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It's May 12, 2023, and this is your DSR daily brief. I'm Chris Cotnor, our top stories from international outlets this morning.

Reuters reports that former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan arrived at an Islamabad court on Friday under heavy security cover as his supporters clashed with police elsewhere in the city.

Broadcaster GeoTV reported. His arrest earlier this week, which sparked deadly unrest in the nuclear arm nation, was ruled invalid and unlawful by the Supreme Court on Thursday.

The top court ordered him to appear before the Islamabad High Court for a hearing on his petition challenging the anti-corruption action against him.

Nearly 2,000 people have been arrested for violence since Khan's detention on Tuesday, and at least eight have been killed.

Khan was arrested a day after the powerful military rebuked him for repeatedly accusing a senior officer of trying to engineer his assassination and the former armed forces chief of being behind his removal from power last year.

The BBC reports that Ukraine says it has recaptured ground in Bakmut, a rare advance after months of grinding Russian gains in the eastern city.

Deputy Defense Minister Hannah Malliar said Ukrainian forces advanced 1.2 miles in a week.

The claims signal momentum shift in Bakmut, but more widely, there is no clear evidence of the much anticipated Ukrainian counteroffensive.

Russia has denied reports of Ukrainian gains after claims from both sides.

The individual declarations on telegram about a breakthrough on several points on the front line do not correspond to reality Russia's defense ministry said.

The general situation in the special military operation zone is under control it added using Russia's term for the invasion.

Describing the real situation over the past week, Miss Malliar claimed Russia suffered significant troop losses as Ukraine gained two kilometers without losing any positions.

According to reporting by NPR, for the past two decades, Turkish President Regip Tayyip Erdogan has dominated his country's politics.

He's been a key and contentious player on the world stage, and he steadily tightened his grip on power in ways that have weakened the country's democracy.

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