Portal:Current events/2022 July 12
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 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)
- A massive explosion occurs in the city of
- 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)
- 2022 Ukrainian summer counteroffensive
- War in Afghanistan
- War crimes in Afghanistan
- Leaked military reports indicate that a United Kingdom unlawfully killed at least 54 people during a six-month tour. (BBC News) (Al Jazeera)
- Leaked military reports indicate that a United Kingdom
- War crimes in Afghanistan
- War against the Islamic State
- The
- 2021–2022 Democratic Republic of the Congo attacks
- Seven people are killed when suspected
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)
- Danube river. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- Twenty-three bodies are found near
- 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
- 2022 monkeypox outbreak
- 2022 monkeypox outbreak in Europe
- Vanuatu declares a malaria outbreak in four of its provinces. (RNZ)
Law and crime
- Telford child sexual exploitation scandal
- A three-year-long independent inquiry into 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)
- A three-year-long independent inquiry into
- Protesters in 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)