Mexico re-kills a drug lord – Suicide bombers kill dozens of people – And the defense will step up in the trial of Oscar Pistorius – All that and more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs.

Mexican federal police say they shot and killed a notorious drug lord – this time, for sure.  Nazario Moreno Gonzalez was thought to have been killed in a 2010 battle between his Knights Templar cartel and the Federales.  Apparently, he survived, because forensic evidence shows Moreno was one of those killed in a shootout early Sunday morning.  It’s another big bite taken out of the illicit drug trade, authorities captured the country’s most wanted drug baron, Joaquin Guzman Loera, known as El Chapo, in February.

Afghanistan’s powerful vice president Marshal Mohammad Qasim Fahim died of natural causes, just a month before the country’s presidential election.  Human Rights Watch says that prior to 2005, Fahim was “one of the most notorious warlords in the country, with the blood of many Afghans on his hands from the civil war”.  But the fierce enemy of the Taliban grew to be considered a key ally and supporter of the UN.

A suicide bomber at a security checkpoint killed 21 people in Southern Iraq, the deadliest of a series of attacks that killed a total of 42 people on Sunday.  The blast struck the entrance of the city of Hillah and killed women and children.  Insurgents are trying to destabilize Iraq in advance of elections in a few weeks.

Former Marxist rebel Salvador Sanchez Ceren was running neck and neck with his right-wing rival Norman Quijano in El Salvador’s presidential run-off election.  Sanchez Ceren had been several points ahead in several pre-election public opinion polls.  But as the votes were counted late Sunday, his lead was less than one percent.  Election officials say the final count, which begins tomorrow, will determine the results.

North Korea is also holding an “election”.  There’s one candidate per parliamentary seat, and all of them are from Kim Jong Un’s ruling party.  Also, turnout was 100 percent.  Efficiency.

Speaking of sham elections, the Maldives Supreme Court has sentenced all four of its election commissioners to six-month jail sentences, suspended for three years, for “disobeying orders”.  The head of the commission and his deputy have also been sacked.  Last year, the same Supreme Court nulled a presidential election deemed free and fair by hundreds of observers.  The former president sees what’s going on and says it is it the “saddest day in the history of the Maldives’ constitutional life”.

Defense attorneys are expected to cross-examine the security guard at Oscar Pistorius’ gated community as the Olympic sprinter’s trial resumes in Pretoria on Monday.  Pieter Baba said neighbors told him they heard shots from Pistorius’ home, but when he phoned Pistorius at first said that everything was fine.  Pistorius does not deny shooting and killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, but claims he mistook her for a burglar.