa during a trip to Saudi Arabia prior to departing for Qatar, marking the first meeting between a U.S. and Syrian president since 2000. (Al Jazeera)

Law and crime

• Immigration to Argentina
  • Argentine president Javier Milei orders restrictions on immigration to Argentina, saying that immigrants are bringing "chaos and abuse" to Argentina. (AP)
• Tajik president Emomali Rahmon signs a law decriminalizing the "liking" of posts on social media publicly calling for terrorism or other serious crimes. (Reuters)
• Russian election observer Grigory Melkonyants [ru] is convicted on charges of working with an "undesirable organization" and sentenced to five years in prison. (The New York Times)

Politics and elections

• Deportation of undocumented Afghans from Pakistan
  • Pakistani interior minister Mohsin Naqvi says that more than 1 million Afghans have been deported back to Afghanistan since November 2023 as Pakistani authorities intensify a crackdown on illegal immigration. (AMU TV)