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- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Southern Ukraine campaign
- Russia says it has destroyed Ukrainian Navy warship Yuri Olefirenko at the Port of Odesa in a missile strike on May 29. (Reuters)
- 2022–2023 Western Russia attacks
- Russian authorities say that a Ukrainian drone strike has caused a fire at an oil refinery in Krasnodar Krai, and damage in Shebekino, Russia. (Reuters)
- Battle of Donbas
- Russian authorities report that five people have been killed and 19 others injured by Ukrainian shelling in Karpaty, in Russian-occupied Luhansk Oblast. (US News)
- Southern Ukraine campaign
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Five members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command are killed and ten more are injured during an explosion at a base in Qusaya, Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
- 2022–2023 North Kosovo crisis
- NATO deploys a further 700 troops to North Kosovo to reinforce its KFOR peacekeeping mission amid clashes with Kosovo Serb protesters over the election and consequent installation of ethnic Albanian mayors in several Serb-majority towns after a Serbian election boycott. (Reuters)
International relations
- The United Arab Emirates confirms it has withdrawn from the United States Navy-led Combined Task Force 150 mission in the Persian Gulf amid recent seizures of oil tankers by Iran. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- Two teenagers die and eight others are injured during an incident at a beach in Bournemouth, Dorset, United Kingdom. A man has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter, according to Dorset Police. (BBC News)
Politics and elections
- 2023 Australian Indigenous Voice referendum
- The Constitution Alteration (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice) 2023 bill passes the Australian House of Representatives, paving the way for a referendum on an Indigenous Voice to Parliament later in the year. (ABC News)
- 2023 Latvian presidential election
- Edgars Rinkēvičs is elected 11th President of Latvia. (LSM)
Science and technology
- The launch of North Korean spy satellite Malligyong-1 ends in failure due to malfunction of the second stage of the rocket carrying it, causing it to crash into the sea. An emergency evacuation alert was erroneously sent to residents of Seoul after the rocket launch, which also triggered air raid sirens in the South Korean capital. (AP) (Financial Times)
Sports
- 2022–23 UEFA Europa League
- In association football, Sevilla win a record-extending seventh UEFA Europa League title after defeating A.S. Roma 4–1 on penalties following a 1–1 draw after extra time in the 2023 UEFA Europa League final at the Puskás Aréna in Budapest. (The Guardian)
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