Trump drops Russia sanctions, Israeli settlers attack US photojournalist, Oregon police say teacher and parent stopped school shooter

Hi, I'm Elena Casas in London. It's Saturday, October 17th. Today, President Trump waives key sanctions on Russia just days before they were due to take effect. Police in Oregon say a teacher and an armed parent teamed up to stop the school shooter. And an unusually strong El Nino brings some exotic visitors to California's coast. This is Reuters World News, bringing you everything you need to know from the front lines in 10 minutes, 7 days a week. Hey, Ryan Reynolds here from Mint Mobile. Now, I don't know if you've heard, but Mint's premium wireless is $15 a month. But I'd like to offer one other perk. We have no stores. That means no small talk. Crazy weather we're having. No, it's not. It's just weather. It is an introvert's dream. Give it a try at mintmobile.com slash switch. Upfront payment of $45 for a three-month plan, $15 per month equivalent required. New customer offer first three months only, then full price plan options available. Taxes and fees extra. See mintmobile.com. President Trump has waived new sanctions aimed at Russia that were due to kick in within days under a law he signed only last month. The new law would have imposed tariffs of up to 100% on the five largest importers of Russian oil, oil and gas. The idea was to squeeze the oil trade that finances Russia's war in Ukraine. The president signed an executive order saying that dropping them was in the interests of the U.S., but it didn't say why. The move comes a week after the administration temporarily lifted sanctions on Russian diesel exports. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said this week he felt betrayed by the U.S. A large group of masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian olive harvesters near the village of Zagreb. On Friday, witnesses say about 80 settlers descended on the area, burning olive trees and throwing rocks. At least two people were injured. One of them was Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine. She says settlers kicked her repeatedly, breaking a rib and causing injuries that required surgery. Today, I was brutally attacked by, I mean, we saw in the distance, in the hilltop. I was attacked by at least 50 masked men. I had a 100 to 500 millimeter lens that you could see the mask with slingshots. And when they came running down, I was attacked, pushed to the ground. Luckily, I had my flak jacket and my helmet. Otherwise, I'd fall. Literally, I wouldn't even be here because they just kept kicking me and kicking me like probably 50 times. The attack comes as rights groups report a sharp rise in settler violence during this year's harvest and is fueling questions about Israel's response to the attacks. Israel's military has called attacks on civilians grave and unacceptable. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office says the incident is under investigation. Police in Oregon say a 16-year-old boy who shot and killed a teacher and three children in a special needs classroom on Thursday was stopped by a teacher who tackled him and then shot by one of the pupil's fathers. The local police chief told a press conference their actions saved lives. Three children aged 5, 8 and 11 were killed along with a 25-year-old teacher. Mike Krantz is the South Bend police chief. I want to highlight another person whose heroic action we need to recognize. A teacher in the classroom threw her cell phone at the teacher and said, and then tackled him and fought to take the firearm from him. She was not injured in that incident, but she almost certainly helped prevent more bloodshed. A new Reuters analysis looks at what's changing in Memphis after Tennessee redrew its congressional map. The Republican-backed plan broke up the state's largest black-majority city and divided it among three sprawling congressional districts. Supporters say that's politics. Critics say the map weakens the voting power of black residents and leaves Memphis with less influence in what's happening. In Washington, reporter David Hood-Nunez has more. What's interesting about Tennessee is that what's happened in Memphis has largely already happened in Nashville. So voters in Nashville in the four years since 2022 have felt that the power of minority voters in the state has effectively been diluted by this redistricting. You know, which means fewer funds, fewer federal funds, fewer federal dollars go into a district. For example, in Nashville, before it was redistricted, it received more than $15 million. And then afterward, it received $3 million. You know, Memphis, since 2022, has received almost $56 million in federal funds. And so when. when a district gets split up, and not only when it gets split up, but when it gets split up in such a way that it's so gigantic, like the area is so big, voters in different areas of the state feel like they have to compete for that money. And they have to compete for the attention of their representative. And, you know, the lived experience of voters in Nashville sort of shows that. And it shows us what is likely to come, not just in Memphis, but in places like Florida and Louisiana and parts of Texas. When an intruder approaches a home, they expect a camera. What they don't expect. Stop. This is SimpliSafe. Police are on the way. Using smart AI cameras, live U.S.-based agents help deter intruders in under 30 seconds. Don't just record a break-in. Stop it from ever happening. Plans starting around a dollar a day. 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So, as a result, we're getting all kinds of strange visitors, to the coast of California. The long-thin big-eye fish species appeared for the first time. Sea turtles have been found nesting in California for the first time ever. On top of that, we had a very rare sighting of the yellow-bellied sea snake. This is a venomous sea snake with fangs that ordinarily would only appear further south, but one swam ashore in Orange County. Yeah, Jack! That's a yellow! Up and down the coast, the sport fishing industry is particularly interested in El Nino. Donna Callis is the co-owner of Darla Wharf Sportfishing and Whale Watching. She says her boats have landed 5,000 yellowfin tuna this summer, as opposed to only two last year, and now are catching dorado. Dorado is very exciting because they're very acrobatic, so they jump out of the water, we catch them off kelp paddies, and it's a thrill. It's also a point of interest for scientists and aquarium goers this year, but there's been another effect of this year's El Nino, rising sea levels and beach erosion. Some of that has affected properties, destroyed or damaged homes right on the beach, stripping some beaches of sand. This particular beach still is doing well, but just to the north of here, the entire Tamarack State Beach has pretty much disappeared. It's all rocks. France is braced for another day of street protests as students and trade unionists join forces. The wave of demonstrations began at high schools last month, as teenagers walked out of the classroom in protest against teacher shortages and crumbling schools. The movement became a lightning rod for public discontent over inequality and the cost of living, while heavy-handed police tactics have increased the anger after one adolescent lost an eye to rubber bullets and another's hand was blown off by a stun grenade. Meanwhile, French authorities are still searching for the hackers behind the supermarket attack last weekend that infiltrated hundreds of grocery store networks, wreaking havoc on frozen food aisles across the country. Supermarket staff were left to throw out boxes of spoiled meat and melted frozen goods, while some locations had fires break out as cool as overheated. As authorities try to identify the culprits, our company's editor for Europe, Adam Jordan, explains. The vulnerability here was the fact that these fridges were all connected. You know, the idea being to help the chains keep control of them. The technicians monitor a large number of fridges throughout these different. shops but that of course meant they were connected to the internet people from the outside to hack into them and change their settings. Now what we'd seen in this case and what one of the companies who provided the software had said was that in some cases these rather old fridges had not updated their software so some of the latest patches that might have stopped these attacks were not there, there hadn't been any alarm systems, the hackers had managed to get through those and sort of turn them off so the supermarket chains were unaware that this had even happened. So what that is sort of showing in a sort of slightly terrifying way is that hackers, if they were intending to do damage to a country's economy, to companies, they would be able to get into these sorts of systems and attack at a very important, very everyday level of the economy, obviously people's grocery shopping. Hank joined BJ's Wholesale Club the day he became a father. A father of 30. I coach football. Now Coach Hank saves up to 25% off grocery store prices, 30 pounds of pasta, three cases of protein bars, 75 sports drinks. And that's just pregame. 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