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Two British men working with a human rights organization went missing in Doha while investigating the deplorable working conditions of foreign workers building Qatar’s 2022 World Cup venues have gone missing.  Relatives are worried that they may have been captured by police and are being tortured.

Boko Haram is quickly gaining new territory – Al Qaeda threatens India – Putin hopes for a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine by Friday – And much, much more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

US President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron are on the same page when it comes to dealing with Islamic State’s (IS) terrorism in Syria and Iraq, as well as Russia’s aggressive actions in the east – their answer is to strengthen the NATO alliance.

Authorities in Chile have charged two former military officers and an ex-army prosecutor in the notorious 1973 murder of popular singer Victor Jara, murdered by Augusto Pinochet’s fascist goons with American backing at the onset of what would become a bloody 16-year dictatorship.

On the day that the UN World Health Organization (WHO) announced that Ebola deaths in the West African Outbreak have topped 1,900, officials in Canada are working out how to transport up to a thousand doses of an experimental vaccine to the place where it is needed the most.

The UN World Health Organization (WHO) says more than 1,900 people have died in the West Africa Ebola Outbreak, out of 3,500 confirmed or probable infections.  WHO leader Dr. Margaret Chan says the outbreak is “the largest and most severe and most complex we have ever seen”.

Islamic State (IS) released a new video threatening Russian President Vladimir Putin that it plans to come to Russia and “free Chechnya”, while showing militants posing on a Russian-made Sukhoi fighter jet at Syria’s Taqba Air Base captured from Syrian government forces.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reshuffled his cabinet on Wednesday, bringing in five more women into the cabinet; putting a free-marketeer in charge of the world’s largest retirement fund; and reassigning the author of a sales tax hike that caused the economy to shrink.

Australia swaps India for Russia – Obama orders more troops to Iraq – Two men are freed from prison after decades on death row when DNA tests absolve them of a heinous crime – And much, much more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

The world is losing the battle against Ebola – that's the damning conclusion from the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), or Doctors Without Borders.  MSF’s International President Dr. Joanne Liu castigated world leaders for protecting their own borders instead of helping contain Ebola at the source – a response she calls “lethally inadequate”.

The first human trial on an experimental Ebola vaccine is set to begin in the United States this week.  The vaccine is being developed by the US National Institutes of Health and the pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK).  Officials say it has already “performed extremely well” in tests on primates.

The terrorist group Islamic State (IS) is threatening to murder a British hostage, this announcement made at the tail of the horrific video in which an extremist known as “Jihadi John” beheaded a second American journalist identified as Steven Sotloff.  Two weeks ago, Sotloff’s life was threatened at the end of the video showing the beheading of his fellow American James Foley.

The Kremlin is doing damage control after Russian President Vladimir Putin reportedly said, “If I want, I will take Kiev in two weeks,” comments made to European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso.  Russia says this was a private diplomatic conversation from which one sentence was taken out of context.

The US military attacked al Shabaab militants in Somalia, according to the Pentagon.  It comes after al Shabaab carried out a car bombing in the capital Mogadishu, and Somali government forces retook control of a prison that had come under attack by the terrorist group.

Oz gets the green light to help arm the Kurds – Israel’s West Bank land grab is not very popular – The bloody dolphin hunt is back on in Western Japan – And much, much more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

The US is calling on North Korea to free three American detainees, after Pyongyang brought the three out of gulag to speak with foreign news outlets, a complete surprise to the CNN and Associated Press reporters who were allowed into the hermit kingdom to cover a completely unrelated story.

The United Nations is sending Human Rights investigators to Iraq to document reports of “acts of inhumanity on an unimaginable scale”.  These include beheadings, crucifixions, and other killings; forced conversions; slavery and sexual abuse.

NATO ministers this week are expected to approve plans to create a rapid response force of 4,000 troops that could “travel light but strike hard” at any potential trouble spots along the alliance’s eastern border, in case of Russian aggression.

UK Prime Minister David Cameron unveiled plans to fill what he described as “the gaps” in Britain’s anti-terrorism efforts.  But the Tory PM was forced to shelve certain portions of the plans after political and legal opposition, and failing to secure the support of his Lib-Dem coalition partners.

Anger in Hong Kong – Two are killed in a rampage shooting on New Zealand’s South Island – Putin drops his broadest hint yet that he’s looking to annex more of Ukraine – And much, much more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs: