Disasters and accidents

• The death toll from the flash flood and lahar in West Sumatra, Indonesia, increases to 62, with 25 others still missing. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• Lawrence Wong succeeds Lee Hsien Loong as the 4th Prime Minister of Singapore. (BBC News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • 2024 Kharkiv offensive, Kharkiv strikes
    • At least 20 people are injured when Russian airstrikes hit a residential building in Kharkiv, Ukraine. (Reuters)
    • Ukraine pulls back from positions near Lukyantsi and Vovchansk in Kharkiv Oblast. (Reuters)
• Israel–Hamas war
  • Rafah offensive
    • Israeli tanks enter residential areas of Rafah as they attempt to capture the city. Hamas' armed wing al-Qassam Brigades says that it destroyed an Israeli troop carrier with a Al-Yassin 105 anti-tank missile, killing several troops and injuring several others, while the Israel Defense Forces claim to have "eliminated" several terrorists in the city. (Reuters)
• 2024 New Caledonia unrest
  • Riots erupt in New Caledonia as France plans to change the constitution, allowing more recent white French settlers to vote in the island's provincial elections, which protesters claim would marginalise the Indigenous Kanak people. (Al Jazeera) (The Guardian)
  • Three Kanaks residents are killed and many more injured during a drive-by shooting by a group of French settlers. (Reuters)
  • At least 54 officers are injured and more than 130 people are arrested. Shops and cars are looted, while a prison break has been prevented. (AP) (Al Jazeera)

Arts and culture

• The 77th annual Cannes Film Festival opens in Cannes, France, with Meryl Streep receiving an honorary Palme d'Or award. (AP)

Business and economy

• China–United States trade war
  • U.S. President Joe Biden passes tariff increases on Chinese imports, including electric vehicles and batteries, computer chips, and medical products. (Reuters)
• GameStop short squeeze
  • The share price of GameStop increases by a further 61%. (Quartz) (Yahoo! News)
• Economy of Argentina
  • Inflation in Argentina slows to a single digit number of 8.8 percent amid severe austerity plans by president Javier Milei. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• The death toll from a building collapse in George, South Africa, last week, increases to 33. (Reuters)
• Thirteen people, including former Congressman Édgar Alarcón, are killed in a bus crash in Vinchos, Huamanga Province, Peru. (Reuters) (Infobae)
• Eight people are killed and 40 others are injured when a bus carrying farmworkers collides with a truck and overturns in Marion County, Florida, United States. (AP)

Law and crime

• Corruption in Russia
  • Russian police arrest former head of personnel of the Ministry of Defence {{ill|Yuri Kuznetsov|ru|Кузнецов, Юрий Васильевич (военачальник)}} for bribery of over $1 million. Kuznetsov's charges carry up to 15 years of jail time. (Al Jazeera)
• Two prison guards are killed and three others are critically injured in an ambush of a prison van near Rouen, Normandy, France, to free an inmate with ties to a drug dealing gang. (BBC News)
• Tunisian police raid the headquarters of the Tunisian Order of Lawyers in Tunis and arrest Mahdi Zagrouba, who is known for his opposition to President Kais Saied. (Al Jazeera)
• The Supreme Court of Kazakhstan sentences former Minister of National Economy Kuandyk Bishimbayev to 24 years in prison for torturing and murdering his wife. (Al Jazeera)
• Russian dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza loses his appeal against a 25-year prison sentence. (Reuters)
• A court in Germany convicts and fines Alternative for Germany member Björn Höcke €13,000 ($14,000) for using a Nazi slogan that once belonged to the Sturmabteilung. (Al Jazeera)

Politics and elections

• 2023–2024 Georgian protests
  • Riot police clash with protesters on the streets of Tbilisi, Georgia, after the parliament approves a controversial "foreign agent" law that requires media organizations to declare foreign funding. (BBC News)
  • The United States warns Georgia that $390 million in planned economic support will be "under review" if the Georgian government considers the U.S. as an "adversary", and not as a strategic partner. (The Guardian)

Science and technology

• Russia places its nuclear capable submarine-launched Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile into service. (Reuters)

May 15: Feast day of Saint Carthage (Catholicism); Nakba Day in Palestinian communities

• 392 – Roman emperor Valentinian II (pictured) was found hanged in his residence in Vienne, in present-day France.
• 1855 – Thieves stole 224 pounds (102 kg) of gold from a train travelling from London to Folkestone, England.
• 1864 – American Civil War: A small Confederate force, which included cadets from the Virginia Military Institute, forced the Union Army out of the Shenandoah Valley.
• 1904 – Russo-Japanese War: The Japanese battleships Hatsuse and Yashima sank after striking several mines off Port Arthur, China.
• 1916 – Jesse Washington, a teenage African-American farmhand, was lynched in Waco, Texas.