Portal:Current events

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel-Palestinian conflict
  • Gaza war
    • Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
      • Israeli airstrikes kill at least 70 Palestinian across the Gaza Strip. (Reuters)
  • Palestinian political violence
    • Two people, including a pregnant woman, are critically wounded in a shooting near Brukhin in the West Bank. (The Jerusalem Post) (YNet)
• Hezbollah–Israel conflict
  • 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
    • The Israeli Defence Forces claim that a drone strike in Qaaqaait al-Jisr, Nabatieh Governorate, Lebanon, killed a Hezbollah commander. (The Times of Israel)

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

Disasters and accidents

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

International relations

• Syria–United States relations
  • U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Syrian president Ahmed al-Sharaa during a trip in Saudi Arabia prior to departing for Qatar. (Al Jazeera)

Law and crime

• Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon signs a law decriminalizing the "liking" of posts on social media publicly calling for terrorism or other serious crimes. (Reuters)
• Russian election observer Grigory Melkonyants [ru] is convicted on charges of working with an "undesirable organization" and sentenced to five years in prison. (The New York Times)

Politics and elections

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

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • 2025 Gaza European Hospital strike
    • At least 28 people are killed in an Israeli air strike that struck the Gaza European Hospital, which the Israeli military claims had a Hamas command and control centre beneath the building. (BBC News)
• Puntland counter-terrorism operations
  • Three Al-Shabaab fighters, including a senior commander, are killed in a coordinated operation by the Somali National Army in Jowle, Mudug, Puntland. (Garowe Online)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Russian wildfires
  • A state of emergency is declared in Buryatia, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia, as firefighters fight wildfires currently burning more than 53,000 hectares. (The Moscow Times)
• Fourteen people are killed and four others are hospitalized after drinking toxic liquor in Amritsar, Punjab, India. (AP)

International relations

• Syria–United States relations
  • US President Donald Trump announces that the United States will lift all sanctions imposed on Syria under the previous regime of President Bashar al-Assad, and expresses willingness to work with the Syrian transitional government. (Al Jazeera)

Law and crime

• Armed conflict for control of the favelas
  • Brazilian Military Police kill the main leader of the Terceiro Comando Puro, a drug trafficking criminal organization, and two other suspected members, in a shootout in the Maré favela in Rio de Janeiro. (AP) (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

Politics and elections

• Islamic State insurgency in Puntland
  • Puntland counter-terrorism operations
    • A spokesperson for the Puntland Security Force confirms that Puntland has acquired four military helicopters to support ongoing military operations against Islamic State militants in the region. (Garowe Online)
• 2025 Liberal Party of Australia leadership election
  • Sussan Ley is elected as the new leader of the Liberal Party of Australia following the party's defeat at Saturday's federal election. Ley is the first woman to hold the post. (Reuters)
• 2025 Malian protests, 2020 Malian coup d'état
  • Malian interim president Assimi Goïta signs a decree dissolving all political parties and organizations and bans them from holding meetings following ongoing pro-democracy protests in the capital city Bamako. (AP) (Al Jazeera)
• Prime Minister of Peru Gustavo Adrianzén resigns a day before a vote of censure against him over rising crime in Peru. (Reuters)

Sports

• Major League Baseball
  • Commissioner of Baseball Rob Manfred announces that all deceased individuals on the permanent ineligible list will be reinstated, allowing players like Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson to be elected into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. (ESPN)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Gaza war hostage crisis
    • Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander is released by Hamas after being kept in captivity in Gaza for 19 months since the October 7 attack. (Reuters)
• Libyan crisis
  • 2025 Tripoli clashes
    • Clashes erupt between rival militia gunmen from the 444th Brigade and the Stability Support Apparatus in Tripoli, Libya, after the assassination of Commander Abdel Ghani al-Kikli. Six people are injured, and a state of emergency is declared by authorities. (The Jerusalem Post) (Al Jazeera English)
• Kurdistan Workers' Party insurgency
  • At its 12th Congress, the Kurdistan Workers' Party announces an immediate halt to its insurgent activities in Turkey and plans for its formal dissolution. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters)
• Myanmar civil war
  • The National Unity Government of Myanmar says that an airstrike by junta forces killed 17 students and injured 20 others at a school in Tabayin, Sagaing Region. (Reuters)
• Syrian civil war
  • The remains of 30 people believed to have been killed by Islamic State militants are found in a search by Qatar and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation in the remote town of Dabiq, Aleppo Governorate, Syria. (CTV News)
• Unknown gunmen attack a Chinese artisanal gold mine in Narena, Koulikoro Region, Mali, killing one Malian and two others from Ghana, and abducting two Chinese nationals. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• Thirteen people are killed by an expired ammunition explosion in Garut Regency, West Java, Indonesia. (Jakarta Globe)

