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Trial is set for the teens accused of killing an Aussie baseball hopeful – Why is Oscar Pistorius selling his home? – Firing up the rabble could cost a European politician – I get to use Kotooshu in a sentence – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs.

The European Union is slapping economic sanctions on another twelve individuals in Russia.  This came a few hours after US President Barack Obama announced sanctions on close allies and aides of Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as a large Russian bank.

Iran is meeting its commitments to scale back its nuclear ambitions under a landmark deal with the six major world powers, according to a new United Nations reports.  A key facility for converting plutonium to a less-enriched form is scheduled to come online next month.

Has MH370 finally been found? – NATO’s chief openly worries that Russia may not be done gobbling up neighboring territories – The US and Israel have a rare public spat – Chile’s new president could give a win to environmentalists (and therefore the planet) – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has announced to Parliament that two objects possibly related to the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 have been found in the southern Indian Ocean.

South Africa’s top anti-corruption watchdog accuses President Jacob Zuma of “unduly” benefiting from a taxpayer-funded upgrade to his private home – a rehab that includes a swimming pool, cattle enclosure, and his very own amphitheatre.  And he’s probably going to have to pay back some of the A$28 – $30 Million spent on the project.

Supporters of Bogota, Colombia’s Leftist mayor Gustavo Petro gathered in the city’s main square, after it appeared that Petro lost his bid to stay in the job he was elected to do.  This, after President Juan Manuel Santos refused to abide by a ruling from the Inter-American Human Rights Commission to halt Petro's sacking.

Italy’s Navy and Coast Guard rescued thousands of African and Middle Eastern immigrants who tried to cross the Mediterranean in a span of just 48 hours.  And authorities are more than doubling the border guard on a Spanish exclave in North Africa after some 500-asylum seekers burst through in one day.

America’s FBI will comb through the hard drive taken from personal flight simulator belonging to one of the pilots of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which went missing on 8 March with 239 people on board.  Some data had been deleted prior to 3 February, and the FBI will try to recover it.

Ukraine is drawing up plans to evacuate all of its military personnel and their families and was prepared to relocate as many as 25,000 of them to mainland Ukraine.  It’s a clear sign that Kiev has accepted the reality that Russia has taken the Crimean peninsula and will keep it.

The search area for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is now said to be as big as Australia.  What’s out there is a lot of opinion, conjecture, guesses, and conspiracy theories.  What’s still missing is Flight MH370 with its 239 souls including six Australians.

Venezuela's National Assembly voted to begin a process that could strip an opposition lawmaker of her immunity from prosecution so that she could be investigated for alleged crimes related to anti-government protests.

The most impoverished nation in the Western Hemisphere has a new crisis on top of cholera and the slow recovery from the killer earthquake four years ago:  Drought is causing an extreme emergency in northeast Haiti, wiping out sorely needed crops and livestock.

Italy’s former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will be unable to stand for election for the European Parliament in May.  Italy’s highest court of appeals in Rome has upheld a lower court’s ruling banning him from office for two years because of his tax fraud conviction.

The Stones are putting off their shows down under because of the tragic death of Mick Jagger’s girlfriend – The tentacles of a US child porn ring reached all the way to Australia – A newsroom in Seattle covers its own disaster – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Ukraine’s government has authorized its troops to fire in self-defense after an officer was killed in an attack on a base in Crimea.  It’s the first such death since Russian forces took control of the peninsula in February.

Is anyone else getting the feeling that Vladimir Putin doesn’t care about international economic sanctions?  In a televised speech heavy with history, Putin declared that Crimea has “always been an integral part of Russia” and then signed a treaty to annex the Ukrainian Black Sea region.

The Chinese government ruled out any notion that any of its citizens aboard missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 were involved in its disappearance. The announcement doused speculation from some quarters about possible terrorists from the embittered Uighur Muslim community in China’s far northwest.

Japan is suspending talks on an investment pact and the relaxation of visa requirements on Russian visitors.  It’s part of a round of sanctions against Moscow because President Vladimir Putin recognized Crimea as a sovereign state following the Russian-led secession vote over the weekend.

Scientists believe they have found strong evidence of the Big Bang, the moment when absolutely everything went from something smaller than a pinpoint to the expanding and limitless universe that we barely understand.