Armed conflicts and attacks

• Syrian civil war
  • Sectarianism and minorities in the Syrian civil war
    • 2025 massacres of Syrian Druze, Rif Dimashq clashes
      • The Syrian Observatory of Human Rights reports that nine field executions were conducted against members of the Syrian Druze community amid an outbreak of sectarian clashes. Syrian Druze spiritual leader Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri characterizes the killings as part of a “genocidal campaign”. (Arab News) (SOHR)
      • Israeli Druze spiritual leader Sheikh Mowafaq Tarif appeals to Israel to intervene against ongoing massacres (Jerusalem Post).
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Odesa strikes
    • An overnight Russian drone attack on Odesa, Ukraine, kills two people and injures 15 others. High-rise apartments, residential homes, a supermarket and a school were among those targeted, according to Governor of Odesa Oblast Oleh Kiper. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• Ukraine–United States relations
  • The United States and Ukraine sign the Ukraine–United States Mineral Resources Agreement to share profits from the future sales of Ukraine's mineral and energy reserves. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• At least twelve people are killed while 37 others are injured in a multiple-vehicle collision at the Tarlac City toll plaza of the Subic–Clark–Tarlac Expressway in Tarlac, Philippines. (GMA Integrated News)

Health and environment

• The world's oldest person, Brazilian nun Sister Inah Canabarro Lucas, dies at the age of 116 years and 326 days. The new oldest living person is British supercentenarian Ethel Caterham, who is the last person born in the 1900s decade, the last living subject of King Edward VII, and the oldest British person ever. (BBC News) (The Telegraph)

Law and crime

• Epic Games v. Apple
  • A U.S. district judge finds that Apple wilfully violated an injunction in a case brought by Epic Games. The injunction was supposed to block Apple from anti-competitive conduct and pricing, opening the App Store up to outside payment options. (BBC News)
• Kenyan parliament member Charles Ong'ondo is shot dead in Nairobi by unknown gunmen on a motorcycle in an assassination. (BBC News)

Politics and elections

• 2025 South Korean presidential election
  • Acting President of South Korea Han Duck-soo resigns, indicating he would run in the upcoming presidential election. (Yonhap)
  • The next in line of the acting president, finance minister Choi Sang-mok resigns few hours later. (Yonhap)
• 2025 United Kingdom local elections
  • The United Kingdom holds local elections, as well as a parliamentary by-election in the Runcorn and Helsby constituency. (BBC News)

Sports

• The Football Association bans transgender women from women's football in England from 1 June after amending its eligibility criteria. (BBC Sport)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Red Sea crisis
  • US–UK airstrikes on Yemen
    • The Royal Air Force launches airstrikes on buildings they claimed were used by the Houthis to manufacture drones south of Sanaa, Yemen. (CTV News)
• Puntland–Somaliland dispute
  • Las Anod conflict, Puntland–Somaliland prisoner exchange
    • Puntland releases fifteen prisoners of war in exchange for Somaliland releasing eleven combatants captured during the conflict in the contested Sool region. This is the second prisoner exchange of prisoners captured during the conflict in Las Anod. (Hiiraan Online) (Horn Observer)
• Colombian conflict
  • The Colombian government says fifteen police officers and twelve soldiers have been killed over the past two weeks in targeted attacks by the Gulf Clan cartel and other armed groups. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Israel fires
  • Wildfires rage out of control in at least 100 different locations throughout Israel and the West Bank, prompting the Israeli government to declare a state of emergency and forcing evacuations near Jerusalem. At least 40 people are reportedly injured due to the fires. (CNN)

International relations

• Foreign relations of Taiwan, Somaliland–Taiwan relations
  • Amid strengthening ties between Taiwan and Somaliland, the Somali government announces a ban on the entry and transit of Taiwanese passport holders through Somalia citing United Nations Resolution 2758 and the One China policy. In response, Taiwan warns its citizens against traveling to Somaliland or Somalia and lodges a protest with the Somali government. (BBC News) (Reuters)
• New Zealand–Philippines relations
  • New Zealand defence minister Judith Collins and Philippine defense secretary Gilbert Teodoro sign a visiting forces agreement in Manila. (The Washington Post)