Armed conflicts and attacks

• War against the Islamic State, Islamic State insurgency in Puntland
  • Puntland counter-terrorism operations
    • In a dawn offensive, Puntland armed forces, backed by airstrikes from the Puntland Air Force and international allies, capture Miraale Valley, the largest ISIS stronghold in Bari Region and a militant hub for nearly a decade with water wells, cultivated land, and fortified positions. ISIS fighters retreated to Sadow, near Baalade, where other units are stationed. (Hiiraan Online) (Garowe Online) (Horseed Media)

Business and economy

• Bulgaria and the euro
  • Thousands protest in Sofia and other major Bulgarian cities against government plans to adopt the euro, demanding a referendum on the new currency, ahead of expected approval to enter the eurozone. (AP)
• More than 60 United Nations offices and agencies are requested to propose staff cuts of 20% by mid-June due to a funding shortfall, affecting around 14,000 posts. This includes staff from humanitarian offices, agencies supporting refugees, and other critical sectors. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• Landslides and flash flooding triggered by days of torrential monsoon rains in northeastern India kill at least 22 people. (AP)
• Two people are killed when a Beechcraft Bonanza crashes into a residential building in Korschenbroich, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. (CTV News) (Aviation Safety Network)
• Thirteen people are injured, including one critically, when a 93-year-old man falls ill and drives into a restaurant terrace in Narbonne, Occitanie, France. (Midi Libre)

Law and crime

• Guatemalan Civil War
  • A court in Guatemala convicts three men of crimes against humanity and sentences them to 40 years in prison for the rape of 36 women from the Maya Achi indigenous group during the civil war. (AP)
• Immigration to Greece
  • Greece migration minister Makis Voridis announces the end of mass legalization programs for migrants. Migrants with rejected asylum claims will face a minimum of two years in jail, with sentences commuted upon deportation. (AP)
• Twenty-one people are hospitalized following an arson attack when a man angry at the outcome of his divorce sets 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) (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)
• Josep-Lluís Serrano Pentinat is sworn in as the new co-prince of Andorra and Bishop of Urgell after the Vatican accepts the resignation of Joan Enric Vives i Sicília for age limitation reasons. (El Periòdic d'Andorra)

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)
• Insurgency in Balochistan
  • The Balochistan Liberation Army briefly seizes control of a high-security area in Sorab in southwestern Pakistan, killing a government official and looting a bank before fleeing. (AP)

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

• Tariffs in the second Trump administration
  • U.S. president Donald Trump announces that the tariff on steel and aluminum imports will be doubled to 50%, potentially raising prices for housing, autos, and other goods. (AP)
• The African Development Bank elects Mauritanian economist Sidi Ould Tah as its next president. The election took three rounds of voting to decide between the five candidates. (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 17 people are killed, at least twelve others are injured, including six seriously, and eight people are missing when a stone quarry collapses in Cirebon, West Java, Indonesia. (AP) (CTV News)

International relations

• China–United States trade war
  • U.S. president Donald Trump accuses China of violating the suspension of tariffs, without providing details, on a Truth Social post. U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer later clarifies that China suspended its tariffs as agreed, but was still rolling back non-tariff trade countermeasures to the administration's initial tariffs. (BBC News)
• Diplomatic impact of the Gaza war, France–Israel relations
  • 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)

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 US$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)