The Ukraine ceasefire is threatened by explosion – The latest poll is a shocker in the Scottish Independence Referendum – Kurds pushed IS back – And much, much more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Gunfire and shelling in the eastern Ukrainian port city of Mariupol is putting the cease-fire in doubt.  Witnesses report sustained explosions outside the city overnight, in the area where Ukraine’s troops are holding a defensive line against pro-Russian rebels.  The Red Cross said aid trucks heading for the rebel-held city of Luhansk had turned back because of shelling.

The latest Sunday Times poll on Scottish Independence says 51 percent will vote “yes” in the referendum in less than two weeks, and 49 percent will vote “no” to independence in favor of union with Britain.  It’s the first major poll to put the pro-independence side in the lead, whereas unionists led by double digits in past polls.  On 18 September voters will be asked the Yes/No question: “Should Scotland be an independent country?”

Kurdish Peshmerga forces recaptured a mountain in northern Iraq that could be the key to retaking the city of Mosul from Islamic State rebels.  Mount Zartak overlooks a plain that stretches to Mosul, which IS seized in June.  US airstrikes made the Peshmerga pushed possible.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is to visit the flood-ravaged state of Jammu and Kashmir.  The flooding, caused by torrential rain, has killed more than 200 people in India and Pakistan.

A French journalist who was held captive by Islamic State says his jailer was the man since arrested for the shooting attack on the Jewish Museum in Brussels, Belgium.  Nicolas Henin told Le Point magazine that Mehdi Nemmouche regularly tortured Syrian captives in Syria in 2013.  Four people were shot dead in the attack at the museum in May this year.

The Democratic Republican of Congo (DRC) says 32 people are dead in its Ebola outbreak, which is separate from the one in Western Africa.  They’re confident that this outbreak will be contained in its remote forest hotspot.  The larger outbreak of a different strain of Ebola virus in West Africa – Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Nigeria, and Senegal – has killed more than 2,000 and is considered to be worse than all of the previous Ebola outbreak combined.