Current events: 2025-06-12

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • 2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution incidents
    • At least 103 Palestinians are killed by Israeli fire in the past 24 hours across the Gaza Strip, including 21 people this morning near Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) sites, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. (Reuters)
    • Eight Palestinian GHF workers are killed and several others are injured after their bus was attacked en route to an aid distribution site in southern Gaza. The GHF claims that Hamas was responsible. (The New York Times) (Reuters)
• Israeli invasion of Syria
  • Israeli forces kill one person and detain seven people, all Syrians, who they allege are Hamas members in an early-morning raid on the village of Beit Jinn in Rif Dimashq Governorate, Syria. (AP)

Arts and culture

• Dutch writer Yael van der Wouden wins the 2025 Women's Prize for Fiction for her novel The Safekeep, which was also shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize. British physician and writer Rachel Clarke wins the sister prize, the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction, for her book about palliative care, The Story of a Heart. (AP) (The Bookseller)

Disasters and accidents

• Air India Flight 171
  • An Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner carrying 230 passengers and 12 crew members crashes into a residential area shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad Airport in Gujarat, India. Authorities find one survivor from the plane, and 204 bodies have been recovered from the crash site so far. (CNA) (FOX)
• The death toll in the flooding caused by heavy rainfall and snowfall from a winter storm in Eastern Cape province, South Africa, increases to 57, with several others still missing. (ABC News)

International relations

• Nuclear program of Iran
  • The International Atomic Energy Agency finds Iran in breach of its obligations to limit uranium enrichment and provision of information on its nuclear materials. (BBC) (The Guardian)

Law and crime

• Disappearance of Annie McCarrick
  • A man in his 60s is arrested on suspicion of the murder of Annie McCarrick, who went missing in Dublin, Ireland, in 1993. (RTÉ)
• The Internal Security Agency of Poland announce the arrest of a teenager in Olsztyn, Warmian–Masurian Voivodeship, accused with two other men, arrested in April, of planning a far-right terrorist attack. (AP)

Politics and elections

• Constitutional crisis in Somalia
  • Somalia's federal government has called for the dissolution of the C6+ international coordination framework, arguing it is outdated and misrepresents the country’s current political and security progress. In a letter to UN Special Representative James Swan, stated that Somalia, now a sovereign state with functioning institutions, no longer needs. Despite ongoing challenges, the government seeks bilateral partnerships based on mutual respect, deeming the C6+ obsolete. The framework includes UN, AU, EU, IGAD, US, and UK. (Garowe Online) (ChimpReports) (Hiiraan Online)
• Police fire tear gas at demonstrators gathered in Nairobi, Kenya, to protest against the Kenya Police and its chief, Eliud Lagat, after blogger Albert Ojwang is confirmed to be killed in custody by the police force, demanding Lagat's resignation. (DW)

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