Hello, Australia! – Another mass shooting in America, this time in a crowded movie theater – Two Australians come back from Syria:  One is a fallen hero to many, while the other will be investigated as a possible traitor – A Japanese firm takes unprecedented steps to atone for World War II – And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

In stupid, gun-crazy America, a man with a handgun opened fire inside a movie theater in Lafayette, Louisiana with about 100 other people inside.  Three people are dead including the gunman, and seven people are injured.  Witnesses say the shooter stood up and pulled his gun at about 20 minutes into the 7:00 PM showing of the Amy Schumer comedy “Trainwreck”.  They also say the gunman appeared be a 50-something white male. 

Actress Amy Schumer tweeted, “My heart is broken and all my thoughts and prayers are with everyone in Louisiana.”

This latest all-American mass shooting happened on the same day that a jury in Colorado decided that James Holmes is eligible for the death Penalty.  Holmes is convicted of shooting and killing 12 people and wounding 70 in another movie theater attack, this one in Aurora, Colorado in 2012. 

It also happened on the same day that US President Barack Obama gave an interview to the BBC saying that his failure to pass “common sense gun safety laws” in the US is the greatest frustration of his presidency.  Mr. Obama said it was “distressing” not to have made progress on the issue “even in the face of repeated mass killings”. 

A Victoria judge sentenced pedophile cleric Brother Bernard Hartman to three years in prison with one year suspended, and ordered Hartman to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.  Hartman pleaded guilty to four charges of indecently assaulting two girls aged between five and 11 during the 1970s.  He’s also one of eight Roman Catholic Marianist brothers accused of molesting 19 students at Pittsburgh's North Catholic High School.

An Australian nurse claims he was forced by Islamic State to work as a medic in Syria.  Nevertheless, 39-year old Adam Brookman faces arrest and investigation when he arrives back in Sydney back from the Middle East on Friday.  “If there is evidence an Australian has committed a criminal offence under Australia law while involved in the conflict in Syria and Iraq, they will be charged and put before the courts,” said a spokesman for the Australian Federal Police. 

Meanwhile, the body of 23-year old Reece Harding has arrived back in Australia.  As many as 1,000 Kurds are expected to honor him at his funeral on Sunday.  Reece went to the Middle East to fight the terrorists of Islamic State alongside the Kurdish YPG Militia.  His parents are among those who signed a petition calling for amnesty for Australians who travel overseas to fight ISIS.

A court in Guatemala has accepted the country’s forensic authority opinion that 89-year old Efrain Rios Montt is mentally unfit to face a retrial.  The former dictator will be examined at a mental hospital.  Rios Montt is charged with ordering the murders of 2,000 indigenous Maya whom he believed were Leftists during his US-backed rule in the 1980s.  He was already convicted of the genocide in an earlier trial, but the verdict was overturned on a technicality.

Japan’s Mitsubishi Materials Corporation will settle with thousands of Chinese people who say they were used a forced laborers during World War II.  Each of the 3,765 will get about US$16,000.  It’s the first time a Japanese firm has apologized and dispersed cash to Chinese war victims.  Last weekend, Mitsubishi apologized to US prisoners of war also used as forced labor.