2019 North Macedonian presidential election Stevo Pendarovski is sworn in as the President of North Macedonia after winning the election, the first after the Prespa agreement.
2019 Lithuanian presidential election Lithuanians are called to the polls to elect the new President. Ingrida Šimonytė wins the first round and will dispute the second round with Gitanas Nausėda. Prime Minister and presidential candidate, Saulius Skvernelis is about to resign after the bad results of his candidature.
Héctor Enrique Olivares Argentine lawmaker Héctor Enrique Olivares, who was seriously injured in a shooting attack near the Congress on May 9, dies in hospital as result of the gunshot injuries.
Syrian civil war Memos sent to Syria's head of military intelligence, and obtained by the "New York Times", report that President Bashar al-Assad's government has been running a network of secret torture facilities across Syria, crushing opposition via routine torture in secret prisons.
Gulf of Oman incident The United Arab Emirates reports four commercial vessels were subject to "sabotage operations" just outside its territorial waters in the Gulf of Oman and two of the vessels suffer "significant damage" to their structure off the coast of Fujairah. One of the vessels was en route to the United Arab Emirates to be loaded with Saudi Arabia crude oil and sent to the United States.
Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–present) Gunmen burn down a Catholic church during mass and kill six people, including a priest, in Dablo, Burkina Faso.