TURKEY: A student opened fire randomly at two classrooms at a school in south-east Turkey today, killing four people and wounding 20 others, an official said.

Kahramanmaras provincial Governor Mukerrem Unluer said the student, who was also killed, arrived at the school carrying five firearms and seven magazines.

The motive of the attack was not immediately known.

A day earlier, 16 people were wounded when a former student opened fire at a high school in nearby Sanliurfa province.

HUNGARY: Opposition leader and election winner Peter Magyar said today that the country’s president had assured him in a meeting that his new government could take power in the first week of May, an accelerated timeline for the end of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s 16-year reign.

Mr Magyar and his right-wing Tisza party won a landslide two-thirds parliamentary majority on Sunday. 

LEBANON: Israeli air strikes rocked southern Lebanon today, a day after a first round of historic talks between Lebanese and Israeli officials in Washington. 

Though Israeli strikes in Beirut have eased since last week’s 10-minute targeting of civilians killed more than 350 people across the country, areas in southern Lebanon remain under heavy attack.

IRELAND: The Irish government comfortably survived a confidence vote on Tuesday over how it handled a week of fuel protests that blocked access to oil supplies, caused pumps to run dry and created massive traffic jams.

If the confidence vote had failed, Prime Minister Micheal Martin’s government would have been forced to resign and Parliament would have either elected a new prime minister or called a general election.