Portal:Current events/2023 May 4

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • 2023 Parachinar school shooting
    • Seven
      high school in Parachinar, Kurram District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Another teacher from the same school was killed on the road in a separate attack earlier in the day. (Xinhua)
  • Six soldiers and three Pakistani Taliban members are killed during a gunfight in Dir Duni, North Waziristan District. (Dawn)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Murders of Lucy, Maia and Rina Dee
    • Israeli security units kill three wanted
      murderers of a mother and her two daughters in April in Efrat. (AP)

• 2021–2023 inflation surge
  • The European Central Bank raises interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point, the smallest increase since it began hiking rates in July. (Barron's)

Law and crime

• January 6 United States Capitol attack
  • Criminal proceedings in the January 6 United States Capitol attack
    • Four members of the Proud Boys are found guilty of seditious conspiracy by a jury in Washington, D.C., for their role in forcibly preventing the peaceful transfer of power from then-U.S. President Donald Trump to Joe Biden after the 2020 presidential election. (CNN)
• 4 May 2023 Serbia shootings
  • Eight people are killed and 14 others are injured in a
    Vladislav Ribnikar Elementary School shooting. (BBC News)
• Following a multi-state manhunt in the United States, Corey Harrison, the last of four men who escaped from a Mississippi jail last month, is taken into custody, according to authorities. Previously, two escapees were found dead in Carthage, Mississippi, and New Orleans, Louisiana, respectively, while another was captured in Texas. (CNN)
• A jury finds that Ed Sheeran's Grammy-winning song "Thinking Out Loud" did not infringe on the copyright of Marvin Gaye's song "Let's Get It On". (CNN)