Portal:Current events/2024 June 12

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Foreign involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, India–Russia relations
    • Two Indians recruited by the Russian army are killed in Ukraine with the Indian foreign ministry urging Moscow to quickly return all Indian nationals who are serving in the Russian army. (BBC News)
  • Kryvyi Rih strikes
    • Nine people are killed and 26 others are injured in a Russian airstrike on Kryvyi Rih. (Reuters) (NDTV)
  • Kyiv strikes
    • Russia launches a wave of cruise missiles and drone attacks at Kyiv. Ukraine claims to have intercepted all missiles and drones, although debris did cause some damage to infrastructure. (Reuters)
• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israel–Hezbollah conflict
    • Israel kills three Hezbollah fighters and Taleb Abdullah, a senior commander, in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah retaliates by launching over 250 rockets towards northern Israel, the most the group has sent in the war. (Times of Israel) (Reuters)
• Impact of war on children, Sudanese civil war
  • The United Nations adds the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces to its list of offenders for violating children's rights. (BBC News)
• Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
  • Russian soldiers complete their withdrawal from the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan. (The Moscow Times)
• Red Sea crisis
  • The Houthis strike and sink the Greek-owned, Liberian-flagged cargo ship Tutor with an unmanned surface vehicle. (Reuters)
• Syrian civil war
  • Sixteen Syrian soldiers, including an officer, are killed in Homs Governorate in a minefield laid by Islamic State militants and in an attack by the Islamic State. (Al Arabiya)

Arts and culture

• Papoura Hill Circular Structure
  • The Greek Ministry of Culture announces the discovery of a large Bronze Age-era Minoan architectural construction used between 2000–1700 BC at the construction site of the Kasteli Airport in Crete. (AP)
• The Royal Canadian Geographical Society announces that a Canadian-led team has located the wreckage of Quest, the polar exploration ship of the Shackleton–Rowett Expedition off the coast of Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• International sanctions during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • The Moscow Exchange suspends 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 building fire
  • 50 people are killed and 56 are injured in a fire at a building housing foreign workers in Mangaf, Kuwait. (Reuters)
• 2024 Kasai River disaster
  • At least 86 people are killed after a boat carrying 271 passengers capsizes 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)
• The National Weather Service issues a rare Flash Flood Emergency in southern Florida, United States, for life-threatening flooding conditions only expected once every 500 to 1,000 years. (NBC News)

International relations

• Armenia–Russia relations
  • Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announces that Armenia will withdraw from the Collective Security Treaty Organization amid deteriorating relations with Russia. (Euronews)
• Moldova–United States relations
  • The United States imposes sanctions on Evghenia Guțul, the pro-Russian governor of Moldova's Gagauzia region. (Reuters)
• Russia–United States relations
  • The United States expands secondary sanctions on foreign financial institutions that conducted business with more than 4,500 US-sanctioned Russian entities. (Financial Times)

Law and crime

• Killing of Peter R. de Vries
  • A court in the Netherlands sentences three men to up to 28 years in prison for the murder of reporter Peter R. de Vries in 2021, and three other men to 14 years for aiding in the murder. (Reuters)
• Mexico–United States border crisis
  • The American Civil Liberties Union files a lawsuit in federal court against the Biden administration for US President Joe Biden's new presidential directive which limits migrants seeking asylum at the Mexico–United States border. (NPR)
• The Oklahoma Supreme Court dismisses a lawsuit by the last Tulsa race massacre survivors seeking reparations. (ABC News)
• A man in Hudson, Florida, United States fatally shoots a family of four with a 9 mm gun before burning their bodies in a fire pit. The perpetrator was identified as 25-year-old Rory John Graeme Atwood.(WTSP)

Politics and elections

• Law of Bases and Starting Points for the Freedom of Argentines
  • The Argentine Senate passes an extensive economic reform bill package proposed by President Javier Milei, decided by a 36–36 vote, with the tie broken by Vice President Victoria Villarruel. (Reuters)
  • 2024 Argentina protests
    • Anti-government protestors clash with police outside the National Congress Palace in Buenos Aires, Argentina, after the reform bill's passing. (CTV) (Reuters)
• 2024 Armenian protests
  • Dozens of demonstrators are injured in Yerevan, Armenia, after police fire stun grenades at an anti-government rally outside the National Assembly Building. (Al-Arabiya)
• 2024 New Caledonia unrest
  • French president Emmanuel Macron suspends electoral reforms in New Caledonia amid riots in the territory. (Reuters)
• 2024 South African general election
  • South Africa's Inkatha Freedom Party says that it will join a unity government with the African National Congress and the Democratic Alliance. (Reuters)
• Joe Biden classified documents incident
  • U.S. attorney general Merrick Garland is found in contempt by the United States House of Representatives for refusing to comply with subpoenas. (The New York Times)
• The French Republicans party votes unanimously to remove party leader Éric Ciotti for attempting to form an electoral alliance with Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally party. (Al Jazeera)

Science and technology

• Artemis program
  • Armenia signs the Artemis Accords at a NASA Headquarters ceremony, becoming the 43rd country to join the American-led effort to explore the Moon. (Space News)