Global News

The US sentenced a former Guatemalan Elite Forces officer to ten years in a federal prison for covering up his role in an atrocity during his native country’s bloody civil war during the 1980s, in order to gain US citizenship. 

Switzerland faces difficult talks with its European Union neighbors after voters narrowly approved an immigration referendum that effectively scraps a longstanding agreement with Brussels guaranteeing freedom of movement across the continent.

Syria has sent off a third shipment of chemical weapons, loading it on board a Norwegian cargo vessel to be shipped to a destruction point off-shore.  But even though some more chemical weapons have been destroyed inside the country, Syria is still behind schedule in getting rid of its banned weapons.

New Zealand is sharply criticizing Japan for allowing the notorious “Shonan Maru 2” whaling boat to enter NZ’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).  Tokyo’s ambassador to Wellington is being call in to get an earful.

Add four more lives lost to the terrible toll that flooding is inflicting on Bolivia.  Heavy rains caused a mudslide that buried a small settlement, killing at least four people.  Nine more people are listed as missing.

Revenge attacks against Muslims in the Central African Republic are plunging the country back into chaos and could actually cut the economic legs out from under the poorest country in Africa as it tries to rebound from a year of civil war.

Hundreds are evacuated from a war torn city in Syria – A gunman storms a church, killing two worshippers – Ukraine protesters wonder when the EU is going to get their backs – And another Shia LeBeouf eruption!  All awaiting you in your CareerSpot World News Briefs.

The Copenhagen Zoo in Denmark killed a young male giraffe, butchered the animal, and fed the meat to the lions, in front of onlookers including young children – in spite of an international campaign to save the animal that included offers from other zoos and a private bidder to take him in.

The owners of a Bangladesh garment factory where 112 workers died in a fire two years ago have surrendered to the police on Sunday in Dhaka.  Delowar Hossain and his wife Mahmuda Akther are among 13 people charged in the deadly disaster.

In a contest seen by many as a referendum on the future of nuclear power in Japan, exit polls suggest the ruling party’s candidate has won the race for Tokyo Governor.  The results will likely boost Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s pro-nuclear agenda.

A man is apparently taken by a shark off South Australia – Gunfire shatters a Syrian truce just as aid was taken to people cut-off for years by war – A loose boulder  smashes into a train with deadly results – and a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs.

This could be Schapelle Corby’s last weekend in jail – A shark mauls a surfer – The ICC is looking at potential War Crimes prosecutions in the Central African Republic – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World news Briefs.

Italy’s navy rescued more than 1,100 asylum seekers from inflatable boats in the space of just 24 hours.  The immigrants included 47 women, at least four of them pregnant, and 50 children.  And they’re expecting the volume of immigrants to grow when Spring comes to the Mediterranean.

Hundreds of people in Rio de Janeiro clashed with cops during a protest against a hike in public transportation fares.  It’s part of a sustained and smoldering resentment of the amount of public money being extracted from ordinary Brazilians to pay for the World Cup this year and the Olympics in 2016.

Worries about the lengths terrorists might go to disguise bombs before the Sochi Olympics – The Pacific Ocean castaway suffers a setback while questions swirl around his story – Turkey clamps down on freedom of information as the PM is caught in a corruption investigation – And never bet against Aussie Women, all in your CareerSpot World News Briefs.

Russia’s deputy prime minister says that early reports from dissatisfied journalists and visitors about ridiculous and humiliating problems at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi are false.  And he knows that because Russia has hidden cameras in the hotel bathrooms.

The Syrian government says it has reached a deal with the United Nations to allow women, children, the elderly, and the wounded to leave the besieged city of Homs, as well as allow an aid convoy to go in.  The UN praised the move.

The US strongly suspects the Russians of bugging a phone call between two senior American diplomats and releasing the embarrassing contents to the world.  The two were discussing Ukraine’s future and made disparaging remarks about some of the major players in that nation’s strife.

Soldiers in the Central African Republic's capital chased down, beat, stabbed, and lynched a man suspected of having been a member of the Muslim Seleka rebels who overthrew the government last year, leading to months of deaths and chaos around the vast African country.

American authorities are warning US and International airlines with flights traveling to Russia for the Olympic Games to be on the lookout for toothpaste containers, which some intelligence indicates may actually hold ingredients that could be used to construct a bomb aboard a plane.