Julie meets with Vlad – Much has been promised, but it’s having no effect on Ebola in West Africa – Pop Music fans plunge to their deaths – And much, much more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop met with (but did not shirt-front) Russian President Vladimir Putin for 25 minutes at the ASEM Summit in Milano, Italy, and discussed Australia’s request for investigators to be given further access to the Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash site in eastern Ukraine.  Bishop says Putin responded cooperatively and “would seek to respond to my request by asking the separatists to provide that access.”  Russia denies providing the missile presumably used by pro-Moscow separatists in Ukraine used to down the passenger jet, killing almost 300 people including 38 Australian citizens and residents.

The terrorist group Boko Haram will reportedly release more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped from their school in Chibok, Nigeria as part of a cease-fire deal with the Nigerian government.  The terrorists abducted the girls on 15 April, claimed to have forcibly converted the Christian girls to their lunatic version of Islamic, and bragged about selling them off.  Nigerian presidential aide Hassan Tukur says the militants the details still need to be worked out, but said he has no reason to doubt Boko Haram’s sincerity.

And now, a bunch of Ebola stories:

International pledges and promises haven’t had any impact on the West African Ebola Epidemic, says the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF).  Ebola has killed around 4,500 people, mostly in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea.  MSF runs about 700 out of the 1,000 beds available in treatment facilities in those three countries, but experts agree three times as many as needed – right now.

The World Health Organization admits it mishandled the early stages of the West African Ebola Outbreak.  An internal document reads, “Nearly everyone involved in the outbreak response failed to see some fairly plain writing on the wall,” adding that experts should have realized that the conventional way of containing an Ebola outbreak would not work in a region with porous borders and broken health systems.

In other Ebola developments, US President Barack Obama named a long-time Democratic Party operative as the government’s new “Ebola Czar”.  The White House believes Ron Klain has the management skills needed to cut through the Washington clutter and develop a strategy for combating the virus in America.

Spanish nurse Teresa Romero remains in stable condition in Madrid’s Carlos III Hospital.  She’s in “stable but serious” condition.  Officials say the presence of Ebola in her blood continues to fall, but she is not out of danger yet. Four other people quarantined there have tested negative for Ebola.

US Nurse Nina Pham is in “fair” condition in isolation at the National Institutes of Health near Washington, DC, officials adding that her condition is “not deteriorating”.  Pham’s year-old dog Bentley is also isolated, but at a military base in Texas.  Workers there are dressing up in full-protection suits to play fetch with the pooch and keep him in good spirits.  Pham’s coworker Nurse Amber Joy Vinson remains in isolation in Atlanta’s Emory University Hospital.

Pham and Vinson caught Ebola while treating the Liberian man who flew to Dallas and later started to become symptomatic.  Now, one of the lab techs who handled that patient’s clinical specimens is in self-quarantine aboard a cruise ship in the Caribbean Sea.  She was already out of the country when the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) tracked her down and informed her of active monitoring required of healthcare workers who deal with Ebola.  The ship is returning to Galveston, Texas because Mexico would not let it dock as scheduled at the resort city Cozumel.  Mexico tiene miedo de Ebola.

Meanwhile, back in the non-Ebola world:

At least 16 people are dead in South Korea in an accident at a pop music concert.  They were standing on a ventilation grate watching an outdoor concert by the girl group 4Minute, when the grate gave out under the weight of the people.  The fans plunged more than 18-meters down the concrete shaft to their doom.  Eleven more people were seriously hurt.  And later, one of the concert planners committed suicide.

Cops and protesters are back to clashing in Hong Kong.  The pro-democracy demonstrators took back the streets in the Mong Kok district which police had just cleared a day earlier.  The protesters are angry about Beijing’s restrictions on who can stand in Hong Kong’s next leadership election in 2017.

A group monitoring the Syrian Civil War claims Islamic State is working on its own Air Force.  The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says Iraqi pilots who defected to the Sunni extremist group have been training terrorist to fly three old MiGs captured from Syria.  The group claims training runs have taken place in the sky above the captured al-Jarrah military airport east of Aleppo.  The US says it is unaware of IS flying jets in Syria.

And the best news from the week:  Greek prosecutors have ordered the neo-nazi Golden Dawn Party’s entire parliamentary group stand trial for criminal offences – including murder; mob violence against LGBT, Leftists, and Immigrants; and weapons offenses.  All sixteen of the nazi scum MPs are in custody pending trial.  The 700-page indictment accuses Golden Scum of violent acts over a period of 30 years.