| APRIL 14TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >President of Indonesia Prabowo Subianto tours the Middle East to seek support from the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Egypt, Qatar, and Jordan for his proposed plan to temporarily evacuate 1,000 Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Indonesia >The European Union announces a €1.6 billion (US$1.8 billion) three-year financial support package for Palestinians aiming to "stabilize" Gaza and the West Bank RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >The United Kingdom sends £752 million ($990 million) to Ukraine for the purchase of surface-to-air missiles, artillery and spare parts for fighter aircraft, as part of an international loan program funded primarily through seized Russian financial assets MISC >At least 51 people are killed in escalating clashes between rival herders in Plateau State, Nigeria, while another 2,000 people are displaced, according to Amnesty International >The Hellenic Coast Guard finds two bodies and 39 survivors when a boat carrying migrants capsizes off the coast of Farmakonisi in the Dodecanese islands of Greece >At least 46 people are injured and treated at the scene and one person is hospitalized when a tear gas canister leaks at Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg, Germany. The perpetrator behind the leak is unidentified >Two people are killed and nine others are injured in a mass shooting at a park in Conway, Arkansas, United States >According to official data, the population of Japanese citizens dropped to a record low of 120.3 million by October 2024, following a 14-year trend of record lows and the largest drop since records began in 1950 >China and Vietnam sign over 40 cooperation agreements during President Xi Jinping's state visit to Vietnam as part of his overall Southeast Asia tour also involving Cambodia and Malaysia following the imposition of tariffs by the United States >A court in Dhaka, Bangladesh, along with the Anti-Corruption Commission, issues an arrest warrant for Tulip Siddiq, a United Kingdom MP who is the niece of ousted former leader Sheikh Hasina, for corruption allegations. Siddiq has rebuked the arrest warrant and called it a "smear campaign" against her >The Hungarian government passes several constitutional changes that affect LGBTQ rights, including a provisional law that says people can only be male or female and codifying a law that bans LGBTQ events, including Budapest Pride >President Donald Trump suggests deporting United States citizens to the controversial Terrorism Confinement Center prison in El Salvador, despite the unconstitutionality of the proposal >Spanish Civil Guard arrest two Russian citizens in Manacor, Mallorca, for alleged breeding and sales of exotic cats, and recover a caracal, two servals, and sixteen felid hybrids >A Blue Origin New Shepard launch vehicle makes a brief sub-orbital spaceflight, carrying six female space tourists, marking the first all-female spacecraft since 1963's Vostok 6 which had Valentina Tereshkova as the pilot and the spacecraft's solo passenger |
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| APRIL 15TH RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >Ukrainian military leader Volodymyr Artyukh is fired from his position as Sumy Oblast Governor following condemnation for organizing a military ceremony in the densely populated Sumy city center. The April 13th Russian airstrike that targeted the ceremony killed thirty-five people and injured 120 SUDANESE CIVIL WAR >The European Union and its member states pledge €522 million (US$590 million) and the United Kingdom pledges £120 million (US$141 million) in humanitarian aid to Sudan to deliver food and supplies to over 650,000 internally displaced Sudanese people affected by the fighting between the Rapid Support Forces and the Sudanese Armed Forces. The two groups also call for an immediate ceasefire to end the war BALOCHISTAN INSURGENCY >At least three Balochistan Police officers are killed and 16 others are injured when a roadside bomb hits a bus carrying police personnel in Mastung District, Balochistan, Pakistan US TRADE WAR >China orders its airlines to stop taking deliveries of jets from American aviation company Boeing and to suspend purchases of aircraft-related equipment and parts from US companies MISC >At least 3,747 people are hospitalized with breathing difficulties and airports are closed after a dust storm in Iraq >The European Commission approves the use of Lecanemab, a monoclonal antibody medication that targets amyloid beta peptides, to treat the early stages of Alzheimer's disease via IV therapy. This is the first drug to be approved to treat the disease in Europe, and was approved by the Federal Drug Administration in the United States in 2023 >France expels twelve Algerian diplomatic officials from the country after Algeria expelled twelve French officials the previous day over the arrest of an Algerian consular official in a kidnapping case. France also recalls its ambassador from Algiers >The Parliament of the Maldives votes in favor of an amendment to the Immigration Act, banning entry into the Maldives for those traveling on Israeli passports >Four Russian journalists linked to the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny are convicted of extremism and sentenced to five years and six months imprisonment in a penal colony >According to a report by the International Maritime Bureau, piracy has risen by almost 35% in 2025 with 45 cases in the first quarter compared to the same period in 2024, particularly in the Singapore Strait between Singapore and Indonesia >A court in Lima, Peru, sentences former president Ollanta Humala and his wife Nadine Heredia to 15 years in prison for laundering funds from Brazilian company Odebrecht to finance his 2006 and 2011 presidential campaigns >At least four students are injured in a school mass shooting at Wilmer-Hutchins High School in Dallas, Texas, United States >A 5.2 magnitude earthquake strikes Julian, California, United States. The earthquake, felt throughout Southern California and Baja California, caused several rockslides on California State Route 76 and the demolition of an office façade in Tecate, Baja California, Mexico due to risk of collapse caused by earthquake >Four people are injured in a vehicle-ramming attack after a sedan drives onto a pedestrian walkway on the Toronto Metropolitan University campus near Yonge Street and Gerrard Street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada >4chan is hacked and goes offline, with the website's source code and the usernames, IP addresses, and email addresses of its staff leaked by imageboard Soyjak.party |
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| APRIL 16TH RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >Russian artillery and glide bombs target Kherson, Ukraine, killing one person and injuring nine others. A sports facility, a supermarket, and residential buildings were among those hit >A large-scale Russian drone attack on Dnipro, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, kills two people and injures 16 others WAR IN SOMALIA >Al-Shabaab militants capture the Adan Yabal District in Middle Shabelle, Somalia, as the group continues to advance towards the capital Mogadishu SUDANESE CIVIL WAR >The leader of the Sudanese Rapid Support Forces, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, announces the establishment of the Government of Peace and Unity, a rival government to the country's armed forces US TRADE WAR >California Governor Gavin Newsom and California Attorney General Rob Bonta file a lawsuit against US President Donald Trump and his administration over the tariffs, making California the first US state to do so. The lawsuit also targets the International Economic Emergency Powers Act, the law used by Trump to impose tariffs against Canada, China, and Mexico MISC >A Chinese crew member and a Filipino crew member are killed when Chinese sand barge vessel M/V Hong Hai 16 capsizes off Rizal, Occidental Mindoro, Philippines. A search and rescue operation is launched by the Philippine Coast Guard for missing crew members, which includes six Filipinos and three Chinese >The HB Kongolo traveling from Matankumu to Bolomba carrying around 400 people catches fire and capsizes on the Congo River near Mbandaka, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing at least 50 people and leaving hundreds more missing >The United Kingdom suspends the import of cheese and meat products from the European Union to prevent the spread of foot-and-mouth disease >Following her 15-year sentence in prison, former First Lady of Peru Nadine Heredia and her son Samin flee to Brazil's capital Brasília after the country grants their right of asylum >The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom rules that legal gender is based upon biological sex for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010 >A German palliative care doctor is charged for allegedly killing fifteen patients between 2021 and 2024 in Berlin. He is being investigated in an additional 75 suspected cases and also accused of trying to cover up the evidence by starting fires in their homes >A research team at the University of Cambridge announces that the James Webb Space Telescope has detected dimethyl sulfide on exoplanet K2-18b, a sub-Neptune planet around 124 light-years (38 pc) away from Earth >A colossal squid is filmed in the Southern Atlantic Ocean for the first time since the species was discovered in 1925. The 30 cm (12 in)-long juvenile was filmed by a team of scientists led by the University of Essex near the South Sandwich Islands at a depth of 600 m (2,000 ft) |
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| APRIL 17TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >The Israel Defense Forces begins the expansion of the recently-established Morag Corridor buffer zone to include the southern Gaza city of Rafah, intending to connect it with the Philadelphi Corridor. Witnesses report the Israeli demolition of structures in Rafah >At least 37 people, including children, are killed in a series of Israeli strikes against displaced Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, according to Gaza's civil defence agency >The Lebanese military detains a group of people, including several Palestinians, for firing rockets towards Israel in two separate attacks. Hezbollah denies their involvement in the rocket attacks >The United States Navy launches a wave of missile strikes across Houthi-controlled Yemen, killing at least one person in Sanaa WAR IN SOMALIA >US airstrikes kill twelve al-Shabaab insurgents in central Somalia, while a separate airstrike destroys an unflagged vessel suspected of carrying weapons for the militant group off the Somali coast MISC >A hijacker is killed and three others are injured when a US citizen hijacks a Tropic Air Cessna 208 Caravan and attacks passengers with a knife before being fatally shot by a passenger with a firearm at Philip S. W. Goldson International Airport in Belize City, Belize >The death toll from the fire at a nightclub in Kočani, North Macedonia, in March increases to 62 as a burn victim dies in the hospital >Four people are killed and one is injured after the collapse of an aerial tramway on the Monte Faito in Campania, Italy >The death toll of the capsized Hong Hai 16 disaster two days ago off Occidental Mindoro, Philippines, rises to four. Seven others are still missing >At least two people are killed and six others are hospitalized in a mass shooting at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. The suspect is arrested by local police >Turkish police detain 525 suspected drug dealers in Ankara, in what is the biggest narcotics opperation in the country's history, involving thousands of officers, sniffer dogs, drones, and helicopters, according to the interior ministry >The Government of Myanmar pardons and releases 4,893 prisoners, including thirteen foreigners who will be deported from the country, and 22 political prisoners, ahead of the country's New Year >US Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) meets with Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador to push for his release. The move comes hours after being previously denied a meeting with him |
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| APRIL 18TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >American airstrikes targeted the Ras Isa port in Yemen, killing 74 people and wounding 171 others. This marks the single-deadliest known attack under President Donald Trump’s new campaign targeting the Houthis RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announces that the Trump administration is ready to abandon diplomatic efforts and "move on" if it is not possible to end the war in "a matter of days" MISC >One man is killed in Karachi, Pakistan after a mob of radical Islamists attack the Ahmadiyya community >The death toll of the fire and capsizing of the wooden boat HB Kongolo on the Congo River in Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central Africa, three days ago rises to 148. Hundreds of others remain missing >The Philippine National Police reports fifteen people, including eight minors, were killed in drownings across the Philippines during the Holy Week >The death toll of the capsized Hong Hai 16 three days ago off Occidental Mindoro, Philippines, rises to six. Five others are still missing >At least three people are killed when an airplane crashes into the Platte River in Omaha, Nebraska, United States >Two people, including a lay minister, are killed and nine others are injured when a Toyota Innova driven by an Indian national driving under the influence of liquor hit a tricycle and crashed into a procession in Barangay Alangilan, Bacolod City, Negros Occidental, Philippines >At least seventeen people are injured, including four critically and six seriously, in a multiple-vehicle crash on Interstate 35W in Fort Worth, Texas, United States, involving fifteen motorcycles. The crash caused several vehicles to catch fire and is being considered a mass casualty event >A middle school student is killed and multiple others are injured when a school bus returning from a field trip blows a tire, strikes a guardrail and overturns on Interstate 77 in Chester County, South Carolina, United States. Two other buses travelling back from the field trip maneuvered to avoid crashing into it. Between the three buses, an estimated 35 students and four adults were injured >Three people are killed and two others are injured when two boats collide on Lewis Smith Lake in Cullman County, Alabama, United States, during a Major League Fishing tournament >Two people are severely injured in a stabbing attack at an Aldi supermarket in Rochlitz, Saxony, Germany >Eight people are injured in a fire at the King Solomon Hotel in Tiberias, Israel ====== APRIL 19TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >At least 178 people are arrested in Pakistan after over 10 group attacks on KFC restaurants occur during protests against United States support for Israel, with one employee shot dead MISC >The death toll from clashes between cattle herders and farmers earlier this week in Benue State, central Nigeria, rises to 56 >Four people are killed when a Cessna 180 Skywagon clips powerlines and crashes into a field southwest of Coles County Memorial Airport in Trilla, Illinois, United States >Two people are killed and fourteen others are injured when a delivery truck loses its brakes and crashes into six other vehicles in Dumalinao, Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines >The death toll of the capsized Hong Hai 16 sand barge four days ago off Occidental Mindoro, Philippines, rises to seven. Four others are still missing >Three people are rescued and two others are missing after two vehicles were swept off a road during flooding in southeast Moore, Oklahoma, United States >A tavern owner is killed and four others are injured in a mass shooting during a live music performance at a tavern in Marble Hall, Limpopo, South Africa. No arrests were made |
