Good Morning, Australia! – A Former FIFA exec fingered his fellows for the FBI – Did Nigeria’s army even bother to fight its enemy, Boko Haram? – Aquino says America must stop China – And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

The US Justice Department has just released papers from a 2013 hearing in which former FIFA official Chuck Blazer admitted he took bribes to award at least two World Cups tournaments, including the South Africa games in 2010 (South Africa denies this). Since then, the US feds indicted 14 FIFA officials on charges of racketeering and money laundering and President Sepp Blatter announced he’s resigning from the world football body.  Blazer was one of four other already charges, and cooperated with the investigation – going as far as to wear a wire for investigators gathering evidence against FIFA.

Amnesty International says the Nigerian military needs to be investigated for the deaths of some 8,000 civilians during its largely failed fight against the Boko Haram insurgency.  And I say, “largely failed,” because no progress was made until Chad, Niger, and Cameroon got into the fight in Nigeria’s behalf.  Instead of stopping the militants, Nigeria’s army allegedly: abused civilians, holding them without charges; starved some of them in captivity; arrested boys as young as nine years old.  “Former detainees and senior military sources described how detainees were regularly tortured to death – hung on poles over fires, tossed into deep pits or interrogated using electric batons,” said the report.

Philippine President Benigno Aquino is comparing China with nazi Germany for its aggressive territorial claims in the South China Sea.  Speaking to business leaders on a visit to Tokyo, Aquino put the United States in the equivalent position that Europe was in during the 1930s, trying to prevent Hitler from expanding Germany’s territory:  “If the United States says 'We are not interested', perhaps there is no brake to ambitions of other countries.”  Beijing blasted Mr. Aquino’s as “outrageous and unreasonable”.  China has drawn international criticism for its landfill work on a South China Sea reef, turning it into an island far beyond China’s maritime boundaries.

An American official claims more than 10,000 Islamic State fighters have been killed since an international coalition took up the fight against the terrorist group in Iraq and Syria.  This is pushback against reports of IS’s recent successes in Ramadi and Palmyra.  But Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken notes that IS controls 25 percent less territory than it did before the campaign, and it lost a lot of fighters and materiel.

India has ordered Maggi Instant Noodles off of store shelves across the vast nation because lab tests showed seven-times the permissible level of lead in noodles purchased in Uttar Pradesh.  Other samples showed high levels of MSG flavor enhancer, which isn’t even listed in the ingredients.  The army asked personnel to stop eating the popular product until further notice.  Nestle India denies its noodles are unsafe or unhealthy.

The BBC apologized after one of its producers sent a tweet saying that Queen Elizabeth II had died – which she most certainly did not.  It happened during an off-the-air test of coverage of a royal death.  The tweets came from the account of BBC Urdu Language Producer Ahmen Khawaja, who immediately apologized and said that her phone was left “unattended”.  The Beeb launched an internal disciplinary inquiry.