Mali's transitional president Assimi Goita signed a decree dissolving political parties nationwide and barring members of those groups from meeting, deepening the military government's crackdown on opposition activity.
More than 71 million registered voters were set to choose the House, half the Senate and thousands of local posts in a referendum on the Marcos administration.
Bangladesh’s interim government has banned the Awami League’s activities while it prepares a tribunal trial tied to last year’s anti-government uprising.
A New York judge sentenced Omar Antonio Villalta to 55 years in prison on 2025-05-08 for his role in the 2017 killings of four young men and a teenager in a Long Island park.
Prosecutors say the father allowed his teenage daughter to access semiautomatic pistols after she killed a teacher and fellow student in a school shooting last year.
BBC reported that a University of Warsaw staff member was killed and a security guard seriously injured after a 22-year-old Polish man attacked people on campus.
The International Court of Justice says it has no jurisdiction over Sudan’s claim that the United Arab Emirates fueled atrocities in Darfur by supplying weapons to the Rapid Support Forces.
Lebanon began its first municipal elections in nearly 10 years on 2025-05-04, with Hezbollah and allied parties expected to dominate in Beirut’s southern suburbs.
Authorities in Jalisco have arrested the mayor of Teuchitlán as part of an investigation into organized crime and forced disappearance allegations tied to a notorious ranch case.
Carlos Lupi has resigned as Brazil's social security minister after police said a years-long scheme siphoned money from pensioners and reached into the administration that oversaw the system.
The People Power Party picked former labor minister Kim Moon Soo to face liberal front-runner Lee Jae-myung in an election shaped by Yoon Suk Yeol’s impeachment.
Australia’s governing Labor Party won a larger House of Representatives majority on the event date, May 3, 2025, while major opposition and minor-party leaders lost their seats.
The ruling party won a 14th straight election on May 3, 2025, giving Singapore’s new premier a strong mandate as the country braced for economic strain from a global trade war.