Current events: 2024-11-12

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • At least 40 people are killed in Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, including ten in a double tap strike on a designated humanitarian zone in the Al-Mawasi refugee camp in Rafah Governorate. (Al Jazeera)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
    • At least 14 people are killed and at least 15 others are injured in an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in Ain Yaaqoub, Akkar Governorate, Northern Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
• Red Sea crisis
  • A multiple-missile attack by Houthis on two US warship has been thwarted. (BBC)
• Haitian crisis
  • The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration issues a temporary 30-day ground on all U.S. airlines from flying to Haiti after gangs shot at a Spirit Airlines aircraft that was attempting to land at Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, yesterday. The airport is also closed indefinitely in response to the shooting. (Miami Herald) (Scripps News)
• Somali Civil War
  • Al-Shabaab militants ambush and kill two South West State soldiers who were travelling on motorcycles on the highway between Wanlaweyn and Afgooye in Lower Shabelle, Somalia. (Hiiraan Online)
• Sudanese civil war
  • The United States Department of the Treasury sanctions Rapid Support Forces general Abdel Rahman Jumma, alleging that Jumma is the "primary party" responsible for the violence against civilians and human rights abuses in West Darfur, Sudan. (Al Jazeera)

Arts and culture

• 2024 Booker Prize
  • English novelist Samantha Harvey wins the Booker Prize for her novel Orbital. (BBC News)
• Spanish writer Álvaro Pombo wins the Miguel de Cervantes Prize. (El País)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Indo-Pakistani smog
  • The Pakistani Health Department reports that at least 1.8 million people in Punjab, Pakistan have become sick with respiratory and eye irritation ailments caused by chronic, record-breaking air pollution. (AP)
• Louisville factory explosion
  • An explosion at a factory kills two people and injures twelve in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. (CNN) (AP)

Law and crime

• Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse
  • A U.S. jury awards US$42 million to three former detainees of the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, thereby holding Virginia-based military contractor CACI liable for their role in the torture and mistreatment of the detainees. (AP)
• Anglican Communion sexual abuse cases
  • Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the symbolic head of the Anglican Communion, resigns over his handling of barrister John Smyth's sex abuse scandal. (NPR) (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Mauritian general election
  • Opposition leader and Labour Party candidate Navin Ramgoolam is elected as Prime Minister of Mauritius, with his coalition Alliance du Changement winning 60 of the 66 National Assembly seats. Former Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth resigns following his party's defeat in the election. (Reuters) (Al Jazeera)

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