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jmetaB034f62d9b01272a358942257957835b4227c777d7b54909869e3dc75dc03d3944e@c68dc37064cc06fa105a5d01c8d4bdddb4b215fad1e4b7a38759dada50418c91rss.itemmetarss.netM )<item><title>Current events: 2024-05-20</title><link>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events/2024_May_20</link><description> &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Armed conflicts and attacks&lt;/b&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93Hamas_war" title="Israel–Hamas war"&gt;Israel–Hamas war&lt;/a&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_reactions_to_the_Israel%E2%80%93Hamas_war" title="International reactions to the Israel–Hamas war"&gt;International reactions to the Israel–Hamas war&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crimes_in_the_Israel%E2%80%93Hamas_war" title="War crimes in the Israel–Hamas war"&gt;War crimes in the Israel–Hamas war&lt;/a&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karim_Ahmad_Khan" title="Karim Ahmad Khan"&gt;Karim Khan&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosecutor_of_the_International_Criminal_Court" title="Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court"&gt;Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court&lt;/a&gt;, requests &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrest_warrant" title="Arrest warrant"&gt;arrest warrants&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Israel" title="Prime Minister of Israel"&gt;Israeli Prime Minister&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Netanyahu" title="Benjamin Netanyahu"&gt;Benjamin Netanyahu&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Defense_%28Israel%29" title="Ministry of Defense (Israel)"&gt;Israeli Defense Minister&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoav_Gallant" title="Yoav Gallant"&gt;Yoav Gallant&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas" title="Hamas"&gt;Hamas&lt;/a&gt; political leaders &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ismail_Haniyeh" title="Ismail Haniyeh"&gt;Ismail Haniyeh&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahya_Sinwar" title="Yahya Sinwar"&gt;Yahya Sinwar&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qassam_Brigades" title="Al-Qassam Brigades"&gt;Al-Qassam Brigades&lt;/a&gt; leader &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Deif" title="Mohammed Deif"&gt;Mohammed Al-Masri&lt;/a&gt; for alleged &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crime" title="War crime"&gt;war crimes&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimes_against_humanity" title="Crimes against humanity"&gt;crimes against humanity&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/icc-prosecutor-seeks-arrest-warrants-israeli-prime-minister-netanyahu-defense-2024-05-20/"&gt;(Reuters)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_crisis" title="Haitian crisis"&gt;Haitian crisis&lt;/a&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_war_in_Haiti" title="Gang war in Haiti"&gt;Gang war in Haiti&lt;/a&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toussaint_Louverture_International_Airport" title="Toussaint Louverture International Airport"&gt;Toussaint Louverture International Airport&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port-au-Prince" title="Port-au-Prince"&gt;Port-au-Prince&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiti" title="Haiti"&gt;Haiti&lt;/a&gt;, reopens after being closed for three months due to &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Haiti" title="Crime in Haiti"&gt;gang violence&lt;/a&gt;, as the &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Armed_Forces" title="United States Armed Forces"&gt;US military&lt;/a&gt; flies in supplies and civilian contractors to help the &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_National_Police" title="Haitian National Police"&gt;police&lt;/a&gt; in order to pave a way for an intervention. &lt;a href="https://apnews.com/article/haiti-airport-reopening-portauprince-gangs-violence-4db3189b511bdcb4633b395ebf545194"&gt;(AP)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Business and economy&lt;/b&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Lobster" title="Red Lobster"&gt;Red Lobster&lt;/a&gt;, an American restaurant chain, files for &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapter_11_bankruptcy_protection" title="Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection"&gt;Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/05/20/1252426585/red-lobster-bankruptcy"&gt;(NPR)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Disasters and accidents&lt;/b&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Scott_Key_Bridge_collapse" title="Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse"&gt;Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse&lt;/a&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Container_ship" title="Container ship"&gt;container ship&lt;/a&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Dali" title="MV Dali"&gt;Dali&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; is