Portal:Current events/2017 May 30

• Iraqi Civil War
  • Al-Faqma ice cream parlor bombing
    • A car bomb explosion outside a popular ice cream parlor in central Baghdad kills 13 people and injures 24. ISIL claims responsibility for the attack. (AP)

• China Labor Watch says one of its team was arrested and two others are missing when they were investigating labor practices at Ganzhou Huajian International Shoe City Co., whose products include Ivanka Trump-branded shoes. (Time)

• North Korea–United States relations
  • A formation of United States B-1B bombers from Guam flew over Korea, staging a nuclear bomb dropping drill. North Korea calls it a military provocation. (Yonhap) (Terra)
• Ukraine–European Union relations
  • The Dutch Senate approves the European Union's Association Agreement with Ukraine, setting the stage for it to be ratified as early as July, pending royal promulgation. The process was previously delayed by a non-binding referendum where a majority of Dutch voters rejected ratification of the agreement. (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)
• South Korea–United States relations
  • South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who had campaigned on a parliamentary review of the country's missile defense system, orders an investigation of the anti-missile system after discovering the government was not informed when four more U.S. Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system launchers had been brought in and installed. (Reuters)

• 2017 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
  • More than 300,000 people are evacuated in Bangladesh as Cyclone Mora approaches. (AFP via Malaysia Sun)

• Former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega dies aged 83. (New York Daily News)
• Michael Dubke resigns as President Trump's White House Communications Director after three months on the job. (BBC)