Mexico nabs a major drug kingpin – Spain’s PM is resolute under more and more pressure to quit in a corruption scandal – A horrible end to a French family’s vacation in an island paradise.  That and more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs.

Mexican officials say the leader of the brutal Zetas drug cartel has been captured in northern border town of Nuevo Laredo.  Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, known as “Z-40”, had only commanded the murderous gang for nine months, having come up through the ranks unlike the founders of the Zetas who were former cops.  Trevino is suspected of the torture murders of 72 Central American immigrants who were trying to get to America.

The chief negotiator for Colombia’s FARC Communist guerillas says the 5-decade insurgency is near an end.  FARC is calling on all Left-wing parties to take part and rejoin the political process.  But FARC’s Ivan Marquez is warning against rushing into an agreement, saying a bad peace deal is worse than war.

Spain is apologizing to Bolivia for its role in grounding President Evo Morales’ plane in a vain search for fugitive US leaker Edward Snowden.  Spain's ambassador in La Paz Angel Vasquez delivered a letter to Bolivia’s foreign ministry.  Spain has acknowledged that it got the bad information from the US.

Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is refusing demands that he step down.  This comes after a bad morning in which the El Mundo newspaper published friendly text messages between Rajoy and former ruling party treasurer Luis Barcenas, who is jailed as a potential flight risk pending his corruption trial.  And later in the day, Barcenas reportedly had made new and damaging allegations in a four-hour closed hearing.

British parliamentarians are blasting the slow pace of the investigation into the horsemeat scandal.  Six months after DNA tests revealed that ground beef sold at supermarkets was actually mixed with ground horse, no one has been charged.  The report from the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee demands assurances that “prosecutions will be mounted where there is evidence of fraud or other illegal activity.”

A 15-year-old French girl on holiday was bitten in half by a shark while snorkeling a few meters off shore of Saint-Paul, Reunion Island, a French territory in the Indian Ocean.  Officials had warned people to be alert because of recent shark sightings.  Two months ago, a honeymooner was killed by a shark not too far from the very safe beach.

Japan is taking steps to formally nationalize nearly 400 remote islands and islets in its territorial waters, a pre-emptive move against an increasingly demanding China.  Tensions have been steadily rising between Japan and China over the Senkaku Islands, which Japan has controlled for more than a hundred years, but over which China is attempting to assert an historical claim.