Portal:Current events/2024 June 12

June 12, 2024 (2024-06-12) (Wednesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Kyiv strikes
    • Russia launches a wave of cruise missiles and drone attacks at Kyiv. Ukrainian air defences intercept all missiles and drones, however the debris from downed drones damages some infrastructure. (Reuters)
  • Eight people are killed and two dozen others are wounded in a Russian airstrike on Kryvyi Rih. (NDTV)
  • Two Indians recruited by the Russian army have been killed in Ukraine and the Indian foreign ministry has urged Moscow to quickly return all Indian nationals who are with the Russian army. (BBC)
• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israel–Hezbollah conflict (2023–present)
    • Israel kills Taleb Abdullah, a senior commander of Hezbollah, which retaliates by launching 215 rockets towards northern Israel. (Times of Israel)
• Red Sea crisis
  • The Houthis strike the Greek-owned, Liberian-flagged cargo ship Tutor with an unmanned surface vehicle, causing the ship to take on water. (Reuters)
• Israel–Hamas war, Sudanese civil war
  • The United Nations has added the Sudanese Armed Forces and Rapid Support Forces to its list of offenders for violating children’s rights along with Israel Defense Forces, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. (BBC)
• Syrian civil war
  • Sixteen Syrian soldiers, including an officer, are killed in a minefield laid by Islamic State militants and an attack by the group in Homs Governorate. (Al Arabiya)

• Russian peacekeepers completed their withdrawal from the Nagorno-Karabakh region.(Moscow times)

Arts and culture

• Royal Canadian Geographical Society announce that a Canadian led team has found the wreck of Quest, the polar exploration ship of the Shackleton expedition. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• International sanctions during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • The Moscow Exchange shuts down all trading in US dollars and euros in response to increased sanctions by the European Union and the United States. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Mangaf fire
  • At least 49 people are killed in a fire at a building housing foreign workers in Mangaf, Kuwait. (Reuters)
• At least 86 people are killed after a boat carrying 271 passengers capsized on a river near Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (AP).
• Several people are injured and 25 shops are destroyed in a fire in Manama Souq, Bahrain. (Gulfnews).

International relations

• Russia–United States relations
  • The United States broadens secondary sanctions on foreign financial institutions that did business with any of over 4,500 US-sanctioned Russian entities. (Financial Times)
• The United States imposes sanctions on Evghenia Guțul, a pro-Russia governor of Moldova's Gagauzia region. (Reuters).

Nikol Pashinyan declared that Armenia will formally withdraw from Collective Security Treaty Organization.

• (Politico).

Politics and elections

• 2024 New Caledonia unrest
  • French president Emmanuel Macron suspends electoral reform in New Caledonia following riots. (Reuters)
• 2024 South African general election
  • South Africa's IFP to join ANC and Democratic Alliance in unity government, claims IFP leader. (Reuters)
• Dozens of demonstrators were injured in the Armenian capital Yerevan, after police fired stun grenades at an anti-government rally outside parliament.(Al arabiya)

Law and crime

• Killing of Peter R. de Vries
  • The killers of Dutch crime reporter Peter de Vries receive prison sentences running a maximum of 28 years. (Reuters)
• The Oklahoma Supreme Court dismisses a lawsuit by the last Tulsa race massacre survivors seeking reparations. (ABC News)

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