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| APRIL 20TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >Twelve people are killed and thirty others are injured in US airstrikes on a market and a residential zone in Farwa District, Sanaa, Yemen MISC >The death toll from drownings during the week across Australia increases to seven after a fisherman was killed after being swept off rocks near Sydney. Three people remain missing and one other was injured >The death toll of the capsized Hong Hai 16 off Occidental Mindoro, Philippines, rises to nine. Two others are still missing >Three people are killed and ten others are injured, including one critically and four firefighters, in a large house fire in Jamaica Estates, Queens, New York, United States >US federal authorities charge a student at Boston’s University of Massachusetts with unlawful possession of a destructive device and malicious damage by fire after the student is arrested for setting fire to two Tesla Cybertrucks and damaging charging stations in Kansas City >US authorities arrest a man in Colorado Springs for his "Declaration of War" threatening Elon Musk, Tesla owners, and members of Donald Trump's cabinet. The declaration, sent to various media outlets, detailed specific attack methods and aimed at Musk's elimination >Four executives at a company building the State Audit Office skyscraper in Bangkok, Thailand, are arrested on suspicion of breaching the Foreign Business Act |
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| APRIL 21ST WEST AFRICA INSURGENCY >The Islamic State claims responsibility for a series of deadly attacks targeting Christians and Nigerian security forces in Nigeria earlier this month that killed at least nine people and injured several others SOUTH SUDANESE CIVIL WAR >The South Sudan People's Defence Forces capture the town of Nasir in Upper Nile State from the Nuer White Army MISC >Camerlengo Kevin Farrell announces that Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church, has died at the age of 88 years old early on Easter Monday. Following Pope Francis's death, cardinal Kevin Farrell, the Camerlengo, becomes the acting head of Vatican City until the next papal conclave in May >Klaus Schwab steps down as leader of the World Economic Forum, which he founded in 1971 >The perpetrator of the racially motivated domestic terrorist mass shooting attack that killed 23 people and injured 22 others at a Walmart building in El Paso, Texas, United States, in 2019, 26-year-old Patrick Wood Crusius, pleads guilty to state charges and is sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole to avoid the death penalty >At least one person, the perpetrator, is killed and six others are injured, in an arson attack when a man sets fire to an apartment building with a flamethrower in Bongcheon-dong, Seoul, South Korea |
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| APRIL 22ND SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >Israeli airstrikes kill at least 25 people across the Gaza Strip >Syria detains two senior members of the paramilitary organization Palestinian Islamic Jihad RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >Russian guided bombs target Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, killing one person and wounding 26 others, according to regional governor Ivan Fedorov KASHMIR CONFLICT >At least 28 people are killed and dozens of others are injured when separatists open fire on people in Pahalgam, Anantnag district, Indian-controlled Jammu and Kashmir MISC >Roughly 3,000 residents are evacuated and the Garden State Parkway is shut down after a large wildfire burns 3,200 acres (13 square km) in Lacey Township, New Jersey, United States >Seven people are killed in a mass stabbing when a man enters a bakery and attacks sleeping employees in Antipolo, Rizal, Philippines >Interpol rescues 33 West Africans, including people from Benin, Togo, Burkina Faso, and Ghana, from human trafficking rings in the Ivory Coast >Main opposition leader Tidjane Thiam is disqualified from the 2025 Ivorian presidential election >US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says that the US State Department will cut 15% of its staff and that the office of the Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights will be abolished |
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| APRIL 23RD RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >Russian forces launch a drone strike on a bus in Marhanets, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine, killing nine people KASHMIR CONFLICT >India announces several measures targeting Pakistan including closing the main border crossing linking the two countries, suspending the Indus Water Treaty, and expelling Pakistani diplomats after the attack on tourists in Indian-administered Kashmir the previous day MISC >A M 6.2 earthquake with an epicenter in the Sea of Marmara strikes İstanbul, Türkiye, injuring at least 359 people >The International Coral Reef Initiative announces that over 84% of the world's coral reefs are affected by a coral bleaching event since 2023, considered the most intense on record >The body of Pope Francis is moved from Domus Sanctae Marthae to St. Peter's Basilica, and lies in state for a 3-day public viewing >The Jordanian interior ministry bans all activities of the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood organization in the country, seizes the organization's assets, and closes all of its offices, including its political wing in the country, the Islamic Action Front. The Jordanian government links the group to sabotage plots and accuses it of "destabilizing" the country |
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| APRIL 24TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >Three children are killed and several others are injured after an Israeli airstrike hits a tent encampment in the Nuseirat refugee camp, resulting in a fire which spread through parts of the camp. Altogether, at least 45 people were killed from the day's attacks >Israeli settlers in the West Bank shoot and injure five Palestinians and set fire to several homes and farmland RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >Twelve people are killed and around 90 others, including children, are injured in a Russian KN-23 ballistic missile strike on Kyiv, Ukraine WAR IN SOMALIA >Al-Shabaab militants seize the town of Wargaadhi and its military base in Middle Shabelle, Somalia. More than 40 militants and twelve clan fighters are killed in related combat WEST AFRICA INSURGENCY >The Beninese government announces that 54 soldiers were killed in an attack by Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM) in the north of the country last week, after previously announcing only eight soldiers were killed. JNIM claims 70 soldiers were killed in the attack KASHMIR CONFLICT >Pakistan closes its land border and shared airspace with India indefinitely following the attack on tourists in Pahalgam, India-administered Kashmir several days prior, and India's executive actions against Pakistan the previous day MISC >American aerobatics pilot Rob Holland is killed when his MX Aircraft MXS aircraft crashes while landing at Langley Air Force Base in Hampton, Virginia, United States >A joint commission of the Mexican Senate approves a proposal submitted by president Claudia Sheinbaum that would grant the government the power to block and censor digital platforms, including social networks, websites, and apps, indefinitely and without a court order. The proposal will be sent to the government-aligned majority in Congress for further approval >24-year-old Robert E. Crimo is sentenced to 21 life sentences for killing seven people and injuring 48 others in a mass shooting during the 2022 Independence Day parade in Highland Park, Illinois, United States >A 19-year-old is arrested and charged with arson on suspicion of starting an ongoing large wildfire that has burned 15,000 acres in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States >One student is killed and three others are critically injured in a mass stabbing at a private school in Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France. A 15-year-old student is detained >Former South Korean President Moon Jae-in is indicted on charges of alleged corruption and bribery for receiving ₩217 million (US$152,000) in connection with his son-in-law's employment at airline Eastar Jet in Thailand >The Palestinian Central Council votes 170–1 to establish the position of Vice President of the State of Palestine >The Shenzhou 20 spacecraft launches successfully from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China, carrying three astronauts on a six-month mission to install space debris protection in the Tiangong space station and carry out scientific experiments on solar and cosmic ray radiation on planarians |
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| APRIL 25TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >The World Food Programme (WFP) claims that their entire food stock inside the Gaza Strip is empty due to the Israeli blockade of humanitarian aid. WFP aid kitchens are expected to run out of food in a few days, and millions of Palestinians are expected to die from starvation. The United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs calls the situation "probably the worst" since the beginning of the war in October 2023 RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >Lieutenant general Yaroslav Moskalik, deputy head of the Main Operations Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, is assassinated in a car bombing in Balashikha, Moscow Oblast, Russia KASHMIR CONFLICT >Indian and Pakistani military troops exchange gunfire across the Line of Control during an ongoing diplomatic crisis caused by a terrorist attack in India-administered Kashmir US TRADE WAR >The German government cuts its economic growth forecast to zero, with the Deutsche Bundesbank estimating a future recession. Minister of Economic Affairs Robert Habeck accuses US President Donald Trump's Liberation Day tariffs of being the primary reason for Germany's continued economic crisis MISC >Cardinals seal the coffin of Pope Francis in a private liturgical rite led by Camerlengo Kevin Farrell at St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City >A man is killed and two women are wounded as a car plunges in to a group of people celebrating the 80th anniversary of the Liberation of Italy in Lanciano, Province of Chieti >Four people are killed and four others are injured, including one critically, when a dump truck crashes into six pedestrians working on powerlines in Eden, North Carolina, United States >A Royal Thai Police Viking DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft crashes while conducting a test flight for parachuting training near Hua Hin Airport in Prachuap Khiri Khan, Thailand, killing all six people on board >A M 6.3 earthquake strikes Esmeraldas, Ecuador, shutting down power, damaging 800 buildings and injuring 32 people >Former Brazilian president Fernando Collor de Mello is arrested following a corruption conviction by Supreme Federal Court justice Alexandre de Moraes >Wisconsin circuit court judge Hannah Dugan is arrested by United States federal law enforcement on obstruction charges after allegedly helping an undocumented immigrant evade arrest |
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| APRIL 26TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >The Israel Defense Forces intercepted a ballistic missile launched from Yemen by Houthi forces WEST AFRICA INSURGENCY >Twelve Nigerien troops are killed in clashes with militants near the village of Sakoira, Niger KASHMIR CONFLICT >Severe flooding is reported along the Jhelum River in Pakistan-administered Azad Kashmir after Indian authorities release a large amount of water without prior warning. The incident follows the suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty by the Indian government SOUTH CHINA SEA DISPUTE >China seizes the disputed Sandy Cay Reef in the Spratly Islands of the South China Sea MISC >Two women are seriously injured in an attack on a road when a 38-year-old man attacks them with a crossbow and a firearm before shooting and injuring himself in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Counter Terrorism Policing is currently investigating the incident >At least eight people are killed and six others injured, after a car is driven through a crowd at a festival in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada >At least fourteen people are killed and over 700 others are injured in an explosion at the Port of Shahid Rajaee in Bandar Abbas, Iran >Three people are killed when a Mooney M20 crashes a mile south of Upper Cumberland Regional Airport in Tennessee, United States >The funeral of Pope Francis is held in St. Peter's Square, Vatican City. 400,000 people are in attendance, including more than 130 world leaders |
