Portal:Current events/2022 May 12
May 12, 2022
(Thursday)
Disasters and accidents
- Tibet Airlines Flight 9833
- Tibet Airlines flight 9833 veers off the runway and catches fire at Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport in Yubei District, Chongqing, China. Forty people sustain minor injuries, with some being hospitalized. (Bangkok Post) (The Hindu)
- Twenty people are injured by a chemical plant explosion and fire in Kocevje, Slovenia. (AP)
Health and environment
- COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in North Korea
- North Korea announces that it has confirmed its first COVID-19 cases. (AP)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Romania
- Romania announces that starting on 16 May, the fourth dose of Comirnaty – the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine – can be administered in vaccination centers and in family medicine offices for all adults. (Romania Insider)
- COVID-19 pandemic in North Korea
International relations
- France–Iran relations
- France summons the Iranian ambassador in response to the detainment of two French nationals. (Times of Israel)
- Finland–Russia relations
- The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs threatens to take retaliatory steps against Finland, including of "military-technical and other" nature, if the country joins NATO. (BBC News)
Politics and elections
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