6. Russian `kamikaze` drones hit Kyiv, Putin visits ally Belarus
• Moscow launched a `kamikaze` drone attack on December 19, 2022, hitting key infrastructure in and around Kyiv, hours before Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Belarus, fuelling fears he will pressure his ally to join a new offensive on Ukraine.
• The Ukrainian Air Force said its air defences shot down 30 drones, in the third Russian air attack on the Ukrainian capital in six days and the latest in a series of assaults since October that have targeted the Ukrainian power grid, causing sweeping blackouts amid sub-freezing temperatures.
• Officials said at least three people were wounded and nine buildings damaged in the Kyiv region. The Ukrainian atomic energy agency accused Russia of sending one of the drones over part of the South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant, in the Mykolaiv region
7. Netherlands PM apologises for 250 years of slavery
• Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on December 19, 2022 officially apologised for 250 years of the Netherlands` involvement in slavery, calling it a `crime against humanity` The apology comes almost 150 years after the end of slavery in the European country`s overseas colonies, which included Suriname and islands like Curacao and Aruba in the Caribbean and Indonesia in the East.
• `Today on behalf of the Dutch government, I apologise for the past actions of the Dutch state,` Rutte said in a speech in The Hague.
• `We, living in the here and now, can only recognise and condemn slavery in the clearest terms as a crime against humanity,` he said.
• Dutch ministers have travelled to seven former colonies in South America and the Caribbean for the event
8. US names Kennedy scion to Northern Ireland role
• President Joe Biden`s administration on December 19, 2022 named Joe Kennedy III, a scion of the Irish American political dynasty, as an envoy on Northern Ireland.
• Kennedy was given a title of special envoy to Northern Ireland for economic affairs with a focus on promoting investment and development.
• The United States previously had a broader position of special envoy for Northern Ireland that started with former senator George Mitchell, who negotiated the landmark 1998 Good Friday agreement that largely ended decades of violence in the British-administered region.
• Kennedy will look to promote development `to the benefit of all communities` in Northern Ireland, historically divided between Protestants and Catholics, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said
9. Tunisia`s poll board revises vote turnout to 11pc
• Tunisia`s electoral board revised the turnout in parliamentary elections slightly upwards to 11.2 per cent on December 19, 2022, a poll that opposition groups said undermined President Kais Saied.
• The ISIE electoral authority had initially announced participation of 8.8pc after the close of voting for a parliament largely stripped of any power, the final pillar in Saied`s overhaul of the political system in the birthplace of the Arab Spring uprisings.
• ISIE chief Farouk Bouasker told journalists in Tunis that just over one million of the North African nation`s nine million registered voters had cast ballots
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10. First-ever home whitewash staring Pakistan in the face
• In a highly disappointing show, Pakistan face their first Test whitewash at home with England needing just 55 runs on the penultimate day to inflict upon the hosts a 3-0 series loss in the third Test at the National Stadium.
• Babar Azam`s men fell to yet another collapse on December 19, 2022 when they were bundled out for a paltry 216 as England leg-spinner Rehan Ahmed became the youngest debutant to take five wickets in an innings.
• Chasing a 167-run target with more than two days to spare, England plundered 112 with openers Zak Crawley and Bun Duckett giving them a 87-run start before the former and Rehan coming in as the night watchman were dismissed by Abrar Ahmed
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