Good Morning, Australia! – A gas blast tears through a coal mine, Ukrainian rebels allegedly block rescue efforts – Snowden reportedly wants to go home – France seeks suspects in a 1982 bombing – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Dozens of people have been killed in a rebel attack on a Syrian Air Force Intelligence facility in Aleppo.  The attack began with a blast in a tunnel leading into the facility.  It’s not clear from the reporting by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights which rebel group was responsible, but other report showed the al Qaeda-linked al Nusra front was on the move in the area.

France issued arrested warrant for three people suspected in a deadly attack at a Jewish restaurant in 1982.  Six people died and 22 were injured when suspected Palestinian radicals tossed a grenade in the Rue de Rosiers, in the Jewish Quarter in Paris’ 4th arrondissement.  Those three suspects were members of the now-defunct Abu Nidal group, and are now believed to be living in Norway and the West Bank.

Paris police briefly gave chase (like this, perhaps?) after four men in the investigation into mysterious drone flights over sensitive sites in and around the French capital.  France strictly regulates drone aircraft, requiring users to apply for a license.  With ten more overnight, there have now been 60 drone sightings in France, including over the Eiffel Tower, US Embassy, and nuclear power plants.

All passengers made it off a Turkish Airlines passenger plane that skidded off the runway at Katmandu, Nepal.

Mexican police continue reeling in drug lords.  Cops in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon busted Omar Trevino Morales, the leader of the notorious Los Zetas cartel.  He’s wanted in Mexico and the United States for drug trafficking, kidnapping, and murder, and both nations offered millions of dollars in rewards for his capture.

Edward Snowden is reportedly seeking to cut a deal to come back to the United States and face trial for leaking extensive secrets of electronic surveillance programs by the National Security Agency (NSA).  That’s according to his Russian attorney, who confirms US and German lawyers are working on a possible return.  In 2013, Snowden leaked a bunch of embarrassing secrets about his NSA employers, and then skipped the country, eventually winding up in Monday where President Vladimir Putin granted him asylum. 

So, how bad is Putin’s Russia if Snowden would rather face a possible prison term?  Well, Putin went on TV to call for an end to political murders in Russia.  This is after the burial of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, who was gunned down near the Kremlin shortly after saying he feared he would be killed at the orders of Putin.  The Kremlin denies any involvement.  Another opposition figure Alexei Navalny painted concentric circle on his back, blogging his belief that the Nemtsov murder was carried out by either Russian security services or private thugs – either way, at the behest of Russian leaders including Vladimir Putin.

More than 30 miners are feared dead in a gas explosion in an eastern Ukraine Coal mine.  Ten fatalities are confirmed, and rescuers hold little hope for the others.  Mine officials say the blast is likely not linked to the fighting in eastern Ukraine, where Russian-backed rebels are attempting to secede and join the Russian republic.  But Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk accuses Moscow-backed rebel “bastards” of preventing rescuers from reaching the scene.

Merchant ships and the Italian coast guard rescued almost 1,000 migrants from the treacherous waters north of Libya, where human traffickers launch rickety immigrant boats of asylum seekers to Europe.  This happened in a 24-hour period over Tuesday and Wednesday.  But at least ten North Africans drowned when their rubber raft overturned in the choppy Mediterranean.