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Robert Prevost
- Robert Francis Prevost (pictured) is elected as Pope Leo XIV, becoming the first Catholic pope born in the United States.
- Friedrich Merz is elected Chancellor of Germany and sworn in alongside his coalition government.
- Zhao Xintong defeats Mark Williams to win the World Snooker Championship.
- In horse racing, Sovereignty, ridden by Junior Alvarado, wins the Kentucky Derby.
- The Australian Labor Party increases its majority in the federal election.
May 11, 2025 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Gaza war
- Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
- Thirteen Palestinians, mostly women and children, are killed in overnight Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip. (CTV News)
- Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
- Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- At least two police officers are killed and three others are injured in a roadside bombing targeting a police vehicle in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (CTV News)
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Peace negotiations in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Russian President Vladimir Putin proposes holding direct negotiations in Istanbul, Turkey, on May 15 after the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Poland threatened further sanctions if it does not agree to an unconditional 30-day ceasefire beginning on May 12. (Reuters)
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy asks Russia to confirm an unconditional ceasefire before any direct negotiations between the two nations. (Reuters)
- Peace negotiations in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Israeli MIAs
- The body of Israel Defense Forces soldier Zvi Feldman, missing since the 1982 Lebanon War in 1982, is repatriated to Israel from "deep inside Syria" in a joint Mossad–IDF operation. (The Times of Israel) (AP)
Disasters and accidents
- A bus carrying Buddhist pilgrims in Kotmale, Sri Lanka, swerves off a cliff, killing 21 people and injuring 35 others. (CTV News)
- Four people are killed, dozens are injured including four critically, and hundreds are displaced in a fire at a four-story apartment building in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. (CNN)
- During the running event Loop Leeuwarden in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, a participant dies after finishing. (NOS)
Politics and elections
- 2025 Albanian parliamentary election
- Albanians vote to elect the 140 members of the Parliament, as Prime Minister Edi Rama seeks reelection for a fourth term. (Reuters)
- In his first Sunday address, Pope Leo XIV calls for peace in Ukraine, the release of all war prisoners and the return of abducted Ukrainian children to their families; an immediate ceasefire, the release of all hostages and the allowance of humanitarian aid in Gaza; as well as a permanent ceasefire to the India–Pakistan conflict. (The Guardian)
May 10, 2025 (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Gaza war
- Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
- At least 23 Palestinians are killed, including three children, in overnight Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City, Palestine. (CTV News)
- Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
- 2025 India–Pakistan conflict
- Pakistan announces Operation Bunyanun Marsoos, the start of large-scale military action against India. (Samaa.tv)
- Pakistan Air Force warplanes launch airstrikes throughout India with missile strikes targeting Udhampur, Pathankot Airport and a BrahMos missile storage facility in Beas City, Punjab. (Al Jazeera)
- A Pakistani Fatah-II missile is intercepted over the city of Sirsa in the Indian state of Haryana. (News18)
- India announces the temporary closure of its airspace over the northern and western regions of the country until May 14. (Al Jazeera)
- United States President Donald Trump and Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar announce a full and immediate ceasefire between India and Pakistan, mediated by the U.S. Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri later confirms the ceasefire as well. (BBC News)
- Violations of the ceasefire and new clashes are reported shortly after the announcement of the agreement. (Reuters)
- Ecuadorian conflict
- Ecuador announces a three-day mourning period after eleven soldiers are killed in an ambush by guerrillas. (News Express)
- Sudanese civil war
- At least 19 prisoners are killed and 45 others are injured in an airstrike by the Rapid Support Forces on a prison in Obeid, North Kordofan, Sudan. (CTV News)
Disasters and accidents
- At least seven people die and others are injured over two districts in Mogadishu, Somalia, after a flood triggered by severe rainfall sweeps infrastructure including Aden Adde Airport. The rain also collapses nine houses and floods over 200 others. (Reuters) (Devdiscourse)
- Four people are injured and 150,000 people are issued health warnings and stay-indoors orders when a chemical plant catches fire in Vilanova i la Geltrú, Catalonia, Spain. (CTV News)
Politics and elections
- The government of Bangladesh bans the Awami League party of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who was ousted last year during mass protests, before her flight to India. (AP)
Science and technology
- Soviet space program
- Kosmos 482, a failed Venus probe launched by the Soviet Union in 1972, re-enters Earth's atmosphere, splashing down in the Indian Ocean west of Indonesia, according to Roscosmos. (The Guardian) (CNN)
May 9, 2025 (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2025 India–Pakistan conflict