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| APRIL 27TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >At least 51 Palestinians are killed by Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, bringing the official death toll to 52,243 throughout the war RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >North Korea confirms the deployment of its soldiers to Russia a day after Russia confirmed the presence of North Korean soldiers fighting alongside them KHYBER-PAKHTUNKHWA INSURGENCY >The Pakistani Armed Forces killed 54 Pakistani Taliban militants attempting to cross into Pakistan from Afghanistan near North Waziristan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, who were planning to carry out high-profile terrorist attacks inside Pakistan SUDANESE CIVIL WAR >Rapid Support Forces militants kill over 31 civilians, including minors, in a mass shooting near al-Salha, Omdurman MISC >Saudi Arabia and Qatar announce they will pay Syria's outstanding debt of $15 million to the World Bank that the country accumulated throughout its civil war from 2011, allowing Syria to work towards post-war recovery and reconstruction, which is estimated to cost at least $400 billion >The death toll from the previous day's explosion at the Port of Shahid Rajaee in Bandar Abbas, Iran, rises to 40 while the injury count increases to 1,205 >The tomb of Pope Francis at the Santa Maria Maggiore basilica in Rome, Italy, is opened for public viewing and photos are released by Vatican City. More than 13,000 people enter the basilica to view the tomb and pay their respects, while several thousand others remain outside >The death toll from the previous day's vehicle-ramming attack at a street festival in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, rises to eleven with at least 20 others injured, making the attack tied for the deadliest vehicle-ramming attack in Canadian history. The British Columbia Prosecution Service charges the perpetrator with eight counts of second-degree murder, while investigators also rule out terrorism >Three people are killed and two are injured in a mass shooting after a quarrel outside a pizzeria in Monreale, Province of Palermo, Italy >Polish investigators start excavating a World War II mass grave in Puźniki. It contains victims of the Volhynia massacres, when Ukrainian nationalists murdered around 100,000 civilians who were predominantly Polish >More than 100 people suspected of entering the United States illegally are detained in a raid by the DEA and ICE at a nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States, which had been investigated for drug trafficking and prostitution >One person is killed and six others, including three students, are wounded in a school shooting during a university event at the historically black Elizabeth City State University in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, United States |
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| APRIL 28TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >68 people are killed and 47 others are injured in a US airstrike on a prison holding African migrants in Saada Governorate, Yemen >A sailor is injured when an F/A-18E fighter jet falls off the deck of the USS Harry Truman and sinks while the aircraft carrier engaged in evasive maneuvers to avoid a Houthi attack >Israel carries out airstrikes on several suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, despite a ceasefire agreement following the 2024 invasion. The Lebanese Civil Defense reports no casualties RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >Russian president Vladimir Putin declares a three-day ceasefire in Ukraine for May 8–10 to mark the World War II Victory Day KASHMIR CONFLICT >Pakistani Defence Minister Khawaja Asif says that a military incursion by India is imminent KHYBER-PAKHTUNKHWA INSURGENCY >At least seven people are killed and 16 others are wounded when a bomb explodes outside an anti-Pakistani Taliban peace committee office building in Wana, South Waziristan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan WAR IN SOMALIA >Several mortars from Al-Shabaab militants strike Aden Adde Airport and Halane Camp, the residences of the UNSOM, AUSSOM, and foreign embassies SOUTH THAILAND INSURGENCY >Three people are killed and another is severely injured overnight in two separate attacks by suspected Islamist insurgents in Bannang Sata district, Yala province, Thailand EUROPEAN POWER OUTAGE >A widespread power outage is reported in Spain, Portugal, Andorra, and parts of France, shutting down airports, public transit systems, and many hospitals >The government of Spain declares a national state of emergency and deploys over 30,000 police officers to maintain order. Portuguese prime minister Luis Montenegro rules out a cyberattack as the cause of the power outage CANADIAN FEDERAL ELECTION >Voters in Canada go to the polls to elect the 343 members of the House of Commons to the 45th Canadian Parliament >The Liberal Party under leader Mark Carney is projected to form a government for a fourth consecutive mandate, with Carney remaining prime minister >Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre and New Democratic Party leader Jagmeet Singh each make speeches conceding the election, with Singh announcing his intention to resign as party leader TRINIDAD & TOBAGO ELECTION >Voters in Trinidad and Tobago go to the polls to elect the 41 members of the House of Representatives >The opposition United National Congress wins a majority of seats MISC >At least four people are killed and six others are injured when a car crashes through the wall of a daycare center in Chatham, Illinois, United States. The driver was not injured but was taken to a hospital for evaluation >Six people are injured in a mass stabbing attack at a high school in Cheongju, South Korea. The attacker, a student, is arrested >The Vatican announces the 2025 papal conclave will take place starting on May 7th in the Sistine Chapel to elect Pope Francis's successor after his death on April 21st >The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announces its 2025 inductees, including English band Bad Company, American groups OutKast and Soundgarden, artists Cyndi Lauper and Carol Kaye, and more |
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| APRIL 29TH KASHMIR CONFLICT >Pakistani Information Minister Attaullah Tarar says that India intends to launch a military strike on Pakistan within the next 24 to 36 hours SYRIAN CIVIL WAR >Gunmen reported to be aligned with the Syrian government engage in fatal clashes with armed Druze combatants in the Druze-majority city of Jaramana in southern Syria. At least 13 people were killed, and 12 others were injured WEST AFRICA INSURGENCY >Sixteen people are killed after the explosion of a roadside bomb between the towns of Rann and Gamboru in Borno State, Nigeria EUROPEAN POWER OUTAGE >At least five fatalities are reported in Spain as a consequence of the power outage that affected the Iberian Peninsula the day before MISC >A 38-year-old man suspected of seriously injuring two women on Saturday in a shooting and crossbow attack on the Otley Run pub crawl in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, succumbs to a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the hospital. It is confirmed that the perpetrator's motive was misogyny >Twenty-two people are killed and three others are injured after a fire breaks out in a restaurant in Liaoyang, Liaoning, China >Eighteen Russians are injured in a bus crash in Side, Türkiye >Three firefighters are killed and 70 others are injured when a fuel tanker explodes in the Nushki District, Balochistan, Pakistan. The driver of the tanker were also killed in the incident >Three people are killed in a shooting at a hair salon in Uppsala, Sweden. The perpetrator is on the run |
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| APRIL 30TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >The Royal Air Force launches airstrikes on buildings used by the Houthis to manufacture drones south of Sanaa, Yemen WAR IN SOMALIA >Puntland releases fifteen prisoners of war in exchange for Somaliland releasing eleven combatants captured during the conflict in the contested Sool region. This is the second prisoner exchange of prisoners captured during the conflict in Las Anod COLOMBIAN CONFLICT >The Colombian government says fifteen police officers and twelve soldiers have been killed over the past two weeks in targeted attacks by the Gulf Clan cartel and other armed groups MEXICAN DRUG WAR >Alejandro Gertz Manero, Attorney General of Mexico, concluded that the Izaguirre Ranch was used by the Jalisco New Generation Cartel as a recruitment camp between 2021 and 2024, but found no evidence that it served as an extermination site MISC >Wildfires rage out of control in at least 100 different locations in Israel and the West Bank, prompting the Israeli government to declare a state of emergency and forcing evacuations near Jerusalem >Fifteen people are killed, including two children, and thirteen others are injured in a fire at a hotel in Kolkata, West Bengal, India >Three people are killed and two others are seriously injured in a mass shooting in Minneapolis, Minnesota >Amid strengthening ties between Taiwan and Somaliland, the Somali government bans the entry and transit of Taiwanese passport holders through Somalia citing UN Resolution 2758 and the One China policy. Taiwan warns its citizens against traveling to Somaliland or Somalia and lodges a protest with the Somali government. China welcomes the ban, citing Somali's obligations under the One-China policy >New Zealand defence minister Judith Collins and Philippine defense secretary Gilbert Teodoro sign a visiting forces agreement in Manila |
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| MAY 1ST RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >An overnight Russian drone attack on Odesa, Ukraine, kills two people and injures 15 others. High-rise apartments, residential homes, a supermarket and a school were among those targeted, according to Governor of Odesa Oblast Oleh Kiper >The United States and Ukraine sign the Ukraine–United States Mineral Resources Agreement to share profits from the future sales of Ukraine's mineral and energy reserves SYRIAN CIVIL WAR >The Syrian Observatory of Human Rights reports that nine field executions were conducted against members of the Syrian Druze community amid an outbreak of sectarian clashes. Syrian Druze spiritual leader Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri characterizes the killings as part of a "genocidal campaign" >Israeli Druze spiritual leader Sheikh Mowafaq Tarif appeals to Israel to intervene against ongoing massacres SOUTH KOREAN COUP ATTEMPT AFTERMATH >The Prosecutors of South Korea indict former president Yoon Suk-yeol of abuse of authority after he declared martial law in December 2024 >The Supreme Court of South Korea overturns the acquittal judgement of Democratic Party presidential candidate and former leader Lee Jae-myung over violation of election law. The court orders the case to be sent back to Seoul High Court >Acting President of South Korea Han Duck-soo resigns, indicating a possible run in the upcoming presidential election >Finance minister Choi Sang-mok, the next person in the presidential line of succession, resigns a few hours later MISC >At least ten people are killed while 37 others are injured in a multiple-vehicle collision at the Tarlac City toll plaza of the Subic–Clark–Tarlac Expressway in Tarlac, Philippines >The world's oldest person, Brazilian nun Sister Inah Canabarro Lucas, dies at the age of 116 years and 326 days. The new oldest living person is British supercentenarian Ethel Caterham, who is the last person born in the 1900s decade, the last living subject of King Edward VII, and the oldest British person ever >A US district judge finds that Apple willfully violated an injunction in a case brought by Epic Games. The injunction was supposed to block Apple from anti-competitive conduct and pricing, opening the App Store up to outside payment options >In the wake of the Signalgate scandal, Mike Waltz and Alex Nelson Wong resign as US National Security Advisor and Deputy National Security Advisor respectively, marking the first resignations during the second Trump administration. US President Donald Trump later nominates Waltz to the position of US Ambassador to the United Nations >An American citizen detained in Belarus after being accused of being part of a US-backed coup to oust Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko is released from the country. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirms the release >Kenyan parliament member Charles Ong'ondo is shot to death in Nairobi by unknown gunmen on a motorcycle in an apparent assassination >The United Kingdom holds local elections, as well as a parliamentary by-election in the Runcorn and Helsby constituency |
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| MAY 2ND SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >A Gaza-bound activist humanitarian aid ship, part of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, catches fire and issues an SOS after what its organizers alleged was an Israeli drone attack off the coast of Malta in international waters US TRADE WAR >The Trump administration terminates the de minimis tariff exemption for some imports shipped directly to consumers. Online shops such as Shein and Temu adjust prices, while Temu also announces a shipping pause to the United States HAITAN CRISIS >The United States Department of State designates the Viv Ansanm coalition and the Gran Grif gang as Foreign Terrorist Organizations MISC >Rust is released theatrically in the United States, three and a half years after a fatal on-set shooting accident occurred involving members of the cast and crew, including cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, director Joel Souza, and lead actor Alec Baldwin >Seven people, including six foreign nationals, are killed and at least sixteen others are injured, some severely, when a truck and a van collide and catch fire on US Route 20 near Yellowstone National Park in Idaho, United States >The bodies of three South African police officers who had been missing for six days are found in the Hennops River >The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 216 children have died this flu season in the United States, making it the deadliest since the 2009 swine flu pandemic 15 years ago >The United States Department of Defense designates a second area on the Mexico–United States border, attached to the Fort Bliss Army base in El Paso, Texas, as a military zone to enforce immigration laws >United States District Judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr. rules that US President Donald Trump cannot use the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan migrants, deeming the previous use of this power as having been improperly invoked >US President Donald Trump signs an executive order calling for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to stop directly funding NPR and PBS, and for government agencies to stop indirectly funding these public broadcasters >The German Constitution protection office designates the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party as a right-wing extremist organization. The AfD came second in the 2025 German federal election after winning 20.8% of the vote for a record 152 seats in the Bundestag |
