Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander is released by Hamas after being kept in captivity in Gaza for 19 months. (Reuters)
The National Unity Government of Myanmar says that an airstrike by junta forces killed 17 students and injured 20 others at a school in Tabayin, Sagaing Region, Myanmar. (Reuters)
An unknown armed group attacks an artisanal gold mine in Narena, Koulikoro Region, Mali, killing one Malian and two others from Ghana, and abducting two Chinese nationals. (AP)
Polish authorities confirm evidences of Russian sabotage behind the arson attack that destroyed most of the Marywilska 44 marketplace in Warsaw in 2024. As a reaction, the Russian consulate general in Kraków is ordered to close down. (The Guardian)
The Taliban bans chess in Afghanistan, with a Taliban spokesman saying that chess is considered a form of gambling under Sharia law. (BBC News)
The 12th Congress of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which has waged an insurgency in Turkey for more than 40 years, announces plans for a formal disbanding and ceasing of all activities. (Reuters)
Filipinos vote to elect all 317 members of the House of Representatives and 12 members of the Senate, in addition to local elections. (Asian Journal)
Five people are killed, dozens are injured including three critically, and hundreds are displaced in a fire at a four-story apartment building in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. (CNN)
One person is killed and 32 others are injured in a collision between a SUV and a bus in Hacienda Heights, California, United States. (The Washington Post)
123 vultures are killed, more than 80 others are rescued, and an elephant is also poisoned in a mass poisoning at Kruger National Park in South Africa. South African National Parks and the Endangered Wildlife Trust says it was one of the largest vulture poisoning events in the country. (CTV News)
Sunday, May 11th, 2025
Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of the United States is elected to the papacy on the fourth ballot and takes the name Leo XIV. He is the first pope from North America and the second from the Americas, after Pope Francis. A dual citizen of the United States and Peru, he also becomes the second South American pope. (The Guardian)
In his first Sunday address, Pope Leo XIV calls for peace in Ukraine, the release of all war prisoners and the return of abducted Ukrainian children to their families; an immediate ceasefire, the release of all hostages and the allowance of humanitarian aid in Gaza; as well as a permanent ceasefire to the India–Pakistan conflict. (The Guardian)
Kosmos 482, a failed Venus probe launched by the Soviet Union in 1972, re-enters Earth’s atmosphere, splashing down in the Indian Ocean west of Indonesia, according to Roscosmos. (The Guardian)(
Fifteen Palestinians, mostly women and children, are killed in overnight Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip. (CTV News)
Hamas agrees to release Edan Alexander, a dual American-Israeli citizen hostage; the release is expected to take place in the coming days. (Reuters)
At least two police officers are killed and three others are injured in a roadside bombing targeting a police vehicle in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (CTV News)
Russian President Vladimir Putin proposes holding direct negotiations in Istanbul, Turkey, on May 15 after the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Poland threatened further sanctions if it does not agree to an unconditional 30-day ceasefire beginning on May 12. (Reuters)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy asks Russia to confirm an unconditional ceasefire before any direct negotiations between the two nations. (Reuters)
The body of Israel Defense Forces soldier Zvi Feldman, missing since the 1982 Lebanon War in 1982, is repatriated to Israel from “deep inside Syria” in a joint Mossad–IDF operation. (The Times of Israel)
A bus carrying Buddhist pilgrims in Kotmale, Sri Lanka, swerves off a cliff, killing 21 people and injuring 35 others. (CTV News)
Four people are killed, dozens are injured including four critically, and hundreds are displaced in a fire at a four-story apartment building in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. (CNN)
Pakistan Air Force warplanes launch airstrikes throughout India with missile strikes targeting Udhampur, Pathankot Airport and a BrahMos missile storage facility in Beas City, Punjab. (Al Jazeera)
A Pakistani Fatah-II missile is intercepted over the city of Sirsa in the Indian state of Haryana. (News18)
India announces the temporary closure of its airspace over the northern and western regions of the country until May 14. (Al Jazeera)
