Hello, Australia! – Students against the government university plans get pepper sprayed – Ukrainian Parliament Fists of Fury! – The funeral for three slain Muslim students in America is so large it spills outside the local mosque – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Cops pepper sprayed a group of student protesters who were speaking out against the government’s university deregulation scheme.  This happened at the Sydney Masonic Centre just before 11:00 AM, protesters say they tried to get in the building to protest where Education Minister Chris Pyne was speaking, and the cops responded with the noxious spray.  Several people were treated at the scene.  NSW cops have had no comment about why it escalated so quickly.

Labor has finally secured enough seats to form a minority government in Queensland, with Annastacia Palaszczuk as the new Premier.  Labor won 44 seats in the recent election, and will be joined by independent Peter Wellington to reach the required 45. 

Woo Hoo!  Getting ready for Carnival!

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is warning that Russia will face another round of economic sanctions on Russia, if the Kremlin fails to fully implement its end of the Ukraine ceasefire plan.  Merkel and her counterparts from Ukraine, France, and Russia sealed the deal after marathon talks in Minsk on Thursday.  Moscow-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine have signed on to the agreement. 

Two right-wing lawmakers in Ukraine took their debate into the halls of Parliament and were caught on video bashing each other’s faces.  Yegor Sobolev and Vadim Ivchenko duked it out old-school without any of that MMA stuff the kids like nowadays.  Apparently they had a difference of opinion on an anti-corruption bill.

Not to be outdone, South Africa’s parliament flew into chaos in the middle of President Jacob Zuma’s State of the Nation address.  The leader of the “revolutionary Socialist” Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) Party Julius Malema repeatedly interrupted Zuma to demand answers about a spending scandal.  The speaker of parliament ordered security to remove the red-clad EFF bloc, and fights ensured.  And then, the largest opposition party, the Democratic Alliance, walked out to protest the EFF’s forced removal.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says its workers are attacked ten times a month as they try to fight the Ebola epidemic in Guinea.  ICRC volunteers collect and bury the victims, including in rural areas where people adhere to traditional medicine and falsely believe the outsiders are spreading the disease.  BTW, those Ebola bodies the volunteers so bravely deal with remain infectious for at least a week after death, according to a new study.

Some 5,500 people gathered for a funeral and prayer service for the three Muslim students murdered by a neighbor in a dispute over a parking space at a condo in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.  Because so many people came, the main service was moved from the large mosque to an athletic field across the street.  The FBI announced it will run a “parallel inquiry” into whether the murders were also a hate crime.  The big fat ugly redneck suspect is charged with three counts of First-Degree Murder, but prosecutors haven’t said whether they will pursue the death penalty.

Tokyo’s Shibuya Ward is drafting a plan to issue certificates to same-sex couples that recognize their partnerships are “equivalent to marriage”.  Marriage equality is not legal in Japan.  And even though there are LGBT people all over the place when you turn on the TV, it presents a false perception of what is really happening.  People in same-sex relationships frequently face discrimination when trying to rent apartments, or when trying to visit ill partners in hospitals that don’t recognize their families.  The statute will be presented to Tokyo’s municipal assembly next month.

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