An accidental route appears that might stop a war – Americans are not on board with plans to attack Syria – And there are new calls to resolve old crimes against humanity.  That and a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs.

US President Barack Obama says Russia’s suggestion to have Syria place its chemical weapons under international control is a “potentially positive development”.  The idea was actually raised by mistake; Secretary of State John Kerry during unscripted remarks opened the door to Syria surrendering its chemical weapons, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov ran with it.  Tuesday night, Obama is scheduled to address the American people about possibly attacking Syria to answer for the 21 August chemical attack on civilians east of Damascus.

If the Russian plan does come together, it gives Obama a much-needed way out.  A new poll says a vast majority of Americans are not sold on the need to launch a military attack on Syria. More than three-quarters of Americans (including 7 in 10 Democrats and about 9 in 10 Republicans) say his administration has not clearly explained what the country’s goals would be in Syria.

Chilean opposition leader Michelle Bachelet is calling for a full investigation on the human rights abuses committed during fascist dictator General Augusto Pinochet's 17-year rule, which began with a bloody, murderous coup 40 years ago this week.  At a ceremony to commemorate the events, Bachelet demanded an end to impunity and said Chileans had the right to find out what happened to the victims.

The search for justice reaches from Santiago to Central Florida of all places.  Lawyers for the widow of murdered Chilean folk singer Victor Jara have filed suit against the man suspected of killing him, Pedro Pablo Barrientos Nunez, a former military man who fled to America after the Chilean Junta fell out of power.  Barrientos was given American citizenship in the 1990s, and eventually landed in a hovel in a low-income town of tract homes in the Sunshine State.  Joan Jara is seeking punitive and compensatory damages from Barrientos, now in his 60s.

Thousands of Muscovites came out for a rally for Alexei Navalny, the opposition leader who didn’t win the election for Moscow Mayor this weekend.  You wouldn’t know that by the size of the crowd of supporters.  Navalny demanded a recount after the official results showed the Kremlin-backed candidate got just enough votes to avoid a second round runoff.

Right wing parties won Norway’s election, raising the prospect of a government including the anti-immigration Progress Party, whose most-famous ex-member was Anders Behring Breivik; he’s the murderous coward who set off bombs in Oslo and then went on a shooting spree at a Labour Party youth camp, eventually killing 77 people.  After Breivik’s 2011 murders, the progress party toned down its anti-Islam rhetoric.  It’s now allied with the larger conservative Hoyre party of Erna Solberg, who was expected to become prime minister.

At least 60 people are dead in the Central African Republic in renewed fighting between former rebels and forces loyal to President Francois Bozize, overthrown in March.  It’s the first large offensive launched by the Bozize forces since he was toppled.

American spies might have recordings of radio transmissions on the day United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold was killed in a plane crash in what was one Rhodesia, now known as Zambia.  He was traveling on a peace mission to Congo in 1961 when something caused the DC-6 to crash.  A 1962 investigation failed to pinpoint the cause.  But now a UN commission says there is evidence to show if an aerial attacked downed Hammarskjold’s plane, and that the US National Security Agency (NSA) was recording radio transmissions that would shed light on the crash.

Speaking of the NSA, a new report says the Americans spied on Brazil’s Petrobras Oil Company.  President Dilma Rousseff says if true, that is industrial espionage and not acceptable.  The revelation came from Brazil’s Globo television network and reporter Glenn Greenwald, the journalist working with fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden.

At least 43 people are dead and dozens more injured after a bus left a bridge in western Guatemala, plunging 200 meters into a ravine.  The recovery operation is complicated by the bus’s resting place, between a steep cliff and a fast-moving river. 

Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is under criticism for his claim that the Fukushima Nuclear accident is under control.  He made the claim during Japan’s successful final pitch for the 2020 Summer Olympics.  But most experts believe that NO, the triple melt-through at Fukushima is far from “under control”.  But a poll by Japan’s Asahi newspaper over the weekend found that 95 percent thought Fukushima was a serious problem.