Portal:Current events/2019 May 29
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May 29, 2019 (Wednesday)
Arts and culture
- Indian record label and film production company T-Series' most-subscribed YouTube channel reaches 100 million subscribers. (Times News Now)
Disasters and accidents
- Sinking of Hableány
- The Hableány, a sightseeing river cruise ship on the Danube in Budapest, capsizes and sinks with 34 South Korean tourists on board. At least seven people are killed and 19 remain missing. (The New York Times)
Law and crime
- A 55-year-old pediatrician, Ricardo Russo, is arrested at the Hospital Garrahan in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he was Chief of the Immunology Department. He is accused of sexually abusing minors, distributing and possessing child pornography, including handicapped children and babies. He was wanted by the U.S. FBI and public prosecutors in Brazil. (Clarín) (Fox News)
- Maine becomes the 17th U.S. state to ban conversion therapy for minors. (The Hill)
- Trial of Catalonia independence leaders
- Imprisoned politician Raül Romeva is suspended as Senator by the Board of the Spanish Senate. (MSN)
Politics and elections
- 2019 Latvian presidential election
- Egils Levits, a Judge of the European Court of Justice, is elected President by the Saeima. (Reuters)
- Elections in Israel
- Israel is expected to hold a new election on September 17 as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fails to form a government. (The Jerusalem Post)
Science and technology
- China–United States trade war
- The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) bans Huawei scientists from reviewing submissions to its peer-reviewed journals, due to the "severe legal implications" of U.S. sanctions against the Chinese company. (Sciencemag)