Current events: 2023-08-12

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Crimea attacks
    • The Russian Ministry of Defense says it has shot down twenty Ukrainian drones over Crimea. (NOS)
    • Head of the Republic of Crimea Sergey Aksyonov says three Ukrainian missiles have been shot down over the Kerch bridge. (CNN International)
  • Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu inspects the Northern Fleet and visits a Rosatom nuclear weapons test site in the Novaya Zemlya. (Reuters), (Hindustan Times) (The Barents Observer)
  • One person is killed and 12 others are injured in a Russian guided aerial bomb strike on Orikhiv, Zaporizhzhia Oblast. (CNN International)

Disasters and accidents

• 2023 Hawaii wildfires
  • The death toll from the wildfires in Maui, Hawaii, United States, reaches 80, making it the deadliest wildfire in state history. (The Independent)
• 2023 Pacific typhoon season
  • Hurricane Dora, which partially caused the wildfires in Hawaii, becomes a Pacific typhoon. (Forbes) (Hawaii News Now)
• English Channel migrant crossings
  • Six people are killed and fifty others are rescued when a boat carrying migrants capsizes off the coast of Calais, France, in the English Channel. (AP)
• A Sukhoi Su-30 crashes during a training mission in Kaliningrad, Russia, killing both pilots on the plane. (RFE/RL)

Law and crime

• Italian police recover 266 antiques from the Greek, Roman and Etruscan periods, worth tens of millions of Euros, from the United States. (NOS)

Politics and elections

• Senator Anwar ul Haq Kakar becomes the new caretaker Prime Minister of Pakistan. (ANI News)

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