Portal:Current events/2024 May 20
May 20, 2024 (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israel–Hamas war
- International reactions to the Israel–Hamas war, War crimes in the Israel–Hamas war
- Karim Khan, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, requests arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, Hamas political leaders Ismail Haniyeh and Yahya Sinwar, and Al-Qassam Brigades leader Mohammed Al-Masri for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity. (Reuters)
- International reactions to the Israel–Hamas war, War crimes in the Israel–Hamas war
- Haitian crisis
- Gang war in Haiti
- Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, reopens after being closed for three months due to gang violence, as the US military flies in supplies and civilian contractors to help the police in order to pave a way for an intervention. (AP)
- Gang war in Haiti
Business and economy
- Red Lobster, an American restaurant chain, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. (NPR)
Disasters and accidents
- Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse
- The container ship Dali is freed from bridge debris since its initial collision on March 26 and is escorted by tugboats back to the port of Baltimore. (AP)
Law and crime
- Russian military commissariats attacks
- A court in Novosibirsk, Russia, sentences a 24-year-old man to 25 years in prison for allegedly plotting an arson attack on a military recruitment office with alleged directions from Ukraine. (Al Jazeera)
- Judges grant Julian Assange permission to appeal his extradition order from the United Kingdom to the United States. (Reuters)
- The U.S. Supreme Court denies an appeal by former Guantanamo Bay detention camp detainee Omar Khadr to vacate his convictions for his role in the killing of former U.S. Army soldier Christopher Speer in Afghanistan. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- 19th Congress of the Philippines
- Migz Zubiri resigns as President of the Senate of the Philippines and is replaced by Francis Escudero. (KPL/VNA)
- 2024 South African general election
- The Constitutional Court of South Africa rules that former President Jacob Zuma is ineligible to run in the upcoming parliamentary election due to his 2021 jail sentence. (Al Jazeera)
- First vice president of Iran Mohammad Mokhber becomes acting president following the death of Ebrahim Raisi. (Al Jazeera)
- Lai Ching-te is sworn in as President of Taiwan, with Hsiao Bi-khim as his Vice President. (Al Jazeera)