Law and crime

• Twenty-one people are hospitalized following a suspected arson attack when a man set 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. A man in his 60s was arrested near Yeouinaru Station. (Yonhap News Agency)

Politics and elections

• 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. (Newstalk ZB)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Mexican drug war
  • Nine alleged members of the Los Metros drug cartel are arrested by Mexican law enforcement on suspicion of the abduction and murder of the musical group Grupo Fugitivo who disappeared in Reynosa, Tamaulipas. (Al Jazeera) (BBC)
• 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. (Anadolu Agency)
• Syrian civil war
  • 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. (Al Jazeera) (Sky News)

Arts and culture

• Taylor Swift masters dispute
  • American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift announces that she has reacquired the rights to her entire body of music and content, including the master recordings of her first six studio albums. (AP) (The Guardian) (Billboard)

Business and economy

• The African Development Bank elects Mauritanian economist Sidi Ould Tah as its next president. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Nigeria floods
  • 2025 Mokwa flood
    • 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. (Al Jazeera) (Sky News) (DW)
• 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. (CTV News)

International relations

• Diplomatic impact of the Gaza 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. (Al Jazeera) (The Jerusalem Post)
• China–United States trade war
  • U.S. President Donald Trump accuses China of violating the suspension of tariffs accorded two weeks ago without providing details on a Truth Social post. In response, China urged Trump to correct discriminatory restrictions against the country. (BBC News)

Law and crime

• 2025 Liverpool parade incident
  • 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. (BBC) (The Independent)
• Corruption in the Czech Republic
  • Czech Republic 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. (ABC News)
• Murder of Tina Satchwell
  • Richard Satchwell is found unanimously guilty and convicted of the 2017 murder of his wife Tina in Youghal, County Cork, Ireland. (RTÉ)

Politics and elections

• Immigration policy of the second Donald Trump administration
  • 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. (BBC News) (WOLA)
• 2025 South Korean presidential election
  • The voter turnout during the two-day early voting period for the presidential election reaches 34.74%, the second highest after the 2022 presidential election. (Anadolu Agency)