Portal:Current events/May 2022

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Eastern Ukraine offensive
      • Siege of Mariupol
        • Some civilian evacuations begin from the Azovstal iron and steel works in Mariupol. Officials believe that up to 1,000 people have sought refuge at the plant, which has been the target of Russian airstrikes for days. However, evacuations are suspended until 8 a.m. tomorrow due to "security concerns". (The Washington Post) (CNN)
      • Five people are killed by Russian shelling in the town of Lyman. (Times of Israel)
    • April 2022 Belgorod and Bryansk attacks
      • A fire reportedly occurs at a military facility in Belgorod Oblast, Russia, slightly injuring one person and damaging seven houses. (Reuters)
• Transnistria conflict
  • Ukrainian intelligence officials report that Russia is poised to launch a second front from the breakaway area of Transnistria in order to take over the rest of Moldova. (The Times)
• Sinai insurgency
  • The Islamic State claims via the Al-Naba newspaper that Israel killed a senior jihadist commander in the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula. (Times of Israel)

Business and economy

• International sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian War
  • Germany–Russia relations
    • German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock says that Germany may lift sanctions against Russia if they completely withdraw their troops from Ukraine. (Bloomberg Quint)
  • Hungary, a member of the European Union, says that it will veto any sanctions that would restrict energy imports from Russia. Unanimity among the 27 EU members is required to introduce sanctions. (Bloomberg)

Disasters and accidents

• Two people are killed and another person is missing after heavy flooding in the French overseas department of Guadeloupe. (Reuters)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Europe
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Greece
      • The Greek Civil Aviation announces that Greece has lifted their COVID-19 restrictions for domestic and foreign flights. Passengers will still be required to wear a mask. (Reuters)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Italy
      • Italy removes their Green Pass for all indoor places except hospitals and nursing homes and lifts their COVID-19 vaccination and mask mandate for museums, bars, hotels, and restaurants. However, masks will still be required for public transport until June 15. (Wanted In Rome)

Politics and elections

• Protests against the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • May Day anti-war rallies are held across the world to call for peace in Ukraine. (Al Jazeera)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Southern Ukraine offensive
      • 2022 bombing of Odesa
        • A Russian missile hits a dormitory in Odesa, killing a 14-year-old boy and wounding a 17-year-old girl, according to Ukrainian officials. An Orthodox Church was also damaged in the missile strike. (Reuters)
    • Siege of Mariupol
      • The resumption of civilian evacuations from the Azovstal steel mill which was expected to begin at 8 a.m. local time does not occur, as Russia begins a non-stop barrage of airstrikes and bombings following the departure of Red Cross personnel, who had left the previous day after the evacuations were suspended. (CNN)
      • Five Russian troops are allegedly killed during a supposed incursion into the steel plant. (CNN)
    • Belgorod and Bryansk attacks
      • Explosions are reported in the city of Belgorod, Belgorod Oblast, Russia. Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov states that "there were no casualties or damage". (Reuters via NDTV)
    • A Ukrainian Air Force Bayraktar TB2 drone destroys two Russian Raptor-class patrol boats near Snake Island in the Black Sea. (CBS News)

Disasters and accidents

• 2022 New Mexico wildfires
  • Residents of Las Vegas, New Mexico, and surrounding communities evacuate as the Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak Fire continues to spread. (NPR) (The New York Times)
• Eight people are killed by a building collapse in Lagos, Nigeria. (AP) (Xinhua)
• Eight people are killed after a fire engulfed a residential area on the state university campus in Metro Manila, Philippines. (Xinhua)

International relations

• Hungary–Ukraine relations, Hungary-Russia relations
  • Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council Secretary Oleksiy Danilov accuses Hungary of having advance knowledge of the Russian invasion, saying that Hungary was warned by Russian President Vladimir Putin, and that Hungary had plans to annex parts of Western Ukraine. (Ukraine Today)

Law and crime

• Abortion in the United States
  • Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization
    • A draft opinion leaked to Politico indicates that the U.S. Supreme Court is set to overturn Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. (Politico) (Reuters)
• Spanish authorities announce that Pegasus spyware was found on the cell phones of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and Minister of Defense Margarita Robles. (Al Jazeera)

Politics and elections

• It is announced that Russian President Vladimir Putin will reportedly undergo cancer surgery and temporarily hand power to Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev. (Business Standard)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Eastern Ukraine offensive
      • Governor of Donetsk Oblast Pavlo Kyrylenko says that nine people have been killed by Russian shelling in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Reuters)
      • Ten people are killed after projectiles hit a coking plant in Avdiivka, Donetsk Oblast. (Reuters)
      • The United Nations says that 127 people have been evacuated from the besieged Azovstal plant and nearby areas. (PBS News)
    • Peace negotiations in the Russo-Ukrainian war
      • Russian President Vladimir Putin tells French President Emmanuel Macron that his country is ready to continue peace negotiations with Ukraine amidst fears that talks between the two countries have stalled. (TASS) (KMGH-TV)
• Somali Civil War
  • At least 30 Burundian peacekeepers are killed and 20 more injured during an al-Shabaab attack at an African Union military base in Lower Shabelle, Somalia. (VOA)
• Boko Haram insurgency
  • Seven people are killed as Islamist insurgents attack a village in Chibok, Borno State, Nigeria. (AP)

Business and economy

• Economic impact of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • 2022 Russian debt default
    • Russia avoids default on the dollar-denominated bonds that were due in April by sending dollars to foreign investors just before the grace period expired. (Bloomberg)
  • International sanctions during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • President Vladimir Putin signs a decree that will allow the Russian government to terminate any business and exports with entities and people that it deems "unfriendly". (Reuters)
• Based on its preliminary findings, the European Commission accuses Apple of violating the EU's competition law by blocking its competitors from accessing the technology used for the Apple Pay service, and threatens to fine the company up to 10% of its global revenue. (BBC News)
• American bank Citigroup says that the flash crash that affected several European stock markets yesterday was caused by an error from one of its traders. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• Changsha building collapse
  • Two people are confirmed to have been killed when a building in Changsha, China, collapsed on April 29. (BBC News)

Law and crime

• Abortion in the United States
  • Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization
    • 2022 abortion protests in the United States
      • Demonstrations are held outside the U.S. Supreme Court Building in response to last night's leak of the draft opinion. (Politico)
      • In California, an anti-abortion activist is detained by the San Francisco Police Department after climbing to the top of the 61-story Salesforce Tower. (KRON-TV) (San Francisco Chronicle)
    • The U.S. Supreme Court confirms the authenticity of the draft opinion indicating that the court would overturn Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. Chief Justice John Roberts condemns the leak and says that an investigation into the leak will be launched. (The New York Times) (Reuters)
  • Abortion in Oklahoma
    • Governor Kevin Stitt signs a heartbeat bill, i.e. a bill banning abortion after a heartbeat in a fetus is detected, which is at the age of about 6 weeks (except in cases of medical emergencies) and also adopts Texas-style enforcement to pursue offenders. The bill takes effect immediately. (CNN)
• Carlos Guillén Tatis, the agriculture counselor at the Dominican Republic's embassy in Haiti, is kidnapped in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti. (AP)

Politics and elections

• European Parliament constituency
  • The European Parliament votes in favour of an election law overhaul, to be confirmed and possibly amended by the European Council, that will create a 28-seat pan-EU constituency and introduce elections of the President of the European Commission by popular vote. The reform will also create the European Electoral Authority, introduce postal voting for all EU residents, lower the minimum age of candidates to 18 and fix elections on Europe Day, May 9. (Euractiv)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Siege of Mariupol
      • The Associated Press confirms that approximately 600 people died in the Mariupol theatre airstrike. (AP)
      • Russian forces bombard the Azovstal steel works plant in Mariupol with thermobaric missiles. Mariupol mayor Vadym Boychenko confirms that contact has been lost with Ukrainian soldiers trapped inside the plant. (Mirror)
      • Ukraine confirms that Russian troops have entered the steel works plant after launching "an all-out assault". (BBC News)
• Finland says that a Russian Air Force Mi-17 violated its airspace this morning, flying "four to five kilometres" inside Finnish airspace. The incursion comes ahead of an expected Finnish application to join NATO. (RTÉ)

Business and economy

• International sanctions during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • The European Union proposes to ban all oil imports from Russia by the end of the year, and also remove Russia's biggest bank, Sberbank, from SWIFT. (CNN)
• 2021–2022 inflation surge
  • The United States Federal Reserve announces that it is raising interest rates by 0.5%, which is the largest interest rate hike since 2000, in order to combat growing inflation. (CNN)

Disasters and accidents

• Twenty-six people are killed when a minibus, a bus and a fuel truck collide with each other in Rivne Oblast, Ukraine. (Reuters)
• Twenty people are killed when a bus crashes into a tea estate in Fort Portal, Uganda. (AP)

International relations

• 2021–2022 North Korean missile tests
  • South Korea and the Japan Coast Guard both accuse North Korea of firing a ballistic missile from Sunan-guyok into the Sea of Japan. (France 24)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Eastern Ukraine offensive
      • Siege of Mariupol
        • Ukrainian forces say they have repelled a Russian military thrust onto the Azovstal iron and steel works in Mariupol, Ukraine. (PBS News)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • 2022 El'ad stabbing
    • Three people are killed and four others injured by two Palestinians in a mass stabbing in El'ad, Central Israel. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• Changsha building collapse
  • The death toll from the building collapse in Changsha, China, six days ago, increases to 53, with ten people rescued. (BBC News)
• 2022 Afghanistan floods
  • Floods in twelve provinces of Afghanistan destroy 500 homes, kill 22 people and injure 40 others. (Reuters)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • WHO puts estimate of deaths due to COVID-19, including incidentals due to impacted health systems, at approximately 15 million worldwide. (CBC)

Sports

• 2022 CONCACAF Champions League
  • Seattle Sounders FC becomes the first US Major League Soccer team to win the CONCACAF Champions League, defeating UNAM 5–2 on aggregate in the final. (Sports Illustrated)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Peace negotiations in the Russo-Ukrainian war
      • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that Ukraine is open to continue peace talks with Russia if they guarantee the restoration of preinvasion borders, return the Ukrainians who were forcefully evacuated to Russia, and if Russian troops withdraw from the country. (The Independent) (Axios)
    • Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Goncharenko claims that the Russian frigate Admiral Makarov was struck with Neptune anti-ship missiles off of Snake Island. Russia denies having any information of the strike. (Newsweek)
• Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso
  • Eleven people are killed and nine others are injured in Islamist attacks in Loroum and Sanmatenga provinces, Burkina Faso. Twenty attackers are also killed. (AP)

