Portal:Current events/2022 May 7
May 7, 2022 (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2022 bombing of Odesa
- Siege of Mariupol
- Ukraine says that all women, children, and elderly have been evacuated from the besieged Azovstal steel plant. (Reuters)
- Bilohorivka school bombing
- Russian forces bomb a school in Bilohorivka, Sievierodonetsk Raion, Luhansk Oblast. Only two deaths are confirmed but sixty people are believed to have been killed. (Reuters)
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen
- Two colonels, two soldiers and four al-Qaeda insurgents are killed during clashes in Dhale Governorate, Yemen. (AP)
- Sinai insurgency
- Ten soldiers and one officer are killed during an attack at a checkpoint at a water pumping station in the Suez Canal, Egypt. (Reuters)
Business and economy
- Economic impact of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- The Airline Operators of Nigeria announces that all of their airlines will suspend their domestic flights beginning on Monday, in protest of rising fuel prices caused by the war in Ukraine. (BBC News)
Disasters and accidents
- Wildfires in 2022
- Eight people are killed and 17 others injured during wildfires in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Siberia, Russia, that destroy hundreds of buildings in 16 settlements. The Federal Agency for Forestry blames high winds for worsening the fires and impacting firefighting efforts. (Reuters)
- Three people are injured in an explosion at a steel coke plant in Jharkhand, India. (Reuters)
- Four Vietnamese nationals are killed when a fire breaks out at Bismark House Mill in Oldham (BBC)
Health and environment
- COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan
- Taiwan reports a record 46,536 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, which is the first time the country has reported more than 40,000 cases since the beginning of the pandemic. (Focus Taiwan)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan
- The monkeypox virus is detected in a person who recently travelled to England from Nigeria. (BBC News)
Law and crime
- Treatment of women by the Taliban
- The Taliban passes a law ordering all women in Afghanistan to cover their faces in public with a burqa. (Reuters)
- Iran preemptively shuts down the internet in Khuzestan province amid protests against a 200% increase in bread prices. (Iran International)
- One person is killed and six others injured in a mass shooting in Cancún, Quintana Roo, Mexico. (AP)
Politics and elections
- 2022 Northern Ireland Assembly election
- Irish republican party Sinn Féin win the most seats in the Northern Ireland Assembly with 29% of the first-preference vote, marking the first time that a unionist party did not win the most seats since Northern Ireland's establishment in 1921. (The Guardian)
- Former president of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announces his candidacy for the upcoming Brazilian presidential election in October, launching his candidacy with a message of "hope" and stating that he is ready to make "the greatest peaceful revolution" in the history of Brazil. (EFE)
Sports
- 2022 Kentucky Derby
- The 148th Kentucky Derby is held in Louisville, Kentucky with a full capacity for the first time since 2019 after two years of COVID-19 capacity restrictions. American thoroughbred Rich Strike wins the Derby in one of the largest upsets in history with an 80–1 odds to win. (CBS News) (ABC News)