Saturday 3 May 2025

Four people are injured in an overnight Ukrainian drone strike that struck an apartment building on Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Krai, Russia. The mayor of Novorossiysk declares a state of emergency following the strikes.

Hamas releases a video allegedly showing Israeli hostage Maxim Hirkin, who was abducted during the Nova music festival massacre in 2023, alive.

Twenty people are killed when a South Sudan Air Force Boeing 727 carrying drones for the Rapid Support Forces is destroyed in an airstrike by the Sudanese Armed Forces at Nyala Airport in Nyala, Sudan.

The Ukrainian intelligence directorate claims it has shot down a Russian Sukhoi Su-30 fighter jet using a MAGURA naval drone over the Black Sea.

Liberal Leader Peter Dutton loses his seat of Dickson, becoming the first Leader of the Opposition to lose their seat in Australian electoral history.

Over 20,000 Hefazat-e-Islam protesters rally in Dhaka, Bangladesh, to denounce proposed legislation that would provide equal rights for Muslim women such as inheritance law, a ban on polygamy, and recognition of sex workers as laborers, which they allege oppose Sharia law.

Singaporeans vote to elect 92 out of 97 members of the Parliament of Singapore across 32 of the 33 constituencies in the general election.

Togolese President Faure Gnassingbé is sworn-in as President of the Council of Ministers of Togo. Following constitutional reform that introduced a parliamentary system, this new post becomes the highest office in the government's executive branch.

Former Labor Minister Kim Moon Soo wins the presidential nomination of South Korea's main conservative party, People Power.

The People’s Action Party wins the election, receiving 65.57% of the vote.

A woman is killed in Thessaloniki, Greece, after a bomb she was carrying explodes in her hands, also damaging several nearby storefronts and vehicles. The bomb was possibly intended to be placed outside a nearby bank.

José Murguía Santiago, the mayor of Teuchitlán, Jalisco, is arrested on charges of organized crime and forced disappearance.

Fifteen people are killed after a minibus taxi and a bakkie collided head-on in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.