Portal:Current events/2022 May 13

May 13, 2022 (Friday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Syrian civil war
- Israeli involvement in the Syrian Civil War
  - Syrian state media says that a missile attack from Israel hit Masyaf, Hama Governorate, killing five people and injuring seven others. (Reuters)
- Ten Syrian Army soldiers are killed and nine others are injured by a rocket attack that hit a bus in Aleppo, Syria. (Reuters)
Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Israeli police commando Noam Raz is killed in a shootout with Palestinian Islamic Jihad gunmen in Jenin, West Bank. (Times of Israel)
- Israeli riot police beat pallbearers and mourners at the funeral of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, which was attended by thousands of Palestinians in East Jerusalem. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki and the deputy speaker for UN Secretary-General António Guterres called the images of the attacks "deeply disturbing". (AP)
Six people are injured in a mass stabbing on a train near Aachen, NRW, Germany. Police arrested an Iraqi man and are investigating whether it was a terrorist attack. (Deutsche Welle)

Business and economy

Acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk
- Elon Musk temporarily suspends his $44 billion takeover deal of Twitter as he seeks to confirm the company's calculations that spam bots and fake accounts constitute less than 5% of the user base. (Reuters)
Enlargement of the eurozone
- The Croatian Parliament votes 117–13 to officially replace the kuna with the euro on 1 January. (RTÉ)
The Sky Bridge 721 opens in Dolni Morava, Czech Republic. Spanning 721 metres (2,365 ft), it is longest simple suspension bridge in the world. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

2022 Delhi fire
- At least 27 people are killed and more than 40 others are injured in a fire at a commercial building in Mundka, Delhi, India. (NDTV)

Health and environment

COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in North Korea
  - North Korea says that six people have died and 187,800 others have been quarantined due to the latest COVID-19 outbreak. (The New York Times)
The total number of people who have received a dose of the Malaria vaccine surpasses 1 million. (NPR)

International relations

Enlargement of NATO
- Finland–Russia relations
  - RAO Nordic, a subsidiary of Russian energy company Inter RAO, announces it will suspend deliveries of electricity to Finland, saying it has not been paid for prior deliveries. The suspension comes as Russia threatens retaliation if Finland joins NATO. (BBC News)
- Finland–Turkey relations, Sweden–Turkey relations
  - Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan says that Turkey will oppose Sweden and Finland's applications to join NATO, asserting that the countries are "guesthouses for terrorist organisations", without giving details. Turkey has repeatedly criticized Sweden and other Western European countries for its handling of organisations labeled terrorist by the Turkish government, including the Kurdish militant groups PKK and YPG, and the followers of U.S.-based Islamic cleric Fethullah Gülen. (Reuters)
Government and intergovernmental reactions to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Russia–United States relations
  - U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin holds talks with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu in the first meeting between the two since the start of the invasion. (Reuters)

Law and crime

War crimes during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Ukraine holds its first trial for war crimes committed during the Russian invasion, against a Russian soldier accused of shooting an unarmed civilian in March. (AP)
Anti-government demonstrations occur in multiple cities in Iran that are experiencing Internet shutdowns. (Fox News)

Politics and elections