Situation Reports

Singapore held its general election on May 3, with the long-ruling People's Action Party, or PAP, securing a decisive victory by winning 87 of 97 parliamentary seats as well as 65.6% of the popular vote under Prime Minister Lawrence Wong, AP reported the same day.

Israel conducted airstrikes on Yemen's port of al-Hudaydah using around 20 fighter jets in retaliation for the Houthis' May 4 missile attack on Ben-Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel, The Wall Street Journal reported on May 5.

South Korea's ruling People Power Party, or PPP, nominated former labor minister Kim Moon-soo to be its candidate for the June 3 early presidential election, with Kim beating out former PPP head Han Dong-hoon to secure 57% of the primary vote, AP reported May 3.

TeleMessage, a modified version of the Signal messaging app that then-U.S. National Security Adviser Mike Waltz was pictured using during an April 30 White House meeting, has been hacked, 404 Media reported May 4.

Around two-thirds of the left-leaning African National Congress party's lawmakers in South Africa's National Assembly have urged the party's leadership to remove the center-right Democratic Alliance from government on the basis that the DA was undermining the ANC and government cohesion, The Sunday Times reported on May 4.

India reportedly initiated efforts to enhance the reservoir storage capacity at two hydroelectric projects in the Himalayan region of Kashmir, Reuters reported on May 5.

In a May 4 Truth Social post, U.S. President Donald Trump said he was authorizing the Commerce Department and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative to begin implementing a 100% tariff on movies produced outside the United States.

OPEC+ announced on May 3 that it will raise its collective oil production cap by 411,000 barrels per day in June, an increase from the original production increase of roughly 138,000 barrels per day to which the bloc previously agreed.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced in a press release on May 2 that the State Department officially designated the Haitian gangs Viv Ansanm and Gran Grif as foreign terrorist organizations, or FTOs, and specially designated global terrorist groups, or SDGTs.

The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Germany's domestic intelligence agency, officially designated the far-right Alternative for Germany party, or AfD, as an extremist group following a comprehensive three-year investigation, citing its ethnic-based definition of national identity as a threat to democratic values, Reuters reported on May 2.