Business and economy

• Acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk
  • The Orlando Police Pension Fund files a class-action lawsuit in the Delaware Chancery Court against Twitter Inc and Elon Musk, seeking to delay the acquisition of Twitter to 2025. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• Hotel Saratoga explosion
  • At least 26 people are killed and at least 74 others are injured by an explosion caused by a suspected gas leak at the Hotel Saratoga in Havana, Cuba. (AP)
• Two people die and over 100 more are rescued as a boat carrying migrants runs aground in southern Italy. (AP)
• Two people are killed and eighteen others are injured when an explosion occurs in a residential building in Madrid, Spain. (AP)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Colombia
    • COVID-19 vaccination in Colombia
    • Colombia announces that it will offer a second COVID-19 vaccine boosters for people aged above 50 years. It comes after the country reached its target for fully vaccinate 70% of population. (Reuters)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China
    • China decides to making regular COVID-19 testing mandatory for its citizens with setting up thousands of permanent PCR testing stations, with 9,000 already completed in Shanghai alone, as authorities aim to "normalise" tough pandemic controls even after the current round of lockdowns end. (Livemint)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan
    • Taiwan reports a record 30,035 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, which is the first time the country has reported more than 30,000 cases since the pandemic began. (Taiwan News)

International relations

• Iran–Sweden relations
  • Iran detains a Swedish man who was travelling as a tourist, allegedly in response to Sweden prosecuting Hamid Nouri, an Iranian official considered to be responsible for the mass killings of political prisoners in 1988. (AP)
• Iran–United States relations
  • The U.S. Senate passes 62–33 a non-binding resolution barring the Biden administration from removing the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps from its list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations. (Haaretz)

Law and crime

• Two people are killed and three others are injured during a mass shooting at a care home in Molensingel, Alblasserdam, Netherlands. The perpetrator was already wanted for murdering a man at a shop yesterday. (BBC News)
• Sofia Sapega, the girlfriend of Belarusian activist Roman Protasevich, with whom she was detained when their flight was diverted by the Belarusian Air Force last year, is sentenced to six years in prison for "inciting social hatred". The exiled Belarusian opposition condemns the verdict. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2022 Sri Lankan protests
  • The Sri Lankan government declares a state of emergency in response to massive anti-government protests. (Reuters)

Sports

• 2022 NHL Entry Draft
  • NHL commissioner Gary Bettman says that Russian players will remain eligible for the upcoming NHL Draft despite other clubs banning Russian athletes. (Sportsnet)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • 2022 bombing of Odesa
      • Four Russian missiles strike the Ukrainian port city of Odesa. (Reuters)
    • Siege of Mariupol
      • Ukraine says that all women, children, and elderly have been evacuated from the besieged Azovstal steel plant. (Reuters)
    • Bilohorivka school bombing
      • Russian forces bomb a school in Bilohorivka, Sievierodonetsk Raion, Luhansk Oblast. Only two deaths are confirmed but sixty people are believed to have been killed. (Reuters)
• Al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen
  • Two colonels, two soldiers and four al-Qaeda insurgents are killed during clashes in Dhale Governorate, Yemen. (AP)
• Sinai insurgency
  • Ten soldiers and one officer are killed during an attack at a checkpoint at a water pumping station in the Suez Canal, Egypt. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• Economic impact of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • The Airline Operators of Nigeria announces that all of their airlines will suspend their domestic flights beginning on Monday, in protest of rising fuel prices caused by the war in Ukraine. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• Wildfires in 2022
  • Eight people are killed and 17 others injured during wildfires in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Siberia, Russia, that destroy hundreds of buildings in 16 settlements. The Federal Agency for Forestry blames high winds for worsening the fires and impacting firefighting efforts. (Reuters)
• Three people are injured in an explosion at a steel coke plant in Jharkhand, India. (Reuters)
• Four Vietnamese nationals are killed when a fire breaks out at Bismark House Mill in Oldham (BBC)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan
    • Taiwan reports a record 46,536 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, which is the first time the country has reported more than 40,000 cases since the beginning of the pandemic. (Focus Taiwan)
• The monkeypox virus is detected in a person who recently travelled to England from Nigeria. (BBC News)

Law and crime

• Treatment of women by the Taliban
  • The Taliban passes a law ordering all women in Afghanistan to cover their faces in public with a burqa. (Reuters)
• Iran preemptively shuts down the internet in Khuzestan province amid protests against a 200% increase in bread prices. (Iran International)
• One person is killed and six others injured in a mass shooting in Cancún, Quintana Roo, Mexico. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2022 Northern Ireland Assembly election
  • Irish republican party Sinn Féin win the most seats in the Northern Ireland Assembly with 29% of the first-preference vote, marking the first time that a unionist party did not win the most seats since Northern Ireland's establishment in 1921. (The Guardian)
• Former president of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announces his candidacy for the upcoming Brazilian presidential election in October, launching his candidacy with a message of "hope" and stating that he is ready to make "the greatest peaceful revolution" in the history of Brazil. (EFE)

Sports

• 2022 Kentucky Derby
  • The 148th Kentucky Derby is held in Louisville, Kentucky with a full capacity for the first time since 2019 after two years of COVID-19 capacity restrictions. American thoroughbred Rich Strike wins the Derby in one of the largest upsets in history with an 80–1 odds to win. (CBS News) (ABC News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Two Palestinians are killed by Israeli soldiers during confrontations in the West Bank, while an Israeli policeman is stabbed and wounded in Jerusalem, hours after the perpetrators of the El'ad stabbing are arrested. (Reuters)
• Ituri conflict, 2021–2022 Democratic Republic of the Congo attacks
  • Thirty-five civilians are killed during an attack on a gold mine by CODECO rebels in Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Reuters)

International relations

• Government and intergovernmental reactions to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Canada–Ukraine relations
    • Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland and Minister of Foreign Affairs Mélanie Joly make an unannounced visit to Kyiv to meet with President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy amid the ongoing Russian invasion. (CTV News)
    • Trudeau announces the reopening of the Canadian Embassy in Kyiv. (Politico)
  • Ukraine–United States relations
    • U.S. First Lady Jill Biden makes an unannounced visit to Uzhhorod, Ukraine, and holds a Mother’s Day meeting with Ukrainian First Lady Olena Zelenska. (AP) (CNN)
• European Union–United States relations, Iran–United States relations
  • The European Union recommends that the United States remove the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps from their terrorist organization blacklist. (Times of Israel)

Law and crime

• 2022 abortion rights protests in the United States
  • The office of Wisconsin Family Action, an anti-abortion group in Madison, Wisconsin, catches fire and is looted. Police discover a molotov cocktail and begin an arson investigation. (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) (ABC News)

Politics and elections

• 2022 Hong Kong Chief Executive election
  • John Lee is elected as the 5th Chief Executive of Hong Kong. (The New York Times)

Sports

• 2022 Mutua Madrid Open – Men's singles
  • Carlos Alcaraz defeats defending champion Alexander Zverev to win the men's singles tennis title at the 2022 Mutua Madrid Open. (BBC Sport)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2022 Sri Lankan protests
  • Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapaksa resigns amid mass protests over the government's handling of the economic crisis. (BBC News)
  • Pro-government supporters storm a major protest site in Colombo, clashing with police and protesters. A total of 78 people are injured. (Al Jazeera)
  • Two people are killed and eight more are injured as police open fire against a group of protestors who were trying to set fire to the Pradeshiya Sabha chairman’s residence in Weeraketiya. (Ada Derana)
  • MP Amarakeerthi Athukorala opens fire against protestors who were blocking his vehicle in Nittambuwa, killing one man and injuring another. Athukorala then escaped into a nearby building, before being found dead alongside his security officer. (Al Jazeera)
• Gunmen open fire at two polling stations in Buluan and Lanao del Sur, Philippines, killing three guards and a voter and injuring another guard and two voters, amid the presidential elections. (Al Jazeera)

Arts and culture

• 2022 Pulitzer Prizes
  • The Washington Post wins the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for its coverage of the 2021 United States Capitol attack. The New York Times wins the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting on the war on terror's failed bombing campaigns and the most awards overall. (The New York Times) (NPR)

Business and economy

• Nigeria's airlines say that they have cancelled a plan to suspend domestic flights, a decision they had previously made due to an increase in the cost of aviation fuel. (BBC News)
• The Royal Thai Army announces it will ban all army personnel from using the Singaporean e-commerce site Lazada for allegedly insulting the royal family in a Facebook video ad. Digital Economy Minister Chaiwut Thanakamanusorn in a separate statement said the government is considering legal action against both Lazada and the advertising agency responsible for the ad. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• One person dies and eleven others are missing after a fishing boat sinks off the coast of Ghana. (BBC News)
• Four people are killed and fifty others are injured after a tear gas grenade is set off causing a human stampede at a public university in Potosí, Bolivia. (AP)

International relations

• Enlargement of NATO
  • The Swedish Social Democratic Party announces that it will decide on May 15 whether to pursue a course of action to join NATO. Finnish President Sauli Niinistö is expected to also announce Finland's intention to join NATO on May 12. (Al Jazeera)
• Foreign relations of Iran, Foreign relations of Transnistria
  • Iranians in Moldova are urged to leave the country due to rising tensions in pro-Russian Transnistria and spillover effects from the war in Ukraine. (Tasnim)

Law and crime

• 2022 Ecuador prison riots
  • A prison riot in Santo Domingo, Ecuador, kills 44 inmates. (ABC News)

Politics and elections

• 2022 Philippine general election
  • Filipinos head to the polls to elect officials in the Presidential, Senate, House of Representatives, Gubernatorial, and other local elections. (The Guardian)
  • Bongbong Marcos, the son of late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos, is leading in the preliminary and unofficial results to become the next President. (CNN)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Ituri conflict, 2021–2022 Democratic Republic of the Congo attacks
  • Fourteen people are killed during an attack by suspected CODECO militants at a refugee camp in Fataki, Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Reuters)
• 2022 Sri Lankan protests
  • The Sri Lankan Defense Ministry authorizes the Army and police force to shoot looters and assailants and to arrest protesters without warrants in response to yesterday's violence. (Al Jazeera)

