Another school is hit by a fierce bombardment in Gaza – Ebola claims a leading doctor – President Obama is urged to help Africa change – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

The UN says Israeli shells crashed down on another school being used as a shelter for 3,000 Palestinian refugees in Gaza, this time at the UNRWA girls' school in Jabaliya in the north – so far, at least 15 people are confirmed dead and dozens are injured.  Palestinian health ministry sources an infant and a medic were among the dead.  Israel’s security cabinet convenes again later on Wednesday to assess the situation in the conflict and consider future steps.

Two more South American nations have recalled their ambassadors to Israel in protest of the Gaza operation.  Chile and Peru have announced they are calling their ambassadors in Tel Aviv. The Chilean foreign ministry cited the more than 1,000 Palestinians killed, including women and children during Operation Protective Edge, now in its 23rd day.  Earlier, Chile cancelled trade talks with Israel.  Brazil and Ecuador pulled their respective ambassadors last week, prompting bizarre insults from the Israeli government about Brazil’s loss in the World Cup tournament. 

Sierra Leone’s top doctor fighting the Ebola outbreak has died of the disease.  Dr. Sheik Umar Khan contracted the virus somewhere along the way while treating dozens of patients.  More than 670 people in four West African nations have died of Ebola disease, unprecedented both in infection numbers and in geographic scope.  The first cases were reported in Guinea, then in Sierra Leone, followed by Liberia, and then in Nigeria last week.

Togo-based Asky Airlines says it is temporarily halting flights not only to Monrovia, Liberia but also to Freetown, Sierra Leone, because of the Ebola outbreak.  Flights will continue to the Conracky, the capital of the third major country where people have died – Guinea.  But passengers there will be “screened for signs of the virus.”

Activists want LGBT Rights on the agenda when US President Barack Obama hosts 40 African leaders for a summit in Washington, DC.  The Human Rights Campaign and Human Rights First say the summit is a “once-in-a-generation moment” to promote equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Africans.  32 of the leaders will come from countries that have laws criminalizing LGBT relationships.

France is offering asylum to Iraqi Christians fleeing areas controlled by the terrorist army “Islamic State”.  The Islamists have threatened to kill Christians who don’t convert to the group’s extreme version of Islam, or leave the city forfeiting their property in the process.  Before the 2003 US-led invasion, more than a million Christians lived in Iraq.

Say, what are those big blowholes, anyway?

Ottawa alleges that Chinese hackers struck the computer infrastructure of Canada’s National Research Council.  It comes as the agency is working on an advanced computer encryption system that is supposed to prevent such attacks.  Beijing denies it.

The last surviving crewmember of the American plane that dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in warfare on the Japanese city of Hiroshima is dead.  Theodore “Dutch” Van Kirk died in a retirement home in Georgia at age 93.  Van Kirk was the navigator aboard the “Enola Gay”, the B-29 Superfortress bomber chosen for the mission.  The death toll from the blast and residual radiation was estimated at about 140,000 by the end of 1945.