TIL Date: 2022-05
52 headlines found.
- Sydney Olympics were bought "to a large extent", said Australian official John Coates.
May 1, 2022 - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi met with President Volodymr Zelensky in Kyiv on Saturday, leading the first official US congressional delegation to Ukraine since the war began.
May 1, 2022 - Spanish prime minister's phone 'targeted with Pegasus spyware'.
May 2, 2022 - Russia have been barred from competing in this summer's women's Euro 2022, while Russian clubs will also be banned from Uefa competitions next season, says Europe's football governing body.
May 2, 2022 - Roe v Wade: US Supreme Court may overturn abortion law, leak suggests
May 3, 2022 - EU proposes ban on all Russian oil imports; Zelenskiy says trapped civilians at Azovstal must be saved.
May 4, 2022 - Karine Jean-Pierre to become White House press secretary, the first Black and out LGBTQ person in the role.
May 5, 2022 - Labour win key London seats but Lib Dems and Greens also benefit from bad night for Conservatives – live updates
May 6, 2022 - Belarus Ryanair plane arrest student Sofia Sapega jailed for six years.
May 6, 2022 - NI election results 2022: Sinn Féin set to win most seats in historic poll.
May 7, 2022 - All elderly people, women and children have been evacuated from the besieged Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol, Ukraine and Russia have announced.
May 7, 2022 - dozens feared dead after bombing of Luhansk school; Kyiv claims sinking of second Russian ship.
May 8, 2022 - On Russia's annual Victory Day, President Vladimir Putin reiterated his accusation that the West left him no choice but to invade Ukraine.
May 9, 2022 - Warhol's Marilyn Monroe painting sold for record-breaking $195m
May 10, 2022 - Ukraine says second hotel, shopping mall hit as Russia fires hypersonic missiles at Odesa.
May 10, 2022 - Russia pushed back from Kharkiv.
May 11, 2022 - Finland and Sweden could apply for Nato membership within days.
May 11, 2022 - Finland to apply for Nato membership 'without delay'
May 12, 2022 - North Korea admits to Covid outbreak for first time and declares "severe national emergency".
May 12, 2022 - Elon Musk puts Twitter deal on hold over fake account details.
May 13, 2022 - First Russian soldier goes on trial in Ukraine for war crimes.
May 13, 2022 - Worry and fear as US faces baby formula shortage.
May 13, 2022 - The UN security council has unanimously condemned the killing of Palestinian-American Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh while she was covering an Israeli army raid in the occupied West Bank.
May 14, 2022 - Zelenskiy hails Ukraine's Eurovision win and plans to 'one day' host final in Mariupol.
May 15, 2022 - Ten people have been killed in a shooting in New York state that is being investigated as a racially-motivated hate crime.
May 15, 2022 - Turkey says it will not approve Finland and Sweden's applications to join Nato, accusing them of harbouring terrorists.
May 16, 2022 - Scrutiny of Republicans who embrace 'great replacement theory' after Buffalo massacre.
May 16, 2022 - The Ukrainian military says the defenders of Mariupol have ended their mission, after hundreds of soldiers left the Azovstal steel plant. More than 260 fighters were taken to Russian-controlled territory late on Monday.
May 17, 2022 - Russia's defence ministry said that 694 Ukrainian fighters who had been under siege at the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol surrendered over the last 24 hours.
May 18, 2022 - Moscow says more than 900 Ukrainian fighters from the Mariupol steelworks have been taken to a former prison colony, in a Russian-controlled part of Donetsk.
May 19, 2022 - Monkeypox cases investigated in Europe, US, Canada and Australia.
May 20, 2022 - Russia has 'completely destroyed' Donbas and turned region into 'hell', says Zelenskiy.
May 20, 2022 - Moscow declares victory in battle for Mariupol steel plant; Russia halts gas supplies to Finland.
May 21, 2022 - Australia election Conservative government voted out after nearly a decade.
May 21, 2022 - Ukraine rules out ceasefire deal that gives land to Russia.
May 22, 2022 - World faces big challenges over Covid, monkeypox and wars – WHO
May 23, 2022 - A leading adviser to the World Health Organization described the unprecedented outbreak of the rare disease monkeypox in developed countries as "a random event" that might be explained by risky sexual behavior at two recent mass events in Europe.
May 23, 2022 - Thousands of photos and documents from a data hack of police files, show the extent of Beijing's highly secretive system of Uyghur mass incarceration.
May 24, 2022 - Insiders tell the BBC about crowded rule-breaking lockdown parties at Downing Street, with staff drinking and dancing
May 24, 2022 - At least 19 children and two adults were killed in a shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. The deadliest elementary school shooting since Sandy Hook in 2012.
May 25, 2022 - North Korea fires missiles hours after Biden leaves Asia.
May 25, 2022 - Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky has made a blistering attack on former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who suggested on Tuesday that peace negotiations should be aimed at creating borders along the "line of contact" in Donbas as it existed on the eve of the Russian invasion.
May 26, 2022 - Ray Liotta, star of Goodfellas and Field of Dreams, dies aged 67
May 26, 2022 - Uvalde shooting: Texas school gunman 'walked in unobstructed'.
May 27, 2022 - Texas school shooting: Husband of killed teacher 'dies of grief'.
May 27, 2022 - Uvalde shooting: Kamala Harris calls for assault weapons ban.
May 28, 2022 - They were shooting directly at the journalists': New evidence suggests Shireen Abu Akleh was killed in targeted attack by Israeli forces.
May 28, 2022 - Franky Zapata: French jetpack inventor injured in lake crash.
May 29, 2022 - Russian authorities in Crimea ordering hospitals to refuse civilian patients, says Ukraine.
May 29, 2022 - Kalush Orchestra, the Ukrainian band which won this year's Eurovision Song Contest, have sold their trophy for $900,000 (£712,000; €838,000) to raise money for the war in Ukraine.
May 30, 2022 - European Union leaders agreed on Monday to ban most Russian oil imports as part of a new sanctions package against Moscow. Pipeline imports will be exempt from the sanctions.
May 31, 2022 - Handgun freeze in Canada and five-round limit on magazines: Government's to introduce Bill C-21, as Justin Trudeau says sport shooting and hunting the only grounds for 'everyday' gun ownership.
May 31, 2022