Business and economy

• Apple announces it will discontinue sales of the iPod Touch, officially ending the iPod line of portable media players after more than 20 years. (The Verge)
• The operator of Ukraine's natural gas system GTSOU announces that it will stop shipments of Russian gas through the Sokhranivka route on Wednesday. (Reuters)

International relations

• Lithuania–Russia relations, Government and intergovernmental reactions to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • The Seimas of Lithuania unanimously votes to designate Russia as a terrorist state and to classify Russia's actions in Ukraine as genocide. (NPR)
• In a rare public rebuke, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus criticizes China's "Zero-COVID" policy as "unsustainable", advising the Chinese government to change its strategy. (Al Jazeera)

Politics and elections

• 2022 Philippine presidential election
  • Former Senator of the Philippines Bongbong Marcos, son of dictator Ferdinand Marcos, is expected to become the next President of the Philippines, based on partial and unofficial counts. Marcos has more than twice as many votes as the next closest candidate Leni Robredo, the current Vice President of the Philippines. The victory will be officially ratified by the Congress of the Philippines in late May. (BBC News)
• Crown Prince of Kuwait Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah accepts the resignation of the Government of Kuwait, after the request had been submitted more than a month ago. No timeline is given for when the next election will occur. (Reuters)
• Yoon Suk-yeol is sworn in as the 13th President of South Korea. (CNN)
• Katalin Novák takes office as the first female President of Hungary. (Al Jazeera)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • 2022 bombing of Odesa
    • Russian forces continue to fire missiles at the Ukrainian port city of Odesa in an apparent attempt to cut supplies to the city. (AP)
  • Battle of Kharkiv
    • Ukrainian military forces recapture several settlements north of Kharkiv, driving Russian troops to less than a dozen miles from the Russian border. (MSN)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh
    • Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh is killed while covering a raid in Jenin. Palestinian sources say that Abu Akleh was shot by Israeli soldiers, while Israeli sources say that she was likely killed by indiscriminate fire by Palestinian militants. Israel eventually admitted and apologized for the murder after initial denials. ^[1] Another journalist and two other Palestinians are injured in the shooting. (NPR)
  • A Palestinian is shot dead after charging at police officers in Jerusalem. (Times of Israel)
• Insurgency in the Maghreb
  • Eight soldiers are killed and 13 others are injured during an ambush by Al-Qaeda-linked militants in Kpendjal Prefecture, Togo. The attack is believed to be connected to the current insurgency in Burkina Faso, making it the first Islamic extremist attack in Togo. (Reuters)
• Somali Civil War
  • Four people are killed by a suicide bomber at a checkpoint in Mogadishu, Somalia. Al-Shabaab claims responsibility for the attack. (AP)
• Boko Haram insurgency
  • Seven soldiers are killed and two others are missing after gunmen ambush them in Taraba State, Nigeria. (Reuters)
• Sinai insurgency
  • Five soldiers are killed and four others are injured during a shooting at a security post in North Sinai, Egypt. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• A small plane crashes in Cameroon with eleven people on board. It is unknown if any casualties occurred. (AP)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand
    • Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announces that New Zealand will fully reopen its borders on July 31, two months before the government lifts all remaining pandemic restrictions. (Al Jazeera)
  • European Union response to the COVID-19 pandemic
    • The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) announce in a joint statement that, starting next week, masks are no longer required for flights or in airports. However, the EASA asks passengers to "behave responsibly and respect the choices of others around them," while the ECDC recommends that passengers continue to practice social distancing if it can be done in a non-disruptive manner. (Euronews)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
    • COVID-19 passes a threshold of 1 million confirmed deaths in the United States, according to a Reuters tally. Some news outlets declared that the 1 million mark was reached a week earlier. (Reuters) (NBC)

International relations

• Finland–United Kingdom relations, Sweden–United Kingdom relations
  • British Prime Minister Boris Johnson signs security agreements with Finland and Sweden, pledging British military assistance to both Nordic countries should they come under attack. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• American Indian boarding schools
  • A report by the US Department of the Interior identifies 53 burial sites of Native American children near boarding schools, where children were forcibly sent to according to the 19th and 20th century federal government's policy of assimilation. Preliminary results suggest that more than 500 children were found to have died while in school custody. (Reuters)
• Surfside condominium collapse
  • A tentative settlement of $997 million is reached with the families of victims and survivors of the condo collapse in Surfside, Florida, United States. However, the settlement is still subject to final approval. (AP)
• LGBT rights in Greece
  • Greece bans the practice of conversion therapy for minors as well as all advertisements promoting it. (Reuters)
• Hong Kong's national security police arrest four people, including Cardinal Joseph Zen, Cantopop singer Denise Ho, and former legislative councilwoman Margaret Ng, in connection with a fund that provided aid to protesters. (The Guardian)
• The Iranian Ministry of Intelligence says that it has arrested two European nationals for allegedly attempting to destabilize the nation in connection with foreign intelligence services. (Al Arabiya)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Eastern Ukraine offensive
      • Ukrainian forces repel an attempted Russian military crossing of the Donets river, west of Sievierodonetsk, in Luhansk Oblast. At least one Russian battalion tactical group is reportedly destroyed, as well as the pontoon bridge deployed in the crossing. (Reuters)
    • The Russian Air Force launches around a dozen missiles at the city of Kremenchuk, including four at the Kremenchuk Oil Refinery, in Poltava Oblast. (Ukrinform)
• Kurdish–Turkish conflict
  • Turkey says that five people were injured by Kurdish nationalists launching a missile attack into the country from Syria. (Reuters)
• One person is killed and thirteen others injured by a roadside bombing targeting a van in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. (AP)

Business and economy

• The cryptocurrency market loses US$200 billion following stablecoin TerraUSD's collapse in value. Bitcoin and Ether fall to their lowest value in 16 and 11 months, respectively. (CNBC)

Disasters and accidents

• Tibet Airlines Flight 9833
  • An A319-100 aircraft operated by Tibet Airlines veers off the runway and catches fire at Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport in Yubei District, Chongqing, China, injuring forty people, with some being hospitalized. (Bangkok Post) (The Hindu)
• Five people are feared dead and twenty others are injured in a chemical plant explosion and fire in Kočevje, Slovenia. (AP)
• Eleven people die and thirty-one others are rescued after a boat capsizes off the coast of Puerto Rico near Desecheo Island. (AP)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in North Korea
    • North Korea announces its first COVID-19 outbreak. (AP)
    • Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un orders a national lockdown. (Financial Times)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Romania
    • Romania announces that starting on May 16, the fourth dose of Comirnaty – the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine – can be administered in vaccination centers and in family medicine offices for all adults. (Romania Insider)

International relations

• Enlargement of NATO
  • Finland–NATO relations
    • Finland's leaders declare that the country should apply for membership of NATO "without delay," with the Parliament set to vote next week on whether to apply. (CNBC) (President of the Republic of Finland)
  • Finland–Russia relations
    • The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs threatens to take retaliatory steps against Finland, including of a "military-technical" nature, if the country joins NATO. (BBC News)
• France–Iran relations
  • France summons the Iranian ambassador in response to the detainment of two French nationals. (Times of Israel)

Science and technology

• A team of scientists at the Event Horizon Telescope release the first ever image of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. (BBC News)
• Researchers from the University of Florida announce that plants have been grown on lunar soil, collected by Apollo missions, for the first time ever. (AP)

Sports

• Boycott of Russia and Belarus, 2022 French Open
  • Tennis players from Russia and Belarus will be allowed to compete at the upcoming French Open as neutral athletes. However, players who speak in support for Russian President Vladimir Putin will face sanctions. (Tennis Majors)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Syrian civil war
  • Israeli involvement in the Syrian Civil War
    • Syrian state media says that a missile attack from Israel hit Masyaf, Hama Governorate, killing five people and injuring seven others. (Reuters)
  • Ten Syrian Army soldiers are killed and nine others are injured by a rocket attack that hit a bus in Aleppo, Syria. (Reuters)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Israeli police commando Noam Raz is killed in a shootout with Palestinian Islamic Jihad gunmen in Jenin, West Bank. (Times of Israel)
  • Israeli riot police beat pallbearers and mourners at the funeral of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, which was attended by thousands of Palestinians in East Jerusalem. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki and the deputy speaker for UN Secretary-General António Guterres called the images of the attacks "deeply disturbing". (AP)
• Six people are injured in a mass stabbing on a train near Aachen, NRW, Germany. Police arrested an Iraqi man and are investigating whether it was a terrorist attack. (Deutsche Welle)

Business and economy

• Acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk
  • Elon Musk temporarily suspends his $44 billion takeover deal of Twitter as he seeks to confirm the company's calculations that spam bots and fake accounts constitute less than 5% of the user base. (Reuters)
• Enlargement of the eurozone
  • The Croatian Parliament votes 117–13 to officially replace the kuna with the euro on 1 January. (RTÉ)
• The Sky Bridge 721 opens in Dolni Morava, Czech Republic. Spanning 721 metres (2,365 ft), it is longest simple suspension bridge in the world. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2022 Delhi fire
  • At least 27 people are killed and more than 40 others are injured in a fire at a commercial building in Mundka, Delhi, India. (NDTV)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in North Korea
    • North Korea says that six people have died and 187,800 others have been quarantined due to the latest COVID-19 outbreak. (The New York Times)
• The total number of people who have received a dose of the Malaria vaccine surpasses 1 million. (NPR)

International relations

• Enlargement of NATO
  • Finland–Russia relations
    • RAO Nordic, a subsidiary of Russian energy company Inter RAO, announces it will suspend deliveries of electricity to Finland, saying it has not been paid for prior deliveries. The suspension comes as Russia threatens retaliation if Finland joins NATO. (BBC News)
  • Finland–Turkey relations, Sweden–Turkey relations
    • Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan says that Turkey will oppose Sweden and Finland's applications to join NATO, asserting that the countries are "guesthouses for terrorist organisations", without giving details. Turkey has repeatedly criticized Sweden and other Western European countries for its handling of organisations labeled terrorist by the Turkish government, including the Kurdish militant groups PKK and YPG, and the followers of U.S.-based Islamic cleric Fethullah Gülen. (Reuters)
• Government and intergovernmental reactions to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Russia–United States relations
    • U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin holds talks with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu in the first meeting between the two since the start of the invasion. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• War crimes during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Ukraine holds its first trial for war crimes committed during the Russian invasion, against a Russian soldier accused of shooting an unarmed civilian in March. (AP)
• Anti-government demonstrations occur in multiple cities in Iran that are experiencing Internet shutdowns. (Fox News)

