December 12, 2022

*) Ukraine strike hits Wagner group headquarters – official Ukrainian forces have attacked a hotel where members of Russia's private Wagner military group were based, killing many of them. Serhiy Gaidai, governor of the Russian-occupied Luhansk region, said forces launched a strike on a hotel in the town of Kadiivka. Photos posted on Telegram channels showed a building largely reduced to rubble. *) Bangladesh's opposition lawmakers quit parliament, demand fresh vote Seven lawmakers of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party have submitted their resignations to the parliament speaker. They are demanding fresh elections under a neutral government and dissolution of the existing parliament. This comes as tens of thousands of Bangladeshis gathered in the capital Dhaka to support the main opposition party in its protests against the government. *) Several killed in firing by Afghan forces on Pakistan border Heavy shelling by Afghan forces have killed at least six civilians across the border in Pakistan and wounded another 17. The Pakistan army said its troops retaliated at the Chaman border crossing, without giving details of any losses on the other side. It termed the incident an "uncalled for aggression" but an Afghan official in Kandahar said it was accidental and the situation had returned to normal. The latest violence follows a series of deadly incidents and attacks that have skyrocketed tensions with Afghanistan's Taliban rulers. *) Suspected Lockerbie bomber in US custody: Scotland A Libyan man accused of making the bomb that blew up a flight over Scotland’s Lockerbie in 1988 has been captured, according to Scottish prosecutors. Scotland's Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service said that Abu Agila Mohammad Masud was now in custody. The United States had announced charges against Masud two years ago. The bomb on board Pan Am flight 103 en route to New York from London on December 21, 1988 killed all 259 people on board and 11 on the ground. And finally… *) Morocco top Portugal to b