An effective Ebola treatment might already exist – Authorities stop alleged recruits to Islamic State – Troops take over the town where cops are suspected of murdering students – And much more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

The French and Guinean governments are considering clinical trials of an existing influenza drug to treat Ebola.  It’s called Favipiravir, marketed as Avigan Tablet.  Fujifilm, the parent company of the drug’s maker, says doctors already gave Avigan to an Ebola patient last month – a French nurse who was infected while working in West Africa.  She was discharged from the French hospital over the weekend.  Doctors in Germany are also using it on a Ugandan doctor who was airlifted out of West Africa after being infected.

Cops arrested a teenager from suburban Chicago as he tried to leave the country allegedly to join Islamic State.  Prosecutors say 19-year old Mohammed Hamza Khan tried to board a flight at O’Hare Airport to Vienna, where he’d connect to Turkey, and then allegedly infiltrate south into Syria.  In Japan, authorities busted a 26-year old Hokkaido University Student who was also allegedly planning to go to Syria to join Islamic State. 

Mexican Federal troops have disarmed local police and taken over security in Iguala, Guerrero state after the discovery of a mass grave and charges that local police conspired with a criminal gang to kill students and hide the bodies.  At least 22 police officers have been arrested in the expanding investigation.  Guerrero’s government says the majority of police in his state have been co-opted or infiltrated by organized crime. 

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta confirmed will be appearing at the International Criminal Court in The Hague on Wednesday for a hearing in the war crimes case against him.  Kenyatta denies charges of organizing ethnic massacres that killed 1,200 people after the 2007 elections.  The Wednesday hearing is to set a date for his trial to begin.

A British pensioner is facing his 70th birthday in jail in Morocco on some pretty stupid charges.  Moroccan police demanded to see Ray Cole’s smart phone and were offended by a photo on the device.  The family says Cole – who came out as gay a few years ago – is being forced to sleep on a concrete floor of a cell shared with 60 other people, including some jailed for violent crimes.  Police have not explained how a private photo on Cole’s phone could offend anyone in the country, and it’s not clear why they targeted him.

The European Parliament has rejected Hungary's EU commissioner-designate as unsuitable for the education and culture post.  Tibor Navracsics was part of Hungary’s right wing government that was widely criticized in the EU for allegedly undermining civil liberties, forcing Hungary’s PM Viktor Orban to amend the constitution.  This is seen as a stumble on the part of incoming EU president Jean-Claude Juncker, who will have to do some reshuffling to get his cabinet through.

South and North Korean patrol boats traded fire after the boat from the north intruded across the sea border near Yeonpyeong Island, where several clashes have occurred in the past.  The clash involved something more than warning shots but less than actually aiming at each other.