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- Nine people, including eight children, are killed in a shooting at an elementary school (pictured) in Belgrade, Serbia.
- Palestinian Khader Adnan dies in an Israeli jail after an 87-day hunger strike protesting against his administrative detention.
- Luca Brecel wins the World Snooker Championship.
- Santiago Peña is elected President of Paraguay.
- Ding Liren defeats Ian Nepomniachtchi to win the World Chess Championship.
May 5, 2023
(Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Battle of Donbas
- Battle of Bakhmut
- Leader of the PMC Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, announced that due to the lack of ammunition, his group will leave Bakhmut on 10 May 2023 and hand over its positions to units of the Russian Defense Ministry. (Meduza)
- Battle of Bakhmut
- Battle of Donbas
Disasters and accidents
- 2023 Ishikawa earthquake
- One person is killed and 22 others are injured in a magnitude 6.2 earthquake in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. (AP)
- 2023 South Kivu floods
- At least 176 people are killed during heavy floods in the villages of Bushushu and Nyamukubi, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Al Jazeera)
Health and environment
- COVID-19 pandemic
- The World Health Organization announces that COVID-19 is no longer considered a global health emergency. (ABC News)
International relations
- Azerbaijan–Iran relations
- The Iranian government expels four Azerbaijani diplomats. (Tasnim)
Law and crime
- Capital punishment in Myanmar
- Myanmar's military junta commutes 38 death sentences to life imprisonment as part of a wider amnesty. (Al Jazeera)
- Belgian authorities arrest an Iraqi Al-Qaeda member and charge him with murder, terrorism, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, for his role in the deaths of at least 376 people and the wounding of over 2,300 others more than a decade ago in Iraq. (AP)
May 4, 2023
(Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Murders of Lucy, Maia and Rina Dee
- Israeli security units kill three wanted Palestinian men in Nablus, West Bank, murderers of a mother and her two daughters in April in Efrat. (Associated Press)
- Murders of Lucy, Maia and Rina Dee
- Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- 2023 Parachinar school shooting
- Seven teachers are killed in a mass shooting at a high school in Parachinar, Kurram District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Another teacher from the same school was killed on the road in a separate attack earlier in the day. (Xinhua News Agency)
- Six soldiers and three Pakistani Taliban members are killed during a gunfight in Dir Duni, North Waziristan District. (Dawn)
- 2023 Parachinar school shooting
Business and economy
- 2021–2023 inflation surge
- The European Central Bank raises interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point, the smallest increase since it began hiking rates in July. (Barron's)
Law and crime
- January 6 United States Capitol attack
- Criminal proceedings in the January 6 United States Capitol attack
- Four members of the Proud Boys are found guilty of seditious conspiracy by a jury in Washington, D.C., for their role in forcibly preventing the peaceful transfer of power from then-U.S. President Donald Trump to Joe Biden after the 2020 presidential election. (CNN)
- Criminal proceedings in the January 6 United States Capitol attack
- 4 May 2023 Serbia shootings
- Eight people are killed and 14 others are injured in a mass shooting in and around Mladenovac, Belgrade, Serbia. This is the second multiple killing in the city in 48 hours, occurring the day after the Vladislav Ribnikar Elementary School shooting. (BBC News)
- Following a multi-state manhunt in the United States, Corey Harrison, the last of four men who escaped from a Mississippi jail last month, is taken into custody, according to authorities. Previously, two escapees were found dead in Carthage, Mississippi, and New Orleans, Louisiana, respectively, while another was captured in Texas. (CNN)
- A jury finds that Ed Sheeran's Grammy-winning song "Thinking Out Loud" did not infringe on the copyright of Marvin Gaye's song "Let's Get It On". (CNN)
May 3, 2023
(Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2022–2023 Western Russia attacks
- 2023 Kremlin drone attack
- Russia accuses Ukraine of attempting to assassinate President Vladimir Putin after two drones were shot down near the Kremlin. A spokesman claimed that Putin was not inside the Kremlin at the time of the attack. A video shows at least one drone hitting the compound. Ukraine denies any involvement in the attack. (BBC News)
- 2023 Kremlin drone attack
- 2022–2023 Crimea attacks
- Russia's Federal Security Service says that it has arrested seven Ukrainian agents who were allegedly planning a "series of high-profile sabotage and terrorist acts" in Crimea, including an attack on the Head of the Republic of Crimea Sergey Aksyonov. (Reuters)
- Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Russian forces shell Kherson Oblast, killing 16 civilians and injuring 22 others. (Reuters)
- 2022–2023 Western Russia attacks
- 2023 Sudan conflict
- Evacuation of foreign nationals during the 2023 Sudan conflict
- Australia's Royal Australian Air Force evacuates 36 Australians from Sudan, reportedly overnight. (Sydney Morning Herald) (ABC News Australia)
