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Japan is getting too old for its own good – A tennis great is dead after a surprisingly quick illness – Sao Paulo is fabulous for a good reason – And a lot more in your Updated CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams left the police station at Antrim, Northern Ireland, where he spent four days being questioned by police about a notorious 1972 murder related to the Troubles.  As he said before voluntarily going in, Adams emphatically stressed he is innocent of the allegations.

Belgian police were forced to disperse a crowd that protested the banning of a gathering of far right figures, a meeting slammed by Jewish groups as an “anti-Semitic hatefest”.  One of those expected to attend was controversial French comic Dieudonne M'bala M'bala, who has a lengthy record of hate speech violations in France.

More than 2,000 Pro-Russian insurgents laid siege to the police headquarters in Odessa in southern Ukraine, forcing police to release several people who were detained for last Friday’s deadly violence in which 42 people were killed.

Searchers give up hope on the hundreds of people buried in the Afghan avalanche – Detectives are subjecting Sinn Fein Leader Gerry Adams to intense questioning – Twitter and the inability to self-censor undoes two UK politicians – And a lot more in Part Two of your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Australia’s handling of Asylum Seekers gets in the way of mending relations – Tension builds in Ukraine after the fiery deaths of pro-Russian separatists – Imprisoned Aussie journalist Peter Greste lambasts Egypt – And a lot more in Part One of your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

A landslide might have buried thousands of people in Afghanistan – Ukraine’s strife spreads to another city and dozens are dead – Cops still haven’t charged Gerry Adams – Nigeria’s girls school abduction is even worse than reported – Baby Animals and legally getting high, all in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

BBC “Top Gear” host Jeremy Clarkson is fighting for his career after being caught mumbling the “N-word” in an outtake from the phenomenally popular car show.  He had denied the initial report but was publicly humiliated when the offended video was released to the Internet.  The Beeb is not pleased.

Philippine Police and Interpol busted an online extortion ring that would trick people into exposing themselves on the Internet, and then using the imagery to blackmail them.  58 people were taken into custody in Manila and other Philippine cities.

Millions of Aussies are being forced to change their retirement plans – Russian jail time fails to scare off members of the Greenpeace Arctic 30 – May Day results in raises for some, teargas for others – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

At least three people are dead and anywhere from a dozen to 30 people are feared trapped beneath debris left by in the collapse of a wildcat gold mine in Colombia.  It’s the second deadly disaster in an illegal mine in less than a week.

Dozens of people were killed in the rebel-controlled Syrian city of Aleppo on Thursday when forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad dropped barrel bombs on a busy marketplace.  The death toll has been reported as 33 by official sources, at least 40 by human rights groups that back the rebels.

After publicly admitting that the east is out of control, Ukraine’s acting President Olexander Turchynov has reinstated military conscription to deal with the deteriorating situation in his country.  It came as pro-Russia militants seized the regional prosecutor's office in the eastern city of Donetsk.

Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness is blaming a “dark side” within North Ireland’s police for the arrest of party leader Gerry Adams in a 40-year old murder case.  He also accuses police of a “deliberate attempt to influence the outcome of elections” in three weeks.

Three people are dead and 79 more are recovering from injuries after a bomb blast at a train station in China’s restive Northwest, where Islamist separatists want their own state.  The blast coincided with President Xi Jinping’s visit to the area.

How many big city mayors on this planet are repeatedly caught smoking crack?  Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s improbable reelection campaign has suffered a setback.  A second video purportedly showing Ford smoking crack has surfaced, this time in his sister’s basement.  And it was recorded last weekend.  This time around, Ford is taking a leave of absence to go to rehab.  

The United Nations is blasting both sides in the South Sudan civil war, telling the leaders they must stop “blindly dragging their people down the path of self-destruction” and warning that they would face investigation for possible war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Minimum Wages are going up in some parts of the world – Brunei today begins a new system in which gays can be stoned to death – Hundreds of abandoned immigrants are rescued from death’s door  – Hey Comrades, it’s May Day.. Glory to the Workers’ inevitable triumph against global class oppression to be achieved through constant struggle and revolutionary fervor!  These are your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Oklahoma’s Governor Mary Fallin is promising an independent review of the gruesomely bungled execution of a prisoner that left the man violently writhing and mumbling on a medical gurney before he subsequently died of a heart attack.

Police in Northern Ireland arrested Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams in one of the most notorious killings of the Troubles – the 1972 kidnapping, murder and secret burial of Jean McConville, a widowed mother of ten children whose killing is an unhealed wound in Ulster.