Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Kharkiv strikes
    • At least 17 people are injured when Russian airstrikes hit a residential building in Kharkiv, Ukraine. (Reuters)

Arts and culture

• The 77th annual Cannes Film Festival opens in Cannes, France, with an honorary Palme d'Or award for Meryl Streep. (AP)

Business and economy

• China–United States trade war
  • United States President Joe Biden passes tariff increases on Chinese imports, including electric vehicle batteries, computer chips, medical products, and a 100% electric vehicle tariff. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• The death toll from a building collapse in George, South Africa rises to 33. (Reuters)
• Eight people are killed and 40 others are injured when a bus carrying farmworkers collided with a truck and overturned in Marion County, Florida. (AP)
• Thirteen people die in a highway crash in Peru's Andean region. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Corruption in Russia
  • Russian police arrest former head of personnel of the Ministry of Defence Yuri Kuznetsov for bribery of over ₽1 million. His charges carry up to 15 years of jail time. (Al Jazeera)
• Two prison guards are killed and three are critically injured during an ambush against a prison van near Rouen, Normandy, France. An inmate escaped alongside the attackers. (BBC News)
• Tunisian police raid the headquarters of the Tunisian Order of Lawyers and arrests Mahdi Zagrouba, known for his opposition to President Kais Saied. This comes two days after the police detained lawyer Sonia Dahmani and two journalists. (Al Jazeera)
• The Supreme Court of Kazakhstan sentences former Minister of National Economy Kuandyk Bishimbayev to 24 years in prison for torturing and murdering his wife. (Al Jazeera)

Politics and elecitons

• 2023–2024 Georgian protests
  • Riot police clash with protesters on the streets of Tbilisi, Georgia, after the parliament approves a controversial "foreign agent" law that forces media organizations to declare foreign funding. (BBC News)

Science and technology

• Russia puts the nuclear capable submarine-launched Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile into service. (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hamas war
  • Rafah offensive
    • The Israeli military advances into northern and southern Gaza. (Reuters)
    • A staff member of the United Nations Department of Safety and Security is killed and another is injured in Rafah. (United Nations)
  • Israel–Hamas war hostage crisis
    • Hamas says that it has "lost contact" with the militants holding four Israeli hostages in the Gaza Strip, including Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin. (Reuters)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • 2024 Kharkiv offensive
    • Russia claims that its troops have entered the town of Vovchansk, {{conv|74|km|mi}} from Kharkiv. (BBC News)

Arts and culture

• Judge Judy Sheindlin sues A360media, the parent company of the National Enquirer and In Touch Weekly, for defamation in the Menéndez brothers case. (AP)

Business and economy

• GameStop short squeeze
  • Three years after the previous GameStop stock squeeze, Redditors return to artificially inflate GameStop's share price by 75%, reaching an 18-month high. The share price of AMC Theatres also increases by more than 70%. (Reuters) (CNBC)
• Russia–United States relations
  • U.S. President Joe Biden signs a bill banning imports of uranium from Russia. (Reuters) (The Washington Post)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Rio Grande do Sul floods
  • The death toll from the ongoing heavy flooding in southern Brazil increases to 147 people, with 127 people still missing. (Reuters)
• Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse
  • The final remains of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, which killed six workers, are demolished with explosives. (East Bay Times)
• The death toll from the flash flood and lahar in West Sumatra, Indonesia, increases to 43, with 15 others still missing. (Reuters)
• At least 14 people are killed, 75 are injured, and others are trapped after a billboard collapses during heavy rains in Mumbai, India. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• The Airlines for America trade association and several major American airlines file a lawsuit against the United States Department of Transportation over a rule requiring upfront disclosure of airline fees. (Reuters)
• Indonesian police conducts a major drug raid on a lab hidden in a villa in Bali, Indonesia. They arrested one Indonesian, two Ukrainians, and one Russian. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Lithuanian constitutional referendum
  • A referendum to allow dual citizenship in Lithuania fails to pass. (LRT)
• 2024 Lithuanian presidential election
  • Gitanas Nausėda and Ingrida Šimonytė advance to the run-off election, which will be held on 26 May. (The Guardian)
• An administrative court in Münster, Germany, rules that the Alternative for Germany political party could threaten democracy and can be spied on. (The Washington Post)
• The High Commissioner of New Caledonia imposes a curfew and mobilizes security forces after a general strike and violent protests over proposed constitutional changes in the capital city Nouméa. (Al Jazeera)

Science and technology

• OpenAI announces a new model of their generative pretrained transformer (GPT) named GPT-4o, capable of visual and video speech recognition and translation. (Reuters)