Current events: 2023-05-15

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Business and economy

• American-Canadian mass media company Vice Media files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. (Reuters) (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• A person is killed and 59 more injured after a bus and a truck collide on the D2 motorway in Slovakia. (AP)

International relations

• 2023 visit by Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Europe
  • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at Chequers. (BBC News)
• Moldova announces it will initiate a procedure to withdraw the country from the CIS Interparliamentary Assembly. (Anadolu Agency)

Law and crime

• China–United States relations
  • China convicts and sentences American citizen John Shing-Wan Leung to life in prison for espionage. (AP)
• Capital punishment in Malaysia
  • The government of Malaysia will introduce a bill for approval to decriminalize the possession and use of small quantities of illicit drugs after ending the mandatory imposition of a death sentence for the offence earlier this year. (Reuters)
• 2023 Farmington, New Mexico shooting
  • Three civilians are killed and two police officers are wounded in a mass shooting in Farmington, New Mexico, United States. The shooter is killed by police. (CNN)

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