Breakfast News Recap: Sweden school attack kills girl as Canada readies tariff retaliation and Middle East tensions rise

Swedish police have confirmed that a 17 year old girl was killed in a sword attack at Brinell School in Fagersta, with two boys aged 12 and 17 also involved in the incident.  🔗

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In North America, Canada has said it will retaliate against the United States in a widening tariff dispute covering steel, dairy and electronics, with Prime Minister Mark Carney announcing new Canadian tariffs from 8 September.  🔗 President Donald Trump also said the United States had brought home an American hostage held by ISIS for ten months.  🔗

Across the Middle East, Israeli military raids and settler attacks have injured at least 19 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian reports.  🔗 Separately, Tom Barrack, the US ambassador to Turkiye and special envoy for Syria, said Israel struck Syria's Abu Duhur military base without adequate warning.  🔗 Syria also condemned a fresh Israeli strike near Beit Jinn, southwest of Damascus, saying a civilian vehicle was hit and several people were injured.  🔗

Jordan said it has been pulled further into the Iran, US and Israel confrontation after missile and drone attacks were reported to have crossed into its territory, raising fresh sovereignty concerns in Amman.  🔗 Iran has also allowed some Iraqi oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz after repeated requests from Baghdad, as the two sides discuss exports.  🔗

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Elsewhere in the region, Chile said it will close its embassy in Tehran on 31 August, citing internal reorganisation and security concerns linked to tensions in the Middle East.  🔗

In Europe, a small power plant in the United Kingdom was shut down for four days after a cyber attack, affecting a small scale generator and prompting officials to assess the disruption.  🔗

In Asia and the Pacific, Kazakhstan has started voting in a snap parliamentary election for its new unicameral legislature.  🔗 South Korea has sent its first commercial trial container ship through the Arctic route, with the PanStar Acro departing Busan New Port for Europe.  🔗 In Australia, suspected H5N1 bird flu has killed large numbers of birds on islands that host one of the country's biggest sea lion breeding colonies, threatening the site.  🔗

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