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May 11, 2024 

Armed conflicts and attacks

Russian invasion of Ukraine

• 2024 Kharkiv offensive
• * Russia claims to have captured five villages in northeastern Ukraine, as 1,700 Ukrainian civilians are forced to flee.

Arts and culture

Eurovision Song Contest 2024

• Dutch performer Joost Klein is disqualified from the Eurovision final over reported verbal threats and is under investigation by the Swedish authorities, being the first time someone has been disqualified during the festival itself.
• The Norwegian announcer for Eurovision declares she withdraws from announcing votes "due to the “inflamed situation” around the contest"

Disasters and accidents

2024 Afghanistan–Pakistan floods

• The death toll from the ongoing floods in Baghlan Province, Afghanistan has increased to 300, with 100 others injured.

2024 Rio Grande do Sul floods

• The death toll from the ongoing heavy flooding in southern Brazil increases to 136, with 125 still missing and more than 300,000 people displaced.

Law and crime

• Peruvian authorities launch an investigation into President Dina Boluarte for disbanding a police force that was investigating her brother Nicanor Boluarte, who was arrested for alleged influence peddling.

May 10, 2024 

Armed conflicts and attacks

Russian invasion of Ukraine

• 2024 Kharkiv offensive
• * Russian forces launch an attack on Ukraine's Kharkiv Oblast, near the town of Vovchansk, opening up a new front.
• A Ukrainian strike against oil infrastructure kills three in Luhansk.

Insurgency in Cabo Delgado

• Hundreds of Islamic State-linked fighters attack the town of Macomia, Cabo Delgado Province, Mozambique.

Naxalite–Maoist insurgency

• Indian security forces kill 12 Maoist rebels in Chhattisgarh.

Disasters and accidents

2024 Afghanistan–Pakistan floods

• Over 200 people are killed by floods in Baghlan Province, Afghanistan.

2024 Rio Grande do Sul floods

• The death toll from the ongoing heavy flooding in southern Brazil increases to 113, with 146 still missing and more than 300,000 people displaced.

• Seven people are killed and six others are injured when a passenger bus plunges from the Potseluev Bridge into the Moyka river in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

• At least 60 people are injured when a passenger train collides with a locomotive in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Health and environment

Demographics of Italy

• Amid record low birth rates and an aging population, Pope Francis urges Italians to have more children. The Italian government also expands a campaign to encourage at least 500,000 births annually by 2033.

International relations

Palestine and the United Nations

• United Nations General Assembly Resolution ES-10/24
• * The United Nations General Assembly votes 143–9 with 25 abstentions to approve a resolution granting Palestine new rights and privileges, and to reconsider Palestine's request to become a UN member. The nine countries that voted against the resolution are Israel, the U.S., Argentina, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau and Papua New Guinea.

Law and crime

Arrest of Arvind Kejriwal, 2024 Indian general election

• The Supreme Court of India grants Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal interim bail for 21 days in connection with the Delhi liquor policy money laundering case, thereby permitting Kejriwal to campaign in the ongoing general election.

• A Pennsylvania jury orders ExxonMobil to pay $725.5 million to a former mechanic who claimed that the company's gasoline and solvents caused him to develop leukemia.

Politics and elections

Israel–Hamas war protests

• 2024 pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses
• * Police dismantle encampments and arrest dozens of students protesting at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• * Academic staff of The New School in New York City hold the first faculty-led solidarity encampment in the United States.

2024 United States presidential election

• Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 2024 presidential campaign
• * Robert F. Kennedy Jr. qualifies to appear on the ballot in Oklahoma for the 2024 United States presidential election as an independent candidate.

2024 Polish farmers' protests

• Thousands of protesters march through Warsaw, Poland, against the European Union's environmental regulations.

• Emir of Kuwait Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah dissolves the National Assembly and suspends some articles of the Constitution.

• Eight hundred protesters storm the Tesla plant in Grünheide, Germany, in protest of the environmental impact of the company's expansion.

Science and technology

May 2024 solar storms

• A geomagnetic storm hits Earth, reaching G5 intensity and causing widespread aurorae, with NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center issuing its first G4-level storm watch since 2005.

