Good Morning Australia! - The UK stops flying to and from a Red Sea resort after the Sinai plane crash - The mysterious death of an American cop turns into a tale of a corrupt fallen hero - Canada's new PM takes office - And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:
US and UK sources are saying that Islamic State or an affiliate apparently planted a bomb on board of MetroJet Flight 7K9268, which crashed just 23 minutes out of Sharm El-Sheikh en route to Saint Petersburg, Russia. The UK already suspended all air traffic with the of Egyptian resort, saying the Airbus A321 "may well have been brought down by an explosive device". A Number 10 spokesman said, "We would underline that this is a precautionary step and we are working closely with the airlines on this approach." All 224 people on the jet - mostly Russian tourists, but including 25 children - were killed in Saturday's disaster. The Brits aren't saying what specifically led them to this conclusion. But earlier this week, the US said an infrared satellite detected some sort of midair blast near the jet at the time of the crash, and it wasn't from a missile.
A cargo plane crashed in South Sudan, killing at least 36 people.
The shooting death of a police lieutenant from a small town outside Chicago has been determined to be a suicide. But it comes after police spent vast amounts of time, money, and man-hours looking for non-existent suspects - and after guests on Rupert Murdoch's conservative Fox News Network used the story to demonize the #BlackLivesMatter movement, which beings attention to police abuse and killings of innocent African-Americans. Two months after a massive funeral that brought in police officer mourners from around the country, investigators revealed that Lt. Joe "G.I. Joe" Gliniewicz had embezzled from a police youth program for years, paying off his mortgage and online porn bills, and staged his suicide as investigators closed in on him.
Hollywood movie director Quentin Tarantino says he will not be intimidated by US police unions, which are calling for a boycott of his movies because of his support of #BlackLivesMatter. "All cops are not murderers," he told the Los Angeles Times, "I never said that. I never even implied that." Last month, the director of "Pump Fiction", "Kill Bill", and "Django" told raly in New York City, "When I see murder, I cannot stand by, and I have to call the murdered the murdered, and I have to call the murderers the murderers." US police unions have been pushing back hard against increased scrutiny of police brutality made public by the explosion of mobile video and the internet.
Canada has sworn in new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, ending a decade of conservative rule. His new cabinet features an equal number of women and men, with the new PM touting his team's diversity. Justin is the son of Pierre Trudeau, who was Canada's PM for twenty years in two stints in the 1960s through the '80s and is considered the father of modern Canada for his policies of equal rights and inclusiveness.
Mexican forensic experts will exhume a mass grave that might contain the remains of 43 student teachers who went missing in the southern town of Iguala in Guerrero state. The government's previous conclusion - that the bodies were burned and dumped into a river - has been abandoned after an independent probe blasted the official investigation. The disappearances of the 43 shocked Mexico, which had become numb to widespread violence by drug cartels.
Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta resigned after growing protests over the deaths of 32 people in a fire in a nightclub that was found to have flouted fire safety laws. Protesters lumped it in with the culture of corruption that saw Ponta charged with fraud, tax evasion, and money laundering. His trial began two months ago.
Zimbabwe cops arrested three journalists with a state-owned newspaper for reporting the story of poachers using poison to kill elephants so that smugglers could take the ivory. The story claimed that a top police official was involved in the smuggling syndicate. Meanwhile, authorities at Hong Kong airport arrested two Zimbabweans and recovered 36 kilograms of suspected ivory, with about A$65,000