China claims a dubious position – An Islamic State group kidnaps a westerner – An angry bear hunts some college students – And much more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

China is now the world’s leading exporter of riot control and torture devices, selling this nasty business to other authoritarian regimes.  Amnesty International accuses China of filling a multi-billion dollar market demand that came up after the Arab Spring and large scale protests across Europe.  “China has led in the nastier end of the trade,” said report coauthor Patrick Wilcken.  “Chinese companies are taking a leading role in restraint chairs, spiked batons, weighted leg manacles, the sort of equipment which is a bit clandestine.”

France confirms one of its citizens has been kidnapped by an Algerian jihadist group called Jund al-Khilifa, which is linked to Islamic State (IS).  The kidnappers appear with Herve Gourdel in a video in which they call on France cease airstrikes at IS targets in Iraq.  Gourdel was in Algeria as a tourist.

Nigerian schools reopened after being closed for several weeks to halt the spread of Ebola.  Even though Nigeria appears to have stopped the killer virus from spreading, many parents kept their children out of classes on Monday, and many public and private schools were empty.  The UN World Health Organization says nearly 2,800 people have been killed in the West African Ebola Outbreak.

The death toll in a church hostel collapse in Nigeria has risen to 115 people.  Recovery teams are still pulling bodies out of the wreckage ten days after the building came down.  Many were tourists from South African and Zimbabwe who came to Nigeria to see evangelical preacher TB Joshua.

Mexican officials are warning people in Sonora state not to use water from the Bacanuchi River, because of a toxic spill from a copper mine run by the mining giant Grupo Mexico.  This follows an earlier toxic spill in August that shut down the water supplies serving 20,000 people in seven towns.

An American college student was mauled to death by a black bear in a nature preserve about an hour’s drive from New York City.  22-year old Darsh Patel is the first person killed by a bear in New Jersey since 1852.  He was hiking with four friends in Apshawa Preserve.  They saw the bear following them and split up.  When they regrouped, Patel was missing, and a subsequent search found the 136 kg bear circling what was left of the body.  Cops shot and killed the animal