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- In cricket, the Indian Premier League concludes with the Chennai Super Kings defeating the Gujarat Titans in the final (player of the match Devon Conway pictured).
- In auto racing, Josef Newgarden wins the Indianapolis 500.
- Rock singer and actress Tina Turner dies at the age of 83.
- Nineteen children are killed in a fire at a secondary school dormitory in Mahdia, Guyana.
- In golf, Brooks Koepka wins the PGA Championship.
- American football Hall of Fame fullback Jim Brown dies at the age of 87.
May 31, 2023 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Five members of the Marxist–Leninist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine are killed and ten more are injured during an explosion at a base in Qusaya, Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
Politics and elections
- 2023 Australian Indigenous Voice referendum
- The Constitution Alteration (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice) 2023 bill passes the Australian House of Representatives, paving the way for a referendum on an Indigenous Voice to Parliament later in the year. (ABC News)
- 2023 Latvian presidential election
- Edgars Rinkēvičs is elected 11th President of Latvia. (LSM)
Science and technology
- The launch of North Korean spy satellite Malligyong-1 ends in failure due to its second stage malfunctioning, causing it to crash into the sea. (AP)
May 30, 2023 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Russian authorities say they have intercepted eight drones over Moscow. (BBC News)
- A Russian drone attack on Kyiv results in the death of a civilian and injures several others. (The New York Times)
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- An Israeli settler is shot and killed near Hermesh, West Bank by Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade gunmen. (AP)
- Boko Haram insurgency
- Four people are killed when armed men attack a checkpoint in Mora, Far North Region, Cameroon. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- Three people are killed in a fire at a paper warehouse in Odintsovo, Moscow Oblast, Russia. (Reuters)
- Three people are killed in a fire at a hospital in Mödling, Lower Austria, Austria. (AP)
- Ten Vaishno Devi pilgrims are killed and 57 others are injured when their bus falls from a bridge in Jammu and Kashmir, India. (The Tribune)
Law and crime
- Salvadoran gang crackdown
- Former President of El Salvador Mauricio Funes is sentenced to 14 years in prison for making deals with gangs in El Salvador to start the 2012–2014 Salvadoran gang truce. (AP)
May 29, 2023 (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2022–2023 Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
- Russian forces strike Kyiv using Iskander ballistic and cruise missiles, with debris injuring one civilian and damaging infrastructure. Ukraine claims to have shot down all of the missiles. (AP via Los Angeles Times)
- Battle of Donbas
- Russian airstrikes on Toretsk, Donetsk Oblast, target a petrol station and a multi-storey building, killing two people and injuring eight others. (Reuters)
- 2022–2023 Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
- Syrian civil war
- Northwestern Syria clashes
- Commander-in-chief of the Russian special forces in Syria, Colonel Oleg Pechevisty, is killed by an HTS artillery strike on a military post in Latakia Province. (SOHR) (Enab Baladi)
- Northwestern Syria clashes
- 2022–2023 North Kosovo crisis
- Twenty-five peacekeepers of the NATO-led KFOR are injured after clashes with ethnic Serbs in North Kosovo over the installation of ethnic Albanian mayors. Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić places the Serbian Armed Forces on the highest level of combat alert in response to the clashes. (BBC News) (AP)
Disasters and accidents
- One person is killed and four others are missing after a chartered boat sinks near Sitka, Alaska, United States. (AP)
International relations
- United States and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Russia–United States relations
- The Russian Interior Ministry issues an arrest warrant for United States Senator Lindsey Graham over comments Graham made about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Reuters)
- Russia–United States relations
Law and crime
- Capital punishment for homosexuality, Anti-Homosexuality Bill, 2023
- Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signs the Anti-Homosexuality Bill into law which introduces the death penalty for "aggravated homosexuality" and a sentence of 20 years in prison for the "promotion of homosexuality". (Reuters)
- Nine people are injured after a shooting on a beach in Hollywood, Florida, United States. (AP)
Politics and elections
- The Premier of Western Australia, Mark McGowan, unexpectedly announces his intention to resign by the end of the week, citing exhaustion after the COVID-19 pandemic in Western Australia. (ABC)
May 28, 2023 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Two people are killed and three others are injured in a "record drone attack" on Kyiv. Ukrainian authorities say they have shot down 52 of 54 drones. (Euronews)
- Kivu conflict
- Two rangers are killed in a shooting at Virunga National Park in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Reuters)
- 2023 Manipur violence
Arts and culture
- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurates a new parliament building capable of holding 1,272 MPs. The ceremony is boycotted by the opposition for not asking President Droupadi Murmu to inaugurate it and for selecting the birthday of Hindutva founder Vinayak Damodar Savarkar as the inauguration date, while Delhi Police detain wrestlers Bajrang Punia and Sakshi Malik for protesting the sexual abuse of female athletes at the ceremony. (BBC News)
Business and economy
- The Comac C919, China's first domestically-built passenger jet, completes its first commercial flight from Shanghai to Beijing by China Eastern Airlines. (AP)
Disasters and accidents
- Three people are injured in Battagram District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, when a magnitude 5.2 earthquake strikes Badakshan, Afghanistan. (Dawn)
- Four people are killed and five others injured when a boat capsizes amid bad weather on Lake Maggiore in Lombardy, Italy. (BBC News)
- Buildings and roads are damaged across Melbourne after a magnitude 4.0 earthquake strikes Victoria, Australia. (AFR)
- An apartment building partially collapses in Davenport, Iowa, leaving two people missing. (Associated Press)
Politics and elections
