Dozens more dead coalminers are found in Turkey – China scoops up activists before a dreaded anniversary – Is Jamaica’s power company punishing the innocent? – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

The death toll in the coalmine disaster in western Turkey has been raised to 201 workers dead.  Authorities say 787 people were in the mine but only 360 – including the dead – have been accounted for. Authorities suspect an electrical fault triggered a massive explosion and fire underground. 

Seven Ukrainian soldiers and a pro-Russian insurgent were killed in an ambush near the town of Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region.  It’s the most serious loss of life for the government in its operations against separatists in the Russian-speaking east of the country.  Donetsk and neighboring Luhansk held secession referendums over the weekend, although Moscow doesn’t appear to be in as big of a hurry to annex them as it was with Crimea two months ago.

Police in China raided a dinner party in the eastern city of Hangzhou and detained a dozen people.  Authorities have been rounding up activists and dissidents in the weeks before the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown on 4 June.  Most of those detained are known for calling for democracy and the end of one-party rule in China.

Pakistan charged 68 lawyers for blasphemy after a demonstration, possibly the biggest such case in the country’s history.  Some of the attorneys had shouted slogans against a police officer, who happens to share a name with an associate of the Prophet Muhammad – and for that deliberate misinterpretation, the lawyers face up to three years in prison.  Pakistani authorities have been known to misuse blasphemy laws to settle political scores.

Nigeria is ready to negotiate with Boko Haram from the release of more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram.  Parents have viewed the video released by the group yesterday, and confirmed that all of those displayed are from the Chibok Secondary School, which Boko Haram attacked last month. 

Jamaica’s only electric company is cutting the number of hours it provides power to town where electricity theft is rampant – that means homes and businesses that play by the rules and pay their bills will suffer.  Both major parties call the move “unjust”.  Electricity costs A$0.46 per kilowatt hour in Jamaica, which holds back growth and employment, which begets fewer people able to afford expensive electricity.  Last year, Jamaica detached some 200,000 illegal power hook-ups from people trying to circumnavigate that vicious cycle.

An undersea explorer claims he found what could be one of ships used by Christopher Columbus when he sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492, of Haiti’s north coast.  Barry Clifford claims the evidence points to the ship being the Santa Maria, based on ballast stones that look like they came from Spain or Portugal, and a 15th century cannon that has since disappeared.  Experts say there is much work to be done before Clifford’s claims are confirmed.