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Trump says 'only one thing will work' with nuclear-armed North Korea
Pro-unity Catalans take to the streets to condemn ‘selfish revolution’
Nate heralds latest US destruction as 2017 poised for record clean-up bill
India’s female students say ‘to hell with it, we won’t stand for molesting and Eve-teasing’
Belgian ports batten down the hatches for Brexit trade shock
Gas station explosion shakes Ghana’s capital
Rape and slavery was lure for UK Isis recruits with history of sexual violence
More than 260 arrests in anti-Putin protests across Russia
The Trump-Russia dossier: why its findings grow more significant by the day
Kim Wall murder: police find head of Swedish journalist
New York terrorist plots thwarted by undercover FBI agent
Ivana Trump: I talk to Donald regularly despite 'insane' divorce
FBI terrorism unit says 'black identity extremists' pose a violent threat
Trump EPA plan will roll back Obama standards on power plant emissions
'We're all complicit': Were the Harvey Weinstein allegations an open secret?
Syria: Turkish forces prepare to support anti-Assad rebels in Idlib
Ta-Nehisi Coates: the laureate of black lives
IMF warnings on economy will fall on deaf ears among world leaders
Las Vegas shooting followed a depressingly familiar routine
Scorned and stateless: children of Isis fighters face an uncertain future
Crash at London's Natural History Museum not terror-related, say police
Violence in Catalonia needed closer scrutiny in age of fake news
I’m really not a petrolhead... | Victoria Coren Mitchell
Chris Murphy: senator at heart of gun control push senses a hint of change
Hurricane Nate makes landfall in Mississippi as category 1 storm
Kim Jong-un promotes sister Kim Yo-jong to North Korea's centre of power
'Best of a bad set of options': One Nation supporters far from happy with policy base
Indonesia police detain 51 men in raid on Jakarta 'gay spa'
Spanish prime minister refuses to rule out suspending Catalonia's autonomy
Cook Islands faces its 'worst case scenario', being granted developed country status
‘Hunt for Catalans’ threat on London Spanish Facebook group page
The week in patriarchy: there's no denying our country's sickness now
When bias beats logic: why the US can't have a reasoned gun debate

Trump says 'only one thing will work' with nuclear-armed North Korea

Posted: 07 Oct 2017 03:47 PM PDT

President says Pyongyang 'making fools of US negotiators' for 25 years
Trump refuses to elaborate and criticises secretary of state again

Donald Trump on Saturday said "only one thing will work" in dealing with North Korea, after previous administrations had talked to Pyongyang without results.

Pro-unity Catalans take to the streets to condemn ‘selfish revolution’

Posted: 07 Oct 2017 10:37 AM PDT

Catalonia heads for chaos as huge numbers of 'the silenced' prepare to join Barcelona protest march

They call themselves the silenced; the Catalans who are opposed to independence but have been unable – and often afraid – to make their voice heard above the roaring passion of the secessionists.

Huge numbers are expected to protest on Sunday in Barcelona against the perceived hijacking of the political process by an independence movement that has so far never won the support of more than 48% of the population.

Nate heralds latest US destruction as 2017 poised for record clean-up bill

Posted: 07 Oct 2017 12:30 PM PDT

Nate follows hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria in quick succession
Decade of disaster: a timeline of $1bn extreme weather damage in the US

As Hurricane Nate crossed the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday, it brought with it the prospect of yet more destruction in a storm-battered year that is shaping up to be the most costly on US record.

Nate was set to be the fourth major hurricane to hit in quick succession, after Harvey, Irma and Maria devastated southern Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.

India’s female students say ‘to hell with it, we won’t stand for molesting and Eve-teasing’

Posted: 07 Oct 2017 04:04 PM PDT

Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi is struggling to recover after women there broke with tradition to call time on sexual discrimination

The first time Shivangi Choubey missed the curfew at her student hostel was a night in late September. It was not the only rule she broke that day.

Women students at Banaras Hindu University are not supposed to protest. Many are made to sign a contract that spells this out explicitly. Men are not required to sign anything of the kind.

Belgian ports batten down the hatches for Brexit trade shock

Posted: 07 Oct 2017 08:00 AM PDT

In Zeebrugge, which does 45% of its trade with the UK, there is growing concern about the impact of the worst-case scenario – no deal, and the resumption of WTO tariffs

Gridlock at the border, vast motorway car parks and jobs lost: British ports have been vocal about the risks of a hard Brexit. In case Conservative MPs missed the message, the Port of Dover advertised at the party conference, warning that an extra two minutes on lorry inspections could lead to queues of 17 miles at Dover and similar "chaos in Calais and Dunkerque".