May 9, 2024 

Armed conflicts and attacks

Israeli–Palestinian conflict

• Israel–Hamas war
• * Rafah offensive
• * Israeli tanks and warplanes strike eastern Rafah. 80,000 people have fled Rafah throughout the week.
• * United States support for Israel in the Israel–Hamas war
• * U.S. President Joe Biden threatens to withhold weapons from Israel if it launches a major invasion of Rafah.
• Spillover of the Israel–Hamas war
• * Red Sea crisis
• * The Houthis claim responsibility for attacks on three container ships in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean.
• Israeli far-right extremists launch two arson attacks on the perimeter of the UNRWA headquarters in East Jerusalem, forcing it to temporarily close down.

Russo–Ukrainian war

• Assassination attempts on Volodymyr Zelenskyy
• * Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy fires the head of the state guards Serhiy Rud after allegations that two members of the guards were involved in an assassination plot against Zelenskyy.

Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, Iran–Israel relations

• Iran warns that it will build a nuclear weapon if Israel continues to target its nuclear facilities.

Business and economy

• Air India Express cancels 85 flights due to staff calling in sick at the last minute, which is related to a protest against working conditions imposed by the airline's new owner Tata Group.

• Air Vanuatu cancels all of its flights as the Vanuatu Government considers putting the airline into voluntary administration.

Disasters and accidents

2024 Rio Grande do Sul floods

• The death toll from the ongoing heavy flooding in southern Brazil increases to 107, with at least 136 people still missing and 165,000 people displaced.

• Two Boeing 737 planes are involved in accidents involving takeoff and landing in Senegal and Turkey.

International relations

Australia–Tuvalu relations

• Australia and Tuvalu sign a new security agreement, whereby Australia agrees to protect Tuvalu during natural disasters, pandemics, or military aggression.

Law and crime

• Former Fijian prime minister Frank Bainimarama is sentenced to one year in prison for perverting the course of justice.

Politics and elections

Israel–Hamas war protests

• Thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters march in Malmö, Sweden, against Israel's participation in the Eurovision Song Contest. Among the protesters is Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg.

• Trade unions in Argentina launch a general strike against President Javier Milei's planned reforms and budget cuts.

Sports

• Bayer Leverkusen breaks Benfica's record of 48 undefeated games in modern European men's club association football.

May 8, 2024 

Armed conflicts and attacks

Russian invasion of Ukraine

• Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
• * Russia launches missile and drone strikes across Ukraine, injuring three people and damaging critical infrastructure. Ukraine says that it shot down 39 of 55 missiles and 20 of 21 drones.
• Kharkiv strikes
• * At least seven people, including four children, are injured in a Russian airstrike on Kharkiv.
• Russia occupies the villages of Novokalynove in Donetsk Oblast and Kyslivka in Kharkiv Oblast.

Israel–Hamas war

• Al-Shifa Hospital siege
• * A third mass grave holding at least 49 bodies is discovered in Gaza City's al-Shifa Hospital.
• Humanitarian aid during the Israel–Hamas war
• * Israel reopens the Kerem Shalom border crossing, allowing humanitarian aid into Gaza. However, the UN states that no aid has entered.
• Rafah offensive
• * Israeli troops reach the outskirts of Rafah with Hamas saying that heavy fighting is underway. The Israeli military says that it has "uncovered terrorist infrastructure" and killed a number of Hamas militants as it advances.

Islamic State–Taliban conflict

• A motorcycle bombing kills three Taliban security personnel in Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan. The Islamic State – Khorasan Province claims responsibility for the attack.

Arts and culture

• A statue of the late African American civil rights leader Daisy Bates is unveiled at the U.S. Capitol's National Statuary Hall Collection in Washington, D.C., representing the state of Arkansas.

Disasters and accidents

Tornadoes of 2024

• Tornado outbreak of May 6–8, 2024
• * Dozens of tornadoes strike the United States over the past three days, killing five people and leaving multiple others injured.

2024 Rio Grande do Sul floods

• The death toll from the ongoing heavy flooding in southern Brazil increases to 100, with 128 people still missing and 163,000 people displaced.

• Rolling blackouts occur in several cities in Mexico amid an ongoing heatwave in the country.

• A Boeing 767 operated by FedEx is forced to make an emergency landing at Istanbul Airport after the front landing gear fails to deploy.

A Republic of Singapore Air Force

Health and environment

COVID-19 vaccine

• AstraZeneca withdraws its marketing authorizations in Europe and withdraws its COVID-19 vaccines worldwide due to low demand, after finding that the vaccines can very rarely lead to blood clots.

Law and crime

Human trafficking in India

• The Indian Central Bureau of Investigation arrests four people linked to a network of human traffickers who have been luring young men to go to Russia with the promise of jobs or university admission, then forcing them to fight in the war in Ukraine. The Ministry of External Affairs is working with Russia to secure discharges for 20 Indian nationals in the Russian Army.

• Two Cambodian and Chinese people are deported from Singapore after being convicted of laundering over S$3 billion

Politics and elections

Elected British politicians who have changed party affiliation

• British Conservative MP Natalie Elphicke defects to the opposition Labour Party, citing the Sunak government's failure to stop the English Channel migrant crisis.

• The United States House of Representatives vote 359–43 to keep Mike Johnson as House Speaker, defeating an initiative by Marjorie Taylor Greene to have him removed.

Science and technology

• Researchers at Google DeepMind announce the development of AlphaFold 3, an AI model that can predict the structures of almost all biological molecules and model the interactions between them.

Sports

2024 Summer Olympics torch relay

• The ship Belem arrives in Marseille, France, with the Olympic flame.

May 7, 2024 

Armed conflicts and attacks

Russian invasion of Ukraine

• Assassination attempts on Volodymyr Zelenskyy
• * The Security Service of Ukraine says that it detained two Ukrainian government protection unit colonels recruited by Russia's Federal Security Service who were planning an assassination of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other top Ukrainian officials.
• Ukrainian forces launch a missile strike on an oil terminal in Luhansk, causing a large fire and injuring at least five workers.

Israel–Hamas war

• Rafah offensive
• * Israeli forces enter Rafah in a "limited" operation, taking control of the Rafah Border Crossing on the Egypt–Gaza border.
• * At least 27 people are killed by Israeli airstrikes in Rafah.

M23 offensive

• The death toll from rocket strikes on an IDP camp in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, increases to 18.

Arts and culture

• The Boy Scouts of America announces the renaming of the organization to Scouting America on February 8, 2025, in an effort to make girls feel more welcome.

Disasters and accidents

Tornadoes of 2024

• Tornado outbreak of May 6–8, 2024
• * A FedEx warehouse in Portage, Michigan, United States, is destroyed by a tornado.

2024 Rio Grande do Sul floods

• The death toll from ongoing heavy flooding in southern Brazil increases to 90, with more than 150,000 people left homeless.

International relations

International recognition of the State of Palestine

• The Bahamas formally recognizes Palestine as an independent nation.

Law and crime

Russian undesirable organizations law

• Russia declares American nonprofit organization Freedom House an "undesirable organization", effectively outlawing the group, after accusing the group of "discrediting the Russian Army" and advocating sanctions against Russia.

• Two people are killed and 21 others are injured in a mass stabbing at a hospital in Zhenxiong County, Yunnan, China. A suspect has been detained.

• TikTok and its parent company ByteDance sue the United States government over the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, alleging that the law is unconstitutional.

Politics and elections

Israel–Hamas war protests

• 2024 pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses
• * Dutch police end a pro-Palestinian occupation at the University of Amsterdam.

Fifth inauguration of Vladimir Putin

• Russian President Vladimir Putin is inaugurated for a fifth six- year term.

Premiership of John Swinney

• The Scottish Parliament votes to elect John Swinney as First Minister of Scotland with 64 votes in favour and seven abstentions from the Scottish Greens.

May 6, 2024 

Armed conflicts and attacks

Israel–Hamas war

• Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
• * Israel tells civilians to evacuate parts of eastern Rafah ahead of a planned ground invasion.
• Hamas states that it has accepted a ceasefire proposal negotiated by Egypt and Qatar. Israel rejects the proposal, claiming that the deal does not meet its "core demands", but confirms that it will continue negotiations in Cairo, Egypt.

Russian invasion of Ukraine

• Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
• * Six people are killed and 35 others are injured in Ukrainian drone attacks in Belgorod Oblast, Russia.

Kurdish–Turkish conflict

• Kurdistan Workers' Party insurgency
• * The Turkish Air Force carries out airstrikes on Iraqi Kurdistan, reportedly killing 16 PKK insurgents.

Arts and culture

• The 2024 Met Gala takes place at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City with the theme "The Garden of Time", celebrating the Met's exhibit Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion.

• The 2024 Pulitzer Prize ceremony is held, with 16 awards in Journalism and 10 in Letters, Drama, & Music.

Business and economy

• Steward Health Care, a for-profit hospital chain in the United States, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Disasters and accidents

2024 Rio Grande do Sul floods

• The death toll from the ongoing heavy flooding in southern Brazil increases to 85.

Tornado outbreak of May 6–8, 2024

• The U.S. Storm Prediction Center issues a rare high risk convective outlook ahead of an expected significant tornado outbreak in parts of Oklahoma and Kansas.

• An under construction apartment complex collapses in George, South Africa, killing seven people and leaving dozens more missing.

• Five workers are killed and another is critically injured while carrying out maintenance work on a wastewater lifting tank in Palermo, Italy.

Law and crime

• An American soldier is arrested in Russia on charges of criminal misconduct. According to US officials, the soldier was based in South Korea and had been accused of stealing from a woman.

Politics and elections

Israel–Hamas war protests

• 2024 pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses
• * Japanese students at the University of Tokyo, Sophia University, Tama Art University, International Christian University, and Hiroshima University hold solidarity encampments.
• * Belgian and Dutch students hold solidarity encampments and occupy parts of the Ghent University, the University of Amsterdam, and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

2024 Chadian presidential election

• Chad holds presidential elections under its junta, contested between incumbent Mahamat Déby and Prime Minister Succès Masra.

2024 Scottish National Party leadership election

• John Swinney is elected leader of the Scottish National Party following the resignation of First Minister Humza Yousaf.

May 5, 2024 

Armed conflicts and attacks

Israel–Hamas war

• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
• * Israeli air raids in Meiss Ej Jabal, Lebanon, cause "massive destruction" according to a Lebanese state-run agency, killing four civilians and injuring three others. In response, Hezbollah fires dozens of Katyusha and Falaq rockets towards Kiryat Shmona, Israel.
• Three Israeli soldiers are killed and ten civilians are injured when Hamas launches a rocket barrage at the Kerem Shalom border crossing.
• Hamas announces the end of ceasefire talks held in Cairo, Egypt, while Israel vows to continue its military operations.

Russian invasion of Ukraine

• A woman is killed and 17 other people are injured in Russian attacks on Kharkiv, Ukraine.

Terrorism in Australia

• A man is injured in a stabbing at a car park in Perth, Australia. The 16-year-old perpetrator is killed by police officers and is described as a "religious radicalized individual". A possible Islamist motive is behind the attack.

Arts and culture

• With the closing performance of the Celebration Tour at Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, American singer Madonna attracts 1.6 million people in a free concert and breaks the record for the most attended stand-alone concert by any artist, and the all-time highest attended concert by a female artist.

Disasters and accidents

2024 Kenya floods

• The death toll from the ongoing flooding in Kenya increases to 228.

2024 Rio Grande do Sul floods

• The death toll from the ongoing heavy flooding in southern Brazil increases to 78, with more than 100 people still missing.

Politics and elections

Israel–Hamas war protests

• 2024 pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses
• * Virginia State Police dismantle a pro-Palestine encampment on the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville, and arrest more than 15 students.

2024 Panamanian general election

• Panamanians elect their President and members of the National Assembly.
• José Raúl Mulino, the stand-in for former president Ricardo Martinelli, wins the presidential election with more than 35% of the vote, after his three nearest opponents conceded. He will assume office in July.

2024 Togolese parliamentary election

• The ruling Union for the Republic party wins 108 out of 113 seats in the National Assembly.

Censorship in Israel

• The Israeli Cabinet votes to close all Al Jazeera offices in Israel, with Israeli authorities later raiding these offices.

• Thousands of Hungarians protest in Debrecen, Hungary, against Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's rule and policies.

Sports

2024 Formula One World Championship

• 2024 Miami Grand Prix
• * In auto racing, McLaren driver Lando Norris wins his first Formula One race at the Miami Grand Prix.

2024 NASCAR Cup Series

• 2024 AdventHealth 400
• * Kyle Larson edges out Chris Buescher in the closest finish in NASCAR Cup Series history, winning a photo finish by one- thousandth