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Volodymyr Zelenskiy will meet Poland's President Karol Nawrocki in Warsaw on Friday, as the Ukrainian leader tries to shore up relations with a key ally at a crucial moment for Kyiv's war effort, Reuters reported. 

The ‍visit ​comes just as European Union leaders that United States President Donald Trump recently branded "weak" ‍have agreed to borrow cash to fund Ukraine for the next two years, ensuring it can continue its fight against Russia's invasion.

While there is broad agreement ​in Warsaw ​that aid for Kyiv is essential in order to keep Russian forces away from Poland's borders, hardening attitudes towards Ukrainian refugees have fuelled simmering tensions, according to Reuters. 

The Australian government has announced a gun buyback scheme in the wake of the Bondi Beach attack - its deadliest mass shooting in decades, BBC reported. 

The scheme is the largest since the Port Arthur massacre in 1996, which left 35 people dead and prompted Australia to introduce world-leading gun control measures.

Fifteen people were killed and dozens injured on Sunday when two gunmen, believed to have been motivated by "Islamic State ideology", opened fire on a Jewish festival at the country's most iconic beach, according to BBC. 

European Unionleaders decided on Friday to borrow cash to fund Ukraine's defence against Russia for the next two years rather than use frozen Russian assets,sidestepping divisions over an unprecedented plan to finance Kyiv with Russian sovereign cash, Reuters reported. 

"Today we approved a decision to provide 90 billion euros to Ukraine," EU summit chairman Antonio Costa told a news conference early on Friday morning after hours of talks among the leaders in Brussels. "As a matter of urgency, we will provide a loan backed by the European Union budget."

The leaders also gave the European Commission a mandate to keep working on a so-called reparations loan based on Russian immobilised assets but that option proved unworkable for now, above all due to resistance from Belgium, where the bulk of the assets is held, according to Reuters. 

The suspect in the mass shooting at Brown University last weekend is dead, officials said on Thursday, as investigators said he also killed a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor two days after the rampage at Brown, Reuters reported. 

Officials said the gunman, identified as Portuguese national Claudio Neves Valente, attended Brown University more than two decades ago but his motive remains a mystery.

U.S. Attorney Leah Foley in Boston said Valente, 48, was deceased. He had been a Ph.D. student in physics who was familiar with the building where the shooting took place, officials said, according to Reuters.