Explosions, Train crashes, evil Jellyfish, water wars, and dumb art collectors:  it’s all awaiting you in CareerSpot’s collection of World News Briefs.

A nasty set of jellyfish stings forced Chloe McCardel to abandon her attempt to be the first person to swim from Havana-to-Florida without a cage.  The 28 year old swam into a swarm of the little creeps.  “It felt like explosions hitting my body,” she told reporters after returning to Key West for medical treatment.

Three people are suspended and more than a dozen are under investigation as the Australian Army investigates a series of “highly inappropriate” and demeaning about female staff members.  The explicit and derogatory emails were circulated over the last three years.  Defense Minister Stephen Smith described the conduct of those involved as “despicable”.

Ethiopia’s Parliament ratified a new treaty over the fate of the Nile River.  The agreement is between five nations at the beginnings of the Nile, and is intended to replace the 1929 water-sharing agreement the British left behind that gives the Lion’s share of the Nile’s water to Egypt, which is left out of this deal.  Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi says he would not allow Egypt's water supply to be endangered.

Six Afghan Police were shot and killed by one of their own, a cop who turned traitor, stole weapons and a vehicle, and drove off to link with his Taliban handlers.  The insider attack happened at a checkpoint in the southern Helmand province. NATO troops are to withdraw in 2014, leaving local forces to cope with the Taliban on their own.

The BBC is accusing Iran of threatening the Iran-based families of BBC Persian Service staff.  This is ahead of Friday’s scheduled presidential elections in Iran, in which there is no clear front-runner.  In a statement, the Beeb says 15 family members were subject to harassment from Iran’s Intelligence Ministry including “threats that relatives will lose jobs and pensions and be prevented from traveling abroad. For the first time the lives of BBC Persian TV staff living in the UK have also been threatened.”

Ireland is ordering six Internet Service Providers to block access to “The Pirate Bay” file sharing website.  The court order follows complaints from four music labels that the site was helping spread copyrighted content.

At least three people are dead and hundreds were hurt when a commuter train crashed into another just outside Buenos Aires, Argentina.  It’s not clear why the lead train stopped in between stations, or why the second train did not stop.

One person is dead and more than 75 are injured in a blast at a chemical plant near New Orleans, Louisiana.  Although people in the area were warned to stay inside their homes and shut the doors and windows, dangerous chemicals were not detected.

German cops broke up a multi-million Euro international art forgery ring, which had gone undetected since 2005.  The ring created paintings and sold them as “previously unknown” works by such Russian avant garde artists as Wassily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, Natalia Goncharova, and Mikhail Larionov, none of whom painted stuff that totally looked like Ikea rugs.  Call me a luddite, but this style doesn’t seem that difficult to forge.  Cops say the fakes were sold for thousands to hundreds of thousands of Euros to doofus art collectors.