A deadly fire sends billows of smoke through a bus station in South Korea – China dramatically escalates East China Sea tensions – After 400 years, a Spanish town is learning some much needed sensitivity – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Japan is accusing Beijing of sending a pair of Chinese Su-27 Fighter Jets to fly too close to two of its propeller-driven reconnaissance planes.  This happened over the weekend in the East China Sea, where China late last year claimed territory for its air defense zone that was previously recognized as being under Japanese control.  The Chinese escalation is a dangerous development between the two Asian powers for effective control of the East China Sea, including a group of Japanese uninhabited islands surrounded by what’s believed to be undersea oil and gas fields.

At least seven people are dead and 20 are recovering from injuries after a smoky fire at a bus terminal in Goyang City, South Korea.  The fire itself was brought under control quickly, and is believed to have started by welders in a basement construction site in the building, where the seven bodies were located.  South Korean President Park Geun-hye is under pressure to improve safety standards, especially after the ferry sinking in April that killed more than 300 people.

Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos and far right opposition candidate Oscar Zuluaga will go to a run-off on 15 June after both men failed to get a clear majority in the weekend elections.  The military said it was the most peaceful election in decades, and international monitors report no irregularities.  Santos is staking his candidacy on his peace talks with Marxist rebels to end the 50-year old civil war; Zuluaga wants to take a harder line.

A task force is recommending to Jamaica’s government that it legalize marijuana and establish a medical marijuana industry – within 120 days.  Now, I know what you’re thinking.  But the Cannabis Commercial and Medicinal Research Taskforce isn’t made up of Rastas and stoners;  representatives from the Israeli Ministry of Health and Jerusalem’s Hebrew University are partnering with doctors at University of the West Indies.  They’re pointing to successful decriminalization outcomes in the US states of Colorado and Washington, as well as Venezuela where it’s now legal to possess and grow in limited quantities.

After almost 400 years, the tiny town of Castrillo Matajudios is finally changing its name.  For good reason.  It translates as “Fort Kill the Jews”.  Yeah, I’m wondering why it took 400 years, too.  The name will revert back to the one used prior to 1623, Mota de Judios, or “Hill of the Jews”.  Which makes more sense, because a tiny Jewish community originally settled the town 1,000 years ago.  Embarrassed locals finally grew tired of having to come up with explanations – the best of which being that sometime during the Spanish Inquisition, community members who were forced to convert changed the town’s name to the more offensive version, to prove their loyalty to the inquisitors.