Boko Haram is quickly gaining new territory – Al Qaeda threatens India – Putin hopes for a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine by Friday – And much, much more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Boko Haram has captured another town in Nigeria, this time taking control of Banki on the border with Cameroon.  Like the earlier loss of Bama town, government troops are reported to have turned tail and fled.  Boko Haram is starting to resemble Islamic State, not just for its brutality and atrocities committed against civilians, but now for the lightning speed with which the Islamist militant group is capturing territory for its self-proclaimed “caliphate”.  Observers fear the group’s next target is the state capital Maiduguri.

Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri says the terrorist group is starting an affiliate on the Indian subcontinent that will “wage jihad against its enemies”.  Although the area includes India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal, al-Zawahri’s comments were widely seen as directed at India, a largely Hindu nation with a large Muslim minority.  Muslim extremists have struck in India in the past, most notably killing 166 people in the 2008 Mumbai attacks.

An ex-cop in Turkey is sentenced to seven years, nine months for the killing of 26-year-old protester Ethem Sarisuluk in Ankara last year during clashes between police and protesters.  Ethem’s supporters say the judge was too lenient.

A pilot and four people on the ground died when a Libyan fighter jet crashed in the eastern city of Tobruk.  It came amid fierce fighting between Islamist militias and forces loyal to loyal to General Khalifa Hifter.  Libya’s pretty much a lawless mess right now.

Russian President Vladimir Putin hopes that a cease-fire between Ukraine and the rebels in the east will be signed by Friday.  Seems unlikely.  Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko will update western leaders on his discussions with Putin when Poroshenko attends the NATO summit in Wales on Thursday.  Some 2,600 people have been killed in five months of fighting between Ukraine’s army and Russian-backed rebels.

France is halting the delivery of two Mistral-class naval assault ships to Russia.  Officials say the conditions are “not right” for delivery, meaning Russia’s takeover of the Crimean peninsula and support of rebels in Ukraine’s east.  Before this, Paris insisted that it had to honor an existing contract.  Ukraine is thanking France, while Russia says it “adds to certain tensions in relations with our French partners”.

Japan’s government admits that the flight paths of aircraft used by the Prime Minister and Imperial family were posted online to the Flightradar24 website.  The defense ministry says the data had been removed as of 27 August.  And although it wasn’t a real problem, it was probably preferable for security’s sake that the information hadn’t been out on the web for anyone to look at.

Two South Korean soldiers collapsed and died during endurance training.  The exercise involved surviving capture and interrogation by enemy forces, and had the men kneeling down with their heads wrapped in cloth and hands bound behind the back for an hour.  They apparently suffocated.  I comes at a time when South Korea’s military is under fire for alleged bullying that have caused troops suicides.

This is what happens when Buckingham Palace security is handed over to The Ministry of Silly Walks.  The Grenadier Guardsman’s pirouette is under investigation because he’s not there to entertain tourists.