Good Morning Australia!- Cops raid the home of a teen who allegedly threatened to kill cops - A court protect some FaceBook users' privacy, but it could end up rewriting the rules on international data transfers - The US comes up with yet another version of the events around the bombing of a hospital in Afghanistan - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:
Police raided the Guildford home of a 17-year old boy who threatened police stations in Australia, confiscating two laptop computers and other items. The boy is a student at Arthur Phillip High School in Parramatta, and is charged with assaulting and intimidating police, two counts of resisting arrest, and other offenses. He attended the same school as 15-year old Farhad Jabar Khalil Mohammad, who shot and killed police accountant Curtis Cheng outside the Parramatta police HQ.
US prosecutors filed first-degree murder charges in Juvenile court against the Tennessee eleven-year old boy who allegedly shot and killed his eight-year old neighbor because she wouldn't let him play with a puppy. In Ohio, authorities say an eleven-year old boy picked up his father's unattended gun at a target range and accidentally killed his twelve-year old brother. Of course, all of this occurs as Americans fail to recognize the country has a gun problem - or, at least just enough of them to gum up the works and prevent sensible gun control legislation.
The European Court of Justice has thrown out an international tech agreement because it didn't protect European FaceBook users from the risk of snooping by the prying eyes of the intelligence. The 15 year old Safe Harbor agreement did not eliminate the need for local privacy watchdogs to check US firms were taking adequate data protection measures. The ruling will likely mean that all sorts of EU-to-US data transfers will have to be reviewed to ensure the privacy of EU clients.
A former head of the United Nations General Assembly is accused of selling out his office for "Rolex watches, a basketball court and bespoke suits". US Prosecutors say John Ashe of Antigua and Barbuda "converted the UN into a platform for profit" by supporting billionaire Chinese developer Ng Lap Sen's bid to build a UN conference center in Macau. In return, prosecutors say, Ng paid Ashe US $1.3 Million. Ashe, Ng, and four others were arrested. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says he's shocked at the allegations.
The head of NATO says Russia's violation of Turkish airspace over the weekend was "no accident". Moscow characterized the intrusion by a Sukhoi fighter plane as "brief", and as an "accident". But NATO secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg said Russia had not provided "any real explanation" of the violation, which "lasted for a long time." And the potential provocations continue: Another unidentified MiG locked its radar on Turkish jets on Monday, just as had happened on Sunday. At a news conference in Brussels, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned that"an attack on Turkey is an attack on NATO".
The US Commander of international forces in Afghanistan told Congress that the hospital bombed by US jets was "mistakenly struck". General John F. Campbell added, "We would never intentionally target a protected medical facility." he said the Afghans had requested the air strike because of the Taliban attack on the city of Kunduz. This is the fourth version of events in as many days from US officials. The medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres lost 22 staff and patients in the airstrikes, and is accusing the US of a war crime.
Guatemalan officials declared the area of last week's killer landslide to be "uninhabitable", and declared three days of mourning for the victims. Tons of mud and rocks came down on El Cambray Dos in Santa Catarina Pinula on Thursday. They're still excavating the neighborhood but have given up hope of finding any more survivors. Instead, the bodies of entire families are being found huddled together in one last embrace under the debris. 161 people are confirmed dead and 300 are still missing.