Ebola is moving faster than it can be contained – Australians say they’ve located more remains at the MH17 crash site – Israel and Hamas point fingers over who broke the ceasefire first – Uganda’s shame is overturned – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

UN World Health Organization (WHO) head Dr. Margaret Chan says the West African Ebola Outbreak is “moving faster than efforts to contain it” and she’s warning it can be “catastrophic in terms of lost lives but also severe socioeconomic disruption”.  But Chan says the killer virus could be stopped if it is well-managed through sanitation and early treatment of patients.  Chan announced a US$100 Million Ebola response plan to fund more personnel and resources in fighting the outbreak that has killed more than 720 lives in Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia.

Leaders of West Africa’s Ebola-hit nations announced they will designate a cross-border isolation zone to contain it.  The outbreak’s epicenter has a diameter of almost 300 kilometers, spreading from Kenema in eastern Sierra Leone to Macenta in southern Guinea, and taking in most of Liberia’s extreme northern forests.  Police and soldiers will enforce the zone while people inside will be given material support.  There is no vaccine or cure for Ebola, and this outbreak has been fatal in about 60 percent of cases.

Australian and Dutch investigators have found more human remains at the crash site of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17.  Two Australians were finally allowed a few minutes at the site on Thursday, and before that they were kept away from the site by fighting between Ukrainian forces and Russian-backed separatists.  On Friday, they paused for a moment of silence before mapping the site into grids, and locating human remains and more personal belongings of crash victims.  The conventional wisdom is that an anti-aircraft missile fired by the separatists downed the jet, killing 298 people including 38 Australians.

Well, that was the shortest 72 hour ceasefire ever.  The Gaza ceasefire collapsed pretty quickly.  The military wing of Hamas denies kidnapping a missing Israeli soldier.  Israel resumed missile strikes on Gaza because it said Hamas kidnapped the troop after a suicide bomber killed two other Israeli Defense Force (IDF) soldiers.  US President Barack Obama says the return of 23-year old Hadar Goldin is a precondition for further ceasefire talks, and condemned Hamas for capturing the soldier “minutes after a ceasefire had been announced”.  More than 1,600 Palestinians – mostly civilians – have died in Israel’s Gaza offensive, and 8,400 are injured.  Israel says 611 soldiers have died as well as three civilians.

Witnesses claim IDF troops executed six Palestinian youths in the bathroom of a home in Khuza’a in southern Gaza.  They point to the bodies congregated in one spot and bullet holes in the wall above them.  An Al Jazeera news crew found civilians retrieving the bodies, which had been left there for several days while most residents had evacuated to shelters elsewhere in Gaza.  Israel has not commented on the report.

Uganda’s Constitutional Court has thrown out a tough and offensive anti-gay law that was influenced by western evangelicals but widely criticized by the international community.  A government spokesman says the decision should prove that democracy is functioning in Uganda, and western countries should now reinstate the aid that they cut in protest.  Under the now-scrapped legislation, anyone found living in a same-sex marriage could have been sentenced to life imprisonment.  Early drafts that didn’t come up for a vote including the death penalty for LGBT people and life imprisonment for people who didn’t turn in their LGBT neighbors.

Chinese police shot and killed two Islamist suspects in the murder of the Imam of China’s largest mosque.  The two suspects reportedly “resisted arrest with knives and axes” and were “influenced by religious extremism”.  Imam Jume Tahir was unpopular with Uighur separatists in restive Xinjiang province because of his pro-Beijing views. 

It must be nice to feel wanted!  After Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping crisscrossed Latin America handing out cheques and trade deals, it’s Japan’s turn.  Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is in Brasilia with US$700 Million for the oil and agricultural sectors.  Earlier, Abe signed mining and earthquake technology deals with Chile, Pacific security agreements with Colombia, and Oil deals with Mexico.