Hello, Australia! – Whitney Houston’s daughter dies – A Liberal MP steps up for solar and wind power – Gruesome discoveries in the search for the missing Mexican students – And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:
The only daughter of the late R&B singer Whitney Houston, Bobbi Kristina Brown, is dead at age 22. She died at a hospice in the southeastern US state of Georgia, where she was transferred last month after five months in intensive care. Bobbi Kristina was found face down and unresponsive in a bathtub in her home on 31 January, much the same way as her mother was found in 2012.
Adam Brookman did not apply for bail during his appearance in court in Melbourne, where the 39-year old convert to Islam is charged with willingly providing support to a terrorist organization and intending to support a person to engage in a hostile activity. He’ll stay in custody at least until his next court date in November. Late last week, Brookman returned from the Middle East and was promptly arrested. He says he went there to help the humanitarian crisis but was forced by Islamic State to perform as a battlefield medic.
Also in the Melbourne Magistrates Court, 19-year old Mehran Azami pleaded guilty to supplying weapons for the foiled ANZAC Day terror. A teenager in the UK admitted involved in the plan, hatched between Islamic State supporters over the Internet.
Liberal backbencher Sarah Henderson is putting pressure on the Abbott government to reverse its assault on wind farms and household solar power. Last month, the government ordered the A$10 Billion tax-payer funded Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) to cease funding wind farm and household solar projects and concentrate on “new and emerging technologies”. But MP Henderson says, “It’s very important not to exclude small-scale solar and also wind, because there are new and emerging technologies in these sectors as well,” and important to her Victorian constituency.
US President Barack Obama is in Ethiopia for the next leg of his African trip. He’s the first sitting US President ever to visit the country, and he’ll be the first US President to address the African Union when he speaks at the organization’s headquarters in Addis Ababa. Before he left Kenya, Mr. Obama strongly condemned the practice of female genital mutilation and other “bad traditions” that treat women as second-class citizens.
Gunmen stormed an Indian police station in the northern state of Punjab, killing at least two policemen and a civilian, and injuring five. It’s believed the attackers came from Indian-administered Kashmir. Authorities also found live bombs on the railway tracks at the Dinanagar railway station. India ratcheted up security at border crossing and transport hubs.
Mexico’s search for 43 missing student teachers has turned up 129 bodies and 60 clandestine graves. But none are related to the 43 who went missing after a clash with police at an anti-corruption protest in Iguala town last September. Prosecutors believe the town’s mayor ordered cops to deliver the students to the local drug gang, which killed them, burned the bodies, and dumped the ashes in a river.
New Zealand police say two bodies have now been found in the search for two missing Canadian hikers. 23-year olds Louis-Vincent Lessard and Etienne Lemieux went missing on the 25th hiking the Kepler Track near the Kepler Track. Searchers found the bodies in a field of avalanche debris.