Myanmar arrests a Kiwi for insulting the local religion – Problems halt an Ebola vaccine test – Malala supports her protester – And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Traffic is back to normal in Hong Kong’s Admiralty District, after police removed the last pro-democracy protesters from the camp on the highway outside government headquarters.  Police say 249 people were arrested.  At its biggest, tens of thousands of demonstrators flooded the road, demanding that Beijing give up its plan to allow only pre-approved candidates to run in the 2017 election for Hong Kong chief executive.  The protesters say they have not given up, Beijing still has not back down.

Myanmar police arrested a New Zealand man and two others for posting an online image deemed “insulting” to Buddhism.  The picture showed a psychedelic Buddha listening to headphones and surrounded by bright colors.  Philip Blackwood manages the V Gastro Bar in Yangon, and uploaded the photo onto the bar’s Facebook page.  It’s since been removed and replaced with an apology.  It comes amid an upsurge in religious nationalism in Myanmar.

No one was hurt after a pre-dawn drive-by shooting at the Israeli Embassy in Athens, Greece.  Police closed off the road, and forensic teams found at least 20 bullet casings near the scene.  There’s been no claim of responsibility for the attack.

Thousands of Palestinians joined the funeral procession for Ziad Abu Ein, the government minister who died shortly after being roughed up by Israeli border police.  Israel says Mr. Abu Ein died of a heart attack brought on by the stress of the confrontation.  Palestinians were enraged by video of the incident, showing the Israeli cop grabbing Abu Ein by the throat, and several witnesses saw the helmeted cop deliver a head butt into Abu Ein’s chest.

A suicide bomber killed a German man and wounded 16 others who were watching a play that condemned suicide bombings.  The Taliban claimed responsibility, and said it sent the teenaged bomber to his death because the play insulted “Islamic values and spread propaganda about our jihad operations”.  Here’s the witness description that the Taliban somehow believes is propaganda: “Pieces of flesh were plastered on the wall.  There were children and women crying for help.  Some were running out, some were just screaming.”

Suspected Boko Haram suicide bombers killed at least 30 people in a crowded marketplace in the northern Nigerian city of Jos.  It’s the second such attack in as many days.  Boko Haram has killed more than 2,000 civilians in Nogeria this year.

Kenyan authorities charged a bus driver and conductor for stripping a woman in the capital Nairobi – because she was wearing a miniskirt.  Video of the attack went viral on the Internet.  The men pleaded not guilty.  The terrible incident inspired a series of protests against violence against women, and the twitter hashtag #mydressmychoice.  Kenya’s Deputy President William Ruto is putting his weight behind the campaign, insisting that Kenya is not a “primitive” society.

The University of Geneva halted a clinic trial of an Ebola vaccine because some subjects complained of joint pains.  The trial will resume next month, after doctors determine if the side effects were “benign and temporary”.  This is the trial of the vaccine made by NewLink, recently purchased by Merck.  Other vaccines and treatment are being tested in the US and West Africa, where the Ebola epidemic has killed more than 6,300 people.

Brazilian police arrested a man they say confessed to killing 42 people over a decade.  Sailson Jose das Gracas’s victims purportedly include 38 women, three men, and a two-year-old girl.  Police say they recovered the bodies of four of the victims.

Also in Brazil, prosecutors leveled corruption charges against 22 executives and 13 others from the state-run oil company Petrobras and several well-connected corporations.  They’re accused of forming a cartel to channeling kickbacks to politicians; money-laundering; and organized crime.  President Dilma Rousseff is a former chair of Petrobras and denies any knowledge of the corruption scheme.

Malala Yousafzai says she empathizes with the Mexican man who briefly interrupted the ceremony presenting the teenage education campaigner with her Nobel Peace Prize.  21-year old Adan Cortes Salas rushed onto the stage and asked Malala to “remember Mexico”, apparently to draw attention to the 43 student teachers from a Leftist teachers’ college who were abducted by police, turned over the gang members and murdered.  Malala said she was not afraid of the protest, and acknowledged the harsh situation in Mexico caused by drug gang violence.