Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
    • More than 150 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes in the last 24 hours. (AP) (Reuters)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • A bus evacuating civilians is attacked by a Russian drone near Bilopillia, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine, killing nine people and injuring five others. (Ukrainska Pravda)
• Guyana–Venezuela territorial dispute
  • The chief of the Guyana Defence Force, Omar Khan, says that military reinforcement have been sent to the Cuyuní River area after Venezuelan civilians shot at Guyanese soldiers on Thursday, as tensions between both nations increase over a referendum by Venezuela on the Essequibo. (Infobae)
• War against the Islamic State
  • The Ministry of Interior of Syria announces that its armed forces carried out a military operation in a southern neighborhood of Aleppo, where it killed a member of Islamic State, arrested another, and seized weapons, explosives and uniforms with official insignia. A security forces member is also killed in the confrontation. (The Media Line)

Disasters and accidents

• Tornado outbreak sequence of May 15–16, 2025

• The death toll from severe weather yesterday, including likely tornadoes in St. Louis, Missouri and Somerset, Kentucky, rises to 31. More severe weather is expected today near the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. (NPR) (Associated Press)

• 2025 Eura mid-air collision
  • Five people, including Estonian businessmen [[:et:Oleg Sõnajalg|Oleg Sõnajalg]] and [[:et:Priit Jaagant|Priit Jaagant]], are killed when two Robinson R44 civilian helicopters en route to Piikajärvi Airfield collide mid-air and crash into the ground in a forested area near Eura, Satakunta, Finland. (Eesti Rahvusringhääling)
• At least one person is killed, an unknown number of others are injured and significant damage is reported in a car explosion at a fertility clinic near the Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs, California, United States. (BNO News)

Law and crime

• Capital punishment in Iran
  • The Supreme Court of Iran overturns a 5-year prison sentence imposed by a Tehran court against singer Amir Tataloo and confirms his death sentence for blasphemy. Tataloo had been extradited from Turkey in 2023. (News Central Africa)
• Crime in South Africa
  • Eight people are killed in a mass shooting by unidentified gunmen inside a tavern in Umlazi, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. A manhunt for the suspects has been launched. (CBS News)
• Mass shootings in the United States
  • Three people are killed and another person is critically injured in a mass shooting outside of a nightclub in Seattle, Washington, United States. No arrests have been made. (KOMO-TV)

Politics and elections

• South Korean former President Yoon Suk Yeol leaves the People Power Party a month after the Constitutional Court of Korea removed him from office due to his short-lived declaration of martial law. (Reuters)
• 2025 Philippine general election
  • The 12 winning candidates of the Senate election held on May 12, 2025, are officially proclaimed as senators-elect. (Inquirer.net)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
    • More than 74 people have been killed in Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip since midnight. (RTÉ News)
• Red Sea crisis
  • The Israeli Air Force launches airstrikes on the ports of Hudaydah and Salif in Houthi-controlled Yemen, as prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and defense minister Israel Katz warn that if the Houthis persist in attacking Israel, their leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi will be directly targeted. (Al Arabiya)
• Persecution of Ahmadis in Pakistan
  • A locally renowned doctor in Sargodha, Pakistan, belonging to the Ahmadiyya community, is killed after an unknown assailant shoots him twice in the back. (Dawn)

Business and economy

• United States federal government credit-rating downgrades
  • Moody's Ratings lowers the United States' credit rating from Aaa to Aa1, citing the government's rising debt, widening deficits, and increased interest payments. (USA Today)

Disasters and accidents

• Tornado outbreak sequence of May 15–16, 2025
  • A tornado strikes St. Louis, Missouri. At least 5 people are killed, 35-45 others are injured and more than 100,000 are without power in the St. Louis metropolitan area following severe weather in the city and surrounding areas. (Associated Press) (KSDK)
• Five people are killed and three others are injured by a landslide at a hydropower plant construction site in Phong Thổ, Lai Châu province, Vietnam. (News.az)

International relations

• Foreign relations of Angola, 2023 Gabonese coup d'état
  • The Government of Angola says that former President of Gabon Ali Bongo, along with former First Lady Sylvia Bongo Ondimba and their son Noureddin Bongo Valentin arrived last night in Angola, where they received asylum "for humanitarian reasons", days after their release from prison, where they had been since the 2023 coup. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Stabbing of Salman Rushdie
  • A court in New York, United States sentences 27-year old Hadi Matar 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)
• 2025 Las Vegas gym shooting
  • At least two people are killed, including the perpetrator and four others are injured, including one critically, in a mass shooting and shootout when a man opens fire inside of a gym in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. (KTNV)
• Ten inmates take part in a mass escape from the Orleans Parish jail in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Three are recaptured; the other seven remain fugitives. (The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate)
• International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Ahmad Khan temporarily steps aside from his role while the United Nations investigates the sexual misconduct allegations against him. (The Washington Post)