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May 28, 2023 (Sunday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Two rangers are killed in a shooting at Virunga National Park in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Arts and culture
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurates a new parliament building capable of holding 1,272 MPs. The ceremony is boycotted by the opposition for not asking President Droupadi Murmu to inaugurate it and for selecting the birthday of Hindutva founder Vinayak Damodar Savarkar as the inauguration date, while Delhi Police detain wrestlers Bajrang Punia and Sakshi Malik for protesting the sexual abuse of female athletes at the ceremony.
Business and economy
The Comac C919, China's first domestically-built passenger jet, completes its first commercial flight from Shanghai to Beijing by China Eastern Airlines.
Disasters and accidents
Three people are injured in Battagram District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, when a magnitude 5.2 earthquake strikes Badakshan, Afghanistan.
Four people are killed and five others injured when a boat capsizes amid bad weather on Lake Maggiore in Lombardy, Italy.
An apartment building partially collapses in Davenport, Iowa, leaving two people missing.
Politics and elections
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is declared the winner by the Supreme Election Council, defeating his opponent Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu with 52 percent of the vote.
Somalia announces that beginning next year, the country will change to a presidential system and elect officials by direct vote, ending more than three decades of indirect voting where lawmakers elected the country's leaders with the approval of clan and elderly leaders.
Sports
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