May 13, 2024 (Monday)

The Israeli military advances into northern and southern Gaza.

A staff member of the United Nations Department of Safety and Security is killed and another is injured in Rafah.

Hamas says that it has "lost contact" with the militants holding four Israeli hostages in the Gaza Strip, including Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin.

Russia claims that its troops have entered the town of Vovchansk, 74 kilometres (46 mi) from Kharkiv.

Three years after the previous GameStop stock squeeze, Redditors return to artificially inflate GameStop's share price by 75%, reaching an 18-month high. The share price of AMC Theatres also increases by more than 70%.

U.S. President Joe Biden signs a bill banning imports of uranium from Russia.

The death toll from the ongoing heavy flooding in southern Brazil increases to 147 people, with 127 people still missing.

The death toll from the flash flood and lahar in West Sumatra, Indonesia, increases to 43, with 15 others still missing.

At least 14 people are killed, 75 are injured, and others are trapped after a billboard collapses during heavy rains in Mumbai, India.

The final remains of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, which killed six workers, are demolished with explosives.

The Airlines for America trade association and several major American airlines file a lawsuit against the United States Department of Transportation over a rule requiring upfront disclosure of airline fees.

Indonesian police conducts a major drug raid on a lab hidden in a villa in Bali, Indonesia. They arrested one Indonesian, two Ukrainians, and one Russian.

A referendum to allow dual citizenship in Lithuania fails to pass.

An administrative court in Münster, Germany, rules that the Alternative for Germany political party could threaten democracy and can be spied on.

Gitanas Nausėda and Ingrida Šimonytė advance to the run-off election, which will be held on 26 May.

The High Commissioner of New Caledonia imposes a curfew and mobilizes security forces after a general strike and violent protests over proposed constitutional changes in the capital city Nouméa.

OpenAI announces a new model of their generative pretrained transformer (GPT) named GPT-4o, capable of visual and video speech recognition and translation.