Law and crime

• Russian Interior Ministry issues an arrest warrant against United States Senator Lindsey Graham over alleged comments Graham made about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Two people are killed and three others are injured in a "record drone attack" on Kyiv. Ukrainian authorities claim to have shot down 52 of 54 drones. (Euronews)
• Kivu conflict
  • Two rangers are killed in a shooting at Virunga National Park in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Reuters)
• 2023 Manipur violence
  • Thirty-three tribal militants are killed by soldiers during an operation in Manipur, India, following ethnic clashes in the region. (Reuters)

Arts and culture

• Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurates a new parliament building capable of holding 1,272 MPs. The ceremony is boycotted by the opposition for not asking President Droupadi Murmu to inaugurate it and for selecting the birthday of Hindutva founder Vinayak Damodar Savarkar as the inauguration date, while Delhi Police detain wrestlers Bajrang Punia and Sakshi Malik for protesting the sexual abuse of female athletes at the ceremony. (BBC News)

Business and economy

• The Comac C919, China's first domestically-built passenger jet, completes its first commercial flight from Shanghai to Beijing by China Eastern Airlines. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• Three people are injured in Battagram District, Pakistan, after a magnitude 5.2 earthquake strikes Badakshan, Afghanistan. (Dawn)
• One person is killed and several others are missing after a boat capsizes on Lake Maggiore in Lombardy, Italy. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2023 Turkish presidential election
  • Citizens in Turkey head to the polls to vote in the second round of the presidential election. (AP)
  • Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is declared the winner by the Supreme Election Council, defeating his opponent Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu with 52 percent of the vote. (Tagesschau)
• Local and regional elections are held in Spain. (El País)
• Somalia announces that beginning next year, the country will change to a presidential system and elect officials by direct vote, ending more than three decades of indirect voting where lawmakers elected the country's leaders with the approval of clan and elderly leaders. (Reuters)

Sports

• 2023 Indianapolis 500
  • Two-time series champion Josef Newgarden wins the 107th Indianapolis 500. (CNN)

May 29: Feast day of Saint Paul VI (Catholicism); Memorial Day in the United States

• 1176 – Wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines: Troops of the Lombard League defeated forces of the Holy Roman Empire near Legnano in present-day Italy.
• 1792 – The Great Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was disbanded following the Russian invasion of Poland.
• 1935 – A strike by copper miners in Northern Rhodesia ended after six workers were shot and killed by police.
• 1953 – The mountaineers Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay (both pictured) became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
• 1954 – Diane Leather became the first woman to run a mile in less than five minutes.