Brazil’s president says World Cup protests have another political goal – A man is missing after a croc attack in Kakadu – Egyptian cops officially get away with murder – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

A man is feared dead after a crocodile attack in the Northern Territory.  The man was in a boat with his wife, son, and daughter-in-law on a billabong in Kakadu National Park east-southeast of Darwin.  Police and park rangers are searching for any sign of the man and the beast.  It appears to be the second major croc attack in Kakadu this year.  In January, a croc killed a 12-year old boy.

Meanwhile, a man died in a fall in Royal National Park.  He was walking with a group on the cliff just north of Little Marley Beach, but lost his footing and fell 10 meters.  Police say the body will take some time to retrieve.

Australia Post reportedly will announce this week that it is cutting 900 jobs.  It’s apparently incurring large financial losses with the decline of traditional mail.  Australia Post this year already raised the basic postage rate from 60 cents to 70 cents to offset growing losses.

Rio de Janeiro will not be able to clean a hideously polluted waterway in time for Olympic Sailing events in 2016.  Mayor Eduardo Paes says the target of reducing pollution in Guanabara Bay by 80 percent won’t happen, but he says it probably won’t harm the health of Olympic sailors.  Rio regularly dumps untreated sewage  into the bay, and residents have for decades used it as a garbage dump.

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is starting to take the criticism personally.  With a subway strike paralyzing Sao Paulo in its third day jus days before the kickoff of the 2014 FIFA World Cup and job actins by teachers, cops, and others in the past few weeks, Rousseff says there’s a political motivation to the unrest.  “Today, there is a systematic campaign against the World Cup – or rather, it is not against the World Cup but rather a systematic campaign against us,” she said, pointing out presidential elections coming up in October.  Many in Brazil are upset over the US$11 Billion spent on the Cup at the detriment of education, healthcare, and infrastructure.

Meanwhile, pressure is mounting on FIFA after another round of secret documents casting doubt on the integrity if the choice of Qatar as the host of the 2022 World Cup.  Qatar has claimed that former football official Mohammed bin Hammam played no role to influence FIFA to pick the tiny Gulf nation.  But The Sunday Times of London reports it has seen documents that disputes that.  Last weekend, the Sunday Times reported that bin Hammam paid out A$5.4 Million in cash and goodies to land the tournament.

Egypt has thrown out the convictions of four police officers in the gruesome murders of 37 detainees.  It happened last August – the cops threw tear gas bombs into the back of a vehicle taking the men, supporters of deposed president Muhammad Morsi, to prison.  In the heat of the overcrowded van, the men asphyxiated.  Another Egyptian court convicted ten men in absentia, for allegedly being members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood. 

In Cairo, former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will be inaugurated today, after his landslide (and questionable) victory in last moth’s elections.  Aside from stomping out all dissent, al-Sisi says the nation’s divided factions need to get to work, which will lead to “prosperity and luxury”.  In Europe, Petro Poroshenko was sworn in as Ukraine’s new President, promising to bring peace to the restive east one way or another. 

Colombia and the FARC Marxist rebels have agreed to set up a truth commission to investigate the deaths of thousands of people over the 50 years of civil war.  The FARC and the government have so far blamed each other for the deaths of 220,000 people and the displacement of at least 3 million.  Peace with the rebels is the lynchpin in President Joan Miguel Santos’ reelection campaign, which reached a crescendo with the run off election with ultra-conservative challenger Oscar Zuluaga.  The FARC have announced another cease-fire to allow that election to go forward.

Facepalm!  Nigeria’s military raided newspaper distribution centers, harassing vendors and delivery drivers and destroying copies of newspapers.  The Nigerian government and President Goodluck Jonathan are facing public pressure to do more to tackle a bloody insurgency by Islamist Boko Haram militants in the north.  I guess cutting people off from critical information must be easier.  SMDH.

Actor Tracy Morgan of the American sitcom “30 Rock” and “Saturday Night Live” is in intensive care after a fatal traffic collision involving a limousine bus he was riding.  It happened on the New Jersey Turnpike outside New York City early on Saturday morning.  Cops say the bus was struck from behind by a big rig truck, and the pile up involved a total of five vehicles.  The driver of the truck, 35-year old Kevin Roper of Georgia, has been charged.

The student who stopped a mass shooting at a college in Seattle is being feted with wedding gifts.  On Thursday, a mentally disturbed man with a shotgun on the campus of Seattle Pacific University killed one person and wounded three more.  Jon Meis disabled the gunman with pepper spray and tackled him – permanently ending the idiotic notion barfed by US gun nuts that only a “good guy with a gun” can stop a “bad guy with a gun”.  Now, thankful people are visiting his wedding registry online and paying for his gifts.