Portal:Current events/2023 January 12

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Israeli soldiers raid the village of Qabatiya in the West Bank, killing two Palestinian men. In a separate incident, Israeli forces arrest an 18-year-old Palestinian man and kill his father in the Qalandia refugee camp. (AP via The Washington Post) (Ynetnews)
• 2022–2023 Peruvian political protests
  • The city of Cusco is placed under red alert after one person is killed and 17 others are injured in clashes between protesters and police. (CNN)

Business and economy

• 2021–2023 inflation surge
  • The National Institute of Statistics and Census of Argentina records a 94.8% inflation rate for its economy in 2022, the highest since 1991. (AFP via Buenos Aires Times)

Disasters and accidents

• Tornado outbreak of January 12, 2023
  • A tornado outbreak in the US states of Alabama and Georgia damages several towns and kills at least six people. (USA Today)
• A truck crashes into several minibus taxis at an intersection in Roodepoort, Gauteng, South Africa, killing five people and injuring nine others. (News24)
• An explosion at a propane store in Saint-Roch-de-l’Achigan, Quebec, Canada leaves three people missing. (CFCF-DT)

Health and environment

• Swedish mining company LKAB discovers Europe's largest known deposit of rare-earth elements in Kiruna, Sweden. (Reuters)
• The World Meteorological Organization of the United Nations reports an average global temperature of about 1.15 °C above pre-industrial levels in 2022, confirming that the last eight years were the highest temperatures recorded on Earth since records began. (AFP via The Philippine Star)

Politics and elections

• 2023 Beninese parliamentary election
  • The Constitutional Court declares that the parties supporting President Patrice Talon, including the Progressive Union for Renewal and the Republican Bloc, have won a majority of 81 out of 109 seats in the National Assembly. The parties have been accused of electoral fraud by the opposition Democrats party, who plan to contest the results. (AFP via RFI)

Sports

• International response to the treatment of women by the Taliban
  • Cricket Australia announces the withdrawal of the Australia national team from their One Day International matches against Afghanistan scheduled for March in response to the Taliban government's recent prohibitions of education and employment for women. (CNN)