Hello, Australia! – Islamic State confirms its alliance with Boko Haram – US cops search for the person who shot two police officers in a racial flashpoint – And the forecast calls for more “Frozen”, because your kids can’t just “Let it Go” – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Islamic State (IS) is finally accepting Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram’s pledge of allegiance and is urging militants to go to Africa.  We’ll have to wait and see if that will have any effect on the multinational effort to put an end to Boko Haram’s murderous insurgency in northeastern Nigeria.  The group committed numerous atrocities in its quest for an Islamic caliphate in Nigeria, and has been pushed back by a coordinated assault from Chad, Cameroon, and Niger augmenting the Nigerian effort.

Iraqi officials accuse Islamic State of using Chlorine Gas in roadside bombs.  Because of the small concentrations used and the flat, open nature of Iraq and Syria, the toxic orange clouds are unlikely to be lethal and are probably to instill fear.  In dense concentrations, Chlorine gas is a “choking agent” which burns and blisters the lungs.

In Middle America, Police conducted a series of raids in the hunt for the gunman who shot and wounded two police officers outside the Ferguson Police Department.  That’s the same town where a white police officer shot and killed and unarmed black teen for jaywalking last year.  A US Justice Department report has since revealed deeply rooted systemic racism in the town.  Dozens of witnesses said that shots fired at police last night came from a hill across the street from the police headquarters.  And yet, Police officials hinted that the shots came from within a small block of protesters that were already breaking up at the time.

More than 60 people have died in flooding in the Angolan town of Lobito, 500 kilometers south of the capital Luana.  At least 35 of the victims are children.  Water levels reached three meters in some places, fed by torrential rain.

Brazilian police arrested Italian communist militant Cesare Battisti on a judge’s deportation order – this is despite then- President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva granting him asylum in 2010, which was upheld by the Supreme Court three years later.  Federal prosecutors and the judge are operating on a technicality, that Battisti entered Brazil using fake stamps on his passport.  Battisti’s lawyer says that’s laughable and won’t be upheld on appeal.  Battisti was accused of murders in the 1970s, fled Italy in 1981, and convicted in absentia in 1990.

Driving in Russia, walking in Russia.  It’s all pretty dangerous.

Looks like parents are going to get a new movie theme song to get really, really sick of.  Disney says it will produce a sequel to “Frozen”, the highest-grossing animated flick of all time and birth mother to the song “Let It Go”, played in SUVs and mini-Vans everywhere to help the kids shut up until we get there.  The sequel will reunite the Oscar winning production team.  Disney did not set the release date – but don’t worry, your kids will tell you.  Me?  I’m looking at Furious 7 in three weeks.