Putin has already thrown cold water on yesterday’s hope for a Ukraine peace deal – Tokyo’s ninja cops bust a guy with a gun, nice video – Is Iran poking and prodding at Israel’s defenses around the world? – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Baby Tigers!  Baby Tigers!  Japan’s Tobu Zoo outside Tokyo released video of four White Tiger Cubs.  Yes, they’re super cute, but they’re not really a good idea. 

Vladimir Putin says Russia will not tolerate a post-Cold War order dominated by one country.  This defiant tone comes a day after the leaders of France and Germany went to Moscow with a proposal to cool down the violence in eastern Ukraine.  After five hours, the meeting broke up without an agreement but with the three leaders putting on a happy face.  On Saturday, Putin pulled off the mask.  “That type of world order has never been acceptable for Russia,” the Russian president said.  “Maybe someone likes it and wants to live under a pseudo-occupation, but we won’t put up with it.”

Tokyo cops go back to old school ninja tactics to arrest a sake-guzzling 47-year old man with a gun in his high-rise apartment in Shibuya.  Also, he hated his golf clubs.  The Ninja on the right was definitely better than the left ninja.  A truism that also applied to Katy Perry’s Superbowl sharks.

US prosecutors charged six Bosnian immigrants with collecting and sending money as well as military equipment to overseas terrorists, including to Islamic State (IS).  The indictment alleges the defendants, who live spread out over the East and Midwest, used coded messages over social media to coordinate their efforts.  Some of the money also went to support the families of terrorists, according to prosecutors.

At least 34 people were killed in three bombings in Baghdad.  The deadliest attack came about when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a predominantly Shiite area, killing 22 people and wounding at least 50. 

The United Arab Emirates is back in the fight against IS.  The UAE had pulled out in December after IS captured downed Jordanian pilot Lieutenant Moaz al-Kasasbeh, angry that the US-led coalition hadn’t come up with a plan to rescue pilots who crash in IS territory.  But after Jordan’s response to the gruesome murder of Kasasbeh, UAE is sending some F-16 fighters to back-up the Jordanian strikes.

The scumbags of IS released a manifesto for women living in terrorist-occupied areas:  It specifies marriage at age 9, education ending at age 15, and talks of “the divine duty of motherhood”.  Oh, and also, stay in your houses and focus on “skills like textiles and knitting, basic cooking”.  This steaming pile of horse manure appears only in Arabic, suggesting it was not meant for the occasional dim-bulb teen from the west who travels to Syria to become an IS bride.

Nigeria has reversed itself and now will delay presidential elections for six weeks because of the security emergency posed by Boko Haram.  This is to allow a new multinational force to secure the parts of the northeast where the terrorist group is attempting to establish its own caliphate, ruled by a form of sharia law that’s about as loony as Islamic State’s, possibly even worse.  Incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan has faced increasing criticism for his government’s inability and apparent disinterest in crushing Boko Haram, which has slaughtered thousands of civilians and kidnapped hundreds of people including schoolgirls.  Let’s face it, allowing the coalition to hand Boko Haram a few defeats would boost Jonathan’s chances of reelection.

With Chadian troops now doing what the Nigerian military couldn’t – drive the militants out of Nigerian towns – Boko Haram is mounting more cross-border attacks, and has for the first time attacked a village in Niger.  Soldiers repelled the assault on the town of Bosso, killing at least 100 militants according to the military.  Humanitarian workers in the region say their sources back that up.

Uruguay expelled an Iranian diplomat following suspicions that he was involved in placing a fake-explosive device near the Israeli embassy in Montevideo.  Officials in Israel believe it was an attempt to test the embassy’s defenses.  Israel’s guard is up after it attacked militants in the Golan heights a couple of weeks ago, killing a Hezbollah colander and a high-ranking Iranian General – and Israel believes that a revenge attack at an embassy is within the realm of publicity.

Firefighters in Sacramento, California rescued a silly horse named Phantom after she got stuck in a bathtub with her feet in the air.