Armed conflicts and attacks

• Attempted assassination of Robert Fico
  • Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert Fico is injured in a shooting which is being treated as an assassination attempt. The shooter has been apprehended and identified as a 71-year-old writer from Levice, Slovakia. (BBC News) (Wall Street Journal)
  • The Slovak government describe Prime Minister Robert Fico's condition as life-threatening. (Reuters)
• Terrorism in Switzerland
  • A man stabs people in Zofingen, Switzerland. The motive for the attacks are unclear, but terrorism is being investigated. (Alarabiya)

Business and economy

• American pharmacy chain Walgreens says that it will sell a generic version of the anti-overdose medication naloxone for ten dollars cheaper than the brand-name version, Narcan, also available on its shelves. (NBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Canada wildfires
  • Authorities evacuate over 6,000 people as wildfires approach Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada. (Reuters) (NPR)
• The death toll from the flash flood and lahar in West Sumatra, Indonesia, increases to 62, with 25 others still missing. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• Politics of Singapore
  • Lawrence Wong is sworn in as the fourth Prime Minister of Singapore, succeeding Lee Hsien Loong. (BBC News) (CNA)
• 2023–2024 Dutch cabinet formation
  • A new government in the Netherlands is agreed by Geert Wilders, Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius and Caroline van der Plas. (Guardian)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • 2024 Kharkiv offensive, Kharkiv strikes
    • At least 20 people are injured when Russian airstrikes hit a residential building in Kharkiv, Ukraine. (Reuters)
    • Ukraine pulls back from positions near Lukyantsi and Vovchansk in Kharkiv Oblast. (Reuters)
• Israel–Hamas war
  • Rafah offensive
    • Israeli tanks enter residential areas of Rafah as they attempt to capture the city. Hamas' armed wing al-Qassam Brigades says that it destroyed an Israeli troop carrier with a Al-Yassin 105 anti-tank missile, killing several troops and injuring several others, while the Israel Defense Forces claim to have "eliminated" several terrorists in the city. (Reuters)
• 2024 New Caledonia unrest
  • Riots erupt in New Caledonia as France plans to change the constitution, allowing more recent white French settlers to vote in the island's provincial elections, which protesters claim would marginalise the Indigenous Kanak people. (Al Jazeera) (The Guardian)
  • Three Kanak residents are killed and many more injured during a drive-by shooting by a group of French settlers. (Reuters)
  • At least 54 officers are injured and more than 130 people are arrested. Shops and cars are looted, while a prison breakout has been prevented. (AP) (Al Jazeera)

Arts and culture

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

Business and economy

• China–United States trade war
  • U.S. President Joe Biden passes tariff increases on Chinese imports, including electric vehicles and batteries, computer chips, and medical products. (Reuters)
• GameStop short squeeze
  • The share price of GameStop increases by a further 61%. (Quartz) (Yahoo! News)
• Economy of Argentina
  • Inflation in Argentina slows to a single digit number of 8.8 percent amid severe austerity plans by president Javier Milei. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• The death toll from a building collapse in George, South Africa, last week, increases to 33. (Reuters)
• Thirteen people, including former Congressman Édgar Alarcón, are killed in a bus crash in Vinchos, Huamanga Province, Peru. (Reuters) (Infobae)
• Eight people are killed and 40 others are injured when a bus carrying farmworkers collides with a truck and overturns in Marion County, Florida, United States. (AP)

Law and crime

• Corruption in Russia
  • Russian police arrest former head of personnel of the Ministry of Defence {{ill|Yuri Vasilievich Kuznetsov|ru|Кузнецов, Юрий Васильевич (военачальник)}} for bribery of over $1 million. Kuznetsov's charges carry up to 15 years of jail time. (Al Jazeera)
• Two prison guards are killed and three others are critically injured in an ambush of a prison van near Rouen, Normandy, France, to free an inmate with ties to a drug dealing gang. (BBC News)
• Tunisian police raid the headquarters of the Tunisian Order of Lawyers in Tunis and arrest Mahdi Zagrouba, who is known for his opposition to President Kais Saied. (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)
• Russian dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza loses his appeal against a 25-year prison sentence. (Reuters)
• A court in Germany convicts and fines Alternative for Germany member Björn Höcke €13,000 ($14,000) for using a Nazi slogan that once belonged to the Sturmabteilung. (Al Jazeera)

Politics and elections

• 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 requires media organizations to declare foreign funding. (BBC News)
  • The United States warns Georgia that $390 million in planned economic support will be "under review" if the Georgian government considers the U.S. as an "adversary", and not as a strategic partner. (The Guardian)

Science and technology

• May 2024 solar storms
  • The sun unleashes it's largest solar flare since 2005 days after producing auroras in the Northern and Southern Hempisheres. (Axios)
• Russia places its nuclear capable submarine-launched Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile into service. (Reuters)