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| MAY 3RD RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >Four people are injured in an overnight Ukrainian drone strike that struck an apartment building on Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Krai, Russia. The mayor of Novorossiysk declares a state of emergency following the strikes >The Ukrainian intelligence directorate shot down a Russian Sukhoi Su-30 fighter jet using a MAGURA naval drone over the Black Sea SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >Hamas releases a video showing Israeli hostage Maxim Hirkin, who was abducted during the Nova music festival massacre in 2023, alive SOUTH SUDANESE CIVIL WAR >At least seven people are killed and 25 others are injured in an airstrike on a hospital run by Médecins Sans Frontières in Old Fangak, Fangak County, South Sudan AUSTRALIAN ELECTIONS >The Australian Labor Party under current Prime Minister Anthony Albanese increases its majority in the House of Representatives, winning a second term >Opposition Leader and Liberal Party leader Peter Dutton loses his seat of Dickson, marking the first time an Opposition Leader has lost their seat in Australian electoral history SINGAPOREAN ELECTIONS >Singaporeans vote to elect 92 out of 97 members of the Parliament of Singapore across 32 of the 33 constituencies in the 19th general election since 1948 >The People’s Action Party wins the election, receiving 65.57% of the vote, surpassing the 61.2% received in the 2020 election MISC >A woman is killed in Thessaloniki, Greece, after a bomb she was carrying explodes in her hands, also damaging several nearby storefronts and vehicles. The bomb was possibly intended to be placed outside a nearby bank >Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett announces that he will step down as CEO by the end of the year at the company's annual shareholder meeting. Greg Abel will take over as CEO, pending board approval >Six people are killed and about 80 others are injured, including five critically, in a stampede during a Hindu temple festival in North Goa district, Goa, India >Brazil's Social Security Minister, Carlos Lupi, resigns after police announce a corruption scandal which alleges he defrauded pensioners of $1.1 billion. Federal police say that the National Social Security Institute made unauthorised deductions from payments made to millions of pensioners over the past decade >Former Labor Minister Kim Moon Soo wins the presidential nomination of South Korea's main conservative party, People Power >Togolese President Faure Gnassingbé is sworn-in as President of the Council of Ministers. Following constitutional reform that introduced a parliamentary system, this new post becomes the highest office in the government's executive branch >Thousands of Bangladeshi Islamists protest government proposals that include equal inheritance rights for women, a ban on polygamy, and recognition of sex workers as laborers |
Mao said: If you have to shit, shit! If you have to fart, fart! |
| MAY 4TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >A hypersonic missile launched from Houthi-controlled Yemen hits near Ben Gurion International Airport in Central District, Israel, injuring eight people SUDANESE CIVIL WAR >The Rapid Support Forces launch drone attacks on Port Sudan's international civilian and military airport. Drones also hit an ammunition depot at Osman Digna Air Base, causing damage but no casualties US TRADE WAR >US president Donald Trump announces he will introduce 100% tariffs on films that are “produced in Foreign Lands” MISC >The casualty figure from the explosion at the Port of Shahid Rajaee in Hormozgan province, Iran, is revised by the judiciary of Iran to 57 deaths and more than 1,000 injuries. Two people, including a government official, are arrested in connection with the explosion >Marine salvage experts begin operations to recover the superyacht Bayesian which sank in August 2024 killing seven people, including British billionaire tech magnate Mike Lynch and members of his family, while fifteen others were rescued >Three people are killed, sixty others are hospitalized, and fourteen are missing after two passenger boats carrying around seventy people, including tourists, capsize on the Wu River near Qianxi, Guizhou, China >At least three people are killed, fifteen others are injured, including children, and several apartments are destroyed in a gas explosion at an apartment block in Moscow, Russia >Two people are killed and four others are injured after a car crashes into an entrance of Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Metro Manila, Philippines. The driver of the car is in police custody >Two people are arrested after planning to carry out attacks with improvised explosive devices at Lady Gaga's concert with more than two million attendees on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to gain notoriety on social media. The suspects spread hate speech, mainly against children, adolescents and the LGBT community >Five people, including four Iranian citizens, are arrested for planning to carry out a terrorist attack at a single location in London, United Kingdom. Separately, three other Iranian men are arrested in London on suspicion of a national security offense as part of an unrelated investigation >The bodies of thirteen Peruvian gold mine security guards that were abducted in an ambush in April are found dead >The first round of the Romanian presidential election is held with eleven candidates on the ballot. If no candidate wins over 50% of the vote, a run-off between the first two candidates will be held |
Mao said: If you have to shit, shit! If you have to fart, fart! |
| MAY 5TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >The Israeli Defense Forces carry out six airstrikes on the port of Hodeidah in Yemen, injuring at least 21 people, in response to the previous day's attack on Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel, which injured eight >The Israeli Security Cabinet confirms plans for an indefinite occupation of the Gaza Strip alongside moving its civilians southwards >The Vatican announces that it will convert and donate a Popemobile into a mobile health clinic for wounded children in Gaza, Palestine, in accordance with one of Pope Francis' final wishes >Five pro-Palestinian protesters are arrested by police during a World War II anniversary event in Wageningen, Netherlands, after throwing a smoke bomb onto the stage during a speech by Dutch prime minister Dick Schoof while Polish prime minister Donald Tusk was visiting, and holding up banners and flags SYRIAN CIVIL WAR >A woman is killed and others are wounded after unidentified armed men open fire with automatic weapons inside a nightclub in Damascus, Syria SUDANESE CIVIL WAR >The International Court of Justice dismisses Sudan's case against the United Arab Emirates (UAE) alleging that the UAE violated the Genocide Convention by supplying weapons to the Rapid Support Forces and other paramilitary groups in the Darfur region NORTH CAUCASUS INSURGENCY >Three traffic police officers and two gunmen are killed and at least four others, including a police officer and two other shooters, are injured in a mass shooting and shootout by gunmen in Makhachkala, Dagestan, Russia. One of the attackers fled in a police car MISC >Three people are killed, four others are injured, and nine are missing after a panga boat capsizes near a beach at the Del Mar Fairgrounds near San Diego, California, United States >Three people are killed and five are injured in a mass shooting in Glendale, Arizona, United States >The incumbent Australian Labor Party overtakes the Liberal–National Coalition as the largest plurality in the Senate, meaning support will be required only from the Coalition or the Australian Greens to pass legislation >The first round of voting in the Lebanese municipal elections begins in Mount Lebanon Governorate and Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate |
Mao said: If you have to shit, shit! If you have to fart, fart! |
| MAY 6TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >Israeli airstrikes hit Sanaa International Airport in Sanaa, Yemen, and destroy three of Yemenia's seven planes >US President Donald Trump announces that the United States has reached a ceasefire with the Houthis, with Oman as mediator, and will stop its airstrikes, after they agreed to stop disrupting international shipping KASHMIR CONFLICT >Indian airstrikes hit multiple locations in Pakistan, killing at least 8 people BALOCHISTAN INSURGENCY >Seven Pakistan Army soldiers are killed and five others are injured when their vehicle in a convoy heading to a security operation is blown up by a Balochistan Liberation Army IED in Balochistan, Pakistan MISC >Twelve people are killed and 23 others are injured after a bus overturns in Padang Panjang, West Sumatra, Indonesia >Four people are killed, including an army trooper, and over 40 others are injured, including 11 critically, when a passenger bus rolls down into a gorge in Poonch District, Jammu and Kashmir, India >The government of Peru imposes a curfew and temporarily suspends gold mining in Pataz Province for 30 days after the bodies of thirteen miners who were kidnapped and killed were discovered on Sunday >The Bundestag elects Friedrich Merz, leader of the Christian Democratic Union, as the 10th Chancellor of Germany in the second round of voting, with 325 votes out of the 316 votes necessary. He is the first chancellor of Germany to have been elected only in the second round |
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| MAY 7TH KASHMIR CONFLICT >Pakistan launches retaliatory strikes into India, and claims to have destroyed five Indian fighter jets. Three civilians are killed >Pakistani prime minister Shehbaz Sharif declares the Indian attacks to be an act of war and vows further retaliation >A state of emergency is declared in Pakistan's Punjab province, with all schools in the region being closed. Hospitals and emergency services are placed on high alert >According to French intelligence officials, an Indian Dassault Rafale fighter jet was shot down by Pakistani forces SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >Israeli airstrikes kill at least 92 Palestinians, including women, children, and two journalists, and wound at least 86 others >Four people are injured, at least two seriously, in a drive-by shooting at a car at the Reihan crossing in the West Bank >One person is injured in an attempted car ramming and stabbing in Mount Hebron in the West Bank >US President Donald Trump stated that there will probably be news regarding a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of hostages within the next 24 hours >A second US Navy F/A-18 fighter jet is lost in the Red Sea, due to an equipment failure during its attempted landing on USS Harry Truman. Both of its crew members ejected and were recovered MISC >The Walt Disney Company announces plans to open its seventh theme park in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, their first in the Middle East >Eleven kindergarten teachers are killed in a collision between a minibus and dump truck in Purworejo Regency, Central Java, Indonesia >A woman is decapitated and a security guard is critically injured in a axe mass stabbing attack by a 22-year-old Polish citizen on the campus of University of Warsaw at an auditorium in Warsaw, Poland. A day of mourning is declared >One student is killed and two others are injured in a mass stabbing attack outside the entrance of Santa Ana High School in Orange County, California, United States >A total of 133 cardinal electors begin the process of electing a new pope following the death of Pope Francis. The conclave's first ballot fails to elect a new pope >British prime minister Keir Starmer and Indian prime minister Narendra Modi announce they have signed a bilateral free trade agreement to significantly lower tariffs on 99% of Indian exports into the UK, including textiles, and halve tariffs of British exports into India, including aerospace manufacturing, whiskey, and lamb meat |
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| MAY 8TH MISC >Six people are reportedly killed when a Piper PA-31T Cheyenne air ambulance crashes between Tiltil and Curacaví in Chile >Five tourists and a pilot are killed, and one other person is injured, when a Bell 407 aircraft crashes and falls into a deep gorge near Bhagirathi River in Uttarakhand, India >123 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 >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 >Jack Steven James Brearley and Brodie Lee Palmer are found guilty for the murder of Aboriginal Australian schoolboy Cassius Turvey in Middle Swan, Western Australia, in 2022 >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 >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 his predecessor, Pope Francis. A dual citizen of the US and Peru, he follows Francis to also become the second South American pope |
Mao said: If you have to shit, shit! If you have to fart, fart! |
| MAY 9TH 5TH INDO-PAKISTANI WAR >The Indian Air Force strikes PAF 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 defenses are engaging hostile targets over Pakistani airspace >Pakistan closes its airspace to all non-military flights saying the Indian Armed Forces has launched ballistic missiles at the country >In cricket, the Pakistan Super League is suspended indefinitely due to the ongoing war between India and Pakistan RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >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 SOUTHEAST NIGERIA INSURGENCY >Indigenous People of Biafra militants kill 30 people in Imo State, Nigeria, according to Amnesty International MISC >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 >A 39-year old Dutch diver dies during preparations for the salvage operation of the sunken yacht Bayesian >French President Emmanuel Macron and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk signs a treaty committing both sides to mutual assistance |
Mao said: If you have to shit, shit! If you have to fart, fart! |
| MAY 10TH 5TH INDO-PAKISTANI WAR >Pakistan announces Operation Bunyanun Marsoos, the start of large-scale military action against India >Pakistan Air Force warplanes launch airstrikes throughout India with missile strikes targeting Udhampur, Pathankot Airport and a BrahMos missile storage facility in Beas City, Punjab >A Pakistani Fatah-II missile is intercepted over the city of Sirsa in the Indian state of Haryana >India announces the temporary closure of its airspace over the northern and western regions of the country until May 14th >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 US. Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri later confirms the ceasefire as well >Violations of the ceasefire and new clashes are reported shortly after the announcement of the agreement SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >At least 23 Palestinians are killed, including three children, in overnight Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City >Nine Israeli soldiers are injured in an improvised explosive device explosion in the Shijaiyah neighborhood of Gaza City 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 MISC >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 >Four people are injured and 150,000 people are issued health warnings and stay-indoors orders in a fire at a chemical plant near Barcelona and Tarragona in Vilanova i la Geltrú, Catalonia, Spain >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 >Ras Baraka, the mayor of Newark, is arrested and charged with trespassing during a protest with three members of Congress at a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Newark, New Jersey >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 |
