Current events: 2026-05-26

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Gaza war
    • Israel said that it has killed the new military chief of Hamas, Mohamed Odeh, just 11 days after his predecessor was killed. (Ynetnews)
• Sudanese civil war
  • 2026 Blue Nile campaign
    • Sudanese Armed Forces announce that they have recaptured four more towns in the Blue Nile region following clashes with Rapid Support Forces and Sudan People's Liberation Movement–North (SPLM–N). (Sudan Tribune) (TRT World)

Business and economy

• BP chair Albert Manifold is removed with immediate effect over "serious" conduct concerns. (BBC News)
• The Uzbek National Statistics Committee reports that Uzbekistan has resumed the export of gold in April with an export of $1.5 billion following a six-month pause. (Bloomberg) (Zamin)

Disasters and accidents

• Buggenhout train collision
  • Four people, including two children, are killed and five more injured in a collision between a train and a school bus in Buggenhout, Belgium. (RTÉ)
• Nippon Dynawave Packaging facility incident
  • Multiple people are killed, 10 others are critically injured and multiple are missing in a major chemical explosion at a facility in Longview, Washington, United States. (KGW)
• Six people are killed after a house fire in the village of Yuryevka, Omsk Oblast, Russia. (Xinhua)
• Six people are killed after entering an under-construction septic tank in Kalahandi District, India. (Xinhua)
• Three people are killed and three others are injured after an overpass collapses in Seoul, South Korea. (Xinhua)

Law and crime

• Jeffrey Donaldson criminal trial
  • A jury is sworn in for the criminal trial of former Northern Irish MP Jeffrey Donaldson for sexual offences, which is to begin at 10:30 the following day. His wife Eleanor is undergoing a separate trial of the facts as she was deemed to be unfit to stand trial by medical experts. (RTÉ)

Politics and elections

• 2025–2026 United States redistricting
  • The South Carolina Senate rejects a redistricting effort to change the congressional districts in the U.S. state of South Carolina before the upcoming U.S. midterms. (The Hill) (NPR)

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