School surveillance tech does more harm than good, ACLU report finds (www.theguardian.com)
'Exceedingly rare' horse bridle discovered in melting ice in Norway could date to Viking Age (www.livescience.com)
Your Cheap Android TV Streaming Box May Have a Dangerous Backdoor (www.wired.com)
BBC witnesses Chinese ships blocking Philippines supply boats (www.bbc.com)
An American tourist is arrested for smashing ancient Roman statues at a museum in Israel (apnews.com)
Israeli arms quietly helped Azerbaijan retake Nagorno-Karabakh, to the dismay of region's Armenians (apnews.com)
UK passport database to be used to identify suspects from CCTV footage (therecord.media)
Chinese censors block ‘Tiananmen’ image of athletes hugging (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)
Google User Data Has Become a Favorite Police Shortcut (www.bloomberg.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)
Myanmar junta wants census, biometric identification systems ahead of delayed election (www.abc.net.au)
Indonesia is set to launch Southeast Asia's first high-speed railway, largely funded by China (apnews.com)
Security researcher warns of chilling effect after feds search phone at airport | TechCrunch (techcrunch.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)
Vatican presses world leaders at UN to work on rules for lethal autonomous weapons (apnews.com)
Pakistan army trades tanks for tractors in food-security push (asia.nikkei.com)
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