Current events: 2025-05-16

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
    • More than 74 people are killed in Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip since midnight. (RTÉ News)
  • The Israeli Air Force launches airstrikes on the ports of Hudaydah and Salif in Houthi-controlled Yemen, as prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and defense minister Israel Katz warn that if the Houthis persist in attacking Israel, their leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi will be directly targeted. (Al Arabiya)

Disasters and accidents

• Tornado outbreak sequence of May 15–16, 2025
  • A tornado strikes St. Louis, Missouri. At least four people are killed, ten others are injured and more than 100,000 are without power in the St. Louis metropolitan area following severe weather in the city and surrounding areas. (Associated Press) (KSDK)
• Five people are killed and three others are injured by a landslide at a hydropower plant construction site in Phong Thổ, Lai Châu province, Vietnam. (News.az)

Law and crime

• Stabbing of Salman Rushdie
  • A court in New York, United States sentences 27-year old Hadi Matar to 25 years in prison for the August 2022 stabbing attack on Indian-British-American author Salman Rushdie, which left Rushdie severely injured while he was giving a talk in Chautauqua. (AP)
• At least two people are killed, including the perpetrator and four others are injured in a mass shooting and shootout when a man opens fire inside of a gym in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. (KTNV) (FOX News)
• Ten inmates take part in a mass escape from the Orleans Parish jail in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. One is quickly recaptured; the other nine remain fugitives. (New Orleans Times-Picayune)

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