Morning news brief: Ex-South Korea def min 'attempts suicide', Dhaka admits Hindus being attacked, and more

In a major development, South Korean police raided the office ofPresident Yoon Suk Yeol following the martial law fiasco.Yoon has been under an "insurrection" probe and is facing a travel ban.Amid reports of the raid in the presidential office, Yonhap news agency on Wednesday (Dec 11) reported that South Korea's former defence minister Kim Yong-Hyun tried to kill himself shortly before police formally arrested him over the role he played in martial law operation.

Meanwhile in a rare admission, Dhaka admitted Tuesday that dozens of incidents have taken place against the minority Hindu community.

On Tuesday (Dec 10), the Israeli military announced that they had launched nearly 480 strikes on Syria in the last two days and attacked the country's strategic weapon stockpiles.

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Days after the brief imposition of martial law in South Korea which threw the democracy of the country into chaos, a special investigation unit of police carried out a raid on the office of President Yoon Suk Yeol on Wednesday (Dec 11).

Amid escalating tensions between New Delhi and Dhaka over communal violence, Bangladesh Tuesday (Dec 10) admitted that at least 88 incidents have happened targeting minority Hindu community since the ouster of deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina in August.

Days after the collapse of the Bashar al-Assad regime, Israel launched multiple airstrikes at Syrian military targets and deployed ground troops both inside and beyond the country's demilitarised buffer zone for the first time in 50 years.

Twenty-six-year-old Luigi Mangione, the suspect who is charged with murder in the killing of UnitedHealth Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Brian Thompson, had an angry outburst on Tuesday (Dec 10) as he was being escorted into a Pennsylvania courthouse.

In Romania, far-right politician George Simeon has strongly condemned the cancellation of the presidential election, calling it a direct attack on democracy. Standing outside a closed polling station, Simeon accused President Klaus Iohannis of mocking the Constitution and urged him to respect the law. Watch in for more details!