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This article covers daily news and events in May 2021 . An overview of articles on thematic "long-running hits" and on longer-lasting events can be found on the page on current events .

Daily events

Saturday 1st May 2021

• Berlin / Germany : The May Day Revolutionary demonstration led to riots, whereupon the police ended the demonstration.
• Bishkek / Kyrgyzstan : Representatives of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan sign a ceasefire agreement following armed border disputes .
• Brussels / Belgium , London / United Kingdom : The Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the European Union and the United Kingdom comes into force.
• Istanbul / Turkey : demonstrations on the occasion of May 1st lead to clashes with the police. Hundreds of demonstrators are arrested.
• Kabul / Afghanistan : NATO officially begins withdrawing its troops deployed in the country as part of Operation Resolute Support .

Sunday May 2nd 2021

• Arouca / Portugal : Opening of the pedestrian suspension bridge 516 Arouca , which leads at a height of 175 m over the gorge of the Paiva river and with a length of 516 m is the longest pedestrian suspension bridge in the world.
• Pyongyang / North Korea : After US President Joe Biden warned the North Korean government about its use of nuclear weapons, the North Korean State Department threatened with consequences.

Monday, May 3, 2021

Freeze-dried mealworms

Marc Selby

• Berlin / Germany : Digital Petersberg Climate Dialogue (until May 7th)
• Brussels / Belgium : After the EU food authority classified yellow mealworms as safe, the EU member states approved them for use in food. Now, for example, the sale of dried mealworm larvae for nibbling or use as a maximum 10%  ingredient in products such as biscuits or pasta is permitted. The application for approval was made by a French company that has now had the sole (with exceptions) right to sell this novel food for five years . The German Federal Office for Consumer Protection and Food Safety says that the products must carry a label for allergy sufferers .
• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The Public Prosecutor's Office in Frankfurt am Main announces that it has switched off a platform for child pornographic material operated on the Darknet . The alleged administrators are arrested in North Rhine-Westphalia , Bavaria and the Concepción region in Paraguay .
• Gayéri / Burkina Faso : At least 30 residents are killed in an armed attack on the village of Kodyel in the eastern Burkinabe province of Komondjari .
• Mexico City / Mexico : When a metro bridge collapses just as a metro crossed it, 23 passengers are killed and 79 passengers are injured.
• Sheffield / United Kingdom : With a victory over Shaun Murphy , the Englishman Mark Selby wins the snooker world championship for the fourth time .
• Tahoua / Niger : 16 Nigerien soldiers are killed in an attack on a military patrol.

Tuesday May 4th 2021

• Laschkar Gah / Afghanistan : Afghan troops put down a military offensive by the Taliban , which is trying to bring the region under their control in the southern Afghan province of Helmand in the course of the withdrawal of international troops.

Wednesday May 5, 2021

• Berlin / Germany : German Overshoot Day 2021
• Düsseldorf / Germany : The Ansaar International association is banned.
• Columbia / United States : A man kidnaps a school bus and gets out after a few kilometers - presumably overwhelmed - because the school and kindergarten children ask him all sorts of questions about the kidnapping, almost none of which he can answer. Later that day, a suspect - a recruit stationed at Fort Jackson - was arrested who, before the kidnapping - presumably with the aim of getting to the next town and then going home - removed himself from the training base over a fence because he probably homesick . Nobody is injured in the kidnapping. The suspect had previously stolen the weapon from army stocks and it was probably unloaded during the kidnapping.
• Karlsruhe / Germany : Four Berlin lawyers on behalf of ten people file criminal charges with the Federal Prosecutor General against the Belarusian President Aljaksandr Lukashenka and security officials of his government for crimes against humanity . The so-called world law principle allows Germany to prosecute international law crimes in other states.
• St. Gallen / Switzerland : Start of the St. Gallen Symposium (until May 7th).

Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister of Scotland

Thursday May 6, 2021

Monument commemorating the victims of the Armenian genocide

• The Hague / Netherlands : Dominic Ongwen, former leader of the LRA in Uganda is to 25 years in prison sentenced . He was found guilty of 61 cases by the International Criminal Court in February of crimes against humanity . The fact that Ongwen was not only a perpetrator but also a victim of the LRA was taken into account to mitigate the sentence: he was kidnapped by the LRA at the age of nine and used as a child soldier .
• Edinburgh / United Kingdom : In the parliamentary elections in Scotland in 2021 , the ruling Scottish National Party (SNP) under Nicola Sturgeon just missed an absolute majority.
• Malé / Maldives : Former President Mohamed Nasheed and four other people are injured in a bomb attack .
• Riga / Latvia : Latvia classifies the massacre of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire over 100 years ago as genocide . The Turkey reacts angrily to this step.
• Rio de Janeiro / Brazil : 25 people are killed in a police operation against gangs like the Comando Vermelho in the Jacarezinho favela .
• Saint Helier / Jersey : The dispute over fishing rights in the English Channel between France and the United Kingdom escalates. Dozens of French fishing boats block the port of Saint Helier on the Channel Island of Jersey, Great Britain sends warships to patrol the archipelago.

Friday May 7th 2021

• Alpharetta / United States : The largest pipeline operator in the USA, Colonial-Pipeline , was attacked by a cyber attack and had to take its systems offline as a result. According to the Darkside cracker group , to which the attack is attributed, it is an apolitical act.
• Dresden / Germany : Pegida is classified by the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Saxony as a "proven extremist endeavor" and will be monitored in the future.
• Jerusalem / Israel : Clashes between Palestinians and the Israeli police in East Jerusalem injure over 170 Palestinians.

Saturday, May 8, 2021

Remembering the victims of the Kabul bombing in front of the Afghan embassy in Tehran, Iran

• Datu Paglas / Philippines : At least 80 to 100 rebels from the Islamist militant faction of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters storm the market square of Datu Paglas, a city in Mindanao , and force the evacuation of many residents. In the course of the day, the army manages to take control of the market.
• Kabul / Afghanistan : A bomb attack in front of a school in a residential area inhabited by the Hazara minority in the west of the Afghan capital kills at least 68 people, including many schoolgirls, and injures 150 others. While the Afghan government blames the Taliban for the terrorist attack, they distance themselves from it and condemn the act.
• Siguiri / Guinea : 15 people are killed in a landslide in a gold mine in eastern Guinea.
• Turin / Italy : 104th Giro d'Italia (until May 30, 2021)

Claudia Blum (former Foreign Minister Colombia)

Sunday May 9, 2021

• Bogotá / Colombia : After ongoing protests against the government, which have already resulted in 26 deaths, Foreign Minister Claudia Blum submits her resignation.
• Malé / Maldives : To the west of the Maldives, the remains of a Chinese Long Marsch-5B ( CZ-5B ) rocket fell into the Indian Ocean . At the end of April 2021, the rocket had transported the first module to a planned Chinese space station and has since lost altitude in an uncontrolled manner.
• Qalāt-i Ghildschī / Afghanistan : A bus is hit in the explosion of a bomb dumped on the roadside in the province of Zabul . Eleven people are killed.

Monday, May 10, 2021

• Jerusalem / Israel : Over 100 rockets are fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip , dozens of which are intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense system . There are impacts in Jerusalem; Air alarm is triggered in Jerusalem, Beit Shemesh , Ashkelon and Sderot . The Israeli army is carrying out counter attacks. The parliament in Jerusalem is evacuated in order to bring the MPs to shelters. One of the attacks occurred shortly after one of the Hamas posed ultimatum had expired, Hamas had demanded that Israel all the police officers and settlers from the Temple Mount and from the neighborhood Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem withdraws and all detained in the context of recent confrontations Palestinians dismiss.
• Kiev / Ukraine : Scientists report an increase in radioactivity of unknown cause in the area of ​​the damaged reactor block 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant .

Tuesday, May 11, 2021

• Ashkelon / Israel : Two women are killed in a Palestinian missile attack.
• Bern / Switzerland : Switzerland Overshoot Day 2021
• Boa Vista / Brazil : An indigenous man is wounded in an armed attack by illegal gold prospectors on members of the indigenous Yanomami ethnic group in their protected area in the state of Roraima . The indigenous people return fire and kill three of the illegal prospectors.
• Kazan / Russia : At least eight people are killed and 20 injured, six of them life-threatening, in an attack on a school in Kazan. The 19-year-old shooter is arrested. Rumors about another perpetrator turn out to be false.

