Portal:Current events/2024 July 12

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hamas war
  • Siege of Gaza City
    • Gaza City rescue crews discover at least 60 Palestinian bodies in the Tel Al-Hawa and Sabra districts following a week of attacks on Gaza City by Israeli forces. (Reuters)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Eastern Ukraine campaign
    • Six people are killed and at least 19 others are injured in Russian attacks across Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (The Kyiv Independent)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Saints Academy college collapse
  • At least 22 children are killed and 132 are wounded after a school building collapses in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria. (Al Jazeera)
• Gazpromavia Flight 9608
  • A Gazpromavia Sukhoi Superjet 100 crashes near Kolomna, Moscow Oblast, Russia, killing the crew of three people. (Reuters)
• Madan Ashrit Highway disaster
  • Fifty-one people are missing, 11 are killed and 3 others are injured after two buses are swept off the Madan Ashrit Highway in Chitwan District, Bagmati Province, Nepal, due to landslides caused by heavy rain. (Reuters)
• Tulsa race massacre
  • Intermountain Forensics names the first identified victim of a mass gravesite holding over one hundred Tulsa race massacre deaths as World War I veteran C. L. Daniel from Georgia, United States. (AP)

International relations

• Finland–Russia relations, Russian emigration during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • The Parliament of Finland passes a law allowing border guards to restrict trafficked asylum seekers from crossing the Finland–Russia border. (CNN)
• Argentina designates Hamas as a terrorist organization over its October 7 attacks on Israel. (Al Arabiya)

Law and crime

• Assassination of Fernando Villavicencio
  • A court in Quito, Ecuador, sentences three people to 12 years in prison and two people to over 34 years in prison for the assassination of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio. At least two of the five are allegedly part of the Los Lobos criminal organization. (Reuters)
• Rust shooting incident
  • A judge dismisses American actor Alec Baldwin's involuntary manslaughter trial due to the withholding of evidence. (The Guardian)
• The Metropolitan Police seeks a 24-year-old suspect after human remains of two men are found in two suitcases in Bristol and more remains today in Shepherd's Bush, West London, United Kingdom. (Evening Standard)
• The Philippine Senate orders the arrest of Bamban mayor Alice Guo for failing to attend hearings investigating her alleged involvement in Chinese transnational crime. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• LGBT rights in Burkina Faso
  • Burkinabè Justice Minister Edasso Rodrigue Bayala announces a ban on homosexuality in the country. (BBC News)
• Same-sex marriage in Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten
  • The Supreme Court of the Netherlands rules that same-sex marriage is legal in Aruba and Curaçao. (De Telegraaf)

Sports

• The International Olympic Committee announces that Saudi Arabia will host the inaugural Olympics Esports Games in 2025. (ESPN)