The Kremlin insists LGBT athletes will be safe in the next Winter Olympics – Britain mulls its options as Spain keeps the Gibraltar border crossing slow and costly – And India joins an elite group of military powers.  If elected, I promise to provide a “suppository” of news (Really, Tony? Really?) in today’s CareerSpot World News Briefs.

Russian officials are insisting that Gay Athletes competing in next year’s Winter Olympics will not face discrimination as a result of Russia anti-Gay law.  This came after the International Olympic Committee asked the Kremlin to clarify how the law would affect the games in Sochi.  The law fines people for providing so-called “homosexual propaganda” to minors, and critics say its loose interpretation effectively bans any kind of public gay rights event in Russia.

Britain is considering legal action through the European Union as Spain shows no signs of ending its ultra-slow security checks of all traffic at the Gibraltar border crossing.  Spain insists the measures, which were put in after the UK planted an artificial reef that interferes with Spanish fishing activity, are necessary to combat “smuggling”.  Spain is also considering teaming with Argentina to press mutual territorial claims against Britain at the United Nations.

Dutch Prince Johann Friso is dead, a year and a half after being buried in an avalanche in a skiing accident in Austria.  The 44 year old son of Queen Beatrix was skiing off-piste in the back country near Lech in February 2012 when the snow came down, burying him without oxygen for 15 minutes.  Friso suffered a massive hypoxic brain injury, and lingered in a coma since then. 

India has joined the very small club of nations capable of building its own military aircraft carrier.  The INS Vikrant (which means, “courage”) will go through extensive trials and outfitting before entering service in 2018.  Only the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia and France have the capability to design and build such warships; even China’s new carrier is basically a refurb of an older Russian ship.  Two days ago, India launched its first nuclear powered submarine.

Brazil’s bullet train is on hold.  It’s the third delay on taking bids for the long-promised A$20 Billion railway linking Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.  Only one company was had put in a bid, with others pleading for more time to form consortiums and get in the game.

A big fire at Venezuela’s Puerto La Cruz oil refinery has been extinguished.  Officials say lightning sparked the fire at a storage tank of the Puerto La Cruz refinery, sending large plumes of black smoke into the sky and leading to the evacuation of the surrounding area.  Authorities say no one was injured.

New York City’s controversial “Stop and Frisk” program has been ruled “Unconstitutional” by a judge, who says police chiefs have deliberately ignored the fact that cops “stop and frisk” Blacks and Latinos 87 percent of the time.  Only about 10 percent of the searches result in arrest, and a smaller fraction of those involve weapons.

Mobster James “Whitey” Bulger, whose life inspired the Martin Scorcese film “The Departed”, has been found guilty of 31 criminal counts including 11 murders.  Bulger ran the Irish Mob in Boston from the early 1970s through 1995 when he went on the lam for 16 years.  Critics say cops and feds turned a blind eye to his crimes in exchange for Bulger’s information about other criminals.

Speaking of America, did you see this sinkhole near Disneyworld in Florida?  It swallowed a condominium building, which luckily was already evacuated.