New developments point to something nefarious on Flight MH 370 – Turkey’s Prime Minister accuses a dead child of being a terrorist – Russia heads off a UN Security Council resolution to oppose its actions in Crimea – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs.

The data communications systems on Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 began to be shut off before someone in the cockpit bid a “Good Night” over the radio – the last known voice communication from the plane.  It means whatever caused the plane to disappear was already in progress when those words were spoken.  Malaysia’s prime minister is stopping just short of calling the disappearance a hijacking, but did say whatever happened to the plane was because of the deliberate actions of someone “inside the plane”.   It’s now been eight days since the Boeing 777-200ER with 239 people on board including six Australians went missing.

CNN is reporting the US officials are increasingly focusing on the cockpit crew in Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370’s disappearance.  Malaysian police have searched the homes of the pilot 53-year old Zaharie Ahmad Shah and the co-pilot 27-year old Fariq Ab Hamid.  They carried small shopping bags out of the latter location, but didn’t specify if they were items relevant to the investigation.  Much as been made of Shah’s in-home flight simulator – friends are insisting it reflects his love for flying and for training.

Turkey’s embattled Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the 15-year old boy whose death by police violence set off riots had links to terrorism.  Berkin Elvan was fetching bread for his mum last June when he was shot in the head with a police tear gas canister, and spent the next nine months in a coma before dying last week.  Tens of thousands protested around the country after the funeral, and Erdogan’s bizarre and paranoid comments aren’t expected to help.

Russia was isolated at the United Nations Security Council as it used its veto power to scuttle a draft resolution criticizing the secession referendum in Ukraine's Crimea region, scheduled for today.  China abstained, every other nation voted to approve it.  China and Russia usually work together at the Security Council, but Beijing has its own worries about the concept of secession, especially in China’s northwest where Muslim separatists are talking about independence.

Russian troops crossed from Crimea into Ukraine to seize a natural gas distribution point that services the peninsula that might vote to leave Ukraine and join the Russian Federation today.  Human Rights Watch accuses pro-Russian paramilitaries in Crimea of attacking and harassing activists and journalists who don’t want to merge into Russia.  “Crimean authorities are allowing illegal and unidentified armed units to run the show in the peninsula, and to commit crimes that go uninvestigated and unpunished," said HRW’s Rachel Denber.

Venezuela is accusing US Secretary of State John Kerry of “murder” by inciting violence that led to the deaths of at least 28 people.  This was in direct response to Kerry’s claim that Venezuela was waging a “terror campaign against its own people” in its response to right-wing protests and barricades over the past five weeks.  Latin American leaders, the EU, and the Pope have all called for calm and for peace talks, but the opposition leaders have refused to accept President Nicolas Maduro’s invitation to sit down.

At least seven people died in a stampede of jobseekers at a recruiting event at the national stadium in the Nigerian capital Abuja.  Tens of thousands had turned up to take the test for employment at the Immigration Department.  Nigeria’s unemployment rate was 23.9 percent in 2011, the last time it was measured.

Gunmen shot and killed six army officers near Cairo on Saturday.  It’s the second attack on Egyptian security forces in three days that’s being blamed on the Muslim Brotherhood, the banned organization of deposed president Muhammed Morsi.  The brotherhood and other insurgents are blamed for killing as many as 300 security forces since Morsi was overthrown last July.

Syria’s civil war is four years old this weekend.  146,000 dead, millions displaced internally and outside the borders, and there’s no end in sight.