Chinese censors block ‘Tiananmen’ image of athletes hugging (www.theguardian.com)
Five former Ubisoft executives arrested after sexual harassment investigation (www.gamesindustry.biz)
UK could rent space in foreign jails to ease shortage of cells (www.theguardian.com)
In Singapore, a certificate to own a car now costs $106,000 (www.reuters.com)
US student held in Dubai for weeks for tapping security officer’s arm (www.theguardian.com)
UN Security Council approves sending a Kenya-led force to Haiti to fight violent gangs (apnews.com)
'Our Company Does Not Steal People's Ideas': KyoAni President Denies Arsonist's Plagiarism Claims (animehunch.com)
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Thailand police arrest 14-yr-old suspected gunman after 3 killed at luxury mall (www.reuters.com)
Temperatures in Spain shatter records as October kicks off (www.reuters.com)
Indonesia is set to launch Southeast Asia's first high-speed railway, largely funded by China (apnews.com)
Anti-China Rhetoric Is Off the Charts in Western Media (thediplomat.com)
Brazil's top court boosts indigenous rights in landmark ruling (www.bbc.com)
"Brazil’s Supreme Court has rejected efforts to restrict native peoples’ rights to reservations on their ancestral lands....
As Azerbaijan Consolidates Control, Armenians Flee Nagorno-Karabakh - bellingcat (www.bellingcat.com)
6 women are rescued from a refrigerated truck in France after making distress call to a BBC reporter (apnews.com)
Germany bans ‘cult-like, deeply racist’ far-right group, carries out raids (www.aljazeera.com)
Around 100 people killed, 150 injured in a fire at a wedding hall in Iraq (www.nbcnews.com)
As mental health worsens among Afghanistan's women, the UN is asked to declare 'gender apartheid' (apnews.com)
China is flooding Taiwan with disinformation: With elections looming, China wants Taiwanese voters to think America is their greatest threat (www.economist.com)
U.S. HELPED PAKISTAN GET IMF BAILOUT WITH SECRET ARMS DEAL FOR UKRAINE, LEAKED DOCUMENTS REVEAL (theintercept.com)
Vatican presses world leaders at UN to work on rules for lethal autonomous weapons (apnews.com)
Iraq: Torture Survivors Await US Redress, Accountability (www.hrw.org)
When Zionists redefine ‘antisemitism’ into a political cudgel (therealnews.com)
Mexican auto parts workers face blacklist after union campaign (therealnews.com)
JPMorgan to pay $75m to settle Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking lawsuit with US Virgin Islands (www.independent.co.uk)
Divided loyalties (africasacountry.com)
Somalia’s political landscape is increasingly fragmented due to regional and clan differences. Is this the end of the centralized state and a unified, national identity?
