Ebola’s frightening march across Western Africa – Sending Australians to Ukraine is “Nuts” according to a military official – Israel extends its Gaza ceasefire, Hamas does not – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

An American doctor is among the latest to catch Ebola. Dr. Kent Brantly of Fort Worth, Texas was working with a religious group to provide medical aid in Monrovia, Liberia, one of four countries now involved in the West African Ebola Outbreak – the deadliest on record.  Brantly is being treated in hospital.  This strain of Ebola has been fatal in 60 percent of reported cases.  Several other doctors and nurses have contracted Ebola, including Sierra Leone’s lead doctor in the fight, Dr. Sheik Umar Khan.

Nigeria is racing to protect its borders and customs entry points, after a man from Liberia collapsed at the Lagos airport and later died of Ebola.  He had been a passenger on flight from Liberia, and was reportedly sweating and suffering diarrhea and nausea on the flight.  Ebola is transmitted through bodily fluids, and that poor bloke was pretty much putting out as many as possible.  Nigeria is Africa’s most-populous country, and preoccupied with fighting the Boko Haram Islamist insurgency in the north.

In Sierra Leone, a woman with Ebola who was taken from the hospital by her family last week is dead after turning herself in.  The woman was the first registered case in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown.  The woman and her parents were brought to Ebola treatment centers in the east of the country, where she died.  But things could get decidedly worse in Freetown – she was just one of dozens of people who tested positive for Ebola, but took off out of fear and misunderstanding of the international medical effort.

Thousands marched on Sierra Leone’s main Ebola treatment center in Kenema.  A police official said that a former nurse who claimed that “Ebola was unreal and a gimmick aimed at carrying out cannibalistic rituals” whipped up the crowd.  Police restored calm and have beefed up their presence around the treatment center.  Fighting Ebola in some parts of Sierra Leone has been a nightmare, because the local population has been susceptible to rumormongering and many put more trust into traditional local medicine than western science.

France is vowing to bring back all of its victims of Air Algerie Flight 6289, which crashed in the desert of Mali in bad weather last week.  54 of the 118 people killed were from France.  Other passengers and crew were from Burkina Faso, Lebanon, Algeria, Spain, Canada, Germany and Luxembourg.  The black box flight data and cockpit voice recorders have been recovered from the wreckage of the McDonnell Douglas MD-83.

A senior Australian defense official says it is “nuts” for Prime Minister Tony Abbott to send 190 armed Australian Federal Police and an unknown number of ADF personnel to the crash site of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine.  The official who was quoted by Fairfax News says the crash site: is too large; it’s unstable because of the presence of pro-Russian separatists; would be difficult to police because of the language barrier.  Although Abbott insists it’s a peaceful, “humanitarian” mission, armed personnel are necessary to secure the site.  The conventional wisdom is that pro-Russian separatists downed the flight by mistake with a surface-to-air missile provided by Moscow.

UK Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg says it’s “unthinkable” that Russia should host the 2018 World Cup following the downing of MH17.  He’s calling for the soccer tournament to be moved as part of tougher economic sanctions on Moscow.  FIFA has so far rejected calls to move the 2018 World Cup.

The exact state of the Gaza truce is in flux.  Israel agreed to a 24-hour extension, allowing survivors to go back to what’s left of their homes.  But Hamas has not signed on, saying that an extension of the truce is meaningless while Israeli tanks and troops are still in Gaza.  147 more bodies were recovered, bringing the Palestinian death toll above 1,100 – which the UN last week said was 74 percent civilian.  42 troops and three civilians died on the Israeli side.  Palestinians are pushing for Hamas to accept the ceasefire to give people more time to grieve and prepare for the Eid al-Fitr holiday.

The US evacuated its Embassy personnel from Tripoli, Libya and recommended all Americans leave the country amid clashes between rival militias.  It’s the worst violence in the capital in three months, and the country hasn’t been terribly stable since the overthrow and killing of dictator Moammar Ghadafi.