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- A landslide in Papua New Guinea's Enga Province leaves hundreds of people missing.
- The European Union passes the Artificial Intelligence Act, aiming to establish a regulatory and legal framework for AI.
- A helicopter crash near Varzaqan, Iran, kills eight people, including President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian (pictured).
- In boxing, Oleksandr Usyk defeats Tyson Fury to become the first undisputed heavyweight champion in twenty-four years.
May 25, 2024 (Saturday)
May 24, 2024 (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israel–Hamas war
- Israel–Hamas war hostage crisis
- The Israeli army recovers the bodies of three captives who were killed and taken to Gaza by Palestinian militants in the October 7 attacks. (Reuters)
- Israel–Hamas war hostage crisis
- Haitian crisis
- Two Christian missionaries from the United States, one of them the daughter of a Missouri State Representative, and a Haitian pastor are killed in a gang ambush in Haiti. (The Wall Street Journal)
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Sources claim that Russian President Vladimir Putin is interested in negotiating a ceasefire, which would freeze the conflict at the current frontlines. (Reuters)
- The European Union makes a decision allowing Ukraine to use interest funds from frozen Russian bank accounts, totaling €2.5 billion ($2.7 billion) per year. (Al Jazeera)
Arts and culture
- 2024 Cannes Film Festival
- Norah becomes the first film from Saudi Arabia to screen as part of the official calendar at the Cannes Film Festival. (Arab News)
- Black Dog, a Chinese film directed by Guan Hu, wins the Un Certain Regard prize for international films at the Cannes Film Festival. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 Enga landslide
- Four people are confirmed killed and many others are presumed dead in a landslide in Enga Province, Papua New Guinea. (Papua New Guinea Post-Courier) (RNZ)
- Fourteen people are killed and three others are injured in a building fire in a densely populated area of Hanoi, Vietnam. (Reuters)
- Dozens of people are killed across Mexico in a deadly heatwave, with temperatures as high as 45 °C (113 °F) recorded. (France 24) (DW)
Law and crime
- 2024 Bishkek riots
- Hundreds of international students from Pakistan and other Asian countries leave Kyrgyzstan following attacks by Kyrgyz nationalist mobs on student hostels in Bishkek earlier this month. (Reuters)
- Crocus City Hall attack
- Russia arrests more than 20 people in connection with the Islamic State – Khorasan Province attack on the Crocus City Hall concert venue in Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast, in March. (Reuters)
- South Africa's genocide case against Israel
- The International Court of Justice, in a 13–2 decision, orders Israel to stop their military offensive in Rafah. (Reuters)
- United States v. Live Nation Entertainment
- The first consumer class action lawsuit by ticket buyers is filed against Ticketmaster and Live Nation Entertainment, following the lawsuit filed by the United States Department of Justice. (Reuters)
- Uvalde school shooting
- Families in Uvalde, Texas, U.S., file a lawsuit against Daniel Defense and Activision-Blizzard for creating the DDM4 V7 gun and promoting the weapon through the game Call of Duty, respectively. They also sue Meta Platforms for owning Instagram, which was used by the gunman. (AP)
Politics and elections
- 2024 United Kingdom general election
- A record number of Conservative MPs stand down ahead of the UK election. (BBC News) (Sky News)
- Jeremy Corbyn is expelled from the Labour Party after confirming that he will stand as an independent candidate in the election. (The Independent)
May 23, 2024 (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2024 Kharkiv offensive
- Crimea attacks
- Eastern Ukraine campaign
- Russian forces captures the village of Andriivka in Donetsk Oblast. (The Daily Telegraph)
- Israel–Hamas war
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- At least 60 Palestinians are killed in Israeli attacks in Rafah, Deir al-Balah, and Gaza City, Gaza. (Al Jazeera)
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
Arts and culture
- Pope Francis and the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints approves the canonization of Carlo Acutis, who will become the first millennial saint. (Holy See) (BBC News)
- Romanian author Mircea Cărtărescu wins the International Dublin Literary Award for his novel Solenoid, translated by Sean Cotter. (The Guardian)
