May 12, 2022 (Thursday)

Turkey says that five people were injured by Kurdish nationalists launching a missile attack into the country from Syria.

One person is killed and thirteen others injured by a roadside bombing targeting a van in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.

Ukrainian forces repel an attempted Russian military crossing of the Donets river, west of Sievierodonetsk, in Luhansk Oblast. At least one Russian battalion tactical group is reportedly destroyed, as well as the pontoon bridge deployed in the crossing.

The Russian Air Force launches around a dozen missiles at the city of Kremenchuk, including four at the Kremenchuk Oil Refinery, in Poltava Oblast.

The cryptocurrency market loses US$200 billion following stablecoin TerraUSD's collapse in value. Bitcoin and Ether fall to their lowest value in 16 and 11 months, respectively.

Five people are feared dead and twenty others are injured in a chemical plant explosion and fire in Kočevje, Slovenia.

Eleven people die and thirty-one others are rescued after a boat capsizes off the coast of Puerto Rico near Desecheo Island.

An A319-100 aircraft operated by Tibet Airlines veers off the runway and catches fire at Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport in Yubei District, Chongqing, China, injuring forty people, with some being hospitalized.

Romania announces that starting on May 16, 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.

North Korea announces its first COVID-19 outbreak.

Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un orders a national lockdown.

France summons the Iranian ambassador in response to the detainment of two French nationals.

The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs threatens to take retaliatory steps against Finland, including of a "military-technical" nature, if the country joins NATO.

Finland's leaders declare that the country should apply for membership of NATO "without delay," with the Parliament set to vote next week on whether to apply.

A team of scientists at the Event Horizon Telescope release the first ever image of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

Researchers from the University of Florida announce that plants have been grown on lunar soil, collected by Apollo missions, for the first time ever.