Armed conflicts and attacks

• Red Sea crisis
  • A hypersonic missile launched from Yemen by the Houthis hits near Ben Gurion International Airport in Central District, Israel, injuring eight people. (Reuters) (The Telegraph)
• Sudanese Civil War
  • The Rapid Support Forces launch drone attacks on Port Sudan's international civilian and military airport. Drones also hit an ammunition depot at Osman Digna Air Base, causing damage but no casualties. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• Three people are killed, sixty others are hospitalized and fourteen are missing after two passenger boats carrying a total of around seventy people, including tourists, capsize on the Wu River in Guizhou, Southwestern China, China. (Barron's) (CTV News)
• Two people are killed and three others are injured after a car crashes into an entrance of Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Metro Manila, Philippines. The driver of the car is in police custody. (AP) (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Two people are arrested after planning to carry out attacks with improvised explosive devices at Lady Gaga's concert with more than two million attendees on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to gain notoriety on social media. The suspects spread hate speech, mainly against children, adolescents and the LGBTQIA+ community. (BBC News)
• Five people, including four Iranian citizens, are arrested for planning to carry out a terrorist attack at a single location in London, United Kingdom. Separately, three other Iranian men are arrested in London on suspicion of a national security offense as part of an unrelated investigation. (CTV News)
• One person is killed and thirteen others are injured in a mass shooting at a party in Houston, Texas, United States. (Associated Press)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Romanian presidential election
  • The first round of the Romanian presidential election is held with eleven candidates on the ballot. If no candidate wins over 50% of the vote, a run-off between the first two candidates will be held. (BBC News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Four people are injured in an overnight Ukrainian drone strike that struck an apartment building on Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Krai, Russia. The mayor of Novorossiysk declares a state of emergency following the strikes. (Ukrainska Pravda) (Al Arabiya)
  • The Ukrainian intelligence directorate claims it has shot down a Russian Sukhoi Su-30 fighter jet using a MAGURA naval drone over the Black Sea. (The Kyiv Independent)
• Gaza war
  • Gaza war hostage crisis
    • Hamas releases a video allegedly showing Israeli hostage Maxim Hirkin, who was abducted during the Nova music festival massacre in 2023, alive. (Reuters) (Haaretz)
• South Sudanese Civil War
  • At least seven people are killed and 25 others are injured in an airstrike on a hospital run by Médecins Sans Frontières in Old Fangak, Fangak County, South Sudan. (Al Jazeera English) (CTV News) (BBC News)

Business and economy

• Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett announces that he will step down as CEO by the end of the year at the company's annual shareholder meeting. Greg Abel will take over as CEO, pending board approval. (CNN)

Disasters and accidents

• Six people are killed and about 80 others are injured, including five critically, in a stampede during a Hindu temple festival in North Goa district, Goa, India. (Al Jazeera English)

Law and crime

• Corruption in Brazil
  • Brazil's Social Security Minister, Carlos Lupi, resigns after police announce a corruption scandal which alleges he defrauded pensioners of $1.1 billion. Federal police say that the National Social Security Institute made unauthorised deductions from payments made to millions of pensioners over the past decade. (BBC)
• Crime in Greece
  • A woman is killed in Thessaloniki, Greece, after a bomb she was carrying explodes in her hands, also damaging several nearby storefronts and vehicles. The bomb was possibly intended to be placed outside a nearby bank. (AP News)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Australian federal election
  • The Australian Labor Party under current Prime Minister Anthony Albanese increases its majority in the House of Representatives, winning a second term. (ABC News Australia).
• 2025 South Korean presidential election
  • Former Labor Minister Kim Moon Soo wins the presidential nomination of South Korea's main conservative party, People Power. (AP News)
• 2025 Singaporean general election
  • Singaporeans vote to elect 92 out of 97 members of the Parliament of Singapore across 32 of the 33 constituencies in the general election. (CNA) (The Straits Times)
  • The People’s Action Party wins the election, receiving 65.57% of the vote. (CNN)
• Togolese President Faure Gnassingbé is sworn-in as President of the Council of Ministers. Following constitutional reform that introduced a parliamentary system, this new post becomes the highest office in the government's executive branch. (BBC)
• Thousands of Bangladeshi Islamists protest government proposals, including equal inheritance rights for women, a ban on polygamy, and recognition of sex workers as laborers. (DW)

Sports

• 2025 Kentucky Derby
  • In thoroughbred racing, Sovereignty ridden by Junior Alvarado wins the 151st Kentucky Derby in a upset over Journalism ridden by Umberto Rispoli. (Courier Journal)