UGANDA: A man killed four children in a machete attack at a nursery school today.

The attacker gained access to the Gaba Early Childhood Development Programme in the capital Kampala and attacked an “unspecified number of children with a sharp object,” according to the local Daily Monitor newspaper.

Police spokesman Kituuma Rusoke said a suspect has been arrested.

PAKISTAN: The government confirmed today that it was holding peace talks with Afghanistan’s Taliban government in China, where Beijing is trying to broker a lasting ceasefire after weeks of fighting that has killed hundreds of people and disrupted trade and cross-border travel.

The confirmation of the latest discussions came the day after officials from the two sides said Pakistani and Afghan representatives had traveled to Urumqi in western China, where they held their first round of talks.

AUSTRALIA: Ministers announced a tightening of restrictions on gambling advertisements today.

The measures will put additional limits on when and where gambling adverts can appear, as well as who can appear in them. But the move stops short of the full ban that some community groups were calling for in the face of fierce opposition from powerful gambling agencies.

Australians lose more money to gambling, per capita, than anywhere else in the world.

GREECE: A man died near Athens today as a storm hit parts of the country with gale force winds and flooding, while a Sahara dust storm covered the island of Crete.

Storm Ermino has flooded streets, closed many schools and kept ferries from sailing.

Some flights were grounded by the dust storm, which turned the sky red-orange.