Portal:Current events
Topics in the news
- Hassan Sheikh Mohamud (pictured) is elected as President of Somalia.
- In the United States, ten people are killed in a mass shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York.
- Ukraine, represented by Kalush Orchestra with the song "Stefania", wins the Eurovision Song Contest.
- Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan inherits the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and becomes President of the United Arab Emirates after the death of Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
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 its forces have seized the Azovstal steel plant after the last remaining Ukrainian troops surrender. (BBC)
- 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)
- Siege of Mariupol
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
Arts and culture
- Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II
- The Cabinet Office announces that eight British towns will become cities for Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee. The new cities are Milton Keynes, Colchester and Doncaster in England, Dunfermline in Scotland, Wrexham in Wales, Bangor, County Down, in Northern Ireland, as well as Stanley, Falkland Islands, and Douglas, Isle of Man, which become the first in British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, respectively, to receive city status. (BBC News)
Business and economy
- Transport for London announces that the Ultra Low Emission Zone will be expanded to cover almost all of Greater London from 23 August 2023. (BBC News)
Disasters and accidents
- One person is dead and nine others are missing after a tunnel collapses in Ramban district, Jammu and Kashmir, India. (AP)
Health and environment
- COVID-19 pandemic
- 2022 monkeypox outbreak
- The World Health Organization holds an emergency meeting in regards to the recent monkeypox outbreak. (The Washington Post) (The Globe and Mail)
- Australia and Israel announce their first suspected cases of monkeypox, both travellers who had recently come home from Europe. (Reuters) (Times of Israel)
- Germany, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands confirm their first cases of monkeypox. (Deutsche Welle) (Reuters)
- Spain becomes the country with the most monkeypox cases after confirming 30 cases. (La Vanguardia)
International relations
- South China Sea dispute
- The Philippines says it has established three coast guard outposts on three Filipino-controlled islands of the Spratlys in the South China Sea. (AP)
- Finland–Russia relations
- Russia halts its supply of natural gas to neighbouring Finland after the country refused to pay for Russian gas in rubles. (BBC News)
Law and crime
- Three people are wounded, one critically, by a stabbing attack Uvdal and Nore, Norway. Police say it 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)
Science and technology
- An unusually strong and early heat wave sends temperatures above 40 °C (104 °F) in Spain. Seville registers 40.8 °C (105.4 °F), tying its May all-time high, while the hottest settlement, Andújar, reaches 41.8 °C (107.2 °F). France also experiences record heat, with 38 days of temperatures above average in a row and counting and a highly likely warmest May on record. (ABC Spain) (The Guardian)
- Morocco hits the highest May temperature in the nation on record in Sidi Slimane, at 45.7 °C (114.3 °F). (The Washington Post)
- A heat wave in the United States, which had previously scorched Texas and Oklahoma, is bound to set record heat on the US East Coast over the weekend, with predicted records, reaching high-90s (about 35 degrees Celsius), centered over the area from Ohio to New Hampshire and concentrated in the Northeast megalopolis. (The Washington Post)
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)
- Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso
- 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)
- Foreign aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
- 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 vaccination in the United States
- 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)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Telangana
- COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
- 2022 monkeypox outbreak
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)
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 stated that the attack was an attempt to "destabilise the social and political situation" in the region. (Reuters)
Business and economy
- 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)
- Ukraine–United States relations
- 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
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
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- A Russian airstrike kills eight people and injures twelve others in Desna, Chernihiv Oblast. (Reuters)
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 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
- 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)
- Battle of Kharkiv
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 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)
- American military intervention in Somalia
Business and economy
- 2022 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)
- 2022 New Mexico wildfires
- 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 occuring 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)
- Sweden–NATO relations
- 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)
- Homosexuality in English football
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)
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 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)
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)
- Finland–NATO relations
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
- 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. (France24)
- 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)
- Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso
- 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)
- Proposed Russian annexation of South Ossetia
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)