Hello Australia!! - Minneapolis comes up with a big settlement for Justine's family - A cyclone slams one of India's poorest regions - German officials once again caught flat-footed by neo-nazi activity - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

The city of Minneapolis will pay a US$20 Million settlement to the family of Justine Damond Ruszczyk.  The settlement comes just days after a jury found a former police officer Mohamed Noor guilty of shooting Ms. Damond Ruszczyk to death after she called cops to report a possible sexual assault in the alley behind her home.  "We know that no amount of money can heal the pain that the Ruszczyk family or any family that has lost a loved one in this way," said Minneapolis City Council President Lisa Bender.  "It is our continued commitment to work together, with our community, to demand and support change to policing."  Ms. Damond Ruszczyk's Australian family had initially asked for $50 Million in the wrongful death lawsuit.

The settlement is unusually large in such cases in the region.  In 2007, Minneapolis paid $3 Million to Duy Ngo, a police officer shot by another officer who mistook him for a fleeing suspect.  Another $3 Million was paid to the family of David Smith, an African-American man who died after a struggle with police at the YMCA in 2010.  In a notorious case that garnered world attention, a white police officer in the suburb of St. Anthony pumped bullet after bullet into African-American beloved elementary school cafeteria worker Philando Castile in a botched traffic stop as his horrified girlfriend live-streamed it to the Internet - the girlfriend got $800,000 and Castile's mother got $3 Million.  Asked if the racial or gender dynamic played a role in the decision, Minneapolis Mayor David Frey said, "Every claim and every case brings forward a different set of circumstances."

Cyclone Fani is blamed for at least seven deaths after slamming into eastern India at in Puri, a city located in the state of Odisha.  Officials upped the evacuation order to cover 2.1 million people.  Early on, strong winds had blown the flag off the 858-year old Jagannath temple and there had been concern how the structure would survive the storm.  "We are helpless in front of nature's fury," said superintendent Arun Malik of the Archaeological Survey of India, explaining the government's damage-control plan, "However, we have still stationed our team inside the Jagannath Temple to take necessary steps in case of any untoward incident."

The death toll in the DR Congo Ebola outbreak has passed 1,000 lives lost.  World Health Organization deputy director Dr. Michael Ryan said mistrust of medical workers and violence between the government and armed groups was harming efforts to tackle the disease as it spread through the east of the country.  The good news is that it is still contained to two provinces, while a concurrent measles outbreak is present in 14 of the country's 26 provinces, in both rural and urban areas.

Bad weather and international economic sanctions have teamed up to reduce North Korea's food stocks, which are said to be 1.36 million tons too low.  Citizens are being put on meager rations as supplies drop to low levels in usually seen later in the year.  North Korea's last major famine in the 1990s is believed to have killed hundreds of thousands of people, judging by the number of graves that appeared outside villages seen on satellite photos of the time - but the reclusive government hasn't given an exact figure.

German Interior Minister Horst Seehoffer is promising to act against far-right extremists after nazi scum marched in the eastern town of Plauen.   The country's main Jewish organization said the march should not have been allowed under post-World War II anti-nazi laws, saying it "brought back "memories of the darkest chapter in German history".  Far-right activity has been building in the former East Germany, which despite almost three decades of capitalism has not caught up with the parts that used to be West Germany.  Authorities estimate there are about 24,000 far-right extremists in Germany, with more than half considered "violence prone".  Last year, thousands of far-rightists rioted and committed several assaults in the city of Chemnitz, the former Karl-Marx-Stadt.

The Scientology cruise ship "Freewinds" with 300 people on board is steaming back to its home port of Curacao, where it will be quarantined for measles just as it had been at an earlier attempt to dock at its Caribbean neighbor Saint Lucia.  This time, Curacao health officials will board the ship to determine who has been vaccinated or had the disease previously.  Those who do not comply will be vaccinated immediately.