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May 2025
31 editions. Choose a day to read it in full.
- Saturday 31 May In association football, French club Paris Saint-Germain defeats Italian club Inter Milan 5–0 in the final to win its first UEFA Champions…
- Friday 30 May The death toll from heavy flooding that submerged the market town of Mokwa in Niger State, Nigeria, on Wednesday, rises to at least 117…
- Thursday 29 May U.S. president Donald Trump commutes the federal prison sentence of Larry Hoover, the founder of the Chicago street gang Gangster…
- Wednesday 28 May More than two million documents related to Russian military procurement from a public database for contractors are published, including…
- Tuesday 27 May Twelve people are killed and one person is missing when a fuel tanker collides with a van and truck near the Sebakwe River on the…
- Monday 26 May German chancellor Friedrich Merz announces that Germany and several other NATO allies have lifted all restrictions on Ukraine using…
- Sunday 25 May In auto racing, three-time Indycar champion Álex Palou of Spain wins the 109th Indianapolis 500, giving Chip Ganassi Racing its sixth…
- Saturday 24 May Russia fires two ballistic missiles at the seaport in Odesa, Ukraine, for the second time in 24 hours, killing two people and injuring…
- Friday 23 May Russia and Ukraine begin the largest prisoner exchange since the war began in February 2022, consisting of three days and 1,000 prisoners…
- Thursday 22 May Six people are presumed dead (including Daniel Williams, former drummer of metalcore band The Devil Wears Prada), eight others are injured…
- Wednesday 21 May Canada, France, Italy, Spain, the UK, and Uruguay summon their Israeli ambassadors over the incident in the occupied West Bank. Canada, the…
- Tuesday 20 May Puntland authorities confirm the killing of Ahmed Muse Said, a senior leader of the Islamic State in Somalia who led the recruitment of…
- Monday 19 May Indian National Highway 66 collapses in Kooriyad, Malappuram district, Kerala. Four cars on the service road are damaged in the collapse…
- Sunday 18 May Incumbent mayor of Warsaw Rafał Trzaskowski leads the first round of the Polish presidential elections with 31.4% of the vote, followed by…
- Saturday 17 May In English football, Crystal Palace wins the FA Cup after defeating Manchester City 1–0 in the final played at Wembley Stadium in London…
- Friday 16 May A tornado strikes St. Louis, Missouri. At least 5 people are killed, 35-45 others are injured and more than 100,000 are without power in…
- Thursday 15 May The Indonesian military confirms that 18 Papuan separatists and three civilians were killed in yesterday's military operation in Intan Jaya…
- Wednesday 14 May Two Israelis, including a pregnant woman and her child, are critically wounded in a shooting near Brukhin in the West Bank.
- Tuesday 13 May Sussan Ley is elected as the new leader of the Liberal Party of Australia following the party's defeat at Saturday's federal election. Ley…
- Monday 12 May Clashes erupt between rival militia gunmen from the 444th Brigade and the Stability Support Apparatus in Tripoli, Libya, after the…
- Sunday 11 May 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…
- Saturday 10 May United States President Donald Trump and Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar announce a full and immediate ceasefire between India…
- Friday 9 May French president Emmanuel Macron and Polish prime minister Donald Tusk signs a treaty committing both sides to mutual assistance.
- Thursday 8 May 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…
- Wednesday 7 May Pakistan launches retaliatory strikes into India and Indian-administered Kashmir, and claims to have destroyed five Indian fighter jets…
- Tuesday 6 May The Bundestag elects Friedrich Merz, leader of the Christian Democratic Union, as the 10th Chancellor of Germany in the second round of…
- Monday 5 May In snooker, Zhao Xintong of China defeats three-time champion Mark Williams of Wales 18–12 at the World Snooker Championship to win his…
- Sunday 4 May Two people are killed and four others are injured after a car crashes into an entrance of Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Metro…
- Saturday 3 May The Australian Labor Party under current Prime Minister Anthony Albanese increases its majority in the House of Representatives, winning a…
- Friday 2 May The Trump administration terminates the de minimis tariff exemption for some imports shipped directly to consumers. Online shops such as…
- Thursday 1 May In the wake of the Signalgate scandal, Mike Waltz and Alex Nelson Wong resign as U.S. National Security Advisor and Deputy National…