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Las Vegas shooter may have planned other attacks
The fall of Raqqa: hunting the last jihadists in Isis's capital of cruelty
British tourist faces jail in Dubai after brushing against man in bar
Swedish model gets rape threats after ad shows her unshaved legs
Harvey Weinstein legal aide calls his alleged conduct 'gross' and illegal
Nobel peace prize winner rebukes Trump over nuclear standoff
The question haunting Las Vegas: what was the gunman's motive?
India's under-17s kick off first ever football World Cup match
The best books on North Korea: start your reading here | Pushpinder Khaneka
Nick Xenophon sacks SA Best candidate Rhys Adams over domestic violence 'joke'
Weight Watchers’ new boss: ‘It’s about health, not weighing yourself’
Divorce bill impasse stifles hopes for Brexit talks breakthrough
Teenager arrested over fatal London stabbing
The 20 photographs of the week
Grace Mugabe denies plotting to poison rival for Zimbabwe presidency
What Trump did this week: Puerto Rico, Las Vegas, 'Morongate' and more
Tropical storm Nate poised to hit Gulf coast as hurricane over weekend
Puerto Rico cell phone service to be restored by Google balloons
New Zealand election: full results give Labour boost and nation its first refugee MP
US approves sale of $15bn missile defence system to Saudi Arabia
UN defends slavery figures after Indian spy agency advised Modi to 'discredit' them
US eases economic sanctions on Sudan
North Korea plans to test missile it thinks can reach US west coast, Russian official says
Mexican photojournalist found dead after abduction by armed men
Canada will pay compensation to thousands of indigenous 'stolen children'
Chinese factory supplying major laptop brands accused of student labour abuses
The NRA made a concession on bump stocks – but did we all just get played?
Trump attempts to use Spanish accent to pronounce Puerto Rico - video
Nobel peace prize is tribute to anti-nuclear campaigners, says Ican director – video
Ican director: I thought Nobel peace prize win was a prank – video

Las Vegas shooter may have planned other attacks

Posted: 06 Oct 2017 11:42 AM PDT

As the city mourns, reports emerge that shooter Stephen Paddock had amassed ammunition and booked hotel rooms overlooking other public events

The Las Vegas gunman who carried out America's deadliest mass shooting may have planned additional attacks including a car bombing, it was reported on Friday.

The fall of Raqqa: hunting the last jihadists in Isis's capital of cruelty

Posted: 06 Oct 2017 04:46 AM PDT

The terror group used the Syrian city to showcase its savagery. Now a sense of vengeance is galvanising the final fightback

Abu Awad, a stalwart fighter for Islamic State, was unsettled. His battered men, sheltering in the rubble of bombed-out buildings, were running low on supplies and they were losing patience – and discipline.

"Abu Osama," he said on a radio frequency that his pursuers were monitoring two streets away, from the other side of the frontline of the battle for Raqqa. "We don't have water for ablutions, and we don't have enough medicine to treat our injured."

British tourist faces jail in Dubai after brushing against man in bar

Posted: 06 Oct 2017 12:48 PM PDT

Stirling electrician arrested for indecency put his hand out to stop drink spilling and touched man on hip, say friends

A British tourist is facing a three-year jail sentence in Dubai after putting his hand out in a bar to stop himself spilling his drink and touching a man's hip, according to his representatives.

Campaign group Detained in Dubai said Jamie Harron, from Stirling, central Scotland, was arrested for public indecency. Harron is said to have since lost his job and has spent more than £30,000 in expenses and legal fees, having already been stuck in the country for three months.

Swedish model gets rape threats after ad shows her unshaved legs

Posted: 06 Oct 2017 09:20 AM PDT

Arvida Byström is bombarded with online abuse after posing for Adidas video with hairy legs

A Swedish model says she has received rape threats for posing in an advertisement with unshaved legs.

Arvida Byström, who is also a photographer and digital artist, appears in a video and photograph promoting Adidas Originals' Superstar range. Byström, who has described the norm for women to shave as "fucked", has hairy legs in the images and says she has faced a vicious backlash as a result.

Harvey Weinstein legal aide calls his alleged conduct 'gross' and illegal

Posted: 06 Oct 2017 10:33 AM PDT

Lisa Bloom: 'The allegations if true would constitute sexual harassment'
Weinstein says he intends to sue New York Times for 'reckless reporting'

One of Harvey Weinstein's legal advisers called his behavior illegal and gross on Friday as the fallout over claims the powerful Hollywood producer spent decades exploiting and harassing young women caught in his orbit continued.

