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Mexico's new food labeling rules were supposed to help people in a country with one of the highest obesity rates in the western hemisphere.  But critics and health advocates say the labels may actually encourage the public to consume obscenely high levels of sugar.

The United Nations is condemning the targeting and killings of hundreds of civilians in South Sudan by forces loyal to rebel leader and former vice president Riek Machar.  This happened as the rebels retook the major oil-producing hub of Bentiu.

The Kremlin has repeatedly denied sending agents into Ukraine to stir up trouble, but a series of photos released by Ukraine and the US State Department appear to prove that several uniformed and heavily armed men occupying government and police buildings in Ukraine’s east are Russian Special Forces.

South Korea’s president condemns the crew of the sunken ferry – Three are killed at a flashpoint in Eastern Ukraine – There could be a strike at the top of the world – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

A novice steered the sunken South Korean ferry to disaster – Ukraine takes a holiday break – Rio residents riot over the Good Friday killing of an innocent man – And a lot more in this Easter edition of your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

The captain of the capsized South Korean ferry is arrested – Twelve mountain guides are killed at the top of the world – Separatists in Ukraine say a peace deal doesn’t speak for them – The US bars an Iranian diplomat with a thorny past – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

South Korean officials have opened a criminal investigation into the captain of the South Korean ferry that capsized off the country’s southwest coast.  The death toll is 26 – with 270 people, many of them teens on a high school trip, still unaccounted for.  And now we’re learning that a junior officer was at the helm at the time of the disaster.

A breakthrough in a troubling case of harassment that led to a teen girl’s suicide – Dozens are killed after police walk off the job – Iran is doing what it’s supposed to – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Officials in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state now say that only 20 of 129 kidnapped schoolgirls were back with their families, and the military has retracted its boast that it freed most of them.  Boko Haram Islamist militants abducted the girls during a raid on their school earlier this week.

Jews in Eastern Ukraine were told they must “register” their identities and properties with the pro-Russian militants who want to secede from Ukraine and join the Russian Federation.  This happened in Donetsk, a city where pro-Russian militants have taken over government and police buildings.

Top diplomats meeting in Geneva have struck an agreement on de-escalating the crisis in Ukraine.  The deal includes disarming illegal militant groups and turning control of buildings held by pro-Russian separatists in Eastern Ukraine back to the government in Kiev.

The UN World Health Organization says the death toll from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has risen to at least 135 – 122 deaths in Guinea, where the outbreak is believe to have originated, while another 13 deaths had been reported by Liberian health officials.

Talks to end weeks of political strife in Venezuela are making some progress.  Negotiators for the government and the opposition are agreeing to broaden membership in a truth commission that is to investigate who is to blame for 41 deaths during the violence surrounding opposition street demonstrations.

Mideast peace slips further away – Foster parents are accused of shockingly horrible child abuse – A Billionaire puts his money up against America’s big gun lobby – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

The director of Africa’s oldest wildlife park – Virunga in the Democratic Republic of Congo – is in critical but stable condition after being shot several times in an ambush.  It happened after he met with a prosecutor about oil drilling at Virunga.

Thousands of Brazilian Federal troops are now trying to restore order in Salvador, capital of Brazil’s northeastern state of Bahia, after looters went wild.  Police had gone on strike Tuesday after talks to resolve a pay dispute broke down.

Ukraine’s military operation to dislodge pro-Russian separatists from occupying several government and police buildings in the east is, at the very least, losing momentum.  At worst, it’s foundering as one column of armored vehicles was abandoned to militants and another one was stopped in its tracks by unarmed protesters.

Around 280 people are still missing a day after a South Korean passenger ferry carrying high school students on holiday listed to one side, tipped over, and went belly-up.  Some of the 179 survivors said passengers were ordered to stay where they were and await rescue as the disaster unfolded.

Brunei Darussalam is one week away from enacting a new penal code that takes its cues from Islamic Sharia law.  It calls for death by stoning as the punishment for same-sex relations, and sets the death penalty for numerous offenses including robbery, adultery, and insulting the prophet Mohammed

New South Wales Premier Barry O’Farrell will resign after it was revealed that he sent a “thank you” note for a A$3,000 bottle of wine that he had strongly denied receiving in testimony before the New South Wales Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC).