Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Odesa strikes
    • Two Russian ballistic missile strikes in the port city of Odesa, Ukraine, kill three people and injure sixteen others. (Reuters) (Reuters 2) (Kyiv Post)
  • Russia displays captured NATO military vehicles and equipment at an open-air exhibition in the Moskovsky Victory Park in Saint Petersburg. Among the captured vehicles are a German Leopard 2 tank and an American M1 Abrams tank. (BBC News) (Fox News)
• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israeli invasion of Gaza, Humanitarian aid during the Israel–Hamas war
    • Amid pressure from the United States, Israel reopens the Erez-Beit Hanoun Crossing and allows aid trucks into the northern part of the Gaza Strip. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Kenya floods
  • The death toll from ongoing flooding in Kenya increases to 181, as more homes and roads are destroyed. (Reuters)
• A highway collapse in Meizhou, Guangdong, China, caused by days of heavy rain kills 24 people and injures 30 others. (Le Monde) (BBC News)
• Ten people are killed by heavy rain in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. (ABC News)
• At least nine people are killed in an ongoing heatwave in eastern India. (Reuters)

International relations

• International reactions to the Israel–Hamas war
  • Colombia–Israel relations
    • President of Colombia Gustavo Petro announces that Colombia will suspend diplomatic relations with Israel over its actions in Gaza. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Rwanda asylum plan
  • British authorities begin detaining illegal migrants ahead of deportation flights to Rwanda. (Reuters)
  • Irish Taoiseach Simon Harris announces the deployment of 100 police officers to the border with Northern Ireland amid fears that thousands of migrants might flee the UK in order to avoid deportation to Rwanda. Ireland also declares the United Kingdom a "safe country" so that asylum seekers can be deported back to the UK. (The Telegraph) (BBC News)
• International Workers' Day
  • 45 people are arrested and 12 police officers are injured at May Day protests in Paris. French police use tear gas and batons on several protests. (Reuters)
  • 217 people are detained by Turkish police during May Day rallies in Istanbul, after police fire tear gas and rubber bullets into the crowds. (Reuters)
• Abortion in North Carolina
  • U.S. federal judge Catherine Eagles blocks several of North Carolina's restrictions on the abortion pill mifepristone, striking down a requirement that the drug can only be prescribed by doctors in-person, as well as a requirement for patients to have an in-person follow-up appointment. (Reuters)
• A student is fatally shot by police officers outside Mount Horeb Middle School in Mount Horeb, Wisconsin, after the police received reports of someone carrying a weapon. (AP)

Politics and elections

• Israel–Hamas war protests
  • 2024 Israel–Hamas war protests on university campuses in the United States
    • 2024 University of California, Los Angeles pro-Palestinian campus occupation
      • Pro-Israel counter-protestors attack the pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of California, Los Angeles, throwing objects and attempting to destroy barricades. (Reuters)
• Homosexuality and Methodism
  • The United Methodist Church votes 692–51 to repeal a longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy while additionally prohibiting superintendents from forbidding a same-sex wedding. (AP)
• 2024 Scottish government crisis
  • The Scottish National Party administration survives the vote of no confidence earlier this week, prompting the party to seek a replacement for outgoing First Minister Humza Yousaf. (Al Jazeera)

May 2: National Day of Prayer in the United States (2024); Flag Day in Poland

• 1559 – Presbyterian clergyman John Knox returned from exile to lead the Scottish Reformation.
• 1889 – The Treaty of Wuchale was signed, ending the Italo-Ethiopian War, but differences in translation later led to another war.
• 1964 – Vietnam War: An explosion caused by Viet Cong commandos led USNS Card to sink in the port of Saigon.
• 1999 – Mireya Moscoso (pictured) became the first woman to be elected President of Panama.
• 2014 – Two mudslides in Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan, killed at least 350 people.