Russian official says a Ukrainian strike with US-supplied missiles kills 6

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A senior local official in Russia says a Ukrainian attack on a town in Russia’s Kursk border region using U.S.-supplied missiles has killed six people, including a child. The claim came hours after Ukrainian authorities said a Russian ballistic missile attack on Kyiv killed at least one person and wounded 12 others. Moscow claimed the Kyiv strike was in response to a Ukrainian strike on Russian soil using American-made weapons. Kursk’s acting governor said 10 other people in the Kursk town of Rylsk, including a 13-year-old, were hospitalized after Friday’s strike with HIMARS missiles. Russia is trying to push back a Ukrainian incursion into Kursk that was launched in early August, but Ukraine’s troops are dug in.

Canada’s Trudeau reshuffles his Cabinet as resignation calls mount

TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s chances of staying on in power have become more tenuous after the opposition party that backed his government for years said it’ll vote no confidence in the government when Parliament resumes. An embattled Trudeau reshuffled his Cabinet on Friday but whether he will step aside in the coming days or weeks remains an open question. Trudeau participated in the swearing-in ceremony and will chair a meeting with his new Cabinet later in the afternoon. He faces rising discontent over his leadership, and the abrupt departure of his finance minister earlier this week could be something he can’t recover from.

Teen stabs a 7-year-old to death and wounds 4 in a Croatian school

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Authorities say a knife-wielding teenager walked into a school in Croatia’s capital, stabbed a 7-year-old girl to death and wounded three more children and a teacher. The attack took place Friday morning at the Precko Elementary School in the neighborhood of the same name. The interior minister said the attacker was a 19-year-old former student. After the attack he attempted to kill himself but was stopped by police, who detained him. School attacks are rare in Croatia and in the Balkans as a whole, although in May 2023, a teenager in neighboring Serbia opened fire at a school in the capital, Belgrade, killing nine fellow students and a school guard.

At least two dead and 60 injured after a car drove into a German Christmas market

BERLIN (AP) — Authorities in the German city of Magdeburg say at least two people were killed and dozens were injured after a car plowed into a busy Christmas market in a suspected attack. At least 60 were were injured in the suspected attack Friday evening, including 15 who were hurt very seriously, according to the city government’s website. Authorities say the driver of the car was arrested. State governor Reiner Haseloff told reporters that the suspect is a 50-year-old Saudi doctor who first came to Germany in 2006. The car drove into the market at around 7 p.m., when it was busy with holiday shoppers looking forward to the weekend.