South Korea’s president condemns the crew of the sunken ferry – Three are killed at a flashpoint in Eastern Ukraine – There could be a strike at the top of the world – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

South Korean President Park Geun-hye said today the conduct of the captain and crew of the sunken ferry was tantamount to murder.  The death toll is now 64, with 238 passengers unaccounted for, and most of them are teens on a class trip from their high school outside Seoul.  Authorities today arrested four more officers from the Sewol ferry – two first mates, one second mate and a chief engineer – in addition to Captain Lee Joon-seok and two other crewmembers.

Ukraine is investigating the fatal shootings of three people at a checkpoint maintained by pro-Russian separatists in the east.  Russia claims it was perpetrated by the neonazi Pravy Sektor group that played a large role in the Maidan Square protests that overthrew pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovich.  The violence threatens to weaken the multilateral agreement that was hoped to dial down the tension in Ukraine.

Former boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter died in Toronto at age 76 from prostate cancer.  He’s best known for spending nearly two decades in prison in America for two murders he didn’t commit, wrongfully convicted in two trials that highlighted the racial injustices that permeate the US Justice System.  The case inspired a Bob Dylan song and a movie starring Denzel Washington.  After finally getting out of prison in 1985, he moved to Canada, where he headed a group to advocate for those wrongfully convicted.

The Sherpas who guide climbers up and down Mount Everest are considering a work stoppage, after the avalanche that killed at least 13 of them last week.  Nepal’s government is offering each of the families A$437 in compensation – The families are asking for A$1116.  The Sherpas do the heavy lifting, take the biggest risks in hanging safety ropes and grooming the trails, and do it for low pay while foreign climbers have been known to (allegedly) mistreat them.  Hundreds of expeditions are planned this season, and a Sherpas’ strike would disrupt or cancel many of them.

Suspected al Qaeda militants ambushed and killed 14 Algerian soldiers in the mountains east of the capital Algiers.  The country fought a 10-year insurgency with the militants during the 1990s, but they’ve been largely contained since then, and this is the deadliest attack in several years. 

Leftist politician Hamdeen Sabahi will run against former military leader Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Egypt’s presidential election, in which al-Sisi is heavily favored to win.  Sabahi is from the Nasser school of pan-Arab Socialism, and says Egypt must “cleanse” its political system of holdovers from the days of Hosni Mubarak – the long-time dictator who was toppled when the Arab Spring first appeared in Egypt.

A number of online betting services went dark for a few hours over the weekend because of a big electrical power disruption in the British territory of Gibraltar, where they are based.  A generator at a power station exploded and the place caught fire.  Electronic gambling is a big part of Gibraltar’s economy.

MH370:  Nope.  Not yet.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe threw a little petrol on the fire, two days before US President Barack Obama is scheduled to visit Tokyo.  Abe sent an offering to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine, which venerates Japan’s war dead including several Class-A war criminals.  It’s the sort of thing that infuriates China and South Korea, which suffered Japanese atrocities in World War II.  In the past months, the US has signaled to Abe that his nationalism is not helping the cause of stability in northeast Asia.