United States President Donald Trump and Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar announce a full and immediate ceasefire between India and Pakistan, mediated by the U.S. Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri later confirms the ceasefire as well. (BBC News)
Violations of the ceasefire and new clashes are reported shortly after the announcement of the agreement. (Reuters)
At least 19 prisoners are killed and 45 others are injured in an airstrike by the Rapid Support Forces on a prison in Obeid, North Kordofan, Sudan. (CTV News)
At least seven people die and others are injured over two districts in Mogadishu, Somalia, after a flood triggered by severe rainfall sweeps infrastructure including Aden Adde Airport. The rain also collapses nine houses and floods over 200 others. (Reuters)
Four people are injured and 150,000 people are issued health warnings and stay-indoors orders when a chemical plant catches fire in Vilanova i la Geltrú, Catalonia, Spain. (CTV News)
The government of Bangladesh bans the Awami League party of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who was ousted last year during mass protests, before her flight to India. (AP)
The Indian Air Force strikes Pakistan Air Force Base Nur Khan in Punjab, Pakistan, with cruise missiles with reports of multiple explosions. The Pakistan Armed Forces says the airbase has come under attack from air-to-surface missiles and that air defences are engaging hostile targets over Pakistani airspace. (News18)
Pakistan closes its airspace to all non-military flights saying the Indian Armed Forces has launched ballistic missiles at the country. (The Times of India)
Nine soldiers are injured in an improvised explosive device explosion in the Shijaiyah neighborhood of Gaza City, Palestine. (CTV News)
Six people are killed and six others are injured when a Sri Lanka Air Force Bell 212 helicopter crashes into the Maduru Oya river in Sri Lanka. (CNA)
French president Emmanuel Macron and Polish prime minister Donald Tusk signs a treaty committing both sides to mutual assistance. (Reuters)
The Security Service of Ukraine arrests two people on suspicion of spying for Hungary in Zakarpattia Oblast, which is home to an ethnic minority of over 150,000 Hungarians. The Hungarian foreign ministry expels two Ukrainian diplomats in response to the allegations, characterizing them as anti-Hungarian. (AP)
A member of the MS-13 gang is sentenced to 55 years imprisonment for the mass stabbing murders of five people, including a teenager and three young men at a park in Long Island, New York, United States, in April 2017. (Toronto Sun)
The father of Natalie Rupnow, the perpetrator of the shooting that killed three people, including herself, and injured six others at the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin, United States, in December 2024, is charged with felonies in connection with the shooting. (CTV News)
Jack Brearley and Brodie Lee Palmer are found guilty of the murder of Aboriginal Australian schoolboy Cassius Turvey in Middle Swan, Western Australia, in 2022, while Mitchell Forth is convicted of manslaughter. (BBC)
At least thirty travellers are killed and more than twenty vehicles are set ablaze in an arson and mass shooting attack by gunmen suspected to be from the Eastern Security Network along the Okigwe-Owerri highway in Southeastern Nigeria, Nigeria. (CTV News)
Five tourists and a pilot are killed, and one other person is injured, when a Bell 407 helicopter crashes and falls into a deep gorge near Bhagirathi River in Uttarakhand, India. (The Hindu)(NDTV)
One student is killed and two others are injured in a mass stabbing attack outside the entrance of Santa Ana High School in Orange County, California, United States. (KTLA)
The Walt Disney Company announces plans to open its seventh theme park in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, their first in the Middle East. (BBC News)
British prime minister Keir Starmer and Indian prime minister Narendra Modi announce they have signed a bilateral free trade agreement to significantly lower tariffs on 99% of Indian exports into the UK, including textiles, and halve tariffs of British exports into India, including aerospace manufacturing, whiskey, and lamb meat. (DW)
Five tourists and a pilot are killed, and one other is injured, when a Bell 407 flying from Harsil to Gangotri crashes into a wooded area and falls into a deep gorge near Bhagirathi River in Uttarakhand, India. (NDTV)
The second and third ballots of the papal conclave fail to elect a new pope. (CNN)
According to Hamas officials, Israeli airstrikes kill at least 92 Palestinians, including women, children, and two journalists, and wound at least 86 others. (AP)
U.S. President Donald Trump states that there will be news regarding a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of hostages “probably in the next 24 hours”. (Reuters)
Four people are injured, at least two seriously, in a drive-by shooting at a car at the Reihan crossing in the West Bank. (Times of Israel)
One person is injured in an attempted car ramming and stabbing in Mount Hebron in the West Bank. (YNet)
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2025
U.S. president Donald Trump announces that the United States has reached a ceasefire with the Houthis, with Oman as mediator, and will stop its airstrikes, after they agreed to stop disrupting international shipping. (Reuters)
U.S. president Donald Trump announces that the United States will immediately stop its airstrikes in Yemen because it reached a ceasefire with the Houthis after they agreed to end their attacks on shipping lanes. (Reuters)
Pakistani prime minister Shehbaz Sharif declares the Indian attacks to be an act of war and vows further retaliation. (ABC News)
A state of emergency is declared in Pakistan’s Punjab province following the airstrikes, with all schools in the region being closed. Hospitals and emergency services are placed on high alert. (Tribune)
A total of 133 cardinal electors begin the process of electing a new pope following the death of Pope Francis. (The Guardian)
Eleven kindergarten teachers are killed in a collision between a minibus and dump truck in Purworejo Regency, Central Java, Indonesia. (AP)
Tuesday, May 6th, 2025
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)
Indian airstrikes hit multiple locations in Pakistan and the Pakistan-administered Kashmir, killing at least 8 people. (Reuters)
Seven Pakistan Army soldiers are killed and five others are injured when their vehicle in a convoy heading to a security operation is exploded by a Balochistan Liberation Army improvised explosive device in Balochistan, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera English)
Four people are killed, including an army trooper, and over 40 others are injured, including 11 critically, when a passenger bus rolls down into a gorge in Poonch District, Jammu and Kashmir, India. (The Times of India)
A second U.S. Navy F/A-18 fighter jet is lost in the Red Sea, due to an equipment failure during its attempted landing on USS Harry Truman. Both of its crew members ejected and were recovered. (CNN)
The Bundestag elects Friedrich Merz, leader of the Christian Democratic Union, as the 10th Chancellor of Germany in the second round of voting, with 325 votes out of the 316 votes necessary. He is the first chancellor of Germany to have been elected only in the second round. (BBC News)
The government of Peru imposes a curfew and temporarily suspends gold mining in Pataz Province for 30 days after the bodies of thirteen miners who were kidnapped and killed were discovered on Sunday. (DW)
Monday, May 5th, 2025
The Israeli Security Cabinet confirms plans for an indefinite occupation of the Gaza Strip alongside moving its civilians southwards. (The Guardian)
Three people are killed, four others are injured, and nine are missing after a panga boat capsizes near a beach at the Del Mar Fairgrounds near San Diego, California, United States. (ABC News)
The International Court of Justice dismisses Sudan’s case against the United Arab Emirates (UAE) alleging that the UAE violated the Genocide Convention by supplying weapons to the Rapid Support Forces and other paramilitary groups in the Darfur region. (PBS)
Five pro-Palestinian protesters are arrested by police during a World War II anniversary event in Wageningen, Netherlands, after throwing a smoke bomb onto the stage during a speech by Dutch prime minister Dick Schoof while Polish prime minister Donald Tusk was visiting, and holding up banners and flags. (Reuters)
Three people are killed and five are injured in a mass shooting in Glendale, Arizona, United States. (ABC News)
Three traffic police officers and two gunmen are killed and at least four others, including a police officer and two other shooters, are injured in a mass shooting and shootout by gunmen in Makhachkala, Dagestan, Russia. One of the attackers fled in a police car. (Reuters)
The first round of the Romanian presidential election is held with eleven candidates on the ballot. George Simion leads the first round with 40% of the vote. As no candidate has won over 50% of the vote, a run-off between the first two candidates will be held on May 18. (BBC News)
Three traffic police officers and two gunmen are killed and several civilians and a police officer are hospitalized in a mass shooting and shootout by unidentified gunmen in Makhachkala, Dagestan, Russia. One of the attackers fled in a police car. (Baku.ws)
U.S. president Donald Trump announces the reopening of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in San Francisco, which closed in 1963 and operates as a public museum. (AP News)
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