Current events: 2025-02-12

Wikipedia Current Events · Feb 12, 2025

Armed conflicts and attacks

Terrorism in France
- 2025 Grenoble attack
  - A man throws a grenade into a bar in Grenoble, France, injuring 12 people. (Times Now)
Russo-Ukrainian War
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
  - Kyiv strikes
    - Russian forces launch an overnight ballistic missile attack on Kyiv, Ukraine, killing one person and injuring four others. (Reuters)
  - United States and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Peace negotiations in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    - After holding a telephone call with Russian president Vladimir Putin, U.S. president Donald Trump says negotiations to end the war will start immediately. (CNN) (Euronews)
Sudanese civil war
- Darfur campaign
  - The Rapid Support Forces storm the Zamzam Refugee Camp in North Darfur, Sudan, the country's largest displacement camp. The situation inside the camp, which holds around 500,000 people, is described as "catastrophic", with an unknown number of casualties. (BBC News)
Students–People's uprising
- United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk reports that over 1,400 people have been killed in crackdowns on protests against the former government of Sheikh Hasina by the military and police, with over 78% of the casualties by gunshot. (DW)

Disasters and accidents

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- The casualty rate from yesterday's collision between an Intercity Express train and a semi-trailer truck in Hamburg, Germany, increases to one person killed and 25 injured. (EuroWeekly)
A fishing trawler capsizes off South Korea's Jeju Island with five crew members reported missing. Five others are rescued by the Korea Coast Guard. (AP) International relations
Russia–Sudan relations
- Sudanese foreign minister Ali Yousif Sharif reports that an agreement has been reached for the creation of a Russian naval base in Sudan. (Al Arabiya)

Law and crime

U.S. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announces that Belarus has released three detainees, including an American citizen. (Al Arabiya)
Trump administration agree to send a convicted money launderer Alexander Vinnik back to Russia in exchange for the release of American teacher Marc Fogel. (NBC News)

Politics and elections