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Portal:Current events/2018 July 12
July 12, 2018 (Thursday)
Disasters and accidents
- 2018 Japan floods
- 2018 Phuket boat capsizing
- The death toll from a tourist boat accident off the coast of Thailand's Phuket Island climbs to 46. (The Straits Times)
- At least ten people are killed and many others still missing after a landslide breaks the banks of a natural dam in Panjshir Province, Afghanistan. (TOLO News)
- The Artz Pedregal shopping centre in Mexico City collapses. (Reuters)
International relations
- Iran and state-sponsored terrorism
- Argentina petitions Russia to arrest former Iranian foreign minister and Ali Khamenei's advisor Ali Akbar Velayati, who is currently in Moscow for a meeting with Vladimir Putin, over his alleged role in the 1994 Jewish center bombing. (The Times of Israel)
- International presidential visits made by Donald Trump, United Kingdom–United States relations
- U.S. President Donald Trump arrives in the UK for his presidential trip to the country amid widespread protests. (BBC)
Science and technology
- The Haida Nation calls for tighter restrictions around the Bowie Seamount Marine Protected Area, a site of an ancient submarine volcano. (CBC)
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