Politics and elections

• President of the United Arab Emirates and ruler of Abu Dhabi Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan dies at the age of 73. (Gulf News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Insurgency in the Maghreb
  • Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso
    • Fifteen civilians and three VPD volunteers are killed during a shooting attack against their convoy in Kompienga. (France 24)
    • Twenty people, including eight VPD volunteers, are killed during an attack in the town of Guessel. (Africanews)
    • Six people are killed during an attack in Markoye. (Ouest France)
• 2022 Buffalo shooting
  • Ten people are killed and three others injured after a gunman opens fire in a Tops Friendly Markets supermarket in Buffalo, New York, United States. The shooter, a self-described white supremacist, is taken into custody. (AP)

Arts and culture

• Eurovision Song Contest 2022
  • Kalush Orchestra, representing Ukraine, wins the Grand Final with the song "Stefania". (Yahoo! News)

Business and economy

• Economy of Venezuela
  • Venezuela announces that it will sell 5–10% shares in state-owned companies to private investors in order to help fund state enterprises. (AP)
• 2022 heat wave in India and Pakistan
  • India bans wheat exports with immediate effect after the heat wave causes yields to be lower than expected. Exceptions will be made if wheat is requested by governments, or for food security needs. (Bloomberg)

International relations

• Georgia–Russia relations, Russia–South Ossetia relations
  • Proposed Russian annexation of South Ossetia
    • Outgoing South Ossetian President Anatoly Bibilov announces that a referendum on joining Russia will be held on July 17. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• The Federal Supreme Council of the United Arab Emirates appoints Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan as the country's new president, who also inherits the Emirate of Abu Dhabi after the death of his half-brother Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan. (AP)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Russia launches missile strikes from the Black Sea on "military infrastructure" in Yavoriv Raion, Lviv Oblast, located near Ukraine's western border with Poland. The target was "completely destroyed", according to the region's governor Maksym Kozytskyy. (Reuters)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • A suicide bomber kills three Pakistani soldiers and three children in North Waziristan, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera)
• Two Sikhs are shot dead by gunmen riding on motorcycles in Peshawar, Pakistan. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• Seven people are killed and nine injured after multi-vehicle accident in Karawang, West Java, Indonesia. (Detik)

International relations

• Enlargement of NATO
  • Finland–NATO relations
    • President Sauli Niinistö and Prime Minister Sanna Marin formally announce that Finland will apply for NATO membership. Niinistö says that "this is a historic day", and that Finland is "entering a new era". (Yle)
  • Sweden–NATO relations
    • Sweden's governing Social Democratic Party approves the country joining NATO. The official government decision is expected in the coming days. (Politico)

Law and crime

• 2022 Laguna Woods shooting
  • One person is killed and five others are injured during a mass shooting at a church in Laguna Woods, California, United States. (CBS News)

Politics and elections

• 2022 Somali presidential election
  • Former President of Somalia Hassan Sheikh Mohamud is re-elected to a non-consecutive term in the third voting round. (Reuters)
• 2022 Swiss referendums
  • Voters in Switzerland approve three measures in a referendum. These measures will require streaming services to invest 4% of their revenue in Switzerland into domestic filmmaking; allow the government to increase the Swiss contribution in Frontex, the EU border agency; and change the default system of organ donation from explicit to presumed consent. (Swissinfo)
• 2022 Lebanese general election
  • Lebanese voters head to the polls to elect a new session to Parliament. Preliminary counts show the Iran-backed Hezbollah and its allies, who won in the previous election, losing seats while the Saudi-backed Lebanese Forces made gains. (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Battle of Kharkiv
      • Ukraine says that its troops have pushed back Russian forces in a counter-offensive, reaching the border with Russia. Kharkiv governor Oleh Synyehubov confirms that Ukrainian forces have restored control of a border crossing with Russia in the region. (Reuters)
    • Siege of Mariupol
      • Five buses and an armored personnel carrier evacuate several hundred soldiers from the Azovstal steel works following negotiations with the Russian Armed Forces. The evacuated soldiers will be exchanged for Russian prisoners of war. (BBC News) (Reuters)
    • The Russian Defence Ministry says that its forces have shot down three Ukrainian Air Force warplanes, including a Su-25 over Mykolaiv and a Su-24 strike jet near Snake Island in the Black Sea. (Reuters)
• Somali Civil War
  • American military intervention in Somalia
    • U.S. President Joe Biden announces that American troops will be redeployed to Somalia, reversing a previous order under former President Donald Trump. (ABC News)

Business and economy

• Boycott of Russia and Belarus
  • McDonald's announces that it has begun the process of selling all of its restaurants in Russia citing the "humanitarian crisis caused by the war in Ukraine", as the reason for ending operations in the country after 32 years. It is later announced that these restaurants will reopen under a new brand in mid-June, and that their menus will be retained. (Reuters) (TASS)
• The Russian ruble approaches a 5-year high against the Euro to become "the world's best-performing currency so far this year" as foreign currency supply exceeds demand. (Reuters)
• Commercial flights from Sanaa International Airport in Sanaa, Yemen, resume after six years. The Yemenia flight carried 151 passengers to the Jordanian capital Amman. (France 24)

Disasters and accidents

• Wildfires in 2022
  • 2022 New Mexico wildfires
    • The Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak Fire in New Mexico, U.S, grows to 300,000 acres, becoming the largest wildfire in the state's history. (CNN)
• Fourteen people are killed and 19 others are injured after a tourist bus crashes into a billboard in Mojokerto, East Java, Indonesia. (AP)
• One person is killed and 85 others are injured after a cargo train collides with a passenger train in Catalonia, Spain. (AP)

Law and crime

• The Ghanaian Ministry of Defence warns that the possibility of a terrorist attack occurring in the country is "very real" and that the country's defence system has been placed on high alert. (Yen.com.gh) (GhanaWeb)

Politics and elections

• Enlargement of NATO
  • Sweden–NATO relations
    • Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson confirms the decision her party made on Sunday and formally announces Sweden's intent to join NATO. (The Guardian)
    • In response, Russian President Vladimir Putin warns that Russia will react to the "expansion of military infrastructure" by NATO in Sweden and Finland, saying that "problems are being created for no reason at all. We shall react accordingly". (Sky News)
• Borne government
  • French Minister of Labour Élisabeth Borne is appointed by President Emmanuel Macron as the new Prime Minister of France, succeeding Jean Castex. (Le Monde in English)

Sports

• Homosexuality in association football
  • Homosexuality in English football
    • Blackpool F.C. midfielder Jake Daniels becomes the first professional football player in the United Kingdom to come out as gay since 1990. (The Independent)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • A Russian airstrike kills eight people and injures twelve others in Desna, Chernihiv Oblast. (Reuters)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Two Tehrik-i-Taliban commanders are killed in a shootout with Pakistani security forces in North Waziristan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. (AP)
• 2022 Tripoli clashes
  • Heavy fighting breaks out in Tripoli, Libya, forcing Prime Minister Fathi Bashagha to flee the capital. (AP)

Business and economy

• Allianz's American asset management unit pleads guilty to criminal securities fraud and agrees to pay $5.8 billion to those who have been misled about the risk of investing in some hedge funds that collapsed with the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, in addition to more than $1 billion to the Securities and Exchange Commission. (Bloomberg) (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• Nine people are killed during an explosion caused by a gas leak at a primary school and a store in Kano, Nigeria. (BBC News)
• Eleven people are killed after heavy rain causes floods and landslides in India. (AP)

Health and environment

• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • Another four cases of monkeypox are confirmed by the UK Health Security Agency, bringing the total number recorded in the current outbreak to seven. Notably, these new cases appear to be the result of community transmission, with no known links to previous cases. (BBC News)

International relations

• United States–Venezuela relations, International sanctions during the Venezuelan crisis
  • The United States lifts some economic sanctions on Venezuela, including allowing the Chevron Corporation to negotiate its license with the Venezuelan PDVSA state-owned oil company and removing the names of some Venezuelan officials from a United States government list of sanctioned individuals. (AP)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Around 200 anti-government militants block a road in Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan, which links the country to China. Some of the militants, armed with firearms and petrol bombs, later ambush a security convoy on the same road. Eight militants and one officer are killed, while 13 officers are injured and more than 70 militants are arrested. The Tajik interior ministry later say the attack was an attempt to "destabilise the social and political situation" in the region. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• 2021–2022 global supply chain crisis
  • 2022 United States infant formula shortage
    • The U.S. House of Representatives votes to pass a series of legislation aimed at combating the baby formula shortage in the United States. The Access to Baby Formula Act passes with a 414–9 vote, and the Infant Formula Supplemental Appropriations Act passes with a 231–192. (NBC News) (Newsweek)
    • U.S. President Joe Biden invokes the Defense Production Act to solve the baby formula shortage in the U.S. (CNBC)
• Google's Russian subsidiary announces its intention to file for bankruptcy after Russian authorities seize the company's bank account. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• Twelve people are killed and another is injured after a wall of a salt factory collapses in Morbi, Gujarat, India. Several others are missing. (Reuters)
• One person is killed and several others are injured after a car drives into 14 cyclists in Przypki, Poland. (AP)

Health and environment

• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • Portugal confirms its first five cases of monkeypox. (AP)
  • Spain says that it is monitoring eight potential monkeypox cases. (CTV News)
  • The United States confirms its first case of monkeypox in 2022, in a man from Massachusetts who recently traveled to Canada. (ABC News)
• Mozambique confirms its first polio case in 30 years in the northwestern province of Tete. (Reuters)

