1. North Korea is expanding a key weapons manufacturing complex that assembles the KN-23 short-range ballistic missile used by Russia in Ukraine.

2. Thousands of Rohingya insurgents have emerged from camps housing over a million refugees in Cox's Bazar, where militant recruitment and violence have surged this year.

3. Lebanon's Hezbollah movement fired heavy rocket barrages at Israel.

4. India's parliament was suspended after opposition lawmakers disrupted it demanding a discussion over bribery allegations against the Adani Group.

5. US farm industry groups want President-elect Donald Trump to spare their sector from his promise of mass deportations.

6. Trump's Republicans are promising to hit the gas next year when they assume full control of the US Congress.