May 7, 2016 (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
- Resolute Support Mission
- Two Romanian soldiers are killed along with assailants in an insider attack in Afghanistan. (Washington Post)
- Resolute Support Mission
- Syrian Civil War
Law and crime
- Indonesia-Philippines relations
- Filipina convict Mary Jane Veloso gets a reprieve from Indonesian executions. (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
Politics and elections
- Polish Constitutional Court crisis, 2015, Law and Justice government
- About 240,000 Poles have taken to the streets in Warsaw to protest against the Polish government. (BBC)
- Sarawak state election, 2016
- In Malaysia, Sarawak voters go to the polls for a state election. (Channel NewsAsia)
- Bukit Batok by-election, 2016
- Singapore's Bukit Batok by-elections conclude with more than 24,000 voters casting ballots. Murali Pillai of the People's Action Party emerged as the winner with 61.21% of the valid votes cast. This was the first Singaporean by-election following the 2015 general elections. (Channel NewsAsia) (The Straits Times)
- 2016 United States presidential election, United States presidential election in Guam, 2016
- Voters in Guam head to the polls to vote in the Democratic presidential caucus. (Guam Daily Post)
Sports
- Nyquist wins the 2016 Kentucky Derby, extending his race record to eight wins in eight races.(The Blood-Horse)