In an interview with ABC News, presenter George Stephanopoulos said to Lisa Bloom, a lawyer better known for representing alleged sexual harassment victims: "This is a real pattern over 30 years. This is like textbook sexual harassment."

Nobel peace prize winner rebukes Trump over nuclear standoff

Posted: 06 Oct 2017 08:43 AM PDT

As award is announced for anti-nuclear group Ican, its head says US president 'puts a spotlight' on the weapons' dangers

The head of the anti-nuclear campaign group awarded the Nobel peace prize has chided Donald Trump for ramping up a nuclear standoff and said the US president has a track record of "not listening to expertise".

Speaking in the hours after the Norwegian Nobel committee made the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (Ican) its 2017 laureate, Beatrice Fihn, the group's executive director, said Trump "puts a spotlight" on the dangers of nuclear weapons.

The question haunting Las Vegas: what was the gunman's motive?

Posted: 06 Oct 2017 03:00 AM PDT

Hospitals, journalists and officials played familiar roles as victims and heroes made headlines. But uncertainty still surrounds the man behind the violence

When the ambulances and trucks and cars started streaming into hospitals with their human cargo, the emergency room doctors set up a system.

The walking wounded got green tags, the seriously injured got yellow and those close to death got red. All night it went: a bloodied arrival, a swift assessment, a tag – green, yellow, red, colour-coding for the deadliest mass shooting in modern United States history.

India's under-17s kick off first ever football World Cup match

Posted: 06 Oct 2017 05:02 AM PDT

Government has invested £14m to renovate stadiums but environmental groups warn of dangerous pollution in host cities

Indian football made history on Friday when its under-17 team lined up against the US in the country's first football World Cup match.

Footballers from the remote north-east, the sons of rickshaw drivers and a player who grew up in "utmost poverty" are part of the national squad for the under-17 World Cup finals, which are being held in six Indian cities.

The best books on North Korea: start your reading here | Pushpinder Khaneka

Posted: 07 Oct 2017 01:00 AM PDT

A literary tour of North Korea shines a light on the absurd realities and grim horrors of life in this cruel and capricious regime over the past 30 years

Nick Xenophon sacks SA Best candidate Rhys Adams over domestic violence 'joke'

Posted: 07 Oct 2017 12:19 AM PDT

Move comes after Facebook photo emerged of the candidate holding his fist to a wax model of pop star Rihanna

South Australian Senator Nick Xenophon has sacked an SA Best candidate after a Facebook photo emerged of the man holding his fist to a wax model of pop star Rihanna.

Rhys Adams, Xenophon's candidate for the Liberal-held seat of Finniss, was dropped after the ABC reported photos from Adams' Facebook page appeared to show him holding his fist to a model of Rihanna and groping a model of Toni Collette in Sydney in 2015.

Weight Watchers’ new boss: ‘It’s about health, not weighing yourself’

Posted: 07 Oct 2017 12:00 AM PDT

Mindy Grossman is ready to take a bite out of the 'wellness' industry – and she's got Oprah Winfrey on her side

Every time Mindy Grossman looks in the mirror, she is reminded that "you are skinny, you are fabulous, you are clever". It is not some magic talking looking glass, but an engraved compact-sized mirror designed by a friend and stuck to the back of her smartphone. Two of the three mantras are wearing away, leaving only "you are clever".

"It's the most important one, anyway," says the businesswoman tasked with reinventing Weight Watchers for the digital age, where weight loss apps and Insta-fuelled phenomenons like clean eating are in the ascendancy.

Divorce bill impasse stifles hopes for Brexit talks breakthrough

Posted: 07 Oct 2017 12:00 AM PDT

Brussels has abandoned idea of major autumn progress as Davis and Barnier meet again, but could offer May an olive branch

The Brexit secretary, David Davis, will resume talks next week with the EU's chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, but with the UK continuing to stonewall over the exit bill, Brussels has abandoned hope of an autumn breakthrough.

EU diplomats are grappling with how to deal with a weakened British prime minister who they believe has made compromises but has not gone far enough.

Teenager arrested over fatal London stabbing

Posted: 07 Oct 2017 12:38 AM PDT

Boy, 15, being questioned on suspicion of murder after 18-year-old dies from multiple knife wounds in Neasden

A 15-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a teenager was stabbed to death in a London street.

