Here’s a rundown of all the news you need to start your Friday, including US President Donald Trump ruling out using nuclear weapons against Iran, Saudi-led coalition intercepting and destroying drone in eastern Saudi Arabia, and three children and a teacher among five people dying following a shooting at an primary school in US.
US President Donald Trump ruled out using nuclear weapons against Iran, saying Washington did not need them and emphasizing that the "mother of all bombs" was non-nuclear.
Asked during an interview Thursday with Newsmax about reports that his administration was considering using the bomb against Iran, potentially after the US midterm elections, Trump stressed that it was a conventional weapon.
"The mother of all bombs is not nuclear," Trump said, adding: "This is just an extremely large bomb." He reiterated that the weapon was not nuclear.
Trump ruled out using nuclear weapons, saying the US did not need to resort to them.
"No, I wouldn't use nuclear. We don't have to," he said.
The Saudi-led coalition said it intercepted and destroyed a drone over Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province.
Coalition spokesman Turki al-Maliki announced the interception without providing further details, including the drone’s origin.
Hours earlier, Yemen’s Houthi group claimed to have struck King Khalid International Airport in the Saudi capital Riyadh with a ballistic missile, without providing details of casualties or damage.
The coalition said Wednesday that it intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile launched by the Houthis toward Riyadh after warning alerts were activated in the capital and nearby Al-Kharj governorate.
Between Oct. 5 and 11, 10 attacks targeted five Saudi airports, killing 20 people, injuring hundreds and disrupting flights. King Khalid International Airport was targeted five times, accounting for 18 of the deaths.
Three children and a teacher were among five people found dead following a shooting at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon, police said Thursday.
"Our officers entered the building and confirmed the suspect was dead. They cleared the school to ensure there were no additional threats and then rendered emergency aid to the victims,” Mike Krantz, the chief of police of the City of Bend, told reporters.
"Officers at the scene located five people who had succumbed to their injuries, including the suspect. The deceased at the scene include three children ages five, eight and 11 and one teacher," he added.
Krantz said a seven-year-old child and a 54-year-old teacher were transported to a hospital with "critical injuries." He said the suspected shooter was a 16-year-old resident of Bend.
Brazilian driver Rafael Camara will make his Formula 1 debut with US-based Haas in the 2027 season, the team announced.
The 21-year-old, who currently leads the Formula 2 championship, was selected following an evaluation process involving four drivers.
Camara was chosen ahead of reigning F2 champion Leonardo Fornaroli and Haas reserve drivers Jack Doohan and Ryo Hirakawa.
The drivers were assessed in tests using previous-generation Formula 1 cars.
FIFA President Gianni Infantino apologized to the FIFA Council for a proposal to transfer part of the governing body’s commercial rights to a private investment firm, according to BBC Sport.
However, a FIFA vice president said Infantino must release all related documents and answer key questions to remain fit to lead the organization.
The FIFA Council met in Zurich for the first time since details emerged of Infantino’s secret FIFA Forward Enterprise (FFE) proposal, which was abandoned within days.
Under the proposal, a portion of FIFA’s commercial rights would have been transferred to a private investment firm.
Two Palestinian American authors who spent two years writing a history of Palestine for children said they withdrew their book from Penguin Random House rather than accept changes they said would undermine its Palestinian perspective.
Jenan Matari and Alana Hadid said they withdrew Displacement and the Palestinian American Story following disagreements over proposed changes to passages about the Nakba and the Oct. 7, 2023 attack.
“We will never betray our own people for anyone’s comfort – and especially never for personal success,” Matari wrote on Instagram. In a video posted with Hadid, Matari said the book would instead be published by Interlink Publishing in 2027.
The Israeli digital advertising firm Discover-Tech weaponized a vast commercial ad network to harvest personal data and deliver mercenary spyware to targeted devices worldwide, Canadian cyber watchdog Citizen Lab and New York-based ad security firm Confiant reported.
"The core finding is the weaponization of ad infrastructure for advanced staging, preliminary targeting, and payload delivery, characterized by exceptional technical sophistication, robust anti-interception measures, and surgical micro-targeting," Confiant said in its investigative findings.
The coordinated operation enabled US-blacklisted Israeli spyware company Candiru, rebranded as Integrity Labs, and surveillance vendor Intelos to exploit commercial ad inventory across major global platforms, including Google, Beeswax and Russia's Yandex, to track targets and compromise consumer devices.
International Energy Agency (IEA) member countries agreed to accelerate the release of around 100 million barrels of remaining emergency oil stocks, including more than 20 million barrels of diesel, as soon as possible amid tight global energy markets.
The agency’s Governing Board said its assessments pointed to persistent tightness in oil markets, particularly diesel.
Approximately 330 million barrels have already been released under collective action launched in March in response to the Strait of Hormuz crisis.
Total releases will exceed the original commitment of 400 million barrels, as some members have released more than initially pledged and others intend to do so. Members agreed to take steps to complete the remaining releases in a timely manner consistent with national circumstances.
The US Treasury Department extended an economic sanctions waiver that allows Lukoil-branded service stations in foreign markets to continue everyday consumer operations.
"All transactions ... ordinarily incident and necessary" to running or winding down service stations outside Russia are permitted, said the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), authorizing activities until April 24.
The measure allows the company's subsidiaries to debit and credit previously frozen bank accounts for routine overhead. The license, however, explicitly bars "the transfer of funds to any person or account located in the Russian Federation" and excludes any financial dealings involving the Russian central bank.
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