Portal:Current events/2020 May 13

May 13, 2020 (Wednesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Israeli-Palestinian attacks
  - Israeli troops kill a 15-year-old boy and wound four others at a refugee camp near Hebron, where they are looking for the rock thrower who killed a soldier yesterday. (Ynetnews)

Health and environment

Politics and elections

2020 California's 25th congressional district special election
- Democrat Christy Smith concedes defeat to Republican Mike Garcia in yesterday's special election for California's 25th congressional district after vote returns showed Garcia in the lead. The results are the first time since 1998 that Republicans flipped a Democratic-held House seat in California. (CNN) (The Hill)
Tom Thabane steps down as Prime Minister of Lesotho following investigations into his third wife's alleged murder of his second wife, Lipolelo Thabane. (Reuters)

Sports

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sports
- 2020 Australian Football League season
  - Plans to restart the 2020 AFL season on June 11 have been halted after the South Australian government announced it would not allow the Adelaide and Port Adelaide clubs to be exempt from the 14-day mandatory quarantine. Western Australian-based teams Fremantle and West Coast have plans to temporarily relocate to Gold Coast, Queensland. (News.com.au)