Portal:Current events/2022 May 29

Disasters and accidents

• Yeti Airlines Flight 1199
  • A Yeti Airlines Twin Otter airplane goes missing with 22 people on board after going over high mountains in Nepal. (AP)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
    • COVID-19 pandemic in California
      • California Governor Gavin Newsom tests positive for COVID-19. (CNN)
• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • Pakistan and Afghanistan report their first cases of monkeypox. (24 News HD) (See News)

International relations

• Chairperson of the African Union Macky Sall calls for dialogue between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda amid rising tensions between the two countries over the resurgence of the M23 rebels. Rwanda calls it an "internal DR Congo conflict" and also calls for the release of two "kidnapped" Rwandan soldiers along its border with DR Congo. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2022 Colombian presidential election
  • Colombian citizens go to the polls to vote in the presidential election. (NPR)
  • Left-wing candidate and former 19th of April Movement guerrilla member Gustavo Petro, and right-wing former Bucaramanga mayor Rodolfo Hernández Suárez, win 40% and 28% of the vote respectively. They will face off in the second round in June. (CNN)
• Pope Francis appoints twenty-one new cardinals. Most of the cardinals are from outside Europe. (AP)

Sports

• 2022 IndyCar Series, 2022 Indianapolis 500
  • Marcus Ericsson wins the 106th running of the Indianapolis 500. Ericsson is the first Swedish driver to win the event since 1999. (Yahoo)
• Football in Romania, 2021–22 Liga I
  • FC Dinamo București will be relegated to the second division for the first time in the 74-year history of the club. (DigiSport)