Politics and elections

• 2025 Polish presidential election
  • National Electoral Commission published official results with the turnout 67,31%. Rafał Trzaskowski (mayor of Warsaw) leads the first round with 31,36% of the vote against his conservative rival Karol Nawrocki 29,54%. Sławomir Mentzen secured a significant 14,81%, while Grzegorz Braun 6,34%, indicating a substantial right-wing electorate that could influence the final outcome. As no candidates received more than 50% of the vote, a runoff between the two candidates is expected to be held on June 1.(wybory.gov.pl)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Operation Gideon's Chariots
    • Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
      • At least 100 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza. (Sky News) (Reuters)
• Somali Civil War
  • 2025 Mogadishu military base bombing
    • 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. (Reuters) (Hiiraan Online)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • 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. (The Guardian)
• 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. (Syrian Arab News Agency) (Al Jazeera English)

Arts and culture

• The papal inauguration Mass of Pope Leo XIV is held at St. Peter's Square in Vatican City. (Sky News)

Disasters and accidents

• Seventeen people are killed in a building fire in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. (DW)
• 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. (Sandusky Register)

Law and crime

• Capital punishment in Iran, 2022 Shah Cheragh attack
  • A court in Shiraz, Iran, sentences three people to death over two attacks on a Shiite shrine in 2022 and 2023 in Shiraz and several to others to different prison terms. (The Times of Israel)
• 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. (France 24)
• 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. (Euronews) (BNO News)
• 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. (Der Spiegel)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Polish presidential election
  • Poles vote in the first round to choose their president, with thirteen candidates participated. (The Times of India)
  • The current mayor of Warsaw Rafał Trzaskowski leads the first round with 31,36% of the vote against his conservative rival Karol Nawrocki 29,54%. As no candidates received more than 50% of the vote, a runoff between the two candidates is expected to be held on June 1. Sławomir Mentzen secured a significant 14,81%, while Grzegorz Braun 6,34%, indicating a substantial right-wing electorate that could influence the final outcome. (Euronews) (wybory.gov.pl)
• 2025 Portuguese legislative election
  • Citizens in Portugal vote to elect 230 seats of the Assembly of the Republic. (AP)
• 2025 Romanian presidential election
  • Romanians vote in the second round to choose their president between far-right George Simion and independent-declared centrist and incumbent Bucharest mayor Nicușor Dan. (DW)
  • Nicușor Dan is elected President of Romania after winning 53.6% of the vote. (CNBC) (DW)
• 2025 South Korean presidential election
  • Liberal Unification Party presidential candidate Koo Joo-wa resigns from his candidacy for the upcoming presidential election on June 3. (Yonhap)
  • 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 the party's presidential candidate and ten days after leaving the conservative party. (The Korea Herald)
• The ruling party of Argentina, La Libertad Avanza, wins the Buenos Aires legislative election, with presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni securing the victory. (Reuters)

Sports

• 2024–25 Eredivisie
  • In association football, PSV Eindhoven wins their 26th total and second consecutive Eredivisie title in the last round after defeating Sparta Rotterdam 3–1. (The Guardian)
• 2025 Indianapolis 500
  • In motorsports, Robert Shwartzman of Prema Racing wins pole position for the Indianapolis 500, the first rookie to do so since 1983. (AP via Toronto Star)