The release of an American prisoner could get messy, politically – Comfort women demand compensation – Alice the maid is dead – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

The Taliban is claiming a “victory” after the prisoner swap that has the US sending five terrorist detainees from the Guantanamo Bay detention center to Qatar, in exchange for the Taliban’s release of the only American POW of the Afghanistan war, Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl.  The five are believed to be the most senior Taliban detainees at Gitmo, and were captured by the US in 2001.  Qatar is guaranteeing the five terrorists will not threaten US interests.  Bergdahl is already recovering at a US hospital in Germany.

There’s a clash brewing over the circumstances surrounding Bowe Bergdahl’s release.  President Barack Obama approved the deal despite a technicality requiring him to give congressional leaders 30-days notice releasing any prisoners from Guantanamo.  Conservative Republicans will no doubt take this as a personal slight and use the Murdoch media machine to try and generate disingenuous outrage.  US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says time was of the essence, and the deal could have collapsed before securing Bergdahl’s release.

The co-founder of the Pirate Bay file sharing website has been arrested in southern Sweden, after a couple of years on the run.  Peter Sunde and three others were convicted of copyright violations in 2012.  He’ll likely serve his complete 8 month sentence and will be compelled to pay the fine of somewhere around A$7 Million. 

El Salvador has sworn in former Left-wing rebel commander Salvador Sanchez Ceren as its new president, following the vast majority of Latin American nations to the Left.  The 69-year old is the first former guerilla to lead the Latin American country.  Before his FMLN party came in from the wilderness in 1992, it had waged a war on the US-backed puppet dictatorship in San Salvador.  But 22-years later, Sanchez promises that “security, employment and education” would be the priorities of his government.

Six former “comfort women” joined international activists in Toyko to demand that the Japanese government fully atone for forcing female prisoners into military brothels in World War II, by offering compensation to the surviving women.  It comes as the right-wing government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe launches a review of the 1993 Kono Statement that apologized for the brothel system, which forced women from conquered nations to provide sex to Imperial Japanese troops.  Abe and his inner circle have caused outrage with a series of revisionist statements about Japan’s wartime atrocities.

Cameroon says two Italian Roman Catholic priests and a Canadian nun kidnapped by suspected Boko Haram militants in April have been freed.  The men were working on a project to improve local water supplies, and the nun had been doing missionary work in-country since 1979.  They were originally kidnapped from a part of Cameroon close to the border with northern Nigeria, where Boko haram has been trying to carve itself out an Sharia Law state.

A helicopter carrying 18 people crashed into a lake near Murmansk in northwestern Russia.  Only two people survived, because they were still strapped to their seats and floated to the surface.  Fishers were able to pulled them to safety.  The crash is under investigation, although officials already suspect either mechanical failure or the awful weather at the time of the crash.

Seven people were killed in a plane crash in the northeastern US.  One of the victims was billionaire newspaper owner Lewis Katz, who also once owned the new Jersey Nets basketball team.  Investigators say the plane failed to get airborne as it attempted to take off from a small airport outside Boston, Massachusetts, clipped an antenna, and crashed.

Actress Ann B. Davis is dead at age 88, best known to TV viewers around the world as “Alice” the housekeeper on the 1970s sitcom “The Brady Bunch”.  A medical examiner in Texas says the retired actress slipped and hit her head in the bathroom of her home.  Although The Brady Bunch featured a blended family, which was very unusual for the time, it was never controversial and most-often was weapons-grade treacle.