Australia seeks details about the Manus Island riot – The US sends an elderly nun to prison – A military chief is canned for seeking to form his own “mafia” – and a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Australia's Immigration Department and Papua New Guinea are each investigating the melee at the Manus Island detention center.  One asylum seeker died and several others were seriously hurt in Monday’s violence.  Immigration minister Scott Morrison says there was no indication PNG police had fired at asylum seekers or that an injured asylum seeker who was shot in the buttocks sustained the injury from police officers.  So.. where did the the shot come from? 

A US court sentenced an 84-year old nun to three years in prison for a peaceful anti-nuclear protest. On 28 July 2012, Sister Megan Rice and two other men cut through three fences at the nuclear weapons plant at Oak Ridge, Tennessee – a facility that is supposed to be one of the world’s most-secure – splashed some red paint signifying blood and hung posters with peace slogans for a full hour before security noticed they were there.  And then, only because the three Roman Catholics were singing hymns and offering to break bread and share wine with the guards. Greg Boertje-Obed, now aged 58, and Michael Walli, now 64 years old, both received prison terms in excess of five years.  Because that’s how America roles.

China has formally rejected the UN report accusing its troublesome ally North Korea of atrocities against its own people on a level not seen since nazi Germany.  One problem Beijing has is that the report blasts China for forcibly returning escapees from North Korea, treating then as illegal migrants.  China is Pyongyang’s only ally and is expected to block any effort to forward the allegations of crimes against humanity to the International Criminal Court.

A female diver from Japan has been found dead, floating off the coast of Bali.  Five of her fellow divers were in desperate shape when they were rescued hanging on to a coral reef far away from the mangroves they were exploring when rough weather blew into the location on Friday.  The seventh diver is still missing.

An Islamist militant group issued an ultimatum to tourists to leave Egypt by Thursday or face attacks. Egyptian authorities say they are taking the threat very seriously, and have especially stepped up security in the Sharm El Sheikh resort area.  This comes after a bomb planted on a tourist bus killed three South Korean visitors and their Egyptian driver. 

Five generals including the chief of Colombia’s armed forced have been sacked.  Military boss General Leonardo Barrero was shown the door for suggesting that officers form a “mafia” to thwart investigators looking into the killings of thousands of civilians that were written off as rebels killed in combat.  Four more top generals were let go because of massive wrongdoing in military contracts.  The military wrongdoing was exposed in a report by the Colombian news magazine “Semana”.

FIFA says Brazil must pick up the pace of preparations at the new Arena da Baixada in the city of Curitiba, where work at the World Cup venue is lagging way behind schedule.  At least 1,500 workers are now expected on site, and is it hoped the stadium will be completed by mid-May.  It’s one of six stadiums that are so far behind scheduled that there are serious doubts Brazil will be ready for the World Cup.

One of the founding members of the groundbreaking electronic music group Devo is dead.  Guitarist Bob Casale died Monday at age 61, after medical complications unexpectedly led to heart failure.  The band had been into the planning stages of 40th anniversary concerts that were to begin this summer.