Evening Update: Carney says 4 killed in Wainwright base fire; Macron vows looters will pay as arrests near 2,400; Trump endorses Netanyahu
Also: riots spread to Italy; Iran says its Hormuz terms stand as Houthi-Saudi strikes escalate; Trump and Bessent defend the Russia sanctions pause; Homan on Ilhan Omar; the administration asks the Court to limit nationwide vacatur; orders due Monday.
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I'm Nora Vale with your 5 PM World Brief for Sunday, October 18. Carney: 4 service members killed, dozens hurt in Wainwright base fire; no sign of terrorism. Macron: looters 'need to pay'; at least 2,400 arrested, 500+ officers and firefighters hurt. Violent protests in Milan, Bologna and Turin; Meloni condemns 'gangs of thugs.' Trump defends Russia sanctions pause; Bessent: only the diesel embargo lifted, 60-day review. Trump endorses Netanyahu ahead of Israel's Oct. 27 election. Administration asks Court to limit nationwide vacatur; orders due Monday 9:30 a.m. ET. In national weather, from the National Weather Service: Nor'easter moving north just off the Mid-Atlantic Coast will produce rain showers along parts of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast Coast through Tuesday. Low pressure moving southward along the West Coast will develop scattered rain over parts of California through Tuesday. Our opinion. Back the police, make Moscow earn relief, give Wainwright families answers. Full stories and sources are at WorldBriefNow.com. I'm Nora Vale. Thanks for watching.
Prime Minister Mark Carney said Sunday that four service members were killed and dozens more seriously injured after a fire broke out during military training at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright in Alberta, calling it one of Canada's worst peacetime military tragedies on domestic soil, Fox News reported. Military officials said there were no indications of terrorism, but the cause remains under investigation with the RCMP involved, and those affected included reservists and soldiers from Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. Several Alberta hospitals declared a 'Code Orange' mass-casualty emergency, and Carney ordered flags on federal buildings lowered to half-staff.
In a televised address Sunday, President Emmanuel Macron said 'nothing will excuse' the rioters' actions and 'those people who looted need to pay for their crimes,' and ordered more security around public buildings and businesses, Fox News reported. At least 2,400 people have been arrested nationwide, including 855 in the Paris region, and more than 500 police officers, gendarmes and firefighters were injured, the AP reported, citing Interior Minister Laurent Nunez; authorities said one protester died after suffering cardiac arrest in Paris. Macron has faced criticism for attending a Celine Dion concert on the eve of the protests, and a Le Figaro column called his past reprimands of police 'an indelible stain.'
Protests organized Saturday by Italy's CGIL labor union turned violent in several cities, and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni condemned 'gangs of thugs' who exploit demonstrations while backing police, Fox News reported. In Milan, 50 demonstrators, including minors, were detained and at least two officers hurt as rioters looted stores in the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, the AP reported; Reuters said 56 officers were injured in Bologna, and Italy's interior ministry said about 100 officers were hurt and around 30 arrests were made in Turin. 'Demonstrating is a right. Setting our cities ablaze is not,' Meloni wrote.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Sunday that Tehran is still reviewing U.S. 'comments' on its seven-day ceasefire proposal, under which the Strait of Hormuz would reopen on the sixth day if the U.S. lifts its blockade of Iranian ports, CBS News reported. The Iran-backed Houthis and the Saudi-led coalition traded strikes Sunday: Saudi civil defense said a Houthi projectile injured six people in Najran, and the Houthis' Saba news agency said an alleged Saudi airstrike in northern Yemen killed at least nine. Saudi Arabia said it intercepted two ballistic missiles fired toward Khamis Mushait and a drone fired at Riyadh.
President Trump defended pausing sanctions on Russia, writing on Truth Social that he is 'negotiating Peace' and doesn't want to 'drive, foolishly, Russia away from the bargaining table,' the New York Post reported. On NBC's 'Meet the Press,' Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said 'the only thing that has been lifted is the diesel embargo,' with a 60-day period to examine the waiver of the Graham sanctions law, and called it 'very reckless' for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to accuse the administration of throttling Ukraine's military Starlink access, the Washington Examiner and the Post reported. Zelensky, who called the decisions 'mistakes,' spoke Sunday with U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.
President Trump on Sunday gave his 'Complete and Total Endorsement' to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud Party ahead of Israel's Oct. 27 Knesset elections, calling him a 'great warrior,' Fox News reported. 'If Israel has the wrong leader, which would be anyone other than Bibi, America will have to do this work ourselves, and I am not inclined to do so,' Trump wrote, and Netanyahu replied, 'Together, we will complete the mission.' Current forecasts put Netanyahu's right-religious bloc at about 49 to 51 seats, short of the 61 needed to govern, Fox reported.
Border czar Tom Homan said Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., could be denaturalized and deported if investigators find she committed immigration fraud, telling Fox News' 'The Big Weekend Show' that 'if the evidence points that way, that could happen.' Omar is under federal investigation over allegations that she or her father lied about her birth year on immigration paperwork, and Homeland Security Investigations agents searched her Washington home this week and took her cellphone, Fox News reported. Omar and other Democrats, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, have called the probe political persecution; Homan said he has been told investigators 'have a strong case.'
The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to decide whether and when a federal court can throw out an agency's action or rule in its entirety, SCOTUSblog reported, in a case over rules implementing the No Surprises Act, a 2022 law meant to protect patients from surprise medical bills. Citing the Court's 2025 Trump v. CASA ruling against universal injunctions, the government argued that under the 5th Circuit's decision, 'at the behest of a handful of plaintiffs, those regulations are erased from the books as to everyone'; the challengers' response is due Nov. 13. There was no new Court action over the weekend, and orders from Friday's private conference are expected Monday at 9:30 a.m. ET, SCOTUSblog reported.
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