The 18-year-old victim was found badly wounded in Neasden, north-west London, at 3.50pm on Friday. He died at the scene from multiple stab wounds, Scotland Yard said.

The 20 photographs of the week

Posted: 06 Oct 2017 11:59 PM PDT

The Las Vegas shooting, Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, the Catalonia referendum and the Iraqi advance against Islamic State – the news of the week captured by the world's best photojournalists

Grace Mugabe denies plotting to poison rival for Zimbabwe presidency

Posted: 06 Oct 2017 03:14 PM PDT

Wife of president Robert Mugabe says suspicions following illness of vice-president Emmerson Mnangagwa are nonsensical

The wife of Robert Mugabe, the 93-year-old president of Zimbabwe, has publicly denied that she was behind the attempted poisoning of her biggest rival to succeed her husband.

In remarks broadcast on state TV on Friday, Grace Mugabe, 53, said the charge was "nonsensical".

What Trump did this week: Puerto Rico, Las Vegas, 'Morongate' and more

Posted: 07 Oct 2017 12:00 AM PDT

Each week Trump seems to make more news than most presidents do in a lifetime. The Guardian is keeping track of it all in this series, every Saturday

This column faded to credits last week with Donald Trump locked in a spat with the mayor of Puerto Rico's capital city, a row he escalated in typical fashion on Saturday. Attacking Carmen Yulín Cruz for her "poor leadership ability" as the island struggled to recover from two devastating hurricanes, he lamented of the citizens of the US territory in colonial style: "They want everything to be done for them."

Tropical storm Nate poised to hit Gulf coast as hurricane over weekend

Posted: 06 Oct 2017 01:26 PM PDT

Storm blamed for 21 deaths in Nicaragua, Honduras and Costa Rica
Louisiana and Mississippi declare states of emergency amid evacuations

Forecasters said tropical storm Nate was likely to reach the US Gulf coast as a hurricane over the weekend, after being blamed for at least 21 deaths in Nicaragua, Honduras and Costa Rica.

The storm had maximum sustained winds of 50mph by Friday morning and was likely to strengthen over the north-western Caribbean before a possible strike on the Cancun region at the tip of the Yucatan Peninsula at near hurricane strength.

Puerto Rico cell phone service to be restored by Google balloons

Posted: 06 Oct 2017 08:35 PM PDT

In the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, 83% of cell sites remain out of service in the US territory

The US Federal Communications Commission has approved Google's parent company Alphabet Inc's application to provide emergency cellular service to Puerto Rico through balloons.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico has struggled to regain communications services. The FCC said on Friday that 83% of cell sites remain out of service, while wireless communications company are deploying temporary sites.

New Zealand election: full results give Labour boost and nation its first refugee MP

Posted: 06 Oct 2017 07:21 PM PDT

Negotiations begin in earnest after 'special votes' tally sees ruling party lose two seats and Labour and the Greens each gain one

The final block of votes in the New Zealand election has been counted two weeks after election day, bolstering the opposition Labour party but leaving neither major party with enough votes to form government.

Counting of the 17% of ballots considered "special votes" showed the incumbent National party has lost two seats while Labour and the Greens have each picked up an extra one.

US approves sale of $15bn missile defence system to Saudi Arabia

Posted: 06 Oct 2017 06:26 PM PDT

Pentagon says possible deal improves security in the Gulf 'in the face of Iranian and other regional threats'

The US state department has approved the possible sale of a anti-missile defence system to Saudi Arabia at an estimated cost of $15bn, the Pentagon said on Friday, citing Iran among regional threats.

The approval opens the way for Saudi Arabia to purchase 44 Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (Thaad) launchers and 360 missiles, as well as fire control stations and radars.

UN defends slavery figures after Indian spy agency advised Modi to 'discredit' them

Posted: 06 Oct 2017 05:32 PM PDT

The UN's ILO rejects claims India was being targeted by a report about modern slavery

The United Nations has defended its new global estimates on slavery after reports that India's intelligence agency advised Prime Minister Narendra Modi to discredit the research, saying it may tarnish the country's image and exports.

A report by Australian rights group Walk Free Foundation and UN bodies the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) published on 19 September found more than 40 million people across the world were victims of modern day slavery last year.

US eases economic sanctions on Sudan

Posted: 06 Oct 2017 01:31 PM PDT

US government formally revokes a number of economically focused sanctions, but keeps Sudan on list of state sponsors of terrorism, alongside Iran and Syria

The US government has eased sanctions against Sudan in a major step towards normalizing relations with a designated terrorism sponsor whose leader has been indicted on war crimes charges.