Mao said: If you have to shit, shit! If you have to fart, fart! |
| MAY 11TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >Fifteen Palestinians, mostly women and children, are killed in overnight Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip. >Hamas agrees to release Edan Alexander, a dual American-Israeli citizen hostage; the release is expected to take place in the coming days >The body of Israel Defense Forces soldier Zvi Feldman, missing since the Lebanon War in 1982, is repatriated to Israel from deep inside Syria in a joint Mossad–IDF operation RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >Russian President Vladimir Putin proposes holding direct negotiations in Istanbul, Türkiye, 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 >Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy asks Russia to confirm an unconditional ceasefire before any direct negotiations between the two nations KHYBER-PAKHTUNKHWA INSURGENCY >At least two police officers are killed and three others are injured in a roadside bombing targeting a police vehicle in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan ECUADORIAN CONFLICT >Ecuador announces a three-day mourning period after eleven soldiers are killed in an ambush by guerrillas MISC >A bus carrying Buddhist pilgrims in Kotmale, Sri Lanka, swerves off a cliff, killing 21 people and injuring 35 others >Four people are killed, dozens are injured including four critically, and hundreds are displaced in a fire at a four-story apartment building in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States >One person is killed and 32 others are injured in a collision between a SUV and a bus in Hacienda Heights, California, United States >The Taliban bans chess in Afghanistan, with a Taliban spokesman saying that chess is considered a form of gambling under Sharia law >Albanians vote to elect the 140 members of the Parliament, as Prime Minister Edi Rama seeks reelection for a fourth term >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 Indo-Pakistani War |
Mao said: If you have to shit, shit! If you have to fart, fart! |
| MAY 12TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander is released by Hamas after being kept in captivity in Gaza for 19 months since the October 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel PKK INSURGENCY >The 12th Congress of the Kurdistan Workers' Party announces an immediate ceasefire of insurgency activities in Türkiye and plans for a formal disbandment SYRIAN CIVIL WAR >The remains of 30 people believed to have been killed by Islamic State militants have been found in a joint search by Qatar and the FBI in the remote town of Dabiq, Aleppo Governorate, Syria WEST AFRICAN INSURGENCY >An unknown armed group attacks a Chinese artisanal gold mine in Narena, Koulikoro Region, Mali, killing one Malian and two others from Ghana, and abducting two Chinese nationals US TRADE WAR >The US and China agree to a trade deal in which, for 90 days, US tariffs on Chinese goods will drop from 145% to 30%, while China's retaliatory tariffs on US goods will drop from 125% to 10% MISC >Six people are injured after heavy fire and clashes are reported as rival militia gunmen from the 444th Brigade and the Stability Support exchange fire after the assassination of Stability Support Apparatus (SAA) Commander Abdel Ghani al-Kikli in Tripoli, Libya. A state of emergency has been declared by authorities >Thirteen people are killed after an expired ammunition explosion in Garut Regency, West Java, Indonesia >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 >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 >Filipinos vote to elect all 317 members of the House of Representatives and 12 members of the Senate, in addition to local elections |
Mao said: If you have to shit, shit! If you have to fart, fart! |
| MAY 13TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >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 center beneath the building WAR IN SOMALIA >Three Al-Shabaab fighters, including a senior commander, are killed in a coordinated operation by the Somali National Army in Jowle, Mudug, Puntland >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 MISC >Fourteen people are killed and four others are hospitalized after drinking toxic liquor in Amritsar, Punjab, India >A state of emergency is declared in Buryatia, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia, as firefighters fight wildfires currently burning more than 53,000 hectares >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 >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 >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 >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 >Prime Minister of Peru Gustavo Adrianzen resigns a day before a vote of censure against him over rising crime in Peru >The first group of Afrikaners arrive in the United States after US 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 |
Mao said: If you have to shit, shit! If you have to fart, fart! |
| MAY 14TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >Israeli airstrikes kill at least 70 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip >Two people, including a pregnant woman, are critically wounded in a shooting near Brukhin in the West Bank >The Israel Defense Forces claim that a drone strike in Qaaqaait al-Jisr, Nabatieh Governorate, Lebanon, killed a Hezbollah commander NAXALITE-MAOIST INSURGENCY >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 MISC >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 >Colombia joins China's Belt and Road Initiative during the China-CELAC Forum in Beijing >US president Donald Trump meets with Syrian president Ahmed al-Sharaa during a trip in Saudi Arabia prior to departing for Qatar >President of Argentina Javier Milei orders restrictions on immigration to Argentina, saying that immigrants are bringing "chaos and abuse" to Argentina >Tajikistan president Emomali Rahmon signs a law decriminalizing the "liking" of posts on social media publicly calling for terrorism or other serious crimes >Russian election observer Grigory Melkonyants is convicted on charges of working with an "undesirable organization" and sentenced to five years in prison >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 |
Mao said: If you have to shit, shit! If you have to fart, fart! |
| AY 15TH WEST AFRICA INSURGENCY >Al-Qaeda affiliated Islamist militant group Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal-Muslimin claims 200 soldiers were killed in an attack on a Burkina Faso Armed Forces military base on Sunday in Djibo, Sahel, Burkina Faso. They also claimed responsibility for another attack this week at a military post in Loroum Province that killed 60 soldiers PAPUA CONFLICT >The Indonesian military confirms that 18 Papuan separatists and three civilians were killed in a military operation the previous day in Intan Jaya Regency, Central Papua, Indonesia MISC >A long-lost version of the British Magna Carta, dating to 1300 in the reign of King Edward I, is believed to have been found at Harvard University, United States >British investigators say the cause of the sinking of the Bayesian superyacht that killed seven people, including billionaire tech magnate Mike Lynch in Italy in 2024, is from being knocked over by extreme wind and could not recover >Five people are killed and three others are injured after a van drives into the back of a truck on the national road 2 in Konotopa, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland >Two people are killed and 1,000 others are evacuated after wildfires spread across central Manitoba, Canada >US President Donald Trump says that the U.S. and Iran have "sort of" agreed on the terms of a deal on Iran's nuclear program, which reportedly includes Iran agreeing to give up highly enriched uranium while keeping lower-grade uranium needed for civilian nuclear power, in exchange for the lifting of sanctions >At the China-CELAC Forum in Beijing, the Chinese foreign ministry announces it will allow nationals from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru, and Uruguay to enter the country without a travel visa starting June 1st >The US state of Florida executes serial killer Glen Edward Rogers for the 1995 murder of a woman at a motel in Tampa >Russian media reports that police raided the publisher office of Eksmo Publishing House the previous day and arrested several of its employees, accusing them of spreading "LGBT extremism" >Larissa Waters is elected leader of the Australian Greens, following the resignation of Adam Bandt after the party's poor performance at the 2025 Australian federal election |
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| MAY 16TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >More than 74 people have been killed in Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip yesterday >The Israeli Air Force launches airstrikes on the ports of Hodeidah and Salif in Houthi-controlled Yemen, as prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and defense minister Israel Katz warn that if the Houthis persist in attacking Israel, their leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi will be directly targeted MISC >Moody's Ratings lowers the United States' credit rating from Aaa to Aa1, citing the government's rising debt, widening deficits, and increased interest payments >A tornado strikes St. Louis, Missouri. At least five people are killed, 35-45 others are injured and more than 100,000 are without power in the St. Louis metropolitan area following severe weather in the city and surrounding areas >Five people are killed and three others are injured by a landslide at a hydropower plant construction site in Phong Thổ, Lai Châu province, Vietnam >The Government of Angola says that former President of Gabon Ali Bongo, along with former First Lady Sylvia Bongo Ondimba and their son Noureddin Bongo Valentin arrived last night in Angola, where they received asylum "for humanitarian reasons", days after their release from prison, where they had been since the 2023 coup >A court in New York, United States sentences 27-year old Hadi Matar to 25 years in prison for the August 2022 stabbing attack on Indian-British-American author Salman Rushdie, which left Rushdie severely injured while he was giving a talk in Chautauqua >At least two people are killed, including the perpetrator and four others are injured, including one critically, in a mass shooting and shootout when a man opens fire inside of a gym in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States >Three people, including two firefighters, are killed and two other firefighters are seriously injured in a fire at a former Royal Air Force base in Oxfordshire, England >Ten inmates take part in a mass escape from the Orleans Parish jail in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Three are recaptured; the other seven remain fugitives >According to the Vietnamese foreign ministry, more than 650 Vietnamese nationals are detained for immigration violations in Myanmar. The Vietnamese public security ministry has repatriated 450 people, with 200 still in Myanmar |
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| MAY 17TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >More than 150 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes in the last 24 hours RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >A bus evacuating civilians is attacked by a Russian drone near Bilopillia, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine, killing nine people and injuring five others GUYANA-VENEZUELA DISPUTE >The chief of the Guyana Defence Force, Omar Khan, says that military reinforcement have been sent to the Cuyuní River area after Venezuelan civilians shot at Guyanese soldiers on Thursday, as tensions between both nations increase over a referendum by Venezuela on Essequibo SYRIAN CIVIL WAR >The Ministry of Interior of Syria announces that its armed forces carried out a military operation in a southern neighborhood of Aleppo, where it killed a member of Islamic State, arrested another, and seized weapons, explosives and uniforms with official insignia. A security forces member is also killed in the confrontation MISC >One person is killed, four others are injured and significant damage is reported in a car bombing at a fertility clinic near the Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs, California, United States. The Federal Bureau of Investigation confirmed the explosion was an act of terrorism >Five people, including Estonian businessmen Oleg Sõnajalg and Priit Jaagant, are killed when two Robinson R44 civilian helicopters en route to Piikajärvi Airfield collide mid-air and crash into the ground in a forested area near Eura, Satakunta, Finland >The death toll from severe weather the previous day, including likely tornadoes, in St. Louis, Missouri, and Somerset, Kentucky, United States, rises to 31. More severe weather is expected near the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex in Texas >Two crew members are killed and twenty-five others are injured, including two critically, when Mexican Navy training ship ARM Cuauhtémoc (BE01) with a crew of 277 people on a festive visit collides with the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City, New York, United States. A search and rescue operation is currently underway >Hundreds of Rwandan refugees from the 1994 genocide return to Rwanda under the auspices of a United Nations program. The refugees, mostly Hutu civilians, were residing in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo >The Supreme Court of Iran overturns a 5-year prison sentence imposed by a Tehran court against singer Amir Tataloo and confirms his death sentence for blasphemy. Tataloo had been extradited from Turkey in 2023 >Three people are killed and another person is critically injured in a mass shooting outside of a nightclub in Seattle, Washington, United States. No arrests have been made >A locally renowned doctor in Sargodha, Pakistan, belonging to the Ahmadiyya community, is killed after an unknown assailant shoots him twice in the back >Eight people are killed in a mass shooting by unidentified gunmen inside a tavern in Umlazi, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. A manhunt for the suspects has been launched >The twelve winning candidates of the Philippine Senate election held on May 12 are officially proclaimed as senators-elect. The Alyansa para sa Bagong Pilipinas coalition of President Bongbong Marcos wins the most seats, with six. However, one of its members, Senator-elect Camille Villar, is also a candidate of the opposition coalition DuterTen, supported by Vice President Sara Duterte, which won a total of five seats >Former South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol leaves the People Power Party a month after the Constitutional Court of Korea removed him from office due to his short-lived declaration of martial law |
