Hello, Australia! – Explosive allegations about Edward Snowden’s security leaks – The government’s immigration policy might be damaging the country’s international relations – Is God sending confusing political signals? – And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Britain has pulled its spies out of “certain countries”, believing that Russia and China purportedly used the Snowden Documents to zero in on US and UK intelligence agents.  The London Sunday Times quotes a series of anonymous sources from Downing Street, the Home Office, and MI6 claiming the Russians and Chinese were able to crack encrypted documents to obtain secrets that identify British and American spies.  The United States wants Snowden to stand trial after he leaked classified documents detailing how the Five Eyes nations spy on other countries and their own people.

Allegations that Australian officials paid human traffickers to betray a group of immigrants and take them to Indonesian waters is adversely affecting relations with our neighbor to the north.  Labor immigration spokesman Richard Marles told the ABC the practice even offers smugglers the enticing possibility of a double pay-off: One from their human charges, one from Oz.  “Why on earth you would be trying to create a pull factor of this kind, giving people smugglers the sense that if they turn up next to an Australian Navy vessel there is half a chance they're going to be given some Australian taxpayer-funded money,” Marles said.

South Korea reports seven new cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) being the total infections to 145, with 14 fatalities.  The good news from the UN World Health Organization (WHO) is that it’s not spreading outside of hospitals.  Nor is it mutating into a more contagious virus.  But a South Korean man has fallen ill in Bratislava, Slovakia.  Doctors there are testing him to learn if he is Europe’s first case of MERS since the South Korean outbreak began.

Sierra Leone imposed three-week curfews on two northern districts where Ebola has come back, although not to last year’s crisis levels.  Both districts lie on the route between the capital Freetown and the Guinea border.  The group Doctors Without Borders warns that the world is making the exact sames mistakes that led to last year’s Ebola Epidemic in West Africa, which killed more than 11,000 people.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) is urging South Africa to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir over war crimes in the conflict in Darfur.  Bashir is visiting South Africa for an African Union summit, and instead was warmly welcomed.

A gunman who used an armored van to attack a police station in Texas has been shot dead.  James Boulware’s family said he was mentally ill and heard “voices”, and was angry over losing custody of his teenage son.  Boulware ahd allegedly shot up the facade of Dallas’ police headquarter, and was caught on video ramming a cop car during the ensuing chase.  A police sniper eventually took out his engine and then Boulware himself with a .50-calibre rifle.  Boulware left explosives behind at the Dallas cop house, some of which exploded.  Amazingly, the only person hurt was Boulware.

Hillary Clinton held her first major rally of her campaign for the US Presidency, embracing populist economic themes.  Before a crowd of New Yorkers, she promised to “make the economy work for everyday Americans, not just those at the top” if elected president in 2016.  She also landed a blow on those who question her about her age (67-years old), noting that she’ll be America’s youngest-ever female president.

A republican lawmaker in California says that state is suffering a terrible drought because God is angry over legal reproductive choice.  State Assemblywoman Shannon Grove is under fire for saying that abortion was to blame for California’s water woes, and claiming that a drought in Texas ended at the same time new restrictions on abortions went into effect.  Apparently, no one pointed out to Grove that Texas suffered killer flooding at the same time – while Ireland legalized Gay Marriage and has had nothing but great weather.

A man taking a morning walk in southwest Germany was killed by an elephant that escaped from a circus a few hours before.  They managed to recapture the 34-year-old female elephant named Baby and her returned to the circus.  Police are now investigating whether someone let the elephant out of its secure enclosure.  “There’s evidence of third party involvement,” said Heidelberg police spokeswoman Yvonne Schmierer.  “Either someone forgot to shut the enclosure, or the elephant was released intentionally.”