- The South Sudanese foreign ministry announces that a seven-day ceasefire has been agreed to in Sudan, lasting from May 4 to 11. (Firstpost) (Reuters)
- Evacuation of foreign nationals during the 2023 Sudan conflict
- The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps seize the Panama-flagged oil tanker Niovi in the Strait of Hormuz. (Tasnim News Agency)
Business and economy
- The World Bank's board of governors elects American business executive Ajay Banga as the next President of the World Bank Group. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- 2023 Rwanda and Uganda floods
- 2023 New Valley bus-truck collision
- Seventeen people are killed and 29 others are injured after a public bus and a truck collide with each other on a highway in New Valley Governorate, Egypt. (Reuters)
- 2023 Brno container fire
- Eight people are killed after a fire breaks out in a construction container in Brno, Czech Republic. (Reuters)
- Two people are killed, one is missing and several are displaced during heavy floods in the Emilia Romagna region, Italy. (AP)
Law and crime
- Vladislav Ribnikar Elementary School shooting
- A boy kills nine people in a mass shooting at an elementary school in Belgrade, Serbia. (Reuters)
- 2023 Atlanta shooting
- One person is killed and four others are injured in a mass shooting at a medical facility in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The suspected shooter is later arrested following an 8-hour manhunt. (AP)
- Myanmar's State Administration Council pardons 2,153 political prisoners to mark Vesak Day. (ABC News) (Xinhua)
- Belarusian activist and blogger Roman Protasevich is sentenced to eight years in prison. (AFP via Barron's)
Science and technology
- Researchers announce the successful extraction of ancient DNA from a 20,000 year old elk-tooth pendant found in Denisova Cave. (Reuters)
May 2, 2023
(Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2023 Sudan conflict
- Darfur campaign
- Battle of Geneina
- Rapid Support Forces re-capture Geneina, the capital of West Darfur, after a week of fighting with more than 200 people killed. (Middle East Eye) (Dabanga Sudan)
- Battle of Geneina
- 2023 Sudanese refugee crisis
- The number of Sudanese refugees due to the ongoing civil conflict surpasses 100,000 after only a few days. (Reuters)
- Darfur campaign
- Somali Civil War
- Somali forces kill 67 al-Shabaab militants and seize many weapons in a continuation of offensives against the group in the Mudug region. (VOA)
- A Uganda People's Defence Force soldier assassinates retired colonel and cabinet member Charles Engola at his home in Kampala, while acting as his bodyguard. The soldier later commits suicide. (BBC News)
Business and economy
- 2023 Writers Guild of America strike
- The Writers Guild of America goes on strike for the first time since 2007–08. (Los Angeles Times)
- Indian airline Go First files for bankruptcy with the National Company Law Tribunal, blaming "faulty" Pratt & Whitney-manufactured engines for the grounding of about half of its fleet, costing the airline 108 billion rupees ($1.32 billion) in lost revenues. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- List of earthquakes in 2023
- Ten people are injured and more than 2,805 buildings are damaged after a magnitude 5.3 earthquake strikes Baoshan, Yunnan, China. (ChinaDaily)
- Five people are missing in Darchula District, Nepal, after being struck by an avalanche. (Xinhua)
Law and crime
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Former Palestinian Islamic Jihad spokesman Khader Adnan dies in an Israeli prison after a three-month hunger strike. (Al Jazeera)
- Indonesian Ulema Council shooting
- A man armed with an airgun opens fire at the Indonesian Ulema Council headquarters in Menteng, Central Jakarta, Java, injuring two employees. The attacker later dies at a local health center. (Detik)
- LGBT rights in Uganda, Anti-Homosexuality Bill, 2023
- The parliament of Uganda passes new anti-LGBTQ+ laws after president Yoweri Museveni requested reforms. The bill maintains the death penalty as a punishment for "aggravated homosexuality". (Reuters)
- The United States Department of Defense announces that it will deploy 1,500 troops along the Mexican border to provide non-law enforcement related administrative assistance to the United States Border Patrol. (CNN)
Politics and elections
- 2023 Greek legislative election
- The Greek Supreme Civil and Criminal Court bans the far-right National Party, led by Ilias Kasidiaris, from participating in the upcoming general election, after the court accused the party of being a "continuation of the Golden Dawn". (France 24)
May 1, 2023
(Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2022–2023 Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
- Russia launches cruise missile and drone strikes across Ukraine. Among the targets hit is an industrial zone in Pavlohrad, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, where a large explosion damaged or destroyed 19 apartment buildings and 25 homes, with 34 people reportedly injured. Ukrainian forces say that they shot down 15 of 18 missiles launched by Russia. (The Guardian)
- Battle of Bakhmut
- Ukrainian colonel general Oleksandr Syrskyi says that Ukrainian troops have recaptured parts of central Bakhmut, but that the situation on the ground "remains difficult". (Reuters)
- 2022–2023 Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
