The latest alleged war crime in Syria is astoundingly loathsome – Cops say an ex-con is a Cannibal Killer – Suicide by Croc – A US official hints at returning troops to Iraq – And much more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

The Assad regime of Syria is suspected of sabotaging measles vaccines administered to children in rebel held territory.  At least 34 children died, more than a dozen others are in serious condition.  Unicef and the World Health Organization, which are administering the ant-measles program, say these are the first problems in some 60,000 vaccinations.

A US military leader says he will recommend the return of ground troops to Iraq to take on Islamic State, if the current campaign of air strikes and support for the Iraqi army and Kurdish Peshmerga fails.  General Martin Dempsey told a congressional panel that for now the international coalition is the “appropriate way forward”. More than 30 countries including Australia have now pledged to support Iraqi troops against Islamic State.

German prosecutors have charged a 93-year old man with more than 300,000 counts of being an accessory to murder at the Auschwitz death camp during World War II.  Oskar Groening of Hannover admits he was a camp guard, but denies taking part in the atrocities.  He’s said to be in good health and was deemed mentally fit to stand trial earlier this year.

The latest polls put the “No” camp slightly ahead of those who want Scotland to declare its independence from Britain.  UK Labour Party leader Ed Miliband had to abandon a walk through Edinburgh, jostled and shoved by reporters and angry campaigners.  US President Bill Clinton weighed in, reflecting Washington’s view that Scots are better off with the union.  Voting takes place on Thursday. 

Fijians braved long queues to vote, and the counting starts on Wednesday night.  It’s the first election since the 2006 coup, and President Ratu Epeli Nailatikau called on all parties to accept the result of what he calls “the first free and fair elections” in Fiji’s history. 

South Korean authorities are holding an America man who tried to swim across The Han River into North Korea.  South Korea’s Yonhap news agency says the man told investigators that he wanted to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.  Just days ago, a North Korean court sentenced another young American to six years of hard Labor for attempting to defect to the Hermit Kingdom

Armed robbers accosted the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.  They ambushed his car, pointed a gun at Cardinal Dom Orani Tempesta, and stole a crucifix and a ring.  One robber recognized him and apologized, and they have stopped the gang from carjacking Tempesta, but they still made off with the goods – at least for a while.  The crucifix and ring, as well as the Cardinal’s mobile were later found abandoned.

Leftist rebels in northwestern Colombia bombed a truck carrying police, killing seven and seriously wounding five.  This attack by the Marxist “Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia” (FARC) as a representative of President Juan Manuel Santos is conducting peace talks with the FARC in Havana, Cuba, to try and end the five-decade civil war.

Elusive girl on a motorcycle takes on litterbugs in Moscow!

(Warning, the following freak news stories are graphic and disturbing)

Authorities say a man in southern Indiana in America’s Midwest stabbed his girlfriend to death, and then ate several of her organs – including part of her brain.  33-year old Joseph Oberhansley had a previous murder conviction.  Police came to his house after the woman failed to show up at work, and found what was left of the woman’s body, as well as a “plate with what appeared to be skull bone and blood” on it, and a skillet and pair of tongs with blood on the handles. 

A 65-year-old woman from Bangkok has killed herself by jumping into a pit of crocodiles.  Witnesses say she took off her shoes and jumped into the pond at Samut Prakarn Crocodile Farm and Zoo.  The same attraction apparently has pretty poor security – it had a similar suicide in 2002 and an earlier one a decade before that.