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After months of embarrassing leaks that showed the scope of the US National Security Agency’s data collection has far exceeded what most people believe should have been boundaries, US President Barack Obama and allies in Congress are proposing legislation that would end the National Security Agency's collection and storage of massive amounts of Americans' phone records.

The Danish Zoo that shocked animal lovers by killing a health young giraffe, dissecting him in front of children, and feeding the meat to the lions just a few weeks ago, has now euthanized four healthy lions.  It’s causing outrage among animal lovers around the world.

A patient might have carried the deadly Ebola Virus to North America – Egypt sentences hundreds of political dissidents to death – Some travelers got more than they bargained for when they took the train to the airport – One of Rock’s most distinctive performers is dead – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

France’s Leftist parties are rallying together after an unexpected high showing of the anti-immigrant, anti-Europe Front National party (FN) in local elections.  The results reflected voter exasperation with the ruling Socialists of the current president and the main opposition UMP of the former president.

The world’s seven largest economies have suspended their 16-year collaboration with Moscow, kicking Russia out of the Group of Eight.  This is retaliation for Russia’s takeover of the Crimean Peninsula and the continued menacing military exercises just over Ukraine’s eastern border.

In a public acknowledgment of defeat, Ukraine’s acting President ordered his beleaguered troops to withdraw from the Crimean Peninsula because of Russian threats to the troops and their families.  The families will be evacuated as well.

A London newspaper is claiming that Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 was crashed into the southern Indian Ocean on "an apparent suicide mission".  It comes after Malaysia’s Prime Minister announced that the flight "ended" in the ocean and everyone on the missing Boeing 777-200ER is dead.

Authorities in America’s Pacific Northwest have dramatically boosted the number of people believed to be missing in a giant mudslide north of Seattle.  After originally saying eighteen were unaccounted for, they now say as many as 108 people could be missing.

A Chinese search plane has spotted has spotted a white, square-shaped object floating in the Indian Ocean in the same area where satellite imagery identified possible debris from missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH-76, according to the official state news agency in Beijing.

Global warming will slash agricultural production, damage the Great Barrier Reef and Ningaloo in WA, and wipe out native species in Australia.  Those are just some of the dire predictions in the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report due out later this week.

Japan will announce that it is turning over more than 320 Kilos of weapons-grade Plutonium and highly enriched Uranium to the United States.  Tokyo says the cache is from research a few decades ago.  It’s enough to build dozens of nuclear weapons.

Changes at the top of the AWU – Worried families discover a gruesome house of horrors in rural Nigeria – Venezuela is dealing with cops accused of overstepping their bounds against anti-government protesters – Adorable bear cubs! – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs.

Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 descended to as low as 3,700 meters as it headed toward the Malacca Strait, according to an unnamed Malaysian official quoted by the US news network CNN.   This happened after the plane took that sharp turn to the west, deviating from its planned course from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

Russian forces have been gathering on the border with eastern Ukraine in what was earlier described as military exercises.  But the White House and NATO’s top military commander are now warning that it could be for an invasion of Ukraine.  The Russians deny that is their intent.

The United Nations children’s agency is warning that the deadly Ebola virus has spread to the capital of the West African nation of Guinea.  It’s already killed at least 59 out of 80 infected people in this outbreak, in a nation where it’s never been detected before. There is no cure or vaccine for Ebola disease.

Russian tightens its grip on Crimea, at least one is soldier dead – Chinese satellite pictures might bolster the search for missing Flight MH370 west of Perth – Can the great, big US resist a deal offered by little Uruguay? – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Ukraine is ripped to the East and the West – Brazil is mobilizing the military to get control before the World Cup – 21^st Century Female lawmakers storm out in disgust as one nation approves polygamy – Plus, Anime fantasies in Crimea in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

In the past few weeks, Turks have been glued to their Internet watching incriminating leaked recordings showing vast corruption that reaches all the way to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.  So, Erdogan did what any good despot would do, he blocked the Internet.

At least 20 people were killed in attacks around Afghanistan as the Taliban makes good on its threat to use violence to the disrupt the 5 April elections, the first democratic transfer of power since the 2001 US invasion that ousted the Islamic militant movement.

Venezuelan authorities arrested two mayors from the opposition party for failing to contain and even encouraging the violent anti-government protests that have left 31 people dead and more than 400 injured.  Some human rights advocates are worried.