Portal:Current events/2025 May 26

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
    • Israeli attacks kill at least 52 Palestinians in Gaza, including 36 in a school used as a shelter. (BBC News)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Government and intergovernmental reactions to the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • German chancellor Friedrich Merz announces that Germany and several other NATO allies have lifted all restrictions on Ukraine using long-range weaponry inside Russia. Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov says that the decision is contrary to efforts to reach a political settlement to end the war. (Reuters) (Euronews)

Business and economy

• European Union–United States relations, Tariffs in the second Trump administration
  • U.S. president Donald Trump says the implementation of 50% tariffs on all goods imported from European Union countries will be postponed until July 9. (CNN)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Liverpool parade incident
  • A vehicle ploughs into crowds of Liverpool F.C. fans celebrating their Premier League title win in the city centre of Liverpool, England. 109 people are injured, and a suspect is detained by Merseyside Police. (BBC News)

Law and crime

• Capital punishment in Nigeria
  • A Sharia court in Kano State, Nigeria, sentences a 38-year-old man to death and 150 strokes of the cane for setting a mosque on fire and killing 23 people inside in May 2024. (Vanguard Nigeria)
• Mass shootings in the United States
  • Two people are killed and nine are injured in a mass shooting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. (WPVI-TV)
• A court in Ica, Peru, opens a criminal investigation into an Israeli soldier who is on vacation in the country who is accused of war crimes. The Public Ministry referred the case to the local court to locate the man. (La República)
• A barangay captain and two Sangguniang Barangay members are killed, while a Sangguniang Kabataan secretary is critically injured, in a shooting in Dasmariñas, Cavite, Philippines. The shooter, a former tanod, fatally shoots himself. (The Star) (Sun Star)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Romanian presidential election
  • Nicușor Dan is sworn in as the new president of Romania. (Euronews)

Sports

• 2025 Games of the Small States of Europe
  • The XX Games of the Small States of Europe are inaugurated in Andorra la Vella, Andorra. (Diari d'Andorra)