Across the North Sea, continental ports are worried about the great unknowns of Brexit. One of the most exposed is the Belgian port of Zeebrugge, which does 45% of its trade with the UK. "We are vulnerable if something happens to the trade from the UK to the continent," said port chief executive Joachim Coens. "So what I mainly hope is that we could continue having a good trade relationship with the UK… as we have been doing for centuries."

Gas station explosion shakes Ghana’s capital

Posted: 07 Oct 2017 03:56 PM PDT

Unknown number killed after blast at natural gas station sends giant fireball into sky over city

A natural gas station in Ghana's capital, Accra, has exploded, killing an unknown number of people, a government official said.

"Unfortunately there are some fatalities and we are working to have the numbers," the deputy information minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, told a local radio station. "There are quite a number also injured." He said the initial blaze was largely under control and that about 200 police officers had been sent to the scene.

Rape and slavery was lure for UK Isis recruits with history of sexual violence

Posted: 07 Oct 2017 01:00 PM PDT

Young fighters are mobilised by Islamic State's ideology of abusing women as a form of terrorism, says report

Men with a history of sexual violence and domestic abuse joined Islamic State because of the organisation's systemic use of rape and slavery as a form of terrorism, according to new analysis.

The promotion and sanctioning of sexual violence by the extremist group was a pivotal means of "attracting, retaining, mobilising and rewarding fighters" as well as punishing kaffir, or disbelievers, says a report to be released by the Henry Jackson Society.

More than 260 arrests in anti-Putin protests across Russia

Posted: 07 Oct 2017 11:09 AM PDT

Riot police confront supporters of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny as president marks 65th birthday

More than 260 people have been detained across Russia as jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny's supporters staged protest rallies on Vladimir Putin's 65^th birthday.

Dozens were arrested in Putin's hometown of St Petersburg, Russia's second biggest city. One woman had her leg broken when riot police dispersed hundreds of protesters chanting "Putin is a thief!" in the centre of the city, according to Russian media. Blood could be seen pouring down the head of another woman detained by police in footage posted to social media.

The Trump-Russia dossier: why its findings grow more significant by the day

Posted: 06 Oct 2017 10:30 PM PDT

As US officials investigate potential collusion between Trump and Moscow, the series of reports by the former UK intelligence official Christopher Steele are casting an ever darker shadow over the president

Nine months after its first appearance, the set of intelligence reports known as the Steele dossier, one of the most explosive documents in modern political history, is still hanging over Washington, casting a shadow over the Trump administration that has only grown darker as time has gone by.

It was reported this week that the document's author, former British intelligence official, Christopher Steele, has been interviewed by investigators working for the special counsel on Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Kim Wall murder: police find head of Swedish journalist

Posted: 07 Oct 2017 07:04 AM PDT

Divers find bags containing body parts and clothes of reporter who went to interview Danish inventor on submarine

Danish police investigating the murder of the Swedish journalist Kim Wall have found body parts, including her severed head.

The freelance journalist was last seen alive on 10 August when she went to interview the inventor Peter Madsen, who has been charged with her murder. Wall's dismembered torso washed ashore 12 days after she boarded Madsen's homemade submarine for the interview.

New York terrorist plots thwarted by undercover FBI agent

Posted: 07 Oct 2017 04:12 AM PDT

US court hears three alleged Isis supporters planned to target Times Square, concert venues and subway stations in 2016

Plots by three alleged Islamic State supporters to carry out terrorist attacks around New York City, including at concert venues, subway stations and Times Square, were foiled in the summer of 2016, a US court has heard.

Terrorism charges against the three men accused of plotting the attacks were unsealed by a federal court in the city on Friday.

Ivana Trump: I talk to Donald regularly despite 'insane' divorce

Posted: 07 Oct 2017 09:04 AM PDT

Mother of Donald Jr, Ivanka and Eric, preparing to publish a memoir discussing her marriage, says her daughter could be president one day

Donald Trump's first wife, Ivana, has said her daughter Ivanka could run for president, and that she and Trump now speak regularly and have a warm relationship despite the "insane" circumstances of their notorious divorce.

FBI terrorism unit says 'black identity extremists' pose a violent threat

Posted: 07 Oct 2017 04:59 AM PDT

Leaked report, citing concerns of retaliation over 'perceptions of police brutality against African Americans', prompts fears of crackdown on activists

The US government has declared "black identity extremists" a violent threat, according to a leaked report from the FBI's counter-terrorism division.

