Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2025 India–Pakistan standoff
  • 2025 India–Pakistan border skirmishes
    • 2025 India–Pakistan strikes
      • Indian airstrikes hit multiple locations in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir, killing at least 8 people. (Reuters) (India Today)
      • Pakistan launches retaliatory strikes into India and Indian-administered Kashmir, and claims to have destroyed five Indian fighter jets. Three civilians are killed. (The Express Tribune) (Al Jazeera)
      • Pakistani prime minister Shehbaz Sharif declares the Indian attacks to be an act of war and vows further retaliation. (ABC News)
      • A state of emergency is declared in Pakistan's Punjab province following the airstrikes, with all schools in the region being closed. Hospitals and emergency services are placed on high alert. (Tribune)
      • An Indian Dassault Rafale is shot down by Pakistani Forces. The shoot down is confirmed by French intelligence officials. (Tribune)
• Gaza war
  • Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
    • According to Hamas officials, Israeli airstrikes kill at least 92 Palestinians, including women, children, and two journalists, and wounds at least 86 others across the Gaza Strip. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• Eleven kindergarten teachers are killed in a collision between a minibus and dump truck in Purworejo Regency, Central Java, Indonesia. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2025 papal conclave
  • A total of 133 cardinal electors begin the process of electing a new pope following the death of Pope Francis. (The Guardian)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Red Sea crisis
  • May 2025 Israeli attacks on Yemen
    • Israeli airstrikes hit Sanaa International Airport in Sanaa, Yemen, and destroy three of Yemenia's seven planes. (The Times of Israel)
  • United States attacks in Yemen
    • U.S. president Donald Trump announces that the United States has reached a ceasefire with the Houthis, with Oman as mediator, and will stop its airstrikes, after they agreed to stop disrupting international shipping. (Reuters) (NBC News)
    • A second U.S. Navy F/A-18 fighter jet is lost in the Red Sea, due to an equipment failure during its attempted landing on {{USS|Harry Truman||}}. Both of its crew members ejected and were recovered. (CNN)
• Insurgency in Balochistan
  • Seven Pakistan Army soldiers are killed and five others are injured when their vehicle in a convoy heading to a security operation is exploded by a Balochistan Liberation Army improvised explosive device in Balochistan, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera English)

Disasters and accidents

• Twelve people are killed and 23 others are injured after a bus overturns in Padang Panjang, West Sumatra, Indonesia. (VOI.ID)
• Four people are killed and over 40 others are injured when a passenger bus rolls down into a gorge in Poonch District, Jammu and Kashmir, India. (The Times of India)

International relations

• India–United Kingdom relations
  • British prime minister Keir Starmer and Indian prime minister Narendra Modi announce they have signed a bilateral free trade agreement to significantly lower tariffs on 99% of Indian exports into the UK, including textiles, and halve tariffs of British exports into India, including aerospace manufacturing, whiskey, and lamb meat. (DW)

Law and crime

• The government of Peru imposes a curfew and temporarily suspends gold mining in Pataz Province for 30 days after the bodies of thirteen miners who were kidnapped and killed were discovered on Sunday. (DW)

Politics and elections

• 2025 German federal election
  • The Bundestag elects Friedrich Merz, leader of the Christian Democratic Union, as the 10th Chancellor of Germany in the second round of voting, with 325 votes out of the 316 votes necessary. (BBC News) (Tagesschau)