Morning Brief: France jails dozens as weekend riot custody count hits 2,331; Canada names Wainwright dead; Putin floats Trump-Xi summit without Kyiv
Plus Houthi attacks empty a Riyadh tower, 6,000 sailors stuck near Hormuz, a Guard member shot in DC, Florida's warrant for Raúl Castro, and a Supreme Court order list at 9:30 a.m. ET.
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I'm Nora Vale with your 6 AM World Brief for Monday, October 19. France: 2,331 held over weekend riots; dozens jailed; local curfews ordered. Canada names 4 soldiers killed at Wainwright; 39 hurt, at least 19 critical. Putin floats Trump-Xi summit on Ukraine without Zelensky; Rubio: 'no pause' in U.S. intel. Riyadh's Kingdom Centre sends workers home amid Houthi attacks; 6 hurt in Najran. DC: Guard member shot breaking up a fight; suspect wounded; both expected to live. Supreme Court order list at 9:30 a.m. ET today; November sitting opens Nov. 2. In national weather, from the National Weather Service: Flash Flooding risk for portions of the Southwest on Monday. 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. Our opinion. Punish the looters, no deal that rewards the invader, thank the Guard. Full stories and sources are at WorldBriefNow.com. I'm Nora Vale. Thanks for watching.
French Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin said Monday there were 2,331 people taken into police custody over the weekend, that more than 80% face prosecution and that dozens have already been jailed pending trial, including 13 in Marseille, Le Parisien reported with AFP. Darmanin said authorities 'incontestably failed' and blamed a lapse in intelligence on the ultra-left, while Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said he asked regional prefects for partial, localized curfews in some city centers and promised a 'massive' criminal response, franceinfo reported. Marseille banned all gatherings from noon to 8 p.m. Monday, and organizers have called a second day of protests for Saturday, Oct. 24.
The Canadian Armed Forces named the four members killed in the Oct. 17 fire at CFB Wainwright as Sgt. Morgan Wong and Privates Shaun Farrell, Aidan Goulding and Hayden Lykkemark, all serving with the 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and said 39 members were injured, according to a National Defence news release. The release said a fire ignited during live-fire training in Exercise APOLLO SHOOTER and high winds spread it rapidly over the unit's administrative area. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said at least 19 of the 39 hospitalized were in critical condition, and Maj.-Gen. Wade Rutland said the unit was training to deploy to Latvia next spring, Global News reported.
Management of Riyadh's 99-story Kingdom Centre ordered office employees to work remotely until further notice after the Saudi-led coalition said it intercepted drones over Riyadh and the Eastern Province and two ballistic missiles in the south, Fox News reported, citing AFP. Saudi civil defense said six people were hurt when a projectile hit a residential area in Najran, and the coalition said a reconnaissance helicopter crash near the Yemen border killed both crew members, which it blamed on a technical malfunction. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi asked parliament for an emergency session to authorize defensive military support for Saudi Arabia if Riyadh requests it, Reuters reported.
International Maritime Organization Secretary-General Arsenio Dominguez told Fox News Digital the situation for shipping is 'severe and critical,' with 'a double blockade' and about 6,000 seafarers trapped since the conflict began, and urged ships not to transit Hormuz 'until we have guarantees.' Fox News, citing the Financial Times, said 24 ships were attacked over roughly two weeks. Iran told the IMO the U.S. military used emergency radio Channel 16 to threaten Iranian crews, a claim Fox could not verify, while U.S. Central Command said its blockade of Iranian ports is 'professionally communicated to all international mariners.'
Police and protesters clashed in Tirana for a sixth straight day Sunday as student-led crowds demanded Prime Minister Edi Rama resign over corruption allegations, and police said 388 people had been charged with criminal offenses, Fox News reported, citing Reuters. Reps. Joe Wilson, Robert Aderholt and Keith Self posted warnings urging the government to avoid violence against protesters, and the U.S. embassy urged peaceful protest. Rama blamed outside forces, saying young people had been radicalized under the influence of ANTIFA, while the European Commission condemned the arson and attacks on state institutions.
Florida has obtained a no-bond state arrest warrant, issued in Miami-Dade County, charging former Cuban leader Raúl Castro with conspiracy to commit first-degree murder in the 1996 shootdown of Brothers to the Rescue aircraft, Fox News reported, citing the warrant. The warrant names the four men killed, Carlos Costa, Pablo Morales, Mario de la Peña and Armando Alejandre Jr., and says the plan went up the chain of command with Raúl and Fidel Castro as final decision-makers. Attorney General James Uthmeier and Gov. Ron DeSantis were expected to announce it Monday morning; Cuba has rejected the U.S. prosecution of Castro.
A National Guard member was shot in the leg Sunday night after seven or eight Guard members got out of a van to stop a fight in the Eastern Market neighborhood around 11:10 p.m., the New York Post reported, citing D.C. police. Interim Police Chief Jeffery Carroll said a man in the fight pulled a gun and fired at the Guard members after being told to drop it, and three Guard members returned fire, striking the suspect, Fox News and the Post reported. Both have non-life-threatening injuries, and police said there is no further threat to the public.
Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed a three-way summit with President Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping on ending the Ukraine war, possibly at the Nov. 18-19 APEC meeting in Shenzhen, the Wall Street Journal reported, according to Euronews and CNBC; Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said talks were under way but nothing is agreed, and a U.S. official said Trump has not agreed to attend. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in Uzbekistan Monday 'there has been no pause' in intelligence sharing with Ukraine and 'there's been talks of a meeting,' Al Jazeera and CNBC reported. On Sunday Trump said Zelensky 'doesn't want to end this war, and probably never did,' and defended his Russia sanctions waiver, the Washington Examiner reported.
President Trump and the first lady are scheduled to sign an executive order in the Rose Garden at 11 a.m. ET, according to the White House daily guidance for Monday, which did not say what the order covers. The president has policy meetings at 12:30 and 2 p.m. ET, then flies to Wichita, Kansas, and delivers remarks at 6 p.m. CT at Heartland Credit Union Arena before returning to the White House.
President Trump said Sunday the Interior Department is working with architect Tom Fazio to overhaul East Potomac Golf Links into a public, championship-level course that could host the U.S. Open and Ryder Cup, with the course expected to close Nov. 15 and reopen about 15 months later, Fox News reported. Hours later, U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes took notice of the post and ordered the government to say by 8 p.m. Sunday whether it still stood by a filing two days earlier saying 'there is no final agency action,' and ordered two government attorneys to appear at an evidentiary hearing Monday morning. Reyes had recently temporarily halted further tree cutting at the site amid a legal challenge.
The Supreme Court's calendar for Monday, Oct. 19, says the Court will release an order list at 9:30 a.m., with no argument session today, according to supremecourt.gov. SCOTUSblog said things should be quieter at the Court after Monday's order list until the November sitting begins on Nov. 2. Still pending is the Trump administration's petition asking the justices to decide whether federal courts can vacate an agency rule for everyone, in a No Surprises Act case; the challengers' response is due Nov. 13, SCOTUSblog reported.
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