Hello Australia! - Hungary finally allows refugees onto northbound trains - China rewrites history on its big day - Tony's nazi references draw fire - What is robbing 13 Million kids of their education? - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:
Hungarian police stepped aside and started to allow some of the thousands of Middle Eastern refugees stranded in Budapest on to trains heading north to Germany. Earlier, the cops wouldn't allow the refugees onto trains with proper travel visas. All of this happened as Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban traveled to Brussels to meet with European leaders about the refugee crisis, and his handling of Hungary's end of it.
Jewish groups are criticizing PM Tony Abbott for saying that Islamic State is worse than nazi Germany in World War II. "The crimes of Islamic State are indeed horrific, but cannot be compared to the systematic round-up of millions of people and their despatch to purpose-built death camps for mass murder," Executive Council of Australian Jewry president Robert Goot told Fairfax Media. Mr. Abbott stood by his comments, saying he was not in the business of "ranking evil".
China held a massive military parade in Beijing's Tiananmen Square to mark the 70th Anniversary of the end of its part of World War II, or as it was referred to today, The Great Anti-Japanese war. President Xi Jinping paid tribute to "the Chinese people who unwaveringly fought hard and defeated aggression" - not mentioning that it was nationalist troops that did the fighting and paid the heaviest price in the war. The Communists were able to take power afterwards, at least partially because the Nationalists had suffered great losses during the war.
Even though Xi spoke of peace and said he'd cut 300,000 positions in the military, there are concerns that the display of military might has less to do with the past and more with China's growing militarism. Officials boasted that 80 percent of the weapons on the display - aircraft, tanks, and missiles - were new, high-tech, and Chinese-made. And nothing says "peace" like 15,000 crack troops marching through Tiananmen Square.
US official confirm that five Chinese military ships were operating in the Bering Sea in international waters off the coast of Alaska. It's believed to be the first time Chinese ships entered the region. Peter Dutton, director of the China Maritime Studies Institute, notes that Beijing has an "interest in the northern sea route so to see them off the coast of Alaska is the next evolutionary step along these lines".
Authorities issued an arrest warrant for Guatemala's President Otto Perez Molina, who denies charges of taking bribes to reduce import tariffs. Congress already stripped Perez Molina of his presidential immunity from prosecution, and a court ordered him not to leave the country. A spokesman said he president would be "very respectful and submit himself to the rule of law".
UNICEF says that the wars in the Middle East are depriving more than 13 million children of their education. That's about 40 percent of school age children in those countries. UN officials it could grow to 50 percent as the violence expands. The agency's report (.pdf link) says that "the killing, abduction and arbitrary arrest of students, teachers and education personnel have become commonplace" in the region. Almost 9,000 schools in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Libya are damaged, destroyed, or otherwise unable to be used for education.
Actor Dean Jones is dead at age 84 of complications from Parkinson's Disease. He's best known for starring in light-hearted family films for Disney in the 1960s and '70s, including "That Darned Cat" and "The Love Bug".