A major Australian Pol finally speaks out against the coming police state – Putin’s coming to Oz – ZMapp might have saved another Ebola patient – And much more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Labor frontbencher Anthony Albanese is breaking with his party’s docile capitulation to Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s national security laws, and some at least some elements need to be drawn back.  He’s particularly upset with what he calls “draconian” restrictions on press freedom, which could see journalists jailed for between five and 10 years for doing their jobs – just like that which Egypt did to Peter Greste, which Canberra (supposedly) opposes.  Albanese says Australia is a Liberal Democracy, which shouldn’t believe it can protect its freedoms by surrendering them.  Oh, and #stopdataretention (here, here, here, here).

Russian President Valdimir Putin will attend the G20 Economic Summit in Brisbane on 15 and 16 November, according to Treasurer Joe Hockey.  Putin’s been more or less frozen out of international meetings since the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH117 in eastern Ukraine, which western nations say was an act committed by pro-Russian separatists using a Russian-supplied missile.  Russia has consistently denied involvement.  Leaders like US President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel say the G20 will be a rare opportunity for a frank discussion about Ukraine with Putin.

Russian media says Vladimir Putin has ordered thousands of his troops at the border with Ukraine to return to their bases.  That would cover about 17,600 soldiers in the Rostov region.  Russia has announced pullbacks in the past, only to be debunked by NATO and the US, which have access to these things called “satellites” which fly over and can see if thousands of troops are actually moving.  Or not.

Kurdish fighters trying to hold off Islamic State’s (IS) advance on their city Kobani in northern Syria are calling for increased US airstrikes on the extremists.  The street-to-street, house-to-house battles are bad enough, but IS have brought in more tanks from the east to besiege the city.  US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel acknowledges the situation is “dangerous”, and more than 500 people have died in Kobani in the last month.

UN Special Envoy on Ebola Dr. David Nabarro says that with the increase in international assistance, the West African Ebola African Epidemic could be under control in three months.  There are more than 4,000 fatalities, and health workers say the death toll is doubling every four weeks.  Projecting ahead with those two very broad factors, and we could be looking at a minimum of 16,000 fatalities before the infection rate starts to decelerate.

Spanish nurse Teresa Romero Ramos is improving, reportedly after being treated with the experimental drug ZMapp.  She is sitting up on her own and talking, though her condition is still considered to be serious.  Romero was infected with Ebola while treating the two Spanish priests who became sick in Africa and were airlifted to Madrid for treatment.  One of those priests was treated with ZMapp and died, but two Americans who were infected with Ebola and treated with the drug survived and recovered rapidly.

Meanwhile, the feared Ebola cases in Brazil and Macedonia turned out to be false alarms.

A powerful Typhoon is bearing down on Japan, and appears to be on track to hit the entire nation.  Around 35 people have already been injured in Okinawa, where powerful wind knocked out electricity and phone service, downed trees, and caused flight cancellations.  It should reach Kyushu by Monday. 

More than 150,000 people in Andar Pradesh in eastern India have evacuated out of the path of Cyclone Hudhud.  The Indian Meteorological Department predicts the storm will hit land with winds of up to 195 kmh.  Authorities are keeping a close eye and warn they may order an additional 300,000 people to evacuate.

China is blaming a shadowy American organization for stirring up the Hong Kong Democracy Protests.  In a front-page editorial in the Communist Party-run People’s Daily, the finger is pointed at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), which operates as a non-profit but is funded by the US Congress.  The People’s Daily claims NED director Louisa Greve visited the student leaders in the months before the protests.  The US State Department denies any American involvement.

Thousands of protesters marched through the middle American city of Saint Louis on Saturday to demand the arrest of the white police officer who shot and killed black teenager Michael Brown during a stop over jaywalking.  The demonstration was prompted by the slow pace of the investigation into the shooting, and aggravated yet another Saint Louis-are police killing of a black teen last week.