International relations

• Government and intergovernmental reactions to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Ukraine–United States relations
    • The American embassy in Kyiv reopens for the first time since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine. (Reuters)
• France–Russia relations, Italy–Russia relations, Russia–Spain relations
  • The Russian Foreign Ministry expels 85 diplomats from France, Spain, and Italy in response to the expulsions of Russian diplomats from European Union nations. (Reuters)
• Enlargement of NATO
  • Finland and Sweden both formally apply to join NATO. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Three people are killed and five others injured after a man opens fire at his former workplace in Ilam province, Iran, before committing suicide. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 30th Alberta Legislature
  • Premier of Alberta Jason Kenney announces his intention to resign as leader of the United Conservative Party after a leadership review results in 51.4% approval of his leadership from party members. He will be replaced as leader and premier once a successor is named. (AP)

Sports

• 2021–22 UEFA Europa League
  • In association football, Eintracht Frankfurt defeat the Glasgow Rangers 5–4 on penalties to win the UEFA Europa League following a 1–1 draw after extra time in the final at the Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán Stadium in Seville, Spain. (CNN)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Insurgency in the Maghreb
  • Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso
    • Jihadist fighters raid a military base in Madjoari Department, Burkina Faso, killing eleven soldiers and wounding 24 more. (AP)
• The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations agency says that a foreign vessel has been attacked off the coast of Al Hudaydah, Yemen. (AP)

Business and economy

• Economic impact of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Foreign aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
    • The United States Senate votes 86–11 to pass a $40 billion package aimed at sending aid to Ukraine. The legislation will head to U.S. President Joe Biden for his signature. (Reuters)
• 2021–2022 global supply chain crisis
  • 2022 United States infant formula shortage
    • The U.S. Senate votes unanimously to pass the Access to Baby Formula Act, a bill that would provide access to baby formula in the United States. This comes a day after the U.S. House of Representatives passed the bill. The bill will head to President Biden for his signature. (PBS)
• 2019–present Sri Lankan economic crisis
  • Sri Lanka defaults on its debt for the first time in the country's history as it struggles with its worst financial crisis in more than 70 years. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• Fourteen people are killed and 20 others are injured after a bus's brakes malfunction, causing it to crash on a highway in Jalisco, Mexico. (Reuters)
• Eight people are injured in an explosion at an oil refinery in Ulsan, South Korea. (Reuters)
• Four people are killed and 10 are missing after a boat carrying migrants sinks off the coast of Sfax, Tunisia. (Reuters)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
    • COVID-19 vaccination in the United States
      • The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) votes to recommend a third dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5–11 years old. (CBS News)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in India
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Telangana
      • India reports their first case of the Omicron BA.4 variant in Hyderabad, Telangana. (Mint)
• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • Spain has confirmed the diagnoses of seven monkeypox cases, with many others still being tested, amid an unusual outbreak in Europe. (AP)
  • Bavarian Nordic announces that it will supply the Imvanex vaccine to Europe in response to the monkeypox outbreak. (GlobeNewswire)
• Polio eradication
  • A case of wild poliovirus is recorded in Mozambique for the first time since 1992. (AfricaNews)

International relations

• Enlargement of NATO, Finland–Turkey relations, Sweden–Turkey relations
  • President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan reiterates that he will vote against the admittance of Finland and Sweden into NATO, effectively preventing their accession. Erdoğan has accused the two countries of supporting the Kurdistan Workers Party and the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units, which Turkey considers to be terrorist organizations. (Yahoo! News)

Law and crime

• Two people are killed and seven wounded during a mass shooting near a McDonald's restaurant in Chicago, Illinois, United States. (AP)
• Four people (including the perpetrator) are killed in a murder–suicide in Harris County, Texas. (KTRK-TV) (The Houston Chronicle)

Science and technology

• An unusually cold spell of weather hits southern Brazil. A meteorological station in Gama noted the lowest temperature since the beginning of weather observations (1963) in the Federal District, which contains the capital, Brasília, at 1.4 °C (34.5 °F). Several locations in the area have also seen snowfall, which is very rare in the country. (France 24)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Siege of Mariupol
      • Ukraine's chief military command orders all remaining troops in the Azovstal steel plant to stop defending Mariupol. (AFP via Le Devoir) (Sky News)
      • Russia says that its forces have seized the Azovstal steel plant after the last remaining Ukrainian troops surrender. (BBC News)
    • Donbas offensive
      • Ukraine says that it has repelled a Russian advance on the cities of Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk in Luhansk Oblast. Authorities say that twelve people were killed in the offensive and that over 60 houses were destroyed. (AP)
• Arab–Israeli conflict, Syrian civil war
  • Israeli–Syrian ceasefire line incidents during the Syrian civil war
    • Syrian state media says that Israeli airstrikes have killed three soldiers close to Damascus. (Times of Israel)
• Tigray War
  • The Tigray People's Liberation Front announces it will release 4,028 Ethiopian prisoners of war as part of the Tigrayan peace process. (AP)

Arts and culture

• Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II
  • The Cabinet Office announces that eight British towns will become cities as part of Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee. The new cities are Milton Keynes, Colchester, and Doncaster in England, Dunfermline in Scotland, Wrexham in Wales, and Bangor in Northern Ireland, as well as Stanley, Falkland Islands, and Douglas, Isle of Man, which become the first towns in the British Overseas Territories and the Crown Dependencies, respectively, to receive city status. (BBC News)

Business and economy

• Transport for London announces their intention to consult on an expansion of the Ultra Low Emission Zone to cover almost all of Greater London beginning on 23 August 2023. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• Tornadoes of 2022
  • A tornado passes through the city of Paderborn in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, leaving a man dead and 43 injured and several buildings severely damaged. (Deutsche Welle)
  • Two people are killed and 43 injured after a rare tornado hits the city of Gaylord, Michigan, United States. (USA Today)
• Ten people are killed after a tunnel collapses in Ramban district, Jammu and Kashmir, India. (AP)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Scotland
      • Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tests positive for COVID-19. (BBC News)
• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • The World Health Organization holds an emergency meeting in response to the recent monkeypox outbreak. (The Washington Post) (The Globe and Mail)
  • Spain confirms 30 monkeypox cases, becoming the country with the most reported cases. (La Vanguardia)
  • Australia and Israel announce their first suspected cases of monkeypox, both in people who had recently travelled to Europe. (Reuters) (Times of Israel)
  • Germany, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands confirm their first cases of monkeypox. (Deutsche Welle) (Reuters)

International relations

• South China Sea dispute
  • The Philippines says that it has established coast guard outposts on three Filipino-controlled islands of the Spratlys in the South China Sea. (AP)
• 2022 Russia–European Union gas dispute, Finland–Russia relations
  • Russia announces that it will suspend its supply of natural gas to Finland beginning at 4:00 GMT tomorrow due to Finland's refusal to comply with Russia's demand that gas be paid for in rubles. (Reuters) (BBC News)

Law and crime

• Three people are wounded, one critically, in a stabbing attack in Uvdal and Nore, Norway. Police say that the attack was due to a domestic dispute between the perpetrator and his wife. (Reuters)
• An Argentinian court finds the Republic of Argentina guilty for the 1924 Napalpí massacre. (BBC News)
• One person is killed and eight others wounded after a mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, United States. (AP)

Science and technology

• An unusually strong and early heat wave increases temperatures above 40 °C (104 °F) in Spain. Seville records a temperature of 41.0 °C (105.8 °F), beating its all-time high for May, while the hottest settlement, Andújar, ties the record with 42.3 °C (108.1 °F). Several settlements in France, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and western Austria beat all-time high records for the month. (La Vanguardia) (El País) (AEMET) (The Guardian) (SRF) (RTS) (ORF)
• Morocco records its highest May temperature ever in Sidi Slimane, at 45.7 °C (114.3 °F). (The Washington Post)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Siege of Mariupol
      • Russia declares victory in capturing the city of Mariupol. (The Guardian)
  • United States President Joe Biden signs into law a bill that would provide $40 billion in military and economic aid for Ukraine, replenish stocks of U.S. equipment sent to Ukraine, fund European Command operations, and address the global food crisis. (CNN) (Reuters)
• Maghreb insurgency
  • Mali War
    • An elderly Italian couple and their son are kidnapped by jihadists in Southern Mali. A Togolese citizen is also reported to have been kidnapped along with the Italians, but authorities say that they are unable to confirm if this is true. (Reuters)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • A 17-year-old member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad is killed and another is injured during clashes with Israeli soldiers in Kafr Dan, Jenin Governorate. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• 2021–2022 global supply chain crisis
  • 2022 United States infant formula shortage
    • U.S. President Joe Biden signs the Access to Baby Formula Act, a bill aimed at expanding access to baby formula in the United States. (The Hill)
• 2022 Russia–European Union gas dispute, Finland–Russia relations
  • Russia's Gazprom suspends natural gas exports to Finland over Finland's refusal to comply with Russia's demand that gas be paid for in rubles. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• Weather of 2022
  • May 2022 Canadian derecho
    • At least nine people are dead after a derecho moves across portions of Central Canada. (CP24) (CTV News)
  • At least 57 people are dead after severe flooding in eastern India and Bangladesh. (BBC News)
• Two workers are killed in an accident at the Khoemacau copper mine in Botswana. Authorities temporarily shut down the mine. (Reuters)
• Four people are killed after a building collapse in Lagos, Nigeria. (BBC News)
• Three people are killed and more than 30 are injured in a bus crash on the motorway near Mealhada, Portugal. (Today 90)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
    • COVID-19 pandemic in India
      • COVID-19 pandemic in Tamil Nadu
        • Tamil Nadu reports its first case of the Omicron BA.4 variant in a 19-year-old woman. (The Hindu)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines
      • The Philippines reports its first case of the Omicron BA.4 variant in a person who recently travelled to the Middle East. (The Philippine Star)
• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • Switzerland and Israel confirm their first cases of monkeypox. (Al Jazeera)
  • Greece and Norway report their first suspected cases of monkeypox. (Reuters) (Keep Talking Greece)

Politics and elections

• 2022 Australian federal election
  • ABC News Australia declares that Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and the current government have been defeated by Anthony Albanese and the Australian Labor Party. However, the number of seats to declare a majority or minority government is uncertain. (ABC News Australia)

Science and technology

• An unusually early heat wave in Southern France continues to set all-time high records for May, with some communities reporting temperatures as high as 36.7 °C (98.1 °F). (La Dépêche du Midi) (Le Parisien)
• An early heat wave in the United States sets all-time high records for May 21 in several cities in Texas, Mississippi, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, and ties them for some other areas, particularly in the Northeast. (The New York Times)

Sports

• 2021–22 UEFA Women's Champions League
  • In association football, Olympique Lyonnais defeat Barcelona 3–1 in the final at Juventus Stadium in Turin, Italy, to win their eighth UEFA Women's Champions League title. (CNN)
• 2021–22 EuroLeague
  • In basketball, Anadolu Efes defeat Real Madrid 58–57 in the championship game at Štark Arena in Belgrade, Serbia, to win their second EuroLeague title. (Daily Sabah)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–present)
  • Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso
    • Eleven civilians are killed in an attack by insurgents in Séno Province, Burkina Faso. (Reuters)
• Boko Haram insurgency
  • Over 50 people are massacred by suspected Boko Haram fighters in Rann, Nigeria. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• 2022 United States infant formula shortage
  • A military operation begins to deliver formula from Europe to the US. (CBS News)

Disasters and accidents

• Twenty-seven people are injured after a bus rolls over near Kingsville, Maryland, United States. (AP)
• Four people are killed and 16 others are injured in a traffic collision in San Juan Chamula, Chiapas, Mexico. (AP)
• The Russian-appointed mayor of Enerhodar, in Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Oblast, is severely injured in an explosion. The cause of the blast is unclear. (Reuters)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Oman
    • Oman announces that it will repeal all COVID-19 restrictions, including its mask mandate. (AP)
• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • Austria confirms its first case of monkeypox. (Reuters)
  • Poland reports its first case of monkeypox. (Hindustan Times)
  • Argentina reports its first suspected case of monkeypox. (Reuters)
  • Belgium becomes the first country to introduce a monkeypox quarantine. (Politico EU)

Law and crime

• An Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps colonel is assassinated in Tehran, Iran, by unknown gunmen riding on motorcycles. (AP)
• Four people are killed after a failed attempt to smuggle drugs from Syria to Jordan. (Reuters)
• Five people are shot dead at a public housing complex in Caimito, San Juan, Puerto Rico. (AP)

Sports

• 2021–22 Serie A
  • A.C. Milan win the scudetto of the Serie A, the highest level of Italian league football, after finishing the season with 86 points, two points more than runners-up and their intercity rivals, Inter Milan. Milan win their 19th Serie A title overall and their first since the 2010–11 season. (CNA)
• 2021–22 Premier League
  • Manchester City win their second consecutive Premier League title, their fourth in 5 years, and their sixth overall on the final day of the season following a 3–2 comeback against Aston Villa. Manchester City win the league with 93 points, one point more than Liverpool. This is the first time since 2019 that the title has been decided on the final day of the season. (The New York Times)
• 2022 PGA Championship
  • American professional golfer Justin Thomas wins the PGA Championship, making it his second since 2017. (ESPN)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Government and intergovernmental reactions to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
      • Russian diplomat Boris Bondarev says that he has resigned to protest the invasion of Ukraine. (Reuters)
• ISIL insurgency in Iraq
  • Islamic State carries out a pair of attacks in the Iraqi Diyala and Kirkuk Governorates, killing twelve civilians and injuring another six. (AP)
• Rwandan authorities accuse the Democratic Republic of the Congo of shelling areas in Musanze District. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• 2022 KwaZulu-Natal floods
  • 300 people are displaced by new flooding in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. (AP)
• Seven people are killed and 23 others are injured when a high-speed craft carrying 134 people catches fire off the coast of Real, Quezon, Philippines. (Sky News)
• Fourteen people are killed and dozens are injured when a building collapses in Abadan, Iran. (BBC News)
• Two people are killed and 120 others are injured when a gas cylinder catches fire and explodes at a restaurant in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. (Reuters)
• A mudflow hits the village of Ak-Suu, Aksy District, Kyrgyzstan, cutting off access to the village and trapping three cars. (AKIPress)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
    • COVID-19 pandemic in India
      • COVID-19 pandemic in Telangana
        • Telangana reports its first case of the Omicron BA.5 variant in an 80-year old person with no history of travel. (The Indian Express)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China
      • COVID-19 pandemic in Beijing
        • Beijing extends its stay-at-home order for workers and students, and orders mass COVID-19 testing amid an increase in the number of COVID-19 cases in the city. (ABC News)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Spain
    • Emeritus Queen consort Sofía of Spain tests positive for COVID-19 after travelling to Miami, Florida, United States. (Diez Minutos)
  • COVID-19 vaccine
    • Pfizer and BioNTech say that their COVID-19 vaccine is 80% effective in young children. (The Washington Post)
• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • Scotland confirms its first case of monkeypox. The patient has been hospitalized. In response, smallpox vaccines are being stockpiled in the country. (Reuters) (BBC News) (Glasgow Times)
  • Denmark confirms its first case of monkeypox. (Reuters)
  • England reports 36 more monkeypox cases, thereby bringing the total number of cases in the country to 56. (Reuters)
  • The U.S. CDC says that American health officials are releasing Jynneos vaccines to combat monkeypox. (Axios)
  • Morocco reports three new suspected cases of monkeypox. (Xinhua News Agency)
• Polio eradication, Polio in Pakistan
  • Pakistan launches a new anti-polio drive after a third case of the disease is reported in the country. (The Register Citizen)
• In Australia, Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announces that Queensland residents will have access to influenza vaccines across the state amid an increase in the number of influenza A cases after two years of low case numbers due to COVID-19. (Seven News)

International relations

• Cross-Strait relations, China–United States relations
  • U.S. President Joe Biden states that American troops would defend Taiwan militarily in the event of a Chinese invasion, a departure from a traditional policy of strategic ambiguity. (The New York Times)
• Turkish involvement in the Syrian Civil War, Turkish occupation of northern Syria
  • Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan threatens to launch a new military incursion into northern Syria, targeting US-backed Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces and expanding its occupation zone along Syria's northern border with Turkey. (Al-Monitor)

Law and crime

• War crimes in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • In the first trial for war crimes during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, 21-year-old Vadim Shishimarin, a Russian soldier, is sentenced to life in prison for fatally shooting a 62-year-old civilian. (CNN)
• A security guard is killed at the Qatari embassy in Paris, France. (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Siege of Mariupol
    • Ukrainian authorities say that about 200 dead people are found in the rubble of an apartment building in Mariupol, Donetsk Oblast. (AP)
  • Battle of Donbas
    • Russian Ground Forces seize control of Svitlodarsk in Donetsk Oblast, according to regional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko. (Reuters)
  • Hungary declares a state of emergency over the war in Ukraine and problems in the Hungarian economy caused in part by the conflict. (Reuters)
• War on drugs
  • Mexican drug war
    • Celaya massacre
      • Eleven people are killed during a mass shooting at a hotel in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico. (Reuters)
  • Vila Cruzeiro shootout
    • Twenty-one people are killed in a shootout between Brazilian police and the Comando Vermelho gang in a favela in Rio de Janeiro. (Reuters)
• Kashmir conflict
  • Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
    • An Indian policeman is killed and his seven-year-old daughter injured in an attack in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir. (The Hindu)
• Kurdish–Turkish conflict
  • Operation Claw-Lock
    • Five Turkish soldiers are killed by Kurdish fighters in Iraq. (The New Arab)
• Yemeni Civil War
  • Three people are killed when a drone is shot down and crashes in Sanaa, Yemen. (AP)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • An independent investigation by CNN, aided by a newly released video by fellow Al Jazeera correspondent, points to late journalist Shireen Abu Akleh having been deliberately targeted by IDF soldiers. (CNN)

Business and economy

• 2019–present Sri Lankan economic crisis, Economy of Sri Lanka
  • Sri Lanka increases fuel prices in order to help public finances and combat a debilitating economic crisis. Acting Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe warns that "there is a possibility that inflation will increase further". (CNA)
• Economic impact of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, International sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian War
  • The United States Department of Treasury announces that it will not renew the sanctions exemption which permits Russia to service its sovereign debt to American investors. Allowing the exemption to expire increases the likelihood that Russia will default on that debt this summer. (The Wall Street Journal)
• Collective action in the United Kingdom
  • The National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers votes to go on a national strike in the United Kingdom for the first time since 1994 after demanding a "decent pay rise, job security and no compulsory redundancies". (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• Several people are injured when a train collides with a bus in Blaustein, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. (AP)
• Two pilots are killed in Isfahan, Iran, when their fighter jet crashes. (Reuters)
• Sixteen people are killed when a boat sinks off the coast of Myanmar. (AP)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
    • COVID-19 pandemic in India
      • COVID-19 pandemic in Gujarat
        • Gujarat reports its first case of the Omicron BA.5 variant in a person who traveled to South Africa. (The Quint)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in North Korea
    • The Korean Central News Agency reports that North Korea has a total of 3 million suspected cases of COVID-19. (Korea Herald)
• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • The Czech Republic, Slovenia, and the United Arab Emirates confirm their first cases of monkeypox. (Reuters) (Reuters 2) (Reuters 3)
  • England reports 14 new cases of monkeypox, thereby bringing the total number of cases in the country to 70. (Reuters)
  • German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach announces that Germany has ordered 40,000 doses of the smallpox vaccine as a precaution, after the country reported its first case of monkeypox. (Axios)
  • Denmark announces that it will provide vaccines produced by Bavarian Nordic to persons who have been in close contact with monkeypox cases. (Reuters)
  • Lebanon reports its second suspected case of monkeypox. (Beirut)

Law and crime

• Robb Elementary School shooting
  • Nineteen children and two teachers are killed in a mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, United States. The gunman, a local 18-year-old high school student, is subsequently killed by police. The gunman had also shot and critically wounded his grandmother earlier in the day. (ABC News)
• Media freedom in Russia
  • The Russian State Duma passes a bill that will allow state prosecutors to close Russian bureaus of media outlets from countries that Russia deems "unfriendly". The bill will now need to be passed by the upper house and receive President Putin's signature. (Reuters)
• 2022 Pakistani protests
  • A policeman is shot dead by a Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf official, leading to a police crackdown on pro-Imran Khan demonstrators. (Reuters)
• Ugandan police arrest veteran opposition politician Kizza Besigye for "inciting violence" and also disperse a crowd protesting against the government. (Reuters)
• Anglo-Swiss commodity trading company Glencore pleads guilty to fraud charges related to bribery and price manipulation when pursuing preferential access to oil contracts. The company expects to pay total fines of $1.5 billion. (Swissinfo)
• Former President of Moldova Igor Dodon is arrested on charges including corruption and treason. (Euronews)

