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Gunman opens fire on school church

Two children were killed and 17 other people were wounded at a Minneapolis Catholic school when a shooter opened fire on students attending Mass on the third day of school, authorities said. The assailant fired through the school’s chapel windows at students sitting in pews, officials said. The children killed were 8 years old and 10 years old, they said. The perpetrator died at the scene.

Reuters

Disaster

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Floods devastate Pakistan, India

Intense rains have left at least 34 people dead after lashing parts of Pakistan and India and triggering flash floods and landslides in Indian-controlled Kashmir, officials said. More than 210,000 people in Pakistan have been displaced. Heavy downpours and flash floods in the Himalayan region have killed nearly 100 people in August, with forecasters warning rain will continue across the region this week.

AP

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Boost as more tariffs get chop

Hundreds of “nuisance” tariffs on imports including tyres, televisions and wine glasses will be slashed in a move that will save businesses millions of dollars. Abolishing an extra 500 imposts, which increase prices consumers pay for goods and cost more in compliance than they raise in revenue, was a recommendation of Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ economic roundtable earlier in August. “It’s a bit mad, frankly, that in some of these areas where we’re importing a lot of goods, we spend a lot of time and money - we being business and governments - complying with a regime that nets us almost no income and just adds a bigger compliance burden,“ Chalmers told reporters.

AAP Newswire

POPULAR ARTICLES

Shooting

frank

Gunman opens fire on school church

Two children were killed and 17 other people were wounded at a Minneapolis Catholic school when a shooter opened fire on students attending Mass on the third day of school, authorities said. The assailant fired through the school’s chapel windows at students sitting in pews, officials said. The children killed were 8 years old and 10 years old, they said. The perpetrator died at the scene.

Reuters

Disaster

frank

Floods devastate Pakistan, India

Intense rains have left at least 34 people dead after lashing parts of Pakistan and India and triggering flash floods and landslides in Indian-controlled Kashmir, officials said. More than 210,000 people in Pakistan have been displaced. Heavy downpours and flash floods in the Himalayan region have killed nearly 100 people in August, with forecasters warning rain will continue across the region this week.

AP

Business

frank

Boost as more tariffs get chop

Hundreds of “nuisance” tariffs on imports including tyres, televisions and wine glasses will be slashed in a move that will save businesses millions of dollars. Abolishing an extra 500 imposts, which increase prices consumers pay for goods and cost more in compliance than they raise in revenue, was a recommendation of Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ economic roundtable earlier in August. “It’s a bit mad, frankly, that in some of these areas where we’re importing a lot of goods, we spend a lot of time and money - we being business and governments - complying with a regime that nets us almost no income and just adds a bigger compliance burden,“ Chalmers told reporters.

AAP Newswire