• French police arrest four people in connection with last Friday's bombing in Lyon 's historic city center that injured 13 people. Anti-terrorist prosecutors are leading the investigation. District mayor Denis Broliquier said the bomb was a relatively weak explosive that was too small to kill. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack. (BBC News)
• Over Sunday and Monday, 55 people die of asphyxiation in various prisons across the Brazilian city of Manaus . (BBC News)

• Italian firm Fiat Chrysler proposes a merger with French carmaker Renault . The new company will be based in the Netherlands and will be listed on the Milan , Paris and New York stock exchanges. (BBC News)

• At least 45 people die when a boat sinks on Lake Mai-Ndombe in western Democratic Republic of Congo . (BBC News)
• Eight miners die in a goldmine explosion in central Zimbabwe . (BBC)
• An airplane crashes in Sergipe , Brazil, killing Brazilian singer Gabriel Diniz . (G1)
• U.S. tornadoes of 2019
  • Multiple destructive tornadoes strike Dayton, Ohio , and surrounding communities. There was at least one known fatality in Celina . Multiple homes and businesses were destroyed, with reports of numerous power outages and a boil and water conservation advisory issued for Dayton. (Accuweather)

• Romania 's Supreme Court denies Social Democratic Party leader Liviu Dragnea 's appeal of his conviction and three-and-a-half year prison sentence for corruption. (BBC News)
• Amazonas prison massacres
  • Brazil prison officials report at least 42 prisoners are found strangled to death in four separate jails in the state of Amazonas . Yesterday, 15 prisoners were killed in a fight between rival prison gangs at a facility near the Amazonas capital Manaus . (Reuters) ( Firstpost )

• 2019 Austrian legislative election
  • Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz loses a no-confidence vote following a corruption scandal over a secret video. (BBC News)
• 2019 Malawian general election
  • Peter Mutharika of the Democratic Progressive Party wins Malawi's May 21 presidential election with 39% of the vote, followed by Lazarus Chakwera of the Malawi Congress Party with 36% and Saulos Chilima of the United Democratic Movement with 20%. (Reuters)
• 2019 Canadian federal election
  • In separate press conferences, former Liberal cabinet members Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott , who both resigned over the government's handling of the SNC-Lavalin criminal case , announce they are running as independents in the October 2019 elections. (BBC News)