Hello, Australia! – Canada’s most-conservative province swings to the far Left – A Volcano alert is issued at a popular resort – Baltimore busts a ball-biting boy in blue – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Did I mention that today’s UK election is super-close and unpredictable?  Covered that?  Well, okay then.

A big election shocker in the Canadian province of Alberta – so conservative and entrenched with oil interests, it’s nicknamed “Canada’s Texas” – voters ousted the long-ruling local version of the Tory party and gave a parliamentary majority to the New Democratic Party, a social democratic party that’s been a perennial underdog since forever.  The new premier is Rachel Notley, daughter of Grant Notley – a past NDP leader who was on the verge of winning the job in the 1980s when he was killed in a plane crash.  Rachel’s first order of business is making good on raising Alberta’s minimum wage to C$15 per hour, which would be the highest in Canada.

Chilean President Michelle Bachelet asked her entire cabinet to resign and will decide who stays and who goes within 72 hours.  She said the changes are needed to promote her reform agenda, such as: increasing women’s reproductive rights; reforming the tax system to get the burden off of the poor and middle class; and free, quality higher education for all.

Denmark’s intelligence chief Jens Madsen has resigned, just hours before a report is to be released regarding into February’s fatal shootings in Copenhagen.  Madsen’s agency failed to keep tabs on 22-year old Omar el Hussein, who killed two people and injured five cops in attacks on a café and a synagogue.  Cops later shot and killed el Hussein. 

Islamist rebels killed two Tanzanian United Nations peacekeepers in an ambush in the Democratic Republic of Congo.  The UN is promising a “robust” military response.  The DR Congo asked for received international help in dealing with these rebels after they were accused of hacking more than 200 villagers to death in the mineral-rich east in a series of massacres late last year.

Afghanistan sentenced four men to death in the mob killing of a woman in Kabul two months ago.  The 28-year old religious scholar named Farkhunda was chastising a cleric who was selling lucky charms; he turned and accused her of burning a Koran, and a mob attacked her.  Eight other men were sentenced to 16-years in prison.  The verdicts on 19 cops accused of failing to stop the violence will be announced on Sunday.

Japanese authorities raised the volcano alert status around Mount Hakone, a hot springs resort area southwest of Tokyo, after a series of small earthquakes.  Officials are calling on people to stay clear of potentially dangerous areas.  Steam vents in the caldera have been working overtime, and a small evacuation zone has been doubled.

Oh, that’s why they call it Baltimore.  A suburban police officer was arrested in Baltimore after getting into a bar brawl with a man at a Cinco de Mayo event, and biting the man’s testicles.  Ouch.  Officer Michael Flaig wouldn’t stop propositioning a woman and was asked to leave a bar.  Outside, he tried to start something with the woman’s beau, who wound up getting the upper hand – until Flaig went below the belt.  Really, really below the belt.  The victim did receive medical attention, and if convicted, Flaig will be the guy who walks into jail with a super weird reputation.