- 2023 Turkish presidential election
- Citizens in Turkey head to the polls to vote in the second round of the presidential election. (AP)
- Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is declared the winner by the Supreme Election Council, defeating his opponent Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu with 52 percent of the vote. (Tagesschau)
- Politics of Spain
- Local and regional elections are held in Spain. (El País)
- Politics of Somalia
- Somalia announces that beginning next year, the country will change to a presidential system and elect officials by direct vote, ending more than three decades of indirect voting where lawmakers elected the country's leaders with the approval of clan and elderly leaders. (Reuters)
Sports
- 2023 Indianapolis 500
- Two-time series champion Josef Newgarden wins the 107th Indianapolis 500. (CNN)
May 27, 2023 (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2022–2023 Western Russia attacks
- Russian authorities say that shelling has killed a person in Shebekino, Belgorod Oblast and Kursk, Kursk Oblast, respectively. Russia accuses Ukraine of the attacks, although Ukraine denies any involvement. (AFP via The Moscow Times)
- 2022–2023 Western Russia attacks
- Afghanistan–Iran relations
- 2023 Afghanistan–Iran clash
- Two Iranians and one Afghan are killed when Taliban troops engage Iranians along the border. (Reuters)
- 2023 Afghanistan–Iran clash
Disasters and accidents
- 2023 Astore avalanche
- Eleven people are killed and 25 more injured when a nomadic tribe is hit by an avalanche in the Astore District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. (AP)
Health and environment
- 2023 Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever outbreak
- The Afghanistan health department reports two deaths from Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever. (Tolo News)
Law and crime
- Police in the Netherlands announce the arrest of 1,500 Extinction Rebellion protesters, including actress Carice van Houten, after protesters blocked a section of the A12 motorway near The Hague. (BBC News)
- The Texas House of Representatives votes 121–23 to impeach Attorney General Ken Paxton on 20 counts. (AP)
Politics and elections
- 2023 Mauritanian parliamentary election
- Mauritanians head to the polls to vote in the second round of the parliamentary election. (New Arab)
May 26, 2023 (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2022–2023 Dnipro missile strikes
- A Russian missile strike on Dnipro damages a medical facility, killing two people and injuring 23 others. (Ukrainska Pravda) (The Guardian)
- 2022–2023 Dnipro missile strikes
- Allied Democratic Forces insurgency, Kivu conflict
- Seventeen civilians are killed by Allied Democratic Forces members in Beni, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (AP)
- Mali War
- Germany's Bundestag votes 375–263, with one abstention, to approve the Bundeswehr's deployment in Mali as part of the UN's MINUSMA peacekeeping mission until May 31, 2024. (DW)
International relations
- Foreign nationals detained in Iran
- The Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs swaps Asadollah Asadi for Belgian prisoner Olivier Vandecasteele. (CNN)
Politics and elections
- 2023 Guatemalan general election
- The Constitutional Court of Guatemala blocks the candidacy of frontrunner Carlos Pineda in the 2023 Guatemalan general election due to alleged violations of electoral law. (AP)
May 25, 2023 (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Battle of Bakhmut
- Wagner Group forces begin withdrawing from Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast, transferring control over to the Russian Ground Forces. (BBC News)
- Battle of Bakhmut
Business and economy
- 2021–2023 inflation surge
- The German economy enters a recession for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic amid high levels of inflation. (BBC News)
- Modern immigration to the United Kingdom
- Net migration to the United Kingdom reaches a record of 606,000, mostly due to non-EU arrivals, according to the Office for National Statistics. In response, Minister of State for Immigration Robert Jenrick reaffirmed the governments commitment "to reducing overall net migration to sustainable levels". (Sky News)
International relations
- Belarus–Russia relations
- Russian military presence in Belarus
- Russia and Belarus sign an agreement in Minsk allowing the stationing of Russian tactical nuclear weapons on Belarusian territory. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko says that the weapons are already being transferred to Belarus. (Reuters)
- Russian military presence in Belarus
- Afghanistan–Iran relations, Recognition of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
- Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says that Iran does not recognize the Taliban government in Afghanistan due to the lack of an inclusive government as well as recent tensions between Iran and the Taliban over border incidents and a dispute over the Helmand River. (Xinhua)
Law and crime
- Aftermath of the January 6 United States Capitol attack
- Criminal proceedings in the January 6 United States Capitol attack
- Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes is sentenced to 18 years in prison for his role in the 2021 attacks on the Capitol. (CNN)
- Criminal proceedings in the January 6 United States Capitol attack
- 2023 Nagano attack
- A man kills four people in a shooting and stabbing attack in Nakano, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. (BBC News)
- The Supreme Court of Russia orders the liquidation of the People's Freedom Party, the oldest opposition party in the country. (The Moscow Times)
- Police in South Africa arrest Fulgence Kayishema, who was indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in 2001 for his involvement in the Rwandan genocide. (Al Jazeera)
- Police arrest a man after he crashed his car into the gates outside Downing Street in London, which houses the official residences and offices of the prime minister Rishi Sunak. (BBC News)
Science and technology
- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves Neuralink's first-in-human clinical study of brain implants to treat conditions such as paralysis and blindness. (Reuters)
- A potent new antibiotic, abaucin, capable of killing Acinetobacter baumannii (one of three superbugs the World Health Organization has identified as a "critical threat" to humanity), is created using artificial intelligence. (BBC News)
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