Good Morning, Australia! – South Africans march to end bloody anti-immigrant violence – Muslim refugees are charged with throwing Christians overboard in the Mediterranean Sea – The Pope halts a divisive purge of Nuns – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:
Growing anti-immigrant violence in Durban, South Africa forced more than 2,000 people to seek shelter in police stations. At least five people have been killed including a 14-year old boy. It seems to be the fruit of widespread unemployment, and a Zulu leader’s call for foreigners to “go home” – something the leader now denies he said. “No amount of frustration or anger can justify the attacks on foreign nationals and the looting of their shops,” said President Zuma. At least 5,000 Durban residents marched in the coastal city to protest Xenophobia.
The Tulsa County Sheriff’s office is denying reports that it falsified the training records of a white 73-year old reserve deputy who accidentally shot and killed a black man. Septuagenarian cos-play cop Robert Bates is charged with manslaughter after he drew and fired his sidearm into the back of prostate suspect Eric Harris instead of his electronic stun weapon. Multiple anonymous sources told the Tulsa World newspaper that supervisors in the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office signed off on training sessions and firearms certifications that Bates did not complete.
Italian police arrested 15 Muslim migrants for throwing twelve Christians overboard from their immigrant boat heading from Libya to Italy. The twelve from Ghana and Nigeria are all feared drowned in the Mediterranean. Italy is imploring the European Union to send help as people traffickers sends wave after wave of thousands of refugees from Libya’s lawless coast to Europe.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye is vowing to raise the Sewol, which is the passenger ferry that capsized a year and a day ago killing more than 300 people – most of them teens on a high school trip. Such an operation would cost $144 Million, but it’s a key demand of the parents of the victims, who’ve accused the government of indifference.
If missing Malaysian Airline Flight MH370 isn’t found in the current search area, officials say the search area will be doubled. Australian, Malaysian, and Chinese ministers met to discuss the search and salvage operation. Teams have searched about 60 percent of the current search area, a 60,000 square kilometers patch of seabed in the Indian Ocean west of Perth.
Pope Francis abruptly pulled the plug on the controversial takeover of the main umbrella group of US Nuns. There’s a ton of politics in here. Frank’s predecessor Benedict XVI started the putsch of the Nuns amidst allegations of promoting “radical feminist themes incompatible with the Catholic faith”, and disobeying the Bishops – most of whom belong to the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, a notoriously conservative group known for raising tons of money for US Republican politicians. The Nuns spend their lives serving the sick or needy, whereas the bishops seemed to spend most of there time fending off allegations of pedophile priests.
The treasurer of Brazil’s ruling Working Party has stepped down after being detained by police yesterday. Joao Vaccari is accused of corruption related to the scandal at the state-owned oil company Petrobras.
Six regional Socialist parties in India are merging to form a more cohesive challenge against the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. All six suffered heavy defeats to the BJP in last year’s elections – but had been enormously successful with a previous alliance during the 1990s, a glory they’d like to recapture. Their test will be in elections in the eastern state of Bihar later this year.