New York gives up a controversial surveillance program – The son of a cop is arrested in one city’s worst-ever mass murder – North Korean agents apparently roam the world defending their leader’s haircut – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

The NYPD has disbanded its special unit that tracked the daily lives of Muslims in the Big Apple.  New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio, a political progressive, says the move is “a critical step forward in easing tensions between the police and the communities they serve, so that our cops and our citizens can help one another go after the real bad guys.”  Detectives had infiltrated Mosques and community centers under the pretense of detecting terror threats.  None were detected and the unit was roundly criticized for racial profiling.

The son of a veteran police officer is under arrest for the worst mass murder ever to occur in Calgary, Canada.  Investigators believe 23-year old Matthew de Grood stabbed five people to death at a house party near the University of Calgary, which he attends.  Two of the dead were identified as members of a local rock band called Zackariah and the Prophets.  Police haven’t identified the suspect’s motive.

A Greek court handed life sentences to two members of the neo-nazi Golden Dawn Party for stabbing to death a Pakistani immigrant.  The two attacked 27-year old Shehzad Luqman as he rode his bicycle home from work in January 2013, during a period that saw a spike in Golden Dawn anti-immigrant violence in Greece.  It was this killing and that of anti-fascist hip hop musician Pavlos “Killah P” Fyssas that finally sparked enough outrage to spur the government to crackdown on the murderous, racist Golden Dawn thugs who pretend to be a political party.

Someone mailed a threat and a bullet to a leading Human Rights activist in Haiti.  Amnesty International says Pierre Esperance, executive director of the National Human Rights Defense Network, got a letter accusing him of publishing false reports aimed at destabilizing President Michel Martelly's government.  A bullet was included with the letter. Esperance and his group have been actively publishing reports that range from the government's alleged ties to drug traffickers to the sluggish case involving Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, the former dictator who faces charges on human rights abuses and embezzlement.

A man says he saved his home from the bush fire that devastated Valparaiso, Chile using beer and soda.  Ehhh, I don’t know about that.

Rumbles through Brazil’s political world: The country’s most-popular environmental campaigner Marina Silva will says she will stand as running mate to pro-business centrist Governor Eduardo Campos, who will run for president against incumbent Dilma Rousseff.  The pairing of political blue blood Campos with Silva threatens to siphon Left-Wing votes from Rousseff, whose popularity has taken a hit during the unrest caused by the bad economy and government spending on the World Cup and Olympics instead of on infrastructure, health care, and education.  The election is 5 October.

The US and China will resume talks on North Korea on Friday, after two “Productive” sessions earlier this week.  The US State Department says, “The United States and China agree on the fundamental importance of a denuclearized North Korea.”  North Korea said last week that the world would have to “wait and see” when asked for details of the “new form” of nuclear test it has threatened to carry out.

North Korean officials paid a visit to a London hair salon to protest a poster that showed the dear leader Kim Jong-Un’s with the caption “Bad Hair Day?”  The manager kicked out the North Koreans, reminding them that they were in London and not Pyong Yang, and called police.  The salon said, unlike North Korea, it offers all styles of haircuts for men – and so far, no one has asked for the “Un”.


MH370:  Nope.