- Insurgency in the Maghreb
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- A 17-year-old Palestinian boy is killed during an Israeli raid near Jericho in the West Bank. (AP)
- A bomb is detonated on the road between Sofia and Samokov, Bulgaria. The target is believed to be the Chief Public Prosecutor of Bulgaria Ivan Geshev, whose motorcade was travelling on the road at the time. No injuries are reported. The explosion has been designated as a terrorist incident by officials. (BNT)
Business and economy
- 2023 global banking crisis
- The FDIC seizes control of First Republic Bank, while JPMorgan Chase agrees to buy "a substantial majority of assets" and to assume the "deposits and certain other liabilities" of the bank, in the second-largest bank failure in US history. (CNN)
Disasters and accidents
- 2023 Liaocheng chemical plant explosion
- Five people are killed, one person is injured, and another person is reported missing in an explosion at a chemical plant in Liaocheng, Shandong, China. (Reuters)
- At least six people are killed and 30 others are injured in Illinois, United States, after a dust storm causes a crash involving 70 to 90 vehicles on Interstate 55. (CNN)
Politics and elections
- 2023 Paraguayan general election
- Santiago Peña is declared the winner of the Paraguayan presidential election. (BBC News)
Sports
- 2023 World Snooker Championship
- Luca Brecel wins his first World Snooker Championship title, defeating Mark Selby by a score of 18–15 in the final at The Crucible in Sheffield, England. Brecel becomes the first player from continental Europe to win the tournament. (BBC Sport)
April 30, 2023
(Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2023 Sudan conflict
- Evacuation of foreign nationals during the 2023 Sudan conflict
- Iran evacuates 65 nationals from Sudan with Saudi Arabian assistance. (Arab News) (Tasnim News)
- Evacuation of foreign nationals during the 2023 Sudan conflict
- War against the Islamic State
- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announces that the Turkish National Intelligence Organization has tracked down and killed the Caliph of the Islamic State Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi in Syria. (Al Jazeera)
Disasters and accidents
Law and crime
- 2023 Setúbal shooting
- A man in Setúbal, Portugal, shoots and kills three men during a dispute at a pigeon race, before killing himself. (AP)
- 2023 Bodmin mass stabbing
- A mass stabbing outside a nightclub in Bodmin, Cornwall, United Kingdom, leaves one person dead and seven others injured. A suspect has been arrested and charged with murder by Devon and Cornwall Police. (The Telegraph)
- Major Alireza Shahraki, chief of the Iranian Law Enforcement Command, Organization Criminal Investigation Department of Saravan County, Sistan and Baluchistan, Iran is killed in an armed attack. (Tehran Times)
Politics and elections
- 2023 French Polynesian legislative election
- Citizens of French Polynesia head to the polls to elect the 57 members of the Assembly. (Paudal)
- 2023 Paraguayan general election
- Paraguayans head to the polls to elect the next president. (AFP via France 24)
Sports
- 2023 Stanley Cup playoffs
- The Boston Bruins, who had previously set new NHL records for wins and points in a single season, are upset in the first round of the playoffs by the Florida Panthers, losing game 7 in overtime after having led the series 3 games to 1. (ESPN)
- 2023 World Chess Championship
- Ding Liren defeats Ian Nepomniachtchi in tiebreak games, becoming the 17th World Chess Champion. (Reuters)
April 29, 2023
(Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2023 Sudan conflict
- Battle of Khartoum
- Warplanes bomb Khartoum and heavy anti-aircraft artillery is heard in the city as the conflict enters its third week, with the United Nations warning that Sudan is "collapsing". (AFP via Manila Bulletin)
- A Turkish evacuation plane is fired at in Khartoum, allegedly by the Rapid Support Forces. No injuries or deaths have been confirmed. (BBC News)
- The former Prime Minister of Sudan, Abdalla Hamdok, calls the conflict in his country a "nightmare", stating that it could become worse than those in Syria and Libya. (BBC News)
- Battle of Khartoum
- Syrian civil war
- Israel's role in the Syrian civil war
- The Israeli Air Force launches airstrikes against targets near the Syrian city of Homs in a pre-dawn raid. Syrian state media reports that three civilians were injured in the attacks. (Times of Israel)
- Israel's role in the Syrian civil war
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- A huge fire engulfs a fuel depot in the port of Sevastopol, in Russian-occupied Crimea, in what governor Mikhail Razvozhaev says was a drone attack. (Al Jazeera)
- Laotian human rights activist Anousa Luangsuphom is shot at a coffeehouse in the capital Vientiane. (BBC News)
Disasters and accidents
- 2023 Nayarit bus crash
- Thirty-four people are injured in a roof collapse near the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, United States. (BNO News)
Health and environment
- Senegal confirms a case of the Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
Sports
- The final day of the 2023 NFL Draft is held in Kansas City, Missouri, United States, with Toledo defensive tackle Desjuan Johnson selected as "Mr. Irrelevant". (CBS Sports)
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