The assessment, obtained by Foreign Policy, has raised fears about federal authorities racially profiling activists and aggressively prosecuting civil rights protesters.

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Trump EPA plan will roll back Obama standards on power plant emissions

Posted: 07 Oct 2017 06:15 AM PDT

Measures expected soon are part of promise to revive coal industry
Ex-EPA chief: 'This administration has no intention of following the law'

The Trump administration is moving to roll back the centerpiece of President Barack Obama's attempt to slow global warming, seeking to ease restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants.

'We're all complicit': Were the Harvey Weinstein allegations an open secret?

Posted: 07 Oct 2017 04:00 AM PDT

The movie mogul's lawyers have dismissed 'false' reports of sexual harassment, but industry insiders claim there have long been rumors about his behavior

When Emily Best, a Los Angeles-based film producer, got a text about the Harvey Weinstein "news", it did not, she said, come as a surprise. Many in Hollywood had heard rumors of allegations against the movie mogul similar to those published in a New York Times investigation. More surprising to some was that it took this long for the accusations of "decades of sexual harassment" to be made public.

"We're all fucking complicit, and it has to stop," said Best, who said the accusations against Weinstein were an "open secret" in Hollywood. "The industry at large," she alleged, "provided shelter for his bad behavior directly and indirectly" by staying silent.

Syria: Turkish forces prepare to support anti-Assad rebels in Idlib

Posted: 07 Oct 2017 04:14 AM PDT

Erdoğan offers assistance to 'our brothers in Idlib' as fighters from Free Syrian Army carry out campaign

Turkish forces are preparing to enter Idlib province to support rebel forces opposing both the Syrian regime and jihadist insurgents, the Turkish president has said.

Idlib and surrounding areas in north-west Syria are among the largest strongholds for rebels fighting the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, but it is now largely controlled by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, a group led by al-Qaida's former Syria affiliate.

Ta-Nehisi Coates: the laureate of black lives

Posted: 08 Oct 2017 01:30 AM PDT

Coates's eloquent polemics on the black experience in America brought him fame and the admiration of Barack Obama. Here he talks about the rise of white supremacy – and why Trump was a logical conclusion

Ta-Nehisi Coates is short on sleep. He did five interviews yesterday to promote his new book, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy. Today there was another at 7am, then surgery "to get a little thing removed" from his neck. As his tall frame appears in the doorway of an office at his New York publisher, a bandage is visible above the collar of his blue suit jacket.

Coates is friendly but fatigued and yawns several times during the course of our conversation. Some questions animate him and he digs deep with evident passion; others elicit a brief "I don't know". The interview doesn't always flow. But even on an off-day, Coates, 42, is more compelling than almost any other public voice about the state we're in. The New York Times described him as "the pre-eminent black public intellectual of his generation". The novelist Toni Morrison compared him to James Baldwin. He emerged as the equivalent of poet laureate during Barack Obama's presidency, chronicling the spirit of the age. If anything, the advent of Trump has pushed his stock higher. Coates admits it is "tremendously irritating" to be in constant demand by the media, as if he is sole spokesman for African American affairs.

IMF warnings on economy will fall on deaf ears among world leaders

Posted: 07 Oct 2017 11:12 PM PDT

The IMF is seen as a hand-wringing liberal institution making nuanced and technical suggestions in an age of broad-brush solutions

Christine Lagarde, boss of the International Monetary Fund, is expected to deliver a hard-hitting speech at the organisation's annual meeting this week, urging world leaders to push ahead with reforms to turn the current global economic recovery into something more sustainable.

Lagarde, who is now in her second four-year term as managing director of the Washington-based lender of last resort, will talk about a lack of education, training and productivity. She will, no doubt, develop the argument she put forward in London a fortnight ago that regulators need to be wary of lenders outside the mainstream repeating the same errors as the banks a decade ago.

Las Vegas shooting followed a depressingly familiar routine

Posted: 07 Oct 2017 11:00 PM PDT

The Mandalay Bay horror was no different to all the other mass shootings: just bigger and bloodier

Trevor Noah, the South African comedian who presents Comedy Central's Daily Show, strikes a depressing note. He arrived in America two years ago – and counted 30 mass shootings since. "People are becoming more accustomed to the news. We're shocked, sad, thoughts and prayers, then people will say, whatever you do… don't talk about guns."

Which is why, in a macabre way, Las Vegas left me curiously unmoved. Senseless violence? Yes. Communities grieving? Yes. Ways forward? Nil. Exhaustive coverage, somehow to such a set routine as to seem almost beside the point. All the Mandalay Bay horror had to offer, appropriately enough, was the smashing of mass gun death records. Bigger, bloodier, and just worse.

