IRAN: Iranian authorities said today that they had hanged nine militants of the Islamic State group detained after a 2018 attack.

The Mizan news agency described the militants as being detained after they were involved in a clash with Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard that killed three Iranian troops.

AUSTRIA: Nine people were killed in a shooting at a school in the Austrian city of Graz today, and the suspected perpetrator also died, the city’s mayor said.

Mayor Elke Kahr described the events as a “terrible tragedy,” the Austria Press Agency reported. It added that the fatalities were seven students and one adult. Mayor Kahr said that many people were taken to hospitals with injuries.

Police said they believe the assailant acted alone.

UKRAINE: Russia sent waves of drones and missiles in an attack on two Ukrainian cities early today that killed two people and wounded at least 13 others, Ukrainian officials said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called the attack on Kiev “one of the biggest” in the war that has raged for over three years, and said that Moscow’s forces had fired over 315 drones and seven missiles at Ukraine.

FRANCE: A French secondary school employee was stabbed to death by a 15-year-old pupil during a bag check today at their school east of Paris, the National Gendarmerie service said. The pupil was detained.

A police officer helping with the bag checks was slightly injured during the arrest, the Gendarmie service said. The attack at the Francoise Dolto School in Nogent was being investigated.