Current events: 2025-05-30

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Mexican drug war
  • Nine alleged members of the Los Metros drug cartel are arrested by Mexican law enforcement on suspicion of the abduction and murder of the musical group Grupo Fugitivo who disappeared in Reynosa, Tamaulipas. (Al Jazeera) (BBC)
• Sudanese civil war
  • At least six people are killed and fifteen others are injured in a drone strike by the Rapid Support Forces on a hospital in El-Obeid, North Kordofan, Sudan. (Anadolu Agency)
• Syrian civil war
  • Islamic State claims responsibility for a vehicle bombing in Al-Safa, Suwayda Governorate, on May 22 which wounded several soldiers of the Syrian transitional government. (Al Jazeera) (Sky News)

Arts and culture

• Taylor Swift masters dispute
  • American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift announces that she has reacquired the rights to her entire body of music and content, including the master recordings of her first six studio albums. (AP) (The Guardian) (Billboard)

Business and economy

• The African Development Bank elects Mauritanian economist Sidi Ould Tah as its next president. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Nigeria floods
  • 2025 Mokwa flood
    • The death toll from heavy flooding that submerged the market town of Mokwa in Niger State, Nigeria, on Wednesday, rises to at least 117. Thousands of homes have been destroyed and a nearby dam collapsed. (Al Jazeera) (Sky News) (DW)
• At least ten people are killed, at least twelve others are injured, including six seriously, and six people are missing when a stone quarry collapses in Cirebon, West Java, Indonesia. (CTV News)

International relations

• Diplomatic impact of the Gaza war
  • French president Emmanuel Macron states during a conference in Singapore that France may be willing to impose sanctions on Israel if humanitarian aid is blocked, and says a Palestinian state is a political necessity. (Al Jazeera) (The Jerusalem Post)
• Tariffs in the second Trump administration
  • China–United States trade war
    • U.S. trade representative Jamieson Greer accuses China of delaying its agreement to remove non-tariff trade countermeasures which it had imposed against the United States in response to the Trump administration's tariffs. (Financial Times)

Law and crime

• 2025 Liverpool parade incident
  • Paul Doyle, a 53-year-old British man accused of driving his car into a crowd after Liverpool FC's trophy parade, appears at both Liverpool Magistrates' Court and Liverpool Crown Court and faces seven charges. (BBC) (The Independent)
• Murder of Tina Satchwell
  • Richard Satchwell is found unanimously guilty and convicted of the 2017 murder of his wife Tina in Fermoy, County Cork, Ireland. (RTÉ)

Politics and elections

• Immigration policy of the second Donald Trump administration
  • The United States Supreme Court rules that President Donald Trump can legally revoke the Biden administration's parole programme for Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan migrants, totaling over 530,000 people. This comes after the Supreme Court previously allowed the Trump administration to revoke the Temporary Protected Status of over 250,000 Venezuelans living and working in the United States. (BBC News) (WOLA)
• 2025 South Korean presidential election
  • The number of voter turnout during two-day early voting of early presidential election reaches 34.74%, which is the second highest after the 2022 presidential election. (Anadolu)

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