Judges interfere with a plan to end a five decade civil war  – America’s gun violence problem gets absurd – International workers flee war-torn Libya – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos will be sworn in to his second term in office on Thursday.  But the country’s constitutional court is throwing a spanner into his bid to end the five-decade civil war that has killed more than 200,000 and displaced millions.  Justices ruled that Marxist rebels found guilty of war crimes cannot hold public office, a move that will complicate negotiations to bring these groups in from the wilderness and into the political process.  Some leaders face charges ranging from murder to kidnapping, torture, sexual violence, forced disappearances and recruitment of children.

China has evacuated 900 of its citizens from Libya, where the militias that spearheaded the 2011 uprising against Muammar Gaddafi are battling each other in the streets of the major cities, killing hundreds of people.  The Chinese join a growing list of overseas workers to leave Libya, including Americans, Egyptians, Filipinos and Pakistanis.  Britain’s Royal Navy has transported another 93 people out of Libya, now helping more than 200 Brits and EU citizens get out of harm’s way.

Suspected Boko Haram militants attacked a village in northern Cameroon, killing at least ten people.  Last week, the Islamist terrorist group kidnapped the wife of a Cameroonian government official.  It’s a broadening of Boko Haram’s battlefield, which until recently has been limited to its goal of carving out a Sharia Law republic from northern Nigeria.

In gun-crazy America’s gun-craziest state, prosecutors will not charge a man who shot another man ten times, mostly in the victim’s back, because of Florida’s vile and bloody “Stand Your Ground” law.  It says that people get to pull guns and shoot other people if they feel threatened. By all accounts, 21-year old Thomas James “TJ” Brown was a scumbag with a litany of criminal complaints, and there was already bad blood between the former friends when they clashed in a store parking lot in Ocala last month.  But when Brown turned and walked off, and 20-year-old Colt Thriemer opened fire.  And in Florida, USA, that’s okay.

US contractor Alan Gross “may not survive” his Cuban prison term for spying, according to his lawyer.  Gross is gaunt and in ill health, and as reported by CareersSpot news, has said good-bye to his wife and daughter.  He’s angry at Cuba for a harsh, 15-year prison term for what he believes amounts to installing the wrong Internet equipment, and angry with Washington, DC which he believes has abandoned him.  At age 65, Gross is only four years into that sentence.

Two UK women convicted of drug smuggling in Peru will be handed over to British prisons.  Michaella McCollum from Dungannon, County Tyrone, and Melissa Reid from Lenzie, Scotland were each sentenced to more than six years in prison in 2013 after customs officials in Lima found 11 Kilos of cocaine worth some A$2.7 Million in their bags.  Logistics of the transfer could take months to complete.

Speaking of drugs, Spanish police say they’ve seized 127 kilograms of cocaine from a Navy training ship.  Cops arrested three sailors in mid-July, but they didn’t find the blow onboard the Juan Sebastian de Elcano until this month.  Investigators believe the suspects purchased the cocaine in Colombia, sold some in New York City, and brought the remainder back home.

Still speaking of drugs, British singer Marianne Faithfull says her ex-boyfriend killed Jim Morrison, the singer of The Doors, in Paris in 1971.  Why bring it up now?  I don’t know.  Back then, doctors said the beer-bellied lizard king died of heart failure aggravated by heavy drinking, and they skipped the autopsy.  In a new interview with Mojo Magazine, Faithfull says her then-boyfriend Jean de Breiteuil, known as “heroin dealer to the stars”, sold exceptionally powerful drugs to Morrison.  The death, she believes, was accidental.  Now, if I could just remember who Marianne Faithfull is…