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
- Treatment of prisoners of war in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Ukraine and Russia announce their first exchange of prisoners of war in nearly four months, with 150 people freed following negotiations mediated by the United Arab Emirates. (Reuters)
- Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Red Sea crisis
- 30 May 2024 Yemen strikes
- The death toll from yesterday's U.S. Navy and British Navy airstrikes in Yemen increases to 16 with 35 others injured. (AP)
- The Houthi Supreme Political Council states that it launched an attack on the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, although American officials deny this claim. (The Independent)
- 30 May 2024 Yemen strikes
- Sudanese civil war
- Battle of Khartoum
- Seven soldiers are killed and 28 others are injured in an offensive by the Rapid Support Forces near Khartoum, Sudan. (Sudan Tribune)
- Battle of Khartoum
- 2024 Mannheim stabbing
- A man with a knife stabs several people at an anti-Muslim rally in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany including two policemen, including one in the neck, before being injured by a bullet. (Reuters)
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- A medic is killed and another is injured in an Israeli airstrike against an ambulance in Naqoura, Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
International relations
- France–Israel relations
- France bans Israeli defense firms from exhibiting at the Eurosatory weapons expo convention. (Al Jazeera)
- 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 resume military-to-military communication between the two countries. (Al Jazeera)
Law and crime
- Corruption in Zambia
- Former First Lady of Zambia Esther Lungu is arrested on fraud charges. (BBC News)
- Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton dies in prison after being attacked by another inmate earlier this month. (AP)
- French security services arrest a Chechen teenager suspected of plotting a islamist-inspired ambush on a football game during the Summer Olympics. (The Guardian)
Politics and elections
- Israel–Hamas war protests
- Israel–Hamas war protests in the United States
- Pro-Palestinian protesters occupy parts of the Brooklyn Museum in New York City, New York, U.S. (Reuters)
- Israel–Hamas war protests in the United States