Disasters and accidents
- Eleven people are killed and two others are injured in an explosion at a sugar factory in Morogoro, Tanzania. (AP)
- Four people are killed and 16 others are injured when the second floor of a restaurant collapses in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. (AP)
International relations
- Cross-Strait relations
- China's People's Liberation Army begins two days of military drills around Taiwan. In response, Taiwan mobilizes its military. (BBC News) (Reuters)
- Diplomatic missions to Palestine
- President of Colombia Gustavo Petro orders the opening of an embassy in Ramallah in the West Bank. (Al Jazeera)
- Kenya–United States relations
- U.S. President Joe Biden announces during a state visit by President of Kenya William Ruto that he will designate Kenya a major non-NATO ally as it is expected to lead the international intervention in Haiti. (Reuters) (NPR)
- Russia removes the border markers signaling the border with Estonia on the Narva River, prompting a protest by the EU. (BBC News)
Law and crime
- United States v. Live Nation Entertainment
- The United States Department of Justice sues Ticketmaster and its parent company Live Nation, seeking the breakup of the company and accusing the company of creating a monopoly by eliminating competition and increasing prices. (AP)
- Three people are killed and five others are injured in a shootout between two groups at a café in Istanbul, Turkey. (Metro)
Politics and elections
- The United Nations General Assembly votes 84–19, with 68 abstentions, to establish July 11 as an annual day of remembrance for the Srebrenica genocide, despite receiving opposition from Serbia and Bosnian Serbs. (Al Jazeera)
May 22, 2024 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Eastern Ukraine campaign
- Russia captures the village of Klishchiivka in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Al Jazeera)
- At least two people are killed and four are injured by Ukrainian shelling in Lysychansk, Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine. (Al Jazeera)
- Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
- Sweden announces US$7 billion in military aid to Ukraine from 2024 to 2026. (Bloomberg)
- Russia returns six Ukrainian children displaced by the war back to Ukraine, in a deal brokered by Qatar. (Al Jazeera)
- Eastern Ukraine campaign
- 2024 New Caledonia unrest
- Australia and New Zealand begin evacuating their citizens from New Caledonia amid civil unrest. (AP)
Disasters and accidents
- San Pedro Garza García stage collapse
- At least nine people are killed, including a child, and 121 are injured after a temporary stage collapses in high winds at a campaign event for the Citizens' Movement party in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo León, Mexico. Later, the Nuevo León government pledges 400,000 pesos ($23,900) in compensation to families of the deceased. (AP) (El País) (Reuters)
International relations
- International recognition of the State of Palestine
- Norway–Palestine relations, Ireland–Palestine relations, Palestine–Spain relations
- The governments of Norway, Ireland, and Spain announce that they will recognise the State of Palestine as a sovereign state beginning on May 28, and also call for a two-state solution. In response, Israel recalls its ambassadors to these countries. (BBC News)
- Norway–Palestine relations, Ireland–Palestine relations, Palestine–Spain relations
- Russia–NATO relations
- The Russian Ministry of Defence proposes to unilaterally adjust Russia's maritime border in the Baltic Sea, prompting comments of concern made by Baltic members of NATO, including Finland and Lithuania. The Ministry of Defense later retracts the proposal. (Reuters) (BBC News)
Law and crime
- 2024 Bishkek riots
- The Kyrgyz Ministry of Internal Affairs announces that ten people, including four foreigners, have been detained in connection with violent riots that occurred in Bishkek last week. (RFE/RL)
Politics and elections
- 2024 Chadian presidential election
- Prime Minister Succès Masra of the transitional government resigns after Mahamat Déby is elected President. (Al Jazeera)
- 2024 United Kingdom general election
- Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announces that the next general election will be held on 4 July. (CNN)
- 2024 Vietnamese presidential election
- Security Minister Tô Lâm is elected President by the National Assembly, two months after the resignation of Võ Văn Thưởng amid the ruling Communist Party's anti-corruption campaign. (DW)