Scorned and stateless: children of Isis fighters face an uncertain future

Posted: 07 Oct 2017 01:54 PM PDT

Families of Isis militants are outcasts to their own society and unwanted by the countries of their foreign fathers

In a corner of a teeming refugee camp, 40 miles north of Raqqa, a small group of women and children are kept alone. They mill together at the back of a blue building; blond and brown haired children darting in between blankets that their mothers have hung as doors across small, dank rooms. Others in the Ain Issa camp call them "the Daeshis", meaning Islamic State families. No one wants to know them.

The women are widows of dead Isis fighters. All are foreigners, with futures more bleak than the 12,000 or so newly displaced of Syria and Iraq in the camp, or the many millions more victims of war and insurgency now living in tents across the Middle East.

Crash at London's Natural History Museum not terror-related, say police

Posted: 08 Oct 2017 12:33 AM PDT

Incident, in which car mounted pavement and left 11 injured, being treated as traffic accident

Eleven people have been injured after a minicab driver struck pedestrians outside the Natural History Museum in west London, sparking a major security alert.

Scotland Yard said nine of those hurt were taken to hospital after the incident in Exhibition Road, South Kensington, at about 2.20pm on Saturday. No injuries were thought to be life-threatening or life-changing.

Violence in Catalonia needed closer scrutiny in age of fake news

Posted: 07 Oct 2017 11:00 PM PDT

A failure to check pictures of those supposedly hurt in recent independence demonstrations did journalism no favours

With fake news apparently leaking from every media orifice, you'd have hoped for a little more diligence over those Catalan referendum demonstration figures and images. Over to the fact-checkers …

"We've seen a lot of fake pictures on people who have been hurt by the police, but were really pictures from different demonstrations," said the head checker for the El Objective TV show. He produced web pictures of bleeding protesters that went viral – but they were old stuff from a miners' strike five years ago. That woman who had all her fingers broken. She hadn't. That six-year-old boy, paralysed by police brutality? It didn't happen. Serious injuries on the day: just two.

I’m really not a petrolhead... | Victoria Coren Mitchell

Posted: 07 Oct 2017 04:05 PM PDT

... but the thought of driverless cars and the surrender of freedom fill me with gloom

God bless the women of Saudi Arabia and their excitement about a royal decree allowing them to hold driving licences at last.

As we sit in traffic jams, fuming about inexplicable delays and unending roadworks, terrible radio playlists, the utter monotony and hell of it all, we should think of our sisters in the desert who see only the freedom, power and joy.

Chris Murphy: senator at heart of gun control push senses a hint of change

Posted: 07 Oct 2017 11:00 PM PDT

The Connecticut senator, elected shortly before the Sandy Hook shooting, has continued to lead his cause in the horrific aftermath of the Las Vegas attack

In the hours after the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history, when a man alone in a hotel suite sprayed gunfire on 22,000 concertgoers 32 floors below, leaving 58 dead and injuring almost 500, Senator Chris Murphy rose once again to demand lawmakers do more to prevent these tragedies.

It's a grim exercise that Murphy has repeated after each mass shooting since he was elected to the Senate in 2012. That was less than a month before 26 people, including 20 children, were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut. As a congressman, Murphy represented the district.

Hurricane Nate makes landfall in Mississippi as category 1 storm

Posted: 07 Oct 2017 10:50 PM PDT

Storm killed at least 30 people in Central America
Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama threatened by flooding

Hurricane Nate made landfall on Saturday night near the mouth of the Mississippi river as a category 1 storm with winds of 85mph (135km/h) on Saturday night, threatening parts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama with torrential rain and potential flooding.

Nate, the fourth major storm to hit the US in less than two months, killed at least 30 people in Central America before entering the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico and bearing down on southern states. It has also shut down most oil and gas production in the Gulf.

Kim Jong-un promotes sister Kim Yo-jong to North Korea's centre of power

Posted: 07 Oct 2017 10:46 PM PDT

Promotion further consolidates family's power as leader says nation's nuclear weapons are a 'powerful deterrent'

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has promoted his sister Kim Yo-jong to the politburo – the nation's top decision-making body.

The promotion indicates that the 28-year-old has replaced Kim Jong-un's aunt, Kim Kyong Hee, who was a key decision maker when former leader Kim Jong-il was alive.