Sports

• The Premier League approves the sale of Chelsea F.C. to a U.S. consortium led by Los Angeles Dodgers co-owner Todd Boehly. Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich decided to sell the club after he was sanctioned over his connections to the Russian government. (BBC Sport)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Eastern Ukraine offensive
      • Donbas offensive
        • The Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk, Donetsk Oblast, is hit by Russian missiles, injuring several people. (AP)
    • Southern Ukraine offensive
      • A Russian cruise missile strike destroys a shopping centre and several homes in the city of Zaporizhzhia, killing one person and injuring three others. At least 62 homes were damaged, according to local officials. (Ukrinform)
• Afghanistan conflict
  • May 2022 Kabul mosque bombing
    • At least five people are killed when a bomb explodes at a Shia mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Reuters)
  • 2022 Mazar-i-Sharif minivan bombings
    • Nine passengers are killed when improvised explosive devices hidden inside a group of minivans detonate in Mazar-i-Sharif, Balkh Province. (AP)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Clashes break out with the IDF after Palestinian rioters attack Joseph's Tomb in Nablus, West Bank. Fifteen Palestinians are injured and one teenager is killed. (Times of Israel)
  • Three Israelis are injured in a Palestinian stone-throwing attack in Huwara, West Bank. (Times of Israel)
• Colombian conflict
  • Colombian and Venezuelan intelligence officials confirm the death of Miguel Botache Santillana, alias Gentil Duarte, the top leader of the FARC dissidents. (Caracol Radio)
• Kivu conflict
  • M23 fighters besiege a military base in Rumangabo, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Reuters)
• Insurgency in Northern Chad
  • Fighting breaks out between Arab and Tama gold miners in the Kouri Bougoudi district of Northern Chad. The rebel Front for Change and Concord in Chad group says that over 200 people have been killed. (Reuters)
• Insurgency in the Maghreb
  • Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso
    • May 2022 Madjoari massacre
      • At least 50 people are killed during an attack in Madjoari Department, Burkina Faso. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• Boycott of Russia and Belarus
  • Marks & Spencer, a British retail chain, announces that it is permanently closing all of its 48 stores in Russia, which employ 1,200 people, saying that it is a "values-led business". (Sky News)

Disasters and accidents

• European migrant crisis
  • One person is killed and 75 others remain missing after a boat carrying migrants sinks off the coast of Tunisia. (Reuters)
• A bus carrying Central American and Cuban migrants crashes off a highway in San Luis Potosí, Mexico. Seven migrants die and 25 are injured. (AP) (Excélsior)

Health and environment

• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • Finland reports its first suspected case of monkeypox. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Abortion in Oklahoma
  • Governor of Oklahoma Kevin Stitt signs HB 4327 into law, making Oklahoma the first state in the United States to completely ban abortion. (ABC News)
• Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik is sentenced to life in prison by Patiala House court of India. (Reuters)
• Russia's State Duma approves a bill removing the upper age limit for contractual service in the Russian Armed Forces. The bill will now head to President Vladimir Putin to be signed into law. (Reuters)
• Several bomb threats are made via email to schools and government institutions in Sarajevo Canton, Bosnia and Herzegovina, prompting evacuations. No bombs have been found. (N1)

Politics and elections

• 2022 Philippine presidential election
  • Congress officially proclaims former Senator Bongbong Marcos and his running mate, Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte, as president-elect and vice president-elect, respectively. (CNN)

Sports

• 2021–22 UEFA Europa Conference League
  • In association football, Roma defeats Feyenoord 1–0 in the final at the Arena Kombëtare in Tirana, Albania, to win the inaugural edition of the UEFA Europa Conference League, the third tier of active European club football competitions. (The Guardian)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Eastern Ukraine offensive
      • Battle of Kharkiv
        • Seven people are killed by Russian shelling in downtown Kharkiv, according to local authorities. (Ukrinform)
      • The Russian defense ministry says that civil vessels are allowed to use a maritime humanitarian corridor to access the port of Mariupol, which Russia captured last week. (Reuters)
• Kivu conflict
  • Heavy fighting between DRC forces and the M23 movement continues in North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Reuters)
• Yemeni Civil War
  • Five people are killed and more than 50 others are injured after an explosive device detonates at a fish market in Aden, Yemen. (Reuters)
• The caliph of the Islamic State Abu al-Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi is arrested in Istanbul, Turkey. (Bloomberg)

Arts and culture

• Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree wins the 2022 International Booker Prize. (BBC News)

Business and economy

• Lebanese liquidity crisis
  • The value of the Lebanese pound falls to 35,600 pounds against the U.S. dollar, its lowest value ever. (Al Jazeera)
• The US seizes a Russian owned oil tanker carrying Iranian crude oil in Greece and has transferred the cargo to another ship destined for the US. It is unclear if the seizure was due to US sanctions against Iran or US sanctions on Russia. (Reuters)
• Italian fossil fuel company Eni signs an agreement with Algerian state-owned company Sonatrach to both explore up to 3 billion cubic meters of gas and launch a pilot green hydrogen project in the Algerian desert. The agreement comes as Italy looks to decrease its dependence on Russian gas in light of the conflict in Ukraine. (Al Jazeera)
• British Chancellor Rishi Sunak announces a 25% levy, a so-called windfall tax, on the profits of energy companies in order to help fund emergency economic support amid a cost of living crisis in the UK. The extra support includes increased welfare payments for low-income households, disabled people and pensioners, as well as a universal grant of £400 towards energy bills. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• Eleven babies are killed in a hospital fire in Tivaouane, Senegal. (Reuters)
• A cargo ship travelling on its way to Pangkajene and Islands Regency from Makassar sinks off the Makassar Strait in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. 25 people are missing. (AP)
• Two people are killed in an explosion at a biodiesel plant in La Rioja, Spain. (Reuters)
• Five people, including four children, are killed and two more are injured in an explosion at a house in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, United States. (The Washington Post) (CBS News)

Health and environment

• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • Quebec will begin offering the Imvamune vaccine after 25 cases of monkeypox were confirmed in the province. (Montreal Gazette)
  • The UK Health Security Agency says that it has procured 20,000 doses of a smallpox vaccine produced by Bavarian Nordic as part of an effort to combat the increase in monkeypox cases. (Reuters)

International relations

• Iraq–Israel relations
  • The Iraqi parliament prohibits all attempts at normalizing relations with Israel with the punishment of life imprisonment or capital punishment. The law was introduced by Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, whose party won the most seats in the last election. (Reuters) (CTV News)
• Australia–United States relations
  • The United States Department of State approves the sale of the M142 HIMARS multiple rocket launcher system to Australia. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Polish constitutional crisis
  • The Polish Parliament passes a law replacing the Disciplinary Chamber of the Supreme Court, established by a controversial judicial reform bill, with a new body, in order to allow the European Union to unfreeze €35 billion in COVID-19 recovery funds earmarked to the country. (Reuters)
• Zimbabwean courts rule that the age of consent in Zimbabwe must be raised to 18. (AP)

Sports

• Canada–Iran relations
  • Canada Soccer cancels a match between the Canadian and Iranian teams due to the latter's connection with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which shot down Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 in 2020. (Sportsnet)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Donbas offensive, Eastern Ukraine offensive
      • Battle of Lyman
        • Russian forces announce they have captured the city of Lyman. (AP)

Business and economy

• Enlargement of the eurozone
  • Bulgaria and the euro
    • The Bulgarian government approves adopting the euro as the country's currency on January 1, 2024, replacing the lev. (Reuters)
• The Iranian IRGC Navy boards and seizes two Greek ships after the Supreme National Security Council condemned the US seizure of a Russo-Iranian ship. (VOA) (AP)
• The Mexican energy regulatory commission fines Spanish electric utility Iberdrola for US$467 million for violating local regulations that prohibit selling electricity to third parties. (Al Mayadeen)

Disasters and accidents

• A vehicle carrying 26 soldiers crashes in the Shyok River in Ladakh, India, killing seven soldiers. (The Hindu)
• An icefall kills two mountain climbers and injures nine others in the Alps of Valais, Switzerland. (AP)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
    • COVID-19 pandemic in North Dakota
      • North Dakota reports 960 cases of COVID-19 and confirms their first case of the Omicron BA.4 variant. (Bismarck Tribune)
• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • Canada reports 10 new cases of monkeypox, thereby bringing the total number of cases in the country to 26. (Reuters)
  • Finland and Argentina confirm their first cases of monkeypox. (Reuters) (AP)
  • Bolivia and Ecuador report suspected cases of monkeypox. (247 News Agency) (Big News Network)

International relations

• Croatia–Russia relations
  • Russia expels five Croatian diplomats. (Reuters)
• Foreign relations of Fiji
  • Fiji announces that it will become the 14th member of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity in order to counter Chinese influence in the Pacific. This comes amid a visit by Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi to Kiribati. (Al Jazeera)

Politics and elections

• Following the resignation of the Prime Minister of Transnistria Aleksandr Martynov, Deputy Prime Minister Stanislav Kasap becomes acting head of government. (rulers.org) (Interfax)
• 2023 Nigerian presidential election
  • The Federal High Court in Yenagoa rules that former President Goodluck Jonathan is allowed to run in the next presidential election, stating that a 2018 amendment prohibiting vice presidents from serving more than one full-term upon succession did not apply to Jonathan. (Reuters) (BBC News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Donbas offensive, Eastern Ukraine offensive
      • Battle of Sievierodonetsk
        • Russian troops enter the strategic city of Sievierodonetsk in Luhansk Oblast with heavy street-to-street fighting underway. Luhansk governor Serhiy Haidai says that Ukrainian forces may have to retreat from the city in order to avoid capture. (Reuters)
    • Foreign aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
      • Ukraine confirms that it has received shipments of Harpoon anti-ship missiles from Denmark, and self-propelled howitzers from the United States in order to counter the Russian invasion. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2022 Port Harcourt stampede
  • Thirty-one people are killed and seven others are injured in a stampede at a church charity event in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria. (Al Jazeera)
• 2022 Brazil floods and landslides
  • At least 106 people are killed by mudslides and flooding in the Recife metropolitan area, Pernambuco, Brazil. (AP)
• Indonesian rescuers search for 26 people who went missing after a boat capsized last Thursday in the Makassar Strait with 43 people on board. News of the sinking reached authorities today. (Dawn)
• Fifteen people are killed and three others are missing after heavy rain causes flooding in southern China. (AP)