- President of the United States Joe Biden announces a student loan debt cancellation of $7.7 billion for 160,000 people. (Al Jazeera)
- German far-right party Alternative for Germany bans Maximilian Krah, its leading candidate in European elections, from further activities due to his comments defending members of the Schutzstaffel (SS). (Al Jazeera)
Science and technology
- Russia launches a Soyuz-2 rocket carrying the Kosmos 2576 satellite from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome launch site in Arkhangelsk Oblast. The United States Space Command accuses it of being an anti-satellite weapon capable of attacking other satellites, and is in the same orbit as a satellite operated by the National Reconnaissance Office. (Al Jazeera)
- The United Nations Security Council votes against a resolution introduced by Russia and China banning member states from placing weapons in outer space. (Space.com)
Sports
- 2023–24 UEFA Europa League
- In association football, Atalanta win the UEFA Europa League over Bayer Leverkusen by a score of 3–0 in the final, ending Bayer Leverkusen's record of 51 unbeaten games. It is also Atalanta's first major trophy since 1963. (The Guardian)
May 21, 2024 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israel–Hamas War
- Humanitarian aid during the Israel–Hamas war
- Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Israel–Hamas war
- The Israeli army launches a raid on the city of Jenin in the West Bank, with sources claiming that seven Palestinians were killed. (Reuters)
- Nigerian bandit conflict
- Gunmen kill 40 people in an attack on a village in Nigeria's Plateau State. (Reuters)
Arts and culture
- Jenny Erpenbeck wins the International Booker Prize for her novel Kairos, translated from the German by Michael Hofmann. (The Guardian)
Business and economy
- Pixar Animation Studios lays off 14% of its workforce, approximately 175 people. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- Singapore Airlines Flight 321
- A Singapore Airlines flight from London, England, to Singapore makes an emergency landing at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok, Thailand, after experiencing severe air turbulence over the Bay of Bengal, resulting in one death and at least 30 injuries. (BBC News)
- Eleven workers drown after a microbus falls off a ferry into the Nile River in Giza, Egypt. (Al-Ahram)
- At least five people are killed and 35 are injured as a strong tornado devastates the town of Greenfield, Iowa, United States. A Doppler on Wheels unit records a wind gust of between 250 mph (400 km/h) and 290 mph (470 km/h) over Greenfield, the strongest winds recorded inside a tornado by a mobile weather radar since the 2013 El Reno tornado, equivalent to EF5 intensity on the Enhanced Fujita scale. (AP) (University of Illinois)
International relations
- Argentina–Spain relations
- Spain permanently recalls its ambassador from Argentina amid a diplomatic crisis over President of Argentina Javier Milei's comments about Prime Minister of Spain Pedro Sánchez's wife, Begoña Gómez. (CNN)
- Moldova–European Union relations
- Moldova becomes the first non-European Union (EU) signatory country to sign a security and defense pact with the EU to receive assistance in strengthening and managing its borders, facilitating cooperation in cybersecurity, and combating disinformation. (Politico)
- A Swiss parliamentary committee rejects a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights that alleged the country violated its citizens' human rights by not doing enough to prevent climate change. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- Censorship in Israel
- The Israeli Ministry of Communications seizes broadcasting equipment from the Associated Press and suspends their live feed of Gaza, accusing them of breaking the new media law by supplying images to Al Jazeera. (AP)
- Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton is reported to be on life support after being physically attacked in a prison in Port-Cartier, Quebec. (Vancouver Sun)
- The European Union passes the Artificial Intelligence Act, to be applied in 2026. The act imposes strict transparency obligations on AI systems, restricts governments from using real-time biometric surveillance in public spaces, and bans social scoring, predictive policing, and untargeted scraping of facial images. (Reuters)
- A court in Saint Petersburg, Russia, sentences Anatoly Maslov, a 77-year-old hypersonic missiles expert, to 14 years in prison for state treason. (Reuters)
- The Netherlands moves to ban international adoptions. (Reuters)
