The international effort to find those kidnapped Nigerian girls has begun – Venezuela’s “peaceful” protests claim another life – New technology threatens Japan’s famous low crime rate – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

A team of as many as 60 US Military advisors, intelligence officers, and hostage negotiators is already on the ground in Nigeria and has begun work to help find more than 200 teenage girls abducted by the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram.  Earlier, President Goodluck Jonathan said he hoped that a “turning point” had been reached in the fight against the group.  Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau threatened to sell the girls, and some are believed to have been trafficked to neighboring Chad and Cameroon.

South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar has arrived in Addis Abba for his first direct talks with South Sudan's President Salva Kiir since fighting and ethnic violence erupted in December.  But the United Nations human rights watchdog is accusing both of committing “crimes against humanity”, including widespread rape and murder.  The civil war has put Machar’s Neur ethnic group against Kiir’s Dinka tribe. 

A Venezuelan police officer was shot dead by a sniper after cops shut down four protest camps in the capital.  The officer wasn’t involved in arresting protesters, but rather was cleaning up the mess left behind.  Expressing his condolences on national TV, President Nicolas Maduro said the officer “was vilely killed”.  More than 40 people have been killed in violence surrounding the demonstrations, which the student leaders from well off areas insist are “peaceful protests”.

A worker was electrocuted at the new World Cup arena in Cuiaba, Brazil.  32-year old Muhammad-Ali Maciel Afonso is the first worker to die at Arena Pantanal, but he’s the eighth fatality in the last minute rush to complete the venues before the World Cup starts on 12 June.  Authorities are investigating the death.

Thailand’s political crisis deepened with word that deposed Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra would be indicted for authorizing a widely-criticized rice subsidy scheme.  If found guilty, she would be banned from politics for five years.  This is the third time since 2006 that Thailand’s out-voted urban conservatives have used the courts to undo the democratic election of members of Shinawatra’s political movement.

America’s cancer has spread to Japan:  Police arrested a 27-year old man from Kawasaki City outside Tokyo for making handguns with a 3-D printer.  The devices were proven capable of killing people.  The suspect told police he got the plans from the Internet.  3-D printed guns were the invention of an American company (from Texas.. always Texas) that equates murder weapons with “freedom”.  It’s the first such arrest in Japan, which prides itself on a very low violent crime rate.

Pro-Moscow separatists in Donetsk say they will press ahead with their planned referendum to secede from Ukraine and apply to join the Russian Federation.  This is despite Russian President Vladimir Putin’s request for them to put it off for a while. 

A black bear wandered into a busy oil sands plant in a remote area of Alberta, Canada, and killed a female worker.  Coworkers tried to stop it by blasting horns and trying to distract the bear, but it dragged 36-year old Lorna Weafer into the woods.  The workers were not carrying bear spray.  This attack is something of a mystery – the Suncor plant processes oil that’s been blasted from tar sands, and really doesn’t smell all that great, especially to wildlife.  Plant officials say there were no open garbage containers or food sources that would normally have attracted a bear onto the plant ground.