May 15, 2022 (Sunday)

Russia launches missile strikes from the Black Sea on "military infrastructure" in Yavoriv Raion, Lviv Oblast, located near Ukraine's western border with Poland. The target was "completely destroyed", according to the region's governor Maksym Kozytskyy.

A suicide bomber kills three Pakistani soldiers and three children in North Waziristan, Pakistan.

Two Sikhs are shot dead by gunmen riding on motorcycles in Peshawar, Pakistan.

President Sauli Niinistö and Prime Minister Sanna Marin formally announce that Finland will apply for NATO membership. Niinistö says that "this is a historic day", and that Finland is "entering a new era".

Sweden's governing Social Democratic Party approves the country joining NATO. The official government decision is expected in the coming days.

One person is killed and five others are injured during a mass shooting at a church in Laguna Woods, California, United States.

Voters in Switzerland approve three measures in a referendum. These measures will require streaming services to invest 4% of their revenue in Switzerland into domestic filmmaking; allow the government to increase the Swiss contribution in Frontex, the EU border agency; and change the default system of organ donation from explicit to presumed consent.

Lebanese voters head to the polls to elect a new session to Parliament. Preliminary counts show the Iran-backed Hezbollah and its allies, who won in the previous election, losing seats while the Saudi-backed Lebanese Forces made gains.

Former President of Somalia Hassan Sheikh Mohamud is re-elected to a non-consecutive term in the third voting round.