Portal:Current events/2024 May 31
May 31, 2024
(Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Ukraine launches missile and drone strikes across Krasnodar Krai, Russia, injuring two people and damaging several oil refineries. (Reuters)
- Kharkiv strikes
- Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Red Sea crisis
- 2024 Sanaa strikes
- The toll from yesterday's airstrikes in Yemen launched by the United States Navy and the Royal Navy increases to 16 people killed and 35 more injured. (AP)
- The Houthi Supreme Political Council states it launched an attack on the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, though American officials deny this. (The Independent)
- 2024 Sanaa strikes
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- A medic is killed and another injured during an Israeli airstrike against an ambulance in Naqoura, Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
International relations
- China–United States relations
- At the 2024 Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin meets with Chinese Minister of National Defense Dong Jun, with the two agreeing to the resumption of military-to-military communication between China and the United States in the coming months. (Al Jazeera)
- France bans Israeli defense firms from exhibiting at Eurosatory. (Times of Israel)
- Ukraine and Russia announce their first exchange of prisoners of war in nearly four months, with 150 people freed after negotiations mediated by the United Arab Emirates. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- 2024 Mannheim stabbing
- German police shoot and wound a man armed with a knife who attacked and stabbed several people at an anti-Islam rally organized by Citizens' Movement Pax Europa and Michael Stürzenberger in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg. (Reuters)
- French security services arrest a Chechen teenager suspected of plotting an Islamist-inspired attack on a football game during the Summer Olympics. (The Guardian)
- Former First Lady of Zambia Esther Lungu is arrested on fraud charges. (BBC News)