'Best of a bad set of options': One Nation supporters far from happy with policy base

Posted: 07 Oct 2017 10:25 PM PDT

Poll finds only 47% of Queensland supporters believe in party's policies, as One Nation tipped for kingmaker status in state election

A majority of One Nation supporters do not believe in its policies but back Pauline Hanson's party as the best of a bad bunch in the coming Queensland election race, according to a recent poll of almost 5,000 Brisbane voters.

One Nation, whose potential emergence as kingmaker is seen as the key factor in the state election, is the only one of four main parties to have fewer than half of its supporters declaring faith in its platform, according to a poll across five Brisbane seats last month.

Indonesia police detain 51 men in raid on Jakarta 'gay spa'

Posted: 07 Oct 2017 06:23 PM PDT

Foreign nationals among those arrested in latest in a spate of high-profile police actions against gay clubs and parties in the country

Indonesian police have detained 51 men including several foreigners in a raid on what authorities described as a "gay spa" in Jakarta late on Friday, and some could face up to six years in prison under pornography and prostitution laws.

The arrests are the latest in a spate of high-profile police actions against gay clubs and parties in Indonesia this year that have called the country's reputation for tolerance into question.

Spanish prime minister refuses to rule out suspending Catalonia's autonomy

Posted: 07 Oct 2017 06:09 PM PDT

Mariano Rajoy says he 'would like the threat of an independence declaration to be withdrawn as quickly as possible'

Spain's prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, has refused to dismiss the idea of suspending Catalonia's regional autonomy if its leaders continue to threaten a declaration of independence.

"I don't rule out anything," Rajoy told daily newspaper El Pais on Sunday when asked about applying the constitutional provision that allows the suspension. "But I must do things at the proper time ... I would like the threat of an independence declaration to be withdrawn as quickly as possible."

Cook Islands faces its 'worst case scenario', being granted developed country status

Posted: 07 Oct 2017 05:51 PM PDT

Government officials worry new status will result in a cut in aid and could hurt the country's growth prospects

The tiny nation of the Cook Islands is set to become the first among the Pacific islands to graduate to "developed" status, in a move that some government officials are calling their "worst case scenario".

Some 99.99% of the Cook's territory is made up of ocean, with its 15 islands spread out over an area of nearly 2m sq km.

‘Hunt for Catalans’ threat on London Spanish Facebook group page

Posted: 07 Oct 2017 02:29 PM PDT

Anti-independence campaigners pledge 'night of broken glass' while other group members express alarm over hate speech

The rancour surrounding Catalonia's disputed independence referendum has found an echo in London, where some members of a Facebook group called Españoles en Londres (Spaniards in London) proposed launching a "hunt for independence supporters" on Friday night, threatening to remove Catalan flags hung in windows, with the promise of a "night of broken glass" to follow.

The week in patriarchy: there's no denying our country's sickness now

Posted: 07 Oct 2017 09:40 AM PDT

A year after the Trump Access Hollywood tape, allegations of sexual harassment emerge – finally – against a leading film producer

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One year ago, the Access Hollywood tape of Trump bragging about sexually assaulting women was released – and we thought it was over. Surely, SURELY, the conservative right wouldn't stand behind a man who talked about grabbing women "by the pussy". Surely the country wouldn't elect such a man. How naive we all were!

It makes sense that one year later, the most outwardly misogynist president in history is trying to roll back protections for women's birth control, and a story about a notorious sexual abuser has come to light. Everything is awful, and everything is out there. Maybe I should take some solace in the idea that we can't hide behind the notion that sexism no longer exists – there's no denying our country's sickness now. But for the moment, I'm just a bit sad for us all.

When bias beats logic: why the US can't have a reasoned gun debate

Posted: 07 Oct 2017 04:00 AM PDT

Mass shootings in the US are consistently followed by calls for action – and then political paralysis. That's because people refuse to see nuance, experts say

In the week since the mass shooting in Las Vegas left nearly 60 people dead and hundreds injured, Americans have spoken out in outrage and grief, demanding action. They have asked, again: why can't the US pass any gun control laws?

At the same time, just as they did after Sandy Hook and San Bernardino and Orlando, these passionate advocates have endorsed some gun control laws with very little evidence behind them, even some policies that experts have labeled "fundamentally not rational" or a "hysterical" violation of civil rights. The great bipartisan gun control victory of this year may be new restrictions on "bump stocks", a "range toy" used to make a semi-automatic rifle fire more like a fully automatic rifle, which arguably should never have been legal in the first place. That won't do much to reduce America's more than 36,000 annual gun suicides, homicides, fatal accidents, and police killings.

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