freed from bridge debris since its initial collision on March 26 and is escorted by tugboats back to the &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_of_Baltimore" title="Port of Baltimore"&gt;port of Baltimore&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href="https://apnews.com/article/baltimore-bridge-collapse-ship-refloating-83dde05d3ad999c88dd5270bb0cea1c6"&gt;(AP)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Law and crime&lt;/b&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_military_commissariats_attacks" title="Russian military commissariats attacks"&gt;Russian military commissariats attacks&lt;/a&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;A court in &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novosibirsk" title="Novosibirsk"&gt;Novosibirsk&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia" title="Russia"&gt;Russia&lt;/a&gt;, sentences a 24-year-old man to 25 years in prison for allegedly plotting an &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arson_attack" title="Arson attack"&gt;arson attack&lt;/a&gt; on a military recruitment office with alleged directions from &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine" title="Ukraine"&gt;Ukraine&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/20/russian-court-hands-25-years-to-arson-plotter-accused-of-ukraine-links"&gt;(Al Jazeera)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Judges grant &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange" title="Julian Assange"&gt;Julian Assange&lt;/a&gt; permission to appeal his extradition order from the &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom"&gt;United Kingdom&lt;/a&gt; to the &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States"&gt;United States&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/wikileaks-julian-assange-faces-us-extradition-judgment-day-2024-05-19/"&gt;(Reuters)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Politics and elections&lt;/b&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_Congress_of_the_Philippines" title="19th Congress of the Philippines"&gt;19th Congress of the Philippines&lt;/a&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migz_Zubiri" title="Migz Zubiri"&gt;Migz Zubiri&lt;/a&gt; resigns as &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_Senate_of_the_Philippines" title="President of the Senate of the Philippines"&gt;President of the Senate of the Philippines&lt;/a&gt; and is replaced by &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Escudero" title="Francis Escudero"&gt;Francis Escudero&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href="https://kpl.gov.la/EN/detail.aspx?id=82760"&gt;(KPL/VNA)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_South_African_general_election" title="2024 South African general election"&gt;2024 South African general election&lt;/a&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_Court_of_South_Africa" title="Constitutional Court of South Africa"&gt;Constitutional Court of South Africa&lt;/a&gt; rules that former &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_South_Africa" title="President of South Africa"&gt;President&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Zuma" title="Jacob Zuma"&gt;Jacob Zuma&lt;/a&gt; is ineligible to run in the upcoming parliamentary election due to his 2021 jail sentence. &lt;a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/20/south-african-court-rules-zuma-not-eligible-to-run-for-parliament"&gt;(Al Jazeera)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_President_of_Iran%23First_vice_president" title="Vice President of Iran#First vice president"&gt;First vice president of Iran&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Mokhber" title="Mohammad Mokhber"&gt;Mohammad Mokhber&lt;/a&gt; becomes &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_government" title="Provisional government"&gt;acting&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Iran" title="President of Iran"&gt;president&lt;/a&gt; following the &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Varzaqan_helicopter_crash" title="2024 Varzaqan helicopter crash"&gt;death of&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebrahim_Raisi" title="Ebrahim Raisi"&gt;Ebrahim Raisi&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/20/irans-khamenei-confirms-mohammad-mokhber-as-interim-president"&gt;(Al Jazeera)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lai_Ching-te" title="Lai Ching-te"&gt;Lai Ching-te&lt;/a&gt; is sworn in as &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Taiwan" title="President of Taiwan"&gt;President of Taiwan&lt;/a&gt;, with &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hsiao_Bi-khim" title="Hsiao Bi-khim"&gt;Hsiao Bi-khim&lt;/a&gt; as his &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_President_of_Taiwan" title="Vice President of Taiwan"&gt;Vice President&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/20/william-lai-ching-te-takes-oath-to-become-taiwans-new-president"&gt;(Al Jazeera)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 -0000</pubDate></item>