Current events: 2026-05-28

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • 2026 Iran war
    • 2025–2026 Iran–United States negotiations
      • 2026 Iran war ceasefire
        • Axios reports that American and Iranian negotiators have agreed to a deal to extend the ceasefire by 60 more days. (AP) (Axios) (Reuters)
    • Kuwait in the 2026 Iran war
      • The Kuwaiti military says that they have activated air defenses to intercept a missile along with drones. (AP)
      • The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps says that it targeted an American base in Kuwait in retaliation for the recent U.S. strikes near Bandar Abbas including yesterday's. (AA)
  • 2026 Lebanon war
    • 2026 Israel–Lebanon ceasefire
      • At least 19 people, including two children, are killed from Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon, as Israel intensifies its assault and issues mass displacement orders across the region. The Israeli military indicates that it is a targeted attack, while Israeli media specifies that it was against Iranian militias. (Al Jazeera) (BBC News)
  • Gaza war
    • The prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, orders Israeli forces to take control of 70% of the Gaza Strip. (FT)
    • An Israeli military air raid kills ten people, including four children, in northern Gaza. (Al Jazeera)
    • The Israeli military announces that it has assassinated Ihab Khrizim, a leader of a central Hamas funds transfer network, in a strike in the Khan Yunis area of the Gaza Strip in Palestine. (BBC News) (The Jerusalem Post)
• Colombian conflict
  • Clashes between FARC dissidents kill at least 48 people in Guaviare, Colombia, amid ongoing disputes over territorial and criminal control. (AFP via Abhiyan News)
• Terrorism in Switzerland
  • Three people are injured in a mass stabbing at a train station in Winterthur, Switzerland. The perpetrator is arrested and authorities declare the attack as an act of terrorism. (BBC News) (NBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• Sixteen students are killed and 79 others injured in a fire in a dormitory at a girls school in Gilgil, Nakuru County, Kenya. (BBC News)
• Thirteen people are killed and three others are injured when an overloaded passenger bus crashes into a large truck in Henan, China. (Reuters)
• Five people are killed while 22 others are injured after a truck overturns on a mountain road in Kabayan, Benguet, Philippines. (Xinhua)
• Multiple fatalities are confirmed, four others are injured and 11 are reported missing in an explosion at an apartment building in Dallas, Texas, United States. (Newsweek)

Health and environment

• 2026 Central Africa Ebola epidemic
  • World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus visits the Democratic Republic of the Congo and states that the Ebola outbreak can still be contained. (France24) (DW)
• MV Hondius hantavirus outbreak
  • The European Union receives a shipment of the Favipiravir for potential use against hantavirus infections. (AA) (Brussels Times)

International relations

• Israel announces it will cut ties with UN Secretary-General António Guterres and his office in response to the United Nations adding the country to its blacklist of countries and organizations that employ sexual violence during wartime. (New York Times)

Law and crime

• Terrorism in Australia
  • The Melbourne Magistrates' Court in Victoria, Australia, charges 34-year-old Islamic State bride Rayann El Houli, who recently returned from Syria, for being a member of a terrorist organization after joining the Islamic State after traveling there in the early 2010s. (ABC Australia) (AFP via France 24)
• Terrorism in Brazil
  • The United States Secretary of State designates Primeiro Comando da Capital and Comando Vermelho, the two biggest drug trafficking-related criminal organizations in Brazil, as foreign terrorist groups. (The Washington Post)
• The Council of the European Union sanctions four Israeli settler organizations and three settler leaders for their roles in the increasing settler violence in the occupied West Bank. Simultaneously, they expand existing sanctions for members of the Hamas's Political Bureau. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• The Latvian Saeima approves a four-party coalition government led by prime minister Andris Kulbergs after Evika Siliņa's administration collapsed following disputes over the handling of suspected Ukrainian drones entering Latvian airspace. (Al Jazeera) (AP)

Sports

• 2026 FIFA World Cup
  • The United States, Mexico and Canada announces new travel measures ahead of the upcoming FIFA World Cup amidst the Ebola outbreak. (CBC)

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