Portal:Current events/2024 May 30

May 30, 2024 (2024-05-30) (Thursday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
    • 2024 Kharkiv offensive
      • 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) (CNN)
• 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)
  • Rafah offensive, Siege of Gaza City
    • Israeli airstrikes kill twelve Palestinian civilians in Rafah and one at the al-Shati camp near Gaza City. (Reuters)
• Red Sea crisis
  • 2024 Sanaa strikes
    • The United States Navy and the Royal Navy strike thirteen Houthi locations across Yemen, damaging underground facilities and vessels, killing at least two people and wounding ten. (NPR)
• North Korea and weapons of mass destruction
  • North Korea launches a series of short-range ballistic missiles from Pyongyang toward the Sea of Japan. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• A bus falls into a gorge in Jammu division, India, killing 21 people travelling to a pilgrimage site in Reasi district. (ABC News)
• A person is killed after falling into a running aircraft engine of a departing plane at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands. (Al Jazeera)

Health and environment

• 2020–2024 H5N1 outbreak
  • The third human case of H5N1 bird flu in the United States is found in a dairy worker in Michigan. (NPR)

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, becoming the first U.S. president to be convicted of a crime. (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 at the company's automobile factory in Montgomery, Alabama, amid a nationwide increase in child labor in the U.S. (Reuters)
• Three people, including a police officer, are killed in a mass shooting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. (WCCO-TV)
• Footballer Gerard Piqué is placed under official investigation for his alleged involvement in illegal payments in the relocation of the Supercopa de España from Spain to Saudi Arabia. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• Israel–Hamas war protests
  • 2024 pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses
    • 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

• OpenAI removes online influence operations based in Russia, China, Iran, and Palestine , due to the usage of AI by these operations to generate propaganda and fake content. (NPR)

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