May 20, 2024 (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israel–Hamas war
- International reactions to the Israel–Hamas war, War crimes in the Israel–Hamas war
- Karim Khan, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, requests arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, Hamas political leaders Ismail Haniyeh and Yahya Sinwar, and Al-Qassam Brigades leader Mohammed Al-Masri for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity. (Reuters)
- International reactions to the Israel–Hamas war, War crimes in the Israel–Hamas war
- Haitian crisis
- Gang war in Haiti
- Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, reopens after being closed for three months due to gang violence, as the US military flies in supplies and civilian contractors to help the police in order to pave a way for an intervention. (AP)
- Gang war in Haiti
Business and economy
- Red Lobster, an American restaurant chain, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. (NPR)
Disasters and accidents
- Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse
- The container ship Dali is freed from bridge debris since its initial collision on March 26 and is escorted by tugboats back to the port of Baltimore. (AP)
Law and crime
- Russian military commissariats attacks
- A court in Novosibirsk, Russia, sentences a 24-year-old man to 25 years in prison for allegedly plotting an arson attack on a military recruitment office with alleged directions from Ukraine. (Al Jazeera)
- Judges grant Julian Assange permission to appeal his extradition order from the United Kingdom to the United States. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- 19th Congress of the Philippines
- Migz Zubiri resigns as President of the Senate of the Philippines and is replaced by Francis Escudero. (KPL/VNA)
- 2024 South African general election
- The Constitutional Court of South Africa rules that former President Jacob Zuma is ineligible to run in the upcoming parliamentary election due to his 2021 jail sentence. (Al Jazeera)
- First vice president of Iran Mohammad Mokhber becomes acting president following the death of Ebrahim Raisi. (Al Jazeera)
- Lai Ching-te is sworn in as President of Taiwan, with Hsiao Bi-khim as his Vice President. (Al Jazeera)
May 19, 2024 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2024 Democratic Republic of the Congo coup attempt
- The Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo say that they foiled a coup by armed men in Kinshasa that killed two police officers and four attackers, including the coup's leader, Christian Malanga, a opposition leader of the United Congolese Party. Around 50 attackers, including Malanga's 20-year-old son and a US citizen from Maryland, are arrested. (AP)
- 2024 New Caledonia unrest
- France deploys law enforcement to New Caledonia to regain control of the road to La Tontouta International Airport, which is currently controlled by protesters. (Reuters)
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- At least six people are killed and 27 others are injured in a Russian double tap missile strike on a recreation area near Kharkiv. Separately, five people are killed and nine others are injured in a Russian strike using a multiple launch rocket system on two villages in Kupiansk Raion, Kharkiv Oblast. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 Varzaqan helicopter crash
- A Bell 212 helicopter crashes in Varzaqan, East Azerbaijan province, Iran, killing all the eight people on board, including President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian. (AP)
- Two people are killed and five others are missing after a boat collision on the Danube river near Verőce, Hungary. (Reuters)
- Seven villages on the island of Halmahera, Indonesia, are forced to evacuate after the Mount Ibu volcano erupts. (Reuters)
International relations
- Argentina–Spain relations
- Spain recalls its ambassador to Argentina after President of Argentina Javier Milei calls Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's wife Begoña Gómez corrupt during a rally in Madrid and also refuses to meet with King Felipe VI. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- 2024 Dominican Republic general election
- President Luis Abinader wins re-election with 59% of the popular vote. (BBC Mundo)
Sports
- 2023–24 Premier League
- Manchester City win the Premier League, becoming the first team in the 136-year history of the Football League to win four consecutive top-flight titles. (The Guardian)
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