May 16, 2019 (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Sinai insurgency
- Forty-seven insurgents and five Egyptian soldiers are killed in a gunfight in the Sinai Peninsula. (Al Jazeera)
- Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
- Multiple people are killed, including three militants, two Mujahideen, two civilians and two Indian soldiers, in Kashmir after a shootout. (Reuters)
Business and economy
- The U.S. Government under the Trump administration cancels $929 million federal grant for California High-Speed Rail project. (Los Angeles Times)
Disasters and accidents
- Three Britons and a South African die when their light aircraft crashes on approach to Dubai International Airport, closing the world's busiest airport for 45 minutes. (Sky News)
International relations
- Second Libyan Civil War
- Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar of the Tobruk-based House of Representatives meets with Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and has scheduled a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron for next week. (Libya Observer) (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries
- Mayor of New York City Bill de Blasio announces he is running for the Democratic Party's nomination to be President of the United States in the 2020 presidential election. (The Guardian)
- Immigration policy of Donald Trump
- U.S. President Donald Trump proposes a new immigration plan based on merits such as college degrees and skilled trades and less on family ties. (The New York Times)
- U.S. federal agents raid the Venezuelan embassy to evict Code Pink protesters, at the request of National Assembly leader Juan Guaidó. They had been staying at the embassy at the invitation of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, who is locked in a dispute over the presidency with Guaidó. Maduro's government considers the raid to be a violation of the Vienna convention. (Reuters) (The Independent)
- Brexit negotiations in 2019, Premiership of Theresa May
- UK Prime Minister Theresa May says that she will detail the timetable for her resignation after the Brexit vote in June. (FT) (The New York Times) (Time)