Portal:Current events/2021 May 27

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Armed conflicts and attacks

Disasters and accidents

  • In Kebbi State, Nigeria, 45 people are found dead following the sinking of a boat yesterday. More than 100 others are still missing. (Al Jazeera)
  • A boat crash off the coast of Florida leaves two dead. Eight others have been rescued. The boat had departed from Cuba on May 23. (WPLG-TV)

Health and environment

International relations

Law and crime

  • 2017 Barcelona attacks
    • The National Audience court sentences three members of the jihadist organization which committed a series of 4 terrorist attacks across southern Catalonia in 2017. Two of the accused are sentenced to 53 and 46 years in prison, and the third is sentenced to eight years in prison for the crime of collaboration. The three accused are also banned from entering the town of Alcanar, where they prepared the attacks. (La Vanguardia)
  • Bill Cosby sexual assault cases
  • Muhammad Rizieq Shihab, the founder of the Indonesian hardline Islamist group Islamic Defenders Front, is sentenced to eight months in prison for holding several mass events in violation of Indonesia's COVID-19 regulations, and is fined Rp 20 million (US$1,400) for a specific event held at an Islamic boarding school in West Java. (Reuters)

Politics and elections