More than a dozen students are killed in an al Qaeda attack – A Cuban musician had some choice words for America after a botched attempt to undermine the government – The nuns are in the clear – And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Shiite Muslims are blaming rival Sunni al Qaeda militants for the car bombing in Yemen that killed 25 people, including 15 schoolgirls on a schoolbus.  The al Qaeda were apparently targeting a Shiite official, and botched the attack.  Yemen’s long-simmering sectarian strife might get worse, as Shiites were starting to mass near the defense ministry after an incendiary speech by one of their leaders.

Uruguay’s President Jose Mujica says the US guaranteed him that six Guantanamo Bay prisoners resettled in the South American country were not involved in terrorism.  Mujica produced a document from the US state department after opposition lawmakers demanded proof that the four Syrians, one Palestinian, and one Tunisian were not dangerous.  Mujica agreed to a US request to resettle the men as a humanitarian gesture. 

One of Cuba's most famous musicians is telling a US foreign aid agency to “go to hell” for pulling his son and others into a hair-brained scheme to undermine the Castro Government with hip-hop musicians.  Folk singer Silvio Rodriguez’ son Silvio Liam Rodriguez was one of those rappers contacted by a front group hired by the US Agency for International Development (USAID), and encouraged to write songs to challenge the Cuban government – all done without telling the musicians that they were being played by Washington.  The younger Rodriguez had to relocate to Miami.

Several passengers were slightly hurt when a Seoul, South Korea to Dallas, Texas flight hit incredible turbulence shortly into its journey.  The American Airlines flight with more than 200 people had to put down at Narita, Japan.  The shaking sent people, objects, and even the big meal carts flying around the cabin.  Flight 280 got caught in the same nasty winter storm that dumped tons of heavy, wet snow all over northern Japan.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met with business and labor leaders to encourage higher wages for workers.  His “Abe-nomics” revitalization program isn’t exactly having the intended effect, and more people are falling being as income and wealth disparity grows.  Companies whose bottom lines have been fatten by Abe-nomics are sitting on huge piles of cash, but are reluctant to increase wages.

The Iraq War veteran who killed his ex-wife and five members of her family near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is dead of “self-inflicted cutting wounds in the center part of his body”, authorities said.  35-year old former US Marine meteorologist Bradley William Stone was the subject of an intense manhunt after the killing spree.  He is believed to have used a sword and a .40-calliber handgun in the murders. 

The Vatican released a report that offers an olive branch to beleaguered US nuns, who had been accused by church conservatives (old men in dresses) of “radical feminism”.  The probe, initiated under the reign of Pope Benedict XVI, found that instead of smoking pot and singing “The Internationale”, the nuns were “selflessly tending to the spiritual, moral, educational, physical and social needs of countless individuals, especially the poor and marginalized”.