Oregon School Shooting Kills Four; Suspect Fatally Shot by Bystander

This is the morning edition of the One News Page Global Briefing, for Saturday, the seventeenth of October, twenty twenty-six. Here is what matters now.

A sixteen-year-old attacker opened fire at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, on Thursday afternoon, killing three children and a teacher before a community member confronted and fatally shot him, authorities said. The children killed were aged five, eight and eleven. Police responded to reports of an active shooter and found the suspect dead at the scene. Two other people were wounded, with another child and a teacher reported to be critically injured. Residents of Bend later gathered for a candlelight vigil to mourn the victims of the attack, which police said was over.

Meanwhile, in the Middle East, masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villages across the occupied West Bank on Friday, setting fire to cars and olive trees and beating residents as part of a coordinated effort to disrupt the annual olive harvest. Several people were injured, including Washington Post freelance photographer Heidi Levine, who was beaten during the assault. Reporters Without Borders condemned the attack as brazen violence against the press.

In Washington, Katie Zacharia has been removed as White House press secretary after just five days in the job, which would make her the shortest-serving holder of the post. President Donald Trump told reporters he had asked Zacharia to reconsider whether she wanted to stay, and U S officials said she was being moved out of the role after her first week. Her departure followed intense scrutiny over her legal credentials, including questions about whether she had passed a bar exam and was licensed to practice law. She does not appear to be registered with any state bar, and her first appearance at the press podium was widely described as rocky.

In South Asia, the roof of a private school collapsed during classes on Thursday in Peshawar, north-west Pakistan, killing at least thirty-four children and a teacher; some reports put the death toll at thirty-five. More than thirty people were injured, several of them critically, and rescue officials feared additional victims were buried under the debris. The school has been identified as the Al-Khair Education Center. Police arrested the school owner, and Pakistan's government ordered inspections of schools nationwide. Grieving relatives said they had warned that the roof was leaking, and a senior official told reporters that initial findings pointed to weak infrastructure. Pakistan's prime minister urged rescuers to speed up the search for survivors.

In publishing news, Irish author Sally Rooney and her publisher, Faber, said her books will no longer be sold in the United Kingdom because she pledged to donate British royalties to Palestine Action, a pro-Palestinian direct-action group banned as a terrorist organisation by the U K government in July twenty twenty-five. Faber cited circumstances in which it could not pass on U K earnings to Rooney. The group is not banned in Ireland, where Rooney lives, and she cancelled a planned trip to Britain over fears of arrest.

In the Americas, ousted Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, pleaded not guilty in New York on Thursday to new U S charges accusing them of conspiracy to commit torture. The couple has been held in a U S jail since their capture by American forces in early January. Prosecutors allege they led a state-sponsored repression campaign that tortured scores of victims, including political opponents and U S citizens, during Maduro's presidency from twenty thirteen to twenty twenty-six. The defendants called the accusations false.

Back in Washington, President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday putting on hold a sweeping new sanctions package against Russia that he had signed into law last month, waiving the restrictions two days before they were due to take effect and citing national interest. The legislation had been championed by the late senator Lindsey Graham. The move came a week after a diesel deal with Russia and amid a deepening row with Ukraine.

In U S courts, a New Mexico state court judge has dismissed an indictment charging actor and director Timothy Busfield with criminal sexual contact with a child, an indictment that had accused him of groping a young boy on a television set. Judge Joseph Montano ruled that prosecutors did not act in a fair and impartial manner during grand jury proceedings, and that misconduct and errors undermined the process. Busfield had faced four counts.

In Mexico, a judge sentenced three men to one hundred and fifty-eight years and nine months in prison each for the twenty twenty-four murders of Australian brothers Jake and Callum Robinson and their American friend Carter Rhoad. The victims were killed during a surfing trip to Baja California in what authorities described as an apparent botched robbery. The sentencing came a week after the men were found guilty.

In European football, Real Madrid has called for the immediate resignation of La Liga president Javier Tebas after he compared the club's media strategy to the propaganda techniques of Nazi Germany's Joseph Goebbels. Tebas had accused the club of using propaganda techniques and select journalists as official mouthpieces to air grievances and discredit referees.

In India, police detained Abhijeet Dipke, founder of the satirical youth movement Cockroach Janta Party, on Friday ahead of a planned protest in New Delhi. He was due to appear before a Special Executive Magistrate later in the day. Authorities had closed a central New Delhi park in an effort to stifle near-daily demonstrations calling for the election authority chief's resignation over the removal of more than one hundred and thirty million people from voter lists.

In New York, a family of barn owls has nested in a water tower atop a building near Central Park on Manhattan's Upper West Side, drawing nightly crowds of onlookers. Experts said it is the first documented instance of barn owls nesting in Manhattan in modern history.

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