Portal:Current events/2022 June 13

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Battle of Sievierodonetsk
      • Russian forces destroy the last remaining bridge leading to Sievierodonetsk in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine, trapping all remaining Ukrainian civilians in the city, according to regional governor Serhiy Haidai. (Reuters)
    • Battle of Donbas
      • The Donetsk People's Republic says that five people have been killed and 22 others injured in an artillery attack on a marketplace in central Donetsk. Pro-Russian media accuses NATO of supplying the munitions used in the attack. (Reuters)
• Kivu conflict
  • 2022 M23 offensive, 2022 Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda tensions
    • M23 rebels capture the town of Bunagana. The Congolese military accuses Rwanda of assisting the rebels in the capture of the town. (Al Jazeera)

Business and economy

• 2021–2022 inflation surge
  • Global stocks and government bonds plunge with the MSCI World Index dropping by 2.95%, the DOW by 4.68%, the S&P 500 by 3.88%, STOXX Europe 600 by 2.41%, Japan's Nikkei 225 by 3.01%, Hong Kong's Hang Seng by 3.99%, and South Korea's KOSPI by 3.52%. Bitcoin drops by 12.1% and Ethereum by 13.6%. (Reuters) (Reuters 2)
  • The S&P 500 closes more than 20% below its January 3 record closing high, confirming that the index is in a bear market. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• Vila-seca train crash
  • A passenger train and a locomotive collide in the town of Vila-seca, Catalonia, Spain, injuring 22 people. (AP)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in North America
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Canada
      • Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tests positive for COVID-19 for a second time. (Reuters)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
      • Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra tests positive for COVID-19. (The Hill)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan
    • Taiwan reports their first cases of the Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants in five Taiwanese citizens who arrived from overseas. (The Straits Times)

Law and crime

• Censorship of Wikipedia
  • The Wikimedia Foundation files an appeal against a Russian court order demanding the removal of certain Russo-Ukrainian War-related information from the Russian-language Wikipedia, which is one of the few remaining fact-checked sources still available to the general Russian public. (Reuters) (DW)

Politics and elections

• Brexit and the Irish border
  • The British government confirms that it will go ahead with plans to terminate the Northern Ireland Protocol in order to make it easier for goods to flow between Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The European Union accuses the UK of breaking international law by reneging on the agreement made during Brexit negotiations. (BBC News)
• Pope Francis appoints John T. Dunlap as the new Lieutenant of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. (Order of Malta)
• Indigenous peoples in Ecuador block highways leading to the capital Quito, to protest president Guillermo Lasso's policies and to call for economic reforms. (Reuters)