Portal:Current events/2022 July 12

July 12, 2022 (Tuesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
  - 2022 Ukrainian summer counteroffensive
    - Nova Kakhovka airstrike
      - A massive explosion occurs in the city of Nova Kakhovka after Ukrainian forces destroy a Russian arms depot. Russian state news agency TASS claims that a market, hospital, and civilian housing were also damaged, and that multiple civilians were killed. Russian 22nd Army Corps general Artem Nasbulin is allegedly among the dead. (Ukrayinska Pravda) (Reuters) (UPI)
  - U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan claims that Iran will provide Russia with hundreds of drones along with the necessary training for their use. (The Washington Post)
War in Afghanistan
- War crimes in Afghanistan
  - Leaked military reports indicate that a United Kingdom Special Air Service (SAS) unit unlawfully killed at least 54 people during a six-month tour. (BBC News) (Al Jazeera)
War against the Islamic State
- The United States confirms that it has killed the leader of the Islamic State's Syrian branch, Maher al-Agal, in a drone strike in northwestern Syria. (Reuters)
2021–2022 Democratic Republic of the Congo attacks
- Seven people are killed when suspected Islamists attack the city of Beni, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Reuters)

Business and economy

Enlargement of the eurozone
- The European Union formally accepts Croatia as the 20th member of the Eurozone. Croatia will adopt the bloc's currency on January 1, 2023. (CNBC)
Proposed acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk
- Twitter sues Elon Musk in the Delaware Court of Chancery, requesting the court to order Musk to proceed with the purchase of Twitter under the previously agreed upon terms. (BBC News)
Ukraine says that despite the Russian blockade of many of its Black Sea ports, in the last four days, 16 ships carrying grain have passed through the Bystre rivermouth, an important mouth of the Danube river. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

Twenty-three bodies are found near hot springs in Michoacán, Mexico. (AP)
A chartered boat capsizes in the Hudson River in New York City, killing two people and injuring three others. Twelve others are rescued alive from the water. (CNN)

Health and environment

Law and crime

Telford child sexual exploitation scandal
- A three-year-long independent inquiry into child sexual exploitation finds that over 1,000 children in Telford, Shropshire, England, were sexually exploited beginning in the 1980s. Teachers and youth workers were discouraged from reporting child sexual abuse and police were nervous that investigating the abusers would inflame racial tensions. (Reuters) (The Guardian)
Protesters in Panama continue blocking streets and railways, mainly in Chiriquí and Veraguas Provinces, rejecting the concession by president Laurentino Cortizo of freezing fuel prices. (TeleMetro)

Politics and elections

2022 Sri Lankan political crisis
- President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his wife are prevented from fleeing the country to Dubai by airport staff at Bandaranaike International Airport amid nationwide protests. G. Rajapaksa has not given his official resignation yet. (CNN)
- Rajapaksa subsequently flees the country on a military aircraft to the Maldives, formally ending his rule of Sri Lanka. His brother, former finance minister Basil Rajapaksa, also flees the country. (BBC News)