A woman is stoned to death outside a courthouse – China is scrapping millions of cars to clean the air – Not a lot of voters are bothering with Egypt’s presidential election – Maybe – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

A pregnant Pakistani woman was stoned to death in broad daylight, right outside the High Court in Lahore, for marrying against her family’s wishes.  Farzana Bibi’s father, brothers, and former fiance attacked her with bricks and sticks – the younger men fled but the father turned himself in to police.  The family was heading to court because they had accused her husband of kidnapping her, but she was going to testify on his behalf.

The Sudanese woman sentenced to death for religious apostasy has given birth in prison.  Meriam Yehya Ibrahim Ishag was raised a Christian and married a Christian man – But a Sharia law court decided she was a Muslim by default because her father was a Muslim, and her refusal to renounce Christianity was a capital offense.  She was also sentenced to 100 lashes once she recovers from childbirth.  Western embassies and rights groups are asking Sudan to knock the hell off and respect Meriam’s right to choose her religion.

Thousands of students, faculty and other mourners have gathered at the University of California in Santa Barbara to remember the six young people killed and 13 wounded in a rampage on Friday night.  Richard Martinez, whose son Christopher Michaels-Martinez was among those shot dead, called for stricter gun control, saying, “life doesn't have to be like this”. 

China will fight its horrible air pollution problem by taking six million smoke belching cars that don’t meet emission standards off the road.  More than 300,000 cars will be decommissioned in Beijing alone, where 31 percent of the smog is caused by cars.  China last week announced it is buying huge volumes of Russian natural gas to replace the filthy coal used to fuel its power plants.

Interpol has issued an international alert for the former President of Ecuador Jamil Mahuad for alleged embezzlement during his term in the late 1990s.  He’s now a lecturer at Harvard University and international business consultant based in Massachusetts.  The alert doesn’t detail how Mahuad would have taken the funds.  But during the 1999 financial crisis Mahuad froze all bank accounts and replacing Ecuador's Sucre with the US dollar.  Half of the country’s banks shut down and many bankers were accused of absconding with depositors’ funds.

Cameroon is deploying an additional 1,000 troops to patrol its border with Nigeria because of the threat posed by Boko Haram.  The soldiers will carry out reconnaissance missions and engage the Islamists if necessary.  Nigeria in the past has accused Cameroon of failing to secure its border, where Boko Haram is able to hide from the Nigerian military.

Voting in Egypt’s presidential election has been extended for another day.  The turnout has been low, and authorities apparently want to get that total vote up any way they can.  A higher voter turnout would lend legitimacy to the winner, which is almost certainly going to be former military chief Abdul Fattah al-Sisi.  Islamists are boycotting the vote, as are Leftists who fear a return to the oppressive policies of the Hosni Mubarak regime.

Despite widespread opposition, Poland’s last Communist leader Wojciech Jaruzelski will be buried at Powazki Military Cemetery alongside his fellow World War II veterans.  But there will be no official day of mourning for the man many Poles consider to be a traitorous despot and puppet of the old Soviet Union who suppressed dissent.  Supporters claim he outsmarted his bosses in Moscow and eventually delivered the country to democracy.

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