Current events: 2025-05-03

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Four people are injured in an overnight Ukrainian drone strike that struck an apartment building on Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Krai, Russia. The mayor of Novorossiysk declares a state of emergency following the strikes. (Ukrainska Pravda) (Al Arabiya)
  • The Ukrainian intelligence directorate claims it has shot down a Russian Sukhoi Su-30 fighter jet using a MAGURA naval drone over the Black Sea. (The Kyiv Independent)
• South Sudanese Civil War
  • At least seven people are killed and 25 others are injured in an airstrike on a hospital run by Médecins Sans Frontières in Old Fangak, Fangak County, South Sudan. (Al Jazeera English) (CTV News) (BBC News)
• Terrorism in Greece
  • A woman is killed in Thessaloniki, Greece, after a bomb she was carrying explodes in her hands, also damaging several nearby storefronts and vehicles. The bomb was possibly intended to be placed outside a nearby bank. (AP News)
• Gaza war hostage crisis
  • Hamas releases a video apparently showing signs of life of Israeli hostage Maxim Hirkin, who was abducted during the Nova music festival massacre in 2023. (Reuters) (Haaretz)

Disasters and accidents

• Six people are killed and about 80 others are injured, including five critically, in a stampede during a Hindu temple festival in North Goa district, Goa, India. (Al Jazeera English)

Law and crime

• Mass shootings in the United States
  • Two people are killed and two others are injured when a person opens fire outside of a Foot Locker store during an argument with two groups in Eastpointe, Michigan, United States. (The Detroit News)
• Seven people are injured in a mass stabbing and fight on a lawn in Chicago, Illinois, United States. (CBS News)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Australian federal election
  • Australians vote to elect the 150 members of the House of Representatives and 40 members of the Senate to form the Parliament of Australia. (ABC News Australia).
  • The Australian Labor Party under current Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is projected to win a second term. (ABC News Australia).
  • Opposition Leader and Liberal Party leader Peter Dutton is projected to lose his seat of Dickson. (ABC News Australia)
• 2025 South Korean presidential election
  • Former Labor Minister Kim Moon Soo wins the presidential nomination of South Korea’s main conservative party People Power. (AP News)
• 2025 Singaporean general election
  • Singaporeans vote to elect 92 out of 97 members of the Parliament of Singapore across 32 of the 33 constituencies in the 19th general election since 1948. (CNA) (The Straits Times)
• Togo president Faure Gnassingbé is sworn-in as President of the Council of Ministers, paving the way for him to rule the country for life. (BBC)

Sports

• 2025 Kentucky Derby
  • The 151st edition of the Kentucky Derby is held, with Sovereignty winning it in a upset over Journalism. (Courier Journal)

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