Israel and Hamas will take a break from a bloody, unnecessary, and internationally very unpopular war – Ebola makes a dramatic and messy entrance in a fourth country – It ain’t easy being a dictator’s daughter – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Israel and Hamas announced they will abide by a 12-hour truce that began at 8:00 am local time (That's 3:00 in the arvo in Melbourne, 1:00pm in Perth).  It falls far short of what UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and US Secretary of State John Kerry wanted, but gives all sides some breathing room in seeking an end to Israel’s invasion of Gaza and Hamas’ rocket launches at Israel.  The temporary truce coincides with the start of the Muslim holiday Eid al-Fitr.  More than 840 Palestinians have been killed, around 75 percent civilians.  Hamas’ rockets killed three Israeli civilians, and 35 Israeli Defense Force (IDF) troops died in Gaza during 18 days of conflict.

Israeli authorities have banned an ad from radio – the voice of a woman speaking in Hebrew, reading the names of some of the 190 Palestinian children killed by Israeli strikes in Gaza.  Aid agencies say one child died every hour during the heaviest attacks in Gaza. 

Sunni militants with “Islamic State”, formerly known as ISIS, killed 50 soldiers after overrunning a Syrian army base.  A human rights group says that the militants beheaded several of the soldiers, including a colonel, in the assault that began on Thursday at the Division 17 army base near the northern city of Raqqa.  This is a massive blow to the government Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, which says it is still fighting the insurgents and sending reinforcements.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott admits that some 50 Australian police officers will face “some difficulty” securing the crash scene of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine, because of the presence of armed pro-Russian separatists.  He also said that the role of the Aussies at the scene has yet to be determined.  However, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko welcomed the addition of Aussie police and Russian President Vladimir Putin assured Abbot he wants to satisfy the families of the 297 victims of MH17, which it now seems apparent was brought down by an anti-aircraft missile provided by Russia to the Ukrainian rebels.

Vladimir Putin’s daughter has fled her home in the Netherlands, which lost almost 200 of its citizens in the MH17 downing.  Maria Putin shares what’s alternately described as a flat and as a luxury penthouse in a building just 32 kilometers from the Amsterdam airport when MH17 took off.  Ukrainian activists leaked her address, and the town’s mayor said she should be deported, although he later took back those words.

The United Nations is warning countries with draconian Abortion Rights laws that they may be in violation of international human rights treaties.  The UN Human Rights Committee is advising Ireland and Chile to update their abortion laws to ensure access for more women.  Chile imposes a total ban on Abortion, a leftover from the fascist dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, who didn’t seem very “pro life” when he was killing 40,000 of his citizens.  Ireland allows only a very narrow exception to its ban.  In 2012 in Ireland, 31-year old Indian-born dentist Savita Halappanavar died when her pregnancy failed and doctors refused to perform what would have been a life-saving abortion of her septic fetus.

Nigeria is confirming that a Liberian man who died in hospital in Lagos had Ebola, and the circumstances couldn’t be more troubling.  Ebola is very easily spread by contact with bodily fluids – and the man vomited, had diarrhea, and had a high fever on the passenger airplane from Liberia to Nigeria.  He collapsed on the airport floor upon arrival.  Authorities are desperately looking for anyone who had contact with the dead man.  Think about it – this could mean anything from direct physical contact, to the people who cleaned the plane, to anyone who touched the same door handle, given the probably of sweat.  More than 660 people have died in the current Ebola outbreak in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea.  This outbreak’s fatality rate is 60 percent.

Sierra Leone is looking for an Ebola patient who was snatched from her hospital bed in the capital Freetown by her family.  Radio stations around the country are appealing for help to find the 32-year-old who is being described as a “risk to all”.  International health workers have faced suspicion from locals who for some reason believe the outsiders are causing Ebola Disease.

Wild monkeys living near the crippled, radiation-spewing Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in northern Japan have lower blood cell counts than similar monkeys who lived more than 320 kilometers away.  The Fukushima monkeys also had detectable levels of radioactive cesium in their muscles, while the northern monkeys did not.  Researcher says it shows the monkeys’ immune systems could be compromised, and the findings parallel those taken on animals after the Chernobyl disaster.

Chinese authorities are investigating why a river turned blood red early Thursday morning.  Residents say the river in Xinmeizhou village in eastern China’s Zhejiang province looked normal at 5:00 in the morning.  But an hour later, it had changed color and smelled funny.  And yet, some people caught and ate fish from it.  There’s a paper manufacturer, a food coloring company, and a clothing-maker along the river, and authorities suspect illegal dumping.