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Investigators uncover disturbing information in the search for Flight MH370 – Hong Kong votes for Democracy, despite Beijing’s alleged interference – Washington and Cairo are ready to make nice – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Iraq’s government appears to have lost control of its western borders, as militants with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have added the border crossing into Jordan to its collection of border crossings into Syria.  It gives ISIS control of vast territory from which to launch a well-supplied attack on Baghdad.

New pressure on Iraq’s sectarian divide, as Sunni rebels now appear to control the western border – The central figure in one of the UK’s worst miscarriages of justice is dead – The Pope takes on the Mob – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

The world’s refugee crisis has now reached proportions not scene since the last World War – A doctor frets that Ebola is “out of control” – An infamous wrongful conviction will cost New York City – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

The jury in entertainer Rolf Harris’ trial in London is set to enter its second day of deliberations.  Harris is charged with twelve counts of indecent assault against four girls in the UK between 1968 and 1986.

Barely six months after the last Australian troops pulled out of Iraq, a small contingent of Aussies is going back to protect the embassy.  This, as a force of thousands of Sunni militants have taken control of much of the north and are threatening to move on the capital Baghdad.

The CEO of the company that operated the sunken South Korean ferry and four executives are to appear in court to enter pleas.  Prosecutors say their negligence caused the disaster that left more than 300 people dead or missing two months ago.

The United States is slapping Uganda and some officials because of the controversial and ugly law signed earlier this year by President Yoweri Museveni that makes criminalizes LGBT relations and makes certain acts punishable by life in prison.

A South African official is accused of taking a bride as a bribe – Health officials are fighting the rapid spread of a very a painful disease – Find out which hilarious two words will get you fired as Ukraine’s Foreign Minister – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko finds himself in the middle of two angry sides with his proposed ceasefire with pro-Moscow separatists in the east.  The militants are rejecting it, and his constituents in Kiev say they didn’t go through all of the trouble and bloodshed of the Euromaidan protests just to make nice with Russian aggression.

US President Barack Obama is deploying 300 military advisors to Iraq as the government in Baghdad faces a deadly insurgency from Sunni radicals.  Australia is still sizing up the situation there, and would consider assistance requests from the US or Iraqi governments.

Japan’s high-concept plan to seal off the world’s worst running, open sore is running into trouble.  The plan is to contain leakage from the triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant by freezing the soil around it and creating an underground ice wall.  However…

Prosecutors in Brazil are charging Latin America’s largest construction company with “human trafficking” and forcing workers to toil in slave labor-like conditions.  They’re demanding the equivalent of A$240 Million in compensation for 500 workers.

The death toll from the West African Ebola outbreak has jumped to 337 with the reporting of new cases, and new theaters in which health officials are battling a viral disease with no vaccine and no cure.  And doctors are unsure as to how they are going to continue.

Spain gets a new King, whether people liked it or not – The Vatican is stamping out rumors – And a bad news bear interrupts a game – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

The scourge of child pornography has become a worldwide “epidemic” on the Internet, according to an organization that coordinates law enforcement agencies to fight it.  Even countries that were loath to admit the problem are now taking steps to deal with exploitation of children.

Iraq has formally asked the United States to launch air strikes against the ISIS militants who’ve seized much of Iraq’s north and are poised just 60 kilometers from Baghdad.  US President Barack Obama is considering a constantly updated list of targets to hit, if a strike is ordered.

An overloaded wooden boat carrying nearly 100 immigrants from Indonesia sank in the Strait of Malacca off Malaysia’s west coast.  Malaysian officials fear as many as 66 people may have drowned.

A suicide bomber in dangerous northeastern Nigeria drove a tricycle taxi packed with explosives to an outdoor venue for watching the world cup, and set it off.  A local hospital says it has counted at least seven people killed and 15 with life-threatening injuries, but that death toll is likely to grow as the situation becomes clearer.

Over the objections of scientists, environmentalists, labor unions, and the First Nations indigenous population, Canada’s conservative government has approved a pipeline known as the “Northern Gateway” to send crude oil from Alberta’s tar sands to the Pacific coast so it could be loaded onto tankers and shipped to Asia.