Tuesday, May 14th, 2024
United States President Joe Biden passes tariff increases on Chinese imports, including electric vehicle batteries, computer chips, medical products, and a 100% electric vehicle tariff. (Reuters)
Russia puts the nuclear capable submarine-launched Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile into service. (Reuters)
Russian police arrest former head of personnel of the Ministry of Defence Yuri Kuznetsov for bribery of over ₽1 million. His charges carry up to 15 years of jail time. (Al Jazeera)
Two prison guards are killed and three are critically injured during an ambush against a prison van near Rouen, Normandy, France. An inmate escaped alongside the attackers. (BBC News)
Gamestop‘s stock rises another 61%. (Quartz) (Yahoo)
The 77th annual Cannes Film Festival opens in Cannes, France, with an honorary Palme d’Or award for Meryl Streep. (AP)
The death toll from a building collapse in George, South Africa, rises to 33. (Reuters)
Eight people are killed and 40 others are injured when a bus carrying farmworkers collided with a truck and overturned in Marion County, Florida, U.S. (AP)
Thirteen people die in a highway crash near Ayacucho in the Peruvian Andes. (Reuters) (Infobae)
Two prison guards are killed and three are critically injured during an ambush against a prison van near Rouen, Normandy, France. An inmate escaped alongside the attackers. (BBC News)
Tunisian police raid the headquarters of the Tunisian Order of Lawyers and arrests Mahdi Zagrouba, known for his opposition to President Kais Saied. This comes two days after the police detained lawyer Sonia Dahmani and two journalists. (Al Jazeera)
Riot police clash with protesters on the streets of Tbilisi, Georgia, after the parliament approves a controversial “foreign agent” law that forces media organizations to declare foreign funding. (BBC News)
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)
Monday, May 13th, 2024
The Israeli military advances into northern and southern Gaza. (Reuters)
A staff member of the United Nations Department of Safety and Security is killed and another is injured in Rafah. (United Nations)
Hamas says that it has “lost contact” with the militants holding four Israeli hostages in the Gaza Strip, including Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin. (Reuters)
Russia claims that its troops have entered the town of Vovchansk, 74 kilometres (46 mi) from Kharkiv. (BBC News)
Judge Judy Sheindlin sues A360media, the parent company of the National Enquirer and In Touch Weekly, for defamation in the Menéndez brothers case. (AP)
Three years after the previous GameStop stock squeeze, Redditors return to artificially inflate GameStop’s share price by 75%, reaching an 18-month high. The share price of AMC Theatres also increases by more than 70%. (Reuters)
U.S. President Joe Biden signs a bill banning imports of uranium from Russia. (Reuters)
The death toll from the ongoing heavy flooding in southern Brazil increases to 147 people, with 127 people still missing. (Reuters)
The final remains of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, which killed six workers, are demolished with explosives. (East Bay Times)
The death toll from the flash flood and lahar in West Sumatra, Indonesia, increases to 43, with 15 others still missing. (Reuters)
At least 14 people are killed, 75 are injured, and others are trapped after a billboard collapses during heavy rains in Mumbai, India. (Reuters)
The Airlines for America trade association and several major American airlines file a lawsuit against the United States Department of Transportation over a rule requiring upfront disclosure of airline fees. (Reuters)
Indonesian police conducts a major drug raid on a lab hidden in a villa in Bali, Indonesia. They arrested one Indonesian, two Ukrainians, and one Russian. (AP)
A referendum to allow dual citizenship in Lithuania fails to pass. (LRT)
Gitanas Nausėda and Ingrida Šimonytė advance to the run-off election, which will be held on 26 May. (The Guardian)
An administrative court in Münster, Germany, rules that the Alternative for Germany political party could threaten democracy and can be spied on. (The Washington Post)
The High Commissioner of New Caledonia imposes a curfew and mobilizes security forces after a general strike and violent protests over proposed constitutional changes in the capital city Nouméa. (Al Jazeera)
OpenAI announces a new model of their generative pretrained transformer (GPT) named GPT-4o, capable of visual and video speech recognition and translation. (Reuters)
Sunday, May 12th, 2024
The death toll from the ongoing flooding in northern Afghanistan increases to 315, with more than 1,600 people injured, and more than 1,000 houses destroyed. (Reuters)
The death toll from the ongoing flooding in southern Brazil increases to 143, with 125 people still missing. The Brazilian government has announced R$12.1 billion in emergency spending in response to the crisis. (Reuters)
The Marywilska 44 shopping mall in Białołęka district, Warsaw, Poland, is destroyed in a suspected arson attack. Many of the venues were Vietnamese-owned. (The Times of India)
Wildfires in British Columbia and Alberta, Canada, force thousands to evacuate. (CNN)
Egypt announces it will intervene on South Africa’s side in the South Africa v Israel case in response to Israel’s growing assault on Rafah. (Reuters)
Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova is sworn in as the first female President of North Macedonia. (Bloomberg Macedonia)
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