Portal:Current events/2024 May 30
May 30, 2024 (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2024 Kharkiv offensive, Russia–NATO relations
- The United States gives Ukraine permission to strike Russian territory near Kharkiv Oblast with U.S.-supplied weapons, but not with long-range missiles. (Politico)
- Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen says that Denmark has approved Ukrainian airstrikes on Russian territory using Danish-supplied F-16 jets. (Pravda)
- 2024 Kharkiv offensive, Russia–NATO relations
- Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
- 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 the West Bank. (Reuters)
- Humanitarian aid during the Israel-Hamas war
- Korean conflict
- North Korea launches a series of short-range ballistic missiles from Pyongyang toward the Sea of Japan. (Al Jazeera)
Disasters and accidents
- A person is killed after falling into a running 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 the motion to the National Assembly for adoption. (AP)
Law and crime
- Catalan independence movement
- The Spanish parliament votes to pass a bill granting amnesty to hundreds of Catalan secessionists involved in the Catalan declaration of independence from 2011 to 2017. (Al Jazeera)
- Prosecution of Donald Trump in New York
- Former President of the United States Donald Trump is found guilty by a jury on all 34 felony counts relating to falsifying business records. (CNN)
- 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 amid a nationwide increase in child labor in the U.S. (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