Help is finally on the way in the Philippines – A suicide bomber strikes just meters away from the scene where one nation’s future will be determined – A Helicopter crashed into South Korea’s swankiest residential tower – That, and a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs.

International aid is starting to push through to people in desperation in the central Philippines.  But because it’s still not getting all the way through to remote and hard-to-reach areas, hundreds of thousands are still trying to flee the area.  Others refuse to leave, still searching for missing loved ones.  An Aussie C-130 cargo plane already delivered tons of supplies and more is on the way.  The US has moved nearly 380,000 pounds of supplies into hard hit regions.  This crisis is far from over.  This week, the UN will begin the battle on disease – children will be vaccinated for measles, for typhoid because of the filthy water supplies, and polio just because no one wants to take any chances.

It’s been two days of fresh street fighting between rival militias and Islamists in and around Tripoli, Libya.  At least 42 people are dead and hundreds are injured.  It started on Friday when militiamen from the city of Misrata fired at about 500 protesters demanding their eviction from the capital after they had fought rivals for control of city districts.  The government has been unable to control groups who formed the coalition that overthrew Moammar Gaddafi, and are now jockeying for power.

At least six people were killed and 22 wounded in a suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan where officials and “Loyal Jirga” tribal leaders planned to debate a US-Afghan security pact.  The Taliban claimed responsibility.  The blast occurred less than a hundred meters from a large tent where more than 2,000 Afghan elders will gather on Thursday to debate the security pact which will allow US troops to stay in Afghanistan past 2014.

US military prosecutors filed premeditated murder charges against a soldier accused of gunning down two deaf, unarmed teens in Iraq in 2007.  15-year old Ahmad Khalid al-Timmimi and his 14-year old brother Abbas were tending cattle when they were shot to death.  31-year old Michael Barbera was promoted to Sergeant 1st Class after the incident.  But prosecutors say he lied to his commanders and threatened a civilian to prevent the truth from coming out.

Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Naples, Italy to protest illegal dumping and burning of toxic waste, demanding an investigation into the local mafia that they say is responsible.  They also want the land between Naples and Caserta cleaned up, an area they call the “Triangle of Death” because of the leftover toxins.  Last week, the Archbishop of Naples condemned the mafia for the illegal dumping.

A former director of Brazil’s state-run Banco do Brasil has fled the country to avoid a prison term after his conviction on corruption charges.  Henrique Pizzolato also has an Italian passport – he left behind a letter saying he’d try to seek “a fair trial” there.  Pizzolato is the only one of 12 defendants not to surrender to authorities.  The scam involved using public funds to pay for parties and political support for the then-ruling coalition.

Chileans go to the polls today, and are expected to return Michelle Bachelet to the presidency.  The Socialist doctor and single mom is promising to narrow income inequality and to upend the constitution written under the fascist Pinochet dictatorship. 

A helicopter crashed into Seoul, South Korea’s most expensive high rise apartment building and plunged to the ground, killing both pilots.  The chopper belonged to the LG electronics company and was en route to ferry some executives from Seoul to a city in the south.  No one was hurt inside the building in Seoul’s trendy Gangnam district.

Russian special forces hunted down and killed the man who built a suicide bomb, put it on his wife, and sent her to her death on a bus in Volgograd – A bombing caught on video by one of Russia’s ubiquitous dashboard cameras.  Six people died in that episode.  21-year old Dmitri Sokolov was tracked to Dagestan, an obscure, impoverished, and violence-plagued region in Russia’s south with an Islamist separatist movement.