Rescuers race against the clock to reach trapped miners – Vietnam faces its problem from the north – An African leader delivers a chilling ultimatum – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Honduras is apologizing for claiming that some of the eleven miners trapped in a collapse had been rescued – all eleven are still trapped in the wildcat gold mine in the south of the country.  The walls of the unlicensed mine are too fragile to bring in heavy equipment – so more than 300 Red Cross volunteers, firefighters and people who live near the mine in the town of El Corpus are digging by hand in an effort to reach the miners.

Argentine lawmakers are rejecting an effort to impeach the vice president, who is facing corruption charges.  Prosecutors say Amado Boudou used his clout to gain control of a printing company, and then steered the contract to print Argentina’s money to that company.  Legislators in the governing party said Thursday that there isn't enough proof to impeach the vice president.

Vietnam says it plans to build 32 new coastal patrol vessels to help defend its maritime sovereignty.  In May, China exposed Vietnam’s lack of nautical muscle by dragging an oil drilling platform off Islands claimed by both, with little the Vietnam could do to stop it.

China and South Korea announced their joint opposition to any further nuclear tests by North Korea.  And it happened on President Xi Jinping’s visit to Seoul, the first time a Chinese leader visited the South before the North.  China has traditionally been Pyongyang’s only friend in the world, but Beijing has been frustrated by North Korea’s belligerence and drive to build nuclear weapons.

Ukraine’s Defense Minister is promising to retake Crimea from Russia.  General Valeriy Heletey told parliament that there would be a victory parade in Sevastopol, which got a round of applause.  Ukraine has relaunched its “anti-terrorist” operation in the east against pro-Russian separatists.

Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe is telling the country’s last remaining white farmers to give up their land and get out.  Mugabe’s critics says the race-based land seizure policy contributed to Zimbabwe’s economic collapse from 2000-2009.  The program supposedly ended two years ago, but it appears Mugabe wants to deflect attention from his failure to address worsening unemployment and the closure of firms.

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is capitalism’s new bagman in Egypt.  Blair will give business advice to President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi – late of the military – on awarding international contracts that would deliver huge “business opportunities”.  Al-Sisi’s regime is believed to have killed more than 2,500 opposition protesters and jailed more than 20,000 since coming to power a year ago.