Friday, May 19th, 2023
Three men are executed in Iran for participating in the protests over the death of Mahsa Amini. (Al Jazeera)
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad arrives in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, for an Arab League summit, bringing 12 years of isolation to an end, after Syria was readmitted following its suspension due to Assad’s crackdown during the civil war. (Reuters)
Eleven people are killed in Guangxi, China, when a vehicle carrying 14 passengers falls off a cliff into a pool of water. (Al Arabiya)
The death toll from Cyclone Mocha‘s landfall in Myanmar increases to 145 people. (BBC News)
A major 7.7 magnitude earthquake strikes the Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia in the South Pacific, causing tsunami warnings in Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu and other countries, and generating a 60 cm tsunami in Lenakel, Vanuatu. (The Guardian)
Thursday, May 18th, 2023
The French Senate votes to recognize the 1932 Holodomor famine as a “genocide” of Ukrainians. (Al Jazeera)
Sayfullo Saipov is given ten life sentences and an additional 260 years in prison for killing eight people and injuring 12 others in a 2017 vehicle-ramming attack in New York City, United States. (BBC News)
Four people are killed and six others are injured in an armed ambush on a convoy near the village of Kivandya, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Reuters)
Three people are killed and three others are injured after an armed ambush on a convoy near the Kivandya village, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. One person is also reported missing. (Reuters)
The death toll from the floods in the region of Emilia-Romagna, Italy, increases to thirteen, as five more people are killed in Ravenna. (Il Fatto Quotidiano)
Wednesday, May 17th, 2023
According to the World Meteorological Organization, the global temperature will temporarily pass the threshold of 1.5 °C above preindustrial levels, with a likelihood of 66%, by the year 2027, due to a combination of climate change and El Niño. (BBC News)
Montana Governor Greg Gianforte signs a bill banning TikTok, making Montana the first U.S. state to ban the Chinese-owned social media app. (Reuters)
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele deploys 5,000 soldiers and 500 police officers to the northwestern town of Nueva Concepción in order to arrest suspects in connection with the killing of a policeman on Tuesday. (Reuters)
Amid ongoing impeachment proceedings, Ecuadorian president Guillermo Lasso uses the muerte cruzada provision of the Constitution to dissolve the National Assembly. New presidential and legislative elections will be held within six months, during which time Lasso will be able to rule by decree. (BBC News)
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Wednesday, May 17th, 2023
The United Nations announces a $3 billion plan for the humanitarian and refugee crisis in Sudan. (Barron’s)
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Wednesday, May 17th, 2023
The 2023 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, which had been due to be held at the Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari in Imola on May 19-21, is cancelled as a result of the floods. (BBC)
Nine people are killed in Forlì–Cesena, Bologna and Ravenna and 13,000 are evacuated during heavy floods in the region of Emilia-Romagna, Italy. Twenty-one rivers have burst their banks across the region. (AP)
The United Nations announces a $3 billion plan for the humanitarian and refugee crisis in Sudan. (Barron’s)
Russian president Vladimir Putin signs an investment program deal that will make an investment of 1.6 billion euros in Iranian railroad projects, expected to come into operation within 48 months. (Tasnim)
The Chinese government reports that fishing vessel Lu Peng Yuan Yu 028 has capsized in the central Indian Ocean about a day prior. China and other countries are conducting search operations for 39 sailors, including Chinese, Indonesian, and Filipino nationals. (DW)
According to the World Meteorological Organization, the global temperature will pass temporarily the threshold of 1.5 °C above preindustrial levels, with a likelihood of a 66%, by the year 2027, due to a combination of climate change and El Niño. (BBC)
A court in Thailand sentences the former mayor of Wang Wiset district to death for the murder of an activist in May 2021. The hitman received a sentence of life imprisonment. (The Thaiger)
Tuesday, May 16th, 2023
Ukraine officially joins NATO’s Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE). (Pravda)
More than a dozen explosions are reported in Kyiv as Russia launches a missile barrage at the capital and other Ukrainian cities. Ukrainian forces say they have shot down six Kh-47M2 Kinzhal hypersonic missiles. (Financial Times) (Reuters)
The Russian Ministry of Defense claims that it destroyed a Patriot air defense system in Kyiv. However a United States official says that the system was likely damaged but not destroyed. (CNN)
Meta Platforms begins rolling out paid verification on Facebook and Instagram for users in the United Kingdom. (BBC News)
Nine people are arrested after an alleged Iranian-backed coup d’état plot is uncovered in Azerbaijan. (Barron’s)
The Supreme Court of Namibia recognises foreign same-sex marriages between citizens. However, homosexual acts remain illegal in Namibia under a rarely enforced colonial-era law from 1927. (AFP via Macau Business)
The impeachment trial against Ecuadorian president Guillermo Lasso begins, with Lasso attending in person for his defense. (AP)
Twenty people are killed after armed attackers raid a village in Plateau State, Nigeria. (Reuters)
Nine people are arrested after an alleged coup plot attempt in Azerbaijan. (Barrons)
Monday, May 15th, 2023
China convicts and sentences American citizen John Shing-Wan Leung to life in prison for espionage. (AP)
The government of Malaysia will introduce a bill for approval to decriminalize the possession and use of small quantities of illicit drugs after ending the mandatory imposition of a death sentence for the offence earlier this year. (Reuters)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at Chequers. (BBC News)
Moldova announces it will initiate a procedure to withdraw the country from the CIS Interparliamentary Assembly. (Anadolu Agency)
American-Canadian mass media company Vice Media files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. (Reuters) (BBC)
A person is killed and 59 more injured after a bus and a truck collide on the D2 motorway in Slovakia. (AP)
Three civilians are killed and two police officers are wounded in a mass shooting in Farmington, New Mexico, United States. The shooter is killed by police. (CNN)
Sunday, May 14th, 2023
Prime Minister of Belarus Roman Golovchenko addresses the nation on the anniversary of the 1995 Belarusian referendum, one day after it was reported that President Alexander Lukashenko had been hospitalised. (BBC News)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin, Germany. (BBC News)
The Russian Ministry of Defence announces the deaths of two of their commanders in Bakhmut and the village of Sontsivka west of Donetsk. (Novaya Gazeta Europe)
Bangladesh and Myanmar order massive evacuations as Cyclone Mocha makes landfall in both countries’ coastal areas. Six people are killed in Myanmar, with about 90% of the city of Sittwe being destroyed. (BBC News)
At least 26 people are killed when a van crashes into a truck in Tamaulipas, Mexico. (AP)
Turks head to the polls to elect a president for a term of five years as well as the members of the Grand National Assembly. (Al Jazeera)
Thais head to the polls to elect the members of the House of Representatives. (Los Angeles Times)
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