Portal:Current events/2023 May 1

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • 2022–2023 Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
    • Russia launches cruise missile and drone strikes across Ukraine. Among the targets hit is an industrial zone in Pavlohrad, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, where a large explosion damaged or destroyed 19 apartment buildings and 25 homes, with 34 people reportedly injured. Ukrainian forces say that they shot down 15 of 18 missiles launched by Russia. (The Guardian)
  • Battle of Bakhmut
    • Ukrainian colonel general Oleksandr Syrskyi says that Ukrainian troops have recaptured parts of central Bakhmut, but that the situation on the ground "remains difficult". (Reuters)
• Insurgency in the Maghreb
  • Fifteen people are killed after unidentified gunmen open fire at a farm in Kérou, Benin. (Associated Press)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • A 17-year-old Palestinian boy is killed during an Israeli raid near Jericho in the West Bank. (Associated Press)
• A bomb is detonated on the road between Sofia and Samokov, Bulgaria. The target is believed to be the Chief Public Prosecutor of Bulgaria Ivan Geshev, whose motorcade was travelling on the road at the time. No injuries are reported. The explosion has been designated as a terrorist incident by officials. (Politico Europe)

Business and economy

• 2023 global banking crisis
  • The FDIC seizes control of First Republic Bank, while JPMorgan Chase agrees to buy "a substantial majority of assets" and to assume the "deposits and certain other liabilities" of the bank, in the second-largest bank failure in US history. (CNN)

Disasters and accidents

• Five people are killed, one person is injured, and another person is reported missing in an explosion at a chemical plant in Liaocheng, Shandong, China. (Reuters)
• At least six people are killed and 30 others are injured in Illinois, United States, after a dust storm causes a crash involving 70 to 90 vehicles on Interstate 55. (CNN)
• The oil tanker MT Pablo catches fire off the coast of Malaysia with three of five crew members missing afterward. The tanker was reportedly carrying sanctioned oil and had changed flags only six days earlier. Oil washes up on the shores of Indonesia later. (CNN) (Lloyd's List) (Quantum Commodity Intelligence)
• a Cessna 206 light aircraft with seven people on board crashed in the jungle in the Caquetá Department of Colombia.BNN

Politics and elections

• 2023 Paraguayan general election
  • Santiago Peña is declared the winner of the Paraguayan presidential election. (BBC News)
• 2024 Salvadoran general election, Salvadoran gang crackdown (2022–present)
  • Various Salvadoran trade unions, syndicates, and political parties held a protest march demanding an increase in wages and against presidential re-election and the ongoing gang crackdown. (MSN) (North American Congress on Latin America)

Sports

• 2023 World Snooker Championship
  • Luca Brecel wins his first World Snooker Championship title, defeating Mark Selby by a score of 18–15 in the final at The Crucible in Sheffield, England. Brecel becomes the first player from continental Europe to win the tournament. (BBC Sport)