Health and environment

• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • The Republic of Ireland, Malta, and Mexico confirm their first cases of monkeypox. (The Guardian) (Xinhua News Agency) (El Universal in Spanish)
  • Iran reports its first suspected case of monkeypox. (IFP News)

Politics and elections

• 2023 Nigerian presidential election
  • Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar wins the presidential primary of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party and officially becomes the party's nominee for the February 2023 general election. Abubakar, who served as Vice President from 1999 to 2007 and was the PDP's 2019 presidential nominee, defeated Nyesom Wike, Bukola Saraki, and nine other candidates to win the primary. (Premium Times)
• 2019–2022 Sudanese protests
  • Two protesters are killed by Sudanese security forces in Khartoum. (AP)
• International sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian War
  • China denies airspace to Boeing and Airbus aircraft that have been reregistered in Russia as a result of sanctions triggered by its invasion. The reregistration is in violation of international law. (Airways Magazine)

Sports

• 2021–22 UEFA Champions League
  • In association football, Real Madrid win a record 14th UEFA Champions League title after defeating Liverpool 1–0 in the 2022 UEFA Champions League Final at the Stade de France near Paris, with Vinícius Júnior scoring the winning goal. Kick-off was delayed by 36 minutes due to ticketed fans being prevented from entering the stadium. French police fire tear gas at Liverpool supporters. UEFA blamed the delay on Liverpool fans trying to enter the stadium with fake tickets and blocking the turnstiles. (The Guardian) (The Telegraph) (AP)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Anglophone Crisis
  • Twenty-four people are killed and more than 60 injured in an attack by Anglophone rebels in Cameroon. (Barron's)

Disasters and accidents

• Tara Air Flight 197
  • A Yeti Airlines Twin Otter airplane goes missing with 22 people on board after going over high mountains in Nepal. (AP)
• A Cessna 182 takes off from Split, Croatia, and heads to Germany before disappearing from radar north from Rakovica. (The Washington Post) (The Dubrovnik Times)
• One person is killed and eleven others injured after a boat capsizes in Lake Pueblo State Park, Colorado, United States; another is reported missing. (AP)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
    • COVID-19 pandemic in California
      • California Governor Gavin Newsom tests positive for COVID-19. (CNN)
• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • Pakistan and Afghanistan report their first suspected cases of monkeypox. (24 News HD) (See News)

International relations

• Chairperson of the African Union Macky Sall calls for dialogue between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda amid rising tensions between the two countries over the resurgence of the M23 rebels. Rwanda calls it an "internal DR Congo conflict" and also calls for the release of two "kidnapped" Rwandan soldiers along its border with DR Congo. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Indian musician Sidhu Moose Wala is shot dead by unidentified assailants in Jawaharke village of Mansa. (The Indian Express)

Politics and elections

• 2022 Colombian presidential election
  • Colombians go to the polls to vote in the presidential election. (NPR)
  • Left-wing candidate, former 19th of April Movement guerrilla and former Bogotá mayor Gustavo Petro, and populist former Bucaramanga mayor Rodolfo Hernández Suárez, win 40% and 28% of the vote respectively. They will face off in the second round in June. (CNN)
• Pope Francis appoints twenty-one new cardinals. Most of the cardinals are from outside Europe. (AP)

Sports

• 2022 in association football
  • 2021–22 Liga I, Football in Romania
    • FC Dinamo București will be relegated to the second division for the first time in the 74-year history of the club. (DigiSport)
  • 2021–22 in French football, Football in France
    • AS Saint-Étienne is relegated to the second division following a loss to AJ Auxerre. Saint-Étienne fans storm the pitch, throw flares at players, and clash with riot police officers. (France 24) (The Washington Post)
• 2022 IndyCar Series, 2022 Indianapolis 500
  • Marcus Ericsson wins the 106th running of the Indianapolis 500. Ericsson is the first Swedish driver to win the event since 1999. (Yahoo!)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Battle of Donbas
      • Battle of Sievierodonetsk
        • Ukrainian authorities say that Russian forces have entered Sieverodonetsk, Luhansk Oblast, leaving the city without water. (Al Jazeera)
      • Rebel forces say a Ukrainian shelling attack in Donetsk has killed five civilians (including a teenager) and left 13 injured. (AP) (Le Monde)
      • A French journalist is killed by Russian shelling in Luhansk Oblast, according to the region's governor Serhiy Haidai. (Reuters)
    • A car bomb is detonated in Russian-occupied Melitopol, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, injuring at least three people. Russian authorities blame pro-Ukrainian residents for the incident. (Reuters)
• Allied Democratic Forces insurgency; 2021–2022 Democratic Republic of the Congo attacks
  • Fifteen people are killed in a suspected Islamist attack by the Allied Democratic Forces in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Reuters)
• Insurgency in Southeastern Nigeria
  • Nigerian police say that unknown militants have kidnapped a prelate in Abia State. (AP)
• Nigerian bandit conflict
  • Bandits kill up to 30 vigilantes in Zamfara State, Nigeria. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• Russian occupation of Kherson, 2022 food crises
  • Russia begins exporting grain from the occupied Kherson Oblast in Southern Ukraine to Russia. Russian-occupying administration official Kirill Stremousov says that the administration was also "working on the supplies of sunflower seeds to local and Russian processing plants". Ukraine accuses Russia of stealing its grain. (Reuters)
• International sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian War
  • After weeks of deliberations, all of the European Union member states agree to impose an oil embargo on most oil imports from Russia (with the exception of that brought by pipelines), to be fully implemented by the end of the year, and cut off Sberbank from SWIFT. (NPR)
• A report by the Blue Marine Foundation found that fishing vessels from the European Union were illegally harvesting fish in the exclusive economic zones off the coasts of India, Somalia and Mozambique even as the stocks of yellowfin tuna were on the verge of collapse. (OCCRP)

Disasters and accidents

• Hurricane Agatha
  • One person is killed in Tapachula, Chiapas, as Hurricane Agatha approaches Mexico. (Diario Presente)
• Five people are injured after a school bus crashes into a ditch and rolls over in Roztoka, Tarnów County, Poland. (AP)
• The wreckage of the Cessna 182 that disappeared from radar the previous day is found near Broćanac, Croatia. All four people on board were killed. (The Washington Post)
• Two people are killed and 20 others are injured after a car crashes into a crowd in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States. (AP)

Health and environment

• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • Thailand reports its first case of monkeypox. (ThaiPBS)

International relations

• Status of Jerusalem, Foreign relations of Israel, Foreign relations of Suriname
  • Surinamese Foreign Minister Albert Ramdin says that Suriname will open an embassy in Jerusalem. (Times of Israel)

Politics and elections

• Politics of Transnistria
  • Aleksandr Rozenberg is sworn as new Prime Minister of Transnistria. (novostipmr.com)
• 2022 Australian federal election
  • 2022 Liberal Party of Australia leadership election
    • Former Minister for Defence Peter Dutton is elected unopposed as Leader of the Liberal Party of Australia and, by extension, Leader of the Opposition following former Prime Minister Scott Morrison's resignation. (The Guardian)
  • 2022 National Party of Australia leadership spill
    • Former Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce is removed as Leader of the National Party of Australia in a leadership spill and replaced by his former Deputy and former Minister for Agriculture and Northern Australia David Littleproud. (The Guardian)
  • As vote counting continues, the Australian Labor Party achieves a majority in the House of Representatives. (The Guardian)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Eastern Ukraine offensive
      • Battle of Sievierodonetsk
        • An airstrike hits a tank filled with nitric acid in Sievierodonetsk, Luhansk Oblast, prompting the region's governor to ask residents to remain inside bomb shelters due to the risk of exposure to toxic fumes. (Reuters)
        • Ukraine says that Russian forces have taken control of most of Sievierodonetsk after launching a full-scale assault on the city. Luhansk governor Serhiy Haidai says that 60% of structures in the city have been destroyed in the fighting. (Reuters)
      • A Russian missile hits an apartment in Sloviansk, Donetsk Oblast, killing three people and injuring six others. (AP)
• Internal conflict in Myanmar
  • A bombing kills one person and injures nine others near the Sule Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar. State media accuses the People's Defence Force of responsibility, which the PDF denies. (AP)
  • Seven people are injured after military forces shell a monastery in Natmyaung, Sagaing Region. (Radio Free Asia)
• Tigray War
  • The United Nations says that the Eritrean Defence Forces shelled the Ethiopian border town of Sheraro over the weekend, killing a 14-year-old girl and injuring 18 others. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• International sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian War
  • The United Kingdom and the European Union agree to implement a ban on insuring Russian oil tankers, which will be phased in beginning in 6 months. This will effectively render the vast majority of oil tankers uninsurable as most institutions conducting insurance are located in Western Europe. (Financial Times)
• Six African countries, on Zimbabwe's initiative, agree to restart trade in ivory as the population of elephants soars beyond sustainable levels. (OCCRP)

Disasters and accidents

• An AIDC AT-3 crashes in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, killing the pilot. In response, the Taiwanese Air Force suspends training operations. (Reuters)

Health and environment

• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • Hungary and Norway report their first cases of monkeypox. (Reuters) (Reuters 2)
• Regulation of electronic cigarettes
  • Mexico bans the sale of electronic cigarettes. (The Washington Post)
• A major cyberattack hits the Costa Rican Social Security Fund, forcing the ministry to shut down its digital database and endangering the country's healthcare system. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Workers of the Polish Social Insurance Institution (ZUS) announce that they will go on a general strike beginning on June 27 amid disciplinary dismissal of the leader of the trade union representing ZUS and general poor conditions of employment. (Rzeczpospolita)

Science and technology

• The Tau Herculids meteor shower, caused by debris from the 1995 breakup of comet 73P/Schwassmann–Wachmann, peaks. (Space)