Current events: 2025-05-27

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Northern Ukraine border skirmishes
    • 2025 Sumy Oblast incursion
      • A local official says that Russian forces have seized four Ukrainian villages in the northeastern Sumy Oblast near the border with Russia. (AP)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
  • Department of Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announces that the United States Centers for Disease Control will remove the COVID-19 vaccine from its list of recommended vaccines for healthy children and pregnant women. (NPR) (Reuters)

International relations

• Argentina–United States relations
  • During a meeting in Buenos Aires with DHHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Argentine president Javier Milei confirms yesterday's message by his Minister of Health that Argentina will effectively withdraw from the World Health Organization. (Infobae)

Law and crime

• 2024 South Korean martial law crisis
  • South Korean authorities announce travel bans on former acting presidents Han Duck-soo and Choi Sang-mok, as they are investigated for insurrection along with former president Yoon Suk Yeol, who is already indicted. (Macau Business)
• Capital punishment in Vietnam
  • The National Assembly of Vietnam begins deliberations on a government proposal to end the death penalty for some offences, including drug trafficking and some national security crimes, and replace them with life in prison without parole. (Vietnam News)

Politics and elections

• 2025 royal tour of Canada
  • King Charles III, in his capacity as King of Canada, visits Canada along with Queen Camilla on Prime Minister Mark Carney's advice. He also read the Speech from the Throne, the first reigning monarch to do so since 1977. The visit is seen as a reinforcement of Canadian sovereignty in light of American president Donald Trump's rhetoric on threatening to annex Canada. (NPR)
• 2025 Samoan general election
  • Prime Minister of Samoa Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa says that she will dissolve parliament and seek an early election after leading a minority government since January, when she was expelled from her party. (RNZ)

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