Portal:Current events/2025 May 28

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Cambodia–Thailand relations
  • A Cambodian soldier is killed in an exchange of fire with a Thai soldier. Cambodia initially said that the Thai soldier opened fire, but Thailand denied this citing a misunderstanding when the Cambodian soldier crossed the border during a routine operation. (AP)
  • Thai prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra says that she spoke with Cambodian prime minister Hun Manet, and both agreed to resolve the crisis. (Bloomberg)
• New Cold War
  • More than two million documents related to Russian military procurement from a public database for contractors are published, including information on the modernization and build-up of the Russian Strategic Missile Forces, military base at Yasny, and Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle. (The Moscow Times) (Newsweek)
• Red Sea crisis
  • Israel says it launched airstrikes against targets in Houthi-controlled Yemen, destroying the last operational plane of Yemenia Airlines at Sanaa International Airport. (Reuters)

Arts and culture

• Miss Grand International 2024
  • The reigning Miss Grand International, Rachel Gupta, resigns from her title, citing mistreatment and a toxic environment. The Miss Grand International Organization announces Gupta's termination from the title, citing her failure to fulfill assigned duties and her engagement in external projects without prior approval. (Manila Bulletin)
• Namibian genocide
  • Namibia commemorates its first Genocide Remembrance Day to honor the indigenous Herero and Nama peoples who were ethnically cleansed by the German South West Africa colonial forces as proxy of the German Empire. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Blatten glacier collapse
  • A landslide destroys almost all of the village of Blatten, Switzerland, resulting in one person going missing. (Le Nouvelliste)
• A boat carrying over 100 migrants capsizes within reach of the shores of the El Hierro island in the Spanish Canary Islands. Four women and three girls are found drowned, while a medical helicopter evacuates two other children in critical condition to a nearby hospital. (AP)
• Four people are killed and damage is reported in a crowd crush and shooting after hundreds of Palestinians stormed a United Nations food warehouse in an attempt to get food in Gaza City, Palestine. (PBS News)

Law and crime

• Corruption in Albania
  • Former Albanian president Ilir Meta is formally charged with corruption, money laundering, tax evasion, and concealing property from authorities. The charges were detailed in a report from anti-corruption prosecutors. Meta was arrested in October. (AP)
• Pamplona massacre
  • The Constitutional Government of Timor-Leste announces that expelled former Philippine lawmaker Arnolfo Teves Jr., the main suspect in the assassination of Negros Oriental governor Roel Degamo in 2023, will be deported back to the Philippines after his arrest by Immigration Service of Timor-Leste. (Rappler)
• Patnagarh bombing
  • A court in Odisha, India, sentences a man to life in prison for a 2018 bombing at a wedding in Patnagarh that killed two people. (BBC News)
• Five people are killed, including the perpetrator, and four others are injured, including one critically, when a drunk 17-year-old goes on a mass stabbing rampage before killing himself in an arson attack at a house during a birthday party in Irkutsk, Irkutsk Oblast, Russia. (The Moscow Times)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Australian federal election
  • The National Party rejoins the Opposition Coalition one week after moving to the crossbench. (The Guardian)
• 2025 People's Justice Party leadership election
  • Following their defeats in the People's Justice Party leadership election, ministers Rafizi Ramli and Nik Nazmi announce their intention to resign from the Cabinet of Malaysia. (CNA)
• Education policy of the second Donald Trump administration
  • U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says his department will start revoking visas for Chinese students and increase scrutiny on all future visa applications from China and Hong Kong. (AP)
• Tariffs in the second Trump administration
  • The United States Court of International Trade rules that President Donald Trump cannot enact sweeping tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act without congressional approval. (AP)

Sports

• 2024–25 UEFA Conference League
  • In association football, Chelsea F.C. defeat Real Betis 4–1 in the UEFA Conference League final at the Wrocław Stadium in Wrocław, Poland, becoming the first club to win all four current major UEFA competition trophies. (BBC Sport)
• 2025 in sumo
  • In sumo, Ōnosato Daiki is promoted and becomes the sport's 75th yokozuna. Ōnosato reached the highest rank of yokozuna faster than anyone in the modern history of sumo, achieving the promotion in 13 tournaments and never posting a losing record during a tournament. (Kyodo News)