Portal:Current events/2023 May 15
May 15, 2023 (Monday)
Business and economy
- American-Canadian mass media company Vice Media files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. (Reuters) (BBC News)
Disasters and accidents
- One person is killed and 59 others are injured when a bus and a truck collide on the D2 motorway in Slovakia. (AP)
- One person is killed and two others are injured after a fire breaks out in a refinery in Texas City, Texas, United States. (Reuters)
International relations
- 2023 visit by Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Europe
- Moldova announces that it will initiate a procedure to withdraw from the CIS Interparliamentary Assembly. (Anadolu Agency)
Law and crime
- China–United States relations
- Capital punishment in Malaysia
- The government of Malaysia announces that it will introduce a bill to decriminalize the possession and use of small quantities of illicit drugs after ending the mandatory imposition of a death sentence for drug trafficking earlier this year. (Reuters)
- 2023 Farmington, New Mexico shooting
- Three civilians are killed and two police officers are injured in a mass shooting in Farmington, New Mexico, United States. The shooter is killed by police. (CNN)