The US and Cuba turn the page and history is made – The Pope will mark the genocide that many in Europe don’t want to talk about – An Australian dies in a Philippine jail cell – And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

The Summit of the Americans wrapped up five hours later than scheduled, but produced some major results.  US President Barack Obama had a formal face-to-face meeting with his Cuban counterpart Raul Castro, with both men stating their positions on bilateral issues.  The meeting was the first formal talk between the two countries’ leaders in half a century.

President Obama also held a meeting with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on the sidelines of the summit.  The 10-minute talks were reportedly “frank and cordial”.  Maduro later said that he told Obama that “we’re not an enemy of the United States”, referring to Obama’s recent order declaring Venezuela a natinal security threat.

Pope Francis will mark the 100th anniversary of Turkey’s genocide of Armenians.  Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan will be attending the ceremony which is being held to honor a 10th century Armenian mystic.  The forced deportation of Armenians in 1915 remains a highly sensitive issue, and Turkey denies Armenian claims that up to 1.5 million people. 

An Australian man accused of child sex offenses in the Philippines has been found dead in his jail cell, and authorities suspect suicide.  46-year old Hilton Reece Munro was a former hockey player and private school teacher in Melbourne from 1999 to 2000.  Philippines police arrested Munro in 2013 in the company of four young boys.  He’s believed to have suffered from depression in Jail.

Kenya is giving the United Nations three months to close a massive refugee camp and move it over the border into Somalia.  Authorities cited the deadly attack on Garissa University, in which al Shabaab terrorists from Somalia killed 148 students.  “The way America changed after 9/11 is the way Kenya will change after Garissa,” said Deputy President William Ruto.

Bangladeshi police are bracing for trouble after the execution of Mohammad Qamaruzzaman, a leader of the Islamist Jamaat-e-Islami party.  In 1971, Qamaruzzaman headed a militia group that collaborated with the Pakistani army in the killings of at least 120 unarmed farmers.  Jamaat-e-Islami denounced the execution and called for a nationwide general strike Monday.

An Egyptian court confirmed the death sentence passed on Muslim Brotherhood chief Mohammed Badie, who was convicted along with 13 others of planning attacks against the state.  Hundreds of others have been sentenced to death in the violence that followed the ouster of president Mohammed Morsi in 2013 – so far, only one execution has been carried out.