Oz eyes a big jobs package – Italy learns that refugees have mobile video cameras and can catch officials in wrongdoing – UK accuses Syria of murdering a London doctor – And much more.

The government plans to set up a A$100m fund to create jobs in Victoria and South Australia because of Holden's decision to stop making cars there by 2017.  Some 2,900 Holden workers will lose their jobs, not to mentions thousands and thousands more in the smaller shops that make up the supply chain.  The federal government will contribute A$60m to the fund, with the Victorian state government putting in A$12m.

Italy is investigating the mistreatment of African and Middle Eastern migrants on the island of Lampedusa.  An anonymous Syrian refugee secretly filmed detainees being forced to strip naked in mixed company while an Italian worker hosed them down.  The man who took the video says the migrants are being treated like "animals".  Lampedusa came to the world’s attention earlier this year when a migrant ship sank nearby, killing 366 people.

Singapore will deport 53 foreign workers allegedly involved in a riot earlier this month, the worst domestic disturbance in the city-state in more than 40 years.  Labor activists say deporting the 52 Indian amounts to “arbitrary deportation” without trial and raises “grave concerns”.  The riot in the Little India neighborhood broke out after a bus driven by a Singaporean driver struck an Indian guest worker.

Britain’s Foreign Office says a doctor from South London has been "in effect murdered" by the Syrian authorities just days before his expected release from jail.  32-year-old orthopedic surgeon Abbas Khan traveled to the city of Aleppo last year to help people hurt in the civil war, and was arrested by authorities.  The Syrian government has claimed Khan committed suicide by hanging himself with his pajamas, but the UK says an autopsy shows that’s a lie.

As many as 500 people are dead in two days clashes between rival factions in South Sudan.  It follows a failed coup attempt against President Salva Kiir, who put the country under curfew and had ten senior political figures arrested.  He blames soldiers loyal to his former deputy, but the violence has since split people along ethnic lines.

Two drug mules from the UK have been sentenced to six years and eight months in jail for smuggling cocaine in Peru. 20-year olds Michaela McCollum from Northern Ireland and her Scottish friend Melissa Reid initially claimed they were forced by an armed gang to carry drugs, but changed their stories in hopes of getting lighter sentences than the 15 years they were facing.  

Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission is worried about the rise of vigilante groups in areas people are increasingly confronting drug gangs.  Residents armed themselves because they’re getting no protection from the government.  The commission is faulting authorities for helping start up some of the bands by offering members uniforms and vehicles.

And if you’re looking for a used, right-hand drive car, we know of one for sale.  The blue Nissan R34 Skyline that the late Paul Walker drove in “Fast and Furious”, the fourth movie of the franchise, is being offered for A$1.54 Million (It’s not the silver one with the neon from “2Fast”).  The German collector who currently owns it tripled his asking price after Walker’s untimely death in a crash last month.  He claims it’s the only GT-R to make it through the filming of the crash-heavy movie.