Portal:Current events/2021 May 11

May 11, 2021 (2021-05-11) (Tuesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Operation Guardian of the Walls, 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis
    • Israel launches another series of strikes in Gaza, killing four people and wounding several more, bringing the total death toll from the strikes to 28. Hamas respond to the attacks launching rockets towards Israel, killing three people. (Al Jazeera)
• Armed miners on seven boats attack an indigenous community in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest, opening fire against them, wounding a person. Members of the indigenous group respond to the fire, killing three miners and wounding four others. (BBC)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Nepal
      • Nepal reports a record 9,317 new cases and 225 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby the total of confirmed cases to 413,111 and the nationwide death toll to 4,084. (Kathmandu Post)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines
      • The Philippines reports its first two cases of the Lineage B.1.617 variant first detected in India in two Filipino seafarers who returned from Oman and the United Arab Emirates. (CNA)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan
      • The Taiwanese government cancels all outdoor gatherings of more than 500 people and indoor gatherings of more than 100 people, as well as banning food and drink in trains until June 8 after reporting six new domestic COVID-19 cases with no clear source of infection. (Reuters)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Spain, COVID-19 vaccination in Spain
    • Spain approves the use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine for people aged under 60 years old. (El Pais)
• Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte signs Presidential Proclamation No. 1143, declaring a state of calamity for one year due to African swine fever, two years after the disease hit the country. (Rappler)

International relations

• Kenya–Somalia relations
  • The Kenya Civil Aviation Authority suspends all commercial flights to Somalia for three months, days after both countries announced the restoration of relations. No reason is given. (Al Jazeera)

Law and crime

• Kazan school shooting
  • Seven students and two adults are killed and at least 21 more people are wounded in a mass shooting at a school in Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia. The attacker is arrested. (Al Jazeera)
• Colonial Pipeline cyberattack‎
  • Some gas stations in the U.S. states North Carolina, Florida and Alabama begin to run out of fuel as the Colonial Pipeline shutdown enters its fourth day after a cyberattack on May 7. (Bloomberg)
• 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal
  • Malaysian state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad sues units of Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan Chase, and Coutts for a combined amount of US$2.9 billion on the basis of negligence and conspiracy to defraud. The lawsuit is a bid to recover lost assets of more than $23 billion. (Radio France Internationale)
• The Troubles
  • According to a coroner's inquest report, ten people shot dead in the 1971 Ballymurphy massacre in Belfast were innocent civilians and their killing was unjustified. Nine victims were shot by British Armed Forces. (The Guardian)

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