International relations

• China–United States trade war
  • The U.S. and China agree to a trade deal in which, for 90 days, U.S. tariffs on most Chinese goods will drop from 145% to 30%, while China's retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods will drop from 125% to 10%. (BBC News)
• Immigration policy of the second Donald Trump administration, South Africa–United States relations
  • The first group of Afrikaners arrive in the United States after U.S. president Donald Trump grants refugee status to the white minority group, who Trump says face a "genocide" in the South African farm attacks. The government of South Africa rejects the claims. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Philippine general election
  • Filipinos vote to elect all 317 members of the House of Representatives and 12 members of the Senate, in addition to local elections. (Asian Journal) (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
    • Fifteen Palestinians, mostly women and children, are killed in overnight Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip. (CTV News)
  • Gaza war hostage crisis
    • Hamas agrees to release Edan Alexander, a dual American-Israeli citizen hostage, tomorrow. (Reuters)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Peace negotiations in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Russian President Vladimir Putin proposes holding direct negotiations in Istanbul, Turkey, on May 15 after the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Poland threatened further sanctions if it does not agree to an unconditional 30-day ceasefire beginning on May 12. (Reuters)
    • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy calls on Russia to confirm an unconditional ceasefire before any direct negotiations between the two nations. (Reuters)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • At least two police officers are killed and three others are injured in a roadside bombing targeting a police vehicle in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (CTV News)
• Israeli MIAs
  • The body of Israel Defense Forces soldier Zvi Feldman, missing since the 1982 Lebanon War, is repatriated to Israel from "deep inside Syria" in a joint Mossad–IDF operation. (The Times of Israel) (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• Mediterranean Sea migrant smuggling
  • Three people are found dead, including two children, on a dinghy crossing the Mediterranean Sea from Libya to Italy. German NGO RESQSHIP intercepts the boat and brings the remaining 59 survivors to Lampedusa. (DW)
• A bus carrying Buddhist pilgrims in Kotmale, Sri Lanka, swerves off a cliff, killing 21 people and injuring 35 others. (CTV News)
• Five people are killed, dozens are injured including three critically, and hundreds are displaced in a fire at a four-story apartment building in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. (WTMJ-TV) (CNN)
• A runner collapses and later dies near the finish line during running event Loop Leeuwarden in Leeuwarden, Netherlands, causing the organizers to cancel the event. (NOS)

International relations

• Poland–Russia relations
  • Polish authorities confirm evidences of Russian sabotage behind the arson attack that destroyed most of the Marywilska 44 marketplace in Warsaw in 2024. As a reaction, the Russian consulate general in Kraków is ordered to close down. (The Guardian) (AP)
• In his first Sunday address, Pope Leo XIV calls for peace in Ukraine, the release of all war prisoners and the return of abducted Ukrainian children to their families, an immediate ceasefire, the release of all hostages and the allowance of humanitarian aid in Gaza, as well as a permanent ceasefire to the India–Pakistan conflict. (The Guardian)

Law and crime

• The Taliban bans chess in Afghanistan, with a Taliban spokesman saying that chess is considered a form of gambling under Sharia law. (BBC News)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Albanian parliamentary election
  • Albanians vote to elect the 140 members of the Parliament, as Prime Minister Edi Rama seeks reelection for a fourth term. (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
    • At least 23 Palestinians are killed, including three children, in overnight Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City, Palestine. (CTV News)
• 2025 India–Pakistan conflict
  • Pakistan announces Operation Bunyanun Marsoos, the start of large-scale military action against India. (Samaa.tv)
  • Pakistan Air Force warplanes failed to launch airstrikes throughout India with missile strikes targeting Udhampur, Pathankot Airport and a BrahMos missile storage facility in Beas City, Punjab. (Al Jazeera)
  • A Pakistani Fatah-II missile is intercepted over the city of Sirsa in the Indian state of Haryana. (News18)
  • India announces the temporary closure of its airspace over the northern and western regions of the country until May 14. (Al Jazeera)
  • United States President Donald Trump and Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar announce a full and immediate ceasefire between India and Pakistan, mediated by the U.S. Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri later confirms the ceasefire as well. (BBC News)
  • Violations of the ceasefire and new clashes are reported shortly after the announcement of the agreement. (Reuters)
• Ecuadorian conflict
  • Ecuador announces a three-day mourning period after eleven soldiers are killed in an ambush by guerrillas. (News Express)
• Sudanese civil war
  • At least 19 prisoners are killed and 45 others are injured in an airstrike by the Rapid Support Forces on a prison in Obeid, North Kordofan, Sudan. (CTV News)

Disasters and accidents

• At least seven people die and others are injured over two districts in Mogadishu, Somalia, after a flood triggered by severe rainfall sweeps infrastructure including Aden Adde Airport. The rain also collapses nine houses and floods over 200 others. (Reuters) (Devdiscourse)
• Four people are injured and 150,000 people are issued health warnings and stay-indoors orders when a chemical plant catches fire in Vilanova i la Geltrú, Catalonia, Spain. (CTV News)

Politics and elections

• The government of Bangladesh bans the Awami League party of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who was ousted last year during mass protests, before her flight to India. (AP)

Science and technology

• Soviet space program
  • Kosmos 482, a failed Venus probe launched by the Soviet Union in 1972, re-enters Earth's atmosphere, splashing down in the Indian Ocean west of Indonesia, according to Roscosmos. (The Guardian) (CNN)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2025 India–Pakistan conflict
  • The Indian Air Force strikes Pakistan Air Force Base Nur Khan in Punjab, Pakistan, with cruise missiles with reports of multiple explosions. The Pakistan Armed Forces says the airbase has come under attack from air-to-surface missiles and that air defences are engaging hostile targets over Pakistani airspace. (News18)
  • Pakistan closes its airspace to all non-military flights saying the Indian Armed Forces has launched ballistic missiles at the country. (The Times of India)
• Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
  • Nine soldiers are injured in an improvised explosive device explosion in the Shijaiyah neighborhood of Gaza City, Palestine. (CTV News)

Disasters and accidents

• Sinking of the Bayesian yacht
  • A 39-year-old Dutch diver dies during preparations for the salvage operation of the Bayesian yacht which sunk in 2024. (NOS)
• Six people are killed and six others are injured when a Sri Lanka Air Force Bell 212 helicopter crashes into the Maduru Oya river in Sri Lanka. (CNA)

International relations

• France–Poland relations
  • French president Emmanuel Macron and Polish prime minister Donald Tusk signs a treaty committing both sides to mutual assistance. (France24) (Reuters)
• Hungary–Ukraine relations
  • The Security Service of Ukraine arrests two people on suspicion of spying for Hungary in Zakarpattia Oblast, which is home to an ethnic minority of over 150,000 Hungarians. The Hungarian foreign ministry expels two Ukrainian diplomats in response to the allegations, characterizing them as anti-Hungarian. (AP)

Sports

• In cricket, the 2025 Pakistan Super League is suspended indefinitely due to the ongoing military action between India and Pakistan. (Sky Sports)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Insurgency in Southeastern Nigeria
  • At least thirty travellers are killed and more than twenty vehicles are set ablaze in an arson and mass shooting attack by gunmen suspected to be from the Eastern Security Network along the Okigwe-Owerri highway in Southeastern Nigeria, Nigeria. (CTV News)

Disasters and accidents

• Six people are reportedly killed when a Piper PA-31T Cheyenne air ambulance crashes between Tiltil and Curacaví in Chile. (El Morrocotudo)
• Five tourists and a pilot are killed, and one other person is injured, when a Bell 407 helicopter crashes and falls into a deep gorge near Bhagirathi River in Uttarakhand, India. (The Hindu) (NDTV)
• One hundred and twenty-three vultures are killed, more than 80 others are rescued, and an elephant is also poisoned in a mass poisoning at Kruger National Park in South Africa. South African National Parks and the Endangered Wildlife Trust says it was one of the largest vulture poisoning events in the country. (CTV News)

Law and crime

• Abundant Life Christian School shooting
  • The father of Natalie Rupnow, the perpetrator of the shooting that killed three people, including herself, and injured six others at the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin, United States, in December 2024, is charged with felonies in connection with the shooting. (CTV News)
• Murder of Cassius Turvey
  • Jack Brearley and Brodie Lee Palmer are found guilty of the murder of Aboriginal Australian schoolboy Cassius Turvey in Middle Swan, Western Australia, in 2022, while Mitchell Forth is convicted of manslaughter. (BBC News)
• A member of the MS-13 gang is sentenced to 55 years imprisonment for the mass stabbing murders of five people, including a teenager and three young men at a park in Long Island, New York, United States, in April 2017. (Toronto Sun)

Politics and elections

• 2025 papal conclave
  • Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of the United States is elected to the papacy on the fourth ballot and takes the name Leo XIV. He is the first pope from North America and the second from the Americas, after Pope Francis. A dual citizen of the United States and Peru, he also becomes the second South American pope. (CNN) (The Guardian)