Wednesday May 12, 2021

• Berlin / Germany : The Federal Cabinet passes the first law amending the Federal Climate Protection Act . It is intended to implement the requirements of the Federal Constitutional Court , which at the end of April declared parts of the original law unconstitutional because it did not contain any reduction targets for the period from 2030 onwards. The amendment also tightens the existing goals for the period up to 2030, especially for the industrial and energy sectors. The governing coalition has not yet agreed on concrete measures for how the goals should be achieved.
• Freetown / Sierra Leone : According to statements by Justice Minister Umaru Napoleon Koroma, the government of Sierra Leone plans to abolish the death penalty . The last execution took place in 1998.
• Kabul / Afghanistan : Afghan authorities confirm that the Taliban have taken control of the strategically important Nirkh district in Wardak province west of Kabul.
• Stuttgart / Germany : Baden-Württemberg's Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann is re-elected in the state parliament , exactly ten years after his first election as Prime Minister. The Kretschmann III cabinet is then sworn in.
• Taipei / Taiwan : Taiwan increases the corona warning level to "two" (out of a maximum of four) because the origin of some new infections could not be traced. On May 12, Taiwan had 0.43 new corona infections per 1 million population (for comparison: Germany had 135.96 new corona infections per 1 million population on May 12). People in Taiwan are now required to wear masks everywhere outdoors; A maximum of five people may meet indoors and a maximum of ten people outdoors.

Thursday May 13th 2021

Mohamed Nasheed, former President of the Maldives

• Berlin / Germany : Borussia Dortmund wins the DFB Cup final by beating RB Leipzig 4-1 in the Olympic Stadium .
• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : Ecumenical Church Congress (until May 16)
• Kabul / Afghanistan : After the end of the ceasefire announced by the Taliban , eleven civilians are killed in several bomb attacks across the country. A stranger interrupts the power supply from neighboring Uzbekistan with an attack on the supply network .
• Malé / Maldives : After his discharge from a hospital, the former Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed , who was injured in an attack by alleged Islamist extremists, is flown to Germany for further treatment.

Friday May 14th 2021

• Kabul / Afghanistan : An attack on a mosque during Friday prayers in a suburb of Kabul kills 12 believers, including the Imam, and injures 15 others. The Taliban condemn the attack, which no one acknowledges.
• Mumbai / India : Cyclone Tauktae hits land in the state of Gujarat . It leads to severe flooding in western India. More than 200,000 people were evacuated beforehand. Several ships off Mumbai are in distress in heavy seas, 77 seamen are missing. Tauktae is the strongest cyclone in this region since 1998.

Sculpture of Francis Jordan

Saturday 15th May 2021

• Addis Ababa / Ethiopia : The national election commission is postponing the parliamentary elections, which have already been postponed to June, to an unknown date due to logistical problems. Several opposition parties had previously announced a boycott of the elections because of the Tigray conflict.
• Freiburg im Breisgau / Germany : Robert Lewandowski has set Gerd Müller's all-time record (40 goals in one season) with a 1-0 win against SC Freiburg .
• Vatican City : Beatification of the German Father Franziskus Jordan , founder of the Order of the Salvatorians
• Vienna / Austria : Broadcast of the award ceremony for the Romy TV and Film Prize on ORF

Sunday May 16, 2021

Aung San Suu Kyi

• Doha / Qatar : After discussions between representatives of the Taliban and the Afghan government, the Taliban announce that they want to take part in the Afghanistan conference on the future of the country planned in Istanbul .
• Santiago de Chile / Chile : In the elections of the 155 members of the Chilean Constitutional Convention, the majority of those elected are center-left, with independent candidates playing an important role.
• Vatican City : Pope Francis condemns the violence and repression in Myanmar as well as the military coup that led to the disempowerment of Aung San Suu Kyi in early February.

Monday 17th May 2021

• Apia / Samoa : The Supreme Court upholds the validity of the results of the April 9 parliamentary elections and ends a month-long political hangover. This means that election winner Naomi Mata'afa can form a new government.
• Brussels / Belgium : The EU Commission appoints Michaela Moua from Finland for the first time, an anti-racism officer.
• Dallas / United States : AT&T announces an agreement to spin off its subsidiary WarnerMedia and merge it with Discovery, Inc. , creating the world's second largest media group by revenue after Disney.

Tuesday, May 18, 2021

• Gorom-Gorom / Burkina Faso : 15 believers are killed in an armed attack on a church in the northern Burkinabe province of Oudalan during a baptismal service.
• Tunis / Tunisia : Tunisair's national airline, Tunisair , is the first non- Libyan airline to offer flights to Libya again seven years after the outbreak of the second Libyan civil war . From now on it will fly three times a week to Tripoli and twice a week to Benghazi .

Wednesday, May 19, 2021

Carola Rackete

• Agrigento / Italy : The proceedings against the captain of the Sea-Watch 3 Carola Rackete for resisting a warship are discontinued by the public prosecutor's office. The court also emphasized that the Rackete was pursuing its duty to rescue at sea.
• Berlin / Germany : As a result of the plagiarism affair surrounding her doctoral thesis, Franziska Giffey asks the Federal Chancellor to be dismissed by the Federal President as Federal Minister for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth . The SPD chairmen Esken and Walter-Borjans announce that the Federal Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection , Christine Lambrecht , will also take over the office.
• Washington DC / United States ; Jerusalem / Israel : US President Joe Biden urges Israel to de-escalate the newly flared up Middle East conflict , Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu rejects this request.

Thursday, May 20, 2021

• Berlin / Germany : Franziska Giffey is dismissed from the office of Federal Minister for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth at her request by the Federal President . The Federal Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection , Christine Lambrecht , will also take over the office.
• Berlin / Germany : The Bundestag passes the law to adapt copyright law to the requirements of the digital single market in order to implement the EU copyright reform into national law . This reform of the previous German copyright law includes provisions on upload filters and an ancillary copyright for press publishers . An essential part of the reform is the new Copyright Service Provider Act.
• Kabul / Afghanistan : Several roadside bombs detonate 13 civilians in the south and center of Afghanistan. Three members of the Hazara minority are murdered in a bus attack in western Afghanistan .
• Vilnius / Lithuania : In Lithuanian Parliament a non-binding resolution by a three-fifths majority is adopted, Zwangsinternierungen the Muslim minority of the Uyghur in northwest China's Xinjiang condemned as genocide and a repeal of the security law in Hong Kong and free access of international observers in Tibet calls and calls on the Chinese government to negotiate with the Dalai Lama . Representatives of China disapprove of this step and call on Lithuania to correct this mistake, otherwise bilateral relations could deteriorate.

Friday, May 21, 2021

• Jerusalem / Israel ; Gaza / Gaza : In the Israel-Gaza conflict one occurs ceasefire in force, to which the Israeli government and the terrorist organization Hamas under mediation of Egypt have agreed.

Nyiragongo volcano (2004)

Portal of the Bourse de Commerce (2011)

Saturday May 22, 2021

• Goma / Democratic Republic of the Congo : The Nyiragongo volcano erupts and at least 15 people die. Many people flee and the Congolese government orders the evacuation of Goma.
• London / United Kingdom : Publication of a preprint of a study by the state agency Public Health England (PHE) to investigate the effectiveness of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines with regard to the SARS-CoV-V2 virus variant B.1.617 . Tozinameran from BioNTech / Pfizer and Vaxzevria from AstraZeneca were examined . According to the study, both vaccines offer effective protection against the SARS-CoV-V2 variant discovered in India. The need for two doses of the vaccine is emphasized, the effectiveness is significantly higher than with just one dose. Regarding the vaccine MRNA 1273 by Moderna the study, the doses administered in say the UK are still too low in terms of reliable conclusions of the questions.
• Munich / Germany : Robert Lewandowski has the lead to 5: 2 Result against FC Augsburg the scoring record of Gerd Muller exceeded (40 goals in the 1971-72 season) to score a goal.
• Paris / France : Opening of the Bourse de Commerce - Pinault Collection , a private art museum of the collector François Pinault , in the - former - building of the Paris commodity exchange, which was converted according to plans by Tadao Andō .
• Rotterdam / Netherlands : The final of the 65th Eurovision Song Contest begins.
• Venice / Italy : Opening of the 17th Architecture Biennale (until November 21, 2021).

