The rush to find two Aussies teens to went to Iraq – Someone might be trying to torpedo a European nation’s economy – Could we please not restart World War One? – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Two teenagers from Sydney are believed to have journeyed all the way to Iraq to join the fighting.  Fairfax newspapers report that 17-year old Abdullah Elmir and a 16-year old somehow managed to hide their intentions from at least Elmir’s family, who didn’t know the other boy and thought Abdullah was just a normal kid playing video games.  The Elmir family’s attorney accuses the Federal Police and ASIO of knows about the boys’ plans, and failing to stop them from leaving the country.  The family wants to know who paid for Abdullah’s airfare.  About ten Australians have died in the fighting in Iraq.

Iraq is claiming its military has routed Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants in Tikrit, although ISIS is disputing that claim.  State television says Iraqi forces recaptured the governor’s headquarters and killed at least 60 ISIS fighters.  The insurgents claim they killed 300 Iraqi troops. 

At least 11 people are dead in an explosion in the red light district of the northeastern Nigerian city of Bauchi.  The blast occurred in a building locals identify as a brothel.  The cause hasn’t been pinned down, but suspicion immediately fell on Boko Haram, the terror group trying to carve out its own state based on a harsh interpretation of Sharia law.  Bauchi is in the invisible border area dividing Nigeria’s northern Muslims from southern Christian, and until now has been largely untouched by the Islamist insurgency waged by Boko Haram.

The suspected mastermind of the 2012 attack on the US diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya is on US soil for legal proceedings.  Ahmed Abu Khattala was captured outside the Libyan city by US Special Forces two weeks ago, taken on board a Navy ship on which he was interrogated, and brought back to Washington, DC for arraignment in the killing of US Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other men. 

A dilapidated 50-year old building in Delhi, India collapsed into a pile of dust and rubble, killing ten people including five children.  It’s believed vibrations from a construction project at an adjacent site were too much for the older building to take.

Prosecutors charged Argentina’s Vice President Amado Boudou with corruption for allegedly using his influence to steer a contract to print his nation’s currency to a company he controlled.  Boudou is free while awaiting trial.  Before the scandal, Boudou was seen as a possible successor to President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, who is in her final term in office.

Bulgaria’s central bank is urging police to investigate an alleged plot to destabilize Europe’s poorest nation.  Last week, there were two runs on different banks, with people lined up to withdraw their assets.  Each followed rumors spread by anonymous emails and texts that the central bank calls “libelous”.  Socialist Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski is preparing for early elections in October, called after the ruling party’s poor showing in last month’s European Parliamentary elections.

Commemorations of the events that precipitated World War I were as twisted as divisive as the events and war themselves.  In Sarajevo, cultural and sporting events were largely boycotted by Serbians, who believe they’re being scapegoated for World War I and the Balkans War in 1990s – the conflicts that bookended the 20th Century.  But in eastern Sarajevo, some Serbs erected a statue of Gavrilo Princip, who they consider a hero.  In an act meant in the cause of Yugoslavian independence from Austria-Hungary, Princip assassinated Archduke Ferdinand.  That led to the invoking of secret military treaties across Europe, plunging the continent into war in which empires crumbled, new political orders appeared, and more than 10 Million people died.