July 12, 2019 (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Asasey Hotel attack
- A car bomb and a gun attack kill at least 26, including two prominent journalists and nine foreigners, in Kismayo, Somalia. (BBC News)
- War in Afghanistan
- A suicide bomber kills nine people and injures 40 others at a wedding in the Nangarhar Province in Afghanistan. The bomber is believed to be a minor. (BBC News) (Reuters)
- 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis
- The Venezuelan government arrests two members of disputed Interim President Juan Guaidó's personal security. The government claims that the pair were trying to sell weapons stolen from the national army and organising the failed coup attempt on 30 April. The opposition denies the weapons charges. (Reuters)
International relations
- Russia–Turkey relations
- Turkey receives its first shipment of the S-400 missile system from Russia, defying U.S. and NATO calls to cancel the deal. (BBC News)
Law and crime
- Oulu child sexual exploitation scandal
- Oulu District Court hands down the last sentences concerning the cases involving eight foreign-born men who abused the same girl victim. (Yle)
Politics and elections
- U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta announces his resignation from office amid growing public criticism over his past role in securing a 2008 plea deal for former financier Jeffrey Epstein, after Epstein was arrested and charged with sex trafficking of minors. He is to be replaced by Acting Secretary Patrick Pizzella effective July 19. (NBC News)