In this bulletin, One dead, three injured in sword attack at Sweden school; The ACT joins the federal government's gun buy-back scheme; And in cricket, Who's been selected for the second test against Bangladesh?
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- One dead, three injured in Sweden school sword attack
- The ACT joins the federal government's gun buy-back scheme
- Who's been selected for the second test against Bangladesh?
One person has died and three are injured after a man armed with a sword attacked a high school in central Sweden.
Police detained one person after the incident at Brinell High School in Fagersta, about 150 kilometres north-west of Stockholm.
Swedish public broadcaster SVT reports the person arrested is an 18-year-old former student who was carrying a sword and wearing a helmet.
Police credit a stay-in-place order and a several-hour lock-down for preventing further injuries.
Student Nellie Strandberg says she was locked inside the school for five hours.
" At first it was just a completely normal day, you know? But then I saw a guy who had blood all over his body - or on his back, at least. And then I saw the police and everyone else arriving. The teachers told us we had to stay put, though we didn't know for how long."
King Carl the XVI Gustaf says he received news of the latest school attack with “dismay and sadness”.
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A Russian drone strike on a Ukrainian shopping centre has killed 14 people with more than 100 injured.
The daytime attack occurred in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih, the hometown of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
The President says it was a double-tap strike, in which an initial wave of drones hit the area, followed by a second wave as rescue workers responded.
Emergency workers were seen bandaging a wounded woman and helping a bloodied young boy, while ambulances and rescue teams gathered at the site.
Mr Zelenskyy described the attack as a terrorist act and vowed the country would respond.
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The ACT has agreed to join the federal government's gun buy back scheme, making it the second of the states and territories to do so, after New South Wales signed up last week.
Under the deal, the Commonwealth will fund 75 per cent of the compensation and administration costs of the scheme and all firearm destruction costs.
There are more than 7,000 firearms licence holders and about 23,000 firearms in the ACT, with about 14 per cent of those licence holders expected to be affected by the proposed firearms cap.
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The Australian Federal Police says the arrest of an Australian-Russian dual national on foreign interference offences sends a strong signal.
Twenty-seven year-old Victorian Man Vladimir Teslov faced court in Brisbane yesterday.
He is accused of providing information about Ukrainian military activities to individuals he believed were acting on behalf of Russian intelligence services.
If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in prison.
AFP Commissioner, Kristy Barret says, while some alleged activities occurred in Australia, there is no current suggestion of a domestic threat.
"We don’t want Australia to become a safe haven for people who are undertaking foreign interference on behalf of other countries so this sends a very strong message that the counter foreign interference taskforce which is lead by the AFP and ASIO has all of the skills and the capabilities to be able to be able to identify, disrupt and take prosecution action."
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A three-day festival is being held to mark 60 years since the Wave Hill Walk off which sparked the Aboriginal land rights movement.
In 1996, about 200 Gurindji, Mudburra and Walpiri station workers and their families walked-off Wave Hill station in the Northern Territory after negotiations over poor pay and conditions broke down.
Brian Manning Junior's father, Brian Manning Senior, was one of the first workers to join the movement's leader Vincent Lingiari in the historic protest action.
"Being treated like second-class citizens in their own country, after suffering. It was all about struggle. If you want something you had to develop your resilience. And it's one thing I can say about the people who were here sixty years ago - their resilience."
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Former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan has been declared medically fit and sent back to prison after being examined by a team of doctors.
His former party, PTI, says the move violates a Supreme Court order which, they say, meant Khan should remain under medical supervision until at least mid-September.
They also say his examination at a state-run hospital breaches the order which allowed him access to his personal physician.
His lawyers say he has lost significant vision in his right eye as his health deteriorates in prison.
He has been in jail since August 2023 on corruption charges he says are politically motivated.
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Australia has made just one selection change for the second Test against Bangladesh, as it looks to recover from a nine-wicket loss to the visitors in Darwin.
Matt Renshaw will be recalled to open batting, in a straight swap for Jake Weatherald.
The pitch at Great Barrier Reef Arena in Mackay [[muh-KIGH]] is expected to assist the pacemen, but off spinner Nathan Lyon will play his 143rd Test.
