Human Traffickers in Italy are charged with Mass Murder – Turkey arrests dozens of cops who were investigating government corruption – New York City has a white flag mystery – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Italian police arrested five men for allegedly murdering dozens of immigrants whom they were smuggling from Libya, and tossing the bodies overboard.  Thee more suspects are charged in the smuggling plot.  Over the weekend, cops found 29 bodies in the hold of boat where 561 others were rescued.  The migrants described a hell ship in which they tried to escape the deadly heat and overcrowding in the hold – but the smugglers stabbed at least 60 migrants to keep the rest quiet.  The other 30 bodies have not yet been recovered.

US Secretary of State John Kerry and his entourage were subjected to metal detector searches – both the walk-through and hand-held types – as they arrived for a meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on the Gaza Crisis.  That’s not the usual procedure for visiting dignitaries, especially those from the US State Department.  Egypt’s reasons for the screening are not known, but relations between Washington and Cairo have been frayed ever since last year’s coup that deposed Mohammed Morsi.

Dozens of Turkish police officers are being detained on suspicion of spying and wire-tapping, but the cops say these accusations are political.  They were all part of the unit investigating high-level corruption in the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.  That investigation led to four ministers losing their jobs and the sons of three ministers being detained by cops.  It also unearthed embarrassing audio purporting to feature Erdogan himself giving his adult son instructions to remove boxes of money from his house.  Erdogan earlier said that he would not rest in his bid to “clean up the state” (of people who were trying to clean the corruption out of his government? – ed.).

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff leads all of the other candidates for her job in a new poll, and would win a runoff against each of the two closest candidates.  But her lead is slipping a bit, and Rousseff received no World Cup bump.  Brazilians returned to life as usual after Soccer’s grand finale earlier this month to reports of increasing inflation and reduced forecasts.

A US Federal Judge is ordering Argentina and its creditors to hold continuous meetings aimed at avoiding default on the South America nation’s debts.  Argentina reached deals to make reduced payments to most of its creditors, but one – an American billionaire and conservative political financier – wants the full payments.  Argentina describes these investors as “vulture funds”.  They have until 30 July to come up with a deal, or Argentina defaults on its debts.

Wow!  Those are some interesting ancient worm brains!  But are they from Earth.. or from Ceti Alpha V?

McDonald’s, KFC/Pizza Hut parent company Yum Brands, and other huge fast food corporations are apologizing after revelations a Chinese company supplied expired meat to the chains.  And it’s not just in Chinese restaurants – Macca’s, Burger King, and Starbucks in Japan all say they sourced meat from that Shanghai Husi Food Company, which is a unit of America’s OSI Group.  Fast Food outlets around Asia are racing to determine what they bought and from where.

Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan finally met with some of the families of the more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram.  Critics say that over the past 100 days, Jonathan has handled the crisis awfully – seeming to be disinterested.  He cancelled several previous attempts by parents to meet him, even one brokered by teenage education activist Malala Yousafsai.  This time, he told the parents that the government is doing everything possible to secure their release.

New York City police want to know who replaced the American flags on top of the world famous Brooklyn Bridge, and replaced them with White banners, which appeared to be American flags measuring 20 feet by 11 feet that had been bleached white.  It appears to be an inside job – the perpetrators who snuck up there knew the exact size of the floodlights they’d need to cover up in order to carry out the stunt under cover of darkness at 3:30 in the morning.  What it political?  A viral stunt for a movie?  The motive is a mystery, and for now the perpetrators aren’t talking.