A French City is in crisis because of thousands of homeless immigrants who hit town in recent days – The US targets Islamic State’s customers – The hermit kingdom manages to shut itself off from the world even more – And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

France is sending a hundred reinforcement police officers to Calais, which is dealing with a sudden influx of immigrants escaping conflict and poverty in Africa and the Middle East.  Authorities say 2,300 immigrants are living rough; some are getting hurt and killed running into traffic; different ethnic and national groups are getting into clashes on Calais’ streets.  And to make matters worse, the head of a right-wing anti-immigration political party will head there on Friday for photo-ops and general exploitation of a bad situation.

Despite troubling warning signs, the gunman who killed a soldier and stormed Canada’s parliament was not flagged as an immediate threat.  Authorities did cancel his passport, deeming Michael Zehaf-Bibeau a travel risk, but they didn’t know that he was in the capital Ottawa for the three weeks leading up to Wednesday’s attack.  They released security video showing the armed, recent convert to radical Islam running into the Parliament as people scrambled for safety.  Zehaf-Bibeau was shot dead by the sergeant-at-arms, who was hailed as a hero in Parliament on Thursday.

American security officials say they are investigating a new report that Islamic State (IS) militants had used chlorine gas as a weapon against Iraqi police officers last month near Balad.  The Sunni radicals set off a bomb after which a yellow cloud hung close to the ground.  Eleven officers were treated, but all survived.  Unconfirmed reports of improvised bombs made with chlorine gas and used by militants have arisen from time to time since the Islamic State began seizing territory in Iraq at the beginning of the year.

The Obama administration is threatening to slap economic sanctions on any entity buying oil from Islamic State (IS), an enterprise which generates US$1 Million per day for the terrorist group.  Despite all this cash, IS is able to stay off the world financial grid, so it’s more efficient for the west to disrupt IS’s finances at the consumer-nation level.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is authorizing more police for Jerusalem, but security officials say it won’t be enough as long as radicals on both sides are intent on stirring up trouble.  Earlier, a Palestinian with a criminal record borrowed his dad’s car and plowed it into a light rail stop, killing a three-month-old baby girl and injuring several people.  Attacks and assaults have been steadily picking up since the summer, and Israeli officials are worried about a third intifada. 

The US has returned about 20 ancient, pre-Columbian artifacts to Peru.  Local farmers had illegally looted them from burial sites, and then sold them to smugglers who unloaded them to collectors in America.  The US Customs Service uncovered the black market in four separate investigations.

Starting today, North Korea began barring foreign tourists because of fears of the Ebola Virus.  The three agencies that handle tourism to North Korea says the ban is on all tourists – even those who’ve already purchased vacations – and there’s no telling how long it will last.  It’s not clear if the ban also covers diplomats and international business people.