Current events: 2024-05-12

Wikipedia Current Events · May 12, 2024

Armed conflicts and attacks

Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Israel–Hamas war
  - Rafah offensive
    - Antony Blinken warns that Israel lacks a credible plan to protect Rafah civilians. (Reuters)
Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2024 Kharkiv offensive
  - The Russian Defence Ministry states that its forces have captured several villages in Kharkiv Oblast. (CNN)
- Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
  - At least thirteen civilians are killed and 20 others are injured after a downed Ukrainian Tochka missile hits an apartment block in Belgorod, Russia. (AP) (Reuters)
- Vladimir Putin reassigns Russian Defense minister Sergei Shoigu to the National Security Council. Shoigu is succeeded as Defense minister by Andrey Belousov. (The Washington Post)
War in Sudan (2023-present)
- Battle of El Fasher
  - Fighting during RSF attacks on eastern Al-Fashir, Sudan, kill at least 38 civilians and injure 189 over the weekend amid fears of an all out RSF assault on the city. (The Washington Post)

Disasters and accidents

2024 Afghanistan–Pakistan floods
- The death toll from the ongoing flooding in northern Afghanistan rises to 315, with more than 1,600 people injured and 1,000 houses destroyed. (Reuters)
2024 Rio Grande do Sul floods
- The death toll from the ongoing flooding in southern Brazil rises to 143, with 125 people still missing. The Brazilian government has announced R$12.1 billion in emergency spending for the crisis. (Reuters)
A shopping mall burns down in Warsaw raising suspicions of an arson. Many of the venues were minority-owned. (Puls Biznesu)

Politics and elections

Elections in Lithuania
- 2024 Lithuanian presidential election
  - Lithuanians head to the polls to elect the President of Lithuania. (ABC News)
- 2024 Lithuanian constitutional referendum
  - Lithuanians vote on a constitutional amendment to allow dual citizenship. (lnk.lt)
2024 Catalan regional election
- The Socialists' Party of Catalonia wins the elections with its best result since 2003 and the pro-independence parties lose their absolute majority in the Parliament. (Reuters)
2024 North Macedonian presidential election
- Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova is sworn in as the first female President of North Macedonia. (Bloomberg in Macedonian)
Forty-nine Vatican Museums employees start an unprecedented labor dispute over unfair and poor working conditions against the Vatican's Pontifical Commission. (Reuters)
Hundreds of protesters march in Tunis, Tunisia, to demand the release of imprisoned journalists, activists, and opposition figures. (Reuters)

Sports

Bayer Leverkusen extend their record unbeaten streak in European football to fifty unbeaten games. (Bundesliga)

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