Politics and elections

• 2025 Romanian presidential election
  • The first round of the presidential election is held in Romania. (BBC News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • 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. (Ukrainska Pravda) (Al Arabiya)
  • The Ukrainian intelligence directorate claims it has shot down a Russian Sukhoi Su-30 fighter jet using a MAGURA naval drone over the Black Sea. (The Kyiv Independent)
• Gaza war
  • Gaza war hostage crisis
    • Hamas releases a video allegedly showing Israeli hostage Maxim Hirkin, who was abducted during the Nova music festival massacre in 2023, alive. (Reuters) (Haaretz)
• 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. (Al Jazeera English) (CTV News) (BBC News)
• Terrorism in Greece
  • 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. (AP News)

Business and economy

• 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. (CNN)

Disasters and accidents

• 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. (Al Jazeera English)

Law and crime

• Corruption in Brazil
  • 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. (BBC)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Australian federal election
  • The Australian Labor Party under current Prime Minister Anthony Albanese increases its majority in the House of Representatives, winning a second term. (ABC News Australia).
  • 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. (ABC News Australia)
• 2025 South Korean presidential election
  • Former Labor Minister Kim Moon Soo wins the presidential nomination of South Korea's main conservative party, People Power. (AP News)
• 2025 Singaporean general election
  • 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. (CNA) (The Straits Times)
  • The People’s Action Party wins the election, receiving 65.57% of the vote, surpassing the 61.2% received in the 2020 election. (CNN)
• 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. (BBC)
• 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. (DW)

Sports

• 2025 Kentucky Derby
  • In thoroughbred racing, Sovereignty ridden by Junior Alvarado wins the 151st Kentucky Derby in a upset over Journalism ridden by Umberto Rispoli. (Courier Journal)