Hello, Australia! – Thousands march against a wave of violence against women – Three days after a crowded ship capsized in China, families are getting angry – Long-awaited resignations from the judges responsible for Argentina’s worst legal decision in decades – And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

The relatives of the hundreds of people missing in the Yangtze River ship capsizing are growing impatient and anxious.  They want to know why only 14 people out of more than 450 survived, and why most of them were crewmembers – including the captain.  China has clamped down on information coming from Hubei Province, allowing reporters only dribs and drabs.  Most of the passengers on board the Eastern Star were elderly folks taking a pleasure cruise from Nanjing to Chongqing.

Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets across Argentina to condemn violence against women following a series of brutal murders.  They carried signs reading “Machismo Kills” and “Enough Deaths”.  On Twitter, President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner denounced “a culture that devastates women”.  More than 1,800 women died between 2008 and 2014 in episodes of domestic violence.  Three recent cases helped galvanize the movement:  A kindergarten teacher whose throat was slit in front of her class by her estranged husband; a pregnant 14-year old girl beaten to death by her boyfriend; and a woman stabbed to death in a Buenos Aires cafe by her ex-boyfriend.

The lawyer who represented former Guatemalan dictator Effrain Rios Montt in his genocide trial has been assassinated in Guatemala City.  Police say two men on a motorbike gunned down attorney Francesco Palomo while he was driving his car in the capital.  Rios Montt was convicted and sentenced to 80 years in prison for the extermination of the Maya Ixil population during the early 1980s, but it was overturned on a technicality.  His retrial is on hold.

Burundi’s electoral commission has delayed planned elections.  This comes after weeks of violence that has left more than 30 people dead.  The opposition says President Pierre Nkurunziza’s plans to run for a third term is unconstitutional.

Fighting broke out in eastern Ukraine, killing 19 people on both sides and threatening to collapse the already fragile consumption.  Tanks and rocket launchers tore up Maryinka and Krasnohorivka, two villages on the outskirts of Donetsk held by government forces.  At least 25 Ukrainian troops were injured.  Both government forces and rebels claimed to be in control of the towns at various points.

A crowd cheered on as masked thugs attacked and vandalized the offices of a human rights group in Grozny, the capital of the Russian republic of Chechnya.  The Committee Against Torture says local police ignored their pleas for help, and suggested the rally was sanctioned by the government of Chechnya’s brutish leader Ramzan Kadyrov, a key ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.  Kadyrov last month was accused of standing by and doing nothing as a powerful police chief in his 40s forced a family to hand over their teenage daughter to be his second wife.  Polygamy is illegal in Russia, and no one did anything about it.

Both Argentine judges who reduced the prison sentence of a child abuser because they believed his six-year old victim to be gay have now resigned.  Judge Sal Llargues announced his decision to resign on Wednesday, two days after Judge Horacio Piombo quit under similar pressure.  The decision to cut the molester’s sentence from six years to 18 months brought widespread public condemnation, and prompted the government to pressure the two jackasses to quit.