Portal:Current events/2022 December 12

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Afghanistan conflict
  • Islamic State–Taliban conflict
    • 2022 Kabul hotel attack
      • Three civilians are killed by Islamic State insurgents at a hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP)
• Sino-Indian border dispute
  • Several soldiers are injured when hundreds of Indian and Chinese troops clash in the disputed Tawang district of Arunachal Pradesh. (MSN)
• Montenegrin nationalist protests
  • Protests and riots occur in front of the Montenegrin Parliament building in Podgorica after the adoption of amendments to the presidential bill. (Vijesti)

Law and crime

• Bankruptcy of FTX
  • Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried is arrested in the Bahamas on request of the U.S. government on undisclosed charges. (Reuters)
• Wieambilla police shootings
  • Two police officers and a civilian are killed and two other officers are injured when gunmen open fire at a remote property in Wieambilla, Queensland, Australia, where police were investigating a missing person report. The three perpetrators are later killed by police. (BBC News) (ABC News Australia)

Politics and elections

• All members of Belgium's Political Bureau of the Walloon Parliament resign after a scandal concerning excessive public spending by parliamentary clerk Frédéric Janssens. Bureau President Jean-Claude Marcourt, who had been criticized for taking part in a luxury 3-day trip to Dubai for €20,000 using public funds, had previously refused to be the only person to resign if all other members of the Bureau did not resign. (RTBF)