International relations

• Cross-Strait relations
  • The People's Liberation Army begins two days of military drills around the island of Taiwan. Taiwan mobilizes its military in response. (BBC News) (Reuters)
• Kenya–United States relations
  • A U.S. official announces President Joe Biden's intent to have Kenya be designated a Major Non-NATO ally. (Reuters)(NPR)
    • Kenyan president William Ruto and his wife visit the United States, making it the first time a Kenyan leader has visited in two decades and by any African leader in over 15 years.

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
    • Sweden announces US$7 billion in military aid to Ukraine from 2024 to 2026. (Bloomberg)
  • Eastern Ukraine campaign
    • Russia seizes the village of Klishchiivka in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Al Jazeera)
    • At least two people are killed and four are injured by Ukrainian shelling in Lysychansk, Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine. (Al Jazeera)
  • Russia returns six Ukrainian children displaced by the war back to Ukraine, in a deal brokered by Qatar. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• San Pedro Garza García stage collapse
  • At least nine people are killed, including a child, and 121 are injured after a structure collapsed due to a gust of wind at a campaign event for the Citizens' Movement party in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo León, México. (AP) (El País)

International relations

• International recognition of the State of Palestine
  • Norway–Palestine relations, Ireland–Palestine relations, Palestine–Spain relations
    • The governments of Norway, Ireland, and Spain announce that they will recognise the State of Palestine as a sovereign state beginning on May 28, and also call for a two-state solution. In response, Israel recalls its ambassadors to these countries. (BBC News)
• Russia–NATO relations
  • The Russian Ministry of Defence proposes to unilaterally adjust Russia's maritime border in the Baltic Sea, prompting comments of concern made by Baltic members of NATO, including Finland and Lithuania. The Ministry of Defense later retracts the proposal. (Reuters) (BBC News)

Law and crime

• 2024 Bishkek riots
  • The Kyrgyz Ministry of Internal Affairs announces that ten people, including four foreigners, have been detained in connection with violent riots that occurred in Bishkek last week. (RFE/RL)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Chadian presidential election
  • Chadian Prime Minister Succès Masra of the transitional government resigns after Mahamat Déby is elected President. (Al Jazeera)
• 2024 United Kingdom general election
  • UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announces that the next general election will be held on 4 July. (CNN)
• 2024 Vietnamese presidential election
  • Vietnam's security minister, General Tô Lâm, is elected President by the National Assembly, two months after the resignation of Võ Văn Thưởng amid the ruling Communist Party's anti-corruption campaign. (DW)
• President of the United States Joe Biden announces a student loan debt cancellation of $7.7 billion for 160,000 people. (Al Jazeera)
• German far-right party Alternative for Germany bans Maximilian Krah, its leading candidate in European elections, from further activities due to his comments defending members of the Schutzstaffel (SS). (Al Jazeera)

Science and technology

• Russia launches a Soyuz-2 rocket carrying the Kosmos 2576 satellite from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome launch site in Arkhangelsk Oblast. The United States Space Command accuses it of being an anti-satellite weapon capable of attacking other satellites, and is in the same orbit as a satellite operated by the National Reconnaissance Office. (Al Jazeera)
• The United Nations Security Council votes against a resolution introduced by Russia and China banning member states from placing weapons in outer space. (Space.com)

Sports

• 2024 UEFA Europa League final
  • Atalanta win the Europa League Final over Bayer Leverkusen by a score of 3–0, ending Bayer Leverkusen's record of 51 unbeaten games (The Guardian)