Two violent seiges cap the terrorist rampage in Paris, but there’s still one more fugitive left to catch – Prosecutors want to charge the ex-head of the CIA – Amnesty International makes a shocking claim about Boko Haram – There are your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Three days of terror came to a bloody end in and around Paris on Friday.  Brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi – suspected of murdering twelve people and injuring eleven more at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday – emerged from the woods in Dammartin-on-Goele north of Paris in which they had been hiding and attempted to take hostages at a print shop in an industrial tract.  One person escaped.  And unknown to the brothers, another employee hid in a second floor cafeteria.  Surrounded by legions of cops and with nowhere to go, the Kouachis grabbed their Kalashnikovs and walked out the door for one final gun battle with police – and they lost.  Both men are dead; two police officers were injured. 

Back in Paris, an associate of the Kouachis’ stormed a Kosher food store in a Jewish neighborhood and opened fire with an automatic weapon, in what is believed to be a coordinated attack.  32-year old Amedy Coulibaly was already linked by DNA evidence to the murder of a police officer at a petrol station in another episode a day earlier.  In the kosher store, he threatened to kill his hostages.  Shortly after getting word the Kouachi brothers were killed, Paris cops stormed the store and opened fire, cutting down Coulibaly as he rushed the door.  Inside, they discovered that the coward Coulibaly had already killed four people – but several others outwitted him, hiding in the store’s freezer for the duration, and huddling together for warmth.

It’s believed Coulibaly’s wife 26-year old Hayat Boumeddiene was with him in the siege at the Kosher store, but somehow slipped out in the chaos.  Police are looking for her and warning that she should be considered armed and dangerous.  The newspaper Le Monde obtained and ran photos showing Boumeddiene wearing a black, head-to-toe Muslim outfit, training with crossbows.

France has a lot of soul-searching to do, not least of which will be spent questioning the apparent intelligence failures before this week’s bloodshed.  “There is a clear failing,” Prime Minister Manuel Valls told French television on Friday night.  “When 17 people die, it means there were cracks.” France plans a unity rally to protest on Sunday against the attacks.  Among those who plan to attend are German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Prime Ministers David Cameron of Britain, Matteo Renzi of Italy, and Mariano Rajoy of Spain, and European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker.

A court in New York City sentenced radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri to life in prison for his support of terrorism, including hostage taking and plotting to set up a terrorist training camp in the US.  He’s going to the Supermax prison in Colorado, an ultra-secure and isolated facility reserved for the worst of the worst.  The rest of Abu Hamza’s life will be spent in an eight-square meter room, save for about an hour per day.  The only people he will ever see will be guards and prison councilors.

US prosecutors want charges brought against David Petraeus, the former head of the CIA and highly regarded decorated former general who led the US war effort in Iraq during the George W. Bush administration.  They believe he improperly provided classified information to a female Army Reserve officer who was writing his biography, but with whom he was also having an affair.

Wacky teenagers in Minnesota make a giant snow turtle in the front yard.. 4 meters tall! 

You know those Japanese Snow monkeys that love to lounge around in the hot springs?  Well, they’re lounging around in the hot springs again.

Rumors of retired Cuban leader Fidel Castro’s death swept some corners of the Internet on Friday, but there’s no such sign of it in Cuba.  What is happening is that Cuba is releasing even more opposition activists – now 36 since Wednesday, and believed to be a from a list of political prisoners the United States asked to be freed as part of the effort to normalize relations.  However, many had been warned that they would be returned to prison if they resumed their opposition activities.

Thousands marched in Sao Paulo, Brazil against planned transit fair hikes.  Cops clashed with protesters, a couple-few dozen arrested, tear gas, and blah blah blah the usual protest stuff.

Amnesty International says it is getting reports that thousands, not hundreds, of civilians were slaughtered in Boko Haram’s attacks on Baga town in northern Nigeria.  It’s a “disturbing and bloody escalation of Boko Haram’s ongoing onslaught” in the region.  A leader of a poorly trained and equipped civilian militia that attempts to defend civilians from Boko Haram (because the Nigerian military apparently will not) says people gave up trying to count the bodies, there were just too many.  Many of the victims were the elderly, women, and children who were not able to escape into the bush.  Nigerian civilians apparently aren’t going to get help from their neighbors:  Niger says it will not help its neighbor Nigeria retake Baga town from Boko Haram militants.  So much for regional cooperation.