Has MH370 finally been found? – NATO’s chief openly worries that Russia may not be done gobbling up neighboring territories – The US and Israel have a rare public spat – Chile’s new president could give a win to environmentalists (and therefore the planet) – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

The Malaysian military is now checking on the information announced by PM Tony Abbott, that two objects that are possibly from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 have been found in the Indian Ocean.  It’s the 13th day of searching for the missing 777.  Previous reports of debris found in the sea have not turned out to be related.

Japan and North Korea are agreeing to resume high-level government talks over Pyongyang's nuclear and missile programs.  The two sides haven’t had such meetings in more than a year.  They also made some progress in earlier talks on repatriation of the remains of Japanese nationals who died in the North during World War II.

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen does not believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin will stop at Crimea.  He says Russia’s annexation of the peninsula from Ukraine is “the gravest threat to European security and stability since the end of the Cold War”.  Rasmussen told a crowd at the Brookings Institution think-tank in Washington, DC that Russia’s actions are a “wake-up call” and that Putin has expansionist goals.

The US is demanding a public apology from Israel’s idiot defense minister Moshe Ya’alon, who declared that Israel could no longer count on America to handle Iran and should unilaterally attack Iran.  Hmmm, two theocracies with nuclear programs in a war.. nah, doesn’t sound like a real good pla, Moshe.  Ya’alon also criticized the US’s handling of the Crimean crisis, which the last time I checked has nothing to do with Israel.  Does Rupert Murdoch have a network in Israel?  Where is this guy getting this?  Anyway, the US isn’t happy and is reminding Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of the annual US$3.1 billion of military aid it gives to Israel.

Officials admit a homeless, mentally ill, but essentially harmless man was “baked to death” in a cell in New York City’s infamous Riker’s Island Jail.  56-year-old former Marine Jerome Murdough was arrested for sleeping in a stair well on a frigid night.  Instead of diverting him to a shelter or a hospital, cops threw him in Rikers, in a closed cell with a faulty heater that never shut off.  It overheated the room to more than 38 degrees, and a week later, Murdough was dead.  His plight was worsened by his anti-psychotic and anti-seizure medication, which may have made him more vulnerable to heat.  And the final insult:  The NYPD never contacted his family.  They found a month after he died when reporters came looking for comment.

Chile is putting the breaks on the massive and controversial HidroAysen hydroelectric project that environmentalists oppose.  Critics say the huge project, with its five dams flooding about 6,000 hectares, would ruin large swaths of the wild and unspoiled Patagonia region in Chile's far south.  Before her inauguration this month, President Michelle Bachelet had said the project is “unviable”.

Maintenance crews spent the day cleaning graffiti off of Paris’ famed Sacre-Couer Basilica.  ‘Seems that Anarchists still aren’t about to forget the smashing of the Paris Commune in 1871 (wikipedia is your friend) and using bold red spray paint, tagged it with with the words “Neither God, nor master, nor state” and “Down with the authorities” and that extra-special expletive just for tourists.  Sacre-Couer in modern times was rededicated to the memories of the 58,000 people who died when France crushed the working-class experiment in self-government.  But it was originally built on a hilltop in the most rebellious neighborhood as a big, fat symbol of authority.

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has resigned his knighthood.  He had been awarded the title “Knight of Labor” – an order of merit given to entrepreneurs – during the 1970s.  But the order’s rules stipulate that members must exhibit “exemplary civil and social behavior”, and Silvio stands convicted of tax fraud and paying for sex with an teenage prostitute.  Some members of the order had been calling for his expulsion.  It comes a day after Italy’s highest appeals court confirmed his two year ban from public office.