At least five Ethiopians were killed in Johannesburg in less than three days, prompting another police investigation and a call for protection from the Ethiopian embassy.
Lawyers said on May 2, 2026 that all people detained during Istanbul’s May Day protests had been released, after police broke up rallies with tear gas and mass arrests around the city.
Spanish authorities intercepted a freighter carrying tens of thousands of kilograms of cocaine in what union officials described as the country’s biggest seizure ever.
An angry crowd clashed with police outside an Alice Springs hospital after a man arrested over the death of five-year-old Kumanjayi Little Baby was taken into custody and moved to Darwin.
Organizers held May Day protests across the United States, including a coordinated economic blackout and demonstrations tied to more than 3,500 events nationwide.
International Workers’ Day rallies from Asia to Europe and the United States blended traditional labor demands with antiwar messages and complaints about rising energy costs.
The spending bill reopens the Department of Homeland Security but leaves ICE and parts of CBP unfunded, ending a months-long fight over immigration enforcement.
The measure restores routine funding to TSA, FEMA, the Coast Guard and the Secret Service while leaving immigration enforcement money on a separate legislative track.
A Seoul appeals court raised former South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol’s prison term to seven years over obstruction of justice and abuse-of-power convictions tied to his conduct around martial law.
Thailand’s corrections department said former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra will be released early from prison on May 11, citing his age and the short time remaining on his sentence.
A 6-3 ruling found that race played an impermissible role in drawing Louisiana’s 6th Congressional District, narrowing a major route for challenging minority vote dilution.