Las Vegas shooting: Bodycam footage shows first response
Updated 0637 GMT (1437 HKT) October 4, 2017
Every detail of this indiscriminate mass murder seemed meticulously planned.
The selection of a hotel room overlooking a music festival, days before the attack. The cache of 23 weapons inside the gunman's Las Vegas suite. And thousands of rounds of ammunition -- plus an ingredient used in explosives -- inside the killer's home and car.
The latest revelation came Tuesday afternoon when police said gunman Stephen Paddock set up cameras inside his hotel suite and in the hallway. Police are not aware whether the devices were transmitting -- the FBI is investigating their use -- but the Clark County sheriff told reporters he thinks the shooter might have used them to watch for people approaching his room.
King Felipe: Catalonia's authorities have 'scorned' all Spaniards with referendum
Spanish monarch uses strongly worded television address to chastise Catalan president, Carles Puigdemont, for attempting to break the ‘unity of Spain’
King Felipe of Spain has accused the Catalan authorities of attempting to break “the unity of Spain” and warned that their push for independence could risk the country’s social and economic stability.
In a rare and strongly worded television address on Tuesday evening, he said the Catalan government’s behaviour had “eroded the harmony and co-existence within Catalan society itself, managing, unfortunately, to divide it”.
Speaking two days after the regional government’s unilateral independence referendum, in which 90% of participants opted to secede from Spain, he described Catalan society as “fractured” but said Spain would remain united.
You have never seen anything like a Las Vegas gun show – if you had, you'd understand how massacres happen
A number of otherwise sane women, dressed in cowgirl outfits or camouflage gear, were coiling themselves semi-erotically around extremely large barrels. One woman I met there was not only a hunter and fitness fanatic but was also in training for a bodybuilding competition and tried to sell me on the joys of the Weatherby Vanguard rifle and some assorted handguns
Las Vegas was never just about the gambling. It’s about guns too. Because sometimes you want a sure thing. “Which will it be, sir, the multiple grenade launcher or the pistol-grip repeating shotgun?”
They say there are more guns than human beings in America and most of them were at the “Shot Show” in Las Vegas when I was there last year. Wedged between a couple of casinos and a replica of the Grand Canal in Venice, Shot (Shooting Hunting Outdoor Trade) is the firearm industry’s biggest shop window in America, and therefore probably on earth. It occupied several floors of a building the size of Wembley Stadium.
I tried to get the numbers straight, but I doubt anyone could: it was like trying to count grains of sand on the beach or stars in the sky. Except these were all extremely lethal weapons.
Rohingya fleeing Myanmar say army redoubling push to clear villages
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Rohingya refugees arriving in Bangladesh amid a fresh exodus from strife-torn Myanmar have described whole villages being emptied and thousands marching to the border as security forces redouble efforts to drive the remaining Muslims from their homes.
More than 500,000 Muslim Rohingya have fled ethnic bloodshed in Myanmar in the past month and numbers are again swelling, with Bangladesh reporting 4-5,000 civilians now crossing the border each day after a brief lull in arrivals.
An estimated 10,000 more have reportedly massed in Myanmar near a crossing point into Bangladesh, and are poised to join the hundreds of thousands of mainly Rohingya refugees eking out survival in wretched camps over the border.
Kurdish secession tops Erdogan's agenda in Iran visit
Analysts say Turkish president has much more at stake in his meeting with his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is due to arrive in Iran on Wednesday to hold crucial talks with his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.on the outcome of the Iraqi Kurdish referendum and other regional security issues.
Erdogan's visit to Tehran comes as Ankara continues to seek regional consensus on how to block efforts by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to split from Iraq -- a move Turkey fears would have a domino effect on its own 15 million ethnic Kurdish population.
Ahead of Erdogan's visit, the Turkish foreign ministry announced on Tuesday that it wants Baghdad to take over from the KRG, the control of the border between Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan.
THE U.S. VOTED AGAINST A U.N. RESOLUTION CONDEMNING DEATH PENALTY FOR LGBTQ PEOPLE
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP’S administration is facing strong backlash from civil rights groups after voting against a U.N. resolution that condemns using death penalty to punish “consensual same-sex relations.”
The U.N. Human Rights Council approved the measure on Friday with a 27-13 vote, with seven countries abstaining. The United States, led by Amb. Nikki Haley, voted for an amendment to the resolution that said the death penalty was not necessarily a human rights violation, and voted against amendments urging countries to stop using experimental drugs in executions.
The Human Rights Campaign called the vote “beyond disgraceful,” and former Obama national security advisor Susan Rice took aim at Trump:
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