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| MAY 18TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >At least 100 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >Russia launches 273 drones at Ukraine, the largest such attack since the beginning of the war. The attack comes a day after a round of direct peace talks between the two countries, and a day before Donald Trump's scheduled call with Vladimir Putin SYRIAN CIVIL WAR >Three police personnel are killed and two others are injured in a car bombing targeting a police station in Mayadin, Deir ez-Zor Governorate, Syria AFGHAN INSURGENCY >Thirteen Taliban fighters are killed and four others are injured in a bombing at a military base in Darah District, Panjshir Province, Afghanistan POLISH PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION >Poles vote in the first round to choose their president, with thirteen candidates participated >The current mayor of Warsaw Rafał Trzaskowski leads the first round with 31% of the vote against his conservative rival Karol Nawrocki. Due to no candidates obtained more than 50% of the vote, the runoff between two candidates are expected to be held on June 1st ROMANIAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION >Romanians vote in the second round to choose their president between far-right George Simion and independent centrist and incumbent Bucharest mayor Nicușor Dan >Nicușor Dan is elected President of Romania after winning 54% of the vote SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION >Liberal Unification Party presidential candidate Koo Joo-wa resign from his candidacy for the upcoming presidential election scheduled on June 3rd >Former People Power Party lawmaker Kim Sang-wook joins the Democratic Party of Korea, three days after he declared support for Lee Jae-myung as party's presidential candidate and ten days after leaving the conservative party MISC >The papal inauguration Mass of Pope Leo XIV is held at St. Peter's Square in Vatican City >Seventeen people are killed in a building fire in Hyderabad, Telangana, India >Two people are killed, a 5-year-old is missing, and an infant is injured when a train strikes four civilians near a bridge in Fremont, Ohio, United States >A court in Shiraz, Iran, sentences three people to death over two attacks on a Shia shrine in 2022 and 2023 in Shiraz and several to others to different prison terms >Kenyan politician Martha Karua, who legally represents incarcerated Tanzanian opposition figure Tundu Lissu, is arrested at Julius Nyerere International Airport in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and set for deportation >Six people are injured, including the perpetrator and one critically, in a mass stabbing attack when a Syrian national stabs a group of celebrating football fans with a swordstick and knives outside of a bar in Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. According to police, the perpetrator is currently at large and the attack was a premeditated assault, and possibly terrorism. Investigators said the suspect left behind personal belongings at the scene, including a bag containing documents and a bottle filled with an unknown liquid that smelled of gasoline >Three people are injured, including an 11-year-old, in a mass stabbing attack outside of a house after an altercation in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany >Citizens in Portugal vote to elect 230 seats of the Assembly of the Republic >The ruling party of Argentina, La Libertad Avanza, wins the Buenos Aires legislative election, with presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni securing the victory |
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| MAY 19TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >At least 84 Palestinians are killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza WAR IN SOMALIA >At least 21 people are killed, including the perpetrator, and 15 others are injured in a suicide bombing at the entrance of a military base in Mogadishu, Somalia >Over 70 Al-Shabaab militants are killed along the Hiran–Middle Shabelle border in Somalia in an overnight military operation by the Somali National Army and local defense fighters from Hiran BALOCHISTAN INSURGENCY >Four people are killed and twenty others are injured in a bombing near a market in Killa Abdullah District, Balochistan, Pakistan. Several shops collapsed, fires were started and buildings were damaged MISC >The Iranian foreign ministry summons the British chargé d'affaires to protest the arrest of seven Iranian nationals in London earlier this month >The United Kingdom and European Union conclude a deal on travel, food and steels exports, fishing access, and border security. The deal will allow UK citizens to access e-gates at EU airports along with EU citizens and grants European fishing vessels access to UK territorial waters until 2038 >The International Court of Justice rules 13–2 that Equatorial Guinea wins sovereignty of the islands of Conga, Mbanié, and Cocoteros in a territorial dispute with Gabon >A fourth escaped inmate, of a total 10 escapees, is captured following the mass escape of prisoners in New Orleans, United States. Six escaped prisoners remain at large >Lithuania files a lawsuit against Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko at the International Court of Justice, accusing his regime of orchestrating the migrant crisis and violating international law >Russia bans Amnesty International as an undesirable organisation, accusing the group of openly supporting Ukraine in its war with Russia >The trial against former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and 80 other officials begins in Brasília. Bolsonaro, who is accused of plotting the 8 January Brasília attacks, faces up to 40 years in prison if convicted >The nominees of the winning party-lists of the election held on May 12th in the Philippines are proclaimed. However, the proclamation of party-lists Duterte Youth and Bagong Henerasyon are suspended due to pending disqualification cases, leaving four seats |
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| MAY 20TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >Israeli strikes kill at least 85 Palestinians in Gaza >The United Kingdom suspends negotiations on a new free trade agreement with Israel and summons the Israeli ambassador amid the recent Israeli offensive in Gaza RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >The European Council adopts a 17th sanctions package against Russia, including 189 additional vessels of Russia's so-called shadow fleet WAR IN SOMALIA >Al-Shabaab fired six mortars and caused damage to properties in the Aden Adde International Airport area of Somalia's capital Mogadishu, which includes the Halane base camp. This facility houses United Nations offices, African Union personnel, and diplomatic missions. >An Al-Shabaab mortar attack kills three Somali army personnel in Hiilweyne military barracks near Bal’ad town of Middle Shabelle, Somalia >Puntland authorities confirmed the killing of Ahmed Muse Said, a senior leader of the Islamic State who led the recruitment of members from local clans, during a security operation in the Togga Miiraale area of the Bari Region of Puntland MISC >Three students are injured in a mass stabbing attack at a school in Pirkkala, Pirkanmaa, Finland. The suspect, a 16-year-old, released a manifesto saying his target was women >At least four people are killed, including one in a car accident, two others are reported missing, widespread damage is reported and power outages occur after flooding in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France >An attack kills two employees of Mexico City mayor Clara Brugada >A fifth escapee is captured in New Orleans, following the largest jailbreak in United States history. Five escapees remain at large >In Australia, the federal wing of the National Party leaves the Liberal-National Coalition for the first time since 1987, citing poor performance in the recent federal election and growing policy differences >Former Bolivian president Evo Morales fails to secure his candidacy for the presidential election as the deadline expires amid a court's decision to uphold his ban to run for a fourth term. Morales said he would appeal |
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| MAY 21ST SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu announces that the implementation of US president Donald Trump's plan to forcibly displace Gazan civilians is a condition for his government to end the war >At least 82 Palestinians are killed in Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip >Two Israeli Embassy staffers are shot and killed outside of the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC, after attending an American Jewish Committee event at the museum. The suspect is arrested at the scene RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >Six Ukrainian National Guard personnel are killed in a Russian missile strike on a training camp in Sumy Oblast, Ukraine BALOCHISTAN INSURGENCY >At least six people are killed, including four children, and 38 others are injured, in an improvised explosive device bombing targeting an army-operated school bus in Khuzdar District, Balochistan, Pakistan SUDANESE CIVIL WAR >The Sudanese Armed Forces have taken full control of Khartoum State following the withdrawal of the last remaining Rapid Support Forces units from the region MEXICAN DRUG WAR >Seven people are killed, including minors, in a mass shooting by Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel gunmen in San Felipe, Guanajuato, Mexico ESSEQUIBO DISPUTE >Guyana Defence Force brigadier general Omar Khan warns Venezuelans living in Guyana against participating in the May 25 referendum on the Essequibo proposed by the Venezuelan government, with Khan saying that they will risk arrest for "treason and other felonies" as well as deportation MISC >US president Donald Trump confronts South African president Cyril Ramaphosa at the White House during a state visit by Ramaphosa, claiming that there is a genocide against Afrikaners in South Africa, which Ramaphosa strongly denied >Kenya admits that it assisted Uganda in the kidnapping of opposition politician Kizza Besigye in Nairobi in November 2024. Besigye was later taken to Uganda, where he is currently on trial >Andriy Portnov, former People's Deputy of Ukraine and aide to former president Viktor Yanukovych, is assassinated in Madrid, Spain, by unidentified gunmen >Argentine president Javier Milei issues a decree limiting the right to strike for several services, banning some trade unions from further suspending operations as a method of protest |
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| MAY 22ND SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >At least 80 Palestinians are killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip >More than a dozen governments condemn the Israeli military firing in the direction of a diplomatic delegation with representatives from 31 countries including Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, Egypt, the European Union, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, the Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Türkiye, the United Kingdom, and Uruguay >Canada, France, Italy, Spain, the UK, and Uruguay summon their Israeli ambassadors over the incident in the occupied West Bank. Canada, the EU, and Türkiye call for the launch of an official investigation >Israel's Foreign Ministry releases a statement saying that after the delegation "deviated from the approved route", Israeli soldiers fired "warning shots" to distance them away SYRIAN CIVIL WAR >Two soldiers are killed in a shooting against the Khmeimim Air Base in Latakia, Syria. Both the perpetrators, who are also killed, were foreign nationals who had worked as military trainers at a naval college MISC >German automaker Mercedes-Benz announces it will establish its North American headquarters in Metro Atlanta, Georgia, United States >Six people are presumed dead, including the former drummer of metalcore band The Devil Wears Prada, eight others are injured, about 100 people are displaced and damage to houses and vehicles are reported when a Cessna Citation II aircraft crashes after takeoff from Colonel James Jabara Airport in the military neighborhood of Murphy Canyon in San Diego, California, United States >At least four people are killed in major flooding in various Mid North Coast areas of New South Wales, Australia >Venezuelan interior minister Diosdado Cabello announces the arrest of several foreign citizens on "conspiracy" charges. The government of Argentina acknowledged the arrest of an Argentine citizen and warned Argentines against travelling to Venezuela, accusing the Venezuelan government of "taking hostages" >British prime minister Keir Starmer signs a deal formally handing over sovereignty of the disputed Chagos Archipelago in its entirety to Mauritius. The UK and United States will retain control of the Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia for 99 years as part of the deal >Prosecutors in Sweden announce that they will charge a Swedish citizen with "aggravated war crimes and terrorist crimes committed in Syria" for the 2015 murder of Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kasasbeh >United States Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem orders the termination of Harvard University's Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification, removing the institution's ability to enroll new international students and requiring current international students to transfer or lose their legal status >Philippine president Bongbong Marcos reshuffles the entire Cabinet, with all Cabinet secretaries ordered to submit their courtesy resignations in the wake of the results of the midterm elections |
