Portal:Current events/2018 May 27
May 27, 2018 (Sunday)
Arts and culture
- Politics of Japan
- Former Prime Minister of Japan Yasuhiro Nakasone celebrates his 100th birthday. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- Mexican Drug War
- Mexican authorities arrest Rosalinda Garcia, the wife of Jalisco New Generation Cartel leader Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, one of the country's most wanted drug lords. (New York Post)
- Blockade of the Gaza Strip, Human rights in the State of Palestine
- Israeli Minister of Defense Avigdor Lieberman says that Israel has started building an "unique obstacle" along the Zikim beach, a three-story-high kind of breakwater designed to cut off the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip from access to Israel by the sea. The "impenetrable" structure made of stone and fence is expected to be completed before the end of this year. (Belga via De Standaard) (AFP via The Daily Star)
- A member of a Palestinian committee tasked with breaking the siege says a ship will set off on Tuesday, carrying a number of injured Gazans and patients aboard. He does not specify the ship's first planned stop. (MEMO)
Politics and elections
- Politics of Colombia
- Voters in Colombia go to the polls in the first round of a presidential election. (BBC News)
- Politics of Germany
- 20,000 people protest an Alternative for Germany rally attracting 5,000 demonstrators in Berlin; 2,000 police are deployed. (Al Jazeera)
- Politics of the State of Palestine
- Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas's discharge from the hospital is delayed. (Fox News)
- Politics of Egypt
- Security sources say that prominent opposition leader Hazem Abdel-Azim has been detained. (Reuters) (Deutsche Welle)
- Politics of Italy
- Prime Minister designate Giuseppe Conte gives up trying to form a government after President Sergio Mattarella earlier vetoed the nomination of technocrat Paolo Savona as Minister of Finance. (Bloomberg)
- Former U.S. President George H. W. Bush, 93 (the oldest-ever U.S. President, whose wife, Barbara Bush, died in April 2018), is hospitalized, for observation, likely for a few days, due to hypotension (low blood pressure) and fatigue at Southern Maine Health Care in Maine. So far, he is awake and alert, and not in discomfort. [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/former-us-president-george-hw-bush-taken-to-hospital-in-maine/ar-AAxSJYK?ocid=spartanntp&ffid=gz#image=AAwfFaT