- The Indian Air Force strikes Pakistan Air Force Base Nur Khan in Punjab, Pakistan, with cruise missiles with reports of multiple explosions. The Pakistan Armed Forces says the airbase has come under attack from air-to-surface missiles and that air defences are engaging hostile targets over Pakistani airspace. (News18)
- Pakistan closes its airspace to all non-military flights saying the Indian Armed Forces has launched ballistic missiles at the country. (The Times of India)
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- Nine soldiers are injured in an improvised explosive device explosion in the Shijaiyah neighborhood of Gaza City, Palestine. (CTV News)
Disasters and accidents
- Sinking of the Bayesian yacht
- Six people are killed and six others are injured when a Sri Lanka Air Force Bell 212 helicopter crashes into the Maduru Oya river in Sri Lanka. (CNA)
International relations
- France–Poland relations
- French president Emmanuel Macron and Polish prime minister Donald Tusk signs a treaty committing both sides to mutual assistance. (France24) (Reuters)
- Hungary–Ukraine relations
- The Security Service of Ukraine arrests two people on suspicion of spying for Hungary in Zakarpattia Oblast, which is home to an ethnic minority of over 150,000 Hungarians. The Hungarian foreign ministry expels two Ukrainian diplomats in response to the allegations, characterizing them as anti-Hungarian. (AP)
Sports
- In cricket, the 2025 Pakistan Super League is suspended indefinitely due to the ongoing military action between India and Pakistan. (Sky Sports)
May 8, 2025 (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Insurgency in Southeastern Nigeria
- At least thirty travellers are killed and more than twenty vehicles are set ablaze in an arson and mass shooting attack by gunmen suspected to be from the Eastern Security Network along the Okigwe-Owerri highway in Southeastern Nigeria, Nigeria. (CTV News)
Disasters and accidents
- Six people are reportedly killed when a Piper PA-31T Cheyenne air ambulance crashes between Tiltil and Curacaví in Chile. (El Morrocotudo)
- Five tourists and a pilot are killed, and one other person is injured, when a Bell 407 helicopter crashes and falls into a deep gorge near Bhagirathi River in Uttarakhand, India. (The Hindu) (NDTV)
- 123 vultures are killed, more than 80 others are rescued, and an elephant is also poisoned in a mass poisoning at Kruger National Park in South Africa. South African National Parks and the Endangered Wildlife Trust says it was one of the largest vulture poisoning events in the country. (CTV News)
Law and crime
- Abundant Life Christian School shooting
- The father of Natalie Rupnow, the perpetrator of the shooting that killed three people, including herself, and injured six others at the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin, United States, in December 2024, is charged with felonies in connection with the shooting. (CTV News)
- Murder of Cassius Turvey
- Jack Brearley and Brodie Lee Palmer are found guilty of the murder of Aboriginal Australian schoolboy Cassius Turvey in Middle Swan, Western Australia, in 2022, while Mitchell Forth is convicted of manslaughter. (BBC)
- A member of the MS-13 gang is sentenced to 55 years imprisonment for the mass stabbing murders of five people, including a teenager and three young men at a park in Long Island, New York, United States, in April 2017. (Toronto Sun)
Politics and elections
- 2025 papal conclave
- Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of the United States is elected to the papacy on the fourth ballot and takes the name Leo XIV. He is the first pope from North America and the second from the Americas, after Pope Francis. A dual citizen of the United States and Peru, he also becomes the second South American pope. (CNN) (The Guardian)
May 7, 2025 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2025 India–Pakistan standoff
- 2025 India–Pakistan conflict
- Indian airstrikes impact multiple locations in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir, killing at least 8 people. (Reuters) (India Today)
- Pakistan launches retaliatory strikes into India and Indian-administered Kashmir, and claims to have destroyed five Indian fighter jets. Three civilians are killed. (The Express Tribune) (Al Jazeera)
- Pakistani prime minister Shehbaz Sharif declares the Indian attacks to be an act of war and vows further retaliation. (ABC News)
- A state of emergency is declared in Pakistan's Punjab province following the airstrikes, with all schools in the region being closed. Hospitals and emergency services are placed on high alert. (The Express Tribune)
- 2025 India–Pakistan conflict
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Gaza war
- Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
- According to Hamas officials, Israeli airstrikes kill at least 92 Palestinians, including women, children, and two journalists, and wound at least 86 others. (AP)
- Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
- Palestinian political violence
- Four people are injured, at least two seriously, in a drive-by shooting at a car at the Reihan crossing in the West Bank. (YNet) (Times of Israel) (Arutz Sheva)
- One person is injured in an attempted car ramming and stabbing in Mount Hebron in the West Bank. (YNet)
- Gaza war
Business and economy
- The Walt Disney Company announces plans to open its seventh theme park in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, their first in the Middle East. (BBC News)
Disasters and accidents
- Eleven kindergarten teachers are killed in a collision between a minibus and dump truck in Purworejo Regency, Central Java, Indonesia. (AP)
Law and crime
- A woman is decapitated and a security guard is critically injured in a axe mass stabbing attack by a 22-year-old Polish citizen on the campus of University of Warsaw at an auditorium in Warsaw, Poland. A day of mourning is declared. (Reuters) (BBC News)
- One student is killed and two others are injured in a mass stabbing attack outside the entrance of Santa Ana High School in Orange County, California, United States. (KTLA)
