Current events: 2025-05-13

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Puntland counter-terrorism operations
  • Three Al-Shabaab fighters, including a senior commander, are killed in a coordinated operation by the Somali National Army in Jowle, Mudug, Puntland. (Garowe Online)
• Israel–Hamas war
  • 2025 Gaza European Hospital strike
    • At least 28 people are killed in an Israeli air strike that struck Hamas terrorists in a command and control centre beneath Gaza European Hospital. (BBC)

Disasters and accidents

• Fourteen people are killed and four others are hospitalized after drinking toxic liquor in Amritsar, Punjab, India. (AP)

International relations

• Syria–United States relations
  • US President Donald Trump announces that the United States will lift all sanctions imposed on Syria under the previous regime of President Bashar al-Assad and expresses willingness to work with the Syrian transitional government. (Al Jazeera)

Law and crime

• Armed conflict for control of the favelas
  • Brazilian Military Police kill the main leader of the Terceiro Comando Puro, a drug trafficking criminal organization, and two other suspected members, in a shootout in the Maré favela in Rio de Janeiro. (AP) (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

Politics and elections

• Islamic State insurgency in Puntland
  • Puntland counter-terrorism operations
    • A spokesperson for the Puntland Security Force confirms that Puntland has acquired four military helicopters to support ongoing military operations against Islamic State militants in the region. (Garowe Online)
• 2025 Liberal Party of Australia leadership election
  • Sussan Ley is elected as the new leader of the Liberal Party of Australia following the party's defeat at Saturday's federal election. Ley is the first woman to hold the post. (Reuters)
• 2025 Malian protests, 2020 Malian coup d'état
  • Malian interim president Assimi Goïta signs a decree dissolving all political parties and organizations and bans them from holding meetings following ongoing pro-democracy protests in the capital city Bamako. (AP) (Al Jazeera)

Sports

• Major League Baseball
  • Commissioner of Baseball Rob Manfred announces that all deceased individuals on the permanent ineligible list will be reinstated, allowing players like Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson to be elected into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. (ESPN)

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