Friday December 12
Disasters and accidents
- Gaza war
- Gaza humanitarian crisis, Gaza genocide
- Fourteen people are killed, including three children who died of hypothermia, amid a severe storm in the Gaza Strip. At least 13 homes previously damaged by Israel have also collapsed. (Al Jazeera)
- Gaza humanitarian crisis, Gaza genocide
- One person is killed and several others are missing and presumed trapped under rubble when an under-construction building on top of a Hindu temple collapses in Verulam, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. (AP) (WRAL)
International relations
- Brazil–United States relations
- The United States Treasury Department lifts sanctions on Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, citing a shift in U.S. foreign policy priorities. (AFP via France 24)
Law and crime
- Corruption in Bolivia
- A Bolivian judge orders former president Luis Arce into five months of pre-trial detention in La Paz while authorities investigate alleged embezzlement linked to the diversion of public funds for projects in Indigenous communities during his tenure as economy minister under Evo Morales. (Reuters)
- Corruption in the Philippines
- Civil society groups and church representatives file complaints against Philippine vice president Sara Duterte at the Office of the Ombudsman, accusing her of plunder, violations of Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act, bribery, and betrayal of public trust. (Bloomberg) (Rappler)
- Police in Mashhad, Iran, arrests Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi during a ceremony honoring deceased lawyer and human rights activist Khosrow Alikordi. (AP)