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By Christian Edwards and Marcelo Medeiros, CNN Police officers and emergency units stand at the entrance of the "Precko" primary school after a stabbing attack in Zagreb. Photo: AFP A seven-year-old girl has been killed and eight others have been injured in a knife attack at an elementary school in the Croatian capital Zagreb. The 19-year-old attacker, believed to be a former student, entered a first-grade classroom at the Prečko Elementary School early Friday morning and attacked the teacher and several children with a knife, CNN affiliate N1 reported. Helicopters have been transporting the wounded to hospitals across the city. The teacher sustained life-changing injuries and is in critical condition, the Sveti Duh Hospital said. "The attacker is under police custody. The injured pe...

By Ashley Tang, Reuters Photo: AFP Last search for Malaysia Airlines plane ended in 2018 Malaysia to pay $70 million if substantive wreckage found Exploration firm confident of credibility of new data Malaysia has said wreckage vital to uncover what happened Malaysia has agreed to resume the search for the wreckage of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, its transport minister says, more than 10 years after it disappeared in one of the world's greatest aviation mysteries. Flight MH370, a Boeing 777 carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew, vanished en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on 8 March 2014. "Our responsibility and obligation and commitment is to the next of kin," Transport Minister Anthony Loke told a press conference on Friday (local time). "We hope this time will be ...

Vanuatu seasonal workers check into a hotel in Nadi to await the resumption of commercial airline services to Port Vila. Photo: RNZ Pacific/Koroi Hawkins While search and rescue crews including a specialist New Zealand team continue to scour rubble in the Vanuatu capital Port Vila, back in Aotearoa, a number of Ni-Vanuatu are working in horticulture or viticulture seasonal jobs. There are 57 at Cromwell vineyard Grape Vision, and owner James Dicey told Checkpoint they had been struggling. "They're putting a bright face on things, but they're struggling," Dicey said. "We've just had our Christmas do and got sung some lovely Christmas carols by them. But when you talk to them one-on-one, soon the reality of the situation, and not being home, and dealing with or helping dealing with the s...