The peace process to end a 50-year civil war will continue – Floods threaten a World Cup city – Russia might turn off Europe’s natural gas today – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has won the presidential run-off election, giving him another term to pursue peace talks with two Marxist groups who’ve waged a civil war for five decades.  He won 51 percent to 45 percent over right-wing challenger Oscar Zuluaga, who wanted to pull back the peace talks.  Both rounds of the election were free of violence, and in his concession speech, Zuluaga called the poll fair and democratic.

Suspected Islamist militants attacked several hotels and a police station in the Kenyan town of Mpeketoni, a tourist area on the Indian Ocean coast.  Witnesses heard the attackers yelling “Allahu akbar,” and saw them escape with vehicles and a number of weapons from the cop house.  At least six people were killed.

Clashes between Muslims and a hardline Buddhist called “the Buddhist Brigade” on Sri Lanka prompted authorities to impose a curfew on the Muslim minority population there.  There are reports of rocks being thrown at Buddhists, and Muslims being pulled off of buses and beaten, and the revenge attacks took off from there.  Sri Lanka is 90 percent Buddhist, so there’s pretty much only one way this ends up endless peace breaks out.

Two days of near non-stop rain have caused nasty flooding in the World Cup city of Natal, Brazil, leading to worries that the deluge could affect the America’s match against Ghana later today.  No one was killed, but there is widespread damage.  The deluge started Friday night and ended Sunday morning – in 50 hours, it dumped a month’s worth of rain on the city.  And more is expected throughout the weekend.

Thousands marched through the streets of Lisbon and other Portuguese cities to protest the failure of austerity.  The government wants to cut the salaries of civil service by 10 percent, after being forced by the courts to reject the last tranch of international bailout money.  More protests are planned for next weekend.

Russia and Ukraine have failed to come to an agreement on gas deliveries, which mean that Gazprom could turn off the gas at 0600 GMT Monday unless Kiev comes up with more than A$2 Billion.  Last-gasp talks failed over the weekend, with Gazprom representatives jetting back to Moscow.  That’s big trouble for Europe, which gets 15 percent of its natural gas through Ukraine.

American DJ Casey Kasem is dead at age 82.  Australians probably know him best as the voice of Shaggy on the cartoon series Scooby Doo.  But in the US, he hosted the long-running and influential “American Top 40” during the 1970s and ‘80s, and a brief period around 2000.  He’s been in the news most recently because of the bitter conservatorship battle his children have fought and eventually won against his wife, actress Jean Kasem.