Officials deny a religious component to the worst riot at Goulburn Jail in several years – Peru goes after murderous illegal loggers – You won’t believe what happens when big, giant Sumo Wrestlers meet little babies – And much more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

At least two people were killed in explosions in China’s western Xinjiang province, where Muslim Uighur terrorists have been demanding an independent homeland.  Wording of the official announcement in a Communist Party newspaper suggests there could be three or more explosions.  It comes as China punished 17 regional officials for failing to stop Uighur terrorist attacks in July that killed almost 100 deaths of police, officials and civilians.

Authorities isolated seven inmates in Goulburn Jail in NSW after a riot that forced guards to fire tear gas in the Maximum Security area.  The facility was slightly damaged and four inmates were hurt.  Early reports said the rioters yelled Islamist slogans, but authorities later said the disturbance had no relation to religion.  Terrorism suspects in the Super-Max area of the prison were not involved.

Shiite rebels rampaged through Yemen’s capital Sana, seizing government buildings.  Military discipline fell apart and some troops appeared to back the Houthi rebels.  Before it was over, the Prime Minister resigned and the government agreed to a cease-fire and to form a new “technocratic national government”.

Afghanistan’s presidential candidates signed a deal to form a new unity government, ending eight months of rancor over elections, ballot counts, and power sharing.  Ashraf Ghanni becomes Afghan president, and opposition leader Abdullah Abdullah will nominate a “CEO” with political powers akin to a Prime Minister.  The US hopes to sign a bilateral security agreement before the end of the month.

Peru is forming a commission to investigate illegal logging along the border with Brazil.  This comes after the murders earlier this month of four indigenous leaders who led the fight against illegal loggers, including outspoken anti-logging activist Edwin Chota.  A 2012 World Bank report (.pdf link) estimated that 80% of Peruvian timber export stemmed from illegal logging.

Sierra Leone has completed its three-day lockdown, an effective national house arrest that kept people inside their homes while health workers went door-to-door to locate new Ebola patients and remove corpses.  Thousands of people defied the lockdown by simply traveling through the bush instead of using main roads.  More than 2,600 people have died in the West African Ebola Epidemic, and more than 550 of them were in Sierra Leone.  Meanwhile, a second deployment of US troops has hit the ground in Liberia – where more than 1,459 people have died of Ebola – to build new treatment facilities and train locals on how to deal with the epidemic.

Air France pilots are extending their week-old strike at least until next Friday, 26 September.  Pilots are upset over Air France-KLM’s plans to transfer most of its European operations to low-cost carrier Transavia, which will result in crewmembers being paid less and being based outside France.

Macca says “Go Meatless on Monday”.  It’s a good idea.

Japan’s Foreign Ministry says nothing was wrong with storing some human skulls at its consulate in Chicago for three months.  The relics were turned over by an unnamed party from the northern state of Minnesota with the understanding that they may have been Japanese soldiers from World War II, and I don’t want to know what kind of weirdo takes home skulls as war souvenirs.  Tests determined the skulls were not necessarily Japanese in origin and they were turned over to the Chicago Police.  You’d think that maybe, just maybe the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office might have been a better place to keep the skulls than a closet in a consulate, but no one asked me first.

Speaking of Crazy Japan Stuff.. Sumo wrestlers make babies cry at a Tokyo Shrine so the cries will be heard by heaven and make the babies grow up strong and healthy.  Works every time.

An apartment block caught fire in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.  Great video.

Now that Scotland voted to keep the Union Jack, New Zealand is moving to get rid of it.  Fresh off of his reelection, Prime Minister John Key plans to push replacing the Kiwi flag in 2015, making no secret of his desire to get rid of a colonial anachronism.  Key has previously said he would prefer a new flag featuring a silver fern on a black background.  Yeah, similar to the All Blacks.