Portal:Current events/2014 May 31

• War in North-West Pakistan:
  • Taliban insurgents from Afghanistan attack a Pakistani border post in the Bajur tribal area, resulting in the deaths of 14 militants and one soldier. (Voice of America)
• War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
  • Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, previously the only United States military prisoner held captive in Afghanistan, is released in exchange for five Taliban prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay. (Time)
• Turkish police fire tear gas at hundreds of protestors in Istanbul and Ankara as protestors mark the anniversary of the start of the ongoing protests. (Sky News Australia)

• Psy's "Gangnam Style" becomes the first video to reach 2 billion views on YouTube. (Time)

• The United States National Park Service advises that six climbers who went missing on Washington's Mount Rainier are not expected to be found alive. (Reuters)
• A Gulfstream IV jet crashes near the U.S. town of Bedford, Massachusetts, with all seven people aboard dying. Lewis Katz, the co-owner of the Philadelphia Inquirer was on board. (CNN) (Philly.com)
• Three spectators are killed in a crash at the Jim Clark Rally near Coldstream, Scotland. (BBC News)

• Chuck Hagel, the United States Secretary of Defense, accuses the People's Republic of China of "destablilizing" behaviour in the South China Sea. (Reuters)

• Slender Man stabbing:
  • In Waukesha, Wisconsin, two 12 year-old girls stab another 12-year-old girl 19 times. (Chicago Tribune)

• Peter Mutharika is sworn into office as the President of Malawi. (AP via Miami Herald)

• In association football, the Fiji national under-19 football team win the 2014 OFC U-20 Championship, thus qualifying for the 2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup to be held in New Zealand. (OFC)
• In association football, Latvia win the 2014 Baltic Cup. (LFF)
• In boxing, Carl Froch knocks out George Groves in the eighth round to retain the World Boxing Association and International Boxing Federation super middleweight championships. (BBC Sport)