The move is a milestone in the rehabilitation of a state which earned international opprobrium for its generous hospitality towards violent extremists such as Osama bin Laden and Carlos the Jackal in the 1990s, and its more recent involvement in war crimes against its own people.

North Korea plans to test missile it thinks can reach US west coast, Russian official says

Posted: 06 Oct 2017 11:49 AM PDT

Lawmaker who visited country says Pyongyang provided calculations suggesting missile could reach US, as CIA analyst predicts action on 10 October

North Korea is preparing to test a long-range missile which it believes can reach the west coast of the United States, according to a Russian lawmaker who has just returned from a visit to Pyongyang.

Anton Morozov, a member of the Russian lower house of parliament's international affairs committee, and two other Russian lawmakers visited Pyongyang on October 2-6, Russia's RIA news agency reported.

Mexican photojournalist found dead after abduction by armed men

Posted: 06 Oct 2017 10:10 AM PDT

Edgar Esqueda's body, showing signs of torture, found in San Luis Potosí
Esqueda had received threats from investigators over photos of shootout

A Mexican photographer who was abducted at gunpoint from his home has been found dead, the seventh journalist to be killed this year in one of the world's most dangerous countries for media workers.

The body of Edgar Esqueda was found Friday morning near the airport in the industrial city of San Luis Potosí, some 200 miles (350 kilometres) north of Mexico City, according to local media.

Canada will pay compensation to thousands of indigenous 'stolen children'

Posted: 06 Oct 2017 10:03 AM PDT

The government will pay nearly $800m to survivors of the 'Sixties Scoop' policy, which forcibly removed aboriginal children from their families

Canada will pay up to C$750m ($598m) in compensation to thousands of aboriginals who were forcibly removed as children from their families decades ago, promising to end "a terrible legacy".

The move is the latest attempt by the Liberal government of the prime minister, Justin Trudeau, to repair ties with Canada's often-marginalised indigenous population, which says it has been the victim of systemic racism for centuries.

Chinese factory supplying major laptop brands accused of student labour abuses

Posted: 06 Oct 2017 07:24 AM PDT

Watchdog claims Chinese factory supplying Sony, HP, Acer and others makes funding and graduation of student interns contingent on working 12-hour shifts

The world's biggest laptop brands rely on Chinese student labourers as young as 16 to work 12-hour days on factory production lines, with their funding and graduation at risk if they fail to comply, a labour watchdog has claimed.

Students on vocational courses are recruited in their thousands to produce keyboards, assemble parts and fit screws during internships at Quanta Computer, a Taiwan-owned Fortune 500 company whose factories in China supply Apple, Acer, Hewlett-Packard and Sony, among many others.

The NRA made a concession on bump stocks – but did we all just get played?

Posted: 06 Oct 2017 11:06 AM PDT

The gun lobby's concession on bump stocks was barely a concession at all – but it may go some way to satisfy those demanding action after Las Vegas

After the deadliest mass shooting in recent American history, the National Rifle Association has agreed it might be appropriate to regulate a dumb toy that can also be used as a weapon of mass carnage.

Trump attempts to use Spanish accent to pronounce Puerto Rico - video

Posted: 06 Oct 2017 05:43 PM PDT

US President Donald Trump repeatedly uses an exaggerated Spanish accent to pronounce "Puerto Rico" during a speech at a Hispanic Heritage Month event. The US president said "We love Puerto Rico," before reverting to his usual pronunciation of the US territory.

Nobel peace prize is tribute to anti-nuclear campaigners, says Ican director – video

Posted: 06 Oct 2017 06:02 AM PDT

The executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (Ican), Beatrice Fihn, speaks to reporters in Geneva, Switzerland, on Friday after the organisation won the Nobel peace prize. Ican seeks to eliminate atomic weapons through an international treaty-based prohibition. Fihn said the prize was a tribute to the efforts of campaigners and citizens who had worked hard to prohibit nuclear weapons across the world. It was also a tribute to survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as well as victims of nuclear tests around the world, she said

Ican director: I thought Nobel peace prize win was a prank – video

Posted: 06 Oct 2017 03:28 AM PDT

Beatrice Fihn, the executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (Ican), says she initially thought the announcement of the award was a prank. Speaking on Friday at Ican's head office in Geneva, Switzerland, Fihn describes the prize as a surprise and an honour

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