Vitaliy Khotsenko Vitaliy Khotsenko is sworn as new Prime Minister of the Donetsk People's Republic following dimission of Alexander Ananchenko.
United Kingdom The United Kingdom decides against direct rule of the British Virgin Islands despite finding "gross failures of governance" in the overseas territory. The British government will give the territory's new administration two years to reform before imposing direct rule, according to Foreign Secretary Liz Truss.
2023 Nigerian presidential election Former Governor of Lagos State Bola Tinubu wins the presidential primary of the ruling All Progressives Congress and officially becomes the party's nominee for the February 2023 general election. Tinubu, who served as Governor from 1999 to 2007, defeated Rotimi Amaechi, Yemi Osinbajo, and eleven other candidates to win the primary.
2022 Berlin car attack One person is killed and 30 others, including 14 students, are injured, after a car drives into a crowd in Berlin, Germany. A 29-year-old German-Armenian man is arrested at the scene.
Algeria–Spain relations Algeria suspends a 20-year friendship treaty with Spain, and bans all imports from Spain, amid a disagreement over the Spanish government's position on the disputed Western Sahara.
Belgium–Democratic Republic of the Congo relations King Philippe of Belgium, in a speech to the Congolese parliament in Kinshasa, formally condemns the atrocities that occurred when the Democratic Republic of the Congo was declared the personal property of his ancestor, Leopold II of Belgium, saying that the colonial government "was one of unequal relations, unjustifiable in itself, marked by paternalism, discrimination and racism".
Phase-out of fossil fuel vehicles The European Parliament votes to phase out the sale of new combustion engine vehicles by 2035.
COVID-19 pandemic Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul urges people to "move on" from COVID-19 and declares his intentions for Thailand to downgrade the disease to an endemic. However, he didn't include a time frame on when to do so and says that the situation will be reviewed by mid-June after bars, pubs and entertainment venues reopened in the country.
Florida reports its first cases of the Omicron BA.4 variant at the Premier Medical Laboratory Services in three patients in Miami-Dade County.
2022 V-22 Osprey plane crash A United States Marine Corps V-22 Osprey crashes near the town of Glamis in Imperial County, California, United States, killing five U.S Marines onboard.
2022 South Khorasan train derailment Twenty-two people are killed and 87 others injured after a train travelling between Mashhad and Yazd collides with an excavator near Tabas, South Khorasan province, Iran.