Portal:Current events/2023 May 15

Business and economy

• American-Canadian mass media company Vice Media files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. (Reuters) (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• One person is killed and 59 others are injured when a bus and a truck collide on the D2 motorway in Slovakia. (AP)
• One person is killed and two others are injured after a fire breaks out in a refinery in Texas City, Texas, United States. (Reuters)

International relations

• 2023 visit by Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Europe
  • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at Chequers. (BBC News)
• Moldova announces that it will initiate a procedure to withdraw from the CIS Interparliamentary Assembly. (Anadolu Agency)

Law and crime

• China–United States relations
  • China convicts and sentences American citizen John Shing-Wan Leung to life in prison for espionage. (AP)
• Capital punishment in Malaysia
  • The government of Malaysia announces that it will introduce a bill to decriminalize the possession and use of small quantities of illicit drugs after ending the mandatory imposition of a death sentence for drug trafficking earlier this year. (Reuters)
• 2023 Farmington, New Mexico shooting
  • Three civilians are killed and two police officers are injured in a mass shooting in Farmington, New Mexico, United States. The shooter is killed by police. (CNN)