Portal:Current events/2022 May 19

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Insurgency in the Maghreb
  • Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso
    • Jihadist fighters raid a military base in Madjoari Department, Burkina Faso, killing eleven soldiers and wounding 24 more. (AP)
• The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations agency says that a foreign vessel has been attacked off the coast of Al Hudaydah, Yemen. (AP)

Business and economy

• Economic impact of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Foreign aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
    • The United States Senate votes 86–11 to pass a $40 billion package aimed at sending aid to Ukraine. The legislation will head to U.S. President Joe Biden for his signature. (Reuters)
• 2021–2022 global supply chain crisis
  • 2022 United States infant formula shortage
    • The U.S. Senate votes unanimously to pass the Access to Baby Formula Act, a bill that would provide access to baby formula in the United States. This comes a day after the U.S. House of Representatives passed the bill. The bill will head to President Biden for his signature. (PBS)
• 2019–present Sri Lankan economic crisis
  • Sri Lanka defaults on its debt for the first time in the country's history as it struggles with its worst financial crisis in more than 70 years. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• Fourteen people are killed and 20 others are injured after a bus's brakes malfunction, causing it to crash on a highway in Jalisco, Mexico. (Reuters)
• Eight people are injured in an explosion at an oil refinery in Ulsan, South Korea. (Reuters)
• Four people are killed and 10 are missing after a boat carrying migrants sinks off the coast of Sfax, Tunisia. (Reuters)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
    • COVID-19 vaccination in the United States
      • The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) votes to recommend a third dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5–11 years old. (CBS News)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in India
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Telangana
      • India reports their first case of the Omicron BA.4 variant in Hyderabad, Telangana. (Mint)
• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • Spain has confirmed the diagnoses of seven monkeypox cases, with many others still being tested, amid an unusual outbreak in Europe. (AP)
  • Bavarian Nordic announces that it will supply the Imvanex vaccine to Europe in response to the monkeypox outbreak. (GlobeNewswire)
• Polio eradication
  • A case of wild poliovirus is recorded in Mozambique for the first time since 1992. (AfricaNews)

International relations

• Enlargement of NATO, Finland–Turkey relations, Sweden–Turkey relations
  • President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan reiterates that he will vote against the admittance of Finland and Sweden into NATO, effectively preventing their accession. Erdoğan has accused the two countries of supporting the Kurdistan Workers Party and the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units, which Turkey considers to be terrorist organizations. (Yahoo! News)

Law and crime

• Two people are killed and seven wounded during a mass shooting near a McDonald's restaurant in Chicago, Illinois, United States. (AP)
• Four people (including the perpetrator) are killed in a murder–suicide in Harris County, Texas. (KTRK-TV) (The Houston Chronicle)

Science and technology

• An unusually cold spell of weather hits southern Brazil. A meteorological station in Gama noted the lowest temperature since the beginning of weather observations (1963) in the Federal District, which contains the capital, Brasília, at 1.4 °C (34.5 °F). Several locations in the area have also seen snowfall, which is very rare in the country. (France 24)