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| MAY 23RD RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >Russia and Ukraine begin the largest prisoner exchange since the war began in February 2022, consisting of three days and 1,000 prisoners of war from each side SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >British Minister of State for the Armed Forces Luke Pollard says that the UK "does not recognize" the comments made by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu the previous day, where he accused British prime minister Keir Starmer, along with French president Emmanuel Macron and Canadian prime minister Mark Carney of "siding with Hamas" and being on "the wrong side of humanity" >The suspect in the killing of two Israeli embassy workers in Washington, D.C. two days ago, is charged with two counts of first-degree murder along with other charges both federally and locally SUDANESE CIVIL WAR >After the capture of Omdurman and the consequent end of the battle of Khartoum, Sudanese Armed Forces find a mass grave with around 465 bodies located in Omdurman ESSEQUIBO CRISIS >Guyanese Foreign Minister Hugh Todd says that Guyana will defend its sovereignty in face of Venezuela's referendum next Sunday, passing a motion in parliament and reaffirming warnings by Guyana military chief Omar Khan that Venezuelans voting in the referendum in Guyana will be "immediately deported" US TRADE WAR >US president Donald Trump announces the implementation of 50% tariffs on all goods imported from European Union countries starting June 1st. As a result, major European stock exchanges like the German DAX, the French CAC 40, and the British FTSE 100 reported losses MISC >At least 260 miners are trapped after a collapse at the KDC gold mine near Carletonville, Gauteng, South Africa >Four people are killed and 17 more are missing after heavy rains triggered landslides in Guizhou, China >A group of US Senators visit Ottawa, Canada to meet with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in a effort to maintain the relationship between the two countries amidst Trump's tariffs on the country and calls to make it the 51st state >A court in Georgia places opposition figure Zurab Japaridze, leader of the country's largest opposition group Coalition for Change, in pre-trial detention after the group led protests against the current government and the ruling party Georgian Dream >Seventeen people are injured, including four critically, in a mass stabbing at the main train station in Hamburg, Germany. A woman is arrested at the scene, and four platforms are closed according to Deutsche Bahn >Authorities from Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the U.S. announce a joint operation to crack down on malware around the world, which took down over 300 servers, neutralized 650 domains, and seized over €3.5 million (US$3.9 million) of cryptocurrency >United States district judge Allison D. Burroughs from the District of Massachussetts blocks homeland security secretary Kristi Noem's order to disallow Harvard University from enrolling international students |
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| MAY 24TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >At least 79 Palestinians are killed by Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, including nine of a doctor's ten children RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >Fifteen civilians are injured in a nighttime Russian drone and missile attack NAXALITE-MAOIST INSURGENCY >Police in Jharkand, India, confirm the deaths of two top Naxal-Maoist militants in an operation in Latehar amid intensified efforts by the Indian government to end the decades-long Naxal insurgency in the country MISC >Three people are killed and another survives after a Bell 212 police helicopter crashes and gets engulfed in flames in Nong Kok village, Prachuap Khiri Khan province, Thailand >Families of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea decades ago hold a rally in Tokyo to call on North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to return their relatives to Japan >A power outage occurs during the 2025 Cannes Film Festival; French police later blame it on a suspected arson >Daniel Noboa is sworn-in for his second consecutive term as President of Ecuador |
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| MAY 25TH RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >Russian forces launch their largest air attack on Ukraine, including the capital Kyiv, since the start of the war, killing at least 14 people and wounding dozens more. At least 298 Iranian Shahed drones and 69 missiles are launched at Ukrainian cities during the overnight attack ESSEQUIBO CRISIS >Parliamentary elections in Venezuela are held amidst heightened government repression and opposition boycott >The Venezuelan government holds an election for the Essequibo region of Guyana, which Venezuela claims as its own. Guyanese president Irfaan Ali warns of "consequences" if Venezuela takes further action, as Guyana military chief Omar Khan visits border towns to reinforce military presence MISC >Ten people are killed, including Humboldt University students and professors, and eleven others are injured in a car accident near Armenia, Colombia, when a bus loses control and crashes into a barrier >Five people are found dead near the ski resort in Zermatt, Valais, Switzerland following an avalanche >At least four people are injured, including one seriously, in a mass stabbing attack with a machete and fight between gangs at the Northland Shopping Centre in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
Mao said: If you have to shit, shit! If you have to fart, fart! |
| MAY 26TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >According to Hamas, Israeli strikes kill at least 52 Palestinians in Gaza, including 36 in a school-turned shelter >Hamas executes four men for looting and causing the death of members of a force tasked with securing aid trucks entering Gaza >A court in Ica, Peru opens a criminal investigation into an Israeli soldier who is on vacation in Peru, after being accused of war crimes. The Public Ministry referred the case to the local court to localize the man RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >German chancellor Friedrich Merz announces that Germany and several other NATO allies have lifted all restrictions on Ukraine using long-range weaponry inside Russia, saying "Ukraine can now defend itself" and strike Russian military facilities deep inside Russia US TRADE WAR >US president Donald Trump says the implementation of 50% tariffs on all goods imported from European Union countries will be postponed until July 9th MISC >A vehicle ploughs into crowds of Liverpool F.C. fans celebrating their Premier League title win in the city centre of Liverpool, England. At least 47 people are injured, 27 of whom are hospitalised, and a suspect is detained by Merseyside Police >A Sharia court in Kano State, Nigeria, sentences a 38-year-old man to death and 150 strokes of the cane for setting a mosque on fire and killing 23 people inside in May 2024 >Two people are killed and nine are injured in a mass shooting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States >Citizens of Suriname vote to elect 51 seats of the National Assembly |
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| MAY 27TH RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >A local official says that Russian forces have seized four Ukrainian villages in northeastern Sumy Oblast near the border with Russia MISC >Department of Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces that the United States Centers for Disease Control will remove the COVID-19 vaccine from its list of recommended vaccines for healthy children and pregnant women >Malaysian prime minister Anwar Ibrahim, chair of the ASEAN, announces that Timor-Leste will officially join the ASEAN as its 11th member state in October >Argentine president Javier Milei ratifies Argentina's withdrawal from the World Health Organization >South Korean authorities announce travel bans on former acting presidents Han Duck-soo and Choi Sang-mok, as they are investigated for insurrection along with former president Yoon Suk Yeol, who is already indicted >The National Assembly of Vietnam begins deliberations on a government proposal to end the death penalty for some offences, including drug trafficking and some national security crimes, and replace them with life in prison without parole >King Charles III, in his capacity as King of Canada, visits Canada along with Queen Camilla on Prime Minister Mark Carney's advice. He also read the Speech from the Throne, the first reigning monarch to do so since 1977. The visit is seen as a reinforcement of Canadian sovereignty in light of American president Donald Trump's rhetoric on threatening to annex Canada >Samoan prime minister Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa says that she will dissolve parliament and seek an early election after leading a minority government since January, when she was expelled from her party >Two people are killed and nine are injured in a mass shooting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States >A barangay captain and two Sangguniang Barangay members are killed, while a Sangguniang Kabataan secretary is critically injured, in a shooting in Dasmariñas, Cavite, Philippines. The shooter, a former tanod, fatally shoots himself >Nicușor Dan is sworn in as the new president of Romania |
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| MAY 29TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >Israel announces 22 new Jewish settlements in the occupied Palestinian West Bank, the biggest expansion in decades MISC >South Korea’s central bank cuts its key interest rate by a quarter percentage point to 2.5%, marking its fourth cut since October, and sharply lowered its 2025 growth forecast to 0.8%, nearly halving the previous projection of 1.5% announced in February after a monetary policy meeting. Share prices rise following the report, with the Kospi gaining 1.7% >Four people are killed when a South Korean Navy Lockheed P3-C Orion aircraft crashes into a hill in Pohang, Gyeongsang, South Korea >The health ministry of Khartoum State in Sudan reports a cholera outbreak in the state, with 2,119 cases and 242 deaths in the past week and this week, including 70 in the last two days >Slovakia’s central bank chief, Peter Kažimír, a member of the European Central Bank committee, is convicted of bribery and fined 200,000 euros. The verdict was issued by Judge Milan Cisarik at the Special Criminal Court in Pezinok >A court in Germany rejects a lawsuit filed by a Peruvian farmer against German energy firm RWE. Saúl Luciano Lliuya alleged that the firm's global emissions contributed to the melting of glaciers in Peru, threatening his hometown of Huaraz with flooding >Former lawmaker Arnolfo Teves Jr. is deported back to the Philippines from Timor-Leste following his arrest the previous day >A court in Argentina nullifies the ongoing trial of Diego Maradona's former medical personnel accused of malpractice following the removal of one of the trial's judges for alleged lack of impartiality >US president Donald Trump commutes the federal prison sentence of Larry Hoover, the founder of the Chicago street gang Gangster Disciples, who was sentenced to six life sentences on conspiracy, extortion, drug and other criminal charges in the 1990s >Argentine security minister Patricia Bullrich announces the arrest of 12 alleged members of Tren de Aragua, which Argentina recently designated as a terrorist organization >Tens of thousands of people demonstrate in Kathmandu, Nepal, asking for the restoration of the country's monarchy and for Hinduism to be declared the state religion. Nepal abolished its monarchy in 2008 >Portugal’s right-wing Chega party becomes the lead parliamentary opposition with the second-most seats in parliament >Early voting begins in South Korea, with a record early voting turnout rate being observed >Namibia commemorates its first Genocide Remembrance Day to honor the indigenous Herero and Nama peoples who were ethnically cleansed by the German South West Africa colonial forces as proxy of the German Empire >A boat carrying over 100 migrants capsizes within reach of the shores of the El Hierro island in the Spanish Canary Islands. Four women and three girls are found drowned, while a medical helicopter evacuates two other children in critical condition to a nearby hospital >Five people are killed, including the perpetrator, and four others are injured, including one critically, when a drunk 17-year-old goes on a mass stabbing rampage before killing himself in an arson attack at a house during a birthday party in Irkutsk, Irkutsk Oblast, Russia >Former Albanian president Ilir Meta is formally charged with corruption, money laundering, tax evasion, and concealing property from authorities. The charges were detailed in a report from anti-corruption prosecutors. Meta was arrested in October |
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| MAY 30TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >French president Emmanuel Macron states that France may be willing to impose sanctions on Israel if humanitarian aid is blocked, and says a Palestinian state is a political necessity SUDANESE CIVIL WAR >At least six people are killed and fifteen others are injured in a drone strike by the Rapid Support Forces on a hospital in El-Obeid, North Kordofan, Sudan SYRIAN CIVIL WAR >The Islamic State claims responsibility for a vehicle bombing in Al-Safa, Suwayda Governorate, on May 22 which wounded several soldiers of the Syrian transitional government MISC >The African Development Bank elects Mauritanian economist Sidi Ould Tah as its next president >The death toll from heavy flooding that submerged the market town of Mokwa in Niger State, Nigeria, on Wednesday, rises to at least 117. Thousands of homes have been destroyed and a nearby dam collapsed >At least ten people are killed, at least twelve others are injured, including six seriously, and six people are missing when a stone quarry collapses in Cirebon, West Java, Indonesia >Paul Doyle, a 53-year-old British man accused of driving his car into a crowd after Liverpool FC's trophy parade, appears at both the Liverpool Magistrates' Court and Liverpool Crown Court and faces seven charges >Czechia justice minister Pavel Blažek resigns after his ministry accepted a donation of bitcoins and sold them for about 1 billion Czech koruna (over $45 million) earlier this year >Richard Satchwell is found unanimously guilty and convicted of the 2017 murder of his wife Tina in Youghal, County Cork, Ireland >The United States Supreme Court rules that President Donald Trump can revoke the Biden administration's parole programme for Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan migrants, totaling over 530,000 people >The voter turnout during the two-day early voting period for the presidential election in South Korea reaches 34.74%, the second highest after the 2022 presidential election >Elon Musk announces on X that he will be leaving US government employment due to the limit on special government employees |
