A priest who refused to abandon his war torn city pays the ultimate price – Watchdogs question elections in Europe – Great video of a container ship running aground in busy Hong Kong – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs.

A well-known Roman Catholic priest who refused to leave Syria during its civil war has been found murdered in the besieged city of Homs.  The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says 75-year old Jesuit cleric Frans van der Lugt ws abducted, beaten, and shot twice in the head.  He had lived in Syria since 1966, and refused to leave Homs as long as there were people there who needed him.  It’s unclear who killed van der Lugt – Syrian government forces, rival rebel groups, or the “Islamic State of Iraq and Syria” (ISIS), a militant faction group so bloodthirsty and vile that even al Qaeda wants nothing to do with it.

Hungary’s conservative Prime Minister Viktor Orban is dismissing critics who say this past weekend’s elections were less than fair.  The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) international monitoring group says restrictive campaign rules and biased media coverage had helped the ruling Fidesz to an easy victory.  Even so, the racist and fascist Jobbik party came away with one out of every five votes cast.

Austria’s president says a right-wing extremist should withdraw from European elections because of racist and thoroughly idiotic comments.  Andreas Moelzer of the ironically named “Freedom” Party is running for re-election to the European Parliament, which he referred to as a “conglomeration of Negroes”.  Moelzer later apologized (for being caught).  Austrian President Heinz Fischer says Moelzer and his mouth have no place in the European Parliament. 

The United Nations is expressing its “deep concern” with mass arrests in Kenya following a killer bombing in a Somali neighborhood.  Security forces arrested some 2,000 Somalis and others in an effort to end attacks by militant Islamists.  At least six people died in the attack in Nairobi’s Eastleigh neighborhood, an enclave of Somalis in Kenya a week ago. 

Construction workers and security guards clashed and shots were fired at Rio de Janeiro’s Olympic Park, the main site for the 2016 Summer Games.  It’s unclear if anyone was hurt.  More than 2,000 construction workers are on strike for better working conditions, wages, and for clarifications on which unions will represent which workers.  Work on a secondary site hasn’t even begun yet, and the International Olympic Committee is openly worrying that its venues will be delayed much like the unfinished stadiums that are supposed to be ready for this year’s World Cup.

Northern Ireland Police arrested and are questioning a man in Antrim, in connection with the Omagh Bombing.  29-people, including a woman pregnant with twins, died in the Real IRA attack in the County Tyrone town on 15 August 1998.  It was the worst single attack during more than 30 years of violence in Northern Ireland, was instantly condemned by all the parties who had just forged the Good Friday Agreement months before, and turned Northern Irish public sentiment against militancy and towards the political process.

Microsoft will stop supporting its Windows XP operating system when Tuesday rolls around to America.  With no more security updates to come, millions of home, school, business, and government computers will be ever more susceptible to hacking and malware with each passing day.  Excluded are the UK and Dutch government, which signed exclusive multiyear support deals that the rest of Windows XP’s loyalists will not get. 

A massive German cargo ship ran aground at Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong.  The owner says the Hansa Constitution might have suffered a loss of power, since it seemed to take a hard turn into ground.  No one was hurt, but hey, you don’t get to see one of these leviathans run aground every day.  Unless everyone in Hong Kong has a mobile phone camera, that is.

BABY POLAR BEARS scamper and frolic at the Munich Zoo!!