Hello, Australia! - A US flag flies in Havana - Japan's Prime Minister says future generations should not have to keep apologizing for World War II  - The Royals issue a warning to over-eager paprazzi - And more in your CareerSpot Weekend News Briefs:

US Secretary of State John Kerry oversaw the raising of the American flag at the US Embassy in Havana, in the presence of the three former US Marines who took it down for the last time in 1961, when the two nations broke off diplomatic relations.  That's over, it marks the end of more than five decades of that tedious and unnecessary slice of the Cold War.  Major hurdles still exist between the two, especially the bulk of the US economic boycott of Cuba.

Masked gunmen shot and killed 19 in the suburbs of Brazil's largest city Sao Paulo.  And it's not clear if the attackers are gang members or rogue police officers.  In some cases, the killers name-checked their victims and asked if they had criminal records.  An investigator told Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper that he had "never seen so many people killed overnight in Sao Paulo".

Both South Korea and China are not satisfied with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's statement marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II.  Abe stood by past apologies for Japan's conduct, admitting Japan had inflicted "immeasurable damage and suffering" on "innocent people" during the war.  But he also stressed that since the end of the war, japan's history has been decided anti-colonial, and insisted that future generations should not "be predestined to apologize".

Firefighters battling a warehouse fire in Tianjin, China might have inadvertently set off those massive blasts when their fire hoses sprayed chemicals that have extremely volatile reactions with water.  With more than 50 people dead and many still missing, quthorities have detained the manager of the chemical warehouse and the Communist Party newspaper Peoples' Daily says it was apparent that there were several safety violations preceding the disaster.

Eurozone finance ministers meeting in Brussels have approve the US$80 Billion bailout for Greece.  It's the third bailout for the economically troubled country in five years.  Greece's parliament backed the deal after a highly contentious debate in which 40 members of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' own ruling Syriza party voted against it.

A big cruise ship has docked at the Greek island of Kos to provide temporary shelter to as many as 2,500 of the migrants who are living rough on the island after arriving in smuggling ships.  Many are refugees from war-torn Syria and Iraq, some others came north to escape war and economic hardship in sub-Saharan Africa.  Clashes broke out this week as police tried to contain hundreds of migrants inside a football stadium, without providing them with food, water, or shelter from the Mediterranean sun.

Kensington Palace says paparazzi are getting increasingly reckless in their attempts to get photos of Prince George, and is asking the world media not to publish unofficial photos of the toddler, third in line to the British throne.  Citing media in Australia, New Zealand, and Europe as the outlets for this, the palace says the paps have been caught hiding on private property and in car boots, and using extreme telephoto lenses to get pics that often include other private citizens.  London's Metro police put out a statement reading, "Photographers are potentially putting themselves at risk from armed intervention where our armed officers perceive a risk to the personal safety of their principal, the public and themselves."