Portal:Current events/2024 May 31

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Ukraine launches missile and drone strikes across Krasnodar Krai, Russia, injuring two people and damaging several oil refineries. (Reuters)
  • Kharkiv strikes
    • At least three people are killed and 16 others are injured when Russian missiles hit civilian infrastructure in Kharkiv. (Reuters)
  • Treatment of prisoners of war in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Ukraine and Russia announce their first exchange of prisoners of war in nearly four months, with 150 people freed following negotiations mediated by the United Arab Emirates. (Reuters)
• Red Sea crisis
  • 30 May 2024 Yemen strikes
    • The death toll from yesterday's U.S. Navy and British Navy airstrikes in Yemen increases to 16 with 35 others injured. (AP)
    • The Houthi Supreme Political Council states that it launched an attack on the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, although American officials deny this claim. (The Independent)
• Sudanese civil war
  • Battle of Khartoum
    • Seven soldiers are killed and 28 others are injured in an offensive by the Rapid Support Forces near Khartoum, Sudan. (Sudan Tribune)
• 2024 Mannheim stabbing
  • A man with a knife stabs several people at an anti-Muslim rally in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany including two policemen, including one in the neck, before being injured by a bullet. (Reuters)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • A medic is killed and another is injured in an Israeli airstrike against an ambulance in Naqoura, Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)

International relations

• France–Israel relations
  • France bans Israeli defense firms from exhibiting at the Eurosatory weapons expo convention. (Al Jazeera)
• China–United States relations
  • At the 2024 Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin meets with Chinese Minister of National Defense Dong Jun, with the two agreeing to resume military-to-military communication between the two countries. (Al Jazeera)

Law and crime

• Corruption in Zambia
  • Former First Lady of Zambia Esther Lungu is arrested on fraud charges. (BBC News)
• Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton dies in prison after being attacked by another inmate earlier this month. (AP)
• French security services arrest a Chechen teenager suspected of plotting a islamist-inspired ambush on a football game during the Summer Olympics. (The Guardian)

Politics and elections

• Israel–Hamas war protests
  • Israel–Hamas war protests in the United States
    • Pro-Palestinian protesters occupy parts of the Brooklyn Museum in New York City, New York, U.S. (Reuters)