May 18, 2023 (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Kivu conflict
- Four people are killed and six others are injured in an armed ambush on a convoy near the village of Kivandya, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- 2023 Emilia-Romagna floods
- The death toll from the floods in the region of Emilia-Romagna, Italy, increases to thirteen, as five more people are killed in Ravenna. (Il Fatto Quotidiano)
- A five-alarm fire in SouthPark, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, engulfs and collapses two large buildings under construction, killing two construction workers. Emergency personnel rescue fifteen other workers, one of whom is later hospitalized. (The Charlotte Observer)
- Eleven people are killed in Guangxi, China, when a vehicle carrying 14 passengers falls off a cliff into a pool of water. (Al Arabiya)
Law and crime
- 2017 New York City truck attack
- Sayfullo Saipov is given ten life sentences and an additional 260 years in prison for killing eight people and injuring 12 others in a 2017 vehicle-ramming attack in New York City, United States. (BBC News)