Hello, Australia! – North Korea appears to be revving up its nuclear program – The tortuous death of a young man after being in police custody sparks protests across the US – Uber loses another city – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

North Korea appears to have restarted the nuclear reactor that can yield material for making nuclear weapons.  That’s according to analysts with the Washington Institute for Science and International Security, who also say that satellite imagery indicates that a centrifuge at the Yongbyon complex is back in operation.  North Korea has not conducted a nuclear detonation since February 2013.

Protests against police brutality erupted in several US cities, although things were mostly peaceful.  In New York City, cops went into arrest mode rather quickly to try and shut down the demonstrations, slapping cuffs on some 60 people.  But the protesters’ numbers continued to increase throughout the evening.  Other impromptu protests occurred in Chicago, Minneapolis, and Ferguson, Missouri – the town where African American teen Michael Brown was shot and killed by a white cop for jaywalking.  In Baltimore, authorities were forced to release scores of protesters arrested earlier in the week because they couldn’t keep up with the paperwork.

Baltimore Police say they will not publicly release the findings of an investigation into the death of Freddie Gray, the 25-year old African American man who died of a severed spine a week after being brutally taken down by cops.  The Washington Post got a look at a document that claimed a prisoner inside the same police squadrol as Freddie Gray said he could hear Gray “banging against the walls” of the vehicle and believed that he “was intentionally trying to injure himself”.  So if that is accurate, it means Baltimore Police are on the verge of insulting the intelligence of the entire world by claiming that Freddie Gray broke his own back. 

Bleak and dismal weather is hampering the search for anymore survivors of the Nepal Earthquake, which is now believed to have killed at least 5,500 people.  Rain is causing mudslides and weakening piles of rubble;  helicopters can’t fly to the worst-hit rural areas in the impoverished Himalayan nation.  “There may not be any more survivors,” said Rameshwor Dandal of Nepal’s home ministry, “The rain is adding to the problems.  Nature seems to be against us.”

France is investigating allegations that several of its soldiers sexually abused a number of children during a peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic last year.  The activist group AIDS-Free World said about 16 French soldiers were accused of abusing ten boys, between eight and 15-years old.  The alleged abuse reportedly took place at a center for displaced people near the airport in the capital, Bangui, between December 2013 and June 2014.  The defense ministry promises the “Strongest penalties” should the allegations prove true.

Russian-backed militants in eastern Ukraine shut down the offices of the International Rescue Committee, accusing the nongovernmental organization of spying.  The IRC isn't commenting, but Russian media accused the group of concealing “eavesdropping equipment” in its Donetsk office.

A Brazilian court ordered Uber to shut down in Sao Paulo, accusing the US-based ride sharing service of breaking local transportation regulations.  The injunction ordered Uber to cease operations immediately and to ensure the app is no longer available for download from the online stores of Google, Apple, Samsung and Microsoft.