The first UN privacy chief has said the world needs a Geneva convention style law for the internet to safeguard data and combat the threat of massive clandestine digital surveillance. (theguardian.com)
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China censoring Black Monday on country’s biggest search engine, Baidu, stopping citizens looking for information about financial chaos (independent.co.uk)
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Israeli President: Israel has 'right' to settle in West Bank "For me, our right to this land is not a matter of political debate. It is a basic fact of modern Zionism" (news.yahoo.com)
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Ukrainian film-maker Oleg Sentsov sentenced to 20 years in jail in southern Russia on terrorist charges (bbc.com)
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50 North Korean Submarines Have Reportedly Vanished in an 'Unprecedented' Deployment (news.vice.com)
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Denied API accessTwitter has forced 30 websites that archive politician's deleted tweets to shut down, removing an effective tool to keep politicians honest (theverge.com)
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Two Ashley Madison clients reported to have taken their lives after hackers published their details - Canada police (bbc.com)
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North and South Korea reach agreement to ease tensions. NK to apologize for landmines, SK to stop propaganda broadcasts. (beta.grasswire.com)
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Saudi brothers die on the same day: one as an Apache pilot in Yemen and the other as a suicide bomber for ISIS in Iraq (gulfnews.com)
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Germany opens its gates: Berlin says all Syrian asylum-seekers are welcome to remain, as Britain is urged to make a 'similar statement' (independent.co.uk)
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South Korea vows not to turn off its loudspeakers at the border unless North Korea apologizes (nytimes.com)
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Earth is on track to lose an India-sized chunk of its tropical forests by mid-century (washingtonpost.com)
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