Hello, Australia! – Bali remains boxed in – The confederate flag is going, going, gone from South Carolina’s state capital – Greeks are stunned at the PM’s apparent capitulation to more harmful austrerity – An unsatisfying sentence for a cancer doctor who poisoned patients for profit – And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

The flight ban in and out of Bali is being extended at least until later on Saturday, when aviation officials will determine if the ash clouds of the Mount Ruang volcano have dissipated to allow for safe flying.  More than 2,000 Aussies are stranded at the airport in Bali because of the volcano. 

Hey, here’s cool video of Mexico’s Colima Volcano spewing lava and ash.

China is evacuating 865,000 thousand people from the path of Super Typhoon Chan-hom.  This storm killed five people in the Philippines, and left 20 people injured in Okinawa on its march westward.  Four people were hurt by falling trees on Taiwan. 

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras claims the deal he presented to the country’s European creditors is better than the one that voters rejected in last weekend’s referendum on further austerity.  “We got a mandate to bring a better deal than the ultimatum that the Eurogroup gave us, but certainly not a mandate to take Greece out of the euro zone,” Tsipras told parliament.  But that’s proving to be a hard sell.  Protesters on the streets of Athens say the pension cuts and tax hikes are even worse than Europe’s ultimatum.

Did Prince Philip drop an “F” bomb?

In the United States, the FBI says the scrawny white supremacist who murdered nine black people at a bible study group in Charleston, South Carolina should never have been able to buy his gun in the first place.  Dylann Roof had earlier confessed to possession of illegal drugs, and that should have disqualified him from a gun purchase.  But a paperwork error prevented the National Instant Criminal Background Check System examiner from confirming the legal trouble within the three-day period in which the sale could be approved or rejected.

Roof’s dream of igniting a race war backfired badly.  A giant crowd cheered as the confederate flag was lowered for the last time at the South Carolina capital, by order of legislation passed this week.  It ends a decades-long fight over the offensive banner, which was specifically designed as a symbol of racism.  White supremacists and malcontents will still be able to visit it at a state-sponsored Civil War museum.  Republican Governor Nikki Haley will get credit for spearheading the effort to remove the confederate flag, although just a few months ago she denied the existence of the movement to get rid of it.  All it took was the slaughter of nine innocent people to get a republican to finally act.

Serbia has banned gathered to commemorate the Srebrenica Massacre on Saturday’s 20th Anniversary, because right-wing groups threatened such observances.  Serbs slaughtered some 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys on 12 July, 1995.

Negotiators extended the deadline on the Iran Nuclear Talks for a third time.  It comes amid an impasse and bickering in which Iran’s foreign minister accused the United States of shifting its demands and dismissed a warning that the US was ready to quit the negotiations.

Suspected al Shabaab militants attacked two hotels in Mogadishu, Somalia, killing at least five people.

Tunisian security forces tracked down five alleged Islamist militants in the mountains near Gafsa.  It’s part of a broad crackdown after an Islamic State-trained gunman murdered 38 tourists at a beach resort last month.

Actor and noted Bridge authority Omar Sharif is dead at age 83.  “He died this afternoon of a heart attack, in Cairo,” said his London-based agent Steve Kenis.  His friend and renowned Egyptologist Zahi Hawass said that Alzheimer’s had left Sharif in ill health:  “His psychological condition had deteriorated – he had stopped eating and was not drinking,” said Hawass.  Egyptian-born Sharif won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his role in “Lawrence of Arabia”, which starred Peter O’Toole.  He won a Golden Globe for that movie, and for his lead role in “Doctor Zhivago”.

The Detroit doctor who deliberately misdiagnosed patients and over prescribed chemotherapy to defraud insurance companies and Medicare has been sentenced to 45 years in prison.  That’s way less than the 175 year prison term that prosecutors and victims of Dr. Farid Fata had wanted.  However, there is no early parole in the US federal prison system – at 50 years old, this will likely be a life sentence for the butcher who subjected healthy people to destructive and debilitating chemotherapy, radiation, and biopsies.