North Korea releases its American prisoners – Israeli police accounts do not match video of a deadly shooting – Pope Francis reassigns a prominent critic – And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Two Americans are being rushed back to the United States after being released from prison in North Korea.  US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, whose involvement in efforts to repatriate the two was not previously disclosed, is accompanying Kenneth Bae and Matthew Todd Miller home.  But it’s par for the course, North Korea has traded hostages for visits from former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, as well as other high-ranking officials.  Bae was held for two years after was convicted of trying to subvert the government.  Miller caused a ruckus earlier this year by dramatically ripping up his IS passport and demanding asylum at a North Korean immigration checkpoint.

US airstrikes destroyed a gathering of leaders of Islamic State (IS) and a convoy near Mosul, Iraq.  But the pentagon is not confirming if IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was present for the fireworks.

European Union Foreign Affairs chief Federica Mogherini is calling for the establishment of a Palestinian State.  During a visit to Gaza, Mogherini said the world cannot afford another Arab-Israeli conflict in the area.  Meanwhile, Israeli police are investigating the police shooting of a 22-year old Palestinian man.  The officers had earlier claimed that the man had a knife and was attacking, but security video surfaced showing he was not armed, was banging on the window of their vehicle, and was gunned down and dragged off without any attempt to get medical treatment.  Like everything else in the Middle East, it set off confrontations between Palestinians with rocks and Israeli cops.

Thousands rallied in protest in Mexico on Saturday, after an off-the-cuff comment by Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam.  While taking questions on the apparent mass murder of 43 student teachers in southern Iguala village, Murillo Karam said, “Ya me canse,” which translate as, “enough, I’m tired” – Apparently not as tired as the Mexican people are of out-of-control corrupt police and officials working with the drug gangs.  Protesters wielded signs reading, “Enough, I'm tired of living in a narco state,” “Enough, I'm tired of corrupt politicians,” “Enough, I'm tired of Murillo Karam.”

Tourists in Venice got their feet wet as the “Acqua Alta” reached 110 centimeters.

In a widely expected move, Pope Francis officially demoted troublesome and clerical fashion plate Cardinal Francis Burke, an American right-wing culture warrior with opinions more in line with Rupert Murdoch’s media holdings than Pope Francis’ doctrine of tolerance and inclusion.  Francis removed Burke as head of the Holy See’s supreme court.  Last year, the Pope took Burke off the Vatican's powerful Congregation for Bishops, dealing with appointments of bishops worldwide.  Last month, Burke rallied conservative opposition to a proposal that would have loosened rules that ban Communion for divorced, remarried Catholics, and included LGBT people.  Now, he’s more or less exiled to Malta to a largely ceremonial post at an old folks’ hospital.

Some Ugandan lawmakers are taking another crack at anti-gay legislation.  Earlier this year, the Supreme Court knocked down a law that would have imposed life sentences on LGBT people, a law that had come under intense international criticism.  Most of Uganda’s international donors pulled out of the impoverished country and the country’s lifeblood foreign aid dried up.  Now, the MPs are focusing on a bill outlawing the “promotion” of homosexuality – an ambiguous term that’s potentially far more repressive and wide-reaching measure.