Måneskin from Italy (2019), winner of the 65th Eurovision Song Contest

Sunday 23 May 2021

• Minsk / Belarus : On the grounds that there was a bomb threat, a Ryanair aircraft on its flight 4978 from Athens to Vilnius is forced to land in Minsk by a Belarusian Mig-29 fighter aircraft . There, the regime critic Raman Pratassewitsch and his girlfriend Sofia Sapega , who were on board, were arrested.
• Rotterdam / Netherlands : The Italian rock band Måneskin wins the 65th Eurovision Song Contest with their song Zitti e buoni .
• Stresa / Italy : 14 people are killed when a gondola of the cable car leading to Monte Mottarone crashes .

Fiame Naomi Mataʻafa (2013)

Monday, May 24, 2021

• Apia / Samoa : Despite protests from the previous ruling party HRPP , Naomi Mata'afa is sworn in as Samoa's first female prime minister.
• Bamako / Mali : As part of a coup, the country's military detained interim President Bah N'Daw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouané .

Tuesday, May 25, 2021

Joachim Löw (left) and Hansi Flick, 2006

• Paris / France : Costa Rica becomes the 38th member state of the OECD .
• Singapore : 51st World Economic Forum meeting (through May 28, 2021).
• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : Hansi Flick is announced as the successor to Joachim Löw in the office of national coach of the German men's national soccer team . After 15 years in office, Löw will step down after the European Football Championship in 2021 .

Wednesday May 26, 2021

• Damascus / Syria : presidential election
• Gdansk / Poland : In the final of the UEFA Europa League at the Miejski stadium , Villarreal FC beat Manchester United .
• The Hague / Netherlands : A district court in The Hague sentenced the mineral oil and natural gas company Shell to cut its carbon dioxide emissions by almost half by 2030. The judgment applies to the companies belonging to the group as well as to suppliers and end users. Unlike similar lawsuits filed in other jurisdictions such as the United States, this judgment is the first to require a company to prevent future damage, which Dutch law allows due to the 1965 Kellerluken case .

Thursday, May 27, 2021

Genocide Memorial in Windhoek

• Windhoek / Namibia ; Berlin / Germany : Germany and Namibia sign a provisional document classifying the injustice committed by troops of the German Reich against the Herero and Nama in the years 1904 to 1908 as genocide . In the document, Germany promises to make payments of 1.1 billion euros in development aid to Namibia - spread over the next 30 years. Negotiations on this document lasted more than six years. The parliaments of the two countries should also agree.

Friday, May 28, 2021

• Cologne / Germany : Pope Francis orders an apostolic visitation of the Archdiocese of Cologne . Johannes van den Hende (Bishop of Rotterdam , chairman of the Dutch Bishops' Conference) and Anders Cardinal Arborelius OCD (Bishop of Stockholm) are to investigate the complex pastoral situation in the Archdiocese in June and in particular for possible errors of Cardinal Woelkis and the other bishops and auxiliary bishops concerned in dealing with cases of sexual abuse eighth.

Saturday 29th May 2021

• Porto / Portugal : Chelsea FC wins the UEFA Champions League final against Manchester City at the Estádio do Dragão .

Sunday May 30th 2021

• Nicosia / Republic of Cyprus : general election

Monday, May 31, 2021

• Bern / Switzerland : Beginning of the summer session of the Federal Parliament (until June 18).

See also

• Nekrolog May 2021 for deaths this month
• List of annually recurring commemorative and action days in May
• Category for commemorative days, public holidays or days of action in May

Web links

Commons : May 2021  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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5. ↑ qu / sti: Mission "Resolute Support". NATO starts with the withdrawal from Afghanistan. In: Deutsche Welle . dpa , Agence France-Presse , May 1, 2021, accessed on May 2, 2021 . 
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