Portal:Current events/2024 May 1
May 1, 2024 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israel–Hamas war
- Israeli invasion of Gaza, Humanitarian aid during the Israel–Hamas war
- Following American pressure, Israel reopens the Erez-Beit Hanoun Crossing and allows aid trucks into the northern part of the Gaza Strip. (Reuters)
- Israeli invasion of Gaza, Humanitarian aid during the Israel–Hamas war
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Odesa strikes
- Two Russian ballistic missile strikes in the port city of Odesa kill three people, and injure sixteen others. (Reuters) (Kyiv Post) (Reuters)
- Odesa strikes
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 Kenya floods
- A highway collapse leaves 24 people dead and 30 injured in Meizhou, Guangdong, China, after days of heavy rain. (Le Monde) (BBC)
- Nine people are killed in eastern India as the region faces the hottest April on record in a heatwave. (Reuters)
- Heavy rains kill ten people in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. (ABC News)
International relations
- Colombia–Israel relations, International reactions to the Israel–Hamas war
- President Gustavo Petro announces that Colombia will break diplomatic relations with Israel over its actions in Gaza. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- Abortion in North Carolina
- U.S. federal judge Catherine Eagles blocks several of North Carolina's restrictions on abortion pill mifepristone, striking down a requirement that the drug only be prescribed by doctors in-person, as well as a requirement for patients to have an in-person follow-up appointment. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- Israel–Hamas war protests
- 2024 Israel–Hamas war protests on university campuses in the United States
- 2024 University of California, Los Angeles pro-Palestinian campus occupation
- Pro-Israel counter-protestors attack the pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of California, Los Angeles, throwing objects and attempting to destroy barricades. (Reuters)
- 2024 University of California, Los Angeles pro-Palestinian campus occupation
- 2024 Israel–Hamas war protests on university campuses in the United States
- Homosexuality and Methodism
- The United Methodist Church votes 692–51 to repeal a longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy, additionally prohibiting superintendents from forbidding a same-sex wedding. (AP)