Portal:Current events/2021 June 13
June 13, 2021 (Sunday)
Disasters and accidents
- 2021 Shiyan pipeline explosion
- Eleven people are killed and 37 others seriously injured in a gas explosion in Zhangwan District of Shiyan, in the province of Hubei, China. (CNN International)
Health and environment
- COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in Colombia
- President Iván Duque Márquez receives his first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. (Reuters)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Germany, COVID-19 vaccination in Germany
- Germany's Federal Health Ministry demands Johnson & Johnson to deliver 6.5 million doses of its vaccine by July to offset a vaccine shortfall. A spokesman for the ministry says the situation is regretful and that only 1.15 million of the vaccines had been administered up until last Friday in the country. (Deutsche Welle)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Mongolia
- Mongolia reports a record 2,188 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, which is the first time the daily cases reaches 2,000. It thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 76,084. (Xinhua News Agency)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Colombia
Law and crime
- Trump administration data seizure
- It is revealed that, during the Donald Trump administration, the Justice Department, through a subpoena, sought from Apple the data of then-White House Counsel Don McGahn. Apple says that it complied and turned over the information to the government, and notified McGahn and his wife last month. (The Hill)
- Three people are killed as a gunman opens fire on bystanders at a park in Ardea, Rome, Italy. The attacker, identified as a man with mental problems, commits suicide after barricading at his home. (KFGO-AM)
- Thousands of Spaniards protest the possible pardons to Catalonian independence advocates. Deputy Spanish Prime Minister Carmen Calvo had said the move was "close" and had asked the People's Party "not to confront Catalonia" whereas polls show that 63% of Spaniards oppose the pardons as a threat to national unity whilst 25% back the pardons. (Reuters)
- Police in Nicaragua arrest opposition activist Suyen Barahona, who is a strong critic of President Daniel Ortega, under the charge of "inciting foreign interference in internal affairs, requesting military interventions and organizing with foreign financing". The arrest is condemned by the opposition. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- 2019–2021 Israeli political crisis
- Israel's parliament has voted in favour of a new coalition government, ending Benjamin Netanyahu's 12-year consecutive tenure as Prime Minister. His role has now been taken by Naftali Bennett. (Reuters)
- Anti-Netanyahu protesters gather at the Rabin Square in Tel Aviv to celebrate his ouster. (The Jerusalem Post)
- 2021 Swiss referendums
- Swiss citizens head to the polls to decide on two popular initiatives and three facultative referendums regarding a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, police measures to combat terrorism, the existing carbon tax policy, and a potential nationwide ban on the use of synthetic pesticides. (The Australian)