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| MAY 31ST SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >The Israel Defense Forces announced they had killed Mohammed Sinwar, the de facto leader of Hamas; Muhammad Shabana, commander of the Rafah Brigade; and Mahdi Quara, commander of the South Khan Younis Battalion, in an airstrike earlier this month RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >At least seven people are killed, at least 69 others are injured, including three children and one seriously, and people are buried under debris when a bridge explodes and collapses onto a passenger train with 379 occupants in Bryansk Oblast, Russia WAR IN SOMALIA >In a dawn offensive, Puntland armed forces, backed by airstrikes from the Puntland Air Force and international allies, capture Miraale Valley, the largest Islamic State stronghold in Bari Region and a militant hub for nearly a decade with water wells, cultivated land, and fortified positions. IS fighters retreat to Sadow, near Baalade, where other units are stationed BALOCHISTAN INSURGENCY >The Balochistan Liberation Army briefly seizes control of a high-security area in Sorab in southwestern Pakistan, killing a government official and looting a bank before fleeing US TRADE WAR >US president Donald Trump announces that the tariff on steel and aluminum imports will be doubled to 50%, potentially raising prices for housing, autos, and other goods >US president Donald Trump accuses China of violating the suspension of tariffs, without providing details, on a Truth Social post. US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer later clarifies that China suspended its tariffs as agreed, but was still rolling back non-tariff trade countermeasures to the administration's initial tariffs MISC >Thousands protest in Sofia and other major Bulgarian cities against government plans to adopt the euro, demanding a referendum on the new currency, ahead of expected approval to enter the eurozone >More than 60 United Nations offices and agencies are requested to propose staff cuts of 20% by mid-June due to a funding shortfall, affecting around 14,000 positions. This includes staff from humanitarian offices, agencies supporting refugees, and other critical sectors >Landslides and flash flooding triggered by days of torrential monsoon rains in northeastern India kill at least 22 people >Two people are killed when a Beechcraft Bonanza aircraft crashes into a residential building in Korschenbroich, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany >Thirteen people are injured, including one critically, when a 93-year-old man falls ill and drives into a restaurant terrace in Narbonne, Occitanie, France >A court in Guatemala convicts three men of crimes against humanity and sentences them to 40 years in prison for the rape of 36 women from the Maya Achi indigenous group during the civil war decades ago >Greece migration minister Makis Voridis announces the end of mass legalization programs for migrants. Migrants with rejected asylum claims will face a minimum of two years in jail, with sentences commuted upon deportation >Twenty-one people are hospitalized following an arson attack when a man angry at the outcome of his divorce sets fire to his clothes and a fuel container with a lighter on Seoul Subway Line 5, causing more than 400 passengers to be evacuated and a temporary suspension of services. The suspect is arrested near Yeouinaru Station in Seoul, South Korea >David Seymour succeeds Winston Peters as New Zealand's Deputy Prime Minister in accordance with the coalition agreement between the National Party, NZ First, and ACT >Josep-Lluís Serrano Pentinat is sworn in as the new co-prince of Andorra and Bishop of Urgell after the Vatican accepts the resignation of Joan Enric Vives i Sicília for age limitation reasons |
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| JUNE 1ST RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >A support on a bridge explodes and collapses in Kursk Oblast, Russia, causing a freight train to derail, killing a worker and injuring two others, including the driver. The previous day, another bridge exploded causing it to fall onto a passenger train, killing 7 people and injuring 70 others. Both incidents are being probed as acts of terrorism >Ukraine says at least 40 Russian warplanes, including several strategic bombers were destroyed or damaged by drone attacks on four air bases in Russia >Russia launches the largest drone attack on Ukraine since the start of the war, comprising 472 drones and 7 ballistic missiles >Twelve Ukrainian servicemen are killed and 60 more are injured in a Russian missile strike on a training camp in a undisclosed location in Ukraine. The commander of the Ground Forces of Ukraine, Mykhailo Drapatyi, submits a resignation request following the incident SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >At least 31 Palestinians are killed and 170 others are injured by Israeli gunfire and tank shelling while thousands of people went to receive aid from a United States-funded humanitarian aid distribution centre in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, Palestine >Seven people are injured, including the perpetrator and one critically, in an arson attack when a man attacks protestors demanding the release of Israeli captives who remain in Gaza, Palestine at the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder, Colorado, United States. FBI director Kash Patel claims it was a "targeted terror attack" MISC >Twelve people are killed and several others are injured in a fire at a drug rehabilitation center in San José Iturbide, Guanajuato, Mexico. The cause is still under investigation >Six people are injured, including three life-flighted, in a five-vehicle collision between traffic lights in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, United States >22 people are killed, including athletes, coaches and officials, and several others are seriously injured in a road accident as people returned from the National Sports Festival in Kano State, Nigeria >Fireworks and flares are fired in Paris, France, after Paris Saint-Germain FC's Champions league title win. Two people are killed, a police officer is in a coma, 201 others are injured, four stores are looted and hundreds are arrested in clashes with riot police, violence and looting >A ban on the sale of disposable vapes enters force in the United Kingdom >A court in Bangladesh indicts former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan on mass murder charges, related to the deaths of protesters that ousted Hasina in 2024. The government of Bangladesh informs India of the arrest warrant and asks for Hasina's repatriation, following her escape to that country >Poles vote in the second round to choose their president. Right-wing populist President of the Institute of National Remembrance Karol Nawrocki wins over pro-European incumbent Mayor of Warsaw Rafał Trzaskowski >Nationwide elections are held to elect over 2,700 members of the Mexican judiciary branch in the first ever judicial election in the country's history >Independent South Korean presidential candidate Hwang Kyo-ahn resigns from his candidacy for the upcoming presidential election and declare his support for People Power Party candidate Kim Moon-soo |
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| JUNE 2ND RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >Russia and Ukraine hold further negotiations in Istanbul, Türkiye, resulting in an agreement for a prisoner of war exchange. Officials confirm that all sick and severely wounded prisoners of war, along with those younger than 25, will be exchanged. Russia and Ukraine also exchanged ceasefire proposals during the negotiations WAR IN SOMALIA >New America, a Washington DC-based think tank, reports that US airstrikes in Somalia targeting Al-Shabaab and Islamic State militants resulted in up to 174 fatalities, including an estimated six to 30 civilian casualties, in 2025 so far >Al-Shabaab militants seize control of Hawadley village in the Middle Shabelle region of Hirshabelle State following the withdrawal of Burundian forces under the AUSSOM from the strategic military base WEST AFRICA INSURGENCY >Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal-Muslimin militants seize a Malian Armed Forces base near the border with Burkina Faso, killing more than 30 Malian troops, while also launching an attack on Timbuktu Airport where Wagner Group forces are stationed US TRADE WAR >North Macedonia announces that it will remove import taxes on US goods to seek a reciprocal measure from the United States, as Foreign Minister Timčo Mucunski says that the country is negotiating a free trade agreement with the US >United States Midwest aluminum premiums rise by 164%, as demand for aluminum in the physical market increased following US President Donald Trump's announcement of plans to increase tariffs on imported steel and aluminum from 25% to 50% MISC >Cambodia says it will seek a ruling from the United Nations’s International Court of Justice over border disputes with Thailand, which triggered a fatal military clash last week >The European Commission passes a measure to limit Chinese medical device supply bids on public contracts, alleging unfair access for EU companies to China's tenders. The measures are the first under the International Procurement Instrument >Germany's financial regulator BaFin President Mark Branson says artificial intelligence systems was introduced to its operations last year to detect market abuse and suspicious patterns in trading >The Damascus Securities Exchange reopens in Syria after six months of closure following the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024 >The Philippine Department of Transportation orders AirAsia to halt the sale of airline tickets in the country, citing alleged overpricing after reports revealed that fares on the airline's website significantly exceeded government-approved price ceilings >Three people are killed and 34 others are injured in a suspected arson attack at a hospital in Hamburg, Germany. A suspect is arrested >The death toll from the flooding caused by torrential rain in Mokwa, Nigeria, increases to over 200 >US President Donald Trump tweets that the recent US proposal for a deal on Iran's nuclear program does not include provisions for further uranium enrichment by Iran, for the time being >A Swedish commission recommends that international adoptions be stopped after an investigation found a series of abuses and fraud dating back decades.The commission was formed in 2021 following a report by Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter detailing Sweden’s problematic international adoption system |
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| JUNE 3RD SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >Three Israeli soldiers from the Givati Brigade are killed by an IED explosion in Jabalia, North Gaza Governorate, during clashes with Hamas militants >At least 27 Palestinians are killed by Israeli forces near an aid distribution center in Rafah, Gaza RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >The Crimean Bridge is temporarily closed and subsequently reopened by Russian authorities after several underwater C-4 explosives planted under the bridge detonated. The Security Service of Ukraine claims responsibility, saying its agents planted 1,100 kg (1.1 t) of TNT equivalent at a support section of the bridge >Four people are killed and 25 others are injured after Russian forces launch an MLRS rocket barrage at the center of Sumy, Ukraine ADF INSURGENCY >Two people, including a suicide bomber, are killed near a Roman Catholic shrine in Kampala, Uganda, on Uganda Martyrs' Day. Police attribute the bombing to Allied Democratic Forces rebels SUDANESE CIVIL WAR >Five aid workers are killed in an attack on a 15-vehicle convoy delivering food to families in the Darfur region, Sudan. The Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces blame each other for the attack MISC >A bus crash kills 11 people and injures 17 others in Hualahuises, Nuevo León, Mexico >Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says that he will defend Supreme Court chief Alexandre de Moraes from potential US sanctions, which US Secretary of State Marco Rubio threatened over the ongoing trial of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro >A court in Stuttgart, Germany, sentences a Syrian man to life in prison under universal jurisdiction for leading a Hezbollah-backed group and committing war crimes against Sunni Muslims in Busra al-Sham, Syria, during the Syrian civil war >A French police officer goes on trial after being charged with killing 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk on June 27, 2023, whose death sparked the riots across France and other French territories >Police in Hungary deny the request for permission to hold the Budapest Pride, citing the recent ban by the Hungarian government >Two hundred and sixteen prisoners escape from a prison in the Malir District, Pakistan. During the escape, one prisoner is killed and two prison officers are injured. A search operation is ongoing and 80 prisoners are meanwhile recaptured >Nineteen prisoners, including 11 members of the armed group West Papua National Liberation Army, escaped from a prison in Nabire, Central Papua, Indonesia. Three prison staff were critically injured while a search around the city is ongoing >Mongolian Prime Minister Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene resigns after weeks of protests >Citizens of South Korea vote in a snap election to elect their president between five candidates. The election is held 60 days after Yoon Suk Yeol was ousted by the Constitutional Court of Korea six months after the failed declaration of martial law. Lee Jae-Myung of the Democratic Party is elected the 14th president of South Korea >The Party for Freedom withdraws from the current Dutch cabinet after failing to come to an agreement with coalition partners over amending the Netherlands's asylum rules. Prime Minister Dick Schoof announces his resignation |
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| JUNE 4TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >The United States vetoes a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, with 14 other members voting in favor >Israel launches airstrikes against Syria in retaliation for the firing of two projectiles at Israel the previous day. Israeli defense minister Israel Katz says that Israel holds Syrian president Ahmed al-Sharaa "directly responsible" for the attacks WAR IN SOMALIA >Puntland's elite security forces kills over 35 Islamic State militants, including several foreign fighters, in a major military operation conducted in the mountainous rural areas in the Bari region of Puntland. The troops also destroy weapons caches and military equipment used by the group MISC >Eleven people are killed and 50 others are injured in a stampede at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India >US president Donald Trump signs a proclamation banning entry into the United States for nationals of 12 countries deemed high-risk due to inadequate security screening, while imposing additional restrictions on visitors from several others; exemptions apply for select categories, including athletes and diplomats >Lee Jae-myung is inaugurated as President of South Korea at the National Assembly Building in Yeouido, Seoul, one day after winning the presidential election >Vietnam formally ends the two-child policy in effect since 2009 amid record low total fertility rates of 1.91 per woman in 2024, causing declining birth rate and a shrinking workforce >US president Donald Trump issues an order banning new visas for foreign nationals enrolling at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, citing national security concerns and alleging the institution's lack of cooperation in disclosing foreign student misconduct; the directive also allows for possible visa revocations of currently enrolled international students |
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