Politics and elections
- 2025 papal conclave
- A total of 133 cardinal electors begin the process of electing a new pope following the death of Pope Francis. (The Guardian)
May 6, 2025 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Red Sea crisis
- May 2025 Israeli attacks on Yemen
- Israeli airstrikes hit Sanaa International Airport in Sanaa, Yemen, and destroy three of Yemenia's seven planes. (The Times of Israel)
- United States attacks in Yemen
- U.S. president Donald Trump announces that the United States has reached a ceasefire with the Houthis, with Oman as mediator, and will stop its airstrikes, after they agreed to stop disrupting international shipping. (Reuters) (NBC News)
- A second U.S. Navy F/A-18 fighter jet is lost in the Red Sea, due to an equipment failure during its attempted landing on USS Harry Truman. Both of its crew members ejected and were recovered. (CNN)
- May 2025 Israeli attacks on Yemen
- Insurgency in Balochistan
- Seven Pakistan Army soldiers are killed and five others are injured when their vehicle in a convoy heading to a security operation is exploded by a Balochistan Liberation Army improvised explosive device in Balochistan, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera English)
- Mexican drug war
- Five gunmen are killed and six vehicles burned, after an encounter between Cártel del Noreste and Jalisco New Generation Cartel´s which took place in the Rayones, Nuevo León, México.(El Universal)
Disasters and accidents
- Twelve people are killed and 23 others are injured after a bus overturns in Padang Panjang, West Sumatra, Indonesia. (VOI.ID)
- Four people are killed and over 40 others are injured when a passenger bus rolls down into a gorge in Poonch District, Jammu and Kashmir, India. (The Times of India)
International relations
- India–United Kingdom relations
- British prime minister Keir Starmer and Indian prime minister Narendra Modi announce they have signed a bilateral free trade agreement to significantly lower tariffs on 99% of Indian exports into the UK, including textiles, and halve tariffs of British exports into India, including aerospace manufacturing, whiskey, and lamb meat. (DW)
Law and crime
- The government of Peru imposes a curfew and temporarily suspends gold mining in Pataz Province for 30 days after the bodies of thirteen miners who were kidnapped and killed were discovered on Sunday. (DW)
Politics and elections
- 2025 German federal election
- The Bundestag elects Friedrich Merz, leader of the Christian Democratic Union, as the 10th Chancellor of Germany in the second round of voting, with 325 votes out of the 316 votes necessary. (BBC News) (Tagesschau)
May 5, 2025 (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Red Sea crisis
- May 2025 Israeli attacks on Yemen
- The Israeli military carry out six airstrikes on Hudaydah Port in Hodeidah, Houthi-controlled Yemen, in response to yesterday's attack on Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel. (Al Jazeera English)
- May 2025 Israeli attacks on Yemen
- Gaza war
- The Israel Security Cabinet confirms they plan to control more than 70% of the Gaza Strip indefinitely, alongside moving its civilians southwards. (The Guardian)
- Syrian civil war
- A woman is killed and others are wounded after unidentified armed men open fire with automatic weapons inside a nightclub in Damascus, Syria. (CTV News)
Disasters and accidents
- Three people are killed, four others are injured, and nine are missing after a panga boat capsizes near a beach at the Del Mar Fairgrounds near San Diego, California, United States. (ABC News)
International relations
- Holy See–Palestine relations, Humanitarian aid during the Gaza war
- The Vatican announces that it will convert and donate a Popemobile into a mobile health clinic for wounded children in Gaza, Palestine, in accordance with one of Pope Francis' final wishes. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
Law and crime
- Sudanese civil war, Sudan–United Arab Emirates relations
- Darfur campaign
- The International Court of Justice dismisses Sudan's case against the United Arab Emirates (UAE) alleging that the UAE violated the Genocide Convention by supplying weapons to the Rapid Support Forces and other paramilitary groups in the Darfur region. (DW) (PBS)
- Darfur campaign
- Gaza war protests
- Five pro-Palestinian protesters are arrested by police during a World War II anniversary event in Wageningen, Netherlands, after throwing a smoke bomb onto the stage during a speech by Dutch prime minister Dick Schoof while Polish prime minister Donald Tusk was visiting, and holding up banners and flags. (Reuters)
- Mass shootings in the United States
- Three people are killed and five are injured in a mass shooting in Glendale, Arizona, United States. (ABC News)
- Three traffic police officers and two gunmen are killed and at least four others, including a police officer and two other shooters, are injured in a mass shooting and shootout by gunmen in Makhachkala, Dagestan, Russia. One of the attackers fled in a police car. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- 2025 Australian federal election
- 2025 Australian Senate election
- The incumbent Australian Labor Party overtakes the Liberal–National Coalition as the largest plurality in the Senate, meaning support will be required only from the Coalition or the Australian Greens to pass legislation. (The Guardian Australia)
- 2025 Australian Senate election
Sports
- 2025 World Snooker Championship
- In snooker, Zhao Xintong of China defeats three-time champion Mark Williams of Wales 18–12 at the World Snooker Championship to win his first championship, becoming the first amateur player and the first player from China to do so. (Reuters)
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