Hello Australia! - Egypt would love to know why the US and UK so quickly blamed a bomb for the Russian jet crash - The presidents of Taiwan and China make history - Two cops are charged with gunning down a six year old boy - Putin's propagandist is dead - And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Egypt is accusing the US and UK of failing to share the intelligence leading both Western nations to believe that a bomb brought down the Russian MetroJet flight in the Sinai desert last weekend, killing all 224 people on board.  "We are the party that is the most closely connected to the issue," said Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry.  "We expected that the information provided on a technical level would be provided to us on a technical level, instead of it being released to the media in this public manner."  The UK particularly raised red flags in the world news media by cancelled its flights to and from Egypt's Sharm El-Sheikh resort where Western sources believe that an Islamic State terrorist planted a bomb on the flight.

It's still too early to determine what brought down MetroJet Flight 7K9268, according to the Egyptian head of the international team investigating the crash.  Ayman al-Muqaddam confirmed that the plane's black boxes detected a loud noise before the crash - which Western media sources suggest was an explosion - but he added that a spectral analysis still needs to be performed to determine what it was.  Mr. al-Muqaddam  maintains that "all scenarios are on the table".

The leaders of China and Taiwan met in Singapore, posing to allow photographers to capture an historic handshake.  Neither side has indicated why, after decades of animosity, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou decided to hold talks.  China regards Taiwan as a renegade province that will someday be reintegrated back into the mainland, whereas most in Taiwan see it as independent.  And nothing changed with these talks:  "Both sides should respect each other's values and way of life," said Mr. Ma.  "We are one family," replied Mr. Xi.  But they apparently agreed to peacefully resolve any cross-Taiwan Straits issues.

The Russian media executive who helped create Russia's "RT" propaganda network is dead.  57-year old Mikhail Lesin was found dead of an apparent heart attack in the swank DuPont Circle Hotel in Washington, DCl.  Mr. Lesin worked as an aide to the presidency between 2004 and 2009 - critics say he also had a part in the suppression of Russia's independent media.  Some US officials also had questions about how he obtained his fortune recently used to purchase US$28 Million in real estate in Los Angeles.

The UN World Health Organization (WHO) declared Sierra Leone "Ebola free".  The country has passed the landmark 42 days without a single declared case of the killer viral disease.  WHO says more than 11,300 people died in the West African Ebola Epidemic, almost 4,000 of them in Sierra Leone.  Of the other two countries that were impacted the most, Liberia has been Ebola-free for about two months; only Guinea has active infections in a cluster of rural villages near the place where the epidemic began in December 2013.

In the US Deep South, officials arrested two Louisiana State Police officers in the killing of a six-year old autistic boy, who was sitting in the passenger seat of his dad's vehicle when they cops opened fire, unleashing a hail of lead into the vehicle.  Louisiana state police Colonel Michael Edmonson said the two officers were wearing body cameras:  "I can tell you, it is the most disturbing thing I've seen, and I'll leave it like that."  It's still not clear why Officers Norris Greenhouse and Derrick Stafford were chasing Chris Few, still hospitalized, and little Jeremy Mardis.  They claimed they were serving an arrest warrant, but their boss says there's absolutely no evidence of any warrant against Mr. Few - who, unlike too many people in America, was unarmed at the time.

Officials in Brazil lowered the death toll in last week's dam burst to one, but 19 people are still missing.  The dam is part-owned by Australia's BHP Billiton, and the flood deposited tons of toxic red clay mud on the small village of Bento Rodrigues in the state of Minas Gerais.

Argentine authorities are on high alert after getting a tip that fugitive Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman might be hiding out in the Andes, somewhere near the border with Chile.  Guzman escaped from Mexico's most-secure prison in July, through a 1.5 kilometer tunnel bored from the outside to the shower in his cell.

Tens of thousands of people marched in Madrid, Spain to condemn violence against women.  Blasting "macho terrorism", Statistics indicate that a little more than one in five women in Spain are subject to violence, which is terrible but also not as bad as some other European countries.  But every major political party came out to support the event, which took place just six weeks before a contentious election.

Socialists are set to wrest control of Portugal's government after forming a coalition with the Communists and another Leftist political party.  The center-right coalition of Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho came out on top of last month's election, but fell far short of a governing majority and has been unable to strike a deal with other parties.  The Socialists and the Left campaigned on scaling back failed EU-imposed austerity policies that have dampened economic growth.