A patient might have carried the deadly Ebola Virus to North America – Egypt sentences hundreds of political dissidents to death – Some travelers got more than they bargained for when they took the train to the airport – One of Rock’s most distinctive performers is dead – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

The World Health Organization is investigating if Ebola has crossed the border from Guinea – where it has killed 61 people – to its Western Africans neighbors Sierra Leone and Liberia.  Five patients in Liberia have died, but it’s not clear if they had the Ebola virus, which kills up to 90 percent of those infected.  Senegal is also on high alert.  The outbreak of the deadly viral disease in Guinea has killed at least 61 people.  Health officials may have some good news, it appears the virus has not reached the capital city Conakry, despite earlier alerts.

But a man who had just returned from Liberia to Saskatoon, Canada is in isolation in hospital after showing symptoms of Ebola.  Ebola disease is spread by human bodily fluids, and is a hemorrhagic fever that kills by causing severe internal and external bleeding, vomiting, and diarrhea.  The incubation period is as long as 21 days, which is in line with the man in Saskatoon.  Canadian officials say there is no risk to the public.

An Egyptian court has sentenced 528 Muslim Brotherhood activists to death for charges including murdering a policeman and attacks on people and property.  Most of those sentenced were originally detained as part of the massive crackdown on the brotherhood following the ouster of president Muhammed Morsi.  The banned brotherhood is now calling for the downfall of the military government.

Venezuela has stripped a leading opposition lawmaker of her mandate and thus her parliamentary immunity, leaving her open to prosecution for “inciting violence” in the current unrest.  Officials say that Maria Corina Machado contravened the constitution when she spoke against the government at the Organization of American States meeting in Washington – not as a member of Venezuela’s congress, but as a guest of Panama.  Venezuela's authorities say she “acted as a Panamanian official” by accepting the invitation.  Machado is a vocal supporter of the protests and street barricades against the elected government.  She was also a signatory to the legal rationalization of the failed 2002 against the previous elected government. 

China is demanding the US explain itself after news reports said that the National Security Agency (NSA) had hacked into the computer systems of Huawei, China’s largest telecommunications company.  The reports were based on the documents of US intelligence secrets leaked by Edward Snowden, which said the US was looking for links from Huawei’s top executives to the Chinese military.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ham-handed attempt to ban Twitter in Turkey has backfired.  Not only is the social network is vowing not to hand-over any user information to Erdogan’s government, but there have been more Turkish tweets than before the ban.  Users are taking advantage of a myriad of third-party sites that encrypt data in between the user and Twitter, allowing them to circumvent the government’s block.

The operator of a Chicago public-transit train that jumped the tracks and scaled an escalator at one of nation's busiest airports may have dozed off.  The transit workers union says the woman had been working a lot of overtime lately.  The light rail train entered the O’Hare Airport station just before 3:00 AM, crashed through the terminus and got halfway up the escalator, injuring 30 people.

The Japanese architect Shigeru Ban was named the winner of this year’s Pritzker Architecture Prize.  He’s done some big noteworthy projects, but he got the big prize largely because of his work designing shelters after natural disasters in places like Rwanda, Turkey, India, China, Haiti and Japan.  Ban is famous for arriving as soon as possible, and making temporary housing out of transient materials like paper tubes and plastic beer crates.

Singer Dave Brockie, best known as “Oderus Urungus” of the theatrical heavy metal band Gwar is dead at age 50.  Gwar is known for its comically offensive and over the top performances, such as last month at the Soundwave Festival, when Oderus beheaded a pantomine version of PM Tony Abbott.  And he wanted to do it again.  Former Gwar bassist Mike Bishop called Brockie “one of the funniest, smartest, most creative and energetic persons I’ve known.  He was brash sometimes, always crass, irreverent, he was hilarious in every way.  But he was also deeply intelligent and interested in life, history, politics and art.”