Obama cautions Russia about messing about in Ukraine – Putin’s highest-profile political adversary finds himself under house arrest – China smashes a baby selling scheme – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs.

US President Barack Obama is warning Russia over meddling in Ukraine.  “It would be a clear violation of Russia's commitment to respect the independence and sovereignty and borders of Ukraine and of international laws,” said Obama, adding that any further destabilization is not in Russia’s interests.  He said that there will be costs for Russian military intervention – but did not elaborate and did not take any questions from reporters.

Armed Russians are on the move throughout Ukraine’s Crimea Peninsula.  They’ve taken control of at least one TV station and two airports, the day after an armed band occupied the Crimean Parliament, newly released video showing the men with machine guns and rocket launchers moving in.  Soldiers along the road from the Crimean capital Simferopol to the strategically important port at Sevastopol told the Washington Post that they came from a Russian base in Krasnodar.

Deposed Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovich finally appeared, across the border in the Russian city Rostov-on-Don.  He claimed he left the country not to abandon his office but because there were threats against his family.

The Sochi Olympics are over – now, Putin strikes.  A Russian court ordered two months of house arrest for leading dissident Alexei Navalny, with no internet or telephones.  The leading critic of President Vladimir Putin is also ordered not to talk with reporters.  The judge claims Navalny violated the terms of a travel ban from a pending criminal case.  But this is widely seen as political, an attempt to silence a major voice against corruption in Moscow.

The aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres, or Doctors Without Borders, has been ordered to cease its operations in Myanmar, accused of showing bias in favor of the Rohingya Muslim community.  The group is only of the only agencies providing healthcare to the oppressed minority, which has been the target of increasing attack by nationalist mobs.  Tens of thousands of Rohingya have fled their homes for temporary camps, and MSF says it is deeply concerned about the tens of thousands of people it was treating, particularly for HIV/AIDS, malaria and TB.

China has smashed a major baby-selling racket, rescuing 382 children and arresting 1,094 people.  Cops in Beijing and Jiangsi discovered websites selling the babies under the guise of adoption.  Despite punishments as harsh as the death sentence for traffickers, child abduction for the purpose of trafficking is a major problem in China, with authorities busting up similar nationwide rackets in recent years.

Authorities in Ghana are giving a hospital 14 days to produce the bodies of five babies that were allegedly stillborn – but believed to have been stolen from their parents and sold.  Seven people were charged with stealing and conspiracy to steal a baby from the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital last month.  “The ministry will leave no stone unturned until the truth is established,” Health Minister Sherry Ayittey said in a statement.

Cuba gave a hero’s welcome to Fernando Gonzalez, the Cuban spy released from a US Federal Prison and promptly deported.  Gonzalez and the other four members of the “Cuban Five” were arrested in 1998, after being sent to Miami to spy on the Cuban expatriate community where several terrorist bombings in Havana were said to have been plotted.  Washington denies it is releasing the spies in a swap for US government subcontractor Alan Gross, who is serving a 15-year sentence in Cuba on a conviction for subversion.