Two passengers were traveling with false passports aboard a crowded passenger that vanished – Libya threatens to bomb an oil tanker – After eight stinky days, Rio decides that trash collectors are worth a pay hike – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

The search has resumed for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 and its 239 souls, including six Australians.  The Boeing 777-200 was flying at 35,000 feet when it lost contact with air traffic controllers over the Gulf of Thailand.  No distress call was made.  There’s no evidence of the jet in the area where it is assumed to have gone down, no floating debris.  Vietnamese pilots say they say two 12-mile long oil slicks, but that’s not necessarily evidence in waters that are so heavily used by freighters and fishing boats.

The US Navy and American FBI are sending agents and assets to Malaysia to investigate the jet’s disappearance.  No known link to terrorism exists, nor has any group claimed responsibility for what happened or may have happened.  Two passengers appear to have used stolen passports, as the Austrian and Italian names on the passenger list were traced back to people who never stepped foot on the plane, they’re okay.

An IndiGo Airlines plane caught fire upon landing at Kathmandu’s Tribhuwan International Airport in Nepal, but all 175 passengers and crew got off without incident.  The flight had actually landed and was parked in a bay when engineers noticed smoke coming from the right brake assembly.  People were rushed out the inflatable slides while the fire was doused.

Libya is threatening to bomb a mysterious North Korean-flagged oil tanker that had started to load oil from a rebel-controlled port.  Prime Minister Ali Zeidan also says that authorities are ordered to arrest the tanker’s crew.  But the ship may not even be from North Korea – the use of false flags is apparently standard operating procedure in the world of oil smuggling.

Rio de Janeiro has reached a deal with street cleaners after their eight-day strike left the streets and famed beaches piled with rubbish.  The workers are getting a 37-percent pay raise.  They timed their strike to coincide with the start of Carnival, which ended on Wednesday – but their real ally was the weather.  Heavy rain came down this weekend, turning the trash piles into a horrid mess.  It also didn’t hurt that the mayor was caught on video tossing food leftovers in the street, making the problem worse.  Officials, aware of the upcoming World Cup, decided enough was enough.

Warnings, warnings.  Russian troops fired warning shots over the heads of international observers trying and failing to enter occupied-Crimea for a third time.  The US is warning Russia that any moved to annex Crimea would close the diplomacy.  By the way, a lot of Russian natural gas passes through Ukraine, which totally has nothing to do with these two superpowers butting heads over Ukraine.

A former Marxist rebel is favored to win Sunday’s run-off in El Salvador’s presidential election.  Vice President Sanchez Ceren is 10 to 18 points ahead of conservative candidate Norman Quijano in opinion polls, buoyed by public approval of social programs that have helped the poor and middle classes.  The winner will have to confront the reality of criminal gangs that have made El Salvador one of the most violent countries in the world.  A 2012 truce is falling apart, and will have to be renegotiated. 

Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto are taking a 20-percent pay cut, because of the country’s tough economy.  Cabinet members are taking a 10 percent cut.  But the public sector workers’ union is vowing to oppose any such pay cuts forced upon them, and say any pay decreases for civil servants should be voluntary.