Portal:Current events/2023 April 12

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Mali war
  • The village of Tidermène is captured by the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara. (Defense Post)

Business and economy

• NPR announces that it will no longer use Twitter after the social media site labeled it and the BBC as "government-funded media". Shortly thereafter, Twitter CEO Elon Musk announces that the labelling of the BBC will be changed to "publicly-funded media". (BBC News) (CNBC)

Disasters and accidents

• Twenty-five people are killed and others are missing after a boat carrying migrants sinks off the coast of Tunisia. (Al Jazeera)

International relations

• Saudi Arabia–Syria relations
  • Syrian foreign minister Faisal Mekdad meets with Saudi foreign minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in the first such visit between the two countries since the start of the Syrian civil war in 2011 in order to discuss the security situation in Syria and the return of Syrian refugees. (Al Jazeera)

Law and crime

• Drug liberalization
  • The Federal Ministers Karl Lauterbach and Cem Özdemir present key points on the partial legalisation of cannabis in Germany. (Taz)
• Bathinda military station firing
  • Four soldiers are killed in a mass shooting at a military base in Bathinda, Punjab, India. Authorities say that the shooting is not terror-related. (Al Jazeera)