Portal:Current events/2024 May 30
May 30, 2024 (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israel-Hamas War
- Humanitarian aid during the Israel-Hamas war
- The Israeli military lifts a ban on the sale of food to the Gaza Strip from Israel and occupied West Bank. (Reuters)
- Humanitarian aid during the Israel-Hamas war
- Korean conflict
- North Korea launches a series of short-range ballistic missiles from Sunan-guyok towards the sea near South Korea. (Al Jazeera)
Disasters and accidents
- A person is killed after falling into a spinning aircraft engine of a departing plane at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands. (Al Jazeera)
International relations
- International recognition of the State of Palestine
- Slovenia's ruling cabinet approves a motion to recognize Palestine as an independent nation, and sends it to the National Assembly for adoption. (AP)
Law and crime
- Catalan independence movement
- The Spanish parliament votes 177–172 to pass a bill granting amnesty to hundreds of Catalan secessionists involved in the Catalan declaration of independence from 2011–2017. (Al Jazeera)
- Hong Kong convicts fourteen activists and politicians guilty of subversion under its national security law. (Al Jazeera)
- The United States Department of Labor files a lawsuit against Hyundai Motors over illegal use of child labor in the company's manufacturing factory in Alabama. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- 2024 pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses
- Detroit police dismantle and remove the student pro-Palestinian encampment at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, U.S. (The Detroit News) (AP)
Science and technology