Portal:Current events/2024 October 12
October 12, 2024 (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
- Israel's military orders the residents of 23 villages in southern Lebanon to evacuate to areas north of the Awali River. (Reuters)
- The UNIFIL headquarters in Naqoura, Lebanon, is hit by an Israeli airstrike. (CTV News) (BBC News)
- 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
- Israel–Hamas war
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- A family of eight is killed in an Israeli airstrike on a home at the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza Strip. (Morning Star)
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Ukrainian conscription crisis
- Local media outlets report that Ukrainian military recruitment officers raided shopping centers, bars, restaurants, and a large concert venue across several Ukrainian cities including Kyiv, Dnipro, and Kharkiv to detain men not in compliance with conscription orders. (AP)
- Ukrainian conscription crisis
- Colombian conflict
- The National Army of Colombia re-enters the corregimiento of El Plateado in Argelia, Cauca Department, Colombia, in an attempt to clear the corregimiento of FARC dissidents. (El Tiempo)
- Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- At least eleven people are killed and eight others are injured in tribal clashes in Kurram District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (AP)
Disasters and accidents
- A speedboat explodes at a port in Taliabu Island Regency, North Maluku, Indonesia, killing six people, including Benny Laos, a candidate for Governor of North Maluku in the upcoming election, and Regional House of Representatives member Ester Tantri. (CNN Indonesia) (CNBC Indonesia)
- Four people are killed and five others are injured in a gas tank explosion and fire at a gas station in Grozny, Russia. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- 2024 United States presidential election
- Security incidents involving Donald Trump
- A man is arrested outside former president Donald Trump's rally in Coachella, California, United States, with loaded firearms, a fake license plate, and several passports, in what is believed to have been an assassination attempt on Trump, according to the Riverside County sheriff. (Reuters)
- Voter registration in the United States
- The United States Justice Department sues the state of Virginia for removing voters from voter registration less than 90 days before Election Day on November 5. (Al Jazeera)
- Security incidents involving Donald Trump
- Belarus–European Union border crisis, Human rights in Poland
- As a response to Germany tightening border controls and following a call for EU-wide solutions by its Interior Minister Nancy Faeser, Prime Minister of Poland Donald Tusk issues a request to the European Union to accept a provisional suspension of migrants' right to asylum in order to control irregular immigration from Belarus, which human rights activists condemn as unconstitutional. (Reuters) (Euronews)