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Topics in the news

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

• Kenyan writer and activist Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (pictured) dies at the age of 87.
• In sumo, Ōnosato Daiki is promoted to yokozuna.
• In association football, Liverpool win the Premier League title.
• In motor racing, Álex Palou wins the Indianapolis 500.
• In basketball, the EuroLeague concludes with Fenerbahçe winning the Final Four Playoff.

Ongoing:

• Gaza war
• M23 campaign
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
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• Sudanese civil war
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Recent deaths:

• Phil Robertson
• Mary K. Gaillard
• Peter David
• Alan Yentob
• Gerry Connolly
• Sebastião Salgado

May 30, 2025 (2025-05-30) (Friday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Mexican drug war
  • Nine alleged members of the Los Metros drug cartel are arrested by Mexican law enforcement on suspicion of the abduction and murder of the musical group Grupo Fugitivo who disappeared in Reynosa, Tamaulipas. (Al Jazeera) (BBC)
• Syrian civil war
  • ISIS claims responsibility for a vehicle bombing in Al-Safa, Suwayda, Syria, on May 22 which wounded several soldiers of the Syrian transitional government. (Al Jazeera) (Sky News)

Business and economy

• The African Development Bank elects Mauritanian economist Sidi Ould Tah as its next president. (AP)

International relations

• Diplomatic impact of the Gaza war
  • French president Emmanuel Macron during a conference in Singapore states that France may be willing to impose sanctions on Israel if humanitarian aid is blocked and says a Palestinian state is a political necessity. (Al Jazeera) (Jerusalem Post)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Nigeria floods
  • 2025 Mokwa flood
    • The death toll from heavy flooding that submerged the market town of Mokwa in Niger State, Nigeria, on Wednesday, rises to at least 117. Thousands of homes have been destroyed and a dam collapsed. (Al Jazeera) (Sky News) (DW)
• At least ten people are killed, a dozen others are injured, including six seriously, and six people are missing when a stone quarry collapses in Cirebon, West Java, Indonesia. (CTV News)

Law and crime

• 2025 Liverpool parade incident
  • Accused 53 Year old Paul Doyle appeared at both Liverpool Magistrates' Court and Liverpool Crown Court and faced seven charges. (BBC) (The Independent)
• Murder of Tina Satchwell
  • Richard Satchwell is found unanimously guilty and convicted of the 2017 murder of his wife Tina in Fermoy, County Cork, Ireland. (RTÉ)

May 29, 2025 (2025-05-29) (Thursday)

Business and economy

• South Korea’s central bank cuts its key interest rate by a quarter percentage point to 2.5%, marking its fourth cut since October, and sharply lowered its 2025 growth forecast to 0.8%, nearly halving the previous projection of 1.5% announced in February after a monetary policy meeting. Share prices rise following the report, with the Kospi gaining 1.7%. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 South Korean Lockheed P-3 Orion crash
  • Four people are killed when a South Korean Navy Lockheed P3-C Orion aircraft crashes into a hill in Pohang, Gyeongsang, South Korea. (Euronews)

Health and environment

• Sudanese civil war
  • Humanitarian impact of the Sudanese civil war
    • The health ministry of Khartoum State in Sudan reports a cholera outbreak in the state, with 2,119 cases and 242 deaths in the past week and this week, including 70 in the last two days. (News Central TV)

International relations

• Israel–Palestine relations
  • Israel announces 22 new Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian West Bank, the biggest expansion in decades. (BBC News)

Law and crime

• Corruption in Slovakia
  • Slovakia’s central bank chief, Peter Kažimír, a member of the European Central Bank committee, is convicted of bribery and fined 200,000 euros. The verdict was issued by Judge Milan Cisarik at the Special Criminal Court in Pezinok. (AP)
• Lliuya v RWE AG
  • A court in Germany rejects a lawsuit filed by a Peruvian farmer against German energy firm RWE. Saúl Luciano Lliuya alleged that the firm's global emissions contributed to the melting of glaciers in Peru, threatening his hometown of Huaraz with flooding. (BBC News)
• Pamplona massacre
  • Former lawmaker Arnolfo Teves Jr. is deported back to the Philippines from Timor-Leste following his arrest yesterday. (ABS-CBN News)
• A court in Argentina nullifies the ongoing trial of Diego Maradona's former medical personnel accused of malpractice following the removal of one of the trial's judges for alleged lack of impartiality. (CNN)
• U.S. president Donald Trump commutes the federal prison sentence of Larry Hoover, the founder of the Chicago street gang Gangster Disciples, who was sentenced to six life sentences on conspiracy, extortion, drug and other criminal charges in the 1990s. (BBC News)
• Argentine security minister Patricia Bullrich announces the arrest of 12 alleged members of Tren de Aragua, which Argentina recently designated as a terrorist organization. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Nepalese pro-monarchy protests
  • Tens of thousands of people demonstrate in Kathmandu, Nepal, asking for the restoration of the country's monarchy and for Hinduism to be declared the state religion. Nepal abolished its monarchy in 2008. (AP)
• 2025 Portuguese legislative election
  • Portugal’s far-right Chega party becomes the lead parliamentary opposition with the second-most seats in parliament. (AP)
• 2025 South Korean presidential election
  • Early voting begins in South Korea, from 6:00 am to 6:00 pm KST on today and tomorrow, with a record early voting turnout rate being observed. (The Straits Times)
• DOGE
  • Elon Musk announces through X that he will be leaving US government employment due to the limit on special government employees. (Al Jazeera) (The Independent)

From today's featured article

GL Mk. II transmitter van

Radar, Gun Laying, Mark I, or GL Mk. I for short, was an early World War II radar system developed by the British Army to provide information for anti-aircraft artillery. There were two upgrades, GL/EF (elevation finder) and GL Mk. II (pictured), both improving the ability to determine a target's bearing and elevation. GL refers to the radar's ability to direct the guns onto a target, known as gun laying. The first GL sets were developed in 1936 using separate transmitters and receivers mounted on gun carriages. Several were captured in 1940, leading the Germans to believe falsely that British radar was much less advanced than theirs. The GL/EF attachment provided bearing and elevation measurements accurate to about a degree: this caused the number of rounds needed to destroy an aircraft to fall to 4,100, a tenfold improvement over early-war results. The Mk. II, which was able to directly guide the guns, lowered the rounds-per-kill to 2,750. About 410 Mk. Is and 1,679 Mk. IIs were produced. (Full article...)

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• ... that two of the players involved in the 2005 Vietnamese football match-fixing scandal did not accept payment because they felt ashamed?
• ... that a rebellion against a peace treaty with the Yuan dynasty operated out of the Historic Site of Anti-Mongolian Struggle on Jeju Island?
• ... that Nathan Frink fled the United States with enslaved children to settle in Canada, where he was elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly and caught in a smuggling conspiracy?
• ... that Seattle's women's ice hockey team has an expected rival, despite not even having played their first game?
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