Portal:Current events/2014 November 12
November 12, 2014 (Wednesday)
Armed conflict and attacks
- 2014 Russian military intervention in Ukraine
- NATO claims that Russian Army troops and military equipment have entered Ukraine. (BBC)
- War in Donbass
- Russian Defence Minister Sergey Shoigu says that the country will resume long-distance military flights for the first time since the Cold War to the western Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea. (BBC)
- Yemen
- Houthi rebellion
- Fighting between Houthi rebels and Ansar al-Sharia-backed Sunni tribes have left at least 33 dead in Al Bayda' Governorate. (Reuters)
- al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen
- A U.S. drone strike kills seven al-Qaeda militants in the south. (Reuters)
- Houthi rebellion
- Azerbaijan shoots down an Armenian Mil Mi-24 military helicopter. (Bloomberg)
- Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
- Suicide bombings kill at least 23 people across Iraq. (Reuters)
- Islamist unrest in Egypt (2013–14)
- Gunmen attack an Egyptian Navy ship on the Mediterranean Sea with eight sailors missing and four injured after the attack. Thirty-two of the gunmen have been captured with four reported as dead. (Voice of America)
International relations
- The 25th ASEAN Summit is held in the city of Naypyidaw, the capital of Myanmar. (AP via Daily Mail)
- Chinese leader Xi Jinping and President of the United States Barack Obama reach a deal to limit greenhouse gases. (Washington Post)
Law and crime
- 2014 Iguala mass kidnapping
- Protesters attack the State Congress building in Mexico's Guerrero state setting alight five vehicles. (BBC)
Science
- The European Space Agency's Rosetta lands the Philae probe on the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. (Washington Post) (BBC)