Qantas stuns the world with its losses – Japan’s PM can’t seem to quit the War Criminals – Video proof of Russian tanks in Ukraine, has an invasion already begun? – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Qantas is reporting a net loss of A$2.8 Billion for the year to June.  It’s the biggest ever annual loss and three times as big as analysts had expected.  Qantas said weak domestic demand, poor consumer spending, rising fuel costs, and a write down on its international fleet all contributed to the huge loss.

International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde denies any wrongdoing, in a French corruption probe that dates back to her days as France's finance minister in 2008.  Investigators want to know more about her role in an arbitration ruling that handed US$531 million to a French businessman with a checkered past who supported her boss, then-President Nicolas Sarkozy.

China is criticizing Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for sending a message of tribute to a ceremony in western Japan that honors 1,180 war criminals as “martyrs”, including wartime leader Hideki Tojo.  The little-known annual ritual is held at Koyasan, a 1,000 year old graveyard founded by the Buddhist monk Kukai in the mountains about two hours drive outside Osaka.  It’s an amazing place and not all about war criminals at all.  But, China is urging Abe to reflect on Japan’s “history of aggression and make a clean break with militarism”.  A spokesman says Abe sent the message as the head of his party, not as Prime Minister.

Ukraine’s military says a convoy of Russian soldiers and tanks have crossed the Ukrainian border in armored infantry carriers and trucks and entered the eastern town of Amvrosiyivka, south of Donetsk.  Russia has consistently denied sending in big hardware to the separatists.  But video taken on 26 August in rebel-held eastern Ukraine shows a Russian T-72 tank in a rebel column – a vehicle generally not available on the used car market there.

Health ministers from the Economic Community of West African States will meet in Accra, Ghana’s on Thursday to discuss the regional response to the crisis.  US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) head Dr. Thomas Friedan has parts of the three countries worst-hit – Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea – and declared the outbreak “unprecedented” and admitted that “it is going to get worse before it gets better”.  The death toll in the West African Outbreak is 1.427, but it hasn’t been updated since last week. 

Nigeria has had a handful of Ebola cases, killing five people in Lagos.  The government has ordered all primary and secondary schools to remain closed until 13 October, instead of opening next week for the new term as planned.  Some support the plan, others say Ebola has only been found in one state and therefore, other states should be allowed to start the school term on schedule.

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