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The Green Party of the UK is threatening legal action after the four major broadcasters announced plans to include the ultra-right UK Independence Party (UKIP) in next year’s televised debates, but not the Greens.  The reasoning of the broadcasters seems to defy the reality of Parliament.

Venezuela arrested two men in the gruesome stabbing murder of a promising young lawmaker and his partner in the apartment they shared in Caracas.  Although Venezuela’s murder rate is the second highest in the world, the government has all along intimated that these killings were not the by-product of a robbery.

Liberia’s National Health Workers Association is asking for an increase in the monthly risk fee paid to those brave workers treating Ebola cases.  The government is appealing to nurses and medical assistants not to go forward with a planned national strike as the epidemic rages on.

Oscar Pistorius’ fate is decided this week – Hong Kong appears to bide its time with student protests – There’s a quiet revolution going on in America – And much more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Former Brazilian presidential candidate Marina Silva is endorsing the more conservative challenger against incumbent President Dilma Rousseff in the runoff on 26 October.  This comes after center-right candidate Aecio Neves promised to adopt some of Silva’s issues in his manifesto.

Bolivian President Evo Morales appears to have cruised to a third term according to exit polls of people voting on the weekend election.  Votes were still being counted across the country, but Bolivia’s first indigenous leader seemed on track to get 60 percent of the vote.  At least 50 percent is required to avoid a runoff.

A healthcare worker in Texas is now America’s first person to contract Ebola in the United States, and the second person to catch the potentially fatal virus outside Africa.  US Health officials are promising a full investigation on how the transmission might have occurred.

A major Australian Pol finally speaks out against the coming police state – Putin’s coming to Oz – ZMapp might have saved another Ebola patient – And much more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

A grim warning for a town besieged by Islamic State – There’s a lot of Ebola news.. South America gets its first case, Spain manages to find an experimental drug thought to be all gone, & an American Hospital turned away an Ebola patient with an extremely high fever – Malala Wins the Nobel Peace Prize – And much more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Kim Jong-isn’t.. another no show by the North Korean leader on an important day – Hong Kong protesters want to relight that pilot on their fizzling protests – One of New York’s finest is caught on video apparently helping himself to someone else’s money – The UKIP invades Parliament – And much more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

The UN World Health Organization is warning that Ebola is now entrenched in the capital cities of all three of the worst-affected countries in the Western African Epidemic.  And as the rate of infections accelerate, the developed world’s response is not keeping up.

Investigators looking into the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine as well as some family members of the 298 people killed are upset over a senior Dutch official’s revelation that the body of an Australian passenger had been found wearing an oxygen mask.

Unlike the last two years, North Korean TV this morning die not show video of leader Kim Jong-un making an early morning visit to the mausoleum holding the bodies of his father and grandfather to mark the anniversary of the founding of the country’s ruling (and only) Workers Party.  It’s unusual that Kim would skip such an event, and follows weeks of conspicuous absence from public view.

US Hospitals are holding mock Ebola drills – dress rehearsals, if you will – for the day the killer virus comes knocking on their emergency room doors.  They’re mindful not to repeat the case of Thomas Duncan, the Liberian man turned away from a Dallas, Texas emergency room on his first attempt to get help.

A British man was rushed to hospital in Skopje, Macedonia with what is being described as symptoms similar to Ebola and within hours he was dead.  Authorities sealed off the hotel where he had been staying, isolating a second Briton and hotel staff.

A woman just back from Africa shows symptoms similar to Ebola  – Where is Kim Jong-un and who’s in charge in north Korea? – Brazil’s opposition teams up to try and sink Dilma Rousseff – And much more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Thousands of people held marches to protest the disappearance of students in the southern Mexican town of Iguala last month.  In a country regularly pelted with news of murders and disappearances, the feared fates of the 43 students from a teaching school were particularly egregious.

Thomas Eric Duncan died of Ebola in hospital in Dallas, Texas.  The 42-year old Liberian man was infected with the deadly virus when he assisted a pregnant neighbor who was having troubles getting treatment in Monrovia, and didn’t come down with symptoms until after he arrived in Texas to start a new life with his girlfriend.  His family says Duncan was treated poorly and they were kept in the dark.

Spain’s conservative Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is calling for calm and promising transparency after details became public of his country’s botched response to the first person to person transmission of the deadly Ebola virus outside of Africa.

A British pensioner is back home in England after being freed from a Moroccan prison where he was held for 20-days because he’s gay.  69-year old Ray Cole didn’t know that his family had campaigned for his release after he and a companion were arrested last month.