Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
    • More than 74 people are killed in Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip since midnight. (RTÉ News)
  • The Israeli Air Force launches airstrikes on the ports of Hodeidah and Salif, in Yemen, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz warn that if the Houthis attacks on Israel persist, Houthi leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi will be directly targeted. (Al Arabiya)

Disasters and accidents

• Five people are killed and three others are injured after a landslide at a hydropower plant construction site in Phong Thổ, Lai Châu province, Vietnam. (News.az)

Law and crime

• Stabbing of Salman Rushdie
  • A court in New York, United States sentences a man to 25 years in prison for the August 2022 stabbing attack on Indian-British-American author Salman Rushdie, which left Rushdie severely injured while he was giving a talk in Chautauqua. (AP)
• Ten inmates remain missing after a mass escape from the Orleans Parish jail in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. One of total eleven escaped inmates is quickly recaptured, ten remain fugitives. (New Orleans Times-Picayune)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Islamist insurgency in Burkina Faso
  • Islamist militant group Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal-Muslimin claims it killed 200 soldiers in an attack on a military base on Sunday in Djibo, Sahel, Burkina Faso. They also claimed responsibility for another attack this week at a military post in Loroum Province that killed 60 soldiers. (Al Jazeera)
• Papua conflict
  • The Indonesian military confirms that 18 Papuan separatists and three civilians were killed in yesterday's military operation in Intan Jaya Regency, Central Papua, Indonesia. (Reuters) (detikcom)

Arts and culture

• A long-lost version of the British Magna Carta, dating to 1300 in the reign of King Edward I, is believed to have been found at Harvard University in the United States. (BBC) (The Guardian)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Canadian wildfires
  • Two people are killed and more than 1,000 others evacuate after wildfires spread across central Manitoba, Canada. (Euronews)
• Sinking of the Bayesian
  • British investigators say the cause of the sinking of the Bayesian superyacht that killed seven people, including billionaire tech magnate Mike Lynch in Italy in 2024, is from being knocked over by extreme wind and could not recover. (CTV News)
• Five people are killed and three others are injured after a van drives into the back of a truck on the national road 2 in Konotopa, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland. (TVN24)
• Three people, including two firefighters, are killed and two other firefighters are seriously injured in a fire at a former Royal Air Force base in Oxfordshire, England. (BBC News)

International relations

• Iran–United States relations
  • 2025 US–Iran negotiations
    • U.S. president Donald Trump says that the U.S. and Iran have "sort of" agreed on the terms of a deal on Iran's nuclear program, which reportedly includes Iran agreeing to give up highly enriched uranium while keeping lower-grade uranium needed for civilian nuclear power, in exchange for the lifting of sanctions. (AP)
• Myanmar–Vietnam relations
  • According to the Vietnamese foreign ministry, more than 650 Vietnamese nationals are detained for immigration violations in Myanmar. The Vietnamese public security ministry has repatriated 450 people, with 200 still in Myanmar. (Vietnam+) (Việt Nam News)
• Visa policy of mainland China
  • At the China-CELAC Forum in Beijing, the Chinese foreign ministry announces it will allow nationals from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru, and Uruguay to enter the country without a travel visa starting June 1. (AP)

Law and crime

• Capital punishment in Florida
  • The U.S. state of Florida executes serial killer Glen Edward Rogers for the 1995 murder of a woman at a motel in Tampa. (The Washington Post)
• LGBT rights in Russia, Russian anti-LGBTQ law
  • Russian media reports that police raided the publisher office of Eksmo Publishing House yesterday and arrested several of its employees, accusing them of spreading "LGBTQ+ extremism". (The Moscow Times)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Australian Greens leadership election
  • Larissa Waters is elected leader of the Australian Greens, following the resignation of Adam Bandt after the party's poor performance at the 2025 Australian federal election. (ABC News)

Sports

• 2024–25 La Liga
  • In association football, FC Barcelona win their 28th title in the 94th season of La Liga after defeating city rivals RCD Espanyol 2–0 with two matches to spare. (ESPN) (The Independent)