Israel wipes out a high-rise apartment building in Gaza – The UK considers bringing an Ebola patient there – Ukraine says that Russian aid convoy left with more than it delivered – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

An Israeli airstrike in Gaza caused a 12-floor apartment building to collapse and crumble to the ground.  The casualty toll is not clear.  The IDF first fired a warning strike at the roof, a practice known as “roof knocking”.  Several people got out, but 22 people – including eleven children and five women – were injured when the main explosives came in.  Israel said it was going after a room containing a Hamas operations center, but did not explain why the entire building with 44 apartments had to come down.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is urging Israel and Hamas to go back to Cairo and resume indirect peace talks.  He met with Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.  Afterwards, Egypt’s foreign ministry echoed Abbas’ sentiments and said the two sides should adopt an open-ended cease-fire.  During the last truce, Hamas rejected a plan that would have gradually reopened border crossings to Egypt and Israel.

After a protracted battle that covered the capital in dense smoke, Libya’s main airport at Tripoli is now under the control of an alliance of rebel militias.  They’re apparently Muslim fundamentalists who do not recognize the government and are demanding the return of the old Islamist-dominated parliament.  The newly-elected lawmakers are warning that Libyan forces still loyal to the government could strike back.

Sierra Leone has passed a bill making it illegal to shelter Ebola patients, punishable by up to two years in prison.  President Ernest Bai Koroma must still sign the legislation for it to become law.  Health officials and NGOs have warned that West Africa’s Ebola death toll – so far at 1,427 out of 2,615 infections – is likely an undercounting because there are many people being cared for and dying at home. 

Health officials in the UK are assuring the public that the public risk is “very low” as they consider bringing a British citizen with Ebola from Sierra Leone the UK for treatment.  The patient has not been identified, but medical officers say the UK has a very sophisticated health infrastructure to death with such a case.  Meanwhile, Irish health officials say a man who died in Donegal after working in West Africa did not have the Ebola virus. 

Elsewhere, Manila has ordered 115 Philippine troops to return home from peacekeeping operations in Liberia due to the Ebola outbreak.  And Ivory Coast closed its western borders with Guinea and Liberia because of the Ebola threat.

The death toll in last week’s killer mudslides around Hiroshima, Japan is now 50 lives lost with as many as 39 people still missing.  Intense rain loosened hillsides over the suburban areas on the city’s northern side and sent tons of mud, boulders, and bamboo careening down into homes and apartments below.  The sun is finally out today.  But before that the rain had been pretty constant, making the recovery work slow and dangerous.

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China shut down the annual Beijing Independent Film Festival.  Police harassment has been building in the past few years, and this is the first time authorities stopped it.  Cops raided the founder’s office and confiscated materials he gathered over the years since the first festival in 2006.

Russia is patting itself on the back after its supposed aid convoy left Luhansk, Ukraine for home.  But it’s not clear exactly what was delivered to ethnic Russians in rebel-held areas of eastern Ukraine, because few of the trucks had been searched by anyone, and manifests were not provided.  And Ukraine says the Russians may have made off with industrial equipment, especially stuff related to Russia’s space program.  Kiev and its